OpenGL Contracts

This section looks at the demand for OpenGL skills across the UK with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited OpenGL over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Berkshire Birmingham Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire East Midlands East of England East Yorkshire England Glasgow Hampshire Havant Ipswich Lincolnshire London Oxford Oxfordshire Pontypridd Portsmouth Rhondda Cynon Taff Scotland South Coast South East South Wales South West Suffolk Thames Valley UK Wales West Midlands Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	525	602
Rank change on same period last year	+77
Matching contract IT job ads	63	47
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.083 %	0.050 %
As % of the category below	0.355 %	0.214 %
Daily rates quoted	11	8
Average minimum daily rate	£265	£241
Average daily rate	£308	£266
% change on same period last year	+15.93 %
Average maximum daily rate	£350	£291
UK excluding London average daily rate	£250	£266
% change on same period last year	-5.88 %
Hourly rates quoted	16	9
Average minimum hourly rate	£36.18	£28.11
Average hourly rate	£37.27	£31.44
% change on same period last year	+18.53 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£38.36	£34.78
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£37.27	£31.44
% change on same period last year	+18.53 %
Application Development UK
Matching contract IT job ads	17751	21916
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	23.41 %	23.25 %
Daily rates quoted	5849	6599
Average minimum daily rate	£353	£375
Average daily rate	£380	£401
% change on same period last year	-5.15 %
Average maximum daily rate	£406	£426
UK excluding London average daily rate	£349	£336
% change on same period last year	+3.94 %
Hourly rates quoted	1005	1382
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.09	£30.91
Average hourly rate	£32.48	£33.30
% change on same period last year	-2.44 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£34.88	£35.68
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.44	£33.08
% change on same period last year	-1.93 %

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing OpenGL within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing OpenGL within the UK over the 3 months to 4 July 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing OpenGL within the UK over the 3 months to 4 July 2008.

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Top 30 Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing OpenGL within the UK over the 3 months to 4 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
England	+67	56	£308	+15.93 %
South East	+26	21	£215	-33.84 %
London	+77	11	£330	-
Oxfordshire	+2	9	£215	-
East of England	-8	8	£268	+29.69 %
Cambridgeshire	-9	7	£268	+29.69 %
Thames Valley	+27	7	-	-
Yorkshire	+15	5	-	-
South West	+28	5	-	-
Cambridge	-5	4	-	-
Oxford	+8	4	£215	-
West Midlands	-	4	-	-
East Yorkshire	-1	3	-	-
Lincolnshire	-	3	-	-
East Midlands	0	3	-	-
Hampshire	+11	2	-	-
Bristol	-	2	-	-
Havant	-	2	-	-
Portsmouth	-	2	-	-
Birmingham	-	2	-	-
Glasgow	-	1	-	-
South Coast	-	1	-	-
Scotland	-	1	-	-
Wales	-	1	-	-
Pontypridd	-	1	-	-
Suffolk	-	1	-	-
Ipswich	-	1	-	-
Berkshire	+37	1	-	-
Buckinghamshire	0	1	-	-
South Wales	-	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing OpenGL 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 OpenGL.

1 83 (86.46 %) C++ 2 47 (48.96 %) DirectX 3 31 (32.29 %) C 4 25 (26.04 %) 3D Graphics 4 25 (26.04 %) Games 5 16 (16.67 %) Multimedia 5 16 (16.67 %) Java 6 15 (15.63 %) OO 7 14 (14.58 %) STL 7 14 (14.58 %) Symbian 8 13 (13.54 %) Embedded C++ 9 12 (12.50 %) Windows 9 12 (12.50 %) Mathematics 10 11 (11.46 %) C# 10 11 (11.46 %) UML

11 10 (10.42 %) Quicktime 12 9 (9.375 %) Physics 12 9 (9.375 %) Symbian OS 13 8 (8.333 %) .NET 13 8 (8.333 %) Software Engineering 14 7 (7.292 %) Military 14 7 (7.292 %) E-Learning 14 7 (7.292 %) Security Cleared 14 7 (7.292 %) ActiveX 15 6 (6.250 %) VC++ 15 6 (6.250 %) OOD 15 6 (6.250 %) DTV 16 5 (5.208 %) Microsoft 16 5 (5.208 %) Embedded C 16 5 (5.208 %) Mac OS X

