The first table below looks at the demand for VC++ skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited VC++ 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 of the Programming Languages 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Visual C++
Rank 506 516 507
Rank change year-on-year
+10 -9
Contract jobs citing VC++ 28 70 79
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.059% 0.118% 0.131%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.160% 0.342% 0.350%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 43 58
Average daily rate £400 £338 £538
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+18.51% -37.20%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £273 £238 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £550 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £288 £300
% change year-on-year
+28.69% -4.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 2
Average hourly rate £37.00 £27.00 £34.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+37.03% -21.16%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.60 £19.40 £33.65
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.40 £34.60 £34.85
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.00 £27.00 £33.50
% change year-on-year
+37.03% -19.40%
All Programming Languages
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
17528 20495 22548
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 37.19% 34.57% 37.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 10822 12098 13078
Average daily rate £385 £375 £413
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.66% -9.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £250 £251
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £563 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 618 734 915
Average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £16.50 £17.00 £19.52
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £43.50 £45.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+2.94% -2.85%

VC++
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing VC++ within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

VC++ Jobs Demand Trend

VC++
Daily Rate Trend

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

VC++ Daily Rate Trend

VC++
Daily Rate Histogram

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

VC++ Daily Rate Histogram

VC++
Hourly Rate Trend

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

VC++ Hourly Rate Trend

VC++
Top 13 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VC++ 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 +17 27 £400 +21.67%
London +27 19 £525 -4.54%
East of England +19 5 £400 -
Canary Wharf +2 5 £600 -
City of London - 5 £650 -
Cambridge - 4 £400 -
Cambridgeshire - 4 £400 -
West Midlands +7 3 £333 +97.03%
Birmingham +11 1 - -
Suffolk +10 1 £265 -
Warwickshire - 1 £340 -
Dudley - 1 £325 -
Bury St Edmunds - 1 £265 -

VC++
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing VC++ 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 VC++.

1 72 (96.00%) C++
2 56 (74.67%) Windows
3 33 (44.00%) Microsoft
4 30 (40.00%) Linux
5 27 (36.00%) Mathematics
6 26 (34.67%) Degree
6 26 (34.67%) Computer Science
6 26 (34.67%) Software Engineering
7 25 (33.33%) C#
8 21 (28.00%) .NET
8 21 (28.00%) OO
9 20 (26.67%) Physics
10 18 (24.00%) Visual Studio
11 17 (22.67%) Finance
12 16 (21.33%) Multithreading
13 15 (20.00%) XML
13 15 (20.00%) Java
14 14 (18.67%) TeamCity
14 14 (18.67%) Maven
15 13 (17.33%) SQL
15 13 (17.33%) MFC
16 12 (16.00%) Oracle
16 12 (16.00%) C
16 12 (16.00%) STL
16 12 (16.00%) Artifactory
17 11 (14.67%) Agile Software Development
18 10 (13.33%) JavaScript
18 10 (13.33%) Python
18 10 (13.33%) UNIX
18 10 (13.33%) Banking

