C++ Contracts in the East of England

C++
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England requiring C++ skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited C++ over the 6 months leading up to 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 54 23 46
Rank change year-on-year -31 +23 0
Contract jobs citing C++ 28 118 79
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 2.92% 6.16% 4.06%
As % of the Programming Languages category 9.27% 29.21% 13.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 25 15
10th Percentile £313 £413 £363
25th Percentile £325 £420 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.91% +10.00% -10.11%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £560
90th Percentile £613 £638 -
England median daily rate £750 £575 £650
% change year-on-year +30.43% -11.54% -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 66 42
10th Percentile - £60.00 £53.78
25th Percentile £59.00 £61.25 -
Median hourly rate £63.75 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.92% - +10.64%
75th Percentile £65.00 - £77.00
90th Percentile £65.23 £88.75 £90.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +8.33%

All Programming Languages
East of England

C++ falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring coding skills in the East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 302 404 573
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 31.46% 21.10% 29.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 176 175 337
10th Percentile £313 £318 £314
25th Percentile £422 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -2.56% +2.63%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £575
90th Percentile £653 £638 £700
England median daily rate £525 £545 £564
% change year-on-year -3.67% -3.37% +2.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 146 95
10th Percentile £31.64 £52.50 £51.25
25th Percentile £55.00 £60.00 £53.75
Median hourly rate £65.75 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.15% - +16.07%
75th Percentile £85.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £85.00 £84.30
England median hourly rate £62.00 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year -0.80% - +19.05%

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 29 May 2025.

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++
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 29 May 2025. 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 -16 16 £575 +33.72% 244
Suffolk - 6 - - 60
Cambridgeshire -10 4 £431 -21.59% 350
Essex +8 2 £363 -34.09% 218
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 (3.57%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (21.43%) Chatbot
2 2 (7.14%) Microsoft Office
Communications & Networking
1 7 (25.00%) Wireless
2 5 (17.86%) 3GPP
2 5 (17.86%) Ethernet
2 5 (17.86%) TCP/IP
3 2 (7.14%) 4G
3 2 (7.14%) 5G
Development Applications
1 6 (21.43%) Eclipse
1 6 (21.43%) Visual Studio
2 2 (7.14%) Jenkins
3 1 (3.57%) Gerrit
3 1 (3.57%) Git
3 1 (3.57%) JIRA
General
1 8 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 6 (21.43%) Presentation Skills
3 5 (17.86%) Electronics
3 5 (17.86%) Military
4 4 (14.29%) Telecoms
5 3 (10.71%) Aerospace
5 3 (10.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (7.14%) Finance
6 2 (7.14%) Manufacturing
6 2 (7.14%) Marketing
6 2 (7.14%) Public Sector
7 1 (3.57%) Law
Job Titles
1 14 (50.00%) Developer
2 8 (28.57%) Software Developer
2 8 (28.57%) Software Engineer
3 6 (21.43%) Radio Engineer
3 6 (21.43%) Trainer
4 5 (17.86%) C# Software Engineer
5 3 (10.71%) Embedded Engineer
5 3 (10.71%) Embedded Software Engineer
5 3 (10.71%) Linux Developer
5 3 (10.71%) RF Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Backend Developer
6 2 (7.14%) C++ Developer
6 2 (7.14%) C++ Software Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Developer in Test
6 2 (7.14%) Python Developer
6 2 (7.14%) Virtualisation Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) C# Developer
7 1 (3.57%) Project Manager
7 1 (3.57%) Technical Manager
7 1 (3.57%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (21.43%) HTML
2 5 (17.86%) Node.js
2 5 (17.86%) Web Services
3 4 (14.29%) REST
4 3 (10.71%) RESTful
5 2 (7.14%) OpenAPI
5 2 (7.14%) Swagger
5 2 (7.14%) Yocto
6 1 (3.57%) Middleware
6 1 (3.57%) POSIX
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.71%) Raspberry Pi
2 2 (7.14%) STB
2 2 (7.14%) Virtual Team
3 1 (3.57%) Device Driver
3 1 (3.57%) Digital TV
3 1 (3.57%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (3.57%) PCIe
Operating Systems
1 17 (60.71%) Linux
2 8 (28.57%) Windows
3 2 (7.14%) Mac OS
4 1 (3.57%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (28.57%) Software Engineering
2 7 (25.00%) TDD
3 6 (21.43%) Agile
3 6 (21.43%) Artificial Intelligence
3 6 (21.43%) Code Quality
3 6 (21.43%) Conversational UI
3 6 (21.43%) Digital Twin
3 6 (21.43%) Synthetic Environment
4 5 (17.86%) CI/CD
4 5 (17.86%) Continuous Delivery
4 5 (17.86%) Continuous Integration
4 5 (17.86%) Unit Testing
4 5 (17.86%) Validation
5 4 (14.29%) Containerisation
5 4 (14.29%) Verification and Validation
5 4 (14.29%) Visualisation
6 3 (10.71%) Multithreading
6 3 (10.71%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (10.71%) Software Architecture
6 3 (10.71%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 14 (50.00%) C#
2 12 (42.86%) Python
3 11 (39.29%) JavaScript
4 7 (25.00%) C
5 6 (21.43%) SQL
6 4 (14.29%) Java
7 2 (7.14%) Go
7 2 (7.14%) Groovy
8 1 (3.57%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 6 (21.43%) Degree
2 4 (14.29%) SC Cleared
2 4 (14.29%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (14.29%) Docker
2 2 (7.14%) Embedded Firmware
2 2 (7.14%) Firmware
3 1 (3.57%) KVM
3 1 (3.57%) QEMU
3 1 (3.57%) Xen
Systems Management
1 4 (14.29%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (21.43%) Microsoft
1 6 (21.43%) PayPal
2 2 (7.14%) HP
2 2 (7.14%) SAP