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The first part of the table below looks at the demand for C++ skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited C++ over the 3 months to 9 February 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Programming Languages category.

LinkC++
Location
3 months to
9 Feb 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank373928
Rank change year-on-year
Up+2Down-11
Matching contract IT job ads172615383549
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK3.943 %3.344 %4.336 %
As % of the Programming Languages category10.41 %10.73 %12.44 %
Daily rates quoted8654281028
Average daily rate£525£475£550
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.52 %-13.63 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£300£286£313
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£650£650£700
UK excluding London average daily rate£319£340£330
% change year-on-year
-6.250 %+3.030 %
Hourly rates quoted99220432
Average hourly rate£36.00£35.00£36.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+2.850 %-2.770 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£30.30£30.00£30.00
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£43.00£45.00£47.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£35.50£35.00£35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.420 %-
IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryAll Programming Languages
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
165781433028524
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK37.87 %31.16 %34.85 %
Daily rates quoted807247888851
Average daily rate£401£350£400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+14.57 %-12.50 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£225£225£250
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£600£525£600
UK excluding London average daily rate£300£305£325
% change year-on-year
-1.630 %-6.150 %
Hourly rates quoted83212302017
Average hourly rate£30.00£32.50£33.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-7.690 %-1.510 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£13.88£16.00£19.50
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£40.00£42.50£44.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£28.00£32.50£33.50
% change year-on-year
-13.84 %-2.980 %

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.

C++
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing C++ within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

C++ Demand Trend

C++
Daily Rate Trend

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

C++ Daily Rate Trend

C++
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing C++ within the UK over the 3 months to 9 February 2010.

C++ Daily Rate Histogram

C++
Hourly Rate Trend

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

C++ Hourly Rate Trend

C++
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing C++ within the UK over the 3 months to 9 February 2010.

C++ Hourly Rate Histogram

C++
Top 30 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 UK over the 3 months to 9 February 2010. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank 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
EnglandUp+31678£525+5.00 %
LondonUp+51320£550+10.00 %
City of LondonDown-6475£550+4.76 %
South EastDown-20150£318-17.31 %
South WestUp+180£338+58.82 %
East of EnglandDown-668£300-3.22 %
HampshireDown-853£300-21.05 %
Canary WharfDown-352£550+10.00 %
Docklands, LondonUp+144£650+30.00 %
CambridgeshireUp+340£300+9.09 %
ScotlandDown-831£358+27.67 %
SurreyDown-130£225-10.00 %
BerkshireUp+1124£325+54.76 %
CambridgeDown-324£325+18.18 %
HertfordshireDown-423£300-
GloucestershireUp+3121£375-
BristolDown-1719£300-
WiltshireUp+2117£325+52.94 %
North EastUp+1714£324-13.60 %
YorkshireUp+313£301+20.20 %
SwindonUp+1712£325+62.50 %
Tyne and WearUp+1512£324-
North WestDown-2612--
StevenageNo change011£275-
EdinburghDown-1411--
Newcastle Upon TyneNew entry-11£324-
West MidlandsDown-1410£163-37.50 %
GlasgowUp+19£358-5.61 %
BasingstokeUp+68£325-27.77 %
West YorkshireUp+58£301-

C++
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 9 February 2010, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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++.

11119 (34.44 %)Java
21068 (32.87 %)C#
31006 (30.96 %)Banking
4886 (27.27 %)UNIX
5746 (22.96 %)Front Office
6744 (22.90 %)Derivative
7708 (21.79 %)SQL
8702 (21.61 %)Investment Banking
9662 (20.38 %)C
10640 (19.70 %)OO
11609 (18.74 %)Oracle
12606 (18.65 %)Windows
13544 (16.74 %).NET
14537 (16.53 %)Finance
15490 (15.08 %)Linux
16478 (14.71 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
17427 (13.14 %)STL
18366 (11.27 %)XML
19358 (11.02 %)Sybase
20349 (10.74 %)Fixed Income
21333 (10.25 %)Perl
22315 (9.695 %)SQL Server
23272 (8.372 %)Equity Derivative
24247 (7.602 %)Degree
25245 (7.541 %)Python
26243 (7.479 %)Multithreading
27211 (6.494 %)VC++
28203 (6.248 %)Solaris
29201 (6.187 %)Risk Management
30200 (6.156 %)UML

C++
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 9 February 2010, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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.

IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
1544 (16.74 %).NET
2427 (13.14 %)STL
3366 (11.27 %)XML
4151 (4.648 %)WinForms
5117 (3.601 %)MFC
6114 (3.509 %)Boost C++ Libraries
7106 (3.263 %)Middleware
8102 (3.139 %)J2EE
979 (2.432 %)HTML
1077 (2.370 %)Web Services
1172 (2.216 %)ASP.NET
1262 (1.908 %)SOAP
1359 (1.816 %)Spring
1450 (1.539 %).NET Framework
1545 (1.385 %)OpenGL
1643 (1.323 %)Swing
1739 (1.200 %)WPF
1838 (1.170 %)ATL
1935 (1.077 %)WCF
2034 (1.046 %)ASP
IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
179 (2.432 %)Rendezvous
260 (1.847 %)MQSeries
319 (0.585 %)Apache
417 (0.523 %)WebLogic
516 (0.492 %)Tomcat
614 (0.431 %)SharePoint
713 (0.400 %)Oracle Workflow
812 (0.369 %)BizTalk Server
910 (0.308 %)ESB
910 (0.308 %)TIBCO EMS
910 (0.308 %)IIS
910 (0.308 %)CMS
107 (0.215 %)Confluence
107 (0.215 %)SAS
116 (0.185 %)WebSphere MQ
116 (0.185 %)SmartSockets
125 (0.154 %)MS Exchange
134 (0.123 %)LiveLink
143 (0.092 %)OpenROAD
143 (0.092 %)WordPress
IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
151 (1.570 %)MS Excel
233 (1.016 %)Spreadsheet
323 (0.708 %)MS Project
421 (0.646 %)MATLAB
515 (0.462 %)MS Visio
614 (0.431 %)MS Office
79 (0.277 %)MS PowerPoint
86 (0.185 %)Photoshop
94 (0.123 %)Simulink
94 (0.123 %)CATIA
103 (0.092 %)SPSS
112 (0.062 %)Stateflow
112 (0.062 %)Windchill
121 (0.031 %)Maya
121 (0.031 %)Doxygen
IT Contractor Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
148 (1.477 %)Summit
222 (0.677 %)RMDS
320 (0.616 %)SunGard Martini
419 (0.585 %)Sophis RISQUE
517 (0.523 %)Endur
610 (0.308 %)JDE OneWorld
610 (0.308 %)Global One
79 (0.277 %)ION MarketView
87 (0.215 %)GL Clearvision
96 (0.185 %)Front Arena
104 (0.123 %)AWD
112 (0.062 %)ADP Wilco Gloss
112 (0.062 %)BASE24
121 (0.031 %)Oracle Applications
121 (0.031 %)Oracle 11i
121 (0.031 %)3000 Xtra
121 (0.031 %)Oracle Clinical
121 (0.031 %)Sophis VALUE
121 (0.031 %)JDE EnterpriseOne
121 (0.031 %)TIBCO iProcess
IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
1110 (3.386 %)TCP/IP
233 (1.016 %)Wireless
328 (0.862 %)3G
427 (0.831 %)Internet
427 (0.831 %)DVB
526 (0.800 %)LDAP
625 (0.769 %)HTTP
723 (0.708 %)UMTS
822 (0.677 %)DNS
918 (0.554 %)Firewall
1017 (0.523 %)DHCP
1017 (0.523 %)Network Security
1114 (0.431 %)NAS
1114 (0.431 %)SAN
1213 (0.400 %)3GPP
1213 (0.400 %)LTE
1310 (0.308 %)Ethernet
1310 (0.308 %)Intranet
149 (0.277 %)SMTP
158 (0.246 %)VoIP
IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
1315 (9.695 %)SQL Server
289 (2.739 %)OLTP
373 (2.247 %)RDBMS
449 (1.508 %)Oracle 8/8i
547 (1.447 %)Oracle 10g
637 (1.139 %)MySQL
721 (0.646 %)DB2
721 (0.646 %)SQL Server 2005
820 (0.616 %)GIS
917 (0.523 %)Ingres
1014 (0.431 %)SQL Server 2008
1113 (0.400 %)BusinessObjects
1113 (0.400 %)Oracle 9i
1113 (0.400 %)Datawarehouse
1212 (0.369 %)ETL
1212 (0.369 %)SQL Server 2000
1311 (0.339 %)Firebird
149 (0.277 %)Oracle Reports
158 (0.246 %)Data Mart
158 (0.246 %)MS Access
IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
