C++ Contracts in Central London

C++
London > Central London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 93 50 127
Rank change year-on-year -43 +77 -50
Contract jobs citing C++ 43 168 74
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 1.76% 4.36% 1.63%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.18% 10.20% 3.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 76 38
10th Percentile £558 £475 £413
25th Percentile £628 £611 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £705 £675 £700
Median % change year-on-year +4.44% -3.57% +3.70%
75th Percentile £844 £803 £829
90th Percentile £904 £944 £975
London median daily rate £650 £700 £725
% change year-on-year -7.14% -3.45% +11.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £57.50 -
London median hourly rate £60.00 £52.97 £55.00
% change year-on-year +13.27% -3.69% -4.35%

All Programming Languages
Central London

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 advertised in Central London with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 830 1,647 1,998
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 33.89% 42.72% 43.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 604 1,090 1,562
10th Percentile £413 £420 £413
25th Percentile £463 £506 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £620 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.87% +3.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £688 £738 £700
90th Percentile £800 £825 £800
London median daily rate £575 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -4.17% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 8 10
10th Percentile - £35.00 £43.45
25th Percentile £46.75 £47.19 £46.50
Median hourly rate £48.50 £57.50 £56.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.65% +2.68% +138.81%
75th Percentile £50.25 £65.00 £69.25
90th Percentile - £84.13 £77.63
London median hourly rate £50.25 £57.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -12.61% +15.00% +11.11%

C++
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for C++ in Central London

C++
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for C++ in Central London

C++
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing C++ in Central London over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for C++ in Central London

C++
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for C++ in Central London

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Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing C++ within the Central London region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
City of London -37 41 £705 +4.44% 19
City of Westminster - 1 £1,000 -
West End of London - 1 £450 -
Camden - 1 £450 -
C++
London

