C++ Contracts in the South East

C++
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 90 129 165
Rank change year-on-year +39 +36 -46
Contract jobs citing C++ 115 99 97
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 2.08% 1.70% 1.25%
As % of the Programming Languages category 9.62% 6.13% 4.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 65 41
10th Percentile £400 £363 £390
25th Percentile £406 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +23.53%
75th Percentile £575 £613 £575
90th Percentile £671 £681 -
England median daily rate £575 £650 £700
% change year-on-year -11.54% -7.14% +21.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 18 22
10th Percentile £57.40 £51.25 £41.38
25th Percentile £61.25 £52.75 £45.31
Median hourly rate £62.50 £58.20 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.38% +10.86% +2.44%
75th Percentile £66.01 £66.78 £55.00
90th Percentile £76.00 £67.50 £64.83
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year - +8.33% +20.60%

All Programming Languages
South East

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 South East with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 1,196 1,615 2,100
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 21.65% 27.71% 27.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 825 1,151 1,367
10th Percentile £325 £333 £339
25th Percentile £413 £425 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £608 £625 £588
90th Percentile £684 £700 £650
England median daily rate £540 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -4.42% +2.73% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 72 90 87
10th Percentile £35.00 £19.00 £16.25
25th Percentile £46.25 £32.30 £20.75
Median hourly rate £60.07 £55.00 £43.64
Median % change year-on-year +9.22% +26.03% +5.79%
75th Percentile £65.00 £67.50 £55.00
90th Percentile £74.88 £75.00 £65.52
England median hourly rate £62.50 £61.84 £50.00
% change year-on-year +1.07% +23.68% +14.94%

C++
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for C++ in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for C++ in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing C++ in the South East over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for C++ in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for C++ in the South East

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing C++ in the South East over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for C++ in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing C++ within the South East region over the 6 months to 27 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
Hampshire -1 61 £543 +2.36% 63
Surrey +22 21 £500 -9.09% 41
Thames Valley +1 15 £500 +5.26% 87
Middlesex - 12 £450 -
Berkshire -15 9 £500 +5.26% 31
Oxfordshire +6 5 - - 41
Kent - 4 £500 - 8
West Sussex - 2 - - 13
Buckinghamshire - 1 £400 - 15
C++
England

