C++ Contracts in the East of England

C++
England > East of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 18 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 25 54 58
Rank change year-on-year +29 +4 -14
Contract jobs citing C++ 121 76 95
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 6.35% 3.61% 3.64%
As % of the Programming Languages category 28.61% 12.75% 11.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 11 24
10th Percentile £413 £300 £316
25th Percentile £416 £440 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +2.56% +8.33%
75th Percentile £575 £560 £550
90th Percentile £665 - £576
England median daily rate £575 £650 £700
% change year-on-year -11.54% -7.14% +21.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 67 42 34
10th Percentile £60.00 £53.78 £47.98
25th Percentile £61.25 - £56.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% +20.00%
75th Percentile £67.50 £65.75 -
90th Percentile £90.00 £77.00 -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year - +8.33% +26.32%

All Programming Languages
East of England

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 East of England with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 423 596 801
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 22.19% 28.34% 30.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 187 342 467
10th Percentile £300 £286 £300
25th Percentile £403 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% +6.15%
75th Percentile £563 £575 £559
90th Percentile £643 £686 £631
England median daily rate £540 £569 £550
% change year-on-year -5.10% +3.45% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 101 90
10th Percentile £52.50 £47.50 £26.76
25th Percentile £60.00 £53.75 £47.56
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £56.00
Median % change year-on-year - +16.07% +25.84%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £88.75 £74.50 £61.28
England median hourly rate £62.00 £61.18 £50.00
% change year-on-year +1.35% +22.35% +16.80%

C++
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for C++ in the East of England

C++
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Daily rate trend for C++ in the East of England

C++
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing C++ in the East of England over the 6 months to 18 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for C++ in the East of England

C++
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Hourly rate trend for C++ in the East of England

C++
Hourly Rate Histogram in the East of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing C++ in the East of England over the 6 months to 18 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for C++ in the East of England

C++
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing C++ within the East of England region over the 6 months to 18 April 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
Hertfordshire +14 87 £430 +43.33% 31
Cambridgeshire +16 26 £550 +3.77% 112
Essex +9 7 £550 - 7
Bedfordshire -4 1 £450 - 3
C++
England

