C++ Contracts in Surrey

C++
South East > Surrey

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Surrey 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 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 35 58 68
Rank change year-on-year +23 +10 -22
Contract jobs citing C++ 21 11 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Surrey 3.60% 1.62% 1.71%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.11% 6.08% 5.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 9 6
10th Percentile £395 £485 £456
25th Percentile £425 £500 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £525
90th Percentile £625 £650 £531
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £41.17
Median hourly rate £80.00 £50.00 £43.64
Median % change year-on-year +60.00% +14.57% -8.13%
75th Percentile - - £46.11
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £62.50 £58.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year +6.84% +11.43% -4.55%

All Programming Languages
Surrey

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 Surrey with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 139 181 280
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 23.80% 26.70% 31.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 148 184
10th Percentile £255 £396 £292
25th Percentile £375 £475 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £619 £594 £588
90th Percentile £675 £638 £658
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 8
10th Percentile £41.00 £50.50 £19.50
25th Percentile £55.63 £51.25 £20.63
Median hourly rate £80.00 £55.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +45.45% +161.90% -50.59%
75th Percentile - £60.63 £46.77
90th Percentile - £62.50 £48.75
South East median hourly rate £60.07 £55.00 £43.64
% change year-on-year +9.22% +26.03% +5.16%

C++
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

Job vacancy trend for C++ in Surrey

C++
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Surrey

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

Daily rate trend for C++ in Surrey

C++
Daily Rate Histogram in Surrey

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing C++ in Surrey over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for C++ in Surrey

C++
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Surrey

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

Hourly rate trend for C++ in Surrey

C++
Contract Job Locations in Surrey

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing C++ within the Surrey region over the 6 months to 29 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
Redhill - 10 £450 -
Staines - 3 £73 - 3
Guildford -1 1 £500 -3.85% 13
Reigate - 1 - -
C++
South East

C++
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Surrey 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 4 (19.05%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 1 (4.76%) Azure
1 1 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (4.76%) Azure Functions
1 1 (4.76%) Azure Logic Apps
1 1 (4.76%) Dynamics 365
1 1 (4.76%) Power Automate
1 1 (4.76%) Power Platform
1 1 (4.76%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (28.57%) TCP/IP
2 2 (9.52%) DHCP
2 2 (9.52%) DNS
3 1 (4.76%) NFC
3 1 (4.76%) PPP
Development Applications
1 6 (28.57%) Git
1 6 (28.57%) Jenkins
2 5 (23.81%) Bitbucket
2 5 (23.81%) JIRA
3 4 (19.05%) Artifactory
4 1 (4.76%) Eclipse
4 1 (4.76%) GoogleTest
4 1 (4.76%) NUnit
4 1 (4.76%) Rational DOORS
4 1 (4.76%) TestRail
4 1 (4.76%) Valgrind
4 1 (4.76%) Visual Studio
General
1 5 (23.81%) Electronics
2 4 (19.05%) Social Skills
3 2 (9.52%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 6 (28.57%) Software Engineer
2 5 (23.81%) Linux Engineer
2 5 (23.81%) Machine Learning Engineer
3 4 (19.05%) C++ Software Engineer
3 4 (19.05%) Development Engineer
3 4 (19.05%) Python Engineer
3 4 (19.05%) Software Development Engineer
3 4 (19.05%) Test Development Engineer
4 3 (14.29%) Developer
4 3 (14.29%) Graphics Engineer
4 3 (14.29%) Senior
5 2 (9.52%) C Developer
5 2 (9.52%) C++ Developer
5 2 (9.52%) DSP Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Embedded Linux Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Embedded Software Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Senior Embedded Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (23.81%) DirectX
1 5 (23.81%) OpenGL
1 5 (23.81%) OpenGL ES
1 5 (23.81%) Vulkan
1 5 (23.81%) XML
2 4 (19.05%) PyTorch
2 4 (19.05%) RESTful
2 4 (19.05%) SOAP
2 4 (19.05%) TensorFlow
3 3 (14.29%) .NET
3 3 (14.29%) Unity (Game Engine)
4 1 (4.76%) HTML5 Canvas
4 1 (4.76%) JSON
4 1 (4.76%) REST
4 1 (4.76%) Unreal Engine
4 1 (4.76%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (28.57%) Algorithms
2 3 (14.29%) Animation
2 3 (14.29%) Augmented Reality
2 3 (14.29%) Mixed Reality
2 3 (14.29%) Photography
3 2 (9.52%) VHDL
4 1 (4.76%) Digital Media
4 1 (4.76%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (4.76%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 8 (38.10%) Linux
1 8 (38.10%) Windows
2 7 (33.33%) Android
3 6 (28.57%) Embedded Linux
4 3 (14.29%) Ubuntu
5 2 (9.52%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (61.90%) Computer Science
2 7 (33.33%) Machine Learning
2 7 (33.33%) Scrum
2 7 (33.33%) Software Engineering
3 6 (28.57%) Test Automation
4 5 (23.81%) Continuous Integration
4 5 (23.81%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (19.05%) Agile
5 4 (19.05%) Android Development
5 4 (19.05%) API Testing
5 4 (19.05%) Artificial Intelligence
5 4 (19.05%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (19.05%) Deep Learning
5 4 (19.05%) End-to-End Testing
5 4 (19.05%) Manual Testing
5 4 (19.05%) Open Source
5 4 (19.05%) Performance Management
5 4 (19.05%) SDET
5 4 (19.05%) Software Testing
6 3 (14.29%) OO
Programming Languages
1 12 (57.14%) Python
2 7 (33.33%) Java
3 6 (28.57%) C#
3 6 (28.57%) SQL
4 4 (19.05%) C
5 3 (14.29%) Kotlin
6 2 (9.52%) Embedded C
6 2 (9.52%) Embedded C++
6 2 (9.52%) GLSL
6 2 (9.52%) HLSL
6 2 (9.52%) JavaScript
6 2 (9.52%) PowerShell
6 2 (9.52%) VB.NET
7 1 (4.76%) Bash
7 1 (4.76%) MATLAB
7 1 (4.76%) Perl
Qualifications
1 14 (66.67%) Degree
2 7 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (23.81%) Master's Degree
4 2 (9.52%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (9.52%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (9.52%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (9.52%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.52%) ISO 9001
1 2 (9.52%) ISO/IEC 20000
1 2 (9.52%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (28.57%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (19.05%) VirtualBox
3 2 (9.52%) Active Directory
3 2 (9.52%) Firmware
3 2 (9.52%) Hyper-V
3 2 (9.52%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (9.52%) vSphere
4 1 (4.76%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 2 (9.52%) WSUS
Vendors
1 4 (19.05%) Oracle
2 3 (14.29%) Microsoft
3 2 (9.52%) VMware
4 1 (4.76%) Google
4 1 (4.76%) Qualys