C++ Software Engineer Contracts in England

Software Engineer - C++
UK > England

The median Software Engineer - C++ daily rate in England is £475 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 30 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
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 441 571 645
Rank change year-on-year +130 +74 -72
Contract jobs requiring a C++ Software Engineer 101 82 138
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.27% 0.16% 0.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.29% 0.17% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 22 22
10th Percentile £413 £428 £419
25th Percentile £425 £503 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £690 £625
Median % change year-on-year -31.16% +10.40% +78.57%
75th Percentile £525 £794 £817
90th Percentile £554 £825 £838
UK median daily rate £475 £650 £675
% change year-on-year -26.92% -3.70% +74.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 42 61
10th Percentile £60.00 £58.07 £51.75
25th Percentile £61.25 - -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% +33.33%
75th Percentile - £67.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £76.80 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year - +8.33% +33.33%

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 34,483 47,741 67,845
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.71% 94.62% 95.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,890 33,903 48,246
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £643 £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 2,432 1,409 1,905
10th Percentile £13.00 £14.35 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.31 £45.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.32% +100.00% +0.36%
75th Percentile £61.25 £65.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.60 £62.50
UK median hourly rate £36.42 £45.00 £23.50
% change year-on-year -19.07% +91.49% +3.14%

C++ Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for C++ Software Engineer in England

C++ Software Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for C++ Software Engineer in England

C++ Software Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing C++ Software Engineer in England over the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for C++ Software Engineer in England

C++ Software Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for C++ Software Engineer in England

C++ Software Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing C++ Software Engineer in England over the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for C++ Software Engineer in England

C++ Software Engineer
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++ Software Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 30 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
East of England +38 48 £425 +65.05% 23
South East +33 29 £475 -10.38% 18
South West -7 12 - - 18
London +98 11 £475 -34.48% 24
North of England +34 1 - - 7
Yorkshire +27 1 - - 3
C++ Software Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 30 April 2024, C++ Software Engineer 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++ Software Engineer in the job title.

1 101 (100.00%) C++
1 101 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 53 (52.48%) Agile
3 48 (47.52%) C
4 44 (43.56%) C#
5 43 (42.57%) Social Skills
6 37 (36.63%) Continuous Integration
7 36 (35.64%) Unit Testing
7 36 (35.64%) Linux
7 36 (35.64%) DevOps
8 35 (34.65%) TDD
9 31 (30.69%) Continuous Improvement
10 29 (28.71%) Software Testing
11 27 (26.73%) Pair Programming
11 27 (26.73%) Electronics
11 27 (26.73%) Modbus
11 27 (26.73%) RS-485
11 27 (26.73%) RS-422
11 27 (26.73%) Customer Requirements
12 26 (25.74%) Scrum
13 23 (22.77%) Windows
14 20 (19.80%) JIRA
14 20 (19.80%) Self-Motivation
15 19 (18.81%) Problem-Solving
15 19 (18.81%) Validation
16 17 (16.83%) Java
16 17 (16.83%) Git
17 16 (15.84%) JavaScript
17 16 (15.84%) Python
18 15 (14.85%) Eclipse

