West Sussex C++ Contracts

This section looks at the demand for C++ skills within the West Sussex region with a comparison to our Programming Languages category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited C++ over the 3 months to 29 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Andover Avon Banbury Barnet Barnsley Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cardigan Ceredigion Cheadle Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham City of London Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dundee East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Fareham Farnham Gateshead Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Greenford Guildford Halifax Hampshire Harrow Havant Henley-on-Thames Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hounslow Ipswich Isle of Wight Kent Kidderminster Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Leighton Buzzard Liverpool Livingston London Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Mid Wales Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oxford Oxfordshire Petersfield Portsmouth Preston Redhill Rotherham Scotland Sevenoaks Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staines Stevenage Stockport Suffolk Surrey Swindon Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Ware Warminster Warrington Warwickshire Watford Wells West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Woking Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 29 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	36	43
Rank change on same period last year	+7
Matching contract IT job ads	9	10
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.012 %	0.010 %
As % of the category below	7.438 %	4.444 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£324	£341
% change on same period last year	-5.07 %
Hourly rates quoted	5	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£35.20	£37.50
Average hourly rate	£37.20	£40.00
% change on same period last year	-7.00 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£39.20	£42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£36.49	£35.75
% change on same period last year	+2.06 %
Programming Languages West Sussex
Matching contract IT job ads	121	225
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.161 %	0.224 %
Daily rates quoted	36	72
Average minimum daily rate	£325	£307
Average daily rate	£348	£321
% change on same period last year	+8.34 %
Average maximum daily rate	£371	£336
UK excluding London average daily rate	£330	£336
% change on same period last year	-1.79 %
Hourly rates quoted	16	10
Average minimum hourly rate	£36.20	£28.85
Average hourly rate	£38.70	£31.69
% change on same period last year	+22.11 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£41.20	£34.54
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.25	£32.93
% change on same period last year	+0.99 %
C++ South East

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 a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing C++ across the West Sussex region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages 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 C++ across the West Sussex region.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing C++ across the West Sussex region over the 3 months to 29 August 2008.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing C++ within the West Sussex region over the 3 months to 29 August 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
Crawley	0	6	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Sussex 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 17 (70.83 %) Windows 2 16 (66.67 %) Microsoft 3 14 (58.33 %) VC++ 4 13 (54.17 %) UML 5 11 (45.83 %) Degree 5 11 (45.83 %) Rational Rose 6 9 (37.50 %) Linux 6 9 (37.50 %) VSS/SourceSafe 6 9 (37.50 %) UNIX 6 9 (37.50 %) .NET 7 8 (33.33 %) C 8 7 (29.17 %) Java 8 7 (29.17 %) Perl 8 7 (29.17 %) Visual Studio 8 7 (29.17 %) Windows XP

9 6 (25.00 %) Software Engineering 10 5 (20.83 %) Requirements Management 10 5 (20.83 %) Windows Server 2003 10 5 (20.83 %) MS Office 11 4 (16.67 %) Security Cleared 11 4 (16.67 %) Systems Analysis 12 3 (12.50 %) Military 12 3 (12.50 %) MSI 12 3 (12.50 %) InstallShield 12 3 (12.50 %) SQL 12 3 (12.50 %) C# 13 2 (8.333 %) Configuration Management 13 2 (8.333 %) OO 13 2 (8.333 %) Aerospace 14 1 (4.167 %) Education

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Sussex 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 9 (37.50 %) .NET 2 1 (4.167 %) MFC 2 1 (4.167 %) Application Packaging	Application Platforms 1 1 (4.167 %) BizTalk Server
Applications 1 5 (20.83 %) MS Office 2 1 (4.167 %) MS Excel 2 1 (4.167 %) MS Visio	Business Applications 1 1 (4.167 %) Teamcenter
Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (4.167 %) SQL Server 1 1 (4.167 %) MS Access 1 1 (4.167 %) GIS 1 1 (4.167 %) SQL Server 2005	Development Applications 1 11 (45.83 %) Rational Rose 2 9 (37.50 %) VSS/SourceSafe 3 7 (29.17 %) Visual Studio 4 3 (12.50 %) MSI 4 3 (12.50 %) InstallShield
General 1 3 (12.50 %) Military 2 2 (8.333 %) Aerospace 3 1 (4.167 %) Education 3 1 (4.167 %) Government 3 1 (4.167 %) 3D Graphics	Job Titles 1 11 (45.83 %) Software Engineer 2 6 (25.00 %) Systems Engineer 3 2 (8.333 %) Developer 3 2 (8.333 %) Analyst 3 2 (8.333 %) Systems Analyst 3 2 (8.333 %) Configuration Management Engineer 4 1 (4.167 %) Senior Analyst Developer 4 1 (4.167 %) MSI Packager 4 1 (4.167 %) Systems Programmer 4 1 (4.167 %) Deployment Specialist 4 1 (4.167 %) Senior Developer 4 1 (4.167 %) Analyst Programmer 4 1 (4.167 %) Programmer 4 1 (4.167 %) Senior Analyst 4 1 (4.167 %) Design Engineer 4 1 (4.167 %) Test Engineer 4 1 (4.167 %) C++ Software Engineer 4 1 (4.167 %) Analyst Developer 4 1 (4.167 %) Systems Developer 4 1 (4.167 %) Software Test Engineer
Miscellaneous 1 1 (4.167 %) Client/Server	Operating Systems 1 17 (70.83 %) Windows 2 9 (37.50 %) Linux 2 9 (37.50 %) UNIX 3 7 (29.17 %) Windows XP 4 5 (20.83 %) Windows Server 2003 5 1 (4.167 %) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies 1 13 (54.17 %) UML 2 6 (25.00 %) Software Engineering 3 5 (20.83 %) Requirements Management 4 4 (16.67 %) Systems Analysis 4 4 (16.67 %) Security Cleared 5 2 (8.333 %) Configuration Management 5 2 (8.333 %) OO 6 1 (4.167 %) OOD 6 1 (4.167 %) Release Management 6 1 (4.167 %) SC Cleared 6 1 (4.167 %) BC Cleared	Programming Languages 1 14 (58.33 %) VC++ 2 8 (33.33 %) C 3 7 (29.17 %) Java 3 7 (29.17 %) Perl 4 3 (12.50 %) SQL 4 3 (12.50 %) C# 5 1 (4.167 %) Python 5 1 (4.167 %) Ruby
Qualifications 1 11 (45.83 %) Degree 2 1 (4.167 %) Microsoft Certification	Vendors 1 16 (66.67 %) Microsoft 2 1 (4.167 %) Macrovision