C++ Contracts in the City of London

C++
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 90 47 122
Rank change year-on-year -43 +75 -49
Contract jobs citing C++ 39 167 72
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.76% 4.58% 1.70%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.21% 10.46% 3.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 73 36
10th Percentile £563 £483 £413
25th Percentile £628 £613 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £695 £675 £700
Median % change year-on-year +2.96% -3.57% +1.82%
75th Percentile £844 £800 £828
90th Percentile £894 £925 £975
Central London median daily rate £695 £675 £700
% change year-on-year +2.96% -3.57% +3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £57.50 -
Central London median hourly rate - £57.50 -

All Programming Languages
City of 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 the City of London with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 748 1,596 1,902
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 33.66% 43.77% 45.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 533 1,041 1,478
10th Percentile £413 £425 £419
25th Percentile £463 £513 £507
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £625 £599
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.38% +8.86%
75th Percentile £690 £738 £700
90th Percentile £788 £825 £800
Central London median daily rate £565 £615 £600
% change year-on-year -8.13% +2.50% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 9 10
10th Percentile - £35.00 £43.45
25th Percentile £46.75 £51.25 £46.50
Median hourly rate £48.50 £57.50 £56.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.65% +2.68% +86.82%
75th Percentile £50.25 £58.75 £69.25
90th Percentile - £84.00 £77.63
Central London median hourly rate £48.50 £57.50 £56.00
% change year-on-year -15.65% +2.68% +138.81%

C++
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for C++ in the City of London

C++
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing C++ in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for C++ in the City of London

C++
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing C++ in the City of London over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for C++ in the City of London

