C++/Java Developer Contracts

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for the C++/Java Developer role in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited C++/Java Developer in their job title 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 Job Titles currently tracked.

C++/Java Developer
Location Canary Wharf City of London England Leeds London Manchester North West UK West Yorkshire Yorkshire	3 months to 9 Feb 2010	Same period 2009	Same period 2008
Rank	442	445	490
Rank change year-on-year	+3 +45
Matching contract IT job ads	28	34	121
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK	0.064 %	0.074 %	0.148 %
As % of the Job Titles category	0.070 %	0.081 %	0.159 %
Daily rates quoted	11	10	61
Average daily rate	£600	£550	£700
Average daily rate % change year-on-year	+9.090 % -21.42 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than	£301	£509	£500
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than	£675	£655	£725
UK excluding London average daily rate	£301	-	£370
Hourly rates quoted	0	2	0
Average hourly rate	-	£30.00	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	-	£30.00	-
All Job Titles UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the Job Titles category	39961	41745	76056
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK	91.29 %	90.76 %	92.92 %
Daily rates quoted	17810	13046	22755
Average daily rate	£400	£375	£400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year	+6.660 % -6.250 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than	£225	£220	£230
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than	£600	£550	£600
UK excluding London average daily rate	£325	£350	£350
% change year-on-year	-7.140 % -
Hourly rates quoted	2458	3951	6731
Average hourly rate	£18.00	£20.84	£22.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year	-13.62 % -5.270 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than	£10.00	£11.00	£11.00
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than	£38.50	£37.50	£40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£17.50	£20.00	£21.00
% change year-on-year	-12.50 % -4.760 %

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++/Java Developer
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing C++/Java Developer within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

C++/Java Developer
Daily Rate Trend

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

C++/Java Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

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

C++/Java Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

C++/Java Developer
Top 9 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing C++/Java Developer 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.

Location	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	+11	28	£600	+9.09 %
London	-35	23	£600	+9.09 %
City of London	-40	11	£600	+14.28 %
Yorkshire	-	4	£301	-
West Yorkshire	-	4	£301	-
Leeds	-	4	£301	-
Canary Wharf	-32	2	£600	+9.09 %
North West	+9	1	-	-
Manchester	-	1	-	-

C++/Java Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 9 February 2010, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited C++/Java Developer in their job title 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 with C++/Java Developer in their job title.

1 62 (100.00 %) C++ 1 62 (100.00 %) Java 2 31 (50.00 %) Banking 3 23 (37.10 %) Investment Banking 4 21 (33.87 %) Finance 4 21 (33.87 %) C# 5 20 (32.26 %) OO 6 19 (30.65 %) Linux 6 19 (30.65 %) Derivative 7 16 (25.81 %) J2EE 8 15 (24.19 %) Sybase 9 13 (20.97 %) C 10 12 (19.35 %) SQL 10 12 (19.35 %) UNIX 10 12 (19.35 %) Front Office

11 11 (17.74 %) XML 11 11 (17.74 %) Oracle 11 11 (17.74 %) Perl 12 10 (16.13 %) Degree 12 10 (16.13 %) Spring 13 9 (14.52 %) Windows 14 8 (12.90 %) CSS 14 8 (12.90 %) Eclipse 14 8 (12.90 %) XHTML 14 8 (12.90 %) MFC 14 8 (12.90 %) JavaScript 14 8 (12.90 %) Spring Web Flow 15 7 (11.29 %) Multithreading 16 6 (9.677 %) Equity Derivative 16 6 (9.677 %) Foreign Exchange (FX)

C++/Java Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 9 February 2010, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited C++/Java Developer in their job title 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 with C++/Java Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 16 (25.81 %) J2EE 2 11 (17.74 %) XML 3 10 (16.13 %) Spring 4 8 (12.90 %) CSS 4 8 (12.90 %) XHTML 4 8 (12.90 %) MFC 4 8 (12.90 %) Spring Web Flow 5 6 (9.677 %) HTML 5 6 (9.677 %) .NET 6 4 (6.452 %) Swing 7 3 (4.839 %) Oracle Coherence 8 1 (1.613 %) JDBC 8 1 (1.613 %) JSP 8 1 (1.613 %) J2SE 8 1 (1.613 %) JMS 8 1 (1.613 %) ASP.NET 8 1 (1.613 %) ATL 8 1 (1.613 %) Hibernate 8 1 (1.613 %) Murex Flex 8 1 (1.613 %) WCF	Application Platforms 1 1 (1.613 %) MQSeries 1 1 (1.613 %) ActiveMQ
Applications 1 1 (1.613 %) MATLAB	Business Applications 1 1 (1.613 %) Sophis RISQUE
Communications & Networking 1 2 (3.226 %) TCP/IP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (3.226 %) RDBMS 2 1 (1.613 %) SQL Server 2 1 (1.613 %) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications 1 8 (12.90 %) Eclipse 2 1 (1.613 %) JUnit 2 1 (1.613 %) Selenium	General 1 31 (50.00 %) Banking 2 23 (37.10 %) Investment Banking 3 21 (33.87 %) Finance 4 12 (19.35 %) Front Office 5 2 (3.226 %) Financial Institution 6 1 (1.613 %) Law
Miscellaneous 1 19 (30.65 %) Derivative 2 7 (11.29 %) Multithreading 3 6 (9.677 %) Equity Derivative 3 6 (9.677 %) Foreign Exchange (FX) 4 5 (8.065 %) Market Risk 5 3 (4.839 %) Equities 5 3 (4.839 %) Credit Derivative 6 2 (3.226 %) Fixed Income 7 1 (1.613 %) Grid Computing 7 1 (1.613 %) Mathematics 7 1 (1.613 %) Physics	Operating Systems 1 19 (30.65 %) Linux 2 12 (19.35 %) UNIX 3 9 (14.52 %) Windows 4 1 (1.613 %) Solaris 4 1 (1.613 %) Windows NT
Processes & Methodologies 1 20 (32.26 %) OO 2 5 (8.065 %) Risk Management 2 5 (8.065 %) Software Engineering 3 3 (4.839 %) Electronic Trading 4 2 (3.226 %) Data Management 4 2 (3.226 %) OOA/OOD 5 1 (1.613 %) OOD 5 1 (1.613 %) SOA 5 1 (1.613 %) Migration 5 1 (1.613 %) User Acceptance Testing 5 1 (1.613 %) Unit Testing 5 1 (1.613 %) Continuous Integration 5 1 (1.613 %) Agile Software Development 5 1 (1.613 %) Business Analysis	Programming Languages 1 62 (100.00 %) C++ 1 62 (100.00 %) Java 2 21 (33.87 %) C# 3 13 (20.97 %) C 4 12 (19.35 %) SQL 5 11 (17.74 %) Perl 6 8 (12.90 %) JavaScript 7 2 (3.226 %) Shell Script 8 1 (1.613 %) Python 8 1 (1.613 %) VBA 8 1 (1.613 %) Korn
Qualifications 1 10 (16.13 %) Degree	Vendors 1 15 (24.19 %) Sybase 2 11 (17.74 %) Oracle 3 4 (6.452 %) Murex 4 2 (3.226 %) TIBCO 5 1 (1.613 %) Mercator 5 1 (1.613 %) Reuters 5 1 (1.613 %) Bloomberg 5 1 (1.613 %) Sophis 5 1 (1.613 %) DataSynapse