C++ Developer Contracts in London

C++ Developer
England > London

The median C++ Developer daily rate in London is £738 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 340 298 415
Rank change year-on-year -42 +117 -151
Contract jobs requiring a C++ Developer 56 208 197
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.31% 0.77% 0.51%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.34% 0.81% 0.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 133 165
10th Percentile £409 £525 £535
25th Percentile £425 £650 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £738 £750 £725
Median % change year-on-year -1.67% +3.45% +11.54%
75th Percentile £988 £825 £788
90th Percentile £1,250 £973 £825
England median daily rate £500 £750 £725
% change year-on-year -33.33% +3.45% +12.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £25.75 £62.50
Median hourly rate - £38.25 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - -41.15% +13.04%
75th Percentile - £52.50 £67.50
90th Percentile - £57.00 -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year +7.69% +8.33% +19.40%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in London with a recognized job title 16,604 25,696 37,092
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.23% 95.28% 95.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,003 18,613 27,062
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £443 £463 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £675
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 338 287 451
10th Percentile £16.01 £18.00 £16.50
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.57 £22.06
Median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% - +11.64%
75th Percentile £43.75 £60.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £64.67 £76.10 £67.50
England median hourly rate £36.02 £44.77 £22.50
% change year-on-year -19.53% +98.96% +0.36%

C++ Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings that featured C++ Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for C++ Developer in London

C++ Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for C++ Developer in London

C++ Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing C++ Developer in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for C++ Developer in London

C++ Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for C++ Developer in London

C++ Developer
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing C++ Developer within the London region over the 6 months to 1 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
West London +21 4 £450 -10.00%
Central London -15 3 £1,000 +37.93%
C++ Developer
England

C++ Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 1 May 2024, C++ Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region featuring C++ Developer in the job title.

1 56 (100.00%) C++
2 26 (46.43%) Derivative
3 19 (33.93%) Finance
4 16 (28.57%) Analytics
5 15 (26.79%) Hedge funds
5 15 (26.79%) Banking
6 13 (23.21%) Equity Derivative
6 13 (23.21%) Python
6 13 (23.21%) Low Latency
6 13 (23.21%) Algorithmic Trading
7 12 (21.43%) Algorithms
8 11 (19.64%) Systematic Trading
8 11 (19.64%) Linux
9 10 (17.86%) C
10 9 (16.07%) Equities
10 9 (16.07%) Investment Banking
11 8 (14.29%) Agile
11 8 (14.29%) Degree
11 8 (14.29%) Front Office
11 8 (14.29%) Git
12 7 (12.50%) SQL
13 6 (10.71%) Computer Science
13 6 (10.71%) Computer Science Degree
14 5 (8.93%) Collaborative Working
14 5 (8.93%) Social Skills
14 5 (8.93%) Clean Code
14 5 (8.93%) Team-Oriented Environment
14 5 (8.93%) Code Quality
15 4 (7.14%) Feasibility Study
15 4 (7.14%) Automated Trading

C++ Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 1 (1.79%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 1 (1.79%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 2 (3.57%) Azure
2 1 (1.79%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.79%) MPLS
1 1 (1.79%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.57%) KDB
2 1 (1.79%) Couchbase
2 1 (1.79%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 8 (14.29%) Git
2 4 (7.14%) Bitbucket
3 3 (5.36%) Jenkins
3 3 (5.36%) Visual Studio
4 2 (3.57%) Karma Test Runner
4 2 (3.57%) TeamCity
5 1 (1.79%) ClearCase
5 1 (1.79%) ClearQuest
5 1 (1.79%) JIRA
5 1 (1.79%) Rational DOORS
5 1 (1.79%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 19 (33.93%) Finance
2 15 (26.79%) Banking
3 9 (16.07%) Investment Banking
4 8 (14.29%) Front Office
5 5 (8.93%) Social Skills
6 3 (5.36%) Games
7 1 (1.79%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.36%) AngularJS
1 3 (5.36%) CSS
1 3 (5.36%) HTML
1 3 (5.36%) Twitter Bootstrap
2 2 (3.57%) .NET
2 2 (3.57%) OpenAPI
2 2 (3.57%) Playwright
2 2 (3.57%) REST
2 2 (3.57%) Swagger
2 2 (3.57%) Unreal Engine
3 1 (1.79%) ADO
3 1 (1.79%) Bazel
3 1 (1.79%) FFmpeg
3 1 (1.79%) IBM Integration Bus
3 1 (1.79%) Kafka
3 1 (1.79%) Unity (Game Engine)
3 1 (1.79%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 26 (46.43%) Derivative
2 15 (26.79%) Hedge funds
3 13 (23.21%) Equity Derivative
4 12 (21.43%) Algorithms
5 9 (16.07%) Equities
6 5 (8.93%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 3 (5.36%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (3.57%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (3.57%) Distributed Computing
8 2 (3.57%) Management Information System
9 1 (1.79%) Animation
9 1 (1.79%) Credit Risk
9 1 (1.79%) Data Centre
9 1 (1.79%) Device Driver
9 1 (1.79%) Fixed Income
9 1 (1.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 1 (1.79%) Mobile Games
9 1 (1.79%) Renewable Energy
9 1 (1.79%) Solar Panel
9 1 (1.79%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (19.64%) Linux
2 4 (7.14%) Windows
3 1 (1.79%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (28.57%) Analytics
2 13 (23.21%) Algorithmic Trading
2 13 (23.21%) Low Latency
3 11 (19.64%) Systematic Trading
4 8 (14.29%) Agile
5 6 (10.71%) Computer Science
6 5 (8.93%) Clean Code
6 5 (8.93%) Code Quality
6 5 (8.93%) Collaborative Working
7 4 (7.14%) Automated Trading
7 4 (7.14%) Feasibility Study
7 4 (7.14%) Mathematics
7 4 (7.14%) Product Management
7 4 (7.14%) Validation
8 3 (5.36%) Customer-Centric Approach
8 3 (5.36%) Customer-Centricity
8 3 (5.36%) Full Stack Development
8 3 (5.36%) Multithreading
8 3 (5.36%) Quantitative Finance
9 2 (3.57%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 56 (100.00%) C++
2 13 (23.21%) Python
3 10 (17.86%) C
4 7 (12.50%) SQL
5 4 (7.14%) Bash
5 4 (7.14%) C#
5 4 (7.14%) Java
6 3 (5.36%) JavaScript
6 3 (5.36%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.79%) Embedded C++
Qualifications
1 8 (14.29%) Degree
2 6 (10.71%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (3.57%) Numerate Degree
4 1 (1.79%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.79%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.79%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (1.79%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 2 (3.57%) Oracle
2 1 (1.79%) HP
2 1 (1.79%) IBM
2 1 (1.79%) Sparx