C++ Contracts in the West Midlands
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for C++ skills in IT contracts advertised for the West Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited C++ 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 of the Programming Languages category for the West Midlands region.

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
C++
Rank 80 53 82
Rank change year-on-year
-27 +29
Contract jobs citing C++ 15 52 20
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 0.919% 2.319% 1.057%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.024% 6.906% 3.268%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 15 5
Average daily rate £325 £350 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.14% +27.27%
UK excluding London average daily rate £340 £320 £300
% change year-on-year
+6.25% +6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 3
Average hourly rate £37.00 £17.50 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+111.42% -30.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £37.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Search 39 C++ jobs in the West Midlands
All Programming Languages
West Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category		 496 753 612
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 30.37% 33.59% 32.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 246 385 315
Average daily rate £325 £325 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £222 £225 £210
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £425 £401
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 31 31
Average hourly rate £37.00 £31.00 £24.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+19.35% +29.16%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £20.00 £12.70 £15.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.80 £37.50 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
C++
England

C++
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing C++ across the West Midlands region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

West Midlands C++ Jobs Demand Trend

C++
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing C++ across the West Midlands region.

West Midlands C++ Daily Rate Trend

C++
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing C++ across the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

West Midlands C++ Daily Rate Histogram

C++
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing C++ across the West Midlands region.

West Midlands C++ Hourly Rate Trend

C++
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing C++ within the West Midlands region 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
Birmingham -4 4 £500 +122.22%
Coventry -8 3 - -
Worcestershire - 3 £263 -
Warwickshire -8 1 £340 -
Dudley - 1 £325 -
C++
England

C++
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands region citing C++ 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 C++.

1 25 (67.57%) C
2 15 (40.54%) SQL
3 14 (37.84%) C#
4 11 (29.73%) UNIX
5 10 (27.03%) Automotive
6 8 (21.62%) Oracle
6 8 (21.62%) Shell Script
7 7 (18.92%) Microsoft
7 7 (18.92%) J2EE
7 7 (18.92%) Oracle Forms
7 7 (18.92%) Computer Science
7 7 (18.92%) Finance
8 6 (16.22%) Degree
8 6 (16.22%) Software Testing
8 6 (16.22%) Windows
8 6 (16.22%) AIX
8 6 (16.22%) Solaris
8 6 (16.22%) .NET
8 6 (16.22%) ProC
8 6 (16.22%) RDBMS
9 5 (13.51%) CGI
9 5 (13.51%) Data Mining
9 5 (13.51%) MS Excel
9 5 (13.51%) VB
9 5 (13.51%) QA
10 4 (10.81%) Games
10 4 (10.81%) Embedded C
10 4 (10.81%) Embedded C++
11 3 (8.108%) ISO 9001
11 3 (8.108%) Configuration Management

C++
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands region citing C++ 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 C++. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 7 (18.92%) J2EE
2 6 (16.22%) .NET
3 5 (13.51%) CGI
4 3 (8.108%) .NET Framework
5 1 (2.703%) STL
5 1 (2.703%) Web Services
5 1 (2.703%) XML
5 1 (2.703%) MFC
5 1 (2.703%) Flash
5 1 (2.703%) Java EE
5 1 (2.703%) Qt
5 1 (2.703%) Boost C++ Libraries
5 1 (2.703%) GStreamer
Application Platforms
1 1 (2.703%) BizTalk Server
1 1 (2.703%) CMS
Applications
1 5 (13.51%) MS Excel
2 3 (8.108%) MS Office
3 2 (5.405%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.703%) Internet
1 1 (2.703%) Ethernet
1 1 (2.703%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (16.22%) RDBMS
2 5 (13.51%) Data Mining
3 1 (2.703%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.703%) Crystal Reports
3 1 (2.703%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (2.703%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 7 (18.92%) Oracle Forms
2 6 (16.22%) ProC
3 2 (5.405%) Subversion
3 2 (5.405%) Visual Studio
4 1 (2.703%) ClearCase
General
1 10 (27.03%) Automotive
2 7 (18.92%) Finance
3 4 (10.81%) Games
4 1 (2.703%) Electronics
4 1 (2.703%) Telecoms
4 1 (2.703%) Advertising
4 1 (2.703%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 13 (35.14%) Software Engineer
1 13 (35.14%) Developer
2 7 (18.92%) Embedded Software Engineer
3 6 (16.22%) C Developer
4 5 (13.51%) Tester
4 5 (13.51%) UNIX Developer
5 3 (8.108%) Software Tester
6 2 (5.405%) C++ Developer
6 2 (5.405%) Systems Tester
6 2 (5.405%) Test Engineer
7 1 (2.703%) Software Developer
7 1 (2.703%) Analyst
7 1 (2.703%) Systems Analyst
7 1 (2.703%) Business Developer
7 1 (2.703%) Consultant
7 1 (2.703%) Applications Developer
7 1 (2.703%) Programmer
7 1 (2.703%) Senior Software Engineer
7 1 (2.703%) Software Test Engineer
7 1 (2.703%) SQL Developer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (18.92%) Computer Science
2 2 (5.405%) SCADA
3 1 (2.703%) Clustering
3 1 (2.703%) Mathematics
3 1 (2.703%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (2.703%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (2.703%) Open Source
3 1 (2.703%) Kinect
3 1 (2.703%) CAN bus
3 1 (2.703%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 11 (29.73%) UNIX
2 6 (16.22%) Windows
2 6 (16.22%) AIX
2 6 (16.22%) Solaris
3 3 (8.108%) Windows XP
3 3 (8.108%) Windows 7
4 2 (5.405%) Linux
5 1 (2.703%) OpenVMS
5 1 (2.703%) HPUX
5 1 (2.703%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (16.22%) Software Testing
2 3 (8.108%) Configuration Management
2 3 (8.108%) Change Management
2 3 (8.108%) Validation
2 3 (8.108%) User Acceptance Testing
2 3 (8.108%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (5.405%) Embedded Software Development
3 2 (5.405%) System Testing
3 2 (5.405%) Test Automation
3 2 (5.405%) Integration Testing
4 1 (2.703%) CAD
4 1 (2.703%) UML
4 1 (2.703%) OOA/OOD
4 1 (2.703%) OO
4 1 (2.703%) OOD
4 1 (2.703%) Migration
4 1 (2.703%) Scrum
4 1 (2.703%) Multithreading
4 1 (2.703%) Manual Testing
4 1 (2.703%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 25 (67.57%) C
2 15 (40.54%) SQL
3 14 (37.84%) C#
4 8 (21.62%) Shell Script
5 5 (13.51%) VB
6 4 (10.81%) Embedded C
6 4 (10.81%) Embedded C++
7 2 (5.405%) VC++
7 2 (5.405%) Java
8 1 (2.703%) Pascal
8 1 (2.703%) PowerHouse
8 1 (2.703%) PHP
8 1 (2.703%) COBOL
8 1 (2.703%) ActionScript
8 1 (2.703%) T-SQL
8 1 (2.703%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (16.22%) Degree
2 1 (2.703%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (13.51%) QA
2 3 (8.108%) ISO 9001
2 3 (8.108%) TickIT
System Software
1 3 (8.108%) VMware ESX
1 3 (8.108%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 8 (21.62%) Oracle
2 7 (18.92%) Microsoft
3 3 (8.108%) VMware
4 2 (5.405%) Allen-Bradley
4 2 (5.405%) Fujitsu
4 2 (5.405%) MKS
4 2 (5.405%) Siemens
5 1 (2.703%) Autodesk
5 1 (2.703%) Adobe
5 1 (2.703%) NEC
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