C++ Developer Contracts

C++ Developer
UK

The median C++ Developer daily rate in the UK is £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 April 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 501 480 586
Rank change year-on-year -21 +106 -165
Contract jobs requiring a C++ Developer 97 247 269
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.22% 0.41% 0.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.24% 0.44% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 155 197
10th Percentile £397 £443 £495
25th Percentile £405 £550 £603
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £750 £725
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +3.45% +16.00%
75th Percentile £750 £825 £775
90th Percentile £1,190 £958 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £430 £450 £600
% change year-on-year -4.44% -25.00% +30.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 12 7
10th Percentile - £26.68 £49.24
25th Percentile - £45.11 £54.13
Median hourly rate £70.00 £62.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% +8.70% +14.43%
75th Percentile - £65.63 £62.50
90th Percentile - £74.25 £67.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £70.00 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +7.69% +18.18% +27.91%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 40,172 56,583 84,829
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.78% 94.61% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,161 39,538 59,512
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £731
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.93% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,642 1,585 2,099
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.27 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.50 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.83 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.38% +95.65% -
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.00 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -11.76% +117.95% +2.55%

C++ Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured C++ Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for C++ Developer in the UK

C++ Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing C++ Developer.

Daily rate trend for C++ Developer in the UK

C++ Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing C++ Developer over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for C++ Developer in the UK

C++ Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing C++ Developer.

Hourly rate trend for C++ Developer in the UK

C++ Developer
Top 13 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing C++ Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 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
England -11 88 £500 -33.33% 55
London -47 54 £725 -3.33% 26
Work from Home +70 44 £675 -10.00% 27
UK excluding London +66 32 £430 -4.44% 30
South East +34 15 £400 -23.81% 9
East of England +24 11 £430 -14.00% 3
North of England +33 3 £410 -0.61% 12
Midlands +21 2 £588 +56.67% 4
North West +17 2 £410 +17.14% 11
West Midlands +28 1 £500 +11.11%
North East +19 1 - -
East Midlands +18 1 £675 +125.00% 4
Wales +14 1 - -

C++ Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 27 April 2024, C++ Developer 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 featuring C++ Developer in the job title.

1 97 (100.00%) C++
2 29 (29.90%) Linux
3 26 (26.80%) Python
4 24 (24.74%) Derivative
5 21 (21.65%) C
6 18 (18.56%) Finance
7 17 (17.53%) Agile
7 17 (17.53%) Analytics
8 16 (16.49%) Git
9 15 (15.46%) Hedge funds
10 14 (14.43%) Algorithms
10 14 (14.43%) Software Engineering
11 13 (13.40%) Banking
11 13 (13.40%) Algorithmic Trading
11 13 (13.40%) C#
11 13 (13.40%) Windows
11 13 (13.40%) Low Latency
11 13 (13.40%) Social Skills
12 12 (12.37%) SQL
12 12 (12.37%) Degree
12 12 (12.37%) Equity Derivative
13 11 (11.34%) Computer Science
13 11 (11.34%) Computer Science Degree
13 11 (11.34%) Systematic Trading
14 10 (10.31%) Radio Access Network
14 10 (10.31%) 5G
15 9 (9.28%) Public Sector
16 8 (8.25%) SC Cleared
16 8 (8.25%) Security Cleared
16 8 (8.25%) Investment Banking

