C++ Contracts in Scotland

C++
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 123 151 153
Rank change year-on-year +28 +2 -23
Contract jobs citing C++ 8 14 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.36% 0.49% 0.51%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.19% 1.40% 1.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 6 6
10th Percentile - - £359
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £445 £588
Median % change year-on-year -4.49% -24.26% +30.56%
75th Percentile £438 £509 £750
90th Percentile - £542 -
UK median daily rate £575 £650 £700
% change year-on-year -11.54% -7.14% +21.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 5
10th Percentile - £52.03 £50.06
25th Percentile £52.50 £53.20 £53.25
Median hourly rate £60.00 £55.77 £54.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.59% +2.32% -
75th Percentile £62.50 £57.71 £57.50
90th Percentile - £58.50 -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year - +8.33% +20.60%

All Programming Languages
Scotland

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 Scotland with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 670 999 952
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 30.36% 34.94% 27.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 441 727 641
10th Percentile £369 £406 £363
25th Percentile £415 £438 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £486 £493 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.32% +3.68% +11.76%
75th Percentile £588 £557 £550
90th Percentile £655 £675 £638
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 14 21
10th Percentile £29.60 £48.79 £17.50
25th Percentile £41.31 £52.50 £37.50
Median hourly rate £57.50 £59.79 £47.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.83% +27.21% +4.44%
75th Percentile £60.75 £67.27 £53.75
90th Percentile £62.50 £69.63 £55.75
UK median hourly rate £60.07 £60.70 £50.00
% change year-on-year -1.04% +21.40% +13.25%

C++
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for C++ in Scotland

C++
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for C++ in Scotland

C++
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for C++ in Scotland

C++
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing C++ within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 28 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
Glasgow -1 5 - - 11
Edinburgh +39 3 £425 -8.60% 28
C++
UK

C++
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) Azure
1 3 (37.50%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (25.00%) IaaS
2 2 (25.00%) PaaS
2 2 (25.00%) SaaS
3 1 (12.50%) GitHub
3 1 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Jenkins
2 2 (25.00%) Cucumber
2 2 (25.00%) Cypress.io
2 2 (25.00%) Git
2 2 (25.00%) JIRA
2 2 (25.00%) Selenium
2 2 (25.00%) Subversion
2 2 (25.00%) TeamCity
2 2 (25.00%) WebDriver
General
1 2 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) C++ Software Engineer
1 5 (62.50%) Software Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) Embedded C++ Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) Embedded C++ Software Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) Embedded Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) Embedded Software Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Analyst
3 2 (25.00%) Functional Analyst
3 2 (25.00%) Functional Test Analyst
3 2 (25.00%) Senior
3 2 (25.00%) Senior Analyst
3 2 (25.00%) Senior Test Analyst
3 2 (25.00%) Test Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) Automation Test Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) QA Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Automation Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) .NET
1 2 (25.00%) OpenCV
2 1 (12.50%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Client/Server
1 2 (25.00%) CUDA
1 2 (25.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 3 (37.50%) Embedded Linux
1 3 (37.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Software Engineering
2 3 (37.50%) DevOps
3 2 (25.00%) Agile
3 2 (25.00%) ATDD
3 2 (25.00%) BDD
3 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (25.00%) Feature Driven Development
3 2 (25.00%) Kanban
3 2 (25.00%) Migration
3 2 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (25.00%) SOA
3 2 (25.00%) Software Delivery
3 2 (25.00%) Software Testing
3 2 (25.00%) TDD
3 2 (25.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (25.00%) Test Strategy
3 2 (25.00%) V-Model
3 2 (25.00%) Waterfall
4 1 (12.50%) Mentoring
4 1 (12.50%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) Embedded C++
1 3 (37.50%) Java
2 2 (25.00%) C#
2 2 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (25.00%) Shell Script
2 2 (25.00%) SQL
2 2 (25.00%) VBA
2 2 (25.00%) VBScript
3 1 (12.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) ISEB
1 2 (25.00%) ISTQB
1 2 (25.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (12.50%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) NVIDIA