The first table below looks at the demand for X++ 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 X++ over the 3 months to 20 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
X++
Rank 112 97 -
Rank change year-on-year
-15 -
Contract jobs citing X++ 3 19 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 0.159% 0.827% -
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.441% 2.513% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 7 0
Average daily rate - £375 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £475 £413
% change year-on-year
-15.78% +15.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Programming Languages
Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
680 756 601
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 36.06% 32.90% 33.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 368 446 294
Average daily rate £290 £325 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.76% +8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £200 £205
10% offered a daily rate of more than £379 £425 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 24 36
Average hourly rate £17.00 £18.50 £30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-8.10% -38.33%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.00 £12.00 £10.95
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.50 £36.40 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
X++
England

X++
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Yorkshire X++ Jobs Demand Trend

X++
Daily Rate Trend

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

Yorkshire X++ Daily Rate Trend

X++
Top 13 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Yorkshire region citing X++ 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 X++.

1 4 (100.00%) Dynamics AX
2 3 (75.00%) SharePoint Server
2 3 (75.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (75.00%) .NET
2 3 (75.00%) CRM
2 3 (75.00%) SharePoint
2 3 (75.00%) ERP
2 3 (75.00%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (25.00%) SQL
3 1 (25.00%) T-SQL
3 1 (25.00%) Finance
3 1 (25.00%) Manufacturing

X++
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Yorkshire region citing X++ 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 X++. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (75.00%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 3 (75.00%) SharePoint
1 3 (75.00%) BizTalk Server
1 3 (75.00%) SharePoint Server
Business Applications
1 4 (100.00%) Dynamics AX
2 3 (75.00%) Dynamics CRM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Consultant
1 3 (75.00%) Dynamics AX Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Dynamics AX Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) CRM
1 3 (75.00%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
1 1 (25.00%) T-SQL