C++ Software Engineer Contracts

Software Engineer - C++
UK

The median Software Engineer - C++ daily rate in the UK is £475 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 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
4 May 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 484 621 711
Rank change year-on-year +137 +90 -79
Contract jobs requiring a C++ Software Engineer 108 97 143
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.25% 0.16% 0.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.27% 0.17% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 25 26
10th Percentile £413 £418 £481
25th Percentile £425 £500 £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £650 £675
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% -3.70% +74.19%
75th Percentile £525 £738 £817
90th Percentile £556 £825 £838
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £463 £509
% change year-on-year +2.70% -9.14% +35.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 62 42 63
10th Percentile £57.75 £58.07 £51.25
25th Percentile £61.25 - -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% +33.33%
75th Percentile - £67.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £76.80 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year - +8.33% +33.33%

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 40,021 55,966 84,699
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.75% 94.62% 95.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,056 39,104 59,482
10th Percentile £280 £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 £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 2,666 1,571 2,084
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.30 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.81
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +89.04% +5.80%
75th Percentile £61.29 £65.75 £49.19
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.00 £63.71
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.26 £19.52
% change year-on-year -5.35% +116.50% +2.74%

C++ Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for C++ Software Engineer in the UK

C++ Software Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for C++ Software Engineer in the UK

C++ Software Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing C++ Software Engineer over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for C++ Software Engineer in the UK

C++ Software Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for C++ Software Engineer in the UK

C++ Software Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing C++ Software Engineer over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for C++ Software Engineer in the UK

C++ Software Engineer
Top 11 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 4 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 +129 102 £475 -31.16% 90
UK excluding London +95 97 £475 +2.70% 67
East of England +36 47 £425 +65.05% 18
South East +40 29 £500 -5.66% 15
Work from Home +117 22 £475 -31.16% 39
South West +7 13 - - 16
London +96 11 £475 -34.48% 27
Scotland +44 5 - - 3
North of England +26 2 - - 4
Yorkshire +22 2 - -
Wales +14 1 - - 1

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

For the 6 months to 4 May 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 featuring C++ Software Engineer in the job title.

1 108 (100.00%) C++
1 108 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 55 (50.93%) Agile
3 47 (43.52%) C
4 45 (41.67%) C#
5 43 (39.81%) Social Skills
6 40 (37.04%) Linux
7 37 (34.26%) Continuous Integration
7 37 (34.26%) DevOps
8 36 (33.33%) Unit Testing
9 35 (32.41%) TDD
10 31 (28.70%) Continuous Improvement
11 29 (26.85%) Software Testing
12 27 (25.00%) Pair Programming
12 27 (25.00%) Electronics
12 27 (25.00%) Scrum
12 27 (25.00%) Modbus
12 27 (25.00%) RS-485
12 27 (25.00%) RS-422
12 27 (25.00%) Customer Requirements
13 23 (21.30%) Windows
14 22 (20.37%) JIRA
15 20 (18.52%) Self-Motivation
16 19 (17.59%) Problem-Solving
16 19 (17.59%) Validation
17 18 (16.67%) Java
17 18 (16.67%) Git
18 17 (15.74%) JavaScript
18 17 (15.74%) Python
19 16 (14.81%) Eclipse

