The first table below looks at the demand for C++ skills in IT contracts advertised for the Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited C++ over the 3 months to 23 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 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
C++
Rank 55 87 86
Rank change year-on-year
+32 -1
Contract jobs citing C++ 59 23 17
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 3.172% 1.024% 0.915%
As % of the Programming Languages category 8.859% 3.096% 2.564%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 15 7
Average daily rate £275 £185 £238
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+48.64% -22.10%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £243 £150 £208
10% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £362 £325
UK excluding London average daily rate £340 £320 £300
% change year-on-year
+6.25% +6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 3
Average hourly rate - £35.00 £30.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +14.75%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £37.25 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+0.67% +6.42%
All Programming Languages
Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
666 743 663
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 35.81% 33.07% 35.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 362 442 331
Average daily rate £290 £315 £280
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.93% +12.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £200 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £380 £425 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 24 39
Average hourly rate £14.75 £20.00 £30.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-26.25% -33.88%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.48 £12.00 £17.70
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.50 £37.00 £42.50
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 Yorkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

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 Yorkshire region.

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 Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

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 Yorkshire region.

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 Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 23 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
West Yorkshire +41 54 £275 -21.42%
South Yorkshire -3 2 £400 +72.04%
East Yorkshire - 2 £300 -
C++
England

C++
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the 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 54 (65.85%) Python
2 51 (62.20%) Linux
3 49 (59.76%) Ruby
4 47 (57.32%) Web Services
5 46 (56.10%) Amazon AWS
5 46 (56.10%) Node.js
6 45 (54.88%) PHP
7 43 (52.44%) MySQL
7 43 (52.44%) Bash shell
8 42 (51.22%) DNS
9 41 (50.00%) Apache
10 40 (48.78%) nginx
11 39 (47.56%) Amazon EC2
11 39 (47.56%) Amazon S3
11 39 (47.56%) Kanban
11 39 (47.56%) MongoDB
11 39 (47.56%) Redis
11 39 (47.56%) Route 53
11 39 (47.56%) Amazon RDS
12 38 (46.34%) Oracle
13 35 (42.68%) Internet
13 35 (42.68%) Configuration Management
14 34 (41.46%) Java
14 34 (41.46%) Puppet
15 29 (35.37%) Client/Server
16 28 (34.15%) Telecoms
17 25 (30.49%) TDD
17 25 (30.49%) Test Automation
18 24 (29.27%) Perl
19 23 (28.05%) HTTP

