The first table below looks at the demand for OpenGL skills in IT contracts advertised for the Somerset region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited OpenGL over the 3 months to 24 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 of the Application Development category for the Somerset 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
OpenGL
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing OpenGL 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Somerset - - -
As % of the Application Development category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £325 £288
% change year-on-year
+15.38% +13.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year
-6.66% -16.66%
All Application Development
Somerset
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
39 62 82
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Somerset 22.94% 36.47% 47.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 37 44
Average daily rate £320 £335 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.47% +21.81%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £260 £240 £210
10% offered a daily rate of more than £458 £410 £355
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
Average hourly rate £19.00 - £16.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
OpenGL
South West

OpenGL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Somerset OpenGL Jobs Demand Trend

OpenGL
Daily Rate Trend

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

Somerset OpenGL Daily Rate Trend

OpenGL
Top 11 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Somerset region citing OpenGL 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 OpenGL.

1 6 (100.00%) C#
1 6 (100.00%) C++
1 6 (100.00%) .NET
1 6 (100.00%) MFC
1 6 (100.00%) VC++
1 6 (100.00%) Fortran
2 5 (83.33%) DirectX
2 5 (83.33%) Agile Software Development
2 5 (83.33%) Mathematics
3 1 (16.67%) WinForms
3 1 (16.67%) Visual Studio

OpenGL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Somerset region citing OpenGL 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 OpenGL. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 6 (100.00%) .NET
1 6 (100.00%) MFC
2 5 (83.33%) DirectX
3 1 (16.67%) WinForms
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Visual Studio
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Software Engineer
1 6 (100.00%) C++ Software Engineer
2 5 (83.33%) C++ Analyst Programmer
2 5 (83.33%) C++ Programmer
2 5 (83.33%) Software Programmer
2 5 (83.33%) Analyst
2 5 (83.33%) Analyst Programmer
2 5 (83.33%) Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (83.33%) Mathematics
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Agile Software Development
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) C#
1 6 (100.00%) C++
1 6 (100.00%) VC++
1 6 (100.00%) Fortran