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 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 93 118 159
Rank change year-on-year +25 +41 -43
Contract jobs citing C++ 117 102 99
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 2.10% 1.75% 1.26%
As % of the Programming Languages category 9.71% 6.25% 4.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 65 40
10th Percentile £400 £363 £390
25th Percentile £406 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £530 £520
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +1.92% +15.56%
75th Percentile £581 £613 £575
90th Percentile £667 £681 -
England median daily rate £575 £650 £700
% change year-on-year -11.54% -7.14% +21.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 20 24
10th Percentile £57.40 £51.25 £41.79
25th Percentile £61.25 £52.75 £45.94
Median hourly rate £62.50 £59.33 £53.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.35% +11.94% +11.58%
75th Percentile £66.01 £67.50 £55.69
90th Percentile £76.00 £67.70 £63.48
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year - +8.33% +26.32%

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 1,205 1,631 2,140
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 21.64% 27.92% 27.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 835 1,158 1,389
10th Percentile £325 £333 £338
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 £706 £650
England median daily rate £540 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -4.42% +2.73% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 92 90
10th Percentile £35.00 £19.00 £19.18
25th Percentile £46.25 £30.76 £20.75
Median hourly rate £60.00 £55.00 £44.86
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +22.60% +10.77%
75th Percentile £65.00 £67.50 £55.00
90th Percentile £74.75 £75.00 £66.38
England median hourly rate £62.43 £62.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -0.12% +25.00% +16.46%

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 24 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for C++ in the South East

