The first table below looks at the demand for C++ skills in IT contracts advertised for the West Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited C++ over the 3 months to 18 June 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 Yorkshire 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
C++
Rank 41 63 61
Rank change year-on-year
+22 -2
Contract jobs citing C++ 58 32 13
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 4.188% 1.879% 1.107%
As % of the Programming Languages category 11.33% 5.298% 3.125%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 13 4
Average daily rate £275 £350 £313
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-21.42% +12.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £191 £283
10% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £366 £325
UK excluding London average daily rate £340 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
+4.61% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Average hourly rate - £35.00 £30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +16.66%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £39.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
-3.84% +11.42%
All Programming Languages
West Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
512 604 416
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 36.97% 35.47% 35.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 280 367 217
Average daily rate £275 £318 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-13.38% +5.83%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £203 £224
10% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £400 £415
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 17 15
Average hourly rate £20.00 £27.50 £22.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-27.27% +22.22%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.45 £13.60 £20.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.40 £50.00 £30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £35.00
C++
Yorkshire

C++
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region.

West Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

West Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region.

West Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 18 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Leeds +38 55 £275 -21.42% 13
Castleford - 1 £375 -
Halifax - - - -
Huddersfield - - - -
Wakefield - - - - 3
Wetherby - - - -
Bradford - - - - 3
C++
Yorkshire

C++
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire 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 51 (75.00%) Python
2 50 (73.53%) Ruby
3 48 (70.59%) Web Services
3 48 (70.59%) Linux
4 47 (69.12%) Node.js
5 46 (67.65%) Amazon AWS
6 45 (66.18%) PHP
7 44 (64.71%) Bash shell
8 41 (60.29%) nginx
8 41 (60.29%) MySQL
8 41 (60.29%) Apache
8 41 (60.29%) DNS
9 39 (57.35%) Amazon EC2
9 39 (57.35%) Amazon S3
9 39 (57.35%) Kanban
9 39 (57.35%) MongoDB
9 39 (57.35%) Redis
9 39 (57.35%) Route 53
9 39 (57.35%) Amazon RDS
10 35 (51.47%) Internet
11 34 (50.00%) Configuration Management
11 34 (50.00%) Puppet
12 33 (48.53%) Oracle
13 28 (41.18%) Java
13 28 (41.18%) Client/Server
13 28 (41.18%) Telecoms
14 25 (36.76%) TDD
14 25 (36.76%) Test Automation
15 23 (33.82%) HTTP
15 23 (33.82%) Perl

