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 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 94 51 130
Rank change year-on-year -43 +79 -43
Contract jobs citing C++ 42 163 70
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 1.73% 4.31% 1.55%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.04% 10.28% 3.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 80 37
10th Percentile £548 £475 £420
25th Percentile £633 £613 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £705 £675 £700
Median % change year-on-year +4.44% -3.57% +7.69%
75th Percentile £838 £803 £825
90th Percentile £872 £939 £975
London median daily rate £653 £700 £748
% change year-on-year -6.79% -6.45% +15.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £57.50 -
London median hourly rate £67.13 £52.58 £55.00
% change year-on-year +27.66% -4.40% +7.32%

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 834 1,585 1,948
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 34.41% 41.92% 43.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 605 1,051 1,534
10th Percentile £403 £425 £413
25th Percentile £463 £508 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £688 £738 £712
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 7 11
10th Percentile - £35.00 £44.25
25th Percentile £46.75 £43.13 £46.75
Median hourly rate £48.50 £57.50 £60.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.65% -4.96% +137.49%
75th Percentile £50.25 £71.25 £74.38
90th Percentile - £84.25 £77.50
London median hourly rate £51.75 £60.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -13.75% +20.00% +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 11 May 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

C++
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 11 May 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 -42 41 £710 +5.19% 15
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 (14.29%) BizTalk Server
2 1 (2.38%) Confluence
2 1 (2.38%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.38%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 15 (35.71%) AWS
2 12 (28.57%) Azure
3 6 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
3 6 (14.29%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 6 (14.29%) Azure Functions
3 6 (14.29%) Azure Logic Apps
3 6 (14.29%) Azure Storage
3 6 (14.29%) Serverless
4 3 (7.14%) GitHub
5 2 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (4.76%) GCP
5 2 (4.76%) NuGet
6 1 (2.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (2.38%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (2.38%) Amazon ELB
6 1 (2.38%) ChatGPT
6 1 (2.38%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (2.38%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (2.38%) Power Platform
6 1 (2.38%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.76%) Firewall
2 1 (2.38%) DHCP
2 1 (2.38%) DNS
2 1 (2.38%) Multicast
2 1 (2.38%) Network Security
2 1 (2.38%) Reverse Proxy
2 1 (2.38%) TCP/IP
2 1 (2.38%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (30.95%) MongoDB
2 6 (14.29%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (9.52%) NoSQL
4 2 (4.76%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (4.76%) KDB
4 2 (4.76%) MySQL
5 1 (2.38%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (2.38%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (2.38%) CouchDB
5 1 (2.38%) Data Mining
5 1 (2.38%) DynamoDB
5 1 (2.38%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (2.38%) Power BI
5 1 (2.38%) Redis
5 1 (2.38%) Relational Database
5 1 (2.38%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (16.67%) JIRA
2 5 (11.90%) Git
2 5 (11.90%) TeamCity
3 4 (9.52%) Bitbucket
3 4 (9.52%) Jenkins
4 1 (2.38%) CircleCI
4 1 (2.38%) CMake
4 1 (2.38%) Darcs
4 1 (2.38%) Jaeger
4 1 (2.38%) JMeter
4 1 (2.38%) LoadRunner
4 1 (2.38%) Mercurial
4 1 (2.38%) NeoLoad
4 1 (2.38%) Travis CI
General
1 13 (30.95%) Finance
2 11 (26.19%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (23.81%) Banking
3 10 (23.81%) Social Skills
4 5 (11.90%) Investment Banking
5 3 (7.14%) Front Office