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing OpenGL 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 OpenGL. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 47 (48.96 %) DirectX 2 14 (14.58 %) STL 3 8 (8.333 %) .NET 4 7 (7.292 %) ActiveX 5 5 (5.208 %) MFC 6 4 (4.167 %) CORBA 7 1 (1.042 %) XML 7 1 (1.042 %) Swing 7 1 (1.042 %) WAP 7 1 (1.042 %) SVG 7 1 (1.042 %) UIQ 7 1 (1.042 %) Series 60 7 1 (1.042 %) WinForms 7 1 (1.042 %) BREW 7 1 (1.042 %) .NET Framework 7 1 (1.042 %) WPF 7 1 (1.042 %) JRuby	Applications 1 10 (10.42 %) Quicktime 2 1 (1.042 %) GeoMedia 2 1 (1.042 %) 3ds Max 2 1 (1.042 %) XSI 2 1 (1.042 %) MS Excel 2 1 (1.042 %) MS Visio
Communications & Networking 1 1 (1.042 %) Broadband 1 1 (1.042 %) VoIP 1 1 (1.042 %) Ethernet 1 1 (1.042 %) HTTP 1 1 (1.042 %) DVB	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (1.042 %) SQL Server 1 1 (1.042 %) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications 1 4 (4.167 %) ARTiSAN 2 3 (3.125 %) Visual Studio 3 1 (1.042 %) VSS/SourceSafe 3 1 (1.042 %) Xcode 3 1 (1.042 %) Subversion	General 1 25 (26.04 %) 3D Graphics 1 25 (26.04 %) Games 2 16 (16.67 %) Multimedia 3 7 (7.292 %) Military 4 4 (4.167 %) Aerospace 5 1 (1.042 %) Automotive 5 1 (1.042 %) Government 5 1 (1.042 %) Mobile Games 5 1 (1.042 %) Telecoms
Job Titles 1 43 (44.79 %) Developer 2 27 (28.13 %) C++ Developer 3 26 (27.08 %) Software Engineer 4 11 (11.46 %) Software Developer 5 10 (10.42 %) Technical Consultant 5 10 (10.42 %) Senior Consultant 5 10 (10.42 %) Consultant 5 10 (10.42 %) Senior Technical Consultant 6 8 (8.333 %) C++ Software Engineer 6 8 (8.333 %) C++ Software Developer 7 5 (5.208 %) Java Developer 8 3 (3.125 %) Senior Developer 8 3 (3.125 %) Programmer 8 3 (3.125 %) Games Developer 8 3 (3.125 %) C Developer 9 2 (2.083 %) Senior C++ Developer 9 2 (2.083 %) Computer Engineer 9 2 (2.083 %) CAD Engineer 9 2 (2.083 %) Design Engineer 9 2 (2.083 %) C++ Programmer	Miscellaneous 1 12 (12.50 %) Mathematics 2 9 (9.375 %) Physics 3 7 (7.292 %) E-Learning 4 6 (6.250 %) DTV 5 3 (3.125 %) Social Network 6 2 (2.083 %) Multithreading 6 2 (2.083 %) RenderMan 7 1 (1.042 %) MPEG 7 1 (1.042 %) Handset 7 1 (1.042 %) STB 7 1 (1.042 %) Speech Recognition 7 1 (1.042 %) IPTV 7 1 (1.042 %) Data Extraction 7 1 (1.042 %) Computer Science
Operating Systems 1 12 (12.50 %) Windows 2 9 (9.375 %) Symbian OS 3 5 (5.208 %) Linux 3 5 (5.208 %) Mac OS X 4 2 (2.083 %) Unix 5 1 (1.042 %) Windows XP 5 1 (1.042 %) Windows Mobile	Processes & Methodologies 1 15 (15.63 %) OO 2 11 (11.46 %) UML 3 8 (8.333 %) Software Engineering 4 7 (7.292 %) Security Cleared 5 6 (6.250 %) OOD 6 4 (4.167 %) CAD 6 4 (4.167 %) OOP 6 4 (4.167 %) OOA/OOD 7 2 (2.083 %) Unit Testing 7 2 (2.083 %) SC Cleared 7 2 (2.083 %) Programme Management 8 1 (1.042 %) TDD
Programming Languages 1 83 (86.46 %) C++ 2 31 (32.29 %) C 3 16 (16.67 %) Java 4 13 (13.54 %) Embedded C++ 5 11 (11.46 %) C# 6 6 (6.250 %) VC++ 7 5 (5.208 %) Embedded C 8 4 (4.167 %) Ada 8 4 (4.167 %) Ruby 9 3 (3.125 %) Objective-C 10 2 (2.083 %) Python 11 1 (1.042 %) Perl 11 1 (1.042 %) SQL 11 1 (1.042 %) Delphi 11 1 (1.042 %) Haskell 11 1 (1.042 %) Lisp 11 1 (1.042 %) XAML	Qualifications 1 2 (2.083 %) Degree
Vendors 1 14 (14.58 %) Symbian 2 5 (5.208 %) Microsoft 3 4 (4.167 %) Apple 4 3 (3.125 %) Trolltech 5 1 (1.042 %) Google 5 1 (1.042 %) QNX 5 1 (1.042 %) Oracle 5 1 (1.042 %) Siebel 5 1 (1.042 %) Motorola 5 1 (1.042 %) Nokia