The first table below looks at the demand for the C++ Software Engineer role in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited C++ Software Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 21 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles currently tracked.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
C++ Software Engineer
Rank 501 494 516
Rank change year-on-year
-7 +22
Contract jobs requiring a C++ Software Engineer 39 87 64
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.083% 0.149% 0.106%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.090% 0.161% 0.115%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 25 15
Average daily rate £288 £300 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.16% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £283 £284 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £353 £350 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £288 £350 £285
% change year-on-year
-17.85% +22.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 31 32
Average hourly rate £37.50 £37.50 £39.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -3.84%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.50 £31.50 £33.55
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.23 £45.00 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £40.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year
-6.25% -
All Job Titles
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
43539 54119 55808
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 92.22% 92.58% 92.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 24944 29835 30377
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £240 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 2174 2589 2882
Average hourly rate £18.50 £18.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -7.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.50 £40.00 £41.28
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%

C++ Software Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing C++ Software Engineer within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

C++ Software Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

C++ Software Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing C++ Software Engineer within the UK.

C++ Software Engineer Daily Rate Trend

C++ Software Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing C++ Software Engineer within the UK over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

C++ Software Engineer Daily Rate Histogram

C++ Software Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing C++ Software Engineer within the UK.

C++ Software Engineer Hourly Rate Trend

C++ Software Engineer
Top 27 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing C++ Software Engineer within the UK over the 3 months to 21 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
England -5 30 £300 -
South East +5 20 £350 -
Hampshire -16 8 £288 +5.50%
South West +23 6 £253 -
Surrey 0 5 £375 +7.14%
Brighton - 4 - -
East Sussex - 4 - -
Buckinghamshire +3 3 £350 -
Guildford -17 3 - -
Aylesbury - 3 £350 -
East Yorkshire - 2 £300 -
Yorkshire - 2 £300 -
Hull - 2 £300 -
Bournemouth - 2 - -
Dorset - 2 - -
Gloucestershire +31 1 - -
Cheltenham +27 1 - -
North West +15 1 - -
City of London +14 1 - -
Southampton -4 1 £350 -
London -9 1 - -
Wiltshire - 1 £240 -
Cheshire - 1 - -
Salisbury - 1 £240 -
Leatherhead - 1 £375 -
Chester - 1 - -
Bristol - 1 - -

C++ Software Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited C++ Software Engineer in their job title mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled with C++ Software Engineer in their job title.

1 83 (100.00%) C++
2 45 (54.22%) C
3 40 (48.19%) Linux
3 40 (48.19%) UML
4 22 (26.51%) OO
5 20 (24.10%) OOD
6 19 (22.89%) UNIX
6 19 (22.89%) Security Cleared
7 18 (21.69%) Electronics
8 17 (20.48%) Software Engineering
8 17 (20.48%) Configuration Management
8 17 (20.48%) Embedded C++
9 15 (18.07%) Windows
10 14 (16.87%) SC Cleared
11 13 (15.66%) GoogleTest
11 13 (15.66%) MS Office
11 13 (15.66%) STL
11 13 (15.66%) ClearCase
12 12 (14.46%) Ant
12 12 (14.46%) Multithreading
12 12 (14.46%) NUnit
12 12 (14.46%) Subversion
12 12 (14.46%) CppUnit
13 11 (13.25%) Visual Studio
14 10 (12.05%) VC++
14 10 (12.05%) Mathematics
14 10 (12.05%) Qt
15 9 (10.84%) GDB
15 9 (10.84%) Telecoms
15 9 (10.84%) C#