C++ Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 2 (2.06%) Confluence
2 1 (1.03%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 1 (1.03%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 3 (3.09%) Azure
2 2 (2.06%) AWS
3 1 (1.03%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 10 (10.31%) 5G
1 10 (10.31%) Radio Access Network
2 5 (5.15%) 4G
2 5 (5.15%) NAS
3 4 (4.12%) Wireshark
4 3 (3.09%) Link 16
4 3 (3.09%) Tactical Data Link
5 2 (2.06%) SNMP
5 2 (2.06%) Software-Defined Radio
5 2 (2.06%) TCP/IP
5 2 (2.06%) VoIP
6 1 (1.03%) CTI
6 1 (1.03%) MPLS
6 1 (1.03%) RTMP
6 1 (1.03%) RTP
6 1 (1.03%) RTSP
6 1 (1.03%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.06%) KDB
2 1 (1.03%) Couchbase
2 1 (1.03%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 16 (16.49%) Git
2 7 (7.22%) JIRA
3 6 (6.19%) Bitbucket
4 4 (4.12%) gcov
4 4 (4.12%) GDB
4 4 (4.12%) Gradle
4 4 (4.12%) Subversion
5 3 (3.09%) Jenkins
6 2 (2.06%) Eclipse
6 2 (2.06%) GoogleTest
6 2 (2.06%) Karma Test Runner
6 2 (2.06%) Robot Framework
6 2 (2.06%) TeamCity
6 2 (2.06%) Visual Studio
7 1 (1.03%) ClearCase
7 1 (1.03%) ClearQuest
7 1 (1.03%) CMake
7 1 (1.03%) GitLab
7 1 (1.03%) Rational DOORS
7 1 (1.03%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 18 (18.56%) Finance
2 13 (13.40%) Banking
2 13 (13.40%) Social Skills
3 9 (9.28%) Public Sector
4 8 (8.25%) Investment Banking
5 7 (7.22%) Front Office
6 6 (6.19%) Multimedia
6 6 (6.19%) Telecoms
7 5 (5.15%) Games
8 3 (3.09%) Analytical Skills
9 2 (2.06%) Aerospace
9 2 (2.06%) Automotive
10 1 (1.03%) Billing
10 1 (1.03%) German Language
10 1 (1.03%) Health Technology
10 1 (1.03%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.15%) CSS
1 5 (5.15%) HTML
2 4 (4.12%) .NET
2 4 (4.12%) REST
3 3 (3.09%) AngularJS
3 3 (3.09%) Twitter Bootstrap
4 2 (2.06%) 802.1X
4 2 (2.06%) FFmpeg
4 2 (2.06%) OpenAPI
4 2 (2.06%) Playwright
4 2 (2.06%) Swagger
4 2 (2.06%) Unreal Engine
4 2 (2.06%) WPF
5 1 (1.03%) .NET Core
5 1 (1.03%) ADO
5 1 (1.03%) Bazel
5 1 (1.03%) IBM Integration Bus
5 1 (1.03%) WCF
5 1 (1.03%) WebSockets
5 1 (1.03%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 24 (24.74%) Derivative
2 15 (15.46%) Hedge funds
3 14 (14.43%) Algorithms
4 12 (12.37%) Equity Derivative
5 8 (8.25%) Equities
6 6 (6.19%) CCTV
7 5 (5.15%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 3 (3.09%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (2.06%) Augmented Reality
9 2 (2.06%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (2.06%) Management Information System
9 2 (2.06%) Virtual Reality
10 1 (1.03%) Animation
10 1 (1.03%) Credit Risk
10 1 (1.03%) Device Driver
10 1 (1.03%) Embedded Systems
10 1 (1.03%) Fixed Income
10 1 (1.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 1 (1.03%) Mobile Games
10 1 (1.03%) MPEG
Operating Systems
1 29 (29.90%) Linux
2 13 (13.40%) Windows
3 3 (3.09%) Unix
4 1 (1.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (17.53%) Agile
1 17 (17.53%) Analytics
2 14 (14.43%) Software Engineering
3 13 (13.40%) Algorithmic Trading
3 13 (13.40%) Low Latency
4 11 (11.34%) Computer Science
4 11 (11.34%) Systematic Trading
5 7 (7.22%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (7.22%) Stakeholder Management
6 6 (6.19%) Clean Code
6 6 (6.19%) OCR
6 6 (6.19%) Refactoring
6 6 (6.19%) Validation
7 5 (5.15%) Code Quality
7 5 (5.15%) Collaborative Working
7 5 (5.15%) OO
8 4 (4.12%) Automated Trading
8 4 (4.12%) Feasibility Study
8 4 (4.12%) Full Stack Development
8 4 (4.12%) Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 97 (100.00%) C++
2 26 (26.80%) Python
3 21 (21.65%) C
4 13 (13.40%) C#
5 12 (12.37%) SQL
6 7 (7.22%) JavaScript
7 6 (6.19%) Java
8 5 (5.15%) Bash
9 3 (3.09%) TypeScript
10 1 (1.03%) Embedded C++
10 1 (1.03%) MATLAB
10 1 (1.03%) ProC
10 1 (1.03%) Rust
10 1 (1.03%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 12 (12.37%) Degree
2 11 (11.34%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (8.25%) SC Cleared
3 8 (8.25%) Security Cleared
4 2 (2.06%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.03%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.15%) ISO 9001
1 5 (5.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (2.06%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (1.03%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 4 (4.12%) Klocwork
1 4 (4.12%) Perforce
2 3 (3.09%) Google
2 3 (3.09%) Oracle
3 2 (2.06%) Atlassian
3 2 (2.06%) QNX
4 1 (1.03%) HP
4 1 (1.03%) IBM
4 1 (1.03%) Sparx