C++ Contracts in the Thames Valley

C++
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley requiring C++ skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited C++ over the 6 months leading up to 11 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 118 126 136
Rank change year-on-year +8 +10 -36
Contract jobs citing C++ 23 20 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.86% 0.69% 0.87%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.28% 3.09% 3.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 15 18
10th Percentile £392 £355 £389
25th Percentile £400 £363 £399
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £425 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -19.05% +28.05%
75th Percentile £500 £531 £575
90th Percentile £540 £558 £579
South East median daily rate £538 £520 £500
% change year-on-year +3.37% +4.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £61.60 £51.25 -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £52.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +23.81% - -
75th Percentile - £53.75 -
90th Percentile £70.75 - -
South East median hourly rate £67.02 £58.00 £51.25
% change year-on-year +15.55% +13.17% -18.65%

All Programming Languages
Thames Valley

C++ falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring coding skills in the Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 537 648 784
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 20.04% 22.52% 22.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 371 470 579
10th Percentile £350 £325 £350
25th Percentile £416 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £608 £600 £588
90th Percentile £650 £688 £650
South East median daily rate £501 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.57% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 20 5
10th Percentile £33.94 £25.64 £61.45
25th Percentile £46.25 £32.30 £62.50
Median hourly rate £58.40 £56.88 £67.36
Median % change year-on-year +2.67% -15.57% +68.40%
75th Percentile £65.00 £76.61 £80.40
90th Percentile £67.63 £79.41 £81.66
South East median hourly rate £62.00 £56.24 £35.00
% change year-on-year +10.25% +60.67% -18.24%

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 11 June 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++
Hourly Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing C++ in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 11 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for C++ in the Thames Valley

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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 11 June 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 -6 14 £500 +17.65% 24
Oxfordshire +9 7 - - 41
Buckinghamshire +27 2 £413 - 16
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 (21.74%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 9 (39.13%) Azure
2 2 (8.70%) GCP
3 1 (4.35%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (17.39%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (13.04%) SQL Server
2 2 (8.70%) BigQuery
3 1 (4.35%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (34.78%) Git
2 4 (17.39%) JIRA
2 4 (17.39%) Subversion
3 1 (4.35%) CMake
General
1 5 (21.74%) Telecoms
2 4 (17.39%) Aerospace
2 4 (17.39%) Public Sector
2 4 (17.39%) Social Skills
3 2 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.35%) Automotive
4 1 (4.35%) Manufacturing
4 1 (4.35%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (30.43%) Software Engineer
2 6 (26.09%) Administrator
2 6 (26.09%) Senior
2 6 (26.09%) Systems Administrator
3 5 (21.74%) Embedded Engineer
3 5 (21.74%) Embedded Software Engineer
3 5 (21.74%) Senior Systems Administrator
4 3 (13.04%) Architect
4 3 (13.04%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
4 3 (13.04%) Security Architect
5 2 (8.70%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Developer
5 2 (8.70%) GCP Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Platform Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Applications Developer
6 1 (4.35%) C++ Software Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Python Developer
6 1 (4.35%) Python Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (26.09%) Itk
2 3 (13.04%) PyTorch
2 3 (13.04%) TensorFlow
3 2 (8.70%) Google JAX
3 2 (8.70%) Kafka
3 2 (8.70%) scikit-learn
3 2 (8.70%) WinForms
4 1 (4.35%) .NET
4 1 (4.35%) .NET Framework
4 1 (4.35%) CNTK
4 1 (4.35%) OpenVINO
4 1 (4.35%) WCF
4 1 (4.35%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 7 (30.43%) Algorithms
2 4 (17.39%) Device Driver
3 2 (8.70%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (8.70%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 5 (21.74%) Windows
2 4 (17.39%) Windows Server
2 4 (17.39%) Windows Server 2016
2 4 (17.39%) Windows Server 2019
3 1 (4.35%) Android
3 1 (4.35%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (52.17%) DevOps
2 10 (43.48%) Software Engineering
3 9 (39.13%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (34.78%) CI/CD
5 6 (26.09%) Artificial Intelligence
5 6 (26.09%) PLM
6 5 (21.74%) Computer Science
6 5 (21.74%) Threat Modelling
7 4 (17.39%) Change Management
7 4 (17.39%) Data Protection
7 4 (17.39%) Defect Tracking
7 4 (17.39%) Machine Learning
7 4 (17.39%) MLOps
7 4 (17.39%) Root Cause Analysis
7 4 (17.39%) Signal Processing
7 4 (17.39%) Software Optimisation
7 4 (17.39%) Validation
8 3 (13.04%) Agile
8 3 (13.04%) Data Science
8 3 (13.04%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 15 (65.22%) C
2 14 (60.87%) Python
3 5 (21.74%) Java
4 4 (17.39%) Assembly Language
4 4 (17.39%) MATLAB
4 4 (17.39%) Shell Script
5 3 (13.04%) C#
5 3 (13.04%) Go
5 3 (13.04%) JavaScript
6 2 (8.70%) Bash
6 2 (8.70%) Groovy
6 2 (8.70%) PowerShell
6 2 (8.70%) R
6 2 (8.70%) Scala
7 1 (4.35%) Fortran
7 1 (4.35%) Rust
7 1 (4.35%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (26.09%) Degree
1 6 (26.09%) Security Cleared
2 5 (21.74%) DV Cleared
2 5 (21.74%) Master's Degree
3 4 (17.39%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (17.39%) JTAG
2 2 (8.70%) GDPR
2 2 (8.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (8.70%) NIST
3 1 (4.35%) AUTOSAR
System Software
1 4 (17.39%) Embedded Firmware
1 4 (17.39%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 4 (17.39%) Kubernetes
2 3 (13.04%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (30.43%) Microsoft
2 2 (8.70%) Google
3 1 (4.35%) Cadence
3 1 (4.35%) QNX