Thames Valley C++ Contracts

This section looks at the demand for C++ skills within the Thames Valley region with a comparison to our Programming Languages category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited C++ over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Abbots Langley Aberdeen Abingdon Alderley Edge Avon Aylesbury Banbury Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Bradford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cheadle Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield City of London Colchester Coventry Crawley Crewe Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Fareham Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Greenford Guildford Halifax Hampshire Havant Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Horsham Hounslow Ilford Ipswich Isle of Wight Kent Kidderminster Lancashire Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Leighton Buzzard Lincolnshire Liverpool London Luton Macclesfield Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North West North Yorkshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Pontypridd Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redhill Rhondda Cynon Taff Rochester Romsey Rotherham Scotland Sheffield Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staines Stevenage Stockport Suffolk Surrey Swansea Swindon Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Ware Warminster Warwickshire Watford Wells West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	5	16
Rank change on same period last year	+11
Matching contract IT job ads	52	66
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.069 %	0.070 %
As % of the category below	31.52 %	16.46 %
Daily rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum daily rate	£450	-
Average daily rate	£450	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£450	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£333	£330
% change on same period last year	+0.77 %
Hourly rates quoted	18	17
Average minimum hourly rate	£36.94	£38.29
Average hourly rate	£38.61	£38.56
% change on same period last year	+0.13 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£40.28	£38.82
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£37.18	£35.20
% change on same period last year	+5.61 %
Programming Languages Thames Valley
Matching contract IT job ads	165	401
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.218 %	0.425 %
Daily rates quoted	6	32
Average minimum daily rate	£387	£321
Average daily rate	£402	£340
% change on same period last year	+18.49 %
Average maximum daily rate	£417	£358
UK excluding London average daily rate	£337	£332
% change on same period last year	+1.57 %
Hourly rates quoted	21	32
Average minimum hourly rate	£37.50	£37.42
Average hourly rate	£38.92	£37.88
% change on same period last year	+2.76 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£40.34	£38.33
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.13	£33.16
% change on same period last year	-0.07 %
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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 Thames Valley 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 Thames Valley 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 Thames Valley 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 Thames Valley region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Thames Valley 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 61 (60.40 %) C 2 25 (24.75 %) Embedded C++ 3 24 (23.76 %) Embedded C 4 19 (18.81 %) Linux 5 16 (15.84 %) UML 6 15 (14.85 %) Java 6 15 (14.85 %) STB 7 13 (12.87 %) Security Cleared 7 13 (12.87 %) Windows 7 13 (12.87 %) MPEG 7 13 (12.87 %) Middleware 7 13 (12.87 %) DVB 8 12 (11.88 %) iDTV 8 12 (11.88 %) OO 9 11 (10.89 %) VC++

9 11 (10.89 %) Games 10 10 (9.901 %) Aerospace 11 9 (8.911 %) MFC 12 7 (6.931 %) C# 12 7 (6.931 %) OpenGL 12 7 (6.931 %) SC Cleared 12 7 (6.931 %) Military 13 6 (5.941 %) VHDL 13 6 (5.941 %) Multimedia 13 6 (5.941 %) Field-Programmable Gate Array 13 6 (5.941 %) Assembly Language 13 6 (5.941 %) DTV 13 6 (5.941 %) Unix 14 5 (4.950 %) IPTV 14 5 (4.950 %) Device Driver

