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 7 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
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 487 458 587
Rank change year-on-year -29 +129 -152
Contract jobs requiring a C++ Developer 98 242 267
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.23% 0.42% 0.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.25% 0.44% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 154 196
10th Percentile £397 £438 £494
25th Percentile £407 £550 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £750 £725
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +3.45% +16.00%
75th Percentile £794 £825 £775
90th Percentile £1,185 £950 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £420 £450 £553
% change year-on-year -6.67% -18.55% +22.78%
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 39,719 54,978 83,963
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.74% 94.64% 95.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,839 38,395 59,001
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £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 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,655 1,545 2,052
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.25 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.74 £76.40 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £19.52
% change year-on-year -5.88% +117.73% +2.74%

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 7 May 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 12 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 7 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
England -30 91 £500 -33.33% 61
London -46 59 £738 -1.67% 28
Work from Home +64 42 £675 -10.00% 23
UK excluding London +69 30 £420 -6.67% 33
South East +28 15 £400 -23.81% 12
East of England +10 10 £430 -14.00% 4
Midlands +31 2 £588 +56.67% 5
North West +24 2 £410 +17.14% 10
North of England +24 2 £410 -0.61% 10
West Midlands +23 1 £500 +11.11% 1
East Midlands +20 1 £675 +125.00% 4
Wales +17 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 7 May 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 98 (100.00%) C++
2 31 (31.63%) Linux
3 27 (27.55%) Python
3 27 (27.55%) Derivative
4 22 (22.45%) Finance
5 21 (21.43%) C
6 17 (17.35%) Agile
7 16 (16.33%) Banking
7 16 (16.33%) Git
7 16 (16.33%) Analytics
8 15 (15.31%) Hedge funds
9 14 (14.29%) Low Latency
10 13 (13.27%) Algorithmic Trading
11 12 (12.24%) Software Engineering
11 12 (12.24%) Equity Derivative
11 12 (12.24%) C#
11 12 (12.24%) SQL
11 12 (12.24%) Windows
12 11 (11.22%) Algorithms
12 11 (11.22%) Systematic Trading
12 11 (11.22%) Social Skills
13 10 (10.20%) Degree
14 9 (9.18%) Investment Banking
14 9 (9.18%) Equities
14 9 (9.18%) Front Office
14 9 (9.18%) Radio Access Network
14 9 (9.18%) Public Sector
14 9 (9.18%) 5G
15 8 (8.16%) Computer Science Degree
15 8 (8.16%) Computer Science

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 (2.04%) Confluence
2 1 (1.02%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 1 (1.02%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 3 (3.06%) Azure
2 2 (2.04%) AWS
3 1 (1.02%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 9 (9.18%) 5G
1 9 (9.18%) Radio Access Network
2 5 (5.10%) NAS
3 4 (4.08%) 4G
3 4 (4.08%) Wireshark
4 3 (3.06%) Link 16
4 3 (3.06%) Tactical Data Link
5 2 (2.04%) SNMP
5 2 (2.04%) Software-Defined Radio
5 2 (2.04%) TCP/IP
6 1 (1.02%) MPLS
6 1 (1.02%) Multicast
6 1 (1.02%) RTMP
6 1 (1.02%) RTP
6 1 (1.02%) RTSP
6 1 (1.02%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.04%) KDB
2 1 (1.02%) Couchbase
2 1 (1.02%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 16 (16.33%) Git
