C++ Contracts in the City of London

C++
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 84 47 123
Rank change year-on-year -37 +76 -45
Contract jobs citing C++ 41 167 73
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.86% 4.59% 1.72%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.51% 10.55% 3.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 75 37
10th Percentile £563 £490 £413
25th Percentile £633 £613 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £705 £675 £700
Median % change year-on-year +4.44% -3.57% +1.82%
75th Percentile £838 £806 £830
90th Percentile £891 £945 £975
Central London median daily rate £705 £675 £700
% change year-on-year +4.44% -3.57% +3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £57.50 -
Central London median hourly rate - £57.50 -

All Programming Languages
City of 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 the City of London with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 744 1,583 1,903
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 33.79% 43.52% 44.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 529 1,035 1,474
10th Percentile £413 £425 £419
25th Percentile £463 £513 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £690 £738 £703
90th Percentile £788 £825 £800
Central London median daily rate £565 £620 £600
% change year-on-year -8.87% +3.33% +9.09%
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% +86.82%
75th Percentile £50.25 £65.00 £69.25
90th Percentile - £84.13 £77.63
Central London median hourly rate £48.50 £57.50 £56.00
% change year-on-year -15.65% +2.68% +138.81%

C++
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for C++ in the City of London

C++
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing C++ in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for C++ in the City of London

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Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