VC++
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing VC++ 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 VC++. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 21 (28.00%) .NET
2 15 (20.00%) XML
3 13 (17.33%) MFC
4 12 (16.00%) STL
5 8 (10.67%) Django
6 7 (9.333%) SOAP
6 7 (9.333%) XSLT
7 6 (8.000%) Web Services
7 6 (8.000%) OpenGL
8 5 (6.667%) DirectX
8 5 (6.667%) WSDL
9 4 (5.333%) HTML5
9 4 (5.333%) CSS
10 3 (4.000%) WinForms
10 3 (4.000%) ODBC
10 3 (4.000%) XSL
11 2 (2.667%) Boost C++ Libraries
11 2 (2.667%) REST
11 2 (2.667%) CSS3
11 2 (2.667%) ActiveX
Application Platforms
1 5 (6.667%) Apache
1 5 (6.667%) nginx
2 2 (2.667%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (1.333%) Windows Azure
3 1 (1.333%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 4 (5.333%) MS Excel
2 3 (4.000%) MS Office
3 1 (1.333%) Simulink
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.667%) FTP
1 5 (6.667%) HTTP
1 5 (6.667%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.333%) Wireless
2 1 (1.333%) RTP
2 1 (1.333%) SS7
2 1 (1.333%) Internet
2 1 (1.333%) ISDN
2 1 (1.333%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.667%) MySQL
2 3 (4.000%) SQL Server
2 3 (4.000%) Data Mining
3 2 (2.667%) Oracle 10g
4 1 (1.333%) SQL Server 2000
4 1 (1.333%) Crystal Reports
4 1 (1.333%) Big Data
4 1 (1.333%) SQL Server 2008
4 1 (1.333%) Hadoop
4 1 (1.333%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 18 (24.00%) Visual Studio
2 14 (18.67%) TeamCity
2 14 (18.67%) Maven
3 12 (16.00%) Artifactory
4 9 (12.00%) LLVM
4 9 (12.00%) Subversion
5 5 (6.667%) Eclipse
6 2 (2.667%) WiX
6 2 (2.667%) JUnit
6 2 (2.667%) NetBeans
6 2 (2.667%) Bugzilla
7 1 (1.333%) NUnit
7 1 (1.333%) ClearQuest
7 1 (1.333%) InstallShield
7 1 (1.333%) ClearCase
7 1 (1.333%) GCC
7 1 (1.333%) GDB
General
1 17 (22.67%) Finance
2 10 (13.33%) Banking
3 6 (8.000%) Front Office
4 5 (6.667%) Telecoms
4 5 (6.667%) Investment Banking
5 4 (5.333%) Advertising
6 3 (4.000%) Military
7 2 (2.667%) Electronics
7 2 (2.667%) Back Office
8 1 (1.333%) Automotive
8 1 (1.333%) Retail
Job Titles
1 51 (68.00%) Developer
2 30 (40.00%) C++ Developer
3 17 (22.67%) Software Engineer
4 11 (14.67%) Programmer
5 10 (13.33%) C++ Software Engineer
6 9 (12.00%) C++ Programmer
7 7 (9.333%) Analyst Programmer
7 7 (9.333%) Analyst
8 5 (6.667%) Quantitative Developer
8 5 (6.667%) C++ Analyst Programmer
8 5 (6.667%) Software Programmer
8 5 (6.667%) C++ Quantitative Developer
9 4 (5.333%) Python Developer
9 4 (5.333%) Mobile Developer
9 4 (5.333%) Senior Developer
10 3 (4.000%) Senior C++ Developer
10 3 (4.000%) Senior Software Engineer
10 3 (4.000%) Mobile Applications Developer
10 3 (4.000%) Windows Mobile Developer
11 2 (2.667%) Senior Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 27 (36.00%) Mathematics
2 26 (34.67%) Computer Science
3 20 (26.67%) Physics
4 8 (10.67%) Open Source
5 5 (6.667%) Fixed Income
5 5 (6.667%) Derivative
6 3 (4.000%) Social Media
6 3 (4.000%) Visualisation
6 3 (4.000%) Interest Rate Derivative
6 3 (4.000%) Mobile App
6 3 (4.000%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (2.667%) Device Driver
7 2 (2.667%) 3D Graphics
8 1 (1.333%) Handset
8 1 (1.333%) Hedge funds
8 1 (1.333%) Credit Risk
8 1 (1.333%) Animation
Operating Systems
1 56 (74.67%) Windows
2 30 (40.00%) Linux
3 10 (13.33%) UNIX
4 6 (8.000%) Windows XP
5 5 (6.667%) Windows 7
6 3 (4.000%) Windows CE
6 3 (4.000%) Windows Mobile
7 1 (1.333%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (34.67%) Software Engineering
2 21 (28.00%) OO
3 16 (21.33%) Multithreading
4 11 (14.67%) Agile Software Development
5 7 (9.333%) OOP
6 6 (8.000%) OOA/OOD
6 6 (8.000%) Scrum
7 4 (5.333%) OOD
7 4 (5.333%) CAD
8 3 (4.000%) TDD
8 3 (4.000%) RAD
8 3 (4.000%) Requirements Analysis
8 3 (4.000%) Operations Research
9 2 (2.667%) Mobile Application Development
9 2 (2.667%) Unit Testing
9 2 (2.667%) Time Management
9 2 (2.667%) Data Visualisation
9 2 (2.667%) UML
9 2 (2.667%) Data Modelling
9 2 (2.667%) RDF
Programming Languages
1 72 (96.00%) C++
2 25 (33.33%) C#
3 15 (20.00%) Java
4 13 (17.33%) SQL
5 12 (16.00%) C
6 10 (13.33%) JavaScript
6 10 (13.33%) Python
7 9 (12.00%) VB
8 6 (8.000%) Fortran
9 5 (6.667%) Perl
9 5 (6.667%) PHP
10 2 (2.667%) Embedded C
10 2 (2.667%) VBA
11 1 (1.333%) MATLAB
11 1 (1.333%) VB.NET
11 1 (1.333%) VB6
Qualifications
1 26 (34.67%) Degree
2 10 (13.33%) Security Cleared
3 9 (12.00%) PhD
4 8 (10.67%) SC Cleared
5 4 (5.333%) Postgraduate
6 3 (4.000%) MBA
7 1 (1.333%) BC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.333%) SLA
1 1 (1.333%) QA
System Software
1 1 (1.333%) VMware Workstation
1 1 (1.333%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 33 (44.00%) Microsoft
2 12 (16.00%) Oracle
3 2 (2.667%) Tradeweb
4 1 (1.333%) VMware
4 1 (1.333%) Serena
4 1 (1.333%) MathWorks
4 1 (1.333%) Sybase
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