C++ Contracts in Bristol

C++
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Bristol 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 27 48 44
Rank change year-on-year +21 -4 -11
Contract jobs citing C++ 28 26 60
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bristol 5.21% 2.46% 4.78%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.00% 10.16% 15.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 8
10th Percentile £503 £505 £268
25th Percentile £506 £531 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £488
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +23.08% -11.36%
75th Percentile £556 £656 £657
90th Percentile £568 £675 £661
South West median daily rate £550 £550 £463
% change year-on-year - +18.92% -11.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 24 47
10th Percentile £62.60 £61.25 £60.91
25th Percentile - £65.00 £61.08
Median hourly rate £65.00 £70.00 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +6.87% +0.77%
75th Percentile £68.00 £74.06 £70.30
90th Percentile - £85.00 -
South West median hourly rate £65.00 £70.00 £65.50
% change year-on-year -7.14% +6.87% +0.77%

All Programming Languages
Bristol

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 Bristol.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 175 256 396
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 32.59% 24.22% 31.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 140 271
10th Percentile £336 £300 £358
25th Percentile £363 £325 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.44% -5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £524 £541 £588
90th Percentile £621 £639 £675
South West median daily rate £500 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -4.76% +2.44% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 75 64
10th Percentile £61.25 £52.50 £54.13
25th Percentile £65.00 £62.50 £60.91
Median hourly rate £66.50 £70.00 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +6.87% +0.77%
75th Percentile £68.00 - £70.30
90th Percentile £68.75 £85.00 -
South West median hourly rate £67.50 £67.25 £65.00
% change year-on-year +0.37% +3.46% +6.12%

C++
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

Job vacancy trend for C++ in Bristol

C++
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

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

Daily rate trend for C++ in Bristol

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Bristol

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

Hourly rate trend for C++ in Bristol

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bristol 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 1 (3.57%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.57%) Ethernet
1 1 (3.57%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Eclipse
1 1 (3.57%) Jenkins
1 1 (3.57%) JIRA
1 1 (3.57%) Visual Studio
General
1 3 (10.71%) Law
2 2 (7.14%) Aerospace
3 1 (3.57%) Aviation
3 1 (3.57%) Finance
3 1 (3.57%) Marketing
3 1 (3.57%) Military
3 1 (3.57%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (3.57%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (46.43%) Software Engineer
2 9 (32.14%) C++ Software Engineer
2 9 (32.14%) Product Engineer
2 9 (32.14%) Products Support Engineer
2 9 (32.14%) Software Support Engineer
2 9 (32.14%) Support Engineer
3 8 (28.57%) Linux Engineer
4 7 (25.00%) Linux Support
4 7 (25.00%) Linux Support Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) C++ Developer
5 2 (7.14%) Developer
6 1 (3.57%) Architect
6 1 (3.57%) C# Software Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Embedded C++ Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Embedded C++ Software Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Embedded Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Lead
6 1 (3.57%) Software Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (82.14%) Middleware
2 13 (46.43%) Qt
3 1 (3.57%) Node.js
3 1 (3.57%) Web Services
Operating Systems
1 13 (46.43%) Linux
2 11 (39.29%) Ubuntu
3 1 (3.57%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (96.43%) Software Engineering
2 2 (7.14%) Agile
2 2 (7.14%) CI/CD
3 1 (3.57%) Continuous Delivery
3 1 (3.57%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (3.57%) DevOps
3 1 (3.57%) Digital Twin
3 1 (3.57%) Edge Computing
3 1 (3.57%) LLM
3 1 (3.57%) Machine Learning
3 1 (3.57%) Multithreading
3 1 (3.57%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
3 1 (3.57%) Software Architecture
3 1 (3.57%) Synthetic Environment
3 1 (3.57%) TDD
3 1 (3.57%) Unit Testing
3 1 (3.57%) Validation
3 1 (3.57%) Verification and Validation
3 1 (3.57%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 24 (85.71%) Ada
2 13 (46.43%) JavaScript
3 12 (42.86%) C
4 11 (39.29%) Shell Script
5 1 (3.57%) C#
5 1 (3.57%) Java
5 1 (3.57%) Python
Qualifications
1 11 (39.29%) Security Cleared
2 9 (32.14%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (46.43%) Def Stans
1 13 (46.43%) IEC 61508
1 13 (46.43%) MISRA
1 13 (46.43%) MISRA C
Vendors
1 11 (39.29%) Red Hat
2 1 (3.57%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.57%) Twitter