Microsoft Visual C++
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for VC++ skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited VC++ over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 589 699 837
Rank change year-on-year +110 +138 -142
Contract jobs citing VC++ 2 6 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.005% 0.010% 0.011%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.016% 0.030% 0.032%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 2
10th Percentile £543 - £418
25th Percentile £589 £363 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £681 £375 £600
Median % change year-on-year +81.53% -37.50% -
75th Percentile £775 £388 £706
90th Percentile £823 - £763
UK excluding London median daily rate - £375 -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 4
Median hourly rate - £50.42 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year - -15.97% +66.67%
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £60.00
% change year-on-year - - +66.67%

All Programming Languages
UK

VC++ is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 12,736 20,223 31,637
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 29.58% 34.86% 36.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,069 14,573 23,041
10th Percentile £350 £395 £383
25th Percentile £425 £463 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £763 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £489 £500 £488
% change year-on-year -2.20% +2.56% +14.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 486 462 501
10th Percentile £32.25 £26.14 £19.52
25th Percentile £46.25 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £62.18 £60.94 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.03% +21.88% +14.94%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.96 £78.00 £69.05
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £61.84 £49.75
% change year-on-year +1.07% +24.30% +19.88%

VC++
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing VC++ as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for VC++ in the UK

VC++
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for VC++ in the UK

VC++
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VC++ over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for VC++ in the UK

VC++
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for VC++ in the UK

VC++
Top 3 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VC++ within the UK over the 6 months to 9 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 +111 2 £681 +81.53%
London +86 2 £681 -
Work from Home - 1 £525 -

VC++
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 1 (50.00%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Qualitative Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Quantitative Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) XML
1 1 (50.00%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Algorithms
1 1 (50.00%) Distributed Computing
1 1 (50.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Collateral Management
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (50.00%) Mathematics
1 1 (50.00%) Monte Carlo Method
1 1 (50.00%) Multithreaded Programming
1 1 (50.00%) Multithreading
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Quantitative Research
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C++
2 1 (50.00%) C#
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Master's Degree
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) IBM
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle