South Wales C++ Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for C++ skills within the South Wales 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 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Abingdon Alderley Edge Avon Barnet Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cardigan Ceredigion Channel Islands Cheadle Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham City of London County Antrim Crawley Croydon Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorset Dundee East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Fareham Farnham Flintshire Gateshead Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Havant Hemel Hempstead Henley-on-Thames Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Hounslow Kent Kidderminster Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Manchester Merseyside Mid Wales Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Northwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Petersfield Portsmouth Preston Queensferry Reading Redhill Rotherham Rugby Scotland Sevenoaks Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staines Stevenage Stockport Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swindon Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warminster Warrington Warwickshire Watford Wells West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wilmslow Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Woking Worcester Worcestershire Yeovil Yorkshire	3 months to 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	51	37
Rank change on same period last year	-14
Matching contract IT job ads	2	10
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.003 %	0.010 %
As % of the category below	0.962 %	6.289 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£328	£340
% change on same period last year	-3.57 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.00	£35.00
Average hourly rate	£32.50	£35.00
% change on same period last year	-7.14 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£35.00	£35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£35.68	£36.66
% change on same period last year	-2.66 %
Programming Languages South Wales
Matching contract IT job ads	208	159
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.293 %	0.161 %
Daily rates quoted	63	24
Average minimum daily rate	£292	£274
Average daily rate	£314	£341
% change on same period last year	-8.12 %
Average maximum daily rate	£335	£409
UK excluding London average daily rate	£324	£334
% change on same period last year	-2.98 %
Hourly rates quoted	23	14
Average minimum hourly rate	£29.41	£28.29
Average hourly rate	£33.21	£29.41
% change on same period last year	+12.92 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£37.02	£30.54
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.24	£32.80
% change on same period last year	-1.70 %
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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 South Wales 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 South Wales region.

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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 South Wales region.

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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 South Wales region over the 3 months to 10 October 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
Newport	-	1	-	-
Cardiff	-4	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South Wales 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 11 (68.75 %) Security Cleared 2 10 (62.50 %) OO 3 9 (56.25 %) SC Cleared 3 9 (56.25 %) C# 3 9 (56.25 %) Windows 3 9 (56.25 %) Visual Studio 3 9 (56.25 %) UML 4 8 (50.00 %) C 5 5 (31.25 %) SQL Server 5 5 (31.25 %) XML 6 4 (25.00 %) OOD 6 4 (25.00 %) TCP/IP 7 2 (12.50 %) Rational Rose 7 2 (12.50 %) GPRS 7 2 (12.50 %) ISDN

7 2 (12.50 %) UNIX 7 2 (12.50 %) Solaris 7 2 (12.50 %) .NET 7 2 (12.50 %) Oracle 7 2 (12.50 %) Software Testing 7 2 (12.50 %) Windows Mobile 7 2 (12.50 %) Pocket PC 8 1 (6.250 %) Unit Testing 8 1 (6.250 %) Integration Testing 8 1 (6.250 %) Communications Security 8 1 (6.250 %) IPTV 8 1 (6.250 %) Windows XP 8 1 (6.250 %) JMS 8 1 (6.250 %) Government 8 1 (6.250 %) Military

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South Wales 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 5 (31.25 %) XML 2 2 (12.50 %) .NET 3 1 (6.250 %) HTML 3 1 (6.250 %) XSD 3 1 (6.250 %) JMS	Communications & Networking 1 4 (25.00 %) TCP/IP 2 2 (12.50 %) GPRS 2 2 (12.50 %) ISDN
Database & Business Intelligence 1 5 (31.25 %) SQL Server 2 1 (6.250 %) RDBMS	Development Applications 1 9 (56.25 %) Visual Studio 2 2 (12.50 %) Rational Rose
General 1 1 (6.250 %) Government 1 1 (6.250 %) Military	Job Titles 1 14 (87.50 %) Software Engineer 2 2 (12.50 %) Embedded Software Engineer 2 2 (12.50 %) C++ Software Engineer 3 1 (6.250 %) C# Software Engineer 3 1 (6.250 %) Embedded C Software Engineer 3 1 (6.250 %) Integration Engineer 3 1 (6.250 %) Software Integration Engineer 3 1 (6.250 %) Embedded C Engineer 3 1 (6.250 %) C Software Engineer 3 1 (6.250 %) Embedded C/C++ Engineer 3 1 (6.250 %) Embedded C/C++ Software Engineer 3 1 (6.250 %) Embedded C++ Engineer 3 1 (6.250 %) Embedded C++ Software Engineer 3 1 (6.250 %) Developer 3 1 (6.250 %) C++ Developer
Miscellaneous 1 2 (12.50 %) Pocket PC 2 1 (6.250 %) MPEG 2 1 (6.250 %) DTV 2 1 (6.250 %) IPTV	Operating Systems 1 9 (56.25 %) Windows 2 2 (12.50 %) Solaris 2 2 (12.50 %) UNIX 2 2 (12.50 %) Windows Mobile 3 1 (6.250 %) Linux 3 1 (6.250 %) Windows 2000 3 1 (6.250 %) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies 1 11 (68.75 %) Security Cleared 2 10 (62.50 %) OO 3 9 (56.25 %) UML 3 9 (56.25 %) SC Cleared 4 4 (25.00 %) OOD 5 2 (12.50 %) Software Testing 6 1 (6.250 %) Unit Testing 6 1 (6.250 %) Integration Testing 6 1 (6.250 %) Communications Security 6 1 (6.250 %) BPEL	Programming Languages 1 9 (56.25 %) C# 2 8 (50.00 %) C 3 1 (6.250 %) Java 3 1 (6.250 %) SQL 3 1 (6.250 %) Embedded C 3 1 (6.250 %) Embedded C++ 3 1 (6.250 %) Assembly Language
Vendors 1 2 (12.50 %) Oracle