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 21 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
21 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 110 113 183
Rank change year-on-year +3 +70 -62
Contract jobs citing C++ 21 40 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.78% 1.23% 0.40%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.30% 4.69% 1.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 30 13
10th Percentile £230 £363 £360
25th Percentile £486 £516 £365
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £590 £433
Median % change year-on-year -13.56% +36.42% +20.14%
75th Percentile £538 £600 £494
90th Percentile £610 £625 £499
England median daily rate £575 £650 £700
% change year-on-year -11.54% -7.14% +17.65%
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% +20.00%

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 636 853 1,307
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 23.63% 26.16% 25.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 462 624 960
10th Percentile £260 £313 £313
25th Percentile £350 £375 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% +12.50%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £540
90th Percentile £635 £675 £621
England median daily rate £550 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -2.22% +2.27% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 15 19
10th Percentile £22.42 £20.24 £17.07
25th Percentile £27.38 £24.31 £20.25
Median hourly rate £51.78 £33.39 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +55.10% -4.61% +6.87%
75th Percentile £58.75 £54.38 -
90th Percentile £60.13 £86.50 £46.67
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £50.77
% change year-on-year - +23.10% +18.59%

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 21 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for C++ in the Midlands

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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 21 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 Midlands +6 18 £508 -13.86% 40
East Midlands +8 3 £590 -1.67% 51
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 (4.76%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (14.29%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 1 (4.76%) AWS
1 1 (4.76%) Azure
1 1 (4.76%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.52%) Data Lake
1 2 (9.52%) NoSQL
1 2 (9.52%) RDBMS
1 2 (9.52%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 12 (57.14%) PVCS
1 12 (57.14%) Visual Studio
2 1 (4.76%) Ant
2 1 (4.76%) Gradle
2 1 (4.76%) JUnit
2 1 (4.76%) Maven
General
1 3 (14.29%) Finance
1 3 (14.29%) Social Skills
2 2 (9.52%) Automotive
2 2 (9.52%) Public Sector
3 1 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.76%) Banking
Job Titles
1 12 (57.14%) Programmer
2 9 (42.86%) C Programmer
3 3 (14.29%) C++ Programmer
3 3 (14.29%) Embedded Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Data Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Embedded C Programmer
4 2 (9.52%) Software Programmer
5 1 (4.76%) Analytics Developer
5 1 (4.76%) C++ Developer
5 1 (4.76%) Data Scientist
5 1 (4.76%) Developer
5 1 (4.76%) Embedded Software Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Research Scientist
5 1 (4.76%) Rust Developer
5 1 (4.76%) Senior
5 1 (4.76%) Senior Data Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Software Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (23.81%) Algorithms
2 3 (14.29%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 3 (14.29%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (28.57%) Software Engineering
2 3 (14.29%) Mentoring
2 3 (14.29%) Validation
3 2 (9.52%) Commercial Awareness
3 2 (9.52%) Data Modelling
3 2 (9.52%) Mathematics
3 2 (9.52%) Physics
3 2 (9.52%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (9.52%) Process Improvement
3 2 (9.52%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (4.76%) Clean Code
4 1 (4.76%) Computer Science
4 1 (4.76%) Continuous Delivery
4 1 (4.76%) Data Science
4 1 (4.76%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 1 (4.76%) Full Stack Development
4 1 (4.76%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
4 1 (4.76%) Machine Learning
4 1 (4.76%) Systems Engineering
4 1 (4.76%) Verification and Validation
Programming Languages
1 18 (85.71%) C
2 12 (57.14%) PL/SQL
3 6 (28.57%) Python
4 5 (23.81%) MATLAB
5 2 (9.52%) Embedded C
5 2 (9.52%) Embedded C++
5 2 (9.52%) Java
6 1 (4.76%) JavaScript
6 1 (4.76%) Rust
6 1 (4.76%) Scala
6 1 (4.76%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 15 (71.43%) SC Cleared
1 15 (71.43%) Security Cleared
2 3 (14.29%) Degree
3 2 (9.52%) PhD
4 1 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.52%) AUTOSAR
2 1 (4.76%) ISO 26262
Systems Management
1 1 (4.76%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 1 (4.76%) Google
1 1 (4.76%) Microsoft