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

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 89 48 124
Rank change year-on-year -41 +76 -44
Contract jobs citing C++ 41 162 70
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.88% 4.54% 1.66%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.50% 10.65% 3.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 79 37
10th Percentile £602 £505 £420
25th Percentile £650 £613 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £710 £675 £700
Median % change year-on-year +5.19% -3.57% +3.70%
75th Percentile £838 £806 £825
90th Percentile £874 £940 £975
Central London median daily rate £705 £675 £700
% change year-on-year +4.44% -3.57% +5.66%
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 745 1,521 1,866
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 34.17% 42.59% 44.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 527 997 1,451
10th Percentile £400 £425 £425
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 £693 £738 £713
90th Percentile £793 £825 £800
Central London median daily rate £563 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -10.00% +4.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 7 12
10th Percentile - £35.00 £39.75
25th Percentile £46.75 £43.13 £45.75
Median hourly rate £48.50 £57.50 £57.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.65% +0.88% +107.27%
75th Percentile £50.25 £71.25 £73.06
90th Percentile - £84.25 £77.45
Central London median hourly rate £48.50 £57.50 £57.00
% change year-on-year -15.65% +0.88% +123.75%

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

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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 12 May 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%) GitHub
5 2 (4.88%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (4.88%) GCP
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%) Multicast
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%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (24.39%) Banking
3 10 (24.39%) Social Skills
4 5 (12.20%) Investment Banking
5 3 (7.32%) Front Office
6 2 (4.88%) International Banking
7 1 (2.44%) Financial Institution
7 1 (2.44%) Retail
Job Titles
1 17 (41.46%) Developer
2 7 (17.07%) Analyst
2 7 (17.07%) Full Stack Developer
3 5 (12.20%) Site Engineer
3 5 (12.20%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 4 (9.76%) Python Engineer
4 4 (9.76%) Quantitative Developer
5 3 (7.32%) Architect
5 3 (7.32%) C# Architect
5 3 (7.32%) C++ Developer
5 3 (7.32%) Qualitative Analyst
5 3 (7.32%) Quantitative Analyst
5 3 (7.32%) Senior
5 3 (7.32%) Senior Developer
6 2 (4.88%) .NET Architect
6 2 (4.88%) Analyst Developer
6 2 (4.88%) Data Analyst
6 2 (4.88%) Developer Analyst
6 2 (4.88%) Java Developer
6 2 (4.88%) Market Data Developer
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%) FIX Protocol
5 2 (4.88%) REST
6 1 (2.44%) AngularJS
6 1 (2.44%) CSS
6 1 (2.44%) HTML
6 1 (2.44%) Smart Contracts
6 1 (2.44%) Spring
6 1 (2.44%) Svelte
6 1 (2.44%) XML
6 1 (2.44%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 8 (19.51%) Algorithms
1 8 (19.51%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (14.63%) Cloud Native
2 6 (14.63%) Derivative
2 6 (14.63%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (12.20%) Data Structures
4 2 (4.88%) Interest Rate Derivative
5 1 (2.44%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (2.44%) Blockchain
5 1 (2.44%) CBDC
5 1 (2.44%) Digital Currency
5 1 (2.44%) Distributed Applications
5 1 (2.44%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (2.44%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.44%) Equities
5 1 (2.44%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.44%) PKI
5 1 (2.44%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (2.44%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 12 (29.27%) Windows
2 11 (26.83%) Linux
3 1 (2.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (2.44%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (36.59%) CI/CD
2 11 (26.83%) Microservices
2 11 (26.83%) Problem-Solving
3 10 (24.39%) DevOps
4 8 (19.51%) Agile
4 8 (19.51%) Software Engineering
5 7 (17.07%) Full Stack Development
5 7 (17.07%) Multithreading
5 7 (17.07%) SDLC
6 6 (14.63%) Computer Science
6 6 (14.63%) Continuous Improvement
6 6 (14.63%) Data Development
6 6 (14.63%) Front End Development
6 6 (14.63%) Test Automation
7 5 (12.20%) Analytical Thinking
7 5 (12.20%) Analytics
7 5 (12.20%) Continuous Integration
7 5 (12.20%) Scaled Agile Framework
7 5 (12.20%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 5 (12.20%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 27 (65.85%) Python
2 20 (48.78%) Java
3 17 (41.46%) C#
4 12 (29.27%) Go
5 11 (26.83%) 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 2 (4.88%) VC++
11 1 (2.44%) Bash
11 1 (2.44%) VBA
Qualifications
1 6 (14.63%) Degree
2 4 (9.76%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (7.32%) Master's Degree
4 2 (4.88%) PhD
4 2 (4.88%) SC Cleared
4 2 (4.88%) Security Cleared
5 1 (2.44%) ISEB
5 1 (2.44%) ISTQB
5 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 8 (19.51%) Oracle
2 6 (14.63%) Microsoft
2 6 (14.63%) MuleSoft
3 5 (12.20%) SaltStack
4 2 (4.88%) Google
4 2 (4.88%) Red Hat
5 1 (2.44%) Alteryx
5 1 (2.44%) IBM
5 1 (2.44%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.44%) Splunk