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

Daily rate histogram for C++ in the City of London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing C++ in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for C++ in the City of London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 (14.63%) BizTalk Server
2 1 (2.44%) Confluence
2 1 (2.44%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.44%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 14 (34.15%) AWS
2 12 (29.27%) Azure
3 6 (14.63%) AWS Lambda
3 6 (14.63%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 6 (14.63%) Azure Functions
3 6 (14.63%) Azure Logic Apps
3 6 (14.63%) Azure Storage
3 6 (14.63%) Serverless
4 3 (7.32%) GCP
4 3 (7.32%) GitHub
5 2 (4.88%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (4.88%) NuGet
6 1 (2.44%) ChatGPT
6 1 (2.44%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (2.44%) Power Platform
6 1 (2.44%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.88%) Firewall
2 1 (2.44%) DHCP
2 1 (2.44%) DNS
2 1 (2.44%) Network Security
2 1 (2.44%) TCP/IP
2 1 (2.44%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (31.71%) MongoDB
2 6 (14.63%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (9.76%) NoSQL
4 2 (4.88%) KDB
5 1 (2.44%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (2.44%) CouchDB
5 1 (2.44%) Data Mining
5 1 (2.44%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (2.44%) MySQL
5 1 (2.44%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (2.44%) Power BI
5 1 (2.44%) Redis
5 1 (2.44%) Relational Database
5 1 (2.44%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (17.07%) JIRA
2 5 (12.20%) Git
2 5 (12.20%) TeamCity
3 4 (9.76%) Bitbucket
3 4 (9.76%) Jenkins
4 1 (2.44%) CircleCI
4 1 (2.44%) CMake
4 1 (2.44%) Darcs
4 1 (2.44%) Jaeger
4 1 (2.44%) Mercurial
4 1 (2.44%) Travis CI
General
1 13 (31.71%) Finance
2 11 (26.83%) Banking
2 11 (26.83%) Social Skills
3 10 (24.39%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (12.20%) Investment Banking
5 2 (4.88%) Front Office
5 2 (4.88%) International Banking
6 1 (2.44%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.44%) Retail
Job Titles
1 16 (39.02%) Developer
2 7 (17.07%) Full Stack Developer
3 6 (14.63%) Analyst
4 5 (12.20%) Python Engineer
4 5 (12.20%) Site Engineer
4 5 (12.20%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 4 (9.76%) Quantitative Developer
6 3 (7.32%) Architect
6 3 (7.32%) C# Architect
7 2 (4.88%) Analyst Developer
7 2 (4.88%) C++ Developer
7 2 (4.88%) Data Analyst
7 2 (4.88%) Developer Analyst
7 2 (4.88%) Java Developer
7 2 (4.88%) Market Data Developer
7 2 (4.88%) Qualitative Analyst
7 2 (4.88%) Quantitative Analyst
7 2 (4.88%) Senior Developer
7 2 (4.88%) Senior Quantitative Developer
7 2 (4.88%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (31.71%) .NET
1 13 (31.71%) .NET Core
2 6 (14.63%) Blazor
3 5 (12.20%) ADO
3 5 (12.20%) Kafka
3 5 (12.20%) RabbitMQ
3 5 (12.20%) RESTful
4 3 (7.32%) NumPy
4 3 (7.32%) Pandas
4 3 (7.32%) SciPy
5 2 (4.88%) REST
5 2 (4.88%) Spring
6 1 (2.44%) AngularJS
6 1 (2.44%) CSS
6 1 (2.44%) FIX Protocol
6 1 (2.44%) HTML
6 1 (2.44%) React
6 1 (2.44%) Smart Contracts
6 1 (2.44%) Spring Boot
6 1 (2.44%) Svelte
Miscellaneous
1 8 (19.51%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (17.07%) Algorithms
3 6 (14.63%) Cloud Native
3 6 (14.63%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (12.20%) Data Structures
4 5 (12.20%) Derivative
5 2 (4.88%) Interest Rate Derivative
6 1 (2.44%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (2.44%) Blockchain
6 1 (2.44%) CBDC
6 1 (2.44%) Digital Currency
6 1 (2.44%) Distributed Applications
6 1 (2.44%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (2.44%) Management Information System
6 1 (2.44%) PKI
6 1 (2.44%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 12 (29.27%) Windows
2 11 (26.83%) Linux
3 1 (2.44%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (39.02%) CI/CD
2 11 (26.83%) Microservices
2 11 (26.83%) Problem-Solving
3 10 (24.39%) DevOps
3 10 (24.39%) Software Engineering
4 8 (19.51%) Agile
5 7 (17.07%) Full Stack Development
5 7 (17.07%) SDLC
6 6 (14.63%) Continuous Improvement
6 6 (14.63%) Data Development
6 6 (14.63%) Front End Development
6 6 (14.63%) Multithreading
6 6 (14.63%) Test Automation
7 5 (12.20%) Analytical Thinking
7 5 (12.20%) Analytics
7 5 (12.20%) API Management
7 5 (12.20%) Computer Science
7 5 (12.20%) Scaled Agile Framework
7 5 (12.20%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 5 (12.20%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 29 (70.73%) Python
2 21 (51.22%) Java
3 17 (41.46%) C#
4 12 (29.27%) Go
5 10 (24.39%) SQL
6 7 (17.07%) JavaScript
7 6 (14.63%) PL/SQL
7 6 (14.63%) Shell Script
7 6 (14.63%) T-SQL
8 4 (9.76%) Rust
9 3 (7.32%) C
10 1 (2.44%) Bash
10 1 (2.44%) VC++
Qualifications
1 5 (12.20%) Degree
2 3 (7.32%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (4.88%) Master's Degree
3 2 (4.88%) PhD
3 2 (4.88%) SC Cleared
3 2 (4.88%) Security Cleared
4 1 (2.44%) ISEB
4 1 (2.44%) ISTQB
4 1 (2.44%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.44%) GDPR
1 1 (2.44%) ISO 20022
1 1 (2.44%) NIST
1 1 (2.44%) QA
1 1 (2.44%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (12.20%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 1 (2.44%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (29.27%) Kubernetes
2 6 (14.63%) Grafana
2 6 (14.63%) Prometheus
3 5 (12.20%) Consul
4 1 (2.44%) Ansible
4 1 (2.44%) Kibana
4 1 (2.44%) logstash
4 1 (2.44%) Progress Chef
4 1 (2.44%) Puppet
4 1 (2.44%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (17.07%) Oracle
2 6 (14.63%) MuleSoft
3 5 (12.20%) Microsoft
3 5 (12.20%) SaltStack
4 3 (7.32%) Google
5 1 (2.44%) Alteryx
5 1 (2.44%) IBM
5 1 (2.44%) Red Hat
5 1 (2.44%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.44%) Splunk