The first table below looks at the demand for Boost C++ Libraries skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Boost C++ Libraries over the 3 months to 22 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.

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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Boost C++ Libraries
Rank 435 517 505
Rank change year-on-year
+82 -12
Contract jobs citing Boost C++ Libraries 99 69 81
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.210% 0.116% 0.135%
As % of the Application Development category 0.772% 0.455% 0.489%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 35 53
Average daily rate £550 £550 £550
90% offered a daily rate of more than £478 £300 £375
10% offered a daily rate of more than £650 £600 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £310 -
% change year-on-year
+4.83% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 7 1
Average hourly rate £37.50 £37.50 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £37.50 £37.50
All Application Development
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
12831 15156 16571
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 27.23% 25.57% 27.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 8032 8869 9678
Average daily rate £375 £350 £395
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -11.39%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £250 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £550 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 371 395 571
Average hourly rate £35.00 £32.50 £36.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% -9.72%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.33 £15.00 £19.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £41.50 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%

Boost C++ Libraries
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Boost C++ Libraries within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

Boost C++ Libraries Jobs Demand Trend

Boost C++ Libraries
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Boost C++ Libraries within the UK.

Boost C++ Libraries Daily Rate Trend

Boost C++ Libraries
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Boost C++ Libraries within the UK over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Boost C++ Libraries Daily Rate Histogram

Boost C++ Libraries
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Boost C++ Libraries within the UK.

Boost C++ Libraries Hourly Rate Trend

Boost C++ Libraries
Top 18 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Boost C++ Libraries within the UK over the 3 months to 22 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
England +79 88 £550 -
London +59 77 £550 -2.22%
Canary Wharf - 14 £650 -
City of London +11 13 £525 -4.54%
Scotland -8 11 £318 +5.83%
South East +16 10 £275 -14.06%
Glasgow -10 8 £413 +37.50%
Surrey +20 6 - -
Guildford - 6 - -
Edinburgh +4 3 £250 -
Hampshire -6 2 - -
West Midlands +10 1 £500 -
Southampton -6 1 - -
Buckinghamshire - 1 - -
Berkshire - 1 £275 -
Reading - 1 £275 -
Birmingham - 1 £500 -
Aylesbury - 1 - -

Boost C++ Libraries
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Boost C++ Libraries 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 Boost C++ Libraries.

1 196 (100.00%) C++
2 182 (92.86%) STL
3 109 (55.61%) Banking
4 99 (50.51%) Linux
5 91 (46.43%) Multithreading
6 88 (44.90%) Investment Banking
7 70 (35.71%) Front Office
7 70 (35.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 69 (35.20%) Finance
9 61 (31.12%) Windows
10 57 (29.08%) C#
11 56 (28.57%) SQL
12 43 (21.94%) Fixed Income
13 42 (21.43%) UNIX
14 38 (19.39%) Python
15 37 (18.88%) Derivative
16 36 (18.37%) Analytics
17 35 (17.86%) OO
18 34 (17.35%) XML
19 32 (16.33%) .NET
20 22 (11.22%) C
21 21 (10.71%) Oracle
21 21 (10.71%) MS Excel
21 21 (10.71%) Interest Rate Derivative
21 21 (10.71%) Credit Risk
22 20 (10.20%) Spreadsheet
23 18 (9.184%) CMS
23 18 (9.184%) Windows XP
23 18 (9.184%) Microsoft
23 18 (9.184%) Java

