C++ Contracts in Central London

C++
London > Central London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for C++ skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited C++ over the 6 months to 30 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 96 52 128
Rank change year-on-year -44 +76 -41
Contract jobs citing C++ 41 160 71
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 1.71% 4.33% 1.58%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.81% 10.59% 3.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 82 39
10th Percentile £608 £479 £423
25th Percentile £650 £613 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £710 £675 £700
Median % change year-on-year +5.19% -3.57% +7.69%
75th Percentile £825 £822 £815
90th Percentile £858 £961 £975
London median daily rate £669 £725 £725
% change year-on-year -7.76% - +11.54%

All Programming Languages
Central London

C++ is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 853 1,511 1,917
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 35.66% 40.94% 42.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 616 994 1,501
10th Percentile £406 £425 £413
25th Percentile £463 £512 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £559 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -10.64% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £688 £738 £713
90th Percentile £788 £825 £800
London median daily rate £575 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -4.17% - +11.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 11
10th Percentile - £21.35 £39.25
25th Percentile £46.75 £35.00 £45.25
Median hourly rate £48.50 £52.50 £53.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.62% -1.87% +101.89%
75th Percentile £50.25 £83.75 £66.75
90th Percentile - £84.50 £77.00
London median hourly rate £50.50 £60.00 £49.99
% change year-on-year -15.83% +20.04% +11.08%

C++
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing C++ as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for C++ in Central London

C++
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing C++ in Central London.

Daily rate trend for C++ in Central London

C++
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing C++ in Central London over the 6 months to 30 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for C++ in Central London

C++
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing C++ in Central London.

Hourly rate trend for C++ in Central London

C++
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing C++ within the Central London region over the 6 months to 30 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
City of London -37 40 £710 +5.19% 20
West End of London - 1 £450 - 1
Camden - 1 £450 - 1
C++
London