C++ Software Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited C++ Software Engineer in their job title mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled with C++ Software Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 13 (15.66%) STL
2 10 (12.05%) Qt
3 8 (9.639%) MFC
3 8 (9.639%) XML
3 8 (9.639%) Motif
3 8 (9.639%) wxWidgets
4 7 (8.434%) OpenGL
4 7 (8.434%) .NET
4 7 (8.434%) Boost C++ Libraries
5 5 (6.024%) DirectX
6 2 (2.410%) Flash
7 1 (1.205%) WinForms
7 1 (1.205%) Middleware
7 1 (1.205%) XSL
7 1 (1.205%) OpenCL
Applications
1 13 (15.66%) MS Office
2 2 (2.410%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (2.410%) LabWindows
Communications & Networking
1 8 (9.639%) GSM
2 5 (6.024%) 2G
2 5 (6.024%) 3G
2 5 (6.024%) TCP/IP
3 4 (4.819%) LTE
3 4 (4.819%) UMTS
3 4 (4.819%) Internet
4 3 (3.614%) RANAP
4 3 (3.614%) RTP
4 3 (3.614%) VoIP
4 3 (3.614%) PBX
4 3 (3.614%) Asterisk PBX
5 2 (2.410%) Ethernet
6 1 (1.205%) ASN.1
6 1 (1.205%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.024%) PostgreSQL
1 5 (6.024%) Ingres
Development Applications
1 13 (15.66%) GoogleTest
1 13 (15.66%) ClearCase
2 12 (14.46%) Ant
2 12 (14.46%) NUnit
2 12 (14.46%) Subversion
2 12 (14.46%) CppUnit
3 11 (13.25%) Visual Studio
4 9 (10.84%) GDB
5 6 (7.229%) PyUnit
5 6 (7.229%) Rational DOORS
6 5 (6.024%) CruiseControl
7 4 (4.819%) TeamCity
7 4 (4.819%) GCC
7 4 (4.819%) Maven
8 3 (3.614%) LabVIEW
8 3 (3.614%) Trac
8 3 (3.614%) Artifactory
8 3 (3.614%) Jenkins
8 3 (3.614%) Hudson
9 2 (2.410%) Rational Rose
General
1 18 (21.69%) Electronics
2 9 (10.84%) Telecoms
3 7 (8.434%) Military
4 6 (7.229%) Aerospace
5 3 (3.614%) Finance
6 2 (2.410%) Front Office
6 2 (2.410%) Investment Banking
6 2 (2.410%) Banking
Miscellaneous
1 10 (12.05%) Mathematics
2 6 (7.229%) Embedded Systems
3 5 (6.024%) Physics
4 3 (3.614%) Device Driver
4 3 (3.614%) Computer Science
5 2 (2.410%) SCADA
5 2 (2.410%) Derivative
6 1 (1.205%) APACS
6 1 (1.205%) Grid Computing
6 1 (1.205%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
6 1 (1.205%) Statistics
Operating Systems
1 40 (48.19%) Linux
2 19 (22.89%) UNIX
3 15 (18.07%) Windows
4 5 (6.024%) Solaris
5 2 (2.410%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (2.410%) Windows XP
5 2 (2.410%) Windows XP Embedded
6 1 (1.205%) VxWorks
6 1 (1.205%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (48.19%) UML
2 22 (26.51%) OO
3 20 (24.10%) OOD
4 17 (20.48%) Software Engineering
4 17 (20.48%) Configuration Management
5 12 (14.46%) Multithreading
6 8 (9.639%) Agile Software Development
7 6 (7.229%) Embedded Software Development
7 6 (7.229%) RUP
7 6 (7.229%) Unified Process
8 5 (6.024%) Continuous Integration
9 4 (4.819%) Integration Testing
10 3 (3.614%) Code Coverage
10 3 (3.614%) Analytics
11 2 (2.410%) Memory Management
11 2 (2.410%) Signal Processing
11 2 (2.410%) Project Management
11 2 (2.410%) Refactoring
11 2 (2.410%) Use Case
11 2 (2.410%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 83 (100.00%) C++
2 45 (54.22%) C
3 17 (20.48%) Embedded C++
4 10 (12.05%) VC++
5 9 (10.84%) C#
6 6 (7.229%) Perl
6 6 (7.229%) Fortran
7 5 (6.024%) SQL
8 4 (4.819%) Embedded C
9 3 (3.614%) Java
9 3 (3.614%) Python
10 1 (1.205%) Ruby
10 1 (1.205%) Shell Script
10 1 (1.205%) Ada
10 1 (1.205%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 19 (22.89%) Security Cleared
2 14 (16.87%) SC Cleared
3 7 (8.434%) Degree
4 2 (2.410%) PhD
5 1 (1.205%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.819%) DO-178B
2 1 (1.205%) TickIT
Vendors
1 7 (8.434%) Microsoft
2 3 (3.614%) Serena
2 3 (3.614%) Cisco
2 3 (3.614%) Coverity
3 2 (2.410%) Freescale
3 2 (2.410%) Red Hat
4 1 (1.205%) Google
4 1 (1.205%) Green Hills
4 1 (1.205%) QNX
4 1 (1.205%) Wind River
Somerset, South West
Delphi & C++ /Somerset/ 3 months / £25-£33 per hour Our client based in Somersetis currently looking to recruit several C++ and Delphisoftware engineers. The client requires software engineers...
Computer Futures
Posted: 15 May 2013
Woking, South East
To be considered for this role candidates must have a proven track record, working in embedded software and system, preferably to safety standard MISRA. Experience with at least...
Computer Futures
Rate: £32 - £35 per hour
Posted: 16 May 2013
Guildford, Surrey
Keywords:- Software Engineer, Software Developer, Telecoms, Datacoms, C++, Linux, STL, GCC, Make, GDB, GSM, UMTS, LTE, System Design, RANAP, GTP, S1, MAP, CAMEL, Radius, SMNP, SIP, VOIP, RTP,...
Spectrum IT Recruitment (South) Ltd
Rate: £35 - £40 per hour
Posted: 15 May 2013