C++ Contracts with Work from Home Options

C++
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 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 149 137 224
Rank change year-on-year -12 +87 -42
Contract jobs citing C++ 211 455 529
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.40% 1.81% 1.21%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.18% 4.85% 3.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 136 271 348
10th Percentile £325 £413 £425
25th Percentile £475 £525 £520
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £700 £603
Median % change year-on-year -17.86% +16.18% +18.14%
75th Percentile £778 £818 £763
90th Percentile £950 £900 £832
UK median daily rate £575 £650 £700
% change year-on-year -11.54% -7.14% +21.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 53 30
10th Percentile £41.00 £41.70 £46.13
25th Percentile £61.25 £54.88 £48.63
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - +18.18% -
75th Percentile £90.00 £65.75 £59.69
90th Percentile - £86.00 £65.54
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year - +8.33% +20.60%

All Programming Languages
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 5,048 9,374 16,677
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 33.49% 37.36% 38.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,662 6,862 12,375
10th Percentile £350 £390 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £650 £663 £638
90th Percentile £788 £775 £725
UK median daily rate £528 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.00% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 140 203 185
10th Percentile £34.38 £31.60 £20.75
25th Percentile £46.25 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £60.00 £62.50 £49.75
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +25.63% +10.56%
75th Percentile £72.50 £70.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £85.38 £82.00 £66.60
UK median hourly rate £62.18 £60.94 £50.00
% change year-on-year +2.03% +21.88% +14.94%

C++
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing C++ as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

C++ trend for jobs with a WFH option

C++
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing C++.

C++ daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

C++
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing C++ over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

C++ daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

C++
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing C++.

C++ hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

C++
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing C++ over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

