C++ Contracts in the UK excluding London

C++
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 6 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 117 140 186
Rank change year-on-year +23 +46 -22
Contract jobs citing C++ 385 397 429
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.83% 1.74% 1.39%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.71% 6.23% 4.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 152 203 168
10th Percentile £400 £363 £389
25th Percentile £420 £413 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - +16.67%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £625
90th Percentile £673 £649 £711
UK median daily rate £575 £650 £680
% change year-on-year -11.54% -4.41% +18.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 156 115 103
10th Percentile £57.50 £51.25 £47.50
25th Percentile £61.25 £58.39 £53.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% +18.30%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.00 £65.71
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year - +8.33% +19.14%

All Programming Languages
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 4,992 6,368 8,850
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 23.72% 27.96% 28.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,320 4,460 6,202
10th Percentile £317 £350 £338
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% - +14.42%
75th Percentile £580 £594 £575
90th Percentile £650 £680 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 434 321 324
10th Percentile £37.55 £27.10 £17.00
25th Percentile £52.50 £51.25 £31.25
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year - +19.05% +28.05%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.82 £78.00 £67.46
UK median hourly rate £62.25 £62.50 £51.50
% change year-on-year -0.40% +21.36% +16.65%

C++
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing C++ as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

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

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

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

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

C++
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing C++ in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 6 June 2024.

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

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

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

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

C++
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing C++ in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 6 June 2024.

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

C++
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++ within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 6 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
South East +48 140 £538 +3.37% 187
East of England +21 116 £550 +10.00% 134
South West -17 68 £500 +11.11% 118
North of England +6 29 £563 +7.14% 69
Midlands -6 19 £503 -14.70% 90
North West +10 18 £520 -0.95% 48
West Midlands -3 16 £497 -15.85% 41
Scotland +29 10 £638 +43.26% 46
Yorkshire -1 9 £625 +19.05% 15
Wales +8 3 - - 9
East Midlands +1 3 £590 -1.67% 48
North East +12 2 £625 +31.58% 6
Northern Ireland -2 1 - - 3
C++
UK