C++
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing C++ in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for C++ in the City of London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 6 (15.38%) BizTalk Server
2 1 (2.56%) Confluence
2 1 (2.56%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.56%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 14 (35.90%) AWS
2 12 (30.77%) Azure
3 6 (15.38%) AWS Lambda
3 6 (15.38%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 6 (15.38%) Azure Functions
3 6 (15.38%) Azure Logic Apps
3 6 (15.38%) Azure Storage
3 6 (15.38%) Serverless
4 3 (7.69%) GCP
4 3 (7.69%) GitHub
5 2 (5.13%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (5.13%) NuGet
6 1 (2.56%) ChatGPT
6 1 (2.56%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (2.56%) Power Platform
6 1 (2.56%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.13%) Firewall
2 1 (2.56%) DHCP
2 1 (2.56%) DNS
2 1 (2.56%) Network Security
2 1 (2.56%) TCP/IP
2 1 (2.56%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (33.33%) MongoDB
2 6 (15.38%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (10.26%) NoSQL
4 2 (5.13%) KDB
5 1 (2.56%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (2.56%) CouchDB
5 1 (2.56%) Data Mining
5 1 (2.56%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (2.56%) MySQL
5 1 (2.56%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (2.56%) Power BI
5 1 (2.56%) Redis
5 1 (2.56%) Relational Database
5 1 (2.56%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (17.95%) JIRA
2 4 (10.26%) Bitbucket
2 4 (10.26%) Git
2 4 (10.26%) TeamCity
3 3 (7.69%) Jenkins
4 1 (2.56%) CircleCI
4 1 (2.56%) Darcs
4 1 (2.56%) Jaeger
4 1 (2.56%) Mercurial
4 1 (2.56%) Travis CI
General
1 11 (28.21%) Finance
2 10 (25.64%) Banking
3 9 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (23.08%) Social Skills
4 4 (10.26%) Investment Banking
5 2 (5.13%) Front Office
5 2 (5.13%) International Banking
6 1 (2.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 15 (38.46%) Developer
2 7 (17.95%) Full Stack Developer
3 6 (15.38%) Analyst
4 5 (12.82%) Python Engineer
4 5 (12.82%) Site Engineer
4 5 (12.82%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 3 (7.69%) Architect
5 3 (7.69%) C# Architect
5 3 (7.69%) Quantitative Developer
6 2 (5.13%) .NET Architect
6 2 (5.13%) Analyst Developer
6 2 (5.13%) C++ Developer
6 2 (5.13%) Data Analyst
6 2 (5.13%) Developer Analyst
6 2 (5.13%) Java Developer
6 2 (5.13%) Market Data Analyst
6 2 (5.13%) Qualitative Analyst
6 2 (5.13%) Quantitative Analyst
6 2 (5.13%) Senior Developer
6 2 (5.13%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (33.33%) .NET
1 13 (33.33%) .NET Core
2 6 (15.38%) Blazor
3 5 (12.82%) ADO
3 5 (12.82%) Kafka
3 5 (12.82%) RabbitMQ
3 5 (12.82%) RESTful
4 3 (7.69%) NumPy
4 3 (7.69%) Pandas
4 3 (7.69%) SciPy
5 2 (5.13%) REST
5 2 (5.13%) Spring
6 1 (2.56%) AngularJS
6 1 (2.56%) CSS
6 1 (2.56%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (2.56%) FIX Protocol
6 1 (2.56%) React
6 1 (2.56%) Smart Contracts
6 1 (2.56%) Spring Boot
6 1 (2.56%) Svelte
Miscellaneous
1 8 (20.51%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (15.38%) Algorithms
2 6 (15.38%) Cloud Native
2 6 (15.38%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (12.82%) Data Structures
3 5 (12.82%) Derivative
4 2 (5.13%) Interest Rate Derivative
5 1 (2.56%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (2.56%) Blockchain
5 1 (2.56%) CBDC
5 1 (2.56%) Digital Currency
5 1 (2.56%) Distributed Applications
5 1 (2.56%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.56%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.56%) PKI
5 1 (2.56%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 12 (30.77%) Windows
2 11 (28.21%) Linux
3 1 (2.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (38.46%) CI/CD
2 11 (28.21%) Microservices
3 10 (25.64%) DevOps
3 10 (25.64%) Software Engineering
4 9 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (20.51%) Agile
6 7 (17.95%) Full Stack Development
6 7 (17.95%) SDLC
7 6 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
7 6 (15.38%) Data Development
7 6 (15.38%) Front End Development
7 6 (15.38%) Multithreading
7 6 (15.38%) Test Automation
8 5 (12.82%) Analytical Thinking
8 5 (12.82%) Analytics
8 5 (12.82%) API Management
8 5 (12.82%) Scaled Agile Framework
8 5 (12.82%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 5 (12.82%) Task Automation
9 4 (10.26%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 27 (69.23%) Python
2 21 (53.85%) Java
3 16 (41.03%) C#
4 12 (30.77%) Go
5 10 (25.64%) SQL
6 7 (17.95%) JavaScript
7 6 (15.38%) PL/SQL
7 6 (15.38%) Shell Script
7 6 (15.38%) T-SQL
8 4 (10.26%) Rust
9 3 (7.69%) C
10 1 (2.56%) VC++
Qualifications
1 4 (10.26%) Degree
2 2 (5.13%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (5.13%) Master's Degree
2 2 (5.13%) PhD
2 2 (5.13%) SC Cleared
2 2 (5.13%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.56%) ISEB
3 1 (2.56%) ISTQB
3 1 (2.56%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.56%) GDPR
1 1 (2.56%) ISO 20022
1 1 (2.56%) NIST
1 1 (2.56%) QA
1 1 (2.56%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (12.82%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 11 (28.21%) Kubernetes
2 6 (15.38%) Grafana
2 6 (15.38%) Prometheus
3 5 (12.82%) Consul
4 1 (2.56%) Ansible
4 1 (2.56%) Kibana
4 1 (2.56%) logstash
4 1 (2.56%) Progress Chef
4 1 (2.56%) Puppet
4 1 (2.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (17.95%) Oracle
2 6 (15.38%) MuleSoft
3 5 (12.82%) Microsoft
3 5 (12.82%) SaltStack
4 3 (7.69%) Google
5 1 (2.56%) Alteryx
5 1 (2.56%) IBM
5 1 (2.56%) Red Hat
5 1 (2.56%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.56%) Splunk