C++ Software Engineer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Software Engineer - C++
UK > UK excluding London

The median Software Engineer - C++ daily rate in the UK excluding London is £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 286 389 401
Rank change year-on-year +103 +12 -20
Contract jobs requiring a C++ Software Engineer 102 64 106
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.50% 0.27% 0.35%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.54% 0.29% 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 10 5
10th Percentile £413 £333 £446
25th Percentile £419 £416 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £490 £509
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% -3.73% +41.39%
75th Percentile £538 £584 £575
90th Percentile £551 £633 £815
UK median daily rate £475 £650 £675
% change year-on-year -26.92% -3.70% +80.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 66 40 62
10th Percentile £60.00 £60.59 £51.30
25th Percentile £61.25 - -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% +29.73%
75th Percentile - £67.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.00 £74.08
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year - +8.33% +37.14%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 18,947 22,165 29,135
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.49% 94.32% 95.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,551 15,483 20,411
10th Percentile £213 £225 £202
25th Percentile £363 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £598 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,261 1,134 1,449
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.75 £18.08 £14.31
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.08 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.94% +110.39% +2.56%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.00 £44.03
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -16.67% +88.21% +5.89%

C++ Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured C++ Software Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for C++ Software Engineer in the UK excluding London

C++ Software Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing C++ Software Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for C++ Software Engineer in the UK excluding London

C++ Software Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing C++ Software Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for C++ Software Engineer in the UK excluding London

C++ Software Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing C++ Software Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for C++ Software Engineer in the UK excluding London

C++ Software Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing C++ Software Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for C++ Software Engineer in the UK excluding London

C++ Software Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing C++ Software Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 12 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
East of England +35 47 £425 +65.05% 12
South East +37 29 £500 -5.66% 10
South West +5 18 £500 - 9
Scotland +47 5 - - 1
North of England +24 2 - - 7
Yorkshire +22 2 - - 4
Wales +19 1 - - 2
C++ Software Engineer
UK

C++ Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 12 May 2024, C++ Software Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring C++ Software Engineer in the job title.

1 102 (100.00%) C++
1 102 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 60 (58.82%) Agile
3 46 (45.10%) C
4 44 (43.14%) C#
4 44 (43.14%) Linux
5 41 (40.20%) Social Skills
6 39 (38.24%) Continuous Integration
7 38 (37.25%) Unit Testing
8 37 (36.27%) DevOps
9 36 (35.29%) TDD
10 29 (28.43%) Continuous Improvement
11 28 (27.45%) Software Testing
12 26 (25.49%) Pair Programming
12 26 (25.49%) Electronics
12 26 (25.49%) Windows
12 26 (25.49%) Modbus
12 26 (25.49%) RS-485
12 26 (25.49%) RS-422
12 26 (25.49%) Customer Requirements
13 24 (23.53%) Scrum
14 23 (22.55%) JIRA
15 21 (20.59%) Java
15 21 (20.59%) JavaScript
16 20 (19.61%) Eclipse
16 20 (19.61%) Self-Motivation
17 19 (18.63%) Git
18 18 (17.65%) GoogleTest
18 18 (17.65%) Google
18 18 (17.65%) CI/CD

