C++ Contracts in Berkshire

C++
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire requiring C++ skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited C++ over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 88 115 96
Rank change year-on-year +27 -19 +19
Contract jobs citing C++ 5 9 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.43% 0.45% 1.05%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.51% 2.41% 4.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 13
10th Percentile £371 £401 £358
25th Percentile £398 £465 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% +5.26% +13.43%
75th Percentile £500 - £550
90th Percentile - - £573
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £61.60 -
South East median hourly rate £61.50 £62.50 £58.50
% change year-on-year -1.60% +6.84% +11.43%

All Programming Languages
Berkshire

C++ falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring coding skills in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 332 373 433
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 28.30% 18.80% 23.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 205 250 320
10th Percentile £400 £325 £363
25th Percentile £454 £413 £432
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% +2.38% +5.00%
75th Percentile £638 £624 £625
90th Percentile £700 £688 £694
South East median daily rate £514 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.80% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 15 14
10th Percentile £39.74 £56.20 £22.99
25th Percentile £53.97 £56.65 £53.59
Median hourly rate £63.75 £61.60 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.48% -12.00% -12.50%
75th Percentile £68.51 £64.55 £79.19
90th Percentile £73.72 £68.25 £80.72
South East median hourly rate £56.75 £60.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -5.42% +9.09% +26.03%

C++
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Job postings citing C++ as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Job vacancy trend for C++ in Berkshire

C++
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for C++ in Berkshire

C++
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing C++ in Berkshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for C++ in Berkshire

C++
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for C++ in Berkshire

C++
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing C++ within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Reading +33 5 £463 +6.51% 32
C++
South East

C++
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) Entra ID
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Burp Suite
1 2 (40.00%) Metasploit
2 1 (20.00%) CMake
2 1 (20.00%) Git
General
1 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Developer
1 2 (40.00%) Penetration Tester
1 2 (40.00%) Tester
2 1 (20.00%) C++ Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Embedded Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) CNTK
1 1 (20.00%) OAuth
1 1 (20.00%) OpenVINO
1 1 (20.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (20.00%) TensorFlow
1 1 (20.00%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (20.00%) Algorithms
2 1 (20.00%) Device Driver
2 1 (20.00%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
2 1 (20.00%) Android
2 1 (20.00%) Embedded Linux
2 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (60.00%) Computer Science
3 2 (40.00%) Cloud Security
3 2 (40.00%) Cryptography
3 2 (40.00%) Data Protection
3 2 (40.00%) Information Security
3 2 (40.00%) OWASP
3 2 (40.00%) Penetration Testing
3 2 (40.00%) Regulatory Compliance
3 2 (40.00%) Reverse Engineering
3 2 (40.00%) Scenario Testing
3 2 (40.00%) Security Testing
3 2 (40.00%) Software Engineering
4 1 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
4 1 (20.00%) Data Science
4 1 (20.00%) Machine Learning
4 1 (20.00%) Performance Optimisation
4 1 (20.00%) Scrum
4 1 (20.00%) User Stories
4 1 (20.00%) Video Processing
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Python
2 2 (40.00%) C
2 2 (40.00%) Java
2 2 (40.00%) Ruby
3 1 (20.00%) Assembly Language
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) Degree
1 3 (60.00%) Master's Degree
2 2 (40.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (40.00%) GPEN
2 2 (40.00%) GWAPT
2 2 (40.00%) OSCE
2 2 (40.00%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) GDPR
1 2 (40.00%) HIPAA
1 2 (40.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft