C++ Contracts in the Thames Valley

C++
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 124 124 131
Rank change year-on-year 0 +7 -31
Contract jobs citing C++ 16 22 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.59% 0.75% 1.10%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.97% 3.08% 4.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 15 26
10th Percentile £380 £357 £394
25th Percentile £416 £363 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -13.64% +26.44%
75th Percentile - £556 £575
90th Percentile £544 £607 -
South East median daily rate £500 £530 £520
% change year-on-year -5.66% +1.92% +15.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £61.60 £51.25 -
Median hourly rate £63.30 £52.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +20.57% - -
75th Percentile £65.00 £53.75 -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £62.50 £59.33 £53.00
% change year-on-year +5.35% +11.94% +11.58%

All Programming Languages
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 538 715 794
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 19.91% 24.41% 22.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 369 530 582
10th Percentile £356 £349 £340
25th Percentile £425 £425 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% +14.29%
75th Percentile £608 £613 £575
90th Percentile £668 £680 £638
South East median daily rate £500 £528 £500
% change year-on-year -5.21% +5.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 20 5
10th Percentile £33.94 £25.64 £31.30
25th Percentile £46.25 £32.30 £62.50
Median hourly rate £58.30 £56.88 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.51% -13.17% +63.75%
75th Percentile £65.00 £76.61 £80.40
90th Percentile £67.63 £79.41 £84.66
South East median hourly rate £60.00 £55.00 £44.86
% change year-on-year +9.09% +22.60% +10.77%

C++
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for C++ in the Thames Valley

C++
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing C++ in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for C++ in the Thames Valley

C++
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing C++ in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for C++ in the Thames Valley

C++
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing C++ in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for C++ in the Thames Valley

C++
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing C++ within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 25 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
Berkshire -22 10 £500 +5.26% 29
Oxfordshire +9 5 - - 40
Buckinghamshire - 1 £400 - 15
C++
South East

C++
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Business Applications
1 5 (31.25%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 9 (56.25%) Azure
2 1 (6.25%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (25.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (31.25%) Git
2 4 (25.00%) JIRA
2 4 (25.00%) Subversion
3 1 (6.25%) CMake
General
1 4 (25.00%) Aerospace
1 4 (25.00%) Public Sector
1 4 (25.00%) Telecoms
2 3 (18.75%) Social Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (37.50%) Administrator
1 6 (37.50%) Senior
1 6 (37.50%) Systems Administrator
2 5 (31.25%) Senior Systems Administrator
2 5 (31.25%) Software Engineer
3 4 (25.00%) Embedded Engineer
3 4 (25.00%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Applications Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) C++ Software Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Python Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Python Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (37.50%) Itk
2 2 (12.50%) PyTorch
2 2 (12.50%) TensorFlow
3 1 (6.25%) .NET
3 1 (6.25%) .NET Framework
3 1 (6.25%) CNTK
3 1 (6.25%) OpenVINO
3 1 (6.25%) WCF
3 1 (6.25%) WinForms
3 1 (6.25%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 5 (31.25%) Algorithms
2 4 (25.00%) Device Driver
3 2 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (6.25%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 5 (31.25%) Windows
2 4 (25.00%) Windows Server
2 4 (25.00%) Windows Server 2016
2 4 (25.00%) Windows Server 2019
3 1 (6.25%) Android
3 1 (6.25%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (56.25%) DevOps
2 7 (43.75%) Software Engineering
3 6 (37.50%) Computer Science
3 6 (37.50%) PLM
3 6 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (25.00%) Change Management
4 4 (25.00%) Defect Tracking
4 4 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
4 4 (25.00%) Signal Processing
4 4 (25.00%) Software Optimisation
4 4 (25.00%) Validation
5 3 (18.75%) CI/CD
6 2 (12.50%) Agile
6 2 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence
6 2 (12.50%) Data Protection
6 2 (12.50%) Machine Learning
6 2 (12.50%) MLOps
7 1 (6.25%) Continuous Integration
7 1 (6.25%) Data Science
7 1 (6.25%) Full Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 12 (75.00%) C
2 9 (56.25%) Python
3 4 (25.00%) Assembly Language
3 4 (25.00%) MATLAB
3 4 (25.00%) Shell Script
4 3 (18.75%) C#
5 1 (6.25%) Go
5 1 (6.25%) Java
5 1 (6.25%) JavaScript
5 1 (6.25%) Rust
5 1 (6.25%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (37.50%) Degree
1 6 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 5 (31.25%) DV Cleared
2 5 (31.25%) Master's Degree
2 5 (31.25%) PhD
3 1 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (25.00%) JTAG
System Software
1 4 (25.00%) Embedded Firmware
1 4 (25.00%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (6.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (31.25%) Microsoft