Senior C++ Developer Contracts
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for the Senior C++ 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 Senior C++ Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 22 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 Job Titles currently tracked.

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
22 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Senior C++ Developer
Rank 497 573 499
Rank change year-on-year
+76 -74
Contract jobs requiring a Senior C++ Developer 37 13 87
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.079% 0.022% 0.145%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.085% 0.024% 0.156%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 8 49
Average daily rate £650 £550 £625
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+18.18% -12.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £413 £350 £295
% change year-on-year
+17.85% +18.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
Average hourly rate £65.00 £42.50 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+52.94% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £42.50 -
All Job Titles
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 43445 54854 55821
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 92.19% 92.53% 92.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 24929 30221 30365
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £238 £240 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 2155 2623 2895
Average hourly rate £18.50 £18.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -7.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.50 £40.00 £41.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%

Senior C++ Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Senior C++ Developer within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Senior C++ Developer Jobs Demand Trend

Senior C++ Developer
Daily Rate Trend

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

Senior C++ Developer Daily Rate Trend

Senior C++ Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Senior C++ Developer within the UK over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Senior C++ Developer Daily Rate Histogram

Senior C++ Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Senior C++ Developer Hourly Rate Trend

Senior C++ Developer
Top 12 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior C++ Developer within the UK over the 3 months to 22 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 +81 36 £650 +18.18%
London +56 34 £650 +18.18%
City of London +17 8 £638 +2.00%
Canary Wharf - 8 £650 -
South East +16 1 - -
East of England - 1 £400 -
Scotland - 1 £425 -
Glasgow - 1 £425 -
Cambridge - 1 £400 -
Cambridgeshire - 1 £400 -
Berkshire - 1 - -
Reading - 1 - -

Senior C++ Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Senior C++ 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 Senior C++ Developer in their job title.

1 60 (100.00%) C++
2 41 (68.33%) Banking
3 37 (61.67%) STL
4 31 (51.67%) Investment Banking
4 31 (51.67%) Boost C++ Libraries
5 23 (38.33%) Linux
6 21 (35.00%) Front Office
7 20 (33.33%) SQL
8 19 (31.67%) C#
9 18 (30.00%) UNIX
10 17 (28.33%) Multithreading
11 16 (26.67%) Windows
12 14 (23.33%) Java
13 12 (20.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 10 (16.67%) Fixed Income
15 9 (15.00%) Derivative
15 9 (15.00%) Credit Risk
16 8 (13.33%) HTTP
16 8 (13.33%) Python
17 7 (11.67%) Sybase
17 7 (11.67%) Finance
18 6 (10.00%) Grid Computing
18 6 (10.00%) Equities
18 6 (10.00%) Perl
19 5 (8.333%) .NET
19 5 (8.333%) OOD
20 4 (6.667%) Analytics
20 4 (6.667%) Agile Software Development
20 4 (6.667%) OO
20 4 (6.667%) XML