C++
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Applications
1 7 (5.79%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 4 (3.31%) Azure
1 4 (3.31%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 37 (30.58%) Modbus
1 37 (30.58%) RS-422
1 37 (30.58%) RS-485
2 15 (12.40%) Radio Access Network
3 12 (9.92%) 5G
4 5 (4.13%) 4G
4 5 (4.13%) NAS
5 4 (3.31%) Wireless
5 4 (3.31%) Wireshark
6 3 (2.48%) Ethernet
6 3 (2.48%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.83%) Bluetooth
7 1 (0.83%) MQTT
7 1 (0.83%) RS-232
7 1 (0.83%) RTMP
7 1 (0.83%) RTP
7 1 (0.83%) RTSP
Development Applications
1 13 (10.74%) Rational DOORS
2 7 (5.79%) GCC
2 7 (5.79%) Git
2 7 (5.79%) Visual Studio
3 5 (4.13%) Rational Rhapsody
4 4 (3.31%) CppUnit
4 4 (3.31%) Eclipse
4 4 (3.31%) gcov
4 4 (3.31%) GDB
4 4 (3.31%) Gradle
4 4 (3.31%) JIRA
4 4 (3.31%) PVCS
4 4 (3.31%) Subversion
5 2 (1.65%) CMake
6 1 (0.83%) MSI
6 1 (0.83%) VTune
General
1 44 (36.36%) Electronics
2 34 (28.10%) Social Skills
3 7 (5.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 6 (4.96%) Multimedia
4 6 (4.96%) Telecoms
5 5 (4.13%) Aerospace
6 3 (2.48%) Law
6 3 (2.48%) Military
6 3 (2.48%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (1.65%) Public Sector
7 2 (1.65%) Wearables
8 1 (0.83%) Aviation
8 1 (0.83%) Finance
8 1 (0.83%) Games
8 1 (0.83%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.83%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 84 (69.42%) Software Engineer
2 50 (41.32%) C++ Software Engineer
3 26 (21.49%) C Software Engineer
4 22 (18.18%) Developer
5 17 (14.05%) C/C++ Software Engineer
6 15 (12.40%) Embedded Engineer
6 15 (12.40%) Embedded Software Engineer
7 11 (9.09%) C++ Developer
8 9 (7.44%) Embedded C Engineer
8 9 (7.44%) Embedded C Software Engineer
8 9 (7.44%) Python Developer
8 9 (7.44%) Real Time Engineer
8 9 (7.44%) Real Time Software Engineer
9 8 (6.61%) Architect
9 8 (6.61%) Linux Engineer
9 8 (6.61%) Software Architect
10 7 (5.79%) Compiler Engineer
11 6 (4.96%) Python Engineer
12 5 (4.13%) Python Software Engineer
12 5 (4.13%) RAN Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (7.44%) DirectX
1 9 (7.44%) OpenGL
1 9 (7.44%) Vulkan
2 8 (6.61%) OpenGL ES
3 7 (5.79%) LLVM
4 5 (4.13%) Yocto
5 4 (3.31%) Web Services
6 3 (2.48%) Node.js
7 2 (1.65%) .NET
7 2 (1.65%) MFC
7 2 (1.65%) WinForms
7 2 (1.65%) WPF
8 1 (0.83%) FFmpeg
8 1 (0.83%) GStreamer
8 1 (0.83%) NumPy
8 1 (0.83%) Unity (Game Engine)
8 1 (0.83%) Unreal Engine
Miscellaneous
1 28 (23.14%) Self-Motivation
2 9 (7.44%) Ray Tracing
3 8 (6.61%) 3D Graphics
4 2 (1.65%) FPGA
5 1 (0.83%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.83%) Data Structures
5 1 (0.83%) MPEG
Operating Systems
1 26 (21.49%) Linux
2 8 (6.61%) Windows
3 2 (1.65%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.83%) Debian
4 1 (0.83%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.83%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (73.55%) Software Engineering
2 45 (37.19%) Agile
3 44 (36.36%) Unit Testing
4 41 (33.88%) Continuous Integration
4 41 (33.88%) DevOps
5 40 (33.06%) TDD
6 38 (31.40%) Software Testing
7 37 (30.58%) Continuous Improvement
7 37 (30.58%) Customer Requirements
7 37 (30.58%) Pair Programming
8 22 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
9 20 (16.53%) Validation
10 16 (13.22%) Multithreading
10 16 (13.22%) Verification and Validation
11 10 (8.26%) Visualisation
12 9 (7.44%) Scrum
12 9 (7.44%) Test Automation
12 9 (7.44%) Test Scripting
13 8 (6.61%) Software Architecture
14 7 (5.79%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 94 (77.69%) C
2 48 (39.67%) C#
3 25 (20.66%) Python
4 11 (9.09%) Embedded C
5 10 (8.26%) Embedded C++
6 9 (7.44%) MATLAB
7 6 (4.96%) Bash
8 5 (4.13%) Ada
9 4 (3.31%) JavaScript
10 3 (2.48%) Java
11 2 (1.65%) C++/CLI
11 2 (1.65%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.83%) GLSL
12 1 (0.83%) HLSL
Qualifications
1 16 (13.22%) PhD
2 12 (9.92%) Degree
3 10 (8.26%) Master's Degree
3 10 (8.26%) Security Cleared
4 8 (6.61%) SC Cleared
5 2 (1.65%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.83%) Computer Science Degree
System Software
1 4 (3.31%) Virtual Machines
1 4 (3.31%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.83%) Docker
Vendors
1 4 (3.31%) IBM
1 4 (3.31%) Klocwork
1 4 (3.31%) Microsoft
1 4 (3.31%) Perforce
1 4 (3.31%) VMware
2 2 (1.65%) Broadcom
3 1 (0.83%) Red Hat
3 1 (0.83%) SAP
3 1 (0.83%) Twitter