C++ Contract Job Trends in Cambridgeshire

C++
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire requiring C++ skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 24 15
Rank change year-on-year +2 -9 +21
Contract jobs citing C++ 20 14 29
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 5.12% 4.28% 6.86%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.52% 14.43% 34.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 10 15
10th Percentile £284 £450 £413
25th Percentile £313 £467 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -25.58% +2.38% -12.50%
75th Percentile £538 £586 £560
90th Percentile £586 £588 £603
East of England median daily rate £438 £551 £430
% change year-on-year -20.63% +28.20% -23.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 3
10th Percentile - £48.65 -
25th Percentile £41.25 £50.38 £53.75
Median hourly rate £42.50 £56.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -24.11% -2.61% +9.52%
75th Percentile £43.75 £61.88 £75.00
90th Percentile - £63.75 £83.25
East of England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £69.00
% change year-on-year - -5.80% +6.15%

All Programming Languages
Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 108 97 85
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 27.62% 29.66% 20.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 60 48
10th Percentile £246 £328 £425
25th Percentile £391 £344 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £452 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.09% -13.90% +5.00%
75th Percentile £544 £538 £575
90th Percentile £625 £588 £675
East of England median daily rate £500 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 6 13
10th Percentile - £35.38 £17.45
25th Percentile £31.25 £46.25 £51.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £48.75 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% -18.75% +33.33%
75th Percentile £43.75 £56.25 £77.50
90th Percentile £45.86 £61.25 -
East of England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £69.00
% change year-on-year - -5.80% +6.15%

C++
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing C++ relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire.

C++ job vacancy trend in Cambridgeshire

C++
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing C++.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing C++

C++
Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridgeshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing C++ in Cambridgeshire over the 6 months to 17 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for C++ in Cambridgeshire

C++
Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing C++.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing C++

C++
Contract Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing C++ within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 17 December 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
Cambridge +4 18 £363 -35.84% 41
C++
East of England

C++
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridgeshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 13 (65.00%) WebLogic
1 13 (65.00%) WebSphere
2 1 (5.00%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 2 (10.00%) AWS
1 2 (10.00%) Azure
1 2 (10.00%) GCP
2 1 (5.00%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.00%) 3GPP
1 1 (5.00%) 5G
1 1 (5.00%) 5G NR
1 1 (5.00%) Bluetooth
1 1 (5.00%) HTTP
1 1 (5.00%) InfiniBand
1 1 (5.00%) LTE
1 1 (5.00%) MQTT
1 1 (5.00%) SSL
1 1 (5.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (5.00%) UWB
1 1 (5.00%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (5.00%) Wireless
1 1 (5.00%) ZigBee
General
1 1 (5.00%) Manufacturing
1 1 (5.00%) Organisational Skills
1 1 (5.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (60.00%) Consultant
2 4 (20.00%) Software Engineer
3 1 (5.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (5.00%) Hardware Engineer
3 1 (5.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (5.00%) PCB Engineer
3 1 (5.00%) Research Engineer
3 1 (5.00%) Research Software Engineer
3 1 (5.00%) Wireless Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (65.00%) .NET
1 13 (65.00%) HTML
1 13 (65.00%) Middleware
1 13 (65.00%) Node.js
2 1 (5.00%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.00%) Acoustics
1 1 (5.00%) CUDA
1 1 (5.00%) Embedded Systems
1 1 (5.00%) Grid Computing
1 1 (5.00%) IoT
1 1 (5.00%) Life Science
1 1 (5.00%) NB-IoT
1 1 (5.00%) Private Cloud
1 1 (5.00%) Public Cloud
1 1 (5.00%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.00%) Linux
1 1 (5.00%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (65.00%) Requirements Gathering
2 4 (20.00%) Software Engineering
3 3 (15.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (15.00%) Customer Requirements
3 3 (15.00%) ITSM
3 3 (15.00%) Knowledge Management
3 3 (15.00%) Performance Metrics
3 3 (15.00%) Performance Testing
4 2 (10.00%) DevOps
4 2 (10.00%) Prototyping
5 1 (5.00%) Agile
5 1 (5.00%) Computer Science
5 1 (5.00%) Configuration Management
5 1 (5.00%) Machine Learning
5 1 (5.00%) Multithreading
5 1 (5.00%) Project Management
5 1 (5.00%) Robotic Automation
5 1 (5.00%) Schematic Capture
5 1 (5.00%) Signal Processing
5 1 (5.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 17 (85.00%) C
2 16 (80.00%) Java
3 13 (65.00%) PHP
4 6 (30.00%) Python
5 2 (10.00%) Bash
5 2 (10.00%) Perl
5 2 (10.00%) Ruby
5 2 (10.00%) SQL
6 1 (5.00%) C#
6 1 (5.00%) Embedded C
6 1 (5.00%) Embedded C++
6 1 (5.00%) Go
6 1 (5.00%) MATLAB
6 1 (5.00%) R
Qualifications
1 3 (15.00%) Degree
2 1 (5.00%) Master's Degree
2 1 (5.00%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (10.00%) Docker
2 1 (5.00%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (5.00%) Firmware
2 1 (5.00%) GPFS
2 1 (5.00%) Lustre
2 1 (5.00%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 2 (10.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.00%) Ansible
2 1 (5.00%) Consul
2 1 (5.00%) Puppet
2 1 (5.00%) Salt
2 1 (5.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (65.00%) Dynatrace