C++ Software Engineer 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 10 (9.90%) Confluence
Applications
1 7 (6.93%) Simulink
2 1 (0.99%) Adobe After Effects
2 1 (0.99%) Blender
2 1 (0.99%) Maya
2 1 (0.99%) Photoshop
Cloud Services
1 8 (7.92%) Azure
2 7 (6.93%) GitHub
3 3 (2.97%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (0.99%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 27 (26.73%) Modbus
1 27 (26.73%) RS-422
1 27 (26.73%) RS-485
2 11 (10.89%) 802.11
2 11 (10.89%) Wi-Fi
3 8 (7.92%) Software-Defined Radio
3 8 (7.92%) TCP/IP
4 7 (6.93%) SNMP
5 6 (5.94%) Ethernet
6 4 (3.96%) Radio Access Network
7 3 (2.97%) Wireless
8 1 (0.99%) 5G
8 1 (0.99%) MQTT
8 1 (0.99%) NFC
8 1 (0.99%) PPP
8 1 (0.99%) RS-232
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.95%) Couchbase
2 1 (0.99%) CouchDB
2 1 (0.99%) MongoDB
2 1 (0.99%) MySQL
2 1 (0.99%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (0.99%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 20 (19.80%) JIRA
2 17 (16.83%) Git
3 15 (14.85%) Eclipse
4 13 (12.87%) GoogleTest
5 12 (11.88%) Jenkins
6 11 (10.89%) Bitbucket
7 9 (8.91%) Visual Studio
8 7 (6.93%) Robot Framework
9 2 (1.98%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.99%) CMake
10 1 (0.99%) Rational DOORS
10 1 (0.99%) TestRail
10 1 (0.99%) Valgrind
General
1 43 (42.57%) Social Skills
2 27 (26.73%) Electronics
3 7 (6.93%) Presentation Skills
4 6 (5.94%) Military
5 3 (2.97%) Aerospace
6 2 (1.98%) Finance
6 2 (1.98%) Games
6 2 (1.98%) Law
7 1 (0.99%) Automotive
7 1 (0.99%) Aviation
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (10.89%) 802.1X
1 11 (10.89%) CSS
1 11 (10.89%) HTML
2 7 (6.93%) Node.js
2 7 (6.93%) Web Services
3 6 (5.94%) .NET
4 5 (4.95%) Kafka
4 5 (4.95%) Qt
5 3 (2.97%) XML
6 2 (1.98%) ADO
6 2 (1.98%) Blazor
6 2 (1.98%) MFC
6 2 (1.98%) RESTful
6 2 (1.98%) SOAP
6 2 (1.98%) WinForms
6 2 (1.98%) WPF
7 1 (0.99%) AngularJS
7 1 (0.99%) OpenVINO
7 1 (0.99%) React
7 1 (0.99%) Unreal Engine
Miscellaneous
1 20 (19.80%) Self-Motivation
2 5 (4.95%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (1.98%) Augmented Reality
3 2 (1.98%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (1.98%) Virtual Reality
4 1 (0.99%) Algorithms
4 1 (0.99%) Client/Server
4 1 (0.99%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (0.99%) FPGA
4 1 (0.99%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (0.99%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 36 (35.64%) Linux
2 23 (22.77%) Windows
3 4 (3.96%) Embedded Linux
4 2 (1.98%) Android
4 2 (1.98%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.99%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 53 (52.48%) Agile
3 37 (36.63%) Continuous Integration
4 36 (35.64%) DevOps
4 36 (35.64%) Unit Testing
5 35 (34.65%) TDD
6 31 (30.69%) Continuous Improvement
7 29 (28.71%) Software Testing
8 27 (26.73%) Customer Requirements
8 27 (26.73%) Pair Programming
9 26 (25.74%) Scrum
10 19 (18.81%) Problem-Solving
10 19 (18.81%) Validation
11 13 (12.87%) UML
11 13 (12.87%) Verification and Validation
11 13 (12.87%) Visualisation
12 12 (11.88%) CI/CD
13 10 (9.90%) Multithreading
14 8 (7.92%) Computer Science
14 8 (7.92%) Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 101 (100.00%) C++
2 48 (47.52%) C
3 44 (43.56%) C#
4 17 (16.83%) Java
5 16 (15.84%) JavaScript
5 16 (15.84%) Python
6 13 (12.87%) Perl
7 11 (10.89%) Tcl
8 8 (7.92%) MATLAB
9 3 (2.97%) Bash
10 2 (1.98%) C++/CLI
10 2 (1.98%) SQL
11 1 (0.99%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 11 (10.89%) Degree
2 10 (9.90%) Security Cleared
3 7 (6.93%) SC Cleared
4 4 (3.96%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.97%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.99%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.95%) MISRA
System Software
1 8 (7.92%) Firmware
2 3 (2.97%) VirtualBox
3 2 (1.98%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.99%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.99%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 13 (12.87%) Google
2 7 (6.93%) Atlassian
2 7 (6.93%) Oracle
3 6 (5.94%) Microsoft
4 2 (1.98%) Xamarin
5 1 (0.99%) Adobe
5 1 (0.99%) Compaq
5 1 (0.99%) Twitter
5 1 (0.99%) VMware