C++ Contracts in Edinburgh

C++
Scotland > Edinburgh

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh 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 68 110 113
Rank change year-on-year +42 +3 -22
Contract jobs citing C++ 3 3 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 0.37% 0.23% 0.67%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.51% 0.62% 2.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 6
10th Percentile - - £359
25th Percentile £413 £458 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £465 £588
Median % change year-on-year -8.60% -20.85% +34.29%
75th Percentile £438 £473 £750
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median daily rate £425 £445 £475
% change year-on-year -4.49% -6.32% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £48.46
25th Percentile - £51.25 £49.26
Median hourly rate - £52.50 £52.81
Median % change year-on-year - -0.59% -
75th Percentile - £53.75 £55.39
90th Percentile - - £55.61
Scotland median hourly rate £60.00 £55.77 £54.50
% change year-on-year +7.59% +2.32% -

All Programming Languages
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 199 481 528
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 24.60% 37.29% 27.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 146 380 360
10th Percentile £400 £403 £398
25th Percentile £421 £436 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £484 £480 £475
Median % change year-on-year +0.78% +1.00% +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £531 £550
90th Percentile £634 £588 £675
Scotland median daily rate £486 £493 £475
% change year-on-year -1.32% +3.68% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 5 10
10th Percentile £33.20 £43.90 £17.50
25th Percentile £38.00 £51.25 £26.50
Median hourly rate £60.50 £52.50 £45.56
Median % change year-on-year +15.24% +15.23% -5.08%
75th Percentile £60.75 £67.50 £53.75
90th Percentile - - £54.45
Scotland median hourly rate £57.50 £60.55 £47.00
% change year-on-year -5.04% +28.83% +4.44%

C++
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing C++ as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for C++ in Edinburgh

C++
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing C++ in Edinburgh.

Daily rate trend for C++ in Edinburgh

C++
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing C++ in Edinburgh.

Hourly rate trend for C++ in Edinburgh

C++
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) IaaS
2 2 (66.67%) PaaS
2 2 (66.67%) SaaS
3 1 (33.33%) GitHub
3 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (66.67%) Cucumber
2 2 (66.67%) Cypress.io
2 2 (66.67%) Git
2 2 (66.67%) JIRA
2 2 (66.67%) Selenium
2 2 (66.67%) Subversion
2 2 (66.67%) TeamCity
2 2 (66.67%) WebDriver
General
1 2 (66.67%) Public Sector
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Analyst
1 2 (66.67%) Functional Analyst
1 2 (66.67%) Functional Test Analyst
1 2 (66.67%) Senior
1 2 (66.67%) Senior Analyst
1 2 (66.67%) Senior Test Analyst
1 2 (66.67%) Test Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Automation Test Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) QA Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Automation Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) .NET
2 1 (33.33%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Client/Server
1 2 (66.67%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) ATDD
2 2 (66.67%) BDD
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Feature Driven Development
2 2 (66.67%) Kanban
2 2 (66.67%) Migration
2 2 (66.67%) Root Cause Analysis
2 2 (66.67%) SOA
2 2 (66.67%) Software Delivery
2 2 (66.67%) Software Testing
2 2 (66.67%) TDD
2 2 (66.67%) Test Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Test Strategy
2 2 (66.67%) V-Model
2 2 (66.67%) Waterfall
3 1 (33.33%) Build Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java
2 2 (66.67%) C#
2 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
2 2 (66.67%) Shell Script
2 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 2 (66.67%) VBA
2 2 (66.67%) VBScript
3 1 (33.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) ISEB
1 2 (66.67%) ISTQB
1 2 (66.67%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (33.33%) QA