C++ hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

C++
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 7 (3.32%) Confluence
2 3 (1.42%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.95%) BizTalk Server
3 2 (0.95%) WebSphere
4 1 (0.47%) Ethereum
4 1 (0.47%) Hyperledger
4 1 (0.47%) nginx
4 1 (0.47%) SAS
4 1 (0.47%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (3.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.90%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.47%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.95%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.47%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 25 (11.85%) AWS
2 17 (8.06%) Azure
3 3 (1.42%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (1.42%) Datadog
4 2 (0.95%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (0.95%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 2 (0.95%) Azure Functions
4 2 (0.95%) Azure Logic Apps
4 2 (0.95%) Azure Storage
4 2 (0.95%) GitHub
4 2 (0.95%) SaaS
4 2 (0.95%) Serverless
5 1 (0.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (0.47%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (0.47%) Amazon ELB
5 1 (0.47%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (0.47%) GCP
5 1 (0.47%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (0.47%) IaaS
5 1 (0.47%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (5.21%) TCP/IP
2 9 (4.27%) 802.11
2 9 (4.27%) Wi-Fi
3 7 (3.32%) Wireless
4 4 (1.90%) Diameter Protocol
4 4 (1.90%) DNS
5 3 (1.42%) DHCP
5 3 (1.42%) Ethernet
5 3 (1.42%) Internet
5 3 (1.42%) RTSP
6 2 (0.95%) Bluetooth
6 2 (0.95%) SNMP
6 2 (0.95%) Software-Defined Radio
7 1 (0.47%) HTTP
7 1 (0.47%) IPv4
7 1 (0.47%) MPLS
7 1 (0.47%) MQTT
7 1 (0.47%) PPP
7 1 (0.47%) RS-232
7 1 (0.47%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (4.74%) MongoDB
2 6 (2.84%) Elasticsearch
2 6 (2.84%) Relational Database
3 4 (1.90%) Amazon Redshift
3 4 (1.90%) Couchbase
3 4 (1.90%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (1.42%) MySQL
5 2 (0.95%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (0.95%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (0.95%) NoSQL
5 2 (0.95%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.47%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.47%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (0.47%) Apache Hive
6 1 (0.47%) Big Data
6 1 (0.47%) CouchDB
6 1 (0.47%) Data Mining
6 1 (0.47%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.47%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.47%) Redis
Development Applications
1 24 (11.37%) Git
2 18 (8.53%) Jenkins
3 16 (7.58%) JIRA
4 15 (7.11%) Visual Studio
5 9 (4.27%) Rational DOORS
5 9 (4.27%) Subversion
6 8 (3.79%) PVCS
7 7 (3.32%) Artifactory
8 6 (2.84%) Bitbucket
9 5 (2.37%) Eclipse
10 3 (1.42%) GoogleTest
11 2 (0.95%) Robot Framework
12 1 (0.47%) CMake
12 1 (0.47%) CppUnit
12 1 (0.47%) Cucumber
12 1 (0.47%) NeoLoad
12 1 (0.47%) Rational Rhapsody
12 1 (0.47%) TeamCity
12 1 (0.47%) Travis CI
12 1 (0.47%) Valgrind
General
1 46 (21.80%) Finance
2 45 (21.33%) Social Skills
3 25 (11.85%) Banking
4 19 (9.00%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (6.64%) Front Office
6 11 (5.21%) Aerospace
6 11 (5.21%) Telecoms
7 10 (4.74%) Investment Banking
8 9 (4.27%) Public Sector
9 6 (2.84%) Automotive
10 3 (1.42%) Games
11 2 (0.95%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.95%) International Banking
11 2 (0.95%) Legal
11 2 (0.95%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.47%) German Language
12 1 (0.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.47%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.47%) Multimedia
12 1 (0.47%) Retail
Job Titles
1 73 (34.60%) Developer
2 46 (21.80%) Software Engineer
3 41 (19.43%) C++ Developer
4 22 (10.43%) C++ Software Engineer
5 21 (9.95%) Senior
6 17 (8.06%) Embedded Engineer
6 17 (8.06%) Embedded Software Engineer
7 14 (6.64%) Analyst
8 10 (4.74%) Qualitative Analyst
8 10 (4.74%) Quantitative Analyst
9 9 (4.27%) Architect
9 9 (4.27%) Senior Developer
10 8 (3.79%) C Software Engineer
10 8 (3.79%) DevOps Engineer
10 8 (3.79%) Low Latency C++ Developer
10 8 (3.79%) Programmer
10 8 (3.79%) Python Engineer
10 8 (3.79%) Quantitative Developer
11 7 (3.32%) Development Engineer
11 7 (3.32%) Linux Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (12.80%) .NET
2 13 (6.16%) Kafka