C++
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 22 (5.71%) Confluence
2 2 (0.52%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.26%) Apache
Applications
1 12 (3.12%) Simulink
2 2 (0.52%) Adobe After Effects
2 2 (0.52%) Blender
2 2 (0.52%) Maya
2 2 (0.52%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 5 (1.30%) Teamcenter
2 4 (1.04%) Misys Midas
3 3 (0.78%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.26%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 28 (7.27%) GitHub
2 21 (5.45%) Azure
3 20 (5.19%) AWS
4 9 (2.34%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (0.78%) Datadog
5 3 (0.78%) GCP
6 2 (0.52%) IaaS
6 2 (0.52%) PaaS
6 2 (0.52%) SaaS
7 1 (0.26%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (0.26%) Azure Batch
7 1 (0.26%) Azure Functions
7 1 (0.26%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (0.26%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (0.26%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (0.26%) Power Automate
7 1 (0.26%) Power Platform
7 1 (0.26%) Serverless
7 1 (0.26%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 35 (9.09%) RS-485
2 34 (8.83%) Modbus
2 34 (8.83%) RS-422
3 20 (5.19%) Software-Defined Radio
4 19 (4.94%) TCP/IP
5 18 (4.68%) SNMP
6 14 (3.64%) Ethernet
7 13 (3.38%) Wireless
8 12 (3.12%) Radio Access Network
9 10 (2.60%) 5G
10 6 (1.56%) 802.11
10 6 (1.56%) Wi-Fi
11 5 (1.30%) Link 16
11 5 (1.30%) NAS
12 4 (1.04%) RTSP
12 4 (1.04%) Tactical Data Link
12 4 (1.04%) Wireshark
13 3 (0.78%) 4G
13 3 (0.78%) Internet
14 2 (0.52%) RS-232
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (2.08%) SQL Server
2 4 (1.04%) Amazon Redshift
3 3 (0.78%) Data Lake
3 3 (0.78%) Geospatial Data
3 3 (0.78%) Relational Database
4 2 (0.52%) BigQuery
4 2 (0.52%) NoSQL
4 2 (0.52%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.26%) Big Data
5 1 (0.26%) CouchDB
5 1 (0.26%) Data Mining
5 1 (0.26%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.26%) MySQL
5 1 (0.26%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.26%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (0.26%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 68 (17.66%) JIRA
2 55 (14.29%) Git
3 45 (11.69%) Jenkins
4 40 (10.39%) GoogleTest
5 32 (8.31%) Eclipse
6 31 (8.05%) Visual Studio
7 20 (5.19%) Bitbucket
8 16 (4.16%) Robot Framework
9 15 (3.90%) Rational DOORS
10 14 (3.64%) PVCS
11 13 (3.38%) Subversion
12 6 (1.56%) Rational Rhapsody
13 5 (1.30%) Gradle
14 4 (1.04%) Artifactory
14 4 (1.04%) ClearCase
14 4 (1.04%) ClearQuest
14 4 (1.04%) gcov
14 4 (1.04%) GDB
14 4 (1.04%) GitLab
15 2 (0.52%) LabVIEW
General
1 85 (22.08%) Social Skills
2 48 (12.47%) Electronics
3 33 (8.57%) Public Sector
4 28 (7.27%) Aerospace
5 18 (4.68%) Telecoms
6 16 (4.16%) Military
7 15 (3.90%) Presentation Skills
8 14 (3.64%) Automotive
9 10 (2.60%) Analytical Skills
10 6 (1.56%) Multimedia
11 5 (1.30%) Aviation
11 5 (1.30%) Legal
12 4 (1.04%) Finance
12 4 (1.04%) Games
12 4 (1.04%) German Language
12 4 (1.04%) Law
13 3 (0.78%) Manufacturing
14 2 (0.52%) Banking
14 2 (0.52%) Marketing
14 2 (0.52%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 188 (48.83%) Software Engineer
2 108 (28.05%) C++ Software Engineer
3 59 (15.32%) Developer
4 40 (10.39%) Embedded Engineer
5 35 (9.09%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 32 (8.31%) Java Engineer
7 31 (8.05%) C++ Developer
7 31 (8.05%) Java Software Engineer
8 28 (7.27%) Senior
9 20 (5.19%) Architect
10 19 (4.94%) C Software Engineer
11 15 (3.90%) C/C++ Software Engineer
12 14 (3.64%) C# Software Engineer
12 14 (3.64%) Embedded C++ Engineer
12 14 (3.64%) Lead
12 14 (3.64%) Linux Engineer
12 14 (3.64%) Senior Software Engineer
13 13 (3.38%) Programmer
13 13 (3.38%) Software Architect
14 12 (3.12%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (6.49%) Qt
2 21 (5.45%) HTML
3 18 (4.68%) CSS
4 17 (4.42%) .NET
4 17 (4.42%) OpenGL
5 14 (3.64%) DirectX
5 14 (3.64%) J2EE
5 14 (3.64%) Vulkan
6 13 (3.38%) Node.js
6 13 (3.38%) OpenGL ES
6 13 (3.38%) Spring Boot
6 13 (3.38%) Web Services
6 13 (3.38%) XML
7 10 (2.60%) RESTful
8 9 (2.34%) TensorFlow
9 8 (2.08%) Blazor
10 7 (1.82%) PyTorch
10 7 (1.82%) Yocto
11 6 (1.56%) 802.1X
11 6 (1.56%) Itk
Miscellaneous
1 32 (8.31%) Self-Motivation
2 26 (6.75%) Algorithms