6 2 (4.76%) International Banking
7 1 (2.38%) Financial Institution
7 1 (2.38%) Retail
Job Titles
1 17 (40.48%) Developer
2 7 (16.67%) Analyst
2 7 (16.67%) Full Stack Developer
3 5 (11.90%) Site Engineer
3 5 (11.90%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 4 (9.52%) Python Engineer
4 4 (9.52%) Quantitative Developer
5 3 (7.14%) Architect
5 3 (7.14%) C# Architect
5 3 (7.14%) C++ Developer
5 3 (7.14%) Qualitative Analyst
5 3 (7.14%) Quantitative Analyst
5 3 (7.14%) Senior
5 3 (7.14%) Senior Developer
6 2 (4.76%) C++/Java Developer
6 2 (4.76%) Java Analyst Developer
6 2 (4.76%) Market Analyst
6 2 (4.76%) Market Data Analyst
6 2 (4.76%) Market Data Developer
6 2 (4.76%) Senior Quantitative Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (30.95%) .NET
1 13 (30.95%) .NET Core
2 6 (14.29%) Blazor
3 5 (11.90%) ADO
3 5 (11.90%) Kafka
3 5 (11.90%) RabbitMQ
3 5 (11.90%) RESTful
4 3 (7.14%) NumPy
4 3 (7.14%) Pandas
4 3 (7.14%) SciPy
5 2 (4.76%) FIX Protocol
5 2 (4.76%) REST
6 1 (2.38%) AngularJS
6 1 (2.38%) Bazel
6 1 (2.38%) CSS
6 1 (2.38%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (2.38%) React
6 1 (2.38%) Smart Contracts
6 1 (2.38%) Svelte
6 1 (2.38%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (19.05%) Algorithms
1 8 (19.05%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 6 (14.29%) Derivative
2 6 (14.29%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (11.90%) Data Structures
4 2 (4.76%) Interest Rate Derivative
5 1 (2.38%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (2.38%) Blockchain
5 1 (2.38%) CBDC
5 1 (2.38%) Digital Currency
5 1 (2.38%) Distributed Applications
5 1 (2.38%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (2.38%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.38%) Equities
5 1 (2.38%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.38%) PKI
5 1 (2.38%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (2.38%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 12 (28.57%) Windows
2 11 (26.19%) Linux
3 1 (2.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (2.38%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (35.71%) CI/CD
2 11 (26.19%) Microservices
2 11 (26.19%) Problem-Solving
3 10 (23.81%) DevOps
4 8 (19.05%) Agile
4 8 (19.05%) Software Engineering
5 7 (16.67%) Full Stack Development
5 7 (16.67%) Multithreading
5 7 (16.67%) SDLC
6 6 (14.29%) Computer Science
6 6 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
6 6 (14.29%) Data Development
6 6 (14.29%) Front End Development
6 6 (14.29%) Test Automation
7 5 (11.90%) Analytical Thinking
7 5 (11.90%) Analytics
7 5 (11.90%) Continuous Integration
7 5 (11.90%) Scaled Agile Framework
7 5 (11.90%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 5 (11.90%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 27 (64.29%) Python
2 21 (50.00%) Java
3 17 (40.48%) C#
4 12 (28.57%) Go
5 11 (26.19%) SQL
6 7 (16.67%) JavaScript
7 6 (14.29%) PL/SQL
7 6 (14.29%) Shell Script
7 6 (14.29%) T-SQL
8 4 (9.52%) C
8 4 (9.52%) Rust
9 2 (4.76%) VC++
10 1 (2.38%) Bash
10 1 (2.38%) VBA
Qualifications
1 6 (14.29%) Degree
2 4 (9.52%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (7.14%) Master's Degree
4 2 (4.76%) PhD
4 2 (4.76%) SC Cleared
4 2 (4.76%) Security Cleared
5 1 (2.38%) ISEB
5 1 (2.38%) ISTQB
5 1 (2.38%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.38%) GDPR
1 1 (2.38%) ISO 20022
1 1 (2.38%) NIST
1 1 (2.38%) QA
1 1 (2.38%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (11.90%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 1 (2.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (30.95%) Kubernetes
2 6 (14.29%) Grafana
2 6 (14.29%) Prometheus
3 5 (11.90%) Consul
4 2 (4.76%) Kibana
5 1 (2.38%) Ansible
5 1 (2.38%) logstash
5 1 (2.38%) Progress Chef
5 1 (2.38%) Puppet
5 1 (2.38%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (21.43%) Oracle
2 6 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 6 (14.29%) MuleSoft
3 5 (11.90%) SaltStack
4 2 (4.76%) Google
4 2 (4.76%) Red Hat
4 2 (4.76%) Splunk
5 1 (2.38%) Alteryx
5 1 (2.38%) AppDynamics
5 1 (2.38%) IBM
5 1 (2.38%) ServiceNow