C++ Contracts in the West Midlands

C++
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for C++ skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited C++ over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 93 112 167
Rank change year-on-year +19 +55 -52
Contract jobs citing C++ 20 26 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.04% 1.10% 0.17%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.69% 4.26% 0.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 18 2
10th Percentile £194 £363 £333
25th Percentile £486 £444 £344
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £502 £575 £375
Median % change year-on-year -12.78% +53.33% +25.00%
75th Percentile £538 £590 £394
90th Percentile £581 £600 £398
England median daily rate £575 £650 £700
% change year-on-year -11.54% -7.14% +21.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £40.50 - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year - +8.33% +20.60%

All Programming Languages
West Midlands

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 426 611 928
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 22.12% 25.97% 26.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 309 421 678
10th Percentile £260 £363 £325
25th Percentile £350 £413 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £459
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +14.38% +14.75%
75th Percentile £550 £598 £540
90th Percentile £638 £700 £633
England median daily rate £542 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -4.13% +2.69% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 8 2
10th Percentile £40.10 £21.73 £16.35
25th Percentile £55.00 £23.81 £16.51
Median hourly rate £57.50 £29.32 £17.39
Median % change year-on-year +96.13% +68.59% -53.63%
75th Percentile £58.75 £64.69 £18.38
90th Percentile £69.75 £98.25 £18.60
England median hourly rate £62.50 £60.94 £50.00
% change year-on-year +2.56% +21.88% +14.94%

C++
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing C++ as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for C++ in the West Midlands

C++
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing C++ in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for C++ in the West Midlands

C++
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing C++ in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for C++ in the West Midlands

C++
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing C++ in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for C++ in the West Midlands

C++
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing C++ within the West Midlands region 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
Shropshire - 12 £508 - 1
Birmingham +16 4 £492 +9.22% 10
Worcestershire -3 2 £590 - 7
Warwickshire -1 1 - - 4
C++
England

C++
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 (5.00%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Simulink
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.00%) Bluetooth
1 1 (5.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.00%) Data Lake
1 2 (10.00%) NoSQL
1 2 (10.00%) RDBMS
1 2 (10.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 12 (60.00%) PVCS
1 12 (60.00%) Visual Studio
2 1 (5.00%) Ant
2 1 (5.00%) Gradle
2 1 (5.00%) JUnit
2 1 (5.00%) Maven
General
1 3 (15.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (10.00%) Finance
2 2 (10.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 12 (60.00%) Programmer
2 9 (45.00%) C Programmer
3 3 (15.00%) C++ Programmer
3 3 (15.00%) Senior
4 2 (10.00%) Data Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Embedded C Programmer
4 2 (10.00%) Software Programmer
5 1 (5.00%) C++ Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Data Scientist
5 1 (5.00%) Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Embedded Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Embedded Software Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Research Scientist
5 1 (5.00%) Senior C++ Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Senior Data Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Senior Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Software Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.00%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 5 (25.00%) Algorithms
2 2 (10.00%) Data Structures
3 1 (5.00%) Device Driver
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.00%) Linux
2 1 (5.00%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (20.00%) Software Engineering
2 3 (15.00%) Mentoring
3 2 (10.00%) Commercial Awareness
3 2 (10.00%) Continuous Delivery
3 2 (10.00%) Data Modelling
3 2 (10.00%) Mathematics
3 2 (10.00%) Physics
3 2 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (10.00%) Process Improvement
3 2 (10.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (5.00%) Benchmarking
4 1 (5.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (5.00%) Full Stack Development
4 1 (5.00%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
4 1 (5.00%) Project Management
4 1 (5.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (5.00%) Systems Engineering
4 1 (5.00%) TDD
4 1 (5.00%) Validation
4 1 (5.00%) Verification and Validation
Programming Languages
1 15 (75.00%) C
2 12 (60.00%) PL/SQL
3 6 (30.00%) Python
4 3 (15.00%) MATLAB
5 2 (10.00%) Java
6 1 (5.00%) Bash
6 1 (5.00%) Scala
6 1 (5.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 15 (75.00%) SC Cleared
1 15 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (10.00%) Degree
2 2 (10.00%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 1 (5.00%) Embedded Firmware
1 1 (5.00%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (5.00%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft