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 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 42 33
Rank change year-on-year +19 -9 -2
Contract jobs citing C++ 12 4 27
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 3.47% 1.37% 5.01%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.79% 5.33% 24.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 4 17
10th Percentile £409 - £415
25th Percentile £413 £313 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £431 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.45% -21.59% +15.79%
75th Percentile £438 £561 £638
90th Percentile - £569 £703
East of England median daily rate £425 £490 £550
% change year-on-year -13.27% -10.91% +22.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £63.75
Median hourly rate - - £67.50
75th Percentile - - £71.25
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +3.85% - -0.38%

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 76 75 112
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 21.97% 25.68% 20.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 55 65
10th Percentile £202 £275 £358
25th Percentile £400 £389 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £495
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% -4.04% +10.00%
75th Percentile £518 £550 £563
90th Percentile £645 £650 £588
East of England median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% -2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 6 18
10th Percentile £26.35 £19.93 £35.50
25th Percentile £26.50 £23.64 £38.64
Median hourly rate £27.50 £35.16 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.79% -36.07% +10.00%
75th Percentile £30.24 £59.38 £63.75
90th Percentile £32.57 £65.00 £66.25
East of England median hourly rate £70.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +7.69% - -

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++
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 June 2026. 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 +8 11 £425 -1.45% 87
Ely - 1 - -
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 1 (8.33%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 1 (8.33%) AWS
1 1 (8.33%) Azure
1 1 (8.33%) GCP
1 1 (8.33%) Google Ads
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) InfiniBand
1 1 (8.33%) TCP/IP
General
1 2 (16.67%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 8 (66.67%) Software Engineer
2 7 (58.33%) C++ Software Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Electronics Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Applications Developer
4 1 (8.33%) C++ Applications Developer
4 1 (8.33%) C++ Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) FPGA
2 1 (8.33%) Grid Computing
2 1 (8.33%) Private Cloud
2 1 (8.33%) Public Cloud
2 1 (8.33%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 2 (16.67%) Linux
1 2 (16.67%) Windows
2 1 (8.33%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (66.67%) Software Engineering
2 7 (58.33%) High Availability
3 3 (25.00%) Prototyping
4 2 (16.67%) Embedded Software Development
4 2 (16.67%) Schematic Capture
4 2 (16.67%) Validation
5 1 (8.33%) Agile
5 1 (8.33%) Computer Science
5 1 (8.33%) Configuration Management
5 1 (8.33%) Containerisation
5 1 (8.33%) Cross-Platform Development
5 1 (8.33%) Data Analysis
5 1 (8.33%) DevOps
5 1 (8.33%) Incident Response
5 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (8.33%) OO
5 1 (8.33%) Robotic Control
5 1 (8.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (33.33%) C#
1 4 (33.33%) Python
2 2 (16.67%) C
2 2 (16.67%) MATLAB
3 1 (8.33%) Bash
3 1 (8.33%) Java
3 1 (8.33%) Perl
3 1 (8.33%) Ruby
3 1 (8.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) Degree
1 2 (16.67%) DV Cleared
1 2 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (16.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (25.00%) Firmware
2 1 (8.33%) Docker
2 1 (8.33%) GPFS
2 1 (8.33%) Lustre
2 1 (8.33%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) Ansible
1 1 (8.33%) Consul
1 1 (8.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (8.33%) Puppet
1 1 (8.33%) Salt
1 1 (8.33%) Terraform