The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term CUDA in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited CUDA over the 3 months to 24 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 terms in our Miscellaneous 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
NVIDIA CUDA
Rank 522 576 583
Rank change year-on-year
+54 +7
Contract jobs citing CUDA 7 8 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.015% 0.014% 0.002%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.057% 0.056% 0.006%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 1
Average daily rate £330 £575 £625
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-42.60% -8.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate - - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All of the Miscellaneous Category
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
12308 14298 17184
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 26.53% 24.52% 28.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 7390 8376 10196
Average daily rate £425 £425 £525
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -19.04%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £245 £250 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £600 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 536 662 725
Average hourly rate £22.50 £22.50 £23.36
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -3.68%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £12.50 £11.25
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £44.15 £45.00 £42.10
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £22.50 £26.00
% change year-on-year
- -13.46%

CUDA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

CUDA Jobs Demand Trend

CUDA
Daily Rate Trend

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

CUDA Daily Rate Trend

CUDA
Hourly Rate Trend

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

CUDA Hourly Rate Trend

CUDA
Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CUDA within the UK over the 3 months to 24 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 +45 7 £330 -42.60%
South East +17 4 - -
Hampshire -7 4 - -
London +40 3 £330 -42.60%
Winchester - 3 - -

CUDA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing CUDA 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 CUDA.

1 12 (70.59%) C++
2 10 (58.82%) OpenCL
3 9 (52.94%) Java
4 8 (47.06%) Grid Computing
4 8 (47.06%) Front Office
4 8 (47.06%) C#
5 7 (41.18%) STL
5 7 (41.18%) Finance
5 7 (41.18%) Boost C++ Libraries
5 7 (41.18%) GPGPU
5 7 (41.18%) Computer Science
5 7 (41.18%) Multithreading
6 6 (35.29%) Banking
6 6 (35.29%) Investment Banking
6 6 (35.29%) .NET
7 5 (29.41%) TDD
7 5 (29.41%) Games
8 4 (23.53%) Online Gambling
8 4 (23.53%) Parallel Processing
9 3 (17.65%) Fixed Income
9 3 (17.65%) 3D Graphics
9 3 (17.65%) C
10 2 (11.76%) Telecoms
10 2 (11.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 2 (11.76%) Linux
10 2 (11.76%) Device Driver
10 2 (11.76%) Embedded Linux
10 2 (11.76%) Hedge funds
10 2 (11.76%) Embedded Systems
10 2 (11.76%) Embedded Software Development

CUDA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing CUDA 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 CUDA. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 10 (58.82%) OpenCL
2 7 (41.18%) STL
2 7 (41.18%) Boost C++ Libraries
3 6 (35.29%) .NET
4 2 (11.76%) DirectCompute
5 1 (5.882%) .NET Framework
5 1 (5.882%) WCF
5 1 (5.882%) WPF
5 1 (5.882%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
5 1 (5.882%) Managed Extensibility Framework
5 1 (5.882%) Task Parallel Library
5 1 (5.882%) OpenGL
5 1 (5.882%) DirectX
Application Platforms
1 2 (11.76%) Oracle Coherence
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.882%) SQL Server Analysis Services
1 1 (5.882%) SQL Server 2012
1 1 (5.882%) Microsoft Analysis Services
1 1 (5.882%) SQL Server
General
1 8 (47.06%) Front Office
2 7 (41.18%) Finance
3 6 (35.29%) Banking
3 6 (35.29%) Investment Banking
4 5 (29.41%) Games
5 2 (11.76%) Telecoms
6 1 (5.882%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 13 (76.47%) Developer
2 9 (52.94%) C++ Developer
3 1 (5.882%) Software Manager
3 1 (5.882%) Software Project Manager
3 1 (5.882%) Project Manager
3 1 (5.882%) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (47.06%) Grid Computing
2 7 (41.18%) GPGPU
2 7 (41.18%) Computer Science
3 4 (23.53%) Online Gambling
4 3 (17.65%) Fixed Income
4 3 (17.65%) 3D Graphics
5 2 (11.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (11.76%) Device Driver
5 2 (11.76%) Hedge funds
5 2 (11.76%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (5.882%) Life Science
6 1 (5.882%) Credit Risk
6 1 (5.882%) Visualisation
6 1 (5.882%) Mathematics
6 1 (5.882%) Derivative
6 1 (5.882%) Interest Rate Derivative
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.76%) Linux
1 2 (11.76%) Embedded Linux
1 2 (11.76%) Tizen
1 2 (11.76%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (41.18%) Multithreading
2 5 (29.41%) TDD
3 4 (23.53%) Parallel Processing
4 2 (11.76%) Embedded Software Development
5 1 (5.882%) Image Processing
5 1 (5.882%) Analytics
5 1 (5.882%) Digital Signal Processing
5 1 (5.882%) Signal Processing
5 1 (5.882%) Software Testing
5 1 (5.882%) Agile Software Development
5 1 (5.882%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (70.59%) C++
2 9 (52.94%) Java
3 8 (47.06%) C#
4 3 (17.65%) C
5 1 (5.882%) Python
5 1 (5.882%) Fortran
Qualifications
1 2 (11.76%) Degree
Vendors
1 2 (11.76%) DataSynapse
2 1 (5.882%) GigaSpaces
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