C++ Contracts in the Midlands

C++
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 113 126 180
Rank change year-on-year +13 +54 -61
Contract jobs citing C++ 24 39 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.87% 1.13% 0.41%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.90% 4.16% 1.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 31 13
10th Percentile £266 £363 £360
25th Percentile £486 £471 £365
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £588 £433
Median % change year-on-year -14.04% +35.84% +20.14%
75th Percentile £538 £613 £494
90th Percentile £610 £625 £499
England median daily rate £575 £650 £700
% change year-on-year -11.54% -7.14% +21.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Median hourly rate £40.50 £50.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -19.00% - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year - +8.33% +26.32%

All Programming Languages
Midlands

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 Midlands with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 615 937 1,336
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 22.41% 27.16% 26.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 446 700 1,000
10th Percentile £260 £313 £315
25th Percentile £350 £381 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £480 £450
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% +16.13%
75th Percentile £550 £557 £538
90th Percentile £638 £650 £625
England median daily rate £540 £564 £550
% change year-on-year -4.26% +2.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 15 19
10th Percentile £22.42 £20.24 £17.07
25th Percentile £27.38 £24.31 £20.00
Median hourly rate £51.78 £33.39 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +55.10% -4.61% -9.68%
75th Percentile £58.75 £57.50 -
90th Percentile £60.13 £86.00 £45.34
England median hourly rate £62.50 £60.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +4.17% +20.00% +14.94%

C++
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for C++ in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for C++ in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing C++ in the Midlands over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for C++ in the Midlands

C++
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for C++ in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing C++ within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 26 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
West Midlands +27 21 £502 -12.78% 50
East Midlands +11 3 £590 -0.92% 42
C++
England

C++
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 (4.17%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (12.50%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 1 (4.17%) AWS
1 1 (4.17%) Azure
1 1 (4.17%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.33%) Bluetooth
1 2 (8.33%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.33%) Data Lake
1 2 (8.33%) NoSQL
1 2 (8.33%) RDBMS
1 2 (8.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 12 (50.00%) PVCS
1 12 (50.00%) Visual Studio
2 1 (4.17%) Ant
2 1 (4.17%) Gradle
2 1 (4.17%) JUnit
2 1 (4.17%) Maven
General
1 3 (12.50%) Finance
1 3 (12.50%) Public Sector
1 3 (12.50%) Social Skills
2 2 (8.33%) Automotive
3 1 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.17%) Banking
Job Titles
1 12 (50.00%) Programmer
2 9 (37.50%) C Programmer
3 4 (16.67%) Senior
4 3 (12.50%) C++ Programmer
4 3 (12.50%) Embedded Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) C++ Developer
5 2 (8.33%) Data Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Developer
5 2 (8.33%) Embedded C Programmer
5 2 (8.33%) Software Programmer
6 1 (4.17%) Analytics Developer
6 1 (4.17%) Data Scientist
6 1 (4.17%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Research Scientist
6 1 (4.17%) Rust Developer
6 1 (4.17%) Senior C++ Developer
6 1 (4.17%) Senior Data Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Senior Developer
6 1 (4.17%) Software Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.33%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 5 (20.83%) Algorithms
2 3 (12.50%) Data Structures
3 2 (8.33%) Device Driver
Operating Systems
1 5 (20.83%) Linux
2 2 (8.33%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (33.33%) Software Engineering
2 4 (16.67%) Mentoring
3 3 (12.50%) Validation
4 2 (8.33%) Commercial Awareness
4 2 (8.33%) Continuous Delivery
4 2 (8.33%) Data Modelling
4 2 (8.33%) Mathematics
4 2 (8.33%) Physics
4 2 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (8.33%) Process Improvement
4 2 (8.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 1 (4.17%) Analytics
5 1 (4.17%) CI/CD
5 1 (4.17%) Clean Code
5 1 (4.17%) Full Stack Development
5 1 (4.17%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
5 1 (4.17%) Machine Learning
5 1 (4.17%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
5 1 (4.17%) Systems Engineering
5 1 (4.17%) Verification and Validation
Programming Languages
1 18 (75.00%) C
2 12 (50.00%) PL/SQL
3 8 (33.33%) Python
4 5 (20.83%) MATLAB
5 2 (8.33%) Bash
5 2 (8.33%) Embedded C
5 2 (8.33%) Embedded C++
5 2 (8.33%) Java
6 1 (4.17%) JavaScript
6 1 (4.17%) Rust
6 1 (4.17%) Scala
6 1 (4.17%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 15 (62.50%) SC Cleared
1 15 (62.50%) Security Cleared
2 3 (12.50%) Degree
3 2 (8.33%) PhD
4 1 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.33%) AUTOSAR
2 1 (4.17%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 2 (8.33%) Embedded Firmware
1 2 (8.33%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (4.17%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 1 (4.17%) Google
1 1 (4.17%) Microsoft