Boost C++ Libraries
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Boost C++ Libraries 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 Boost C++ Libraries. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 182 (92.86%) STL
2 34 (17.35%) XML
3 32 (16.33%) .NET
4 8 (4.082%) Threading Building Blocks
4 8 (4.082%) OpenCL
5 5 (2.551%) HTML
6 4 (2.041%) XSL
7 3 (1.531%) Django
7 3 (1.531%) Murex Flex
7 3 (1.531%) Web Services
8 2 (1.020%) ATL
8 2 (1.020%) DCOM
8 2 (1.020%) CSS
8 2 (1.020%) Spring
8 2 (1.020%) Hibernate
8 2 (1.020%) jQuery
9 1 (0.510%) MXML
9 1 (0.510%) Qt
9 1 (0.510%) WCF
9 1 (0.510%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 18 (9.184%) CMS
2 5 (2.551%) Oracle Coherence
3 3 (1.531%) Rendezvous
Applications
1 21 (10.71%) MS Excel
2 20 (10.20%) Spreadsheet
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.061%) GSM
1 6 (3.061%) PBX
1 6 (3.061%) UMTS
1 6 (3.061%) VoIP
1 6 (3.061%) LTE
1 6 (3.061%) Asterisk PBX
2 5 (2.551%) HTTP
3 3 (1.531%) GGSN
3 3 (1.531%) SGSN
3 3 (1.531%) RANAP
3 3 (1.531%) SMTP
3 3 (1.531%) RTP
4 2 (1.020%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (9.184%) Oracle 8/8i
2 11 (5.612%) SQL Server
3 4 (2.041%) KDB
4 1 (0.510%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 18 (9.184%) Oracle Forms
2 15 (7.653%) ClearCase
3 12 (6.122%) GCC
4 11 (5.612%) CruiseControl
4 11 (5.612%) Hudson
5 9 (4.592%) Subversion
6 8 (4.082%) Build Forge
7 7 (3.571%) Visual Studio
8 6 (3.061%) GDB
8 6 (3.061%) TeamCity
8 6 (3.061%) Trac
9 3 (1.531%) Git (software)
9 3 (1.531%) Team Foundation Server
10 2 (1.020%) Maven
10 2 (1.020%) LabVIEW
10 2 (1.020%) Jenkins
10 2 (1.020%) GoogleTest
11 1 (0.510%) NetBeans IDE
11 1 (0.510%) Artifactory
11 1 (0.510%) Log4Cxx
General
1 109 (55.61%) Banking
2 88 (44.90%) Investment Banking
3 70 (35.71%) Front Office
4 69 (35.20%) Finance
5 8 (4.082%) Telecoms
6 2 (1.020%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.510%) Games
7 1 (0.510%) Back Office
7 1 (0.510%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 177 (90.31%) Developer
2 161 (82.14%) C++ Developer
3 32 (16.33%) Senior Developer
4 31 (15.82%) Senior C++ Developer
5 26 (13.27%) C++/C# Developer
6 23 (11.73%) Front Office Developer
7 19 (9.694%) C# Developer
8 18 (9.184%) Systems Developer
9 13 (6.633%) Software Engineer
10 10 (5.102%) C++ Quantitative Developer
10 10 (5.102%) Quantitative Developer
11 7 (3.571%) C++ Software Engineer
12 4 (2.041%) C++ Programmer
12 4 (2.041%) Programmer
12 4 (2.041%) Credit Risk Developer
13 3 (1.531%) Network Engineer
14 2 (1.020%) Architect
14 2 (1.020%) Senior Software Engineer
14 2 (1.020%) Senior Architect
15 1 (0.510%) Market Risk Developer
Miscellaneous
1 70 (35.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 43 (21.94%) Fixed Income
3 37 (18.88%) Derivative
4 21 (10.71%) Interest Rate Derivative
4 21 (10.71%) Credit Risk
5 18 (9.184%) Swaptions
6 14 (7.143%) Grid Computing
7 11 (5.612%) Hedge funds
7 11 (5.612%) Computer Science
8 8 (4.082%) Equities
9 7 (3.571%) GPGPU
9 7 (3.571%) CUDA
10 3 (1.531%) N-Tier
11 2 (1.020%) Market Risk
12 1 (0.510%) Embedded Systems
12 1 (0.510%) Mathematics
12 1 (0.510%) Physics
12 1 (0.510%) Device Driver
12 1 (0.510%) Credit Derivative
12 1 (0.510%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 99 (50.51%) Linux
2 61 (31.12%) Windows
3 42 (21.43%) UNIX
4 18 (9.184%) Windows XP
4 18 (9.184%) Windows 7
5 7 (3.571%) CentOS
5 7 (3.571%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (3.571%) Fedora
5 7 (3.571%) Solaris
6 1 (0.510%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (0.510%) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (46.43%) Multithreading
2 36 (18.37%) Analytics
3 35 (17.86%) OO
4 18 (9.184%) Risk Analysis
5 14 (7.143%) E-Commerce
6 13 (6.633%) Monte Carlo Method
7 11 (5.612%) OOD
7 11 (5.612%) TDD
7 11 (5.612%) Risk Management
7 11 (5.612%) Continuous Integration
8 10 (5.102%) Agile Software Development
9 9 (4.592%) OOP
10 8 (4.082%) MVC
11 7 (3.571%) UML
12 6 (3.061%) Algorithmic Trading
13 4 (2.041%) Scrum
13 4 (2.041%) Unit Testing
13 4 (2.041%) Metaprogramming
13 4 (2.041%) Parallel Processing
14 3 (1.531%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 196 (100.00%) C++
2 57 (29.08%) C#
3 56 (28.57%) SQL
4 38 (19.39%) Python
5 22 (11.22%) C
6 18 (9.184%) Java
7 12 (6.122%) Perl
8 8 (4.082%) PowerShell
9 5 (2.551%) VBA
10 3 (1.531%) Bash shell
10 3 (1.531%) JavaScript
10 3 (1.531%) VB
10 3 (1.531%) VB.NET
11 2 (1.020%) VC++
11 2 (1.020%) Scala
Qualifications
1 13 (6.633%) Degree
2 1 (0.510%) SC Cleared
2 1 (0.510%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.041%) Basel III
2 2 (1.020%) QA
Vendors
1 21 (10.71%) Oracle
2 18 (9.184%) Microsoft
3 11 (5.612%) TIBCO
4 9 (4.592%) Sybase
5 8 (4.082%) Intel
6 7 (3.571%) Red Hat
7 6 (3.061%) Cisco
7 6 (3.061%) DataSynapse
8 3 (1.531%) Google
8 3 (1.531%) FFastFill
8 3 (1.531%) Murex
8 3 (1.531%) EasyScreen
8 3 (1.531%) CQG
9 2 (1.020%) Perforce
10 1 (0.510%) GigaSpaces
10 1 (0.510%) Reuters
10 1 (0.510%) Bloomberg
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