North West C++ Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for C++ skills within the North West region with a comparison to our Programming Languages category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited C++ over the 3 months to 2 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Abingdon Alderley Edge Avon Barrow-in-Furness Basildon Basingstoke Bath Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Channel Islands Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield City of London County Antrim Coventry Croydon Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorset Dronfield Dundee East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Farnborough Filton Flintshire Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Havant Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Hounslow Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lewisham Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London M4 Corridor Macclesfield Malvern Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Portsmouth Preston Queensferry Reading Redhill Rugby Saffron Walden Scotland Sheffield Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staines Stevenage Stockport Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swindon Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwickshire Watford Wells West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wilmslow Wiltshire Woking Wokingham Worcester Worcestershire Yeovil Yorkshire	3 months to 2 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	39	36
Rank change on same period last year	-3
Matching contract IT job ads	108	142
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.174 %	0.152 %
As % of the category below	9.643 %	10.81 %
Daily rates quoted	14	7
Average minimum daily rate	£315	£329
Average daily rate	£337	£336
% change on same period last year	+0.25 %
Average maximum daily rate	£359	£343
UK excluding London average daily rate	£326	£342
% change on same period last year	-4.85 %
Hourly rates quoted	21	19
Average minimum hourly rate	£28.42	£32.95
Average hourly rate	£30.04	£34.50
% change on same period last year	-12.92 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£31.67	£36.05
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£35.55	£36.62
% change on same period last year	-2.92 %
Programming Languages North West
Matching contract IT job ads	1120	1313
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.800 %	1.410 %
Daily rates quoted	187	230
Average minimum daily rate	£303	£307
Average daily rate	£321	£323
% change on same period last year	-0.48 %
Average maximum daily rate	£339	£338
UK excluding London average daily rate	£317	£331
% change on same period last year	-4.02 %
Hourly rates quoted	141	142
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.17	£25.31
Average hourly rate	£27.58	£27.48
% change on same period last year	+0.34 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.00	£29.66
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.93	£32.68
% change on same period last year	-5.35 %
C++ England

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing C++ across the North West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

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Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing C++ across the North West region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing C++ across the North West region over the 3 months to 2 December 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing C++ across the North West region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing C++ across the North West region over the 3 months to 2 December 2008.

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Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing C++ within the North West region over the 3 months to 2 December 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Manchester	+1	41	£346	+14.20 %
Cheshire	+5	39	£344	-11.69 %
Lancashire	+13	20	£230	-
Merseyside	-10	2	-	-
Cumbria	-3	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 2 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North West region citing C++ 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 C++.

1 98 (57.31 %) C 2 91 (53.22 %) Java 3 50 (29.24 %) C# 4 49 (28.65 %) SQL 5 45 (26.32 %) UNIX 6 37 (21.64 %) .NET 7 36 (21.05 %) Oracle 8 34 (19.88 %) Windows 9 33 (19.30 %) XML 10 30 (17.54 %) Linux 10 30 (17.54 %) Finance 10 30 (17.54 %) Middleware 11 28 (16.37 %) VB 12 26 (15.20 %) HTML 13 24 (14.04 %) SQL Server

14 23 (13.45 %) Embedded C 15 22 (12.87 %) Embedded C++ 16 21 (12.28 %) Banking 17 20 (11.70 %) Agile Software Development 18 19 (11.11 %) CSS 19 18 (10.53 %) Swing 20 17 (9.942 %) WebServices 20 17 (9.942 %) Fortran 21 16 (9.357 %) Security Cleared 21 16 (9.357 %) Aerospace 22 15 (8.772 %) VxWorks 22 15 (8.772 %) VMS 23 14 (8.187 %) SOAP 23 14 (8.187 %) Perl 24 13 (7.602 %) JSP

