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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 125 129 124
Rank change year-on-year +4 -5 -17
Contract jobs citing C++ 17 21 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.64% 0.74% 1.09%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.23% 3.03% 4.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 14 27
10th Percentile £380 £359 £394
25th Percentile £406 £363 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £488 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.13% -11.36% +37.50%
75th Percentile £500 £559 £575
90th Percentile - £612 -
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +23.53%
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 £62.50 £58.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year +7.76% +10.48% -4.55%

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 526 693 785
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 19.85% 24.34% 22.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 362 512 573
10th Percentile £350 £325 £350
25th Percentile £425 £423 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £608 £600 £585
90th Percentile £669 £680 £638
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 20 4
10th Percentile £33.94 £25.64 £26.10
25th Percentile £46.25 £32.30 £49.50
Median hourly rate £58.30 £56.88 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.51% -21.55% +93.33%
75th Percentile £65.00 £76.61 £80.93
90th Percentile £67.63 £79.41 £81.87
South East median hourly rate £60.14 £55.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +9.35% +57.14% -17.65%

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 8 May 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 8 May 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 8 May 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 -17 9 £500 +2.56% 22
Oxfordshire +12 6 - - 49
Buckinghamshire - 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 (29.41%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 9 (52.94%) Azure
2 1 (5.88%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (23.53%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.76%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (29.41%) Git
2 4 (23.53%) JIRA
2 4 (23.53%) Subversion
3 1 (5.88%) CMake
General
1 4 (23.53%) Aerospace
1 4 (23.53%) Public Sector
1 4 (23.53%) Telecoms
2 2 (11.76%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Automotive
3 1 (5.88%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (35.29%) Administrator
1 6 (35.29%) Senior
1 6 (35.29%) Software Engineer
1 6 (35.29%) Systems Administrator
2 5 (29.41%) Embedded Engineer
2 5 (29.41%) Embedded Software Engineer
2 5 (29.41%) Senior Systems Administrator
3 2 (11.76%) Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Applications Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) C++ Software Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Python Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Python Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (35.29%) Itk
2 2 (11.76%) WinForms
3 1 (5.88%) .NET
3 1 (5.88%) .NET Framework
3 1 (5.88%) CNTK
3 1 (5.88%) OpenVINO
3 1 (5.88%) PyTorch
3 1 (5.88%) TensorFlow
3 1 (5.88%) WCF
3 1 (5.88%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 5 (29.41%) Algorithms
2 4 (23.53%) Device Driver
3 2 (11.76%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 5 (29.41%) Windows
2 4 (23.53%) Windows Server
2 4 (23.53%) Windows Server 2016
2 4 (23.53%) Windows Server 2019
3 1 (5.88%) Android
3 1 (5.88%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (52.94%) DevOps
2 7 (41.18%) Software Engineering
3 6 (35.29%) PLM
3 6 (35.29%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (29.41%) Computer Science
5 4 (23.53%) Change Management
5 4 (23.53%) Defect Tracking
5 4 (23.53%) Root Cause Analysis
5 4 (23.53%) Signal Processing
5 4 (23.53%) Software Optimisation
5 4 (23.53%) Validation
6 3 (17.65%) CI/CD
7 2 (11.76%) Agile
7 2 (11.76%) Data Protection
7 2 (11.76%) MLOps
8 1 (5.88%) Artificial Intelligence
8 1 (5.88%) Continuous Integration
8 1 (5.88%) Full Stack Development
8 1 (5.88%) Machine Learning
8 1 (5.88%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 12 (70.59%) C
2 8 (47.06%) Python
3 4 (23.53%) Assembly Language
3 4 (23.53%) MATLAB
3 4 (23.53%) Shell Script
4 3 (17.65%) C#
5 1 (5.88%) Go
5 1 (5.88%) Java
5 1 (5.88%) JavaScript
5 1 (5.88%) Rust
5 1 (5.88%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (35.29%) Security Cleared
2 5 (29.41%) Degree
2 5 (29.41%) DV Cleared
2 5 (29.41%) Master's Degree
3 4 (23.53%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (23.53%) JTAG
2 1 (5.88%) AUTOSAR
System Software
1 4 (23.53%) Embedded Firmware
1 4 (23.53%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (5.88%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (35.29%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.88%) QNX