C++ Contracts in London

C++
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 153 98 153
Rank change year-on-year -55 +55 -53
Contract jobs citing C++ 278 673 738
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.57% 2.56% 1.91%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.33% 6.32% 4.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 192 465 549
10th Percentile £354 £513 £509
25th Percentile £475 £590 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £655 £700 £750
Median % change year-on-year -6.43% -6.67% +15.38%
75th Percentile £857 £825 £800
90th Percentile £950 £929 £875
England median daily rate £575 £650 £700
% change year-on-year -11.54% -7.14% +21.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 8 14
10th Percentile £44.62 £25.75 £38.92
25th Percentile £54.69 £42.88 £48.34
Median hourly rate £67.13 £52.58 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +27.66% -4.40% +7.32%
75th Percentile £72.03 £59.06 £65.63
90th Percentile £72.50 £64.88 £68.81
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year - +8.33% +21.21%

All Programming Languages
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 London with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 6,415 10,642 16,225
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 36.26% 40.49% 42.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,915 7,948 12,436
10th Percentile £381 £413 £419
25th Percentile £463 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £700 £730 £700
90th Percentile £825 £825 £800
England median daily rate £550 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -2.28% +2.33% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 82 114
10th Percentile £23.80 £34.33 £29.08
25th Percentile £40.75 £50.11 £35.00
Median hourly rate £50.50 £60.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.83% +20.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £62.50 £75.00 £68.44
90th Percentile £72.50 £85.00 £78.75
England median hourly rate £62.50 £61.18 £50.10
% change year-on-year +2.17% +22.11% +15.84%

C++
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for C++ in London

C++
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for C++ in London

C++
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing C++ in London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for C++ in London

C++
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for C++ in London

C++
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing C++ in London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for C++ in London

C++
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++ within the London region over the 6 months to 8 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
Central London -42 44 £718 +6.30% 18
West London +31 17 £475 -9.52% 21
South London +5 5 £525 -12.50% 8
C++
England