3 25 (6.49%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 23 (5.97%) Linux Command Line
5 11 (2.86%) VHDL
6 9 (2.34%) CCTV
6 9 (2.34%) Ray Tracing
7 8 (2.08%) 3D Graphics
7 8 (2.08%) FPGA
7 8 (2.08%) Mobile App
7 8 (2.08%) Verilog
8 7 (1.82%) Data Protection Act
8 7 (1.82%) Data Structures
9 6 (1.56%) CUDA
9 6 (1.56%) Operational Technology
9 6 (1.56%) Product Ownership
10 5 (1.30%) Augmented Reality
10 5 (1.30%) Device Driver
11 4 (1.04%) Embedded Systems
11 4 (1.04%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 132 (34.29%) Linux
2 60 (15.58%) Windows
3 10 (2.60%) Unix
4 8 (2.08%) Android
4 8 (2.08%) Embedded Linux
5 4 (1.04%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.04%) Windows Server 2016
5 4 (1.04%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (0.78%) ThreadX
7 2 (0.52%) FreeRTOS
7 2 (0.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.52%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.52%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.26%) CentOS
8 1 (0.26%) RTLinux
8 1 (0.26%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 230 (59.74%) Software Engineering
2 152 (39.48%) Agile
3 107 (27.79%) DevOps
4 58 (15.06%) Continuous Integration
5 57 (14.81%) CI/CD
6 54 (14.03%) Software Testing
7 53 (13.77%) Unit Testing
8 52 (13.51%) TDD
9 50 (12.99%) Problem-Solving
10 48 (12.47%) Scrum
11 47 (12.21%) Validation
12 38 (9.87%) Continuous Improvement
13 35 (9.09%) Customer Requirements
13 35 (9.09%) UML
14 34 (8.83%) Pair Programming
15 32 (8.31%) Verification and Validation
16 30 (7.79%) OO
17 28 (7.27%) Computer Science
18 25 (6.49%) Test Automation
19 22 (5.71%) SysML
Programming Languages
1 196 (50.91%) C
2 124 (32.21%) Python
3 93 (24.16%) C#
4 89 (23.12%) Java
5 52 (13.51%) JavaScript
6 23 (5.97%) Embedded C++
7 22 (5.71%) Bash
7 22 (5.71%) SQL
8 19 (4.94%) Embedded C
9 17 (4.42%) MATLAB
10 14 (3.64%) PL/SQL
11 13 (3.38%) Perl
11 13 (3.38%) Shell Script
12 11 (2.86%) PowerShell
13 9 (2.34%) Tcl
14 8 (2.08%) Assembly Language
15 4 (1.04%) Ada
15 4 (1.04%) Ruby
15 4 (1.04%) Scala
15 4 (1.04%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 91 (23.64%) Security Cleared
2 70 (18.18%) SC Cleared
3 45 (11.69%) Degree
4 19 (4.94%) Master's Degree
5 17 (4.42%) PhD
6 14 (3.64%) DV Cleared
7 13 (3.38%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (1.82%) CREST Certified
8 7 (1.82%) OSCP
9 6 (1.56%) CEH
9 6 (1.56%) GIAC
9 6 (1.56%) GPEN
10 4 (1.04%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.52%) ISEB
11 2 (0.52%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.52%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 2 (0.52%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (0.52%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (8.31%) MISRA
2 10 (2.60%) ISO 9001
2 10 (2.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (2.08%) NIST
4 5 (1.30%) JTAG
4 5 (1.30%) MISRA C
5 3 (0.78%) AUTOSAR
5 3 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 12207
6 2 (0.52%) GDPR
6 2 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 2 (0.52%) SLA
7 1 (0.26%) Def Stans
7 1 (0.26%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.26%) DO-178B
7 1 (0.26%) IEC 61508
7 1 (0.26%) ISO 13485
7 1 (0.26%) ISO 26262
7 1 (0.26%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.26%) QA
System Software
1 25 (6.49%) Firmware
2 11 (2.86%) Docker
3 8 (2.08%) Active Directory
3 8 (2.08%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (1.30%) Embedded Firmware
4 5 (1.30%) VirtualBox
4 5 (1.30%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.78%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.52%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 21 (5.45%) Terraform
2 9 (2.34%) Ansible
3 8 (2.08%) Kubernetes
4 6 (1.56%) Progress Chef
4 6 (1.56%) Puppet
5 3 (0.78%) HP ALM
5 3 (0.78%) Nagios
6 2 (0.52%) WSUS
7 1 (0.26%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 45 (11.69%) Google
2 25 (6.49%) Microsoft
3 18 (4.68%) Atlassian
4 7 (1.82%) Xilinx
5 5 (1.30%) IBM
5 5 (1.30%) NVIDIA
5 5 (1.30%) Oracle
5 5 (1.30%) VMware
6 4 (1.04%) Cadence
6 4 (1.04%) Klocwork
6 4 (1.04%) Perforce
7 3 (0.78%) Adobe
7 3 (0.78%) HP
7 3 (0.78%) New Relic
7 3 (0.78%) Sparx
7 3 (0.78%) Splunk
7 3 (0.78%) Synopsys
8 2 (0.52%) Broadcom
8 2 (0.52%) Renesas
8 2 (0.52%) Xamarin