C++
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire 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 48 (70.59%) Web Services
2 47 (69.12%) Node.js
3 16 (23.53%) POSIX
4 9 (13.24%) CSS
4 9 (13.24%) HTML5
4 9 (13.24%) CSS3
5 8 (11.76%) J2EE
6 7 (10.29%) SOAP
6 7 (10.29%) Hibernate
6 7 (10.29%) REST
6 7 (10.29%) Spring
6 7 (10.29%) jQuery
7 5 (7.353%) LAMP
8 4 (5.882%) Middleware
9 3 (4.412%) .NET
9 3 (4.412%) GStreamer
10 2 (2.941%) ASP
11 1 (1.471%) MFC
11 1 (1.471%) ODBC
11 1 (1.471%) ActiveX
Application Platforms
1 46 (67.65%) Amazon AWS
2 41 (60.29%) Apache
2 41 (60.29%) nginx
3 39 (57.35%) Amazon EC2
3 39 (57.35%) Amazon S3
3 39 (57.35%) Route 53
4 7 (10.29%) Adobe CQ
4 7 (10.29%) Apache Solr
4 7 (10.29%) Tomcat
5 2 (2.941%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (1.471%) MS Project
1 1 (1.471%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 13 (19.12%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (4.412%) JDE OneWorld
3 1 (1.471%) JDE World
Communications & Networking
1 41 (60.29%) DNS
2 35 (51.47%) Internet
3 23 (33.82%) HTTP
4 20 (29.41%) SSL
4 20 (29.41%) DHCP
5 18 (26.47%) TCP/IP
6 12 (17.65%) Intrusion Detection
7 3 (4.412%) SSH
7 3 (4.412%) DVB
8 1 (1.471%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (60.29%) MySQL
2 39 (57.35%) MongoDB
2 39 (57.35%) Redis
2 39 (57.35%) Amazon RDS
3 20 (29.41%) NoSQL
4 16 (23.53%) Couchbase
4 16 (23.53%) RDBMS
4 16 (23.53%) SimpleDB
5 2 (2.941%) Oracle 8/8i
6 1 (1.471%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 7 (10.29%) Maven
1 7 (10.29%) Git (software)
1 7 (10.29%) Jenkins
2 2 (2.941%) JIRA
2 2 (2.941%) CruiseControl
General
1 28 (41.18%) Telecoms
2 2 (2.941%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 24 (35.29%) Software Engineer
2 18 (26.47%) Developer
2 18 (26.47%) Cloud Software Engineer
3 9 (13.24%) Operations Engineer
4 7 (10.29%) Java Developer
5 4 (5.882%) Software Developer
5 4 (5.882%) Mobile Developer
6 3 (4.412%) Cloud Software Developer
6 3 (4.412%) Cloud Developer
7 2 (2.941%) Windows Mobile Developer
7 2 (2.941%) Mobile Applications Developer
7 2 (2.941%) Software Team Leader
7 2 (2.941%) Administrator
7 2 (2.941%) Graduate
7 2 (2.941%) Team Leader
7 2 (2.941%) Linux Administrator
7 2 (2.941%) Embedded Software Engineer
7 2 (2.941%) Consultant
8 1 (1.471%) Network Engineer
8 1 (1.471%) Applications Developer
Miscellaneous
1 28 (41.18%) Client/Server
2 4 (5.882%) MPEG
2 4 (5.882%) STB
2 4 (5.882%) Computer Science
2 4 (5.882%) Open Source
3 2 (2.941%) Mobile App
3 2 (2.941%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (1.471%) IPTV
4 1 (1.471%) Animation
4 1 (1.471%) Mathematics
4 1 (1.471%) Blackberry
4 1 (1.471%) Handset
Operating Systems
1 48 (70.59%) Linux
2 6 (8.824%) Windows
3 2 (2.941%) Windows CE
3 2 (2.941%) Windows Mobile
3 2 (2.941%) Android
3 2 (2.941%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.471%) Windows Phone
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (57.35%) Kanban
2 34 (50.00%) Configuration Management
3 25 (36.76%) TDD
3 25 (36.76%) Test Automation
4 21 (30.88%) Scrum
5 19 (27.94%) Security Testing
6 18 (26.47%) Load Balancing
7 16 (23.53%) Continuous Integration
7 16 (23.53%) Capacity Management
7 16 (23.53%) Incident Management
8 7 (10.29%) SOA
8 7 (10.29%) Software Engineering
8 7 (10.29%) BDD
9 6 (8.824%) Performance Testing
10 4 (5.882%) OO
11 3 (4.412%) RUP
11 3 (4.412%) CMMI
11 3 (4.412%) Agile Software Development
11 3 (4.412%) Software Testing
12 2 (2.941%) Network Design
Programming Languages
1 51 (75.00%) Python
2 50 (73.53%) Ruby
3 45 (66.18%) PHP
4 44 (64.71%) Bash shell
5 28 (41.18%) Java
6 23 (33.82%) Perl
7 9 (13.24%) JavaScript
8 6 (8.824%) C
9 3 (4.412%) VC++
10 2 (2.941%) C#
11 1 (1.471%) Assembly Language
11 1 (1.471%) Tcl
11 1 (1.471%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 6 (8.824%) Degree
2 2 (2.941%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.471%) HND
Systems Management
1 34 (50.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 33 (48.53%) Oracle
2 17 (25.00%) Percona
3 7 (10.29%) hybris
3 7 (10.29%) Adobe
4 3 (4.412%) JD Edwards
5 2 (2.941%) Perforce
6 1 (1.471%) Microsoft
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