C++
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 9 (3.24%) BizTalk Server
2 7 (2.52%) Apache Spark
3 6 (2.16%) Confluence
4 3 (1.08%) Apache
4 3 (1.08%) nginx
5 2 (0.72%) SAS
5 2 (0.72%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.72%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.36%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.36%) CMS
6 1 (0.36%) Ethereum
6 1 (0.36%) Hyperledger
6 1 (0.36%) JBoss
6 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 12 (4.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.16%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (0.72%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.72%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.72%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 3 (1.08%) Distributed Ledger
2 2 (0.72%) ION MarketView
3 1 (0.36%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 48 (17.27%) AWS
2 39 (14.03%) Azure
3 15 (5.40%) Azure DevOps
4 12 (4.32%) GitHub
5 9 (3.24%) AWS Lambda
5 9 (3.24%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 9 (3.24%) Azure Functions
5 9 (3.24%) Azure Logic Apps
5 9 (3.24%) Azure Storage
5 9 (3.24%) Serverless
6 3 (1.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (1.08%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (1.08%) Amazon ELB
6 3 (1.08%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (1.08%) GCP
6 3 (1.08%) OpenShift
7 2 (0.72%) npm
7 2 (0.72%) NuGet
7 2 (0.72%) Yarn
8 1 (0.36%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.08%) 5G
1 3 (1.08%) IPv4
1 3 (1.08%) Reverse Proxy
1 3 (1.08%) TCP/IP
1 3 (1.08%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (0.72%) DNS
2 2 (0.72%) Firewall
3 1 (0.36%) 4G
3 1 (0.36%) Bluetooth
3 1 (0.36%) DHCP
3 1 (0.36%) HTTP
3 1 (0.36%) MPLS
3 1 (0.36%) Multicast
3 1 (0.36%) Network Security
3 1 (0.36%) NFC
3 1 (0.36%) RTSP
3 1 (0.36%) SSL
3 1 (0.36%) UWB
3 1 (0.36%) VPN
3 1 (0.36%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (7.19%) MongoDB
2 16 (5.76%) NoSQL
3 13 (4.68%) Elasticsearch
4 12 (4.32%) Relational Database
5 10 (3.60%) Azure SQL Database
6 8 (2.88%) Couchbase
6 8 (2.88%) KDB
7 7 (2.52%) SQL Server
8 6 (2.16%) Data Mining
8 6 (2.16%) PostgreSQL
9 5 (1.80%) MySQL
10 3 (1.08%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (1.08%) DynamoDB
10 3 (1.08%) RDBMS
11 2 (0.72%) Apache Cassandra
11 2 (0.72%) Data Warehouse
12 1 (0.36%) Apache Hive
12 1 (0.36%) CouchDB
12 1 (0.36%) DB2
12 1 (0.36%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 32 (11.51%) Git
2 24 (8.63%) Jenkins
3 17 (6.12%) JIRA
4 9 (3.24%) Artifactory
4 9 (3.24%) Subversion
5 8 (2.88%) Bitbucket
5 8 (2.88%) Visual Studio
6 5 (1.80%) TeamCity
7 4 (1.44%) JMeter
7 4 (1.44%) Karma Test Runner
8 3 (1.08%) LoadRunner
8 3 (1.08%) NeoLoad
9 2 (0.72%) Babel
9 2 (0.72%) CMake
9 2 (0.72%) Jasmine
9 2 (0.72%) Visual Studio Code
9 2 (0.72%) webpack
10 1 (0.36%) Gatling
10 1 (0.36%) Gradle
10 1 (0.36%) Travis CI
General
1 95 (34.17%) Finance
2 57 (20.50%) Social Skills
3 54 (19.42%) Banking
4 34 (12.23%) Front Office
5 32 (11.51%) Analytical Skills
6 23 (8.27%) Investment Banking
7 8 (2.88%) Games
8 5 (1.80%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (1.80%) Public Sector
9 2 (0.72%) Aerospace
9 2 (0.72%) Financial Institution
9 2 (0.72%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (0.72%) International Banking
10 1 (0.36%) Back Office
10 1 (0.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.36%) Legal
10 1 (0.36%) Multimedia
10 1 (0.36%) Retail
Job Titles
1 128 (46.04%) Developer
2 59 (21.22%) C++ Developer
3 30 (10.79%) Software Engineer
4 28 (10.07%) Senior
5 27 (9.71%) Analyst
5 27 (9.71%) Quantitative Developer
6 15 (5.40%) Python Developer
6 15 (5.40%) Python Engineer
6 15 (5.40%) Qualitative Analyst
6 15 (5.40%) Quantitative Analyst
7 14 (5.04%) Senior Developer
8 12 (4.32%) C++ Software Engineer
9 11 (3.96%) Linux Developer
10 10 (3.60%) Java Developer
11 9 (3.24%) C++ Quantitative Developer
11 9 (3.24%) Development Engineer
11 9 (3.24%) Front Office Developer
11 9 (3.24%) Low Latency C++ Developer
12 8 (2.88%) Site Engineer
12 8 (2.88%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (15.47%) .NET
2 21 (7.55%) Kafka