C++ Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 12 (11.76%) Confluence
Applications
1 7 (6.86%) Simulink
2 2 (1.96%) Adobe After Effects
2 2 (1.96%) Blender
2 2 (1.96%) Maya
2 2 (1.96%) Photoshop
Cloud Services
1 10 (9.80%) GitHub
2 2 (1.96%) Azure
2 2 (1.96%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 26 (25.49%) Modbus
1 26 (25.49%) RS-422
1 26 (25.49%) RS-485
2 11 (10.78%) TCP/IP
3 10 (9.80%) Software-Defined Radio
4 9 (8.82%) 802.11
4 9 (8.82%) Ethernet
4 9 (8.82%) SNMP
4 9 (8.82%) Wi-Fi
5 4 (3.92%) Radio Access Network
6 2 (1.96%) Wireless
7 1 (0.98%) MQTT
7 1 (0.98%) NFC
7 1 (0.98%) PPP
7 1 (0.98%) RS-232
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.98%) CouchDB
1 1 (0.98%) MongoDB
1 1 (0.98%) MySQL
1 1 (0.98%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (0.98%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 23 (22.55%) JIRA
2 20 (19.61%) Eclipse
3 19 (18.63%) Git
4 18 (17.65%) GoogleTest
5 15 (14.71%) Jenkins
6 13 (12.75%) Bitbucket
7 12 (11.76%) Visual Studio
8 9 (8.82%) Robot Framework
9 2 (1.96%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.98%) CMake
10 1 (0.98%) Rational DOORS
10 1 (0.98%) TestRail
10 1 (0.98%) Valgrind
General
1 41 (40.20%) Social Skills
2 26 (25.49%) Electronics
3 10 (9.80%) Presentation Skills
4 9 (8.82%) Military
5 5 (4.90%) Aerospace
6 2 (1.96%) Games
6 2 (1.96%) Law
7 1 (0.98%) Automotive
7 1 (0.98%) Aviation
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (12.75%) CSS
1 13 (12.75%) HTML
2 10 (9.80%) Node.js
2 10 (9.80%) Web Services
3 9 (8.82%) 802.1X
4 8 (7.84%) Qt
5 4 (3.92%) .NET
6 3 (2.94%) WPF
6 3 (2.94%) XML
7 2 (1.96%) Blazor
7 2 (1.96%) MFC
7 2 (1.96%) OpenCV
7 2 (1.96%) RESTful
7 2 (1.96%) SOAP
7 2 (1.96%) Unreal Engine
7 2 (1.96%) WinForms
8 1 (0.98%) AngularJS
8 1 (0.98%) CNTK
8 1 (0.98%) React
8 1 (0.98%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 20 (19.61%) Self-Motivation
2 8 (7.84%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 4 (3.92%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (1.96%) Augmented Reality
4 2 (1.96%) CUDA
4 2 (1.96%) Virtual Reality
5 1 (0.98%) Algorithms
5 1 (0.98%) Client/Server
5 1 (0.98%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (0.98%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 44 (43.14%) Linux
2 26 (25.49%) Windows
3 7 (6.86%) Embedded Linux
4 2 (1.96%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.98%) Android
5 1 (0.98%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 60 (58.82%) Agile
3 39 (38.24%) Continuous Integration
4 38 (37.25%) Unit Testing
5 37 (36.27%) DevOps
6 36 (35.29%) TDD
7 29 (28.43%) Continuous Improvement
8 28 (27.45%) Software Testing
9 26 (25.49%) Customer Requirements
9 26 (25.49%) Pair Programming
10 24 (23.53%) Scrum
11 18 (17.65%) CI/CD
12 17 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
12 17 (16.67%) Validation
13 16 (15.69%) Verification and Validation
13 16 (15.69%) Visualisation
14 15 (14.71%) UML
15 10 (9.80%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 10 (9.80%) SysML
16 9 (8.82%) Continuous Delivery
Programming Languages
1 102 (100.00%) C++
2 46 (45.10%) C
3 44 (43.14%) C#
4 21 (20.59%) Java
4 21 (20.59%) JavaScript
5 16 (15.69%) Python
6 11 (10.78%) Perl
7 9 (8.82%) Tcl
8 7 (6.86%) MATLAB
9 3 (2.94%) Bash
9 3 (2.94%) Embedded C++
10 2 (1.96%) C++/CLI
10 2 (1.96%) SQL
11 1 (0.98%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 11 (10.78%) Security Cleared
2 8 (7.84%) SC Cleared
3 7 (6.86%) Degree
4 3 (2.94%) Master's Degree
5 2 (1.96%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.98%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (7.84%) MISRA
System Software
1 10 (9.80%) Firmware
2 3 (2.94%) VirtualBox
3 2 (1.96%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.98%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.98%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 18 (17.65%) Google
2 9 (8.82%) Atlassian
2 9 (8.82%) Microsoft
3 2 (1.96%) Adobe
3 2 (1.96%) NVIDIA
3 2 (1.96%) Oracle
3 2 (1.96%) Xamarin
4 1 (0.98%) Compaq
4 1 (0.98%) Twitter
4 1 (0.98%) VMware