C++
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 18 (15.65%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (1.74%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 5 (4.35%) Teamcenter
2 3 (2.61%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.87%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 10 (8.70%) Azure
2 6 (5.22%) AWS
3 3 (2.61%) Datadog
4 2 (1.74%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (0.87%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (0.87%) Azure Functions
5 1 (0.87%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (0.87%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (0.87%) Power Automate
5 1 (0.87%) Power Platform
5 1 (0.87%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 16 (13.91%) Software-Defined Radio
2 15 (13.04%) SNMP
3 12 (10.43%) 802.11
3 12 (10.43%) Wi-Fi
4 6 (5.22%) TCP/IP
5 4 (3.48%) Wireless
6 3 (2.61%) Link 16
6 3 (2.61%) Tactical Data Link
7 2 (1.74%) DHCP
7 2 (1.74%) DNS
7 2 (1.74%) RS-232
8 1 (0.87%) NFC
8 1 (0.87%) PPP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.35%) SQL Server
2 3 (2.61%) Amazon Redshift
2 3 (2.61%) Geospatial Data
3 1 (0.87%) CouchDB
3 1 (0.87%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.87%) MySQL
3 1 (0.87%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 30 (26.09%) Git
2 23 (20.00%) JIRA
3 19 (16.52%) Bitbucket
4 17 (14.78%) Eclipse
5 15 (13.04%) GoogleTest
6 14 (12.17%) Jenkins
6 14 (12.17%) Robot Framework
7 5 (4.35%) Rational DOORS
8 4 (3.48%) Artifactory
8 4 (3.48%) Subversion
9 3 (2.61%) ClearCase
9 3 (2.61%) ClearQuest
9 3 (2.61%) GitLab
9 3 (2.61%) LabVIEW
10 1 (0.87%) CMake
10 1 (0.87%) MagicDraw
10 1 (0.87%) NUnit
10 1 (0.87%) Rational Rhapsody
10 1 (0.87%) Valgrind
10 1 (0.87%) Visual Studio
General
1 23 (20.00%) Public Sector
2 21 (18.26%) Social Skills
3 12 (10.43%) Aerospace
4 5 (4.35%) Electronics
5 4 (3.48%) Telecoms
6 2 (1.74%) Front Office
6 2 (1.74%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.87%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (0.87%) Billing
7 1 (0.87%) Legal
7 1 (0.87%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (0.87%) Retail
Job Titles
1 50 (43.48%) Software Engineer
2 29 (25.22%) C++ Software Engineer
3 26 (22.61%) Developer
4 24 (20.87%) Senior
5 15 (13.04%) C++ Developer
6 13 (11.30%) Senior Software Engineer
7 10 (8.70%) Embedded Engineer
8 9 (7.83%) Embedded Software Engineer
9 8 (6.96%) DevOps Engineer
9 8 (6.96%) Software Developer
10 7 (6.09%) Java Engineer
10 7 (6.09%) Java Software Engineer
10 7 (6.09%) Linux Engineer
11 6 (5.22%) Administrator
11 6 (5.22%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
11 6 (5.22%) Systems Administrator
12 5 (4.35%) FPGA Engineer
12 5 (4.35%) Machine Learning Engineer
12 5 (4.35%) Python Engineer
12 5 (4.35%) Senior Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (12.17%) CSS
1 14 (12.17%) HTML
2 12 (10.43%) 802.1X
3 7 (6.09%) .NET
4 6 (5.22%) Itk
5 5 (4.35%) DirectX
5 5 (4.35%) OpenGL
5 5 (4.35%) OpenGL ES
5 5 (4.35%) PyTorch
5 5 (4.35%) TensorFlow
5 5 (4.35%) Vulkan
5 5 (4.35%) XML
6 4 (3.48%) RESTful
6 4 (3.48%) SOAP
7 3 (2.61%) .NET Core
7 3 (2.61%) Blazor
7 3 (2.61%) Razor View Engine
7 3 (2.61%) Unity (Game Engine)
8 2 (1.74%) React
8 2 (1.74%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 15 (13.04%) Algorithms
2 9 (7.83%) CCTV
3 6 (5.22%) VHDL
4 5 (4.35%) FPGA
5 4 (3.48%) Device Driver
6 3 (2.61%) Animation
6 3 (2.61%) Augmented Reality
6 3 (2.61%) Data Centre
6 3 (2.61%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (2.61%) Management Information System
6 3 (2.61%) Mixed Reality
6 3 (2.61%) Photography
6 3 (2.61%) Private Cloud
6 3 (2.61%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.74%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.74%) GNSS
8 1 (0.87%) Client/Server
8 1 (0.87%) Digital Media
8 1 (0.87%) Embedded Systems
8 1 (0.87%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 50 (43.48%) Linux
2 35 (30.43%) Windows
3 8 (6.96%) Android
4 6 (5.22%) Embedded Linux
5 4 (3.48%) Windows Server
5 4 (3.48%) Windows Server 2016
5 4 (3.48%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (2.61%) Ubuntu
6 3 (2.61%) Unix
7 1 (0.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.87%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (61.74%) Software Engineering
2 50 (43.48%) Agile
3 33 (28.70%) Scrum
4 26 (22.61%) Problem-Solving
5 23 (20.00%) Validation
6 20 (17.39%) UML
7 19 (16.52%) OO
8 18 (15.65%) Computer Science
8 18 (15.65%) DevOps
9 17 (14.78%) Verification and Validation
10 16 (13.91%) Kanban
10 16 (13.91%) Prototyping
10 16 (13.91%) SysML
11 15 (13.04%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 13 (11.30%) Test Automation
13 11 (9.57%) Stakeholder Management
14 10 (8.70%) Software Testing
15 9 (7.83%) Continuous Integration
15 9 (7.83%) Open Source
15 9 (7.83%) Refactoring
Programming Languages
1 51 (44.35%) C
2 34 (29.57%) Python
3 26 (22.61%) Java
4 25 (21.74%) C#
5 19 (16.52%) JavaScript
6 17 (14.78%) Perl
7 12 (10.43%) SQL
7 12 (10.43%) Tcl
8 9 (7.83%) Bash
9 8 (6.96%) PowerShell
10 7 (6.09%) Embedded C
10 7 (6.09%) Embedded C++
10 7 (6.09%) MATLAB
11 6 (5.22%) Shell Script
12 5 (4.35%) Assembly Language
13 3 (2.61%) Kotlin
13 3 (2.61%) Ruby
14 2 (1.74%) GLSL
14 2 (1.74%) HLSL
14 2 (1.74%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 36 (31.30%) Security Cleared
2 23 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 19 (16.52%) Degree
4 11 (9.57%) DV Cleared
5 10 (8.70%) Master's Degree
6 7 (6.09%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (5.22%) PhD
8 2 (1.74%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.74%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (1.74%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (8.70%) ISO 9001
2 8 (6.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (3.48%) JTAG
4 3 (2.61%) ISO/IEC 12207
5 2 (1.74%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 2 (1.74%) SLA
6 1 (0.87%) IEC 61508
6 1 (0.87%) MISRA
6 1 (0.87%) MISRA C
System Software
1 20 (17.39%) Firmware
2 6 (5.22%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (4.35%) Embedded Firmware
3 5 (4.35%) VirtualBox
4 4 (3.48%) Docker
5 3 (2.61%) Hyper-V
5 3 (2.61%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (1.74%) Active Directory
6 2 (1.74%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (6.09%) Ansible
1 7 (6.09%) Terraform
2 6 (5.22%) Progress Chef
2 6 (5.22%) Puppet
3 4 (3.48%) Kubernetes
4 3 (2.61%) HP ALM
4 3 (2.61%) Nagios
5 2 (1.74%) WSUS
Vendors
1 15 (13.04%) Google
2 12 (10.43%) Atlassian
3 8 (6.96%) Microsoft
4 5 (4.35%) Oracle
5 4 (3.48%) Xilinx
6 3 (2.61%) HP
6 3 (2.61%) New Relic
6 3 (2.61%) Sparx
6 3 (2.61%) Splunk
6 3 (2.61%) VMware
7 1 (0.87%) Compaq
7 1 (0.87%) Qualys