The first table below looks at the demand for the C++/C# Developer role in IT contracts advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited C++/C# Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 17 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles advertised for the London region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
C++/C# Developer
Rank 357 372 320
Rank change year-on-year
+15 -52
Contract jobs requiring a C++/C# Developer 28 34 117
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.130% 0.127% 0.375%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.140% 0.137% 0.405%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 29 94
Average daily rate £500 £550 £575
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-9.09% -4.34%
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £300 £230
% change year-on-year
+16.66% +30.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Job Titles
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
19929 24797 28916
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 92.30% 92.59% 92.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 13475 15993 18573
Average daily rate £450 £440 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.27% -7.36%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £275 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £600 £625
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 450 606 683
Average hourly rate £20.00 £20.00 £20.00
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £12.50 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £47.50 £41.25 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.40% -7.50%
C++/C# Developer
England

C++/C# Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing C++/C# Developer across the London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

London C++/C# Developer Jobs Demand Trend

C++/C# Developer
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing C++/C# Developer across the London region.

London C++/C# Developer Daily Rate Trend

C++/C# Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing C++/C# Developer across the London region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

London C++/C# Developer Daily Rate Histogram

C++/C# Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing C++/C# Developer across the London region.

London C++/C# Developer Hourly Rate Trend

C++/C# Developer
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing C++/C# Developer within the London region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
City of London +6 9 £575 +9.52%
C++/C# Developer
England

C++/C# Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region that cited C++/C# Developer in their job title mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled with C++/C# Developer in their job title.

1 72 (100.00%) C#
1 72 (100.00%) C++
2 48 (66.67%) Fixed Income
3 46 (63.89%) Derivative
4 41 (56.94%) Windows
5 39 (54.17%) Python
5 39 (54.17%) Oracle
5 39 (54.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 37 (51.39%) XML
7 35 (48.61%) .NET
8 34 (47.22%) Interest Rate Derivative
9 29 (40.28%) STL
10 28 (38.89%) SQL
10 28 (38.89%) Front Office
11 24 (33.33%) Boost C++ Libraries
12 23 (31.94%) Microsoft
13 22 (30.56%) Oracle Coherence
14 21 (29.17%) Banking
14 21 (29.17%) Analytics
14 21 (29.17%) MS Excel
15 19 (26.39%) Swaptions
16 17 (23.61%) Risk Analysis
16 17 (23.61%) Windows 7
16 17 (23.61%) Spreadsheet
16 17 (23.61%) Windows XP
16 17 (23.61%) Oracle Forms
16 17 (23.61%) Oracle 8/8i
16 17 (23.61%) CMS
17 15 (20.83%) Finance
17 15 (20.83%) Visual Studio

C++/C# Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region that cited C++/C# Developer in their job title mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled with C++/C# Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 37 (51.39%) XML
2 35 (48.61%) .NET
3 29 (40.28%) STL
4 24 (33.33%) Boost C++ Libraries
5 8 (11.11%) WPF
6 6 (8.333%) WCF
7 5 (6.944%) Middleware
8 4 (5.556%) COM
9 3 (4.167%) Web Services
9 3 (4.167%) Murex Flex
10 2 (2.778%) Django
10 2 (2.778%) CSS
10 2 (2.778%) HTML
10 2 (2.778%) ATL
11 1 (1.389%) J2EE
11 1 (1.389%) WinForms
11 1 (1.389%) .NET Framework
Application Platforms
1 22 (30.56%) Oracle Coherence
2 17 (23.61%) CMS
3 3 (4.167%) Rendezvous
4 2 (2.778%) GemFire
Applications
1 21 (29.17%) MS Excel
2 17 (23.61%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (1.389%) Endur
1 1 (1.389%) Summit
1 1 (1.389%) Kondor+
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.778%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (23.61%) Oracle 8/8i
2 14 (19.44%) SQL Server
3 2 (2.778%) RDBMS
4 1 (1.389%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 17 (23.61%) Oracle Forms
2 15 (20.83%) Visual Studio
3 7 (9.722%) Subversion
4 6 (8.333%) Team Foundation Server
5 2 (2.778%) Git (software)
6 1 (1.389%) ClearCase
General
1 28 (38.89%) Front Office
2 21 (29.17%) Banking
3 15 (20.83%) Finance
4 12 (16.67%) Investment Banking
5 3 (4.167%) Back Office
Miscellaneous
1 48 (66.67%) Fixed Income
2 46 (63.89%) Derivative
3 39 (54.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 34 (47.22%) Interest Rate Derivative
5 19 (26.39%) Swaptions
6 7 (9.722%) Grid Computing
7 5 (6.944%) Equities
8 3 (4.167%) Hedge funds
9 2 (2.778%) Statistics
9 2 (2.778%) Mathematics
9 2 (2.778%) Physics
9 2 (2.778%) Computer Science
9 2 (2.778%) N-Tier
10 1 (1.389%) Client/Server
10 1 (1.389%) Equity Derivative
10 1 (1.389%) Credit Derivative
10 1 (1.389%) Credit Risk
Operating Systems
1 41 (56.94%) Windows
2 17 (23.61%) Windows XP
2 17 (23.61%) Windows 7
3 3 (4.167%) Linux
3 3 (4.167%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (29.17%) Analytics
2 17 (23.61%) Risk Analysis
3 12 (16.67%) Multithreading
4 5 (6.944%) Risk Management
4 5 (6.944%) Agile Software Development
5 4 (5.556%) UML
5 4 (5.556%) Software Engineering
6 3 (4.167%) OO
6 3 (4.167%) TDD
7 2 (2.778%) Scrum
7 2 (2.778%) SOA
7 2 (2.778%) Metaprogramming
8 1 (1.389%) Memory Management
8 1 (1.389%) Web Development
8 1 (1.389%) Electronic Trading
8 1 (1.389%) Greeks
8 1 (1.389%) Configuration Management
8 1 (1.389%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 72 (100.00%) C#
1 72 (100.00%) C++
2 39 (54.17%) Python
3 28 (38.89%) SQL
4 4 (5.556%) Java
4 4 (5.556%) C++/CLI
5 3 (4.167%) VB.NET
6 2 (2.778%) VBA
6 2 (2.778%) Scala
7 1 (1.389%) VB
Qualifications
1 2 (2.778%) Degree
Vendors
1 39 (54.17%) Oracle
2 23 (31.94%) Microsoft
3 7 (9.722%) DataSynapse
4 4 (5.556%) Murex
5 3 (4.167%) Sybase
5 3 (4.167%) TIBCO
6 2 (2.778%) EasyScreen
6 2 (2.778%) CQG
6 2 (2.778%) FFastFill
7 1 (1.389%) ION Trading
7 1 (1.389%) DevExpress
7 1 (1.389%) OpenLink
7 1 (1.389%) Reuters
7 1 (1.389%) Fidessa
London
C++, STL, Boost, Multi-threading, C#, WCF, Python, Distributed, Grid, Synapse, Coherence, Risk. A tier 1 investment bank based in Canary Wharf, London is looking to appoint a...
Huxley Associates
Rate: £500 - £600 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013
City, London
Main technologies used will be C++ and C# with grid computing technologies such as DataSynapse and middleware technologies such as Solace and Oracle Coherence... *XML technologies... Oracle Coherence).
Aston Carter
Rate: £575 - £625 per day
Posted: 14 May 2013