The first table below looks at the demand for C++ skills in IT contracts advertised for the Portsmouth region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited C++ over the 3 months to 20 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 Programming Languages category for the Portsmouth 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
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
C++
Rank 15 10 14
Rank change year-on-year
-5 +4
Contract jobs citing C++ 9 6 9
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Portsmouth 8.911% 6.818% 5.769%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.36% 15.79% 17.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 5 2
Average daily rate £377 £330 £270
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+14.09% +22.22%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £305 £304 £246
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £392 £294
UK excluding London average daily rate £348 £325 £320
% change year-on-year
+6.92% +1.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 6
Average hourly rate - £35.00 £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £39.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
-3.84% +11.42%
All Programming Languages
Portsmouth
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
55 38 52
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Portsmouth 54.46% 43.18% 33.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 18 10
Average daily rate £325 £330 £271
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.51% +21.77%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £300 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £443 £393 £426
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 11 28
Average hourly rate £27.50 £27.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+1.85% -22.85%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £35.00
C++
Hampshire

C++
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing C++ across the Portsmouth region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

Portsmouth C++ Jobs Demand Trend

C++
Daily Rate Trend

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

Portsmouth C++ Daily Rate Trend

C++
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing C++ across the Portsmouth region over the 3 months to 20 June 2013.

Portsmouth C++ Daily Rate Histogram

C++
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Portsmouth C++ Hourly Rate Trend

C++
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Portsmouth 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 8 (57.14%) C
1 8 (57.14%) C#
1 8 (57.14%) Security Cleared
2 6 (42.86%) SC Cleared
3 5 (35.71%) VB
4 4 (28.57%) Linux
4 4 (28.57%) OO
4 4 (28.57%) Degree
5 3 (21.43%) UNIX
6 2 (14.29%) Embedded C++
6 2 (14.29%) OpenGL
6 2 (14.29%) Finance
6 2 (14.29%) Java
7 1 (7.143%) Operations Research
7 1 (7.143%) Web Development
7 1 (7.143%) Agile Software Development
7 1 (7.143%) Software Engineering
7 1 (7.143%) QA
7 1 (7.143%) Django
7 1 (7.143%) Test Scripting
7 1 (7.143%) Android
7 1 (7.143%) Qt
7 1 (7.143%) Waterfall
7 1 (7.143%) JavaScript
7 1 (7.143%) Perl
7 1 (7.143%) PHP
7 1 (7.143%) SQL
7 1 (7.143%) Oracle
7 1 (7.143%) MS Office
7 1 (7.143%) Visual Studio

C++
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Portsmouth 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 2 (14.29%) OpenGL
2 1 (7.143%) Django
2 1 (7.143%) Qt
2 1 (7.143%) CSS
2 1 (7.143%) XML
2 1 (7.143%) HTML
Applications
1 1 (7.143%) MS Office
1 1 (7.143%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.143%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 1 (7.143%) Visual Studio
General
1 2 (14.29%) Finance
2 1 (7.143%) Manufacturing
2 1 (7.143%) Military
2 1 (7.143%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 5 (35.71%) Team Leader
1 5 (35.71%) Development Team Leader
1 5 (35.71%) Developer
2 4 (28.57%) Software Engineer
3 3 (21.43%) Analyst
4 2 (14.29%) Senior Software Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Analyst Developer
4 2 (14.29%) C Developer
5 1 (7.143%) Real Time Software Engineer
5 1 (7.143%) Real Time Engineer
5 1 (7.143%) Linux Engineer
5 1 (7.143%) Real Time Developer
5 1 (7.143%) Web Test Analyst
5 1 (7.143%) Perl Developer
5 1 (7.143%) C++ Software Developer
5 1 (7.143%) UNIX Engineer
5 1 (7.143%) Web Analyst
5 1 (7.143%) Senior Web Analyst
5 1 (7.143%) UNIX Developer
5 1 (7.143%) Senior Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.143%) Device Driver
Operating Systems
1 4 (28.57%) Linux
2 3 (21.43%) UNIX
3 1 (7.143%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (28.57%) OO
2 1 (7.143%) Operations Research
2 1 (7.143%) Web Development
2 1 (7.143%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (7.143%) Software Engineering
2 1 (7.143%) Test Scripting
2 1 (7.143%) Waterfall
2 1 (7.143%) RAD
2 1 (7.143%) OOP
2 1 (7.143%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (57.14%) C
1 8 (57.14%) C#
2 5 (35.71%) VB
3 2 (14.29%) Embedded C++
3 2 (14.29%) Java
4 1 (7.143%) JavaScript
4 1 (7.143%) Perl
4 1 (7.143%) PHP
4 1 (7.143%) SQL
4 1 (7.143%) VC++
4 1 (7.143%) Python
Qualifications
1 8 (57.14%) Security Cleared
2 6 (42.86%) SC Cleared
3 4 (28.57%) Degree
4 1 (7.143%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.143%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (7.143%) Oracle
1 1 (7.143%) Microsoft