C++ Developer Contracts in England

C++ Developer
UK > England

The median C++ Developer daily rate in England is £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 447 436 542
Rank change year-on-year -11 +106 -157
Contract jobs requiring a C++ Developer 88 232 240
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.24% 0.46% 0.34%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.26% 0.49% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 145 188
10th Percentile £400 £463 £511
25th Percentile £414 £600 £611
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £750 £725
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +3.45% +16.00%
75th Percentile £769 £825 £778
90th Percentile £1,205 £963 £825
UK median daily rate £500 £750 £725
% change year-on-year -33.33% +3.45% +16.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 11 4
10th Percentile - £25.75 £46.76
25th Percentile - £49.24 £52.06
Median hourly rate £70.00 £65.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +8.33% +19.40%
75th Percentile - £66.25 £67.50
90th Percentile - £75.00 -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £62.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year +12.00% +8.70% +14.43%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in England with a recognized job title 34,271 47,824 67,952
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.72% 94.61% 95.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,751 33,955 48,268
10th Percentile £275 £312 £313
25th Percentile £412 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £640 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £763 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,410 1,422 1,902
10th Percentile £12.92 £14.30 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.65 £45.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.78% +100.00% +0.22%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.71 £48.70
90th Percentile £72.54 £77.00 £62.24
UK median hourly rate £35.83 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -20.38% +95.65% -

C++ Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured C++ Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for C++ Developer in England

C++ Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for C++ Developer in England

C++ Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing C++ Developer in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for C++ Developer in England

C++ Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for C++ Developer in England

C++ Developer
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing C++ Developer within the England region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
London -47 54 £725 -3.33% 26
South East +34 15 £400 -23.81% 9
East of England +24 11 £430 -14.00% 3
North of England +33 3 £410 -0.61% 11
Midlands +21 2 £588 +56.67% 4
North West +17 2 £410 +17.14% 10
West Midlands +28 1 £500 +11.11%
North East +19 1 - -
East Midlands +18 1 £675 +125.00% 4
C++ Developer
UK

C++ Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 27 April 2024, C++ Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring C++ Developer in the job title.

1 88 (100.00%) C++
2 27 (30.68%) Linux
3 25 (28.41%) Python
4 24 (27.27%) Derivative
5 20 (22.73%) C
6 18 (20.45%) Finance
7 17 (19.32%) Agile
7 17 (19.32%) Analytics
8 15 (17.05%) Git
8 15 (17.05%) Hedge funds
9 13 (14.77%) Low Latency
9 13 (14.77%) Banking
9 13 (14.77%) Algorithmic Trading
10 12 (13.64%) Software Engineering
10 12 (13.64%) Equity Derivative
10 12 (13.64%) SQL
10 12 (13.64%) Windows
10 12 (13.64%) Algorithms
11 11 (12.50%) Systematic Trading
11 11 (12.50%) Social Skills
11 11 (12.50%) C#
12 10 (11.36%) 5G
12 10 (11.36%) Radio Access Network
13 9 (10.23%) Public Sector
13 9 (10.23%) Degree
14 8 (9.09%) Investment Banking
14 8 (9.09%) Computer Science
14 8 (9.09%) Equities
14 8 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
15 7 (7.95%) Stakeholder Management