1101 (3.109 %)Visual Studio
297 (2.986 %)ClearCase
346 (1.416 %)Subversion
442 (1.293 %)Eclipse
526 (0.800 %)NUnit
526 (0.800 %)ClearQuest
623 (0.708 %)JUnit
722 (0.677 %)JIRA
722 (0.677 %)PVCS
819 (0.585 %)Maven
917 (0.523 %)VSS/SourceSafe
1015 (0.462 %)Ant
1111 (0.339 %)TeamCity
1111 (0.339 %)CruiseControl
128 (0.246 %)Xcode
137 (0.215 %)QuickTest Pro
146 (0.185 %)Git (software)
155 (0.154 %)C++Builder
155 (0.154 %)ARTiSAN
155 (0.154 %)TestDirector
IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
11006 (30.96 %)Banking
2746 (22.96 %)Front Office
3702 (21.61 %)Investment Banking
4537 (16.53 %)Finance
5111 (3.416 %)Games
676 (2.339 %)Telecoms
768 (2.093 %)Government
861 (1.878 %)Back Office
951 (1.570 %)Education
1029 (0.893 %)Electronics
1029 (0.893 %)Aerospace
1127 (0.831 %)Financial Institution
1226 (0.800 %)3D Graphics
1322 (0.677 %)Military
1419 (0.585 %)Manufacturing
1518 (0.554 %)Electric
1617 (0.523 %)General Ledger
1716 (0.492 %)Retail
1815 (0.462 %)Insurance
1913 (0.400 %)Automotive
IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
12272 (69.93 %)Developer
21018 (31.33 %)C++ Developer
3441 (13.57 %)C# Developer
4325 (10.00 %)Software Engineer
5248 (7.633 %)Senior Developer
6235 (7.233 %)Java Developer
7223 (6.864 %)Analyst
8135 (4.155 %)C++/C# Developer
9101 (3.109 %)Front Office Developer
1097 (2.986 %)Programmer
1097 (2.986 %).NET Developer
1192 (2.832 %)Software Developer
1289 (2.739 %)Quantitative Developer
1381 (2.493 %)Senior C++ Developer
1476 (2.339 %)C++ Software Engineer
1569 (2.124 %)Architect
1668 (2.093 %)Senior C# Developer
1762 (1.908 %)C++/Java Developer
1860 (1.847 %)Analyst Developer
1959 (1.816 %)GUI Developer
IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
1744 (22.90 %)Derivative
2478 (14.71 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
3349 (10.74 %)Fixed Income
4272 (8.372 %)Equity Derivative
5243 (7.479 %)Multithreading
6163 (5.017 %)Equities
7127 (3.909 %)Interest Rate Derivative
8124 (3.817 %)Mathematics
9114 (3.509 %)Credit Risk
1092 (2.832 %)Credit Derivative
1189 (2.739 %)Computer Science
1285 (2.616 %)Grid Computing
1384 (2.585 %)Client/Server
1449 (1.508 %)Physics
1449 (1.508 %)N-Tier
1532 (0.985 %)Market Risk
1628 (0.862 %)IPTV
1727 (0.831 %)iPhone
1826 (0.800 %)Device Driver
1922 (0.677 %)Firmware
IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
1886 (27.27 %)UNIX
2606 (18.65 %)Windows
3490 (15.08 %)Linux
4203 (6.248 %)Solaris
534 (1.046 %)Windows XP
534 (1.046 %)Windows Server 2003
628 (0.862 %)Windows CE
721 (0.646 %)Windows Mobile
818 (0.554 %)Windows Server 2008
917 (0.523 %)Windows NT
1016 (0.492 %)HPUX
1115 (0.462 %)Windows 2000
1115 (0.462 %)Windows Vista
1213 (0.400 %)AIX
139 (0.277 %)Embedded Linux
148 (0.246 %)Red Hat Linux
157 (0.215 %)NetWare
166 (0.185 %)Windows 7
166 (0.185 %)Android
175 (0.154 %)VxWorks
IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
1640 (19.70 %)OO
