C++ Contracts in the East of England

C++
England > East of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 24 52 55
Rank change year-on-year +28 +3 -2
Contract jobs citing C++ 115 79 105
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 6.10% 3.98% 4.09%
As % of the Programming Languages category 29.04% 13.39% 13.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 15 31
10th Percentile £413 £325 £425
25th Percentile £420 £394 £502
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +22.22%
75th Percentile £588 £560 £628
90th Percentile £638 - £725
England median daily rate £575 £650 £700
% change year-on-year -11.54% -7.14% +17.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 64 41 34
10th Percentile £60.00 £53.50 £47.58
25th Percentile £61.25 - £56.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £58.75
Median % change year-on-year - +10.64% +17.50%
75th Percentile - £77.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £89.63 £90.00 -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year - +8.33% +20.00%

All Programming Languages
East of England

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 East of England with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 396 590 772
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 21.02% 29.75% 30.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 169 342 462
10th Percentile £312 £313 £298
25th Percentile £405 £401 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £488 £475
Median % change year-on-year -0.51% +2.63% +5.56%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £587
90th Percentile £638 £700 £650
England median daily rate £550 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -2.22% +2.27% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 142 97 88
10th Percentile £52.50 £50.25 £35.00
25th Percentile £60.00 £53.75 £47.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £56.00
Median % change year-on-year - +16.07% +32.54%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £78.00 £67.78
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £50.64
% change year-on-year - +23.43% +19.14%

C++
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for C++ in the East of England

C++
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Daily rate trend for C++ in the East of England

C++
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing C++ in the East of England over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for C++ in the East of England

C++
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Hourly rate trend for C++ in the East of England

C++
Hourly Rate Histogram in the East of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing C++ in the East of England over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for C++ in the East of England

C++
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing C++ within the East of England region over the 6 months to 20 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
Hertfordshire +13 80 £430 +43.33% 19
Cambridgeshire +8 25 £550 +3.77% 148
Essex +13 8 £550 - 9
Bedfordshire -4 2 £450 - 2
C++
England