C++
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 6 (13.95%) BizTalk Server
2 1 (2.33%) Confluence
2 1 (2.33%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.33%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 15 (34.88%) AWS
2 12 (27.91%) Azure
3 6 (13.95%) AWS Lambda
3 6 (13.95%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 6 (13.95%) Azure Functions
3 6 (13.95%) Azure Logic Apps
3 6 (13.95%) Azure Storage
3 6 (13.95%) Serverless
4 3 (6.98%) GCP
4 3 (6.98%) GitHub
5 2 (4.65%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (4.65%) NuGet
6 1 (2.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (2.33%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (2.33%) Amazon ELB
6 1 (2.33%) ChatGPT
6 1 (2.33%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (2.33%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (2.33%) Power Platform
6 1 (2.33%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.65%) Firewall
2 1 (2.33%) DHCP
2 1 (2.33%) DNS
2 1 (2.33%) Network Security
2 1 (2.33%) Reverse Proxy
2 1 (2.33%) TCP/IP
2 1 (2.33%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (30.23%) MongoDB
2 6 (13.95%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (9.30%) NoSQL
4 2 (4.65%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (4.65%) KDB
4 2 (4.65%) MySQL
5 1 (2.33%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (2.33%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (2.33%) CouchDB
5 1 (2.33%) Data Mining
5 1 (2.33%) DynamoDB
5 1 (2.33%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (2.33%) Power BI
5 1 (2.33%) Redis
5 1 (2.33%) Relational Database
5 1 (2.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (16.28%) JIRA
2 5 (11.63%) Git
2 5 (11.63%) TeamCity
3 4 (9.30%) Bitbucket
3 4 (9.30%) Jenkins
4 1 (2.33%) CircleCI
4 1 (2.33%) CMake
4 1 (2.33%) Darcs
4 1 (2.33%) Jaeger
4 1 (2.33%) JMeter
4 1 (2.33%) LoadRunner
4 1 (2.33%) Mercurial
4 1 (2.33%) NeoLoad
4 1 (2.33%) Travis CI
General
1 13 (30.23%) Finance
2 11 (25.58%) Banking
2 11 (25.58%) Social Skills
3 10 (23.26%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (11.63%) Investment Banking
5 2 (4.65%) Front Office
5 2 (4.65%) International Banking
6 1 (2.33%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 17 (39.53%) Developer
2 7 (16.28%) Full Stack Developer
3 6 (13.95%) Analyst
4 5 (11.63%) Python Engineer
4 5 (11.63%) Quantitative Developer
4 5 (11.63%) Site Engineer
4 5 (11.63%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 3 (6.98%) Architect
5 3 (6.98%) C# Architect
5 3 (6.98%) C++ Developer
6 2 (4.65%) Analyst Developer
6 2 (4.65%) C++/Java Developer
6 2 (4.65%) Data Analyst
6 2 (4.65%) Developer Analyst
6 2 (4.65%) Java Analyst Developer
6 2 (4.65%) Java Developer
6 2 (4.65%) Quantitative Analyst
6 2 (4.65%) Senior Developer
6 2 (4.65%) Senior Quantitative Developer
6 2 (4.65%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (30.23%) .NET
1 13 (30.23%) .NET Core
2 6 (13.95%) Blazor
3 5 (11.63%) ADO
3 5 (11.63%) Kafka
3 5 (11.63%) RabbitMQ
3 5 (11.63%) RESTful
4 3 (6.98%) NumPy
4 3 (6.98%) Pandas
4 3 (6.98%) SciPy
5 2 (4.65%) REST
5 2 (4.65%) Spring
6 1 (2.33%) AngularJS
6 1 (2.33%) CSS
6 1 (2.33%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (2.33%) FIX Protocol
6 1 (2.33%) HTML
6 1 (2.33%) React
6 1 (2.33%) Smart Contracts
6 1 (2.33%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 8 (18.60%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (16.28%) Algorithms
3 6 (13.95%) Cloud Native
3 6 (13.95%) Derivative
3 6 (13.95%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (11.63%) Data Structures
5 2 (4.65%) Interest Rate Derivative
6 1 (2.33%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (2.33%) Blockchain
6 1 (2.33%) CBDC
6 1 (2.33%) Digital Currency
6 1 (2.33%) Distributed Applications
6 1 (2.33%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (2.33%) Equities
6 1 (2.33%) Equity Derivative
6 1 (2.33%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (2.33%) Hedge funds
6 1 (2.33%) Management Information System
6 1 (2.33%) PKI
6 1 (2.33%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 12 (27.91%) Windows
2 11 (25.58%) Linux
3 1 (2.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (37.21%) CI/CD
2 11 (25.58%) Microservices
2 11 (25.58%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (25.58%) Software Engineering
3 10 (23.26%) DevOps
4 8 (18.60%) Agile
5 7 (16.28%) Full Stack Development
5 7 (16.28%) Multithreading
5 7 (16.28%) SDLC
6 6 (13.95%) Analytics
6 6 (13.95%) Continuous Improvement
6 6 (13.95%) Data Development
6 6 (13.95%) Front End Development
6 6 (13.95%) Test Automation
7 5 (11.63%) Analytical Thinking
7 5 (11.63%) API Management
7 5 (11.63%) Computer Science
7 5 (11.63%) Scaled Agile Framework
7 5 (11.63%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 5 (11.63%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 29 (67.44%) Python
2 22 (51.16%) Java
3 17 (39.53%) C#
4 12 (27.91%) Go
5 10 (23.26%) SQL
6 7 (16.28%) JavaScript
7 6 (13.95%) PL/SQL
7 6 (13.95%) Shell Script
7 6 (13.95%) T-SQL
8 4 (9.30%) C
8 4 (9.30%) Rust
9 1 (2.33%) Bash
9 1 (2.33%) VC++
Qualifications
1 5 (11.63%) Degree
2 3 (6.98%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (4.65%) Master's Degree
3 2 (4.65%) PhD
3 2 (4.65%) SC Cleared
3 2 (4.65%) Security Cleared
4 1 (2.33%) ISEB
4 1 (2.33%) ISTQB
4 1 (2.33%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.33%) GDPR
1 1 (2.33%) ISO 20022
1 1 (2.33%) NIST
1 1 (2.33%) QA
1 1 (2.33%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (11.63%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 1 (2.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (30.23%) Kubernetes
2 6 (13.95%) Grafana
2 6 (13.95%) Prometheus
3 5 (11.63%) Consul
4 2 (4.65%) Kibana
5 1 (2.33%) Ansible
5 1 (2.33%) logstash
5 1 (2.33%) Progress Chef
5 1 (2.33%) Puppet
5 1 (2.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (18.60%) Oracle
2 6 (13.95%) MuleSoft
3 5 (11.63%) Microsoft
3 5 (11.63%) SaltStack
4 3 (6.98%) Google
5 2 (4.65%) Splunk
6 1 (2.33%) Alteryx
6 1 (2.33%) AppDynamics
6 1 (2.33%) IBM
6 1 (2.33%) Red Hat
6 1 (2.33%) ServiceNow