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 2 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North West region citing C++ 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 C++. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 37 (21.64 %) .NET 2 33 (19.30 %) XML 3 30 (17.54 %) Middleware 4 26 (15.20 %) HTML 5 19 (11.11 %) CSS 6 18 (10.53 %) Swing 7 17 (9.942 %) WebServices 8 14 (8.187 %) SOAP 9 13 (7.602 %) JSP 9 13 (7.602 %) Hibernate 9 13 (7.602 %) Spring 10 12 (7.018 %) WSDL 10 12 (7.018 %) JAX-RPC 10 12 (7.018 %) ASP.NET 11 11 (6.433 %) .NET Framework 12 9 (5.263 %) J2ME 13 6 (3.509 %) AJAX 13 6 (3.509 %) J2EE 14 5 (2.924 %) ASP 14 5 (2.924 %) XSL	Application Platforms 1 11 (6.433 %) Tuxedo 2 3 (1.754 %) MS Exchange 2 3 (1.754 %) Oracle Application Server 2 3 (1.754 %) Exchange Server 5.5 2 3 (1.754 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 2 (1.170 %) IIS 4 1 (0.585 %) Lotus Notes 4 1 (0.585 %) Apache 4 1 (0.585 %) Tomcat 4 1 (0.585 %) Exchange Server 2000 4 1 (0.585 %) SAS 4 1 (0.585 %) WebLogic
Applications 1 6 (3.509 %) MS Office 1 6 (3.509 %) MS Excel	Business Applications 1 3 (1.754 %) Oracle 11i 1 3 (1.754 %) Oracle Applications 2 1 (0.585 %) Teamcenter
Communications & Networking 1 11 (6.433 %) DVB 2 3 (1.754 %) HTTP 3 2 (1.170 %) LDAP 3 2 (1.170 %) SSL 4 1 (0.585 %) Internet 4 1 (0.585 %) Wireless 4 1 (0.585 %) IMAP 4 1 (0.585 %) SMTP 4 1 (0.585 %) Ethernet 4 1 (0.585 %) FTP 4 1 (0.585 %) SNMP 4 1 (0.585 %) TCP/IP 4 1 (0.585 %) DNS	Database & Business Intelligence 1 24 (14.04 %) SQL Server 2 10 (5.848 %) SQL Server 2005 3 7 (4.094 %) SQL Server 2000 4 5 (2.924 %) Oracle 8/8i 5 3 (1.754 %) Oracle 9i 5 3 (1.754 %) Oracle Reports 5 3 (1.754 %) Oracle 10g 6 1 (0.585 %) MySQL 6 1 (0.585 %) OLAP 6 1 (0.585 %) Adabas 6 1 (0.585 %) GIS
Development Applications 1 6 (3.509 %) JIRA 2 5 (2.924 %) Visual Studio 3 3 (1.754 %) Oracle Forms 4 1 (0.585 %) Eclipse 4 1 (0.585 %) NUnit 4 1 (0.585 %) Subversion 4 1 (0.585 %) Oracle APEX	General 1 30 (17.54 %) Finance 2 21 (12.28 %) Banking 3 16 (9.357 %) Aerospace 4 11 (6.433 %) Multimedia 5 10 (5.848 %) Manufacturing 6 4 (2.339 %) Telecoms 6 4 (2.339 %) Government 6 4 (2.339 %) Pharmaceutical 6 4 (2.339 %) Military 7 2 (1.170 %) Retail Banking 7 2 (1.170 %) Retail 7 2 (1.170 %) Electronics 7 2 (1.170 %) Games 8 1 (0.585 %) Electric 8 1 (0.585 %) International Banking