3 12 (5.69%) RESTful
4 10 (4.74%) 802.1X
5 8 (3.79%) AngularJS
6 7 (3.32%) React
6 7 (3.32%) XML
7 6 (2.84%) HTML
7 6 (2.84%) Node.js
7 6 (2.84%) RabbitMQ
7 6 (2.84%) Smart Contracts
8 5 (2.37%) Blazor
8 5 (2.37%) CSS
8 5 (2.37%) REST
9 4 (1.90%) Middleware
9 4 (1.90%) OpenGL
9 4 (1.90%) TensorFlow
9 4 (1.90%) Web Services
10 3 (1.42%) iOS SDK
10 3 (1.42%) Unreal Engine
Miscellaneous
1 32 (15.17%) Derivative
2 31 (14.69%) Algorithms
3 21 (9.95%) Hedge funds
4 12 (5.69%) Equity Derivative
5 9 (4.27%) Data Structures
5 9 (4.27%) Device Driver
6 8 (3.79%) Blockchain
6 8 (3.79%) Equities
7 7 (3.32%) Distributed Systems
7 7 (3.32%) Fixed Income
7 7 (3.32%) Self-Motivation
8 6 (2.84%) Credit Derivative
8 6 (2.84%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 5 (2.37%) Mobile App
10 4 (1.90%) Distributed Applications
10 4 (1.90%) Distributed Computing
10 4 (1.90%) Embedded Systems
10 4 (1.90%) Verilog
11 3 (1.42%) Operational Technology
11 3 (1.42%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 43 (20.38%) Linux
2 28 (13.27%) Windows
3 9 (4.27%) Unix
4 6 (2.84%) Embedded Linux
5 5 (2.37%) Windows Server
6 3 (1.42%) Android
6 3 (1.42%) Apple iOS
6 3 (1.42%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.95%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.47%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.47%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (31.28%) Software Engineering
2 46 (21.80%) Problem-Solving
3 37 (17.54%) Computer Science
4 28 (13.27%) Test Automation
5 26 (12.32%) DevOps
6 25 (11.85%) Agile
7 24 (11.37%) Validation
8 19 (9.00%) Mathematics
9 18 (8.53%) Analytics
10 17 (8.06%) CI/CD
11 15 (7.11%) Quantitative Finance
12 14 (6.64%) Unit Testing
13 12 (5.69%) Low Latency
13 12 (5.69%) OO
13 12 (5.69%) Physics
14 11 (5.21%) Algorithmic Trading
14 11 (5.21%) Verification and Validation
15 10 (4.74%) Microservices
15 10 (4.74%) Scrum
15 10 (4.74%) Systematic Trading
Programming Languages
1 88 (41.71%) Python
2 69 (32.70%) C
3 53 (25.12%) Java
4 50 (23.70%) C#
5 34 (16.11%) SQL
6 20 (9.48%) Perl
7 18 (8.53%) Shell Script
8 16 (7.58%) JavaScript
9 15 (7.11%) Bash
10 13 (6.16%) PowerShell
11 12 (5.69%) Go
12 11 (5.21%) VBA
13 10 (4.74%) Embedded C++
13 10 (4.74%) PL/SQL
13 10 (4.74%) Tcl
14 7 (3.32%) Embedded C
14 7 (3.32%) MATLAB
15 6 (2.84%) R
15 6 (2.84%) VB.NET
16 5 (2.37%) Rust
Qualifications
1 50 (23.70%) Degree
2 26 (12.32%) Security Cleared
3 22 (10.43%) SC Cleared
4 19 (9.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (8.06%) Master's Degree
6 12 (5.69%) Numerate Degree
6 12 (5.69%) PhD
7 4 (1.90%) CREST Certified
8 3 (1.42%) CEH
8 3 (1.42%) GIAC
8 3 (1.42%) GPEN
8 3 (1.42%) OSCP
9 2 (0.95%) ISEB
9 2 (0.95%) ISTQB
9 2 (0.95%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (0.95%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.47%) CISM
10 1 (0.47%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.47%) MBA
10 1 (0.47%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (1.90%) JTAG
1 4 (1.90%) NIST
2 2 (0.95%) GDPR
2 2 (0.95%) ISO 9001
2 2 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 20000
2 2 (0.95%) MiFID
2 2 (0.95%) SLA
3 1 (0.47%) COPPA
3 1 (0.47%) ISO 20022
3 1 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.47%) QA
System Software
1 9 (4.27%) Docker
2 8 (3.79%) Firmware
3 6 (2.84%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 6 (2.84%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (2.37%) Active Directory
5 4 (1.90%) Embedded Firmware
6 3 (1.42%) VirtualBox
6 3 (1.42%) VMware Infrastructure
7 2 (0.95%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.95%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 13 (6.16%) Kubernetes
2 12 (5.69%) Ansible
3 9 (4.27%) Terraform
4 7 (3.32%) Consul
4 7 (3.32%) Grafana
4 7 (3.32%) Progress Chef
4 7 (3.32%) Prometheus
4 7 (3.32%) Puppet
5 4 (1.90%) BladeLogic
5 4 (1.90%) ITRS Geneos
6 3 (1.42%) Nagios
7 2 (0.95%) Kibana
7 2 (0.95%) WSUS
8 1 (0.47%) logstash
8 1 (0.47%) Packer
Vendors
1 16 (7.58%) Oracle
2 11 (5.21%) Microsoft
3 6 (2.84%) SaltStack
4 5 (2.37%) Dynatrace
4 5 (2.37%) Splunk
5 4 (1.90%) Altiris
5 4 (1.90%) Atlassian
5 4 (1.90%) Citrix
5 4 (1.90%) Google
6 3 (1.42%) New Relic
6 3 (1.42%) VMware
7 2 (0.95%) IBM
7 2 (0.95%) MuleSoft
7 2 (0.95%) NVIDIA
7 2 (0.95%) QNX
7 2 (0.95%) Xamarin
8 1 (0.47%) Adobe
8 1 (0.47%) CA
8 1 (0.47%) Quadient
8 1 (0.47%) Qualys