Senior C++ Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Senior C++ 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 Senior C++ Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 37 (61.67%) STL
2 31 (51.67%) Boost C++ Libraries
3 5 (8.333%) .NET
4 4 (6.667%) XML
4 4 (6.667%) ATL
4 4 (6.667%) CSS
5 3 (5.000%) XSL
5 3 (5.000%) WCF
5 3 (5.000%) WPF
6 2 (3.333%) Django
6 2 (3.333%) REST
6 2 (3.333%) HTML5
6 2 (3.333%) DOM
6 2 (3.333%) SOAP
6 2 (3.333%) HTML
6 2 (3.333%) FpML
7 1 (1.667%) Hibernate
7 1 (1.667%) Spring
7 1 (1.667%) JNI
Application Platforms
1 2 (3.333%) Rendezvous
2 1 (1.667%) Tomcat
2 1 (1.667%) Oracle Coherence
Business Applications
1 1 (1.667%) SAP Oil and Gas
Communications & Networking
1 8 (13.33%) HTTP
2 1 (1.667%) 2G
2 1 (1.667%) TELNET
2 1 (1.667%) 3G
2 1 (1.667%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.000%) SQL Server
2 2 (3.333%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 3 (5.000%) Subversion
2 2 (3.333%) Git (software)
2 2 (3.333%) Team Foundation Server
2 2 (3.333%) ClearCase
2 2 (3.333%) Visual Studio
2 2 (3.333%) MSI
General
1 41 (68.33%) Banking
2 31 (51.67%) Investment Banking
3 21 (35.00%) Front Office
4 7 (11.67%) Finance
5 1 (1.667%) Electronics
5 1 (1.667%) Telecoms
5 1 (1.667%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.667%) Advertising
5 1 (1.667%) Marketing
Miscellaneous
1 12 (20.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 10 (16.67%) Fixed Income
3 9 (15.00%) Derivative
3 9 (15.00%) Credit Risk
4 6 (10.00%) Grid Computing
4 6 (10.00%) Equities
5 3 (5.000%) Interest Rate Derivative
6 2 (3.333%) Mathematics
6 2 (3.333%) Computer Science
6 2 (3.333%) Credit Derivative
6 2 (3.333%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (3.333%) Visualisation
6 2 (3.333%) Social Media
6 2 (3.333%) 3D Graphics
7 1 (1.667%) DTV
7 1 (1.667%) Market Risk
7 1 (1.667%) Equity Risk
7 1 (1.667%) Equity Derivative
Operating Systems
1 23 (38.33%) Linux
2 18 (30.00%) UNIX
3 16 (26.67%) Windows
4 2 (3.333%) Windows Server 2008
4 2 (3.333%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (28.33%) Multithreading
2 5 (8.333%) OOD
3 4 (6.667%) Analytics
3 4 (6.667%) Agile Software Development
3 4 (6.667%) OO
3 4 (6.667%) Migration
4 3 (5.000%) Scrum
4 3 (5.000%) Algorithmic Trading
5 2 (3.333%) TDD
5 2 (3.333%) Time Management
5 2 (3.333%) Metaprogramming
5 2 (3.333%) Data Modelling
5 2 (3.333%) UML
5 2 (3.333%) OOP
5 2 (3.333%) RDF
5 2 (3.333%) MVC
5 2 (3.333%) Risk Management
6 1 (1.667%) Validation
6 1 (1.667%) Programme Management
6 1 (1.667%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 60 (100.00%) C++
2 20 (33.33%) SQL
3 19 (31.67%) C#
4 14 (23.33%) Java
5 8 (13.33%) Python
6 6 (10.00%) Perl
7 4 (6.667%) VBA
8 3 (5.000%) VC++
9 2 (3.333%) JavaScript
10 1 (1.667%) Shell Script
10 1 (1.667%) C
10 1 (1.667%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (3.333%) Degree
1 2 (3.333%) MBA
Vendors
1 7 (11.67%) Sybase
2 4 (6.667%) TIBCO
3 3 (5.000%) Oracle
3 3 (5.000%) DataSynapse
4 2 (3.333%) FFastFill
4 2 (3.333%) EasyScreen
4 2 (3.333%) CQG
5 1 (1.667%) Perforce
5 1 (1.667%) Nortel
5 1 (1.667%) Ericsson
5 1 (1.667%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.667%) SAP
5 1 (1.667%) Nokia Siemens Networks
Senior C++ Developer / Technical Lead
City of London
Job Title: Senior C++ Developer / Technical LeadLocation: LondonContract: 6 months+Rate: £700-800 per day Senior C++ Developer / Technical lead to work on a number of migration projects...
Rate: £650 - £800 per day
Posted: 10 May 2013
Senior C++ Developer
City, London
C++, STL, Boost, Linux/Unix, Java, Fixed Income... Essential C++ STL BOOST Unix/Linux Java Python My client is looking for someone with excellent oral and written communication...
Aston Carter
Rate: £500 - £600 per day + depending on experience
Posted: 17 May 2013
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