The first table below looks at the demand for CppUnit skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited CppUnit over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Development Applications 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
CppUnit
Rank 503 568 583
Rank change year-on-year
+65 +15
Contract jobs citing CppUnit 38 2 18
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.079% 0.003% 0.029%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.719% 0.036% 0.269%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 0 10
Average daily rate £288 - £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £288 - £250
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
Average hourly rate - - £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £35.00
All Development Applications
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
5287 5509 6681
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 10.99% 9.493% 10.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 3305 3239 3901
Average daily rate £375 £375 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -6.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £270 £265
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £550 £585
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
+1.53% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 149 213 289
Average hourly rate £37.50 £36.75 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+2.04% +5.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £23.75 £22.50 £26.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £44.80 £45.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £36.75 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+2.04% +5.00%

CppUnit
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing CppUnit within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Development Applications category.

CppUnit Jobs Demand Trend

CppUnit
Daily Rate Trend

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

CppUnit Daily Rate Trend

CppUnit
Hourly Rate Trend

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

CppUnit Hourly Rate Trend

CppUnit
Top 19 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CppUnit within the UK over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
England +34 23 £288 - 6
South East - 21 £288 - 1
Hampshire - 17 £288 -
Surrey - 4 £313 - 1
London +26 1 £350 - 5
East of England +18 1 - -
City of London +2 1 £350 - 3
Essex - 1 - -
Wiltshire - - - -
South West - - - -
Swindon - - - -
Cambridgeshire - - - -
Somerset - - - -
Basingstoke - - - -
Bath - - - -
Bristol - - - -
Cambridge - - - -
Chelmsford - - - -
Leatherhead - - - -

CppUnit
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing CppUnit 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 CppUnit.

1 51 (100.00%) C++
2 46 (90.20%) Linux
2 46 (90.20%) NUnit
3 45 (88.24%) UNIX
3 45 (88.24%) C
3 45 (88.24%) Ant
3 45 (88.24%) ClearCase
3 45 (88.24%) OOD
3 45 (88.24%) GoogleTest
4 44 (86.27%) UML
5 40 (78.43%) Configuration Management
5 40 (78.43%) Motif
6 36 (70.59%) wxWidgets
6 36 (70.59%) Security Cleared
7 32 (62.75%) Multithreading
8 30 (58.82%) Continuous Integration
8 30 (58.82%) CruiseControl
8 30 (58.82%) SC Cleared
9 29 (56.86%) Software Engineering
9 29 (56.86%) PostgreSQL
9 29 (56.86%) Ingres
9 29 (56.86%) OO
9 29 (56.86%) XML
9 29 (56.86%) SQL
10 23 (45.10%) Python
10 23 (45.10%) ClearQuest
11 22 (43.14%) Use Case
12 19 (37.25%) Project Management
13 18 (35.29%) Windows
14 17 (33.33%) Microsoft

CppUnit
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing CppUnit 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 CppUnit. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 40 (78.43%) Motif
2 36 (70.59%) wxWidgets
3 29 (56.86%) XML
4 3 (5.882%) ActiveMQ
4 3 (5.882%) STL
4 3 (5.882%) Boost C++ Libraries
5 1 (1.961%) .NET
Applications
1 7 (13.73%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.961%) SNMP
1 1 (1.961%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (56.86%) PostgreSQL
1 29 (56.86%) Ingres
2 1 (1.961%) Oracle 11g
Development Applications
1 46 (90.20%) NUnit
2 45 (88.24%) Ant
2 45 (88.24%) ClearCase
2 45 (88.24%) GoogleTest
3 30 (58.82%) CruiseControl
4 23 (45.10%) ClearQuest
5 17 (33.33%) Subversion
6 13 (25.49%) PyUnit
6 13 (25.49%) GDB
7 11 (21.57%) Rational Rose
8 6 (11.76%) Hudson
8 6 (11.76%) Jenkins
9 2 (3.922%) Visual Studio
10 1 (1.961%) VSS/SourceSafe
10 1 (1.961%) Team Foundation Server
10 1 (1.961%) Moq
10 1 (1.961%) Rational DOORS
General
1 5 (9.804%) Telecoms
2 4 (7.843%) Finance
Job Titles
1 20 (39.22%) Developer
2 17 (33.33%) Software Engineer
3 13 (25.49%) C++ Software Engineer
4 10 (19.61%) Software Developer
5 9 (17.65%) C++ Developer
6 5 (9.804%) C Software Engineer
7 1 (1.961%) C Programmer
7 1 (1.961%) Senior Software Engineer
7 1 (1.961%) C++ Programmer
7 1 (1.961%) Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 13 (25.49%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 46 (90.20%) Linux
2 45 (88.24%) UNIX
3 18 (35.29%) Windows
4 16 (31.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (5.882%) Solaris
6 1 (1.961%) Windows Server 2003
6 1 (1.961%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (88.24%) OOD
2 44 (86.27%) UML
3 40 (78.43%) Configuration Management
4 32 (62.75%) Multithreading
5 30 (58.82%) Continuous Integration
6 29 (56.86%) Software Engineering
6 29 (56.86%) OO
7 22 (43.14%) Use Case
8 19 (37.25%) Project Management
9 16 (31.37%) Memory Management
10 15 (29.41%) RUP
10 15 (29.41%) Unified Process
11 13 (25.49%) Integration Testing
12 6 (11.76%) Code Coverage
12 6 (11.76%) Analytics
13 4 (7.843%) Refactoring
13 4 (7.843%) Scrum
13 4 (7.843%) Agile Software Development
14 3 (5.882%) ETL
15 1 (1.961%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 51 (100.00%) C++
2 45 (88.24%) C
3 29 (56.86%) SQL
4 23 (45.10%) Python
5 1 (1.961%) C#
5 1 (1.961%) Java
5 1 (1.961%) Perl
5 1 (1.961%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 36 (70.59%) Security Cleared
2 30 (58.82%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.961%) Degree
Vendors
1 17 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 16 (31.37%) Red Hat
3 6 (11.76%) Coverity
4 3 (5.882%) Teradata
5 1 (1.961%) Oracle
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Test Engineer required to help develop the test framework that proves the functionality and continuous stability of an existing complex cross-platform ETL product. We are seeking a...
Timothy James Consulting Ltd
Rate: NEGOTIABLE
Posted: 12 June 2013
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