C++
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 5 (12.20%) BizTalk Server
2 1 (2.44%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (2.44%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 13 (31.71%) AWS
2 11 (26.83%) Azure
3 5 (12.20%) AWS Lambda
3 5 (12.20%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 5 (12.20%) Azure Functions
3 5 (12.20%) Azure Logic Apps
3 5 (12.20%) Azure Storage
3 5 (12.20%) Serverless
4 3 (7.32%) GitHub
5 2 (4.88%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (4.88%) GCP
5 2 (4.88%) NuGet
6 1 (2.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (2.44%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (2.44%) Amazon ELB
6 1 (2.44%) ChatGPT
6 1 (2.44%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (2.44%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (2.44%) Power Platform
6 1 (2.44%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.88%) Firewall
2 1 (2.44%) DHCP
2 1 (2.44%) DNS
2 1 (2.44%) Multicast
2 1 (2.44%) Network Security
2 1 (2.44%) Reverse Proxy
2 1 (2.44%) TCP/IP
2 1 (2.44%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (34.15%) MongoDB
2 5 (12.20%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (9.76%) NoSQL
4 2 (4.88%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (4.88%) KDB
4 2 (4.88%) MySQL
5 1 (2.44%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (2.44%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (2.44%) CouchDB
5 1 (2.44%) Data Mining
5 1 (2.44%) DynamoDB
5 1 (2.44%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (2.44%) Power BI
5 1 (2.44%) Redis
5 1 (2.44%) Relational Database
5 1 (2.44%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (17.07%) JIRA
2 5 (12.20%) Git
2 5 (12.20%) TeamCity
3 4 (9.76%) Bitbucket
3 4 (9.76%) Jenkins
4 1 (2.44%) CircleCI
4 1 (2.44%) CMake
4 1 (2.44%) Darcs
4 1 (2.44%) Jaeger
4 1 (2.44%) JMeter
4 1 (2.44%) LoadRunner
4 1 (2.44%) Mercurial
4 1 (2.44%) NeoLoad
4 1 (2.44%) Travis CI
General
1 13 (31.71%) Analytical Skills
1 13 (31.71%) Finance
2 12 (29.27%) Social Skills
3 9 (21.95%) Banking
4 5 (12.20%) Investment Banking
5 3 (7.32%) Front Office
6 1 (2.44%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.44%) International Banking
6 1 (2.44%) Retail
Job Titles
1 16 (39.02%) Developer
2 7 (17.07%) Site Engineer
2 7 (17.07%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 6 (14.63%) Analyst
3 6 (14.63%) Full Stack Developer
4 4 (9.76%) Python Engineer
4 4 (9.76%) Quantitative Developer
5 3 (7.32%) Applications Engineer
5 3 (7.32%) Architect
5 3 (7.32%) C# Architect
5 3 (7.32%) C++ Developer
5 3 (7.32%) Development Engineer
5 3 (7.32%) Senior
5 3 (7.32%) Senior Developer
6 2 (4.88%) C++/Java Developer
6 2 (4.88%) Java Analyst Developer
6 2 (4.88%) Market Analyst
6 2 (4.88%) Market Data Developer
6 2 (4.88%) Qualitative Analyst
6 2 (4.88%) Senior Quantitative Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (29.27%) .NET
1 12 (29.27%) .NET Core
2 7 (17.07%) Kafka
2 7 (17.07%) RabbitMQ
2 7 (17.07%) RESTful
3 5 (12.20%) ADO
3 5 (12.20%) Blazor
4 3 (7.32%) NumPy
4 3 (7.32%) Pandas
4 3 (7.32%) SciPy
5 2 (4.88%) FIX Protocol
5 2 (4.88%) REST
6 1 (2.44%) AngularJS
6 1 (2.44%) CSS
6 1 (2.44%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (2.44%) HTML
6 1 (2.44%) React
6 1 (2.44%) Spring
6 1 (2.44%) XML
6 1 (2.44%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 10 (24.39%) Algorithms
1 10 (24.39%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (17.07%) Data Structures
3 5 (12.20%) Cloud Native
3 5 (12.20%) Derivative
3 5 (12.20%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.44%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (2.44%) Blockchain
4 1 (2.44%) CBDC
4 1 (2.44%) Digital Currency
4 1 (2.44%) Distributed Applications
4 1 (2.44%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (2.44%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.44%) Equities
4 1 (2.44%) Interest Rate Derivative
4 1 (2.44%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.44%) PKI
4 1 (2.44%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.44%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 13 (31.71%) Linux
2 10 (24.39%) Windows
3 1 (2.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (2.44%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (39.02%) CI/CD
2 13 (31.71%) Problem-Solving
3 12 (29.27%) DevOps
3 12 (29.27%) Microservices
4 7 (17.07%) Agile
4 7 (17.07%) Analytical Thinking
4 7 (17.07%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 7 (17.07%) Task Automation
5 6 (14.63%) Computer Science
5 6 (14.63%) Full Stack Development
5 6 (14.63%) Multithreading
5 6 (14.63%) SDLC
5 6 (14.63%) Software Engineering
5 6 (14.63%) Test Automation
6 5 (12.20%) API Management
6 5 (12.20%) Continuous Integration
6 5 (12.20%) Data Development
6 5 (12.20%) Front End Development
6 5 (12.20%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 5 (12.20%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 28 (68.29%) Python
2 23 (56.10%) Java
3 16 (39.02%) C#
4 13 (31.71%) Go
5 10 (24.39%) SQL
6 8 (19.51%) Shell Script
7 6 (14.63%) JavaScript
8 5 (12.20%) PL/SQL
8 5 (12.20%) T-SQL
9 4 (9.76%) C
9 4 (9.76%) Rust
10 1 (2.44%) Bash
10 1 (2.44%) VBA
10 1 (2.44%) VC++
Qualifications
1 6 (14.63%) Degree
2 4 (9.76%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (7.32%) Master's Degree
4 2 (4.88%) PhD
5 1 (2.44%) ISEB
5 1 (2.44%) ISTQB
5 1 (2.44%) SANS
5 1 (2.44%) SC Cleared
5 1 (2.44%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.44%) GDPR
1 1 (2.44%) ISO 20022
1 1 (2.44%) NIST
1 1 (2.44%) QA
1 1 (2.44%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (17.07%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 1 (2.44%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (34.15%) Kubernetes
2 8 (19.51%) Grafana
2 8 (19.51%) Prometheus
3 7 (17.07%) Consul
4 2 (4.88%) Kibana
5 1 (2.44%) Ansible
5 1 (2.44%) logstash
5 1 (2.44%) Progress Chef
5 1 (2.44%) Puppet
5 1 (2.44%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (19.51%) Microsoft
1 8 (19.51%) Oracle
2 7 (17.07%) SaltStack
3 5 (12.20%) MuleSoft
4 2 (4.88%) Google
4 2 (4.88%) Red Hat
4 2 (4.88%) Splunk
5 1 (2.44%) Alteryx
5 1 (2.44%) AppDynamics
5 1 (2.44%) ServiceNow