C++ Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 2 (2.27%) Confluence
2 1 (1.14%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 1 (1.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 3 (3.41%) Azure
2 2 (2.27%) AWS
3 1 (1.14%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 10 (11.36%) 5G
1 10 (11.36%) Radio Access Network
2 5 (5.68%) 4G
2 5 (5.68%) NAS
3 4 (4.55%) Wireshark
4 3 (3.41%) Link 16
4 3 (3.41%) Tactical Data Link
5 2 (2.27%) SNMP
5 2 (2.27%) Software-Defined Radio
5 2 (2.27%) TCP/IP
6 1 (1.14%) CTI
6 1 (1.14%) MPLS
6 1 (1.14%) RTMP
6 1 (1.14%) RTP
6 1 (1.14%) RTSP
6 1 (1.14%) VoIP
6 1 (1.14%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.27%) KDB
2 1 (1.14%) Couchbase
2 1 (1.14%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 15 (17.05%) Git
2 7 (7.95%) JIRA
3 6 (6.82%) Bitbucket
4 4 (4.55%) gcov
4 4 (4.55%) GDB
4 4 (4.55%) Gradle
4 4 (4.55%) Subversion
5 3 (3.41%) Jenkins
6 2 (2.27%) Eclipse
6 2 (2.27%) GoogleTest
6 2 (2.27%) Karma Test Runner
6 2 (2.27%) Robot Framework
6 2 (2.27%) TeamCity
6 2 (2.27%) Visual Studio
7 1 (1.14%) ClearCase
7 1 (1.14%) ClearQuest
7 1 (1.14%) CMake
7 1 (1.14%) Rational DOORS
7 1 (1.14%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 18 (20.45%) Finance
2 13 (14.77%) Banking
3 11 (12.50%) Social Skills
4 9 (10.23%) Public Sector
5 8 (9.09%) Investment Banking
6 7 (7.95%) Front Office
7 6 (6.82%) Multimedia
7 6 (6.82%) Telecoms
8 5 (5.68%) Games
9 2 (2.27%) Aerospace
10 1 (1.14%) Analytical Skills
10 1 (1.14%) Billing
10 1 (1.14%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.68%) CSS
1 5 (5.68%) HTML
2 4 (4.55%) .NET
2 4 (4.55%) REST
3 3 (3.41%) AngularJS
3 3 (3.41%) Twitter Bootstrap
4 2 (2.27%) FFmpeg
4 2 (2.27%) OpenAPI
4 2 (2.27%) Playwright
4 2 (2.27%) Swagger
4 2 (2.27%) Unreal Engine
5 1 (1.14%) .NET Core
5 1 (1.14%) ADO
5 1 (1.14%) ASP.NET Web API
5 1 (1.14%) Bazel
5 1 (1.14%) GStreamer
5 1 (1.14%) Kafka
5 1 (1.14%) Unity (Game Engine)
5 1 (1.14%) WCF
5 1 (1.14%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 24 (27.27%) Derivative
2 15 (17.05%) Hedge funds
3 12 (13.64%) Algorithms
3 12 (13.64%) Equity Derivative
4 8 (9.09%) Equities
5 6 (6.82%) CCTV
6 5 (5.68%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 3 (3.41%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (2.27%) Augmented Reality
8 2 (2.27%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (2.27%) Management Information System
8 2 (2.27%) Virtual Reality
9 1 (1.14%) Animation
9 1 (1.14%) Credit Risk
9 1 (1.14%) Data Structures
9 1 (1.14%) Device Driver
9 1 (1.14%) Fixed Income
9 1 (1.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 1 (1.14%) Mobile Games
9 1 (1.14%) MPEG
Operating Systems
1 27 (30.68%) Linux
2 12 (13.64%) Windows
3 3 (3.41%) Unix
4 1 (1.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (19.32%) Agile
1 17 (19.32%) Analytics
2 13 (14.77%) Algorithmic Trading
2 13 (14.77%) Low Latency
3 12 (13.64%) Software Engineering
4 11 (12.50%) Systematic Trading
5 8 (9.09%) Computer Science
6 7 (7.95%) Stakeholder Management
7 6 (6.82%) Clean Code
7 6 (6.82%) OCR
7 6 (6.82%) Refactoring
7 6 (6.82%) Validation
8 5 (5.68%) Code Quality
8 5 (5.68%) Collaborative Working
8 5 (5.68%) OO
9 4 (4.55%) Automated Trading
9 4 (4.55%) Problem-Solving
9 4 (4.55%) Product Management
9 4 (4.55%) Prototyping
9 4 (4.55%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 88 (100.00%) C++
2 25 (28.41%) Python
3 20 (22.73%) C
4 12 (13.64%) SQL
5 11 (12.50%) C#
6 7 (7.95%) JavaScript
7 5 (5.68%) Java
8 4 (4.55%) Bash
9 3 (3.41%) TypeScript
10 1 (1.14%) Embedded C++
10 1 (1.14%) ProC
10 1 (1.14%) Rust
10 1 (1.14%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 9 (10.23%) Degree
2 8 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (7.95%) SC Cleared
3 7 (7.95%) Security Cleared
4 2 (2.27%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.14%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.68%) ISO 9001
1 5 (5.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (2.27%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (1.14%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 4 (4.55%) Klocwork
1 4 (4.55%) Perforce
2 3 (3.41%) Google
2 3 (3.41%) Oracle
3 2 (2.27%) Atlassian
4 1 (1.14%) HP
4 1 (1.14%) IBM
4 1 (1.14%) Sparx