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

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 113 144 158
Rank change year-on-year +31 +14 -24
Contract jobs citing C++ 8 20 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.38% 0.75% 0.47%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.34% 2.25% 1.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 10 7
10th Percentile - - £370
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £445 £750
Median % change year-on-year -4.49% -40.67% +55.84%
75th Percentile £438 £524 -
90th Percentile - £540 £770
UK median daily rate £575 £650 £700
% change year-on-year -11.54% -7.14% +21.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 5
10th Percentile - - £50.06
25th Percentile £52.50 - £53.25
Median hourly rate £60.00 £59.03 £54.50
Median % change year-on-year +1.64% +8.31% -
75th Percentile £62.50 - £57.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year - +8.33% +20.00%

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 598 890 967
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 28.45% 33.18% 28.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 399 625 685
10th Percentile £354 £406 £371
25th Percentile £413 £438 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £481
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% +2.91% +13.18%
75th Percentile £550 £555 £550
90th Percentile £634 £660 £638
UK median daily rate £526 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.36% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 11 15
10th Percentile £29.60 £47.73 £17.50
25th Percentile £41.31 £53.75 £27.50
Median hourly rate £57.50 £59.03 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.59% +32.65% -2.20%
75th Percentile £60.75 £67.66 £55.03
90th Percentile £62.50 £70.00 £56.80
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £50.77
% change year-on-year - +23.10% +18.51%

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 23 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
Glasgow +9 5 - - 10
Edinburgh +25 3 £425 -4.49% 16
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%) Build Automation
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