2 7 (7.14%) JIRA
3 6 (6.12%) Bitbucket
4 4 (4.08%) gcov
4 4 (4.08%) GDB
4 4 (4.08%) Gradle
4 4 (4.08%) Subversion
5 3 (3.06%) Jenkins
5 3 (3.06%) Visual Studio
6 2 (2.04%) Eclipse
6 2 (2.04%) GoogleTest
6 2 (2.04%) Karma Test Runner
6 2 (2.04%) Robot Framework
6 2 (2.04%) TeamCity
7 1 (1.02%) ClearCase
7 1 (1.02%) ClearQuest
7 1 (1.02%) CMake
7 1 (1.02%) GitLab
7 1 (1.02%) Rational Rhapsody
7 1 (1.02%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 22 (22.45%) Finance
2 16 (16.33%) Banking
3 11 (11.22%) Social Skills
4 9 (9.18%) Front Office
4 9 (9.18%) Investment Banking
4 9 (9.18%) Public Sector
5 7 (7.14%) Games
6 6 (6.12%) Multimedia
7 5 (5.10%) Telecoms
8 2 (2.04%) Aerospace
8 2 (2.04%) Automotive
9 1 (1.02%) Analytical Skills
9 1 (1.02%) Billing
9 1 (1.02%) German Language
9 1 (1.02%) Health Technology
9 1 (1.02%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.10%) CSS
1 5 (5.10%) HTML
2 4 (4.08%) REST
3 3 (3.06%) .NET
3 3 (3.06%) AngularJS
3 3 (3.06%) Twitter Bootstrap
4 2 (2.04%) FFmpeg
4 2 (2.04%) OpenAPI
4 2 (2.04%) Playwright
4 2 (2.04%) Swagger
4 2 (2.04%) Unreal Engine
5 1 (1.02%) ADO
5 1 (1.02%) Bazel
5 1 (1.02%) FIX Protocol
5 1 (1.02%) GStreamer
5 1 (1.02%) Kafka
5 1 (1.02%) React
5 1 (1.02%) Unity (Game Engine)
5 1 (1.02%) WebSphere MQ
5 1 (1.02%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 27 (27.55%) Derivative
2 15 (15.31%) Hedge funds
3 12 (12.24%) Equity Derivative
4 11 (11.22%) Algorithms
5 9 (9.18%) Equities
6 6 (6.12%) CCTV
7 5 (5.10%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 4 (4.08%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (3.06%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (2.04%) Augmented Reality
10 2 (2.04%) Distributed Computing
10 2 (2.04%) Virtual Reality
11 1 (1.02%) Animation
11 1 (1.02%) Data Centre
11 1 (1.02%) Data Structures
11 1 (1.02%) Embedded Systems
11 1 (1.02%) Greenfield Project
11 1 (1.02%) Renewable Energy
11 1 (1.02%) Solar Panel
11 1 (1.02%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 31 (31.63%) Linux
2 12 (12.24%) Windows
3 3 (3.06%) Unix
4 2 (2.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (17.35%) Agile
2 16 (16.33%) Analytics
3 14 (14.29%) Low Latency
4 13 (13.27%) Algorithmic Trading
5 12 (12.24%) Software Engineering
6 11 (11.22%) Systematic Trading
7 8 (8.16%) Computer Science
8 7 (7.14%) Stakeholder Management
9 6 (6.12%) Clean Code
9 6 (6.12%) Full Stack Development
9 6 (6.12%) Multithreading
9 6 (6.12%) OCR
9 6 (6.12%) Refactoring
9 6 (6.12%) Validation
10 5 (5.10%) Code Quality
10 5 (5.10%) Collaborative Working
10 5 (5.10%) OO
10 5 (5.10%) Problem-Solving
11 4 (4.08%) Continuous Integration
11 4 (4.08%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 98 (100.00%) C++
2 27 (27.55%) Python
3 21 (21.43%) C
4 12 (12.24%) C#
4 12 (12.24%) SQL
5 7 (7.14%) JavaScript
6 6 (6.12%) Java
7 5 (5.10%) Bash
7 5 (5.10%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.02%) Embedded C++
8 1 (1.02%) MATLAB
8 1 (1.02%) ProC
8 1 (1.02%) Rust
8 1 (1.02%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 10 (10.20%) Degree
2 8 (8.16%) Computer Science Degree
2 8 (8.16%) SC Cleared
2 8 (8.16%) Security Cleared
3 2 (2.04%) Numerate Degree
4 1 (1.02%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.10%) ISO 9001
1 5 (5.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (2.04%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (1.02%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 4 (4.08%) Klocwork
1 4 (4.08%) Perforce
2 3 (3.06%) Google
2 3 (3.06%) Oracle
3 2 (2.04%) Atlassian
3 2 (2.04%) QNX
4 1 (1.02%) HP
4 1 (1.02%) IBM
4 1 (1.02%) Red Hat
4 1 (1.02%) Sparx