2 21 (7.55%) NumPy
3 19 (6.83%) Pandas
4 17 (6.12%) .NET Core
5 16 (5.76%) SciPy
6 13 (4.68%) AngularJS
7 11 (3.96%) ADO
7 11 (3.96%) REST
8 10 (3.60%) Middleware
8 10 (3.60%) Node.js
8 10 (3.60%) React
9 8 (2.88%) Blazor
10 7 (2.52%) RESTful
10 7 (2.52%) Yocto
11 6 (2.16%) CSS
11 6 (2.16%) HTML
11 6 (2.16%) RabbitMQ
12 5 (1.80%) FIX Protocol
12 5 (1.80%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 62 (22.30%) Derivative
2 40 (14.39%) Algorithms
3 25 (8.99%) Hedge funds
4 22 (7.91%) Distributed Systems
5 19 (6.83%) Equity Derivative
6 16 (5.76%) Data Protection Act
7 15 (5.40%) Data Structures
8 14 (5.04%) Equities
8 14 (5.04%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 12 (4.32%) Fixed Income
10 10 (3.60%) Cloud Native
10 10 (3.60%) Legacy Systems
10 10 (3.60%) Self-Motivation
11 8 (2.88%) Blockchain
11 8 (2.88%) Distributed Computing
12 6 (2.16%) Credit Derivative
12 6 (2.16%) Device Driver
12 6 (2.16%) Distributed Applications
13 5 (1.80%) Team-Oriented Environment
14 4 (1.44%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 48 (17.27%) Linux
2 33 (11.87%) Windows
3 9 (3.24%) Windows Server
4 7 (2.52%) Unix
5 6 (2.16%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.72%) Android
7 1 (0.36%) Embedded Linux
7 1 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.36%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (21.22%) Software Engineering
2 46 (16.55%) Computer Science
3 45 (16.19%) Agile
4 43 (15.47%) Analytics
5 41 (14.75%) CI/CD
6 39 (14.03%) DevOps
7 38 (13.67%) Mathematics
8 36 (12.95%) Test Automation
9 35 (12.59%) Problem-Solving
10 32 (11.51%) Multithreading
11 23 (8.27%) OO
12 22 (7.91%) Low Latency
13 21 (7.55%) Quantitative Finance
14 19 (6.83%) Full Stack Development
14 19 (6.83%) Validation
15 18 (6.47%) Data Pipeline
15 18 (6.47%) Microservices
15 18 (6.47%) Physics
16 17 (6.12%) Roadmaps
16 17 (6.12%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 147 (52.88%) Python
2 103 (37.05%) Java
3 73 (26.26%) C#
4 64 (23.02%) SQL
5 59 (21.22%) C
6 24 (8.63%) Go
6 24 (8.63%) JavaScript
7 18 (6.47%) Rust
7 18 (6.47%) Shell Script
8 17 (6.12%) Bash
9 16 (5.76%) VBA
10 11 (3.96%) PowerShell
11 10 (3.60%) TypeScript
12 9 (3.24%) PL/SQL
12 9 (3.24%) T-SQL
13 8 (2.88%) Scala
14 7 (2.52%) Perl
14 7 (2.52%) R
14 7 (2.52%) VB.NET
15 4 (1.44%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 66 (23.74%) Degree
2 24 (8.63%) Computer Science Degree
3 16 (5.76%) Numerate Degree
4 15 (5.40%) Master's Degree
5 9 (3.24%) PhD
5 9 (3.24%) SC Cleared
5 9 (3.24%) Security Cleared
6 3 (1.08%) DV Cleared
7 2 (0.72%) MBA
8 1 (0.36%) CREST Certified
8 1 (0.36%) ISEB
8 1 (0.36%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.36%) OSCP
8 1 (0.36%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (2.88%) QA
2 4 (1.44%) MiFID
3 2 (0.72%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.72%) GDPR
4 1 (0.36%) COPPA
4 1 (0.36%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.36%) JTAG
4 1 (0.36%) NIST
4 1 (0.36%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.36%) SLA
4 1 (0.36%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 13 (4.68%) Docker
2 6 (2.16%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 3 (1.08%) Firmware
4 1 (0.36%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.36%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (0.36%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 30 (10.79%) Kubernetes
2 10 (3.60%) Ansible
3 9 (3.24%) BladeLogic
3 9 (3.24%) Consul
3 9 (3.24%) ITRS Geneos
4 8 (2.88%) Grafana
5 7 (2.52%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.44%) Kibana
6 4 (1.44%) Terraform
7 3 (1.08%) Packer
8 2 (0.72%) Puppet
9 1 (0.36%) HP ALM
9 1 (0.36%) logstash
9 1 (0.36%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.36%) systemd
Vendors
1 32 (11.51%) Oracle
2 13 (4.68%) Dynatrace
3 11 (3.96%) Microsoft
4 9 (3.24%) Altiris
4 9 (3.24%) Citrix
4 9 (3.24%) MuleSoft
5 6 (2.16%) SaltStack
6 4 (1.44%) AppDynamics
6 4 (1.44%) ION Trading
6 4 (1.44%) Splunk
7 2 (0.72%) CA
7 2 (0.72%) Google
7 2 (0.72%) HP
7 2 (0.72%) IBM
7 2 (0.72%) MarketAxess
7 2 (0.72%) Red Hat
7 2 (0.72%) ServiceNow
7 2 (0.72%) Tradeweb
8 1 (0.36%) Alteryx
8 1 (0.36%) NVIDIA