C++
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 1 (0.87%) Confluence
Applications
1 7 (6.09%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 4 (3.48%) Azure
1 4 (3.48%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 34 (29.57%) Modbus
1 34 (29.57%) RS-422
1 34 (29.57%) RS-485
2 13 (11.30%) Radio Access Network
3 11 (9.57%) 5G
4 6 (5.22%) Ethernet
4 6 (5.22%) TCP/IP
5 5 (4.35%) NAS
6 4 (3.48%) 4G
6 4 (3.48%) Wireshark
7 2 (1.74%) 5G NR
7 2 (1.74%) Software-Defined Radio
7 2 (1.74%) Wireless
8 1 (0.87%) MQTT
8 1 (0.87%) RS-232
8 1 (0.87%) RTMP
8 1 (0.87%) RTP
8 1 (0.87%) RTSP
Development Applications
1 12 (10.43%) Visual Studio
2 11 (9.57%) Git
3 9 (7.83%) Rational DOORS
4 8 (6.96%) Eclipse
4 8 (6.96%) JIRA
5 7 (6.09%) Subversion
6 4 (3.48%) gcov
6 4 (3.48%) GDB
6 4 (3.48%) Gradle
6 4 (3.48%) Rational Rhapsody
7 3 (2.61%) CppUnit
7 3 (2.61%) GCC
7 3 (2.61%) PVCS
8 1 (0.87%) CMake
8 1 (0.87%) Gerrit
8 1 (0.87%) VTune
General
1 41 (35.65%) Electronics
2 37 (32.17%) Social Skills
3 7 (6.09%) Telecoms
4 6 (5.22%) Military
4 6 (5.22%) Multimedia
4 6 (5.22%) Presentation Skills
5 5 (4.35%) Aerospace
6 3 (2.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (2.61%) Law
7 2 (1.74%) Public Sector
7 2 (1.74%) Wearables
8 1 (0.87%) Aviation
8 1 (0.87%) Finance
8 1 (0.87%) Games
8 1 (0.87%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.87%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 75 (65.22%) Software Engineer
2 46 (40.00%) C++ Software Engineer
3 20 (17.39%) C Software Engineer
3 20 (17.39%) Developer
4 14 (12.17%) C/C++ Software Engineer
5 12 (10.43%) Embedded Engineer
5 12 (10.43%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 10 (8.70%) C++ Developer
7 8 (6.96%) Architect
7 8 (6.96%) C# Software Engineer
7 8 (6.96%) Linux Engineer
7 8 (6.96%) Python Developer
7 8 (6.96%) Software Architect
8 7 (6.09%) Real Time Engineer
8 7 (6.09%) Real Time Software Engineer
9 6 (5.22%) Embedded C Engineer
9 6 (5.22%) Embedded C Software Engineer
9 6 (5.22%) Verification Engineer
10 5 (4.35%) Python Engineer
11 4 (3.48%) Ada Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (7.83%) DirectX
1 9 (7.83%) OpenGL
1 9 (7.83%) Vulkan
2 8 (6.96%) OpenGL ES
2 8 (6.96%) Web Services
3 6 (5.22%) Node.js
3 6 (5.22%) Yocto
4 3 (2.61%) .NET
4 3 (2.61%) JSON
4 3 (2.61%) LLVM
4 3 (2.61%) YAML
5 2 (1.74%) MFC
5 2 (1.74%) WinForms
5 2 (1.74%) WPF
6 1 (0.87%) FFmpeg
6 1 (0.87%) GStreamer
6 1 (0.87%) Middleware
6 1 (0.87%) NumPy
6 1 (0.87%) Unity (Game Engine)
6 1 (0.87%) Unreal Engine
Miscellaneous
1 28 (24.35%) Self-Motivation
2 9 (7.83%) Ray Tracing
3 8 (6.96%) 3D Graphics
4 3 (2.61%) ASIC
4 3 (2.61%) FPGA
4 3 (2.61%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (2.61%) Verilog
5 1 (0.87%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.87%) Data Structures
5 1 (0.87%) MPEG
5 1 (0.87%) STB
Operating Systems
1 29 (25.22%) Linux
2 11 (9.57%) Windows
3 4 (3.48%) Unix
4 2 (1.74%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (69.57%) Software Engineering
2 47 (40.87%) Agile
3 43 (37.39%) Unit Testing
4 41 (35.65%) Continuous Integration
5 40 (34.78%) TDD
6 38 (33.04%) DevOps
7 37 (32.17%) Software Testing
8 34 (29.57%) Continuous Improvement
8 34 (29.57%) Customer Requirements
8 34 (29.57%) Pair Programming
9 22 (19.13%) Validation
10 21 (18.26%) Problem-Solving
11 15 (13.04%) Verification and Validation
12 14 (12.17%) Multithreading
13 13 (11.30%) Visualisation
14 9 (7.83%) CI/CD
15 8 (6.96%) Digital Twin
15 8 (6.96%) Software Architecture
15 8 (6.96%) Synthetic Environment
16 7 (6.09%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 87 (75.65%) C
2 50 (43.48%) C#
3 25 (21.74%) Python
4 9 (7.83%) Bash
4 9 (7.83%) Embedded C
5 7 (6.09%) Embedded C++
5 7 (6.09%) JavaScript
5 7 (6.09%) MATLAB
6 4 (3.48%) Ada
7 3 (2.61%) Assembly Language
7 3 (2.61%) Java
7 3 (2.61%) Shell Script
7 3 (2.61%) SystemVerilog
7 3 (2.61%) Tcl
8 2 (1.74%) C++/CLI
8 2 (1.74%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.87%) GLSL
9 1 (0.87%) HLSL
Qualifications
1 12 (10.43%) Degree
1 12 (10.43%) PhD
2 11 (9.57%) Security Cleared
3 10 (8.70%) Master's Degree
4 9 (7.83%) SC Cleared
5 2 (1.74%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.87%) Computer Science Degree
System Software
1 3 (2.61%) Virtual Machines
1 3 (2.61%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 8 (6.96%) Microsoft
2 4 (3.48%) IBM
2 4 (3.48%) Klocwork
2 4 (3.48%) Perforce
3 3 (2.61%) Cadence
3 3 (2.61%) Synopsys
3 3 (2.61%) VMware
3 3 (2.61%) Xilinx
4 2 (1.74%) Broadcom
5 1 (0.87%) SAP
5 1 (0.87%) Twitter