2201 (6.187 %)Risk Management
3200 (6.156 %)UML
4172 (5.294 %)OOD
5120 (3.693 %)Agile Software Development
6110 (3.386 %)E-Commerce
7102 (3.139 %)Unit Testing
7102 (3.139 %)Software Engineering
891 (2.801 %)Configuration Management
971 (2.185 %)Electronic Trading
1069 (2.124 %)TDD
1069 (2.124 %)Workflow
1069 (2.124 %)Migration
1168 (2.093 %)Regression Testing
1261 (1.878 %)Monte Carlo Method
1348 (1.477 %)Business Analysis
1444 (1.354 %)Project Management
1543 (1.323 %)RAD
1543 (1.323 %)Scrum
1642 (1.293 %)Data Modelling
IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
11119 (34.44 %)Java
21068 (32.87 %)C#
3708 (21.79 %)SQL
4662 (20.38 %)C
5333 (10.25 %)Perl
6245 (7.541 %)Python
7211 (6.494 %)VC++
8190 (5.848 %)VBA
9187 (5.756 %)VB
10145 (4.463 %)Shell Script
1180 (2.462 %)JavaScript
1256 (1.724 %)PHP
1349 (1.508 %)Embedded C
1447 (1.447 %)PL/SQL
1546 (1.416 %)Assembly Language
1644 (1.354 %)Embedded C++
1735 (1.077 %)VB.NET
1831 (0.954 %)VB6
1927 (0.831 %)T-SQL
2026 (0.800 %)Objective-C
IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
1247 (7.602 %)Degree
2190 (5.848 %)Security Cleared
3108 (3.324 %)SC Cleared
448 (1.477 %)DV Cleared
523 (0.708 %)PhD
68 (0.246 %)ISEB
75 (0.154 %)PMI Certification
75 (0.154 %)ISTQB
83 (0.092 %)Cisco Certification
92 (0.062 %)Brainbench
92 (0.062 %)HNC
92 (0.062 %)HND
92 (0.062 %)PMP
92 (0.062 %)Sun Certification
92 (0.062 %)CCNA
101 (0.031 %)MBA
101 (0.031 %)CISSP
101 (0.031 %)Microsoft Certification
101 (0.031 %)Oracle Certification
101 (0.031 %)PRINCE2 Certification
IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
136 (1.108 %)QA
211 (0.339 %)SLA
34 (0.123 %)TickIT
43 (0.092 %)ISO12207
43 (0.092 %)Basel II
52 (0.062 %)JTAG
52 (0.062 %)ISO9001
52 (0.062 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
IT Contractor Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
125 (0.769 %)Active Directory
29 (0.277 %)VMware Infrastructure
36 (0.185 %)MSMQ
43 (0.092 %)Squid
51 (0.031 %)Samba
51 (0.031 %)NFS
51 (0.031 %)Postfix
51 (0.031 %)Sendmail
IT Contractor Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
142 (1.293 %)AutoSys
28 (0.246 %)Tivoli
36 (0.185 %)CONTROL-M
43 (0.092 %)TIBCO Hawk
43 (0.092 %)Data Guard
52 (0.062 %)SCOM
52 (0.062 %)HP Quality Center
52 (0.062 %)MSI
52 (0.062 %)MIIS
61 (0.031 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
61 (0.031 %)Nagios
61 (0.031 %)Tivoli Storage Manager
61 (0.031 %)Ganglia
61 (0.031 %)EMC NetWorker
IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
1609 (18.74 %)Oracle
2358 (11.02 %)Sybase
3133 (4.094 %)Microsoft
4128 (3.940 %)TIBCO
577 (2.370 %)IBM
666 (2.031 %)Murex
742 (1.293 %)Perforce
838 (1.170 %)Sophis
935 (1.077 %)DataSynapse
1033 (1.016 %)Reuters
1129 (0.893 %)Bloomberg
1228 (0.862 %)ION Trading
1324 (0.739 %)SunGard
1422 (0.677 %)DevExpress
1520 (0.616 %)Sun
1615 (0.462 %)OpenLink
1615 (0.462 %)Serena
1714 (0.431 %)JBoss
1714 (0.431 %)VMware
1813 (0.400 %)Business Objects