C++
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 24 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 24 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 60 £544 +2.59% 63
Surrey +18 22 £500 -9.09% 46
Thames Valley +9 16 £500 +5.26% 95
Middlesex - 13 £450 -
Berkshire -15 10 £500 +5.26% 35
Oxfordshire +9 5 - - 44
Kent - 4 £500 - 6
West Sussex - 2 - - 14
Buckinghamshire - 1 £400 - 16
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 (15.38%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (1.71%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 5 (4.27%) Teamcenter
2 3 (2.56%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.85%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 10 (8.55%) Azure
2 5 (4.27%) AWS
3 3 (2.56%) Datadog
4 2 (1.71%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (0.85%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (0.85%) Azure Functions
5 1 (0.85%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (0.85%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (0.85%) Power Automate
5 1 (0.85%) Power Platform
5 1 (0.85%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 16 (13.68%) Software-Defined Radio
2 15 (12.82%) SNMP
3 13 (11.11%) 802.11
3 13 (11.11%) Wi-Fi
4 6 (5.13%) TCP/IP
5 4 (3.42%) Wireless
6 3 (2.56%) Link 16
6 3 (2.56%) Tactical Data Link
7 2 (1.71%) DHCP
7 2 (1.71%) DNS
7 2 (1.71%) RS-232
8 1 (0.85%) NFC
8 1 (0.85%) PPP
8 1 (0.85%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.27%) SQL Server
2 3 (2.56%) Amazon Redshift
2 3 (2.56%) Geospatial Data
3 1 (0.85%) CouchDB
3 1 (0.85%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.85%) MySQL
3 1 (0.85%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 30 (25.64%) Git
2 23 (19.66%) JIRA
3 19 (16.24%) Bitbucket
4 17 (14.53%) Eclipse
5 15 (12.82%) GoogleTest
6 14 (11.97%) Robot Framework
7 13 (11.11%) Jenkins
8 5 (4.27%) Rational DOORS
8 5 (4.27%) Subversion
9 4 (3.42%) Artifactory
10 3 (2.56%) ClearCase
10 3 (2.56%) ClearQuest
10 3 (2.56%) GitLab
10 3 (2.56%) LabVIEW
11 2 (1.71%) Visual Studio
12 1 (0.85%) CMake
12 1 (0.85%) MagicDraw
12 1 (0.85%) NUnit
12 1 (0.85%) Rational Rhapsody
12 1 (0.85%) Valgrind
General
1 23 (19.66%) Social Skills
2 22 (18.80%) Public Sector
3 12 (10.26%) Aerospace
4 5 (4.27%) Electronics
5 4 (3.42%) Telecoms
6 2 (1.71%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (1.71%) Front Office
6 2 (1.71%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.85%) Billing
7 1 (0.85%) Legal
7 1 (0.85%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (0.85%) Retail
Job Titles
1 51 (43.59%) Software Engineer
2 29 (24.79%) C++ Software Engineer
3 26 (22.22%) Developer
4 25 (21.37%) Senior
5 15 (12.82%) C++ Developer
6 14 (11.97%) Senior Software Engineer
7 11 (9.40%) Embedded Engineer
8 9 (7.69%) Embedded Software Engineer
9 8 (6.84%) Software Developer
10 7 (5.98%) DevOps Engineer
10 7 (5.98%) Java Engineer
10 7 (5.98%) Java Software Engineer
10 7 (5.98%) Linux Engineer
11 6 (5.13%) Administrator
11 6 (5.13%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
11 6 (5.13%) Systems Administrator
12 5 (4.27%) FPGA Engineer
12 5 (4.27%) Machine Learning Engineer
12 5 (4.27%) Python Engineer
12 5 (4.27%) Senior Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (11.97%) CSS
1 14 (11.97%) HTML
2 13 (11.11%) 802.1X
3 7 (5.98%) .NET
4 6 (5.13%) Itk
4 6 (5.13%) PyTorch
4 6 (5.13%) TensorFlow
5 5 (4.27%) DirectX
5 5 (4.27%) OpenGL
5 5 (4.27%) OpenGL ES
5 5 (4.27%) Vulkan
5 5 (4.27%) XML
6 4 (3.42%) RESTful
6 4 (3.42%) SOAP
7 3 (2.56%) .NET Core
7 3 (2.56%) Blazor
7 3 (2.56%) Razor View Engine
7 3 (2.56%) Unity (Game Engine)
8 2 (1.71%) AngularJS
8 2 (1.71%) React
Miscellaneous
1 16 (13.68%) Algorithms
2 9 (7.69%) CCTV
3 6 (5.13%) VHDL
4 5 (4.27%) FPGA
5 4 (3.42%) Device Driver
6 3 (2.56%) Animation
6 3 (2.56%) Augmented Reality
6 3 (2.56%) Data Centre
6 3 (2.56%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (2.56%) Management Information System
6 3 (2.56%) Mixed Reality
6 3 (2.56%) Photography
6 3 (2.56%) Private Cloud
6 3 (2.56%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.71%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.71%) GNSS
8 1 (0.85%) Client/Server
8 1 (0.85%) Digital Media
8 1 (0.85%) Embedded Systems
8 1 (0.85%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 50 (42.74%) Linux
2 36 (30.77%) Windows
3 8 (6.84%) Android
4 6 (5.13%) Embedded Linux
5 4 (3.42%) Windows Server
5 4 (3.42%) Windows Server 2016
5 4 (3.42%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (2.56%) Ubuntu
6 3 (2.56%) Unix
7 1 (0.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.85%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (62.39%) Software Engineering
2 50 (42.74%) Agile
3 33 (28.21%) Scrum
4 28 (23.93%) Problem-Solving
5 23 (19.66%) Validation
6 20 (17.09%) Computer Science
6 20 (17.09%) UML
7 19 (16.24%) OO
8 17 (14.53%) DevOps
8 17 (14.53%) Verification and Validation
9 16 (13.68%) Kanban
9 16 (13.68%) Prototyping
9 16 (13.68%) SysML
10 15 (12.82%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 12 (10.26%) Test Automation
12 11 (9.40%) Stakeholder Management
13 10 (8.55%) Software Testing
14 9 (7.69%) Continuous Integration
14 9 (7.69%) Open Source
14 9 (7.69%) Refactoring
Programming Languages
1 54 (46.15%) C
2 34 (29.06%) Python
3 26 (22.22%) Java
4 25 (21.37%) C#
5 19 (16.24%) JavaScript
6 18 (15.38%) Perl
7 13 (11.11%) Tcl
8 12 (10.26%) SQL
9 8 (6.84%) Bash
9 8 (6.84%) PowerShell
10 7 (5.98%) Embedded C
10 7 (5.98%) Embedded C++
10 7 (5.98%) MATLAB
11 6 (5.13%) Shell Script
12 5 (4.27%) Assembly Language
13 3 (2.56%) Kotlin
13 3 (2.56%) Ruby
14 2 (1.71%) GLSL
14 2 (1.71%) HLSL
14 2 (1.71%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 35 (29.91%) Security Cleared
2 22 (18.80%) SC Cleared
3 21 (17.95%) Degree
4 11 (9.40%) DV Cleared
5 10 (8.55%) Master's Degree
6 9 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (5.98%) PhD
8 2 (1.71%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.71%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (1.71%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (8.55%) ISO 9001
2 8 (6.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (3.42%) JTAG
4 3 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 12207
5 2 (1.71%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 2 (1.71%) SLA
6 1 (0.85%) IEC 61508
6 1 (0.85%) MISRA
6 1 (0.85%) MISRA C
System Software
1 20 (17.09%) Firmware
2 6 (5.13%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (4.27%) Embedded Firmware
3 5 (4.27%) VirtualBox
4 4 (3.42%) Docker
5 3 (2.56%) Hyper-V
5 3 (2.56%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (1.71%) Active Directory
6 2 (1.71%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (5.13%) Ansible
1 6 (5.13%) Terraform
2 5 (4.27%) Progress Chef
2 5 (4.27%) Puppet
3 4 (3.42%) Kubernetes
4 3 (2.56%) HP ALM
4 3 (2.56%) Nagios
5 2 (1.71%) WSUS
Vendors
1 15 (12.82%) Google
2 12 (10.26%) Atlassian
3 9 (7.69%) Microsoft
4 5 (4.27%) Oracle
5 4 (3.42%) Xilinx
6 3 (2.56%) HP
6 3 (2.56%) New Relic
6 3 (2.56%) Sparx
6 3 (2.56%) Splunk
6 3 (2.56%) VMware
7 1 (0.85%) Compaq
7 1 (0.85%) Qualys