Job Titles 1 80 (46.78 %) Developer 2 69 (40.35 %) Software Engineer 3 29 (16.96 %) C++ Developer 4 20 (11.70 %) Analyst 5 17 (9.942 %) Embedded Software Engineer 6 15 (8.772 %) Java Developer 7 14 (8.187 %) C++ Software Engineer 7 14 (8.187 %) C Developer 8 13 (7.602 %) C# Developer 9 11 (6.433 %) Programmer 10 9 (5.263 %) Analyst Programmer 11 8 (4.678 %) Software Developer 11 8 (4.678 %) Analyst Developer 11 8 (4.678 %) C++/C# Developer 12 7 (4.094 %) .NET Developer 13 6 (3.509 %) Systems Analyst 13 6 (3.509 %) Embedded C++ Engineer 13 6 (3.509 %) C Software Engineer 14 5 (2.924 %) Embedded C/C++ Engineer 14 5 (2.924 %) Embedded C++ Software Engineer	Miscellaneous 1 12 (7.018 %) IPTV 2 11 (6.433 %) iDTV 2 11 (6.433 %) STB 3 7 (4.094 %) Multithreading 4 5 (2.924 %) Mainframe 5 4 (2.339 %) Smartcard 5 4 (2.339 %) Robotics 6 3 (1.754 %) VAX 7 2 (1.170 %) Device Driver 7 2 (1.170 %) N-Tier 7 2 (1.170 %) NHS 7 2 (1.170 %) W3C 7 2 (1.170 %) Mathematics 8 1 (0.585 %) Physics 8 1 (0.585 %) German Language 8 1 (0.585 %) IBM Mainframe 8 1 (0.585 %) PDA 8 1 (0.585 %) Replication 8 1 (0.585 %) Field-Programmable Gate Array
Operating Systems 1 45 (26.32 %) UNIX 2 34 (19.88 %) Windows 3 30 (17.54 %) Linux 4 15 (8.772 %) VMS 4 15 (8.772 %) VxWorks 5 3 (1.754 %) Windows CE 5 3 (1.754 %) HPUX 6 2 (1.170 %) Solaris 6 2 (1.170 %) Windows NT 6 2 (1.170 %) Windows Mobile 7 1 (0.585 %) Embedded Linux 7 1 (0.585 %) Debian	Processes & Methodologies 1 20 (11.70 %) Agile Software Development 2 16 (9.357 %) Security Cleared 3 13 (7.602 %) OO 4 11 (6.433 %) UML 5 10 (5.848 %) OOD 6 8 (4.678 %) Unit Testing 6 8 (4.678 %) Integration Testing 7 7 (4.094 %) Extreme Programming 8 6 (3.509 %) Validation 9 5 (2.924 %) OOA/OOD 10 4 (2.339 %) ERP 10 4 (2.339 %) BC Cleared 11 3 (1.754 %) SC Cleared 11 3 (1.754 %) CRM 12 2 (1.170 %) RAD 12 2 (1.170 %) ITIL 12 2 (1.170 %) OOP 12 2 (1.170 %) Configuration Management 12 2 (1.170 %) Project Management 12 2 (1.170 %) Refactoring
Programming Languages 1 98 (57.31 %) C 2 91 (53.22 %) Java 3 50 (29.24 %) C# 4 49 (28.65 %) SQL 5 28 (16.37 %) VB 6 23 (13.45 %) Embedded C 7 22 (12.87 %) Embedded C++ 8 17 (9.942 %) Fortran 9 14 (8.187 %) Perl 10 10 (5.848 %) XPath 11 9 (5.263 %) PL/SQL 11 9 (5.263 %) JavaScript 12 8 (4.678 %) VB.NET 13 6 (3.509 %) VC++ 14 5 (2.924 %) COBOL 15 4 (2.339 %) Ada 15 4 (2.339 %) VB6 16 2 (1.170 %) Delphi 16 2 (1.170 %) Transact-SQL 16 2 (1.170 %) VBScript	Qualifications 1 9 (5.263 %) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 4 (2.339 %) QA	System Software 1 3 (1.754 %) Active Directory
Systems Management 1 2 (1.170 %) MIIS 2 1 (0.585 %) Nagios	Vendors 1 36 (21.05 %) Oracle 2 12 (7.018 %) Perforce 3 7 (4.094 %) Microsoft 4 4 (2.339 %) IBM 5 3 (1.754 %) Informatica 6 2 (1.170 %) BMC 7 1 (0.585 %) UGS 7 1 (0.585 %) Spotfire 7 1 (0.585 %) IronPort 7 1 (0.585 %) NetApp 7 1 (0.585 %) ILOG 7 1 (0.585 %) Lotus 7 1 (0.585 %) Sony 7 1 (0.585 %) Intel 7 1 (0.585 %) Symbian