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 £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 14 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 290 369 387
Rank change year-on-year +79 +18 +18
Contract jobs requiring a C++ Software Engineer 112 61 117
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.53% 0.27% 0.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.57% 0.29% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 11 9
10th Percentile £407 £413 £485
25th Percentile £416 £438 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £538 £600
Median % change year-on-year -11.63% -10.42% +73.91%
75th Percentile £544 £579 £625
90th Percentile £552 £631 £695
UK median daily rate £475 £631 £625
% change year-on-year -24.75% +1.00% +61.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 79 38 67
10th Percentile £60.00 £59.96 £51.25
25th Percentile £61.25 - -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% +26.32%
75th Percentile £70.00 £67.06 £65.00
90th Percentile - £77.00 £67.75
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year - +8.33% +41.18%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 19,709 21,379 29,050
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.42% 94.21% 95.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,751 14,853 20,421
10th Percentile £213 £225 £208
25th Percentile £363 £388 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £593 £600 £575
90th Percentile £680 £688 £656
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,515 1,090 1,383
10th Percentile £12.63 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.92 £18.08 £15.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.08 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.94% +110.39% +7.82%
75th Percentile £62.83 £65.00 £47.25
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.68 £62.45
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%

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 14 June 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 14 June 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 14 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
East of England +30 45 £425 -5.56% 8
South East +38 33 £475 -10.38% 10
South West +3 26 £500 -6.98% 18
Scotland +53 5 - - 4
North of England +17 2 - - 3
Yorkshire +15 2 - -
Wales +20 1 - - 1
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 14 June 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.

1 112 (100.00%) C++
1 112 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 69 (61.61%) Agile
3 54 (48.21%) Linux
4 41 (36.61%) C
4 41 (36.61%) C#
4 41 (36.61%) DevOps
5 36 (32.14%) Social Skills
5 36 (32.14%) Continuous Integration
6 35 (31.25%) Unit Testing
7 34 (30.36%) TDD
8 33 (29.46%) JIRA
9 28 (25.00%) Google
9 28 (25.00%) GoogleTest
10 27 (24.11%) Java
11 26 (23.21%) Scrum
11 26 (23.21%) Continuous Improvement
11 26 (23.21%) Software Testing
12 25 (22.32%) JavaScript
12 25 (22.32%) Windows
13 24 (21.43%) Eclipse
13 24 (21.43%) Pair Programming
13 24 (21.43%) Electronics
13 24 (21.43%) Modbus
13 24 (21.43%) CI/CD
13 24 (21.43%) Customer Requirements
13 24 (21.43%) RS-485
13 24 (21.43%) RS-422
14 23 (20.54%) Git
15 22 (19.64%) Python

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 17 (15.18%) Confluence
Applications
1 7 (6.25%) Simulink
2 2 (1.79%) Adobe After Effects
2 2 (1.79%) Blender
2 2 (1.79%) Maya
2 2 (1.79%) Photoshop
Cloud Services
1 16 (14.29%) GitHub
2 2 (1.79%) Azure
2 2 (1.79%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 24 (21.43%) Modbus
1 24 (21.43%) RS-422
1 24 (21.43%) RS-485
2 15 (13.39%) Software-Defined Radio
3 14 (12.50%) SNMP
4 11 (9.82%) TCP/IP
5 9 (8.04%) Ethernet
6 5 (4.46%) 802.11
6 5 (4.46%) Wi-Fi
7 4 (3.57%) Radio Access Network
8 2 (1.79%) Wireless
9 1 (0.89%) MQTT
9 1 (0.89%) RS-232
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.89%) CouchDB
1 1 (0.89%) MongoDB
1 1 (0.89%) MySQL
1 1 (0.89%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (0.89%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 33 (29.46%) JIRA
2 28 (25.00%) GoogleTest
3 24 (21.43%) Eclipse
4 23 (20.54%) Git
5 20 (17.86%) Jenkins
6 17 (15.18%) Bitbucket
7 14 (12.50%) Robot Framework
8 11 (9.82%) Visual Studio
9 2 (1.79%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.89%) CMake
General
1 36 (32.14%) Social Skills
2 24 (21.43%) Electronics
3 10 (8.93%) Aerospace
3 10 (8.93%) Presentation Skills
4 9 (8.04%) Military
5 2 (1.79%) Games
5 2 (1.79%) Law
6 1 (0.89%) Automotive
6 1 (0.89%) Aviation
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (16.07%) CSS
1 18 (16.07%) HTML
2 14 (12.50%) Qt
3 10 (8.93%) Node.js
4 9 (8.04%) Web Services
5 5 (4.46%) 802.1X
6 4 (3.57%) .NET
7 3 (2.68%) WPF
8 2 (1.79%) Blazor
8 2 (1.79%) MFC
8 2 (1.79%) OpenCV
8 2 (1.79%) RESTful
8 2 (1.79%) SOAP
8 2 (1.79%) Unreal Engine
8 2 (1.79%) WinForms
8 2 (1.79%) XML
9 1 (0.89%) CNTK
9 1 (0.89%) OpenVINO
9 1 (0.89%) PyTorch
9 1 (0.89%) React
Miscellaneous
1 19 (16.96%) Self-Motivation
2 14 (12.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 10 (8.93%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (1.79%) Augmented Reality
4 2 (1.79%) CUDA
4 2 (1.79%) GPGPU
4 2 (1.79%) Virtual Reality
5 1 (0.89%) Algorithms
5 1 (0.89%) Client/Server
5 1 (0.89%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 54 (48.21%) Linux
2 25 (22.32%) Windows
3 6 (5.36%) Embedded Linux
4 2 (1.79%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.89%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 69 (61.61%) Agile
3 41 (36.61%) DevOps
4 36 (32.14%) Continuous Integration
5 35 (31.25%) Unit Testing
6 34 (30.36%) TDD
7 26 (23.21%) Continuous Improvement
7 26 (23.21%) Scrum
7 26 (23.21%) Software Testing
8 24 (21.43%) CI/CD
8 24 (21.43%) Customer Requirements
8 24 (21.43%) Pair Programming
9 19 (16.96%) UML
10 17 (15.18%) Validation
11 16 (14.29%) Verification and Validation
11 16 (14.29%) Visualisation
12 15 (13.39%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 15 (13.39%) SysML
13 12 (10.71%) Problem-Solving
14 9 (8.04%) Digital Twin
Programming Languages
1 112 (100.00%) C++
2 41 (36.61%) C
2 41 (36.61%) C#
3 27 (24.11%) Java
4 25 (22.32%) JavaScript
5 22 (19.64%) Python
6 8 (7.14%) Perl
7 7 (6.25%) MATLAB
8 5 (4.46%) Tcl
9 4 (3.57%) Bash
10 3 (2.68%) Embedded C++
11 2 (1.79%) C++/CLI
11 2 (1.79%) SQL
12 1 (0.89%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 11 (9.82%) Security Cleared
2 8 (7.14%) SC Cleared
3 6 (5.36%) Degree
4 2 (1.79%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.89%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.89%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (12.50%) MISRA
System Software
1 15 (13.39%) Firmware
2 3 (2.68%) VirtualBox
3 2 (1.79%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.89%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.89%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 28 (25.00%) Google
2 14 (12.50%) Atlassian
3 9 (8.04%) Microsoft
4 2 (1.79%) Adobe
4 2 (1.79%) NVIDIA
4 2 (1.79%) Oracle
4 2 (1.79%) Xamarin
5 1 (0.89%) Compaq
5 1 (0.89%) Twitter
5 1 (0.89%) VMware