C++ Software Engineer 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 11 (10.19%) Confluence
Applications
1 7 (6.48%) Simulink
2 2 (1.85%) Adobe After Effects
2 2 (1.85%) Blender
2 2 (1.85%) Maya
2 2 (1.85%) Photoshop
Cloud Services
1 8 (7.41%) Azure
1 8 (7.41%) GitHub
2 3 (2.78%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (0.93%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 27 (25.00%) Modbus
1 27 (25.00%) RS-422
1 27 (25.00%) RS-485
2 10 (9.26%) 802.11
2 10 (9.26%) Wi-Fi
3 9 (8.33%) Software-Defined Radio
4 8 (7.41%) SNMP
4 8 (7.41%) TCP/IP
5 6 (5.56%) Ethernet
6 4 (3.70%) Radio Access Network
7 2 (1.85%) Wireless
8 1 (0.93%) MQTT
8 1 (0.93%) NFC
8 1 (0.93%) PPP
8 1 (0.93%) RS-232
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.63%) Couchbase
2 1 (0.93%) CouchDB
2 1 (0.93%) MongoDB
2 1 (0.93%) MySQL
2 1 (0.93%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (0.93%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 22 (20.37%) JIRA
2 18 (16.67%) Git
3 16 (14.81%) Eclipse
4 15 (13.89%) GoogleTest
5 13 (12.04%) Jenkins
6 12 (11.11%) Bitbucket
7 9 (8.33%) Visual Studio
8 8 (7.41%) Robot Framework
9 2 (1.85%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.93%) CMake
10 1 (0.93%) Rational DOORS
10 1 (0.93%) TestRail
10 1 (0.93%) Valgrind
General
1 43 (39.81%) Social Skills
2 27 (25.00%) Electronics
3 7 (6.48%) Presentation Skills
4 6 (5.56%) Military
5 4 (3.70%) Aerospace
6 3 (2.78%) Games
7 2 (1.85%) Finance
7 2 (1.85%) Law
8 1 (0.93%) Automotive
8 1 (0.93%) Aviation
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (11.11%) CSS
1 12 (11.11%) HTML
2 10 (9.26%) 802.1X
3 7 (6.48%) Node.js
3 7 (6.48%) Web Services
4 6 (5.56%) .NET
4 6 (5.56%) Qt
5 5 (4.63%) Kafka
6 3 (2.78%) WPF
6 3 (2.78%) XML
7 2 (1.85%) ADO
7 2 (1.85%) Blazor
7 2 (1.85%) MFC
7 2 (1.85%) OpenCV
7 2 (1.85%) RESTful
7 2 (1.85%) SOAP
7 2 (1.85%) Unreal Engine
7 2 (1.85%) WinForms
8 1 (0.93%) OpenVINO
8 1 (0.93%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 20 (18.52%) Self-Motivation
2 6 (5.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 3 (2.78%) Augmented Reality
3 3 (2.78%) Linux Command Line
3 3 (2.78%) Virtual Reality
4 2 (1.85%) CUDA
5 1 (0.93%) Algorithms
5 1 (0.93%) Client/Server
5 1 (0.93%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (0.93%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.93%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 40 (37.04%) Linux
2 23 (21.30%) Windows
3 7 (6.48%) Embedded Linux
4 2 (1.85%) Android
4 2 (1.85%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.93%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 55 (50.93%) Agile
3 37 (34.26%) Continuous Integration
3 37 (34.26%) DevOps
4 36 (33.33%) Unit Testing
5 35 (32.41%) TDD
6 31 (28.70%) Continuous Improvement
7 29 (26.85%) Software Testing
8 27 (25.00%) Customer Requirements
8 27 (25.00%) Pair Programming
8 27 (25.00%) Scrum
9 19 (17.59%) Problem-Solving
9 19 (17.59%) Validation
10 14 (12.96%) UML
11 13 (12.04%) CI/CD
11 13 (12.04%) Verification and Validation
11 13 (12.04%) Visualisation
12 9 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 9 (8.33%) Multithreading
12 9 (8.33%) SysML
Programming Languages
1 108 (100.00%) C++
2 47 (43.52%) C
3 45 (41.67%) C#
4 18 (16.67%) Java
5 17 (15.74%) JavaScript
5 17 (15.74%) Python
6 12 (11.11%) Perl
7 10 (9.26%) Tcl
8 7 (6.48%) MATLAB
9 3 (2.78%) Bash
9 3 (2.78%) Embedded C++
10 2 (1.85%) C++/CLI
10 2 (1.85%) SQL
11 1 (0.93%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 12 (11.11%) Degree
2 10 (9.26%) Security Cleared
3 7 (6.48%) SC Cleared
4 4 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.78%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.56%) MISRA
System Software
1 9 (8.33%) Firmware
2 3 (2.78%) VirtualBox
3 2 (1.85%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.93%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.93%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 15 (13.89%) Google
2 8 (7.41%) Atlassian
3 7 (6.48%) Oracle
4 6 (5.56%) Microsoft
5 2 (1.85%) Adobe
5 2 (1.85%) NVIDIA
5 2 (1.85%) Xamarin
6 1 (0.93%) Compaq
6 1 (0.93%) Twitter
6 1 (0.93%) VMware
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