C++
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the 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 47 (57.32%) Web Services
2 46 (56.10%) Node.js
3 16 (19.51%) POSIX
4 12 (14.63%) CSS
5 9 (10.98%) HTML5
5 9 (10.98%) CSS3
5 9 (10.98%) J2EE
6 8 (9.756%) Middleware
6 8 (9.756%) .NET
7 7 (8.537%) SOAP
7 7 (8.537%) Spring
7 7 (8.537%) Hibernate
7 7 (8.537%) jQuery
7 7 (8.537%) REST
8 6 (7.317%) GStreamer
9 5 (6.098%) LAMP
10 4 (4.878%) HTML
11 3 (3.659%) XML
12 2 (2.439%) Flash
12 2 (2.439%) ASP
Application Platforms
1 46 (56.10%) Amazon AWS
2 41 (50.00%) Apache
3 40 (48.78%) nginx
4 39 (47.56%) Amazon EC2
4 39 (47.56%) Amazon S3
4 39 (47.56%) Route 53
5 7 (8.537%) Tomcat
5 7 (8.537%) Apache Solr
5 7 (8.537%) Adobe CQ
6 6 (7.317%) SharePoint
7 5 (6.098%) SAS
8 3 (3.659%) WebLogic
Applications
1 2 (2.439%) MS Project
1 2 (2.439%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 13 (15.85%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (3.659%) JDE OneWorld
3 1 (1.220%) JDE World
Communications & Networking
1 42 (51.22%) DNS
2 35 (42.68%) Internet
3 23 (28.05%) HTTP
4 20 (24.39%) DHCP
4 20 (24.39%) SSL
5 18 (21.95%) TCP/IP
6 13 (15.85%) Intrusion Detection
7 6 (7.317%) DVB
8 3 (3.659%) SSH
9 1 (1.220%) Network Security
9 1 (1.220%) OpenLDAP
9 1 (1.220%) NetScreen
9 1 (1.220%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (52.44%) MySQL
2 39 (47.56%) MongoDB
2 39 (47.56%) Redis
2 39 (47.56%) Amazon RDS
3 19 (23.17%) NoSQL
4 16 (19.51%) Couchbase
4 16 (19.51%) SimpleDB
4 16 (19.51%) RDBMS
5 3 (3.659%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 7 (8.537%) Maven
1 7 (8.537%) Git (software)
1 7 (8.537%) Jenkins
2 2 (2.439%) JUnit
General
1 28 (34.15%) Telecoms
2 4 (4.878%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 29 (35.37%) Software Engineer
2 20 (24.39%) Developer
3 9 (10.98%) Operations Engineer
3 9 (10.98%) Java Developer
4 5 (6.098%) Applications Support Specialist
4 5 (6.098%) Applications Specialist
4 5 (6.098%) Support Specialist
4 5 (6.098%) Applications Support
5 4 (4.878%) Software Developer
5 4 (4.878%) Embedded Software Engineer
5 4 (4.878%) Mobile Developer
6 3 (3.659%) Cloud Software Developer
6 3 (3.659%) Cloud Developer
6 3 (3.659%) Windows Mobile Developer
6 3 (3.659%) Software Team Leader
6 3 (3.659%) Mobile Applications Developer
6 3 (3.659%) Team Leader
6 3 (3.659%) Senior Software Engineer
7 2 (2.439%) C++ Software Engineer
7 2 (2.439%) Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 29 (35.37%) Client/Server
2 8 (9.756%) STB
2 8 (9.756%) MPEG
3 7 (8.537%) Open Source
4 4 (4.878%) Computer Science
5 3 (3.659%) Mobile App
5 3 (3.659%) IPTV
6 2 (2.439%) Device Driver
7 1 (1.220%) Mathematics
7 1 (1.220%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (1.220%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 51 (62.20%) Linux
2 7 (8.537%) Windows
3 4 (4.878%) Windows CE
3 4 (4.878%) Embedded Linux
4 3 (3.659%) Android
4 3 (3.659%) Windows Mobile
5 2 (2.439%) Apple iOS
6 1 (1.220%) Windows Phone
6 1 (1.220%) Solaris
6 1 (1.220%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (47.56%) Kanban
2 35 (42.68%) Configuration Management
3 25 (30.49%) TDD
3 25 (30.49%) Test Automation
4 23 (28.05%) Scrum
5 19 (23.17%) Security Testing
6 18 (21.95%) Load Balancing
7 16 (19.51%) Capacity Management
7 16 (19.51%) Continuous Integration
7 16 (19.51%) Incident Management
8 7 (8.537%) SOA
8 7 (8.537%) OO
8 7 (8.537%) Agile Software Development
8 7 (8.537%) Software Engineering
8 7 (8.537%) Multithreading
8 7 (8.537%) BDD
9 6 (7.317%) Performance Testing
9 6 (7.317%) Software Testing
10 3 (3.659%) UML
10 3 (3.659%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 54 (65.85%) Python
2 49 (59.76%) Ruby
3 45 (54.88%) PHP
4 43 (52.44%) Bash shell
5 34 (41.46%) Java
6 24 (29.27%) Perl
7 15 (18.29%) C
8 9 (10.98%) C#
9 8 (9.756%) JavaScript
10 7 (8.537%) SQL
11 3 (3.659%) PL/SQL
11 3 (3.659%) VC++
11 3 (3.659%) Embedded C
11 3 (3.659%) Embedded C++
12 2 (2.439%) Tcl
13 1 (1.220%) VB
13 1 (1.220%) Shell Script
13 1 (1.220%) Assembly Language
13 1 (1.220%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 6 (7.317%) Degree
2 4 (4.878%) Security Cleared
3 3 (3.659%) SC Cleared
4 2 (2.439%) HND
System Software
1 1 (1.220%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 34 (41.46%) Puppet
Vendors
1 38 (46.34%) Oracle
2 17 (20.73%) Percona
3 10 (12.20%) hybris
4 7 (8.537%) Adobe
5 3 (3.659%) JD Edwards
5 3 (3.659%) Microsoft
5 3 (3.659%) TIBCO
6 2 (2.439%) Freescale
7 1 (1.220%) Sun
7 1 (1.220%) Juniper
7 1 (1.220%) NetApp
7 1 (1.220%) Cisco
7 1 (1.220%) Blue Coat
7 1 (1.220%) McAfee
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