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Thames Valley 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 13 (12.87 %) Middleware 2 9 (8.911 %) MFC 3 7 (6.931 %) OpenGL 4 4 (3.960 %) STL 5 3 (2.970 %) DirectX 6 2 (1.980 %) ATL 6 2 (1.980 %) .NET 7 1 (0.990 %) J2EE 7 1 (0.990 %) COM 7 1 (0.990 %) ActiveX 7 1 (0.990 %) J2ME	Applications 1 2 (1.980 %) MATLAB
Communications & Networking 1 13 (12.87 %) DVB 2 3 (2.970 %) TCP/IP 3 2 (1.980 %) GPRS 3 2 (1.980 %) GSM 3 2 (1.980 %) UMTS 3 2 (1.980 %) Wireless 4 1 (0.990 %) IP Telephony 4 1 (0.990 %) Wi-Fi 4 1 (0.990 %) WLAN 4 1 (0.990 %) WCDMA 4 1 (0.990 %) 3G 4 1 (0.990 %) Bluetooth 4 1 (0.990 %) DECT	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (0.990 %) SQL Server
Development Applications 1 3 (2.970 %) Visual Studio 2 2 (1.980 %) VSS/SourceSafe 3 1 (0.990 %) Eclipse 3 1 (0.990 %) InstallShield	General 1 11 (10.89 %) Games 2 10 (9.901 %) Aerospace 3 7 (6.931 %) Military 4 6 (5.941 %) Multimedia 5 5 (4.950 %) Telecoms 6 3 (2.970 %) Electronics 7 1 (0.990 %) Automotive 7 1 (0.990 %) Education 7 1 (0.990 %) Manufacturing 7 1 (0.990 %) 3D Graphics
Job Titles 1 37 (36.63 %) Software Engineer 2 35 (34.65 %) Developer 3 15 (14.85 %) C++ Developer 4 13 (12.87 %) Junior 5 11 (10.89 %) Junior Developer 6 10 (9.901 %) Support Analyst 6 10 (9.901 %) Developer Analyst 6 10 (9.901 %) Embedded Software Engineer 6 10 (9.901 %) Analyst 6 10 (9.901 %) Junior Analyst 6 10 (9.901 %) Junior Support Analyst 7 4 (3.960 %) Embedded C++ Engineer 7 4 (3.960 %) Embedded C/C++ Engineer 7 4 (3.960 %) Software Developer 8 3 (2.970 %) Architect 8 3 (2.970 %) Test Engineer 8 3 (2.970 %) Senior Software Engineer 8 3 (2.970 %) Embedded C Engineer 8 3 (2.970 %) C++ Software Engineer 8 3 (2.970 %) Hardware Engineer	Miscellaneous 1 15 (14.85 %) STB 2 13 (12.87 %) MPEG 3 12 (11.88 %) iDTV 4 6 (5.941 %) DTV 4 6 (5.941 %) Field-Programmable Gate Array 4 6 (5.941 %) VHDL 5 5 (4.950 %) IPTV 5 5 (4.950 %) Device Driver 6 3 (2.970 %) Firmware 7 2 (1.980 %) Handset 8 1 (0.990 %) PDA 8 1 (0.990 %) Mathematics 8 1 (0.990 %) Multithreading
Operating Systems 1 19 (18.81 %) Linux 2 13 (12.87 %) Windows 3 6 (5.941 %) Unix 4 4 (3.960 %) Windows CE 5 3 (2.970 %) Windows Mobile 5 3 (2.970 %) Embedded Linux 6 2 (1.980 %) Mac OS X 7 1 (0.990 %) Nucleus RTOS 7 1 (0.990 %) VxWorks	Processes & Methodologies 1 16 (15.84 %) UML 2 13 (12.87 %) Security Cleared 3 12 (11.88 %) OO 4 7 (6.931 %) SC Cleared 5 3 (2.970 %) OOD 6 2 (1.980 %) Configuration Management 6 2 (1.980 %) Software Engineering 6 2 (1.980 %) BC Cleared 7 1 (0.990 %) OOP 7 1 (0.990 %) Requirements Management 7 1 (0.990 %) Refactoring
Programming Languages 1 61 (60.40 %) C 2 25 (24.75 %) Embedded C++ 3 24 (23.76 %) Embedded C 4 15 (14.85 %) Java 5 11 (10.89 %) VC++ 6 7 (6.931 %) C# 7 6 (5.941 %) Assembly Language 8 4 (3.960 %) Perl 9 2 (1.980 %) SQL 10 1 (0.990 %) VB 10 1 (0.990 %) VB.NET 10 1 (0.990 %) Python 10 1 (0.990 %) Ada 10 1 (0.990 %) Fortran 10 1 (0.990 %) Pascal 10 1 (0.990 %) Shell Script 10 1 (0.990 %) VB6 10 1 (0.990 %) Delphi	Qualifications 1 2 (1.980 %) Degree
Vendors 1 3 (2.970 %) Symbian 2 2 (1.980 %) Oracle 2 2 (1.980 %) Trolltech 3 1 (0.990 %) Microsoft 3 1 (0.990 %) Adobe 3 1 (0.990 %) Apple