The first table below looks at the demand for OpenCL skills in IT contracts advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited OpenCL over the 3 months to 19 June 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Application Development category 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Khronos Group OpenCL
Rank 378 405 -
Rank change year-on-year
+27 -
Contract jobs citing OpenCL 6 5 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.026% 0.019% -
As % of the Application Development category 0.086% 0.065% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £300 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate - - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 5 0
Average hourly rate £38.75 £37.50 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+3.33% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Application Development
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
6974 7680 9585
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 30.58% 28.89% 30.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 5047 5216 6511
Average daily rate £400 £400 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -11.11%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £275 £285
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 104 116
Average hourly rate £40.00 £36.50 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+9.58% +46.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £18.00 £19.52 £16.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £54.00 £47.50 £67.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.50 £35.70
% change year-on-year
+11.11% -11.76%
OpenCL
England

OpenCL
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing OpenCL across the London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

London OpenCL Jobs Demand Trend

OpenCL
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing OpenCL across the London region.

London OpenCL Daily Rate Trend

OpenCL
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing OpenCL across the London region.

London OpenCL Hourly Rate Trend

OpenCL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing OpenCL also 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 that cited OpenCL.

1 10 (100.00%) C++
2 8 (80.00%) Linux
2 8 (80.00%) Embedded Systems
3 6 (60.00%) GLSL
3 6 (60.00%) OpenGL
3 6 (60.00%) OpenGL ES
3 6 (60.00%) HLSL
4 4 (40.00%) CUDA
5 3 (30.00%) Java
6 2 (20.00%) Front Office
6 2 (20.00%) Finance
6 2 (20.00%) Device Driver
6 2 (20.00%) 3D Graphics
6 2 (20.00%) Fixed Income
6 2 (20.00%) Grid Computing
6 2 (20.00%) .NET
6 2 (20.00%) STL
6 2 (20.00%) C
6 2 (20.00%) C#
6 2 (20.00%) TDD
6 2 (20.00%) Embedded Software Development
6 2 (20.00%) Tizen
6 2 (20.00%) DirectCompute
6 2 (20.00%) Parallel Processing
6 2 (20.00%) Embedded Linux
6 2 (20.00%) Computer Science
6 2 (20.00%) Multithreading
6 2 (20.00%) Android
6 2 (20.00%) Boost C++ Libraries
6 2 (20.00%) GPGPU

OpenCL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing OpenCL also 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 that cited OpenCL. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 6 (60.00%) OpenGL
1 6 (60.00%) OpenGL ES
2 2 (20.00%) .NET
2 2 (20.00%) STL
2 2 (20.00%) DirectCompute
2 2 (20.00%) Boost C++ Libraries
General
1 2 (20.00%) Front Office
1 2 (20.00%) Finance
2 1 (10.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Graphics Programmer
1 3 (30.00%) C++ Developer
1 3 (30.00%) Developer
1 3 (30.00%) Programmer
2 1 (10.00%) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (80.00%) Embedded Systems
2 4 (40.00%) CUDA
3 2 (20.00%) Device Driver
3 2 (20.00%) 3D Graphics
3 2 (20.00%) Fixed Income
3 2 (20.00%) Grid Computing
3 2 (20.00%) Computer Science
3 2 (20.00%) GPGPU
Operating Systems
1 8 (80.00%) Linux
2 2 (20.00%) Tizen
2 2 (20.00%) Embedded Linux
2 2 (20.00%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (20.00%) TDD
1 2 (20.00%) Embedded Software Development
1 2 (20.00%) Parallel Processing
1 2 (20.00%) Multithreading
2 1 (10.00%) Digital Signal Processing
2 1 (10.00%) Signal Processing
2 1 (10.00%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 10 (100.00%) C++
2 6 (60.00%) GLSL
2 6 (60.00%) HLSL
3 3 (30.00%) Java
4 2 (20.00%) C
4 2 (20.00%) C#
London
There's a reason they have been nominated for and won multiple innovation awards, they are looking for graphics engineers with experience C++ OpenGL , OpenGL ES , HLSL , GLSL...
Apollo Solutions
Rate: £35 - £45 per hour
Posted: 17 June 2013
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