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 24 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
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 440 577 648
Rank change year-on-year +137 +71 -71
Contract jobs requiring a C++ Software Engineer 96 83 140
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.26% 0.16% 0.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.28% 0.17% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 23 20
10th Percentile £413 £415 £398
25th Percentile £425 £478 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £690 £594
Median % change year-on-year -31.16% +16.21% +58.33%
75th Percentile £525 £775 £752
90th Percentile £554 £825 £838
UK median daily rate £475 £631 £650
% change year-on-year -24.75% -2.88% +62.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 43 64
10th Percentile £60.00 £58.18 £51.40
25th Percentile £61.25 - -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% +33.33%
75th Percentile - £68.90 £65.00
90th Percentile £65.75 £76.60 £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 34,509 48,061 68,243
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.70% 94.57% 95.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,973 34,073 48,458
10th Percentile £275 £310 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
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 2,410 1,449 1,922
10th Percentile £12.91 £14.35 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 £45.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -21.11% +100.00% +0.36%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.49
90th Percentile £72.50 £77.00 £62.15
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -21.11% +95.65% +1.41%

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 24 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 24 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 24 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 +41 48 £425 +65.05% 24
South East +32 29 £475 -10.38% 16
London +98 11 £475 -34.48% 30
South West -5 8 - - 17
C++ Software Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 24 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 96 (100.00%) C++
1 96 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 49 (51.04%) Agile
2 49 (51.04%) C
3 43 (44.79%) C#
4 40 (41.67%) Social Skills
5 36 (37.50%) Continuous Integration
6 35 (36.46%) Unit Testing
7 34 (35.42%) TDD
7 34 (35.42%) DevOps
8 33 (34.38%) Linux
9 32 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
10 30 (31.25%) Software Testing
11 28 (29.17%) Pair Programming
11 28 (29.17%) Electronics
11 28 (29.17%) Modbus
11 28 (29.17%) RS-485
11 28 (29.17%) RS-422
11 28 (29.17%) Customer Requirements
12 27 (28.13%) Scrum
13 21 (21.88%) Windows
14 20 (20.83%) Self-Motivation
15 18 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
16 17 (17.71%) Validation
16 17 (17.71%) JIRA
16 17 (17.71%) Git
17 15 (15.63%) Python
18 14 (14.58%) Java
18 14 (14.58%) JavaScript
19 13 (13.54%) Perl

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 (10.42%) Confluence
Applications
1 7 (7.29%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 8 (8.33%) Azure
2 4 (4.17%) GitHub
3 3 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (1.04%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 28 (29.17%) Modbus
1 28 (29.17%) RS-422
1 28 (29.17%) RS-485
2 11 (11.46%) 802.11
2 11 (11.46%) Wi-Fi
3 8 (8.33%) Software-Defined Radio
4 7 (7.29%) SNMP
5 6 (6.25%) TCP/IP
6 4 (4.17%) Ethernet
6 4 (4.17%) Radio Access Network
7 3 (3.13%) Wireless
8 1 (1.04%) 5G
8 1 (1.04%) MQTT
8 1 (1.04%) NFC
8 1 (1.04%) PPP
8 1 (1.04%) RS-232
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.21%) Couchbase
2 1 (1.04%) CouchDB
2 1 (1.04%) MongoDB
2 1 (1.04%) MySQL
2 1 (1.04%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.04%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 17 (17.71%) Git
1 17 (17.71%) JIRA
2 13 (13.54%) Eclipse
3 11 (11.46%) Bitbucket
3 11 (11.46%) GoogleTest
4 9 (9.38%) Jenkins
5 7 (7.29%) Robot Framework
5 7 (7.29%) Visual Studio
6 2 (2.08%) Artifactory
7 1 (1.04%) CMake
7 1 (1.04%) Rational DOORS
7 1 (1.04%) TestRail
7 1 (1.04%) Valgrind
General
1 40 (41.67%) Social Skills
2 28 (29.17%) Electronics
3 5 (5.21%) Presentation Skills
4 4 (4.17%) Military
5 3 (3.13%) Aerospace
6 2 (2.08%) Finance
6 2 (2.08%) Law
7 1 (1.04%) Automotive
7 1 (1.04%) Aviation
7 1 (1.04%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (11.46%) 802.1X
1 11 (11.46%) CSS
1 11 (11.46%) HTML
2 6 (6.25%) .NET
3 5 (5.21%) Kafka
3 5 (5.21%) Node.js
3 5 (5.21%) Web Services
4 3 (3.13%) Qt
4 3 (3.13%) XML
5 2 (2.08%) ADO
5 2 (2.08%) Blazor
5 2 (2.08%) MFC
5 2 (2.08%) RESTful
5 2 (2.08%) SOAP
5 2 (2.08%) WinForms
5 2 (2.08%) WPF
6 1 (1.04%) AngularJS
6 1 (1.04%) JSON
6 1 (1.04%) OpenVINO
6 1 (1.04%) React
Miscellaneous
1 20 (20.83%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (3.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (1.04%) Algorithms
3 1 (1.04%) Augmented Reality
3 1 (1.04%) Client/Server
3 1 (1.04%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (1.04%) FPGA
3 1 (1.04%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (1.04%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (1.04%) Smartcard
3 1 (1.04%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 33 (34.38%) Linux
2 21 (21.88%) Windows
3 4 (4.17%) Embedded Linux
4 2 (2.08%) Android
4 2 (2.08%) Windows 10
5 1 (1.04%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 49 (51.04%) Agile
3 36 (37.50%) Continuous Integration
4 35 (36.46%) Unit Testing
5 34 (35.42%) DevOps
5 34 (35.42%) TDD
6 32 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
7 30 (31.25%) Software Testing
8 28 (29.17%) Customer Requirements
8 28 (29.17%) Pair Programming
9 27 (28.13%) Scrum
10 18 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
11 17 (17.71%) Validation
12 13 (13.54%) UML
13 11 (11.46%) Verification and Validation
13 11 (11.46%) Visualisation
14 10 (10.42%) Multithreading
15 8 (8.33%) Computer Science
15 8 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 8 (8.33%) SysML
Programming Languages
1 96 (100.00%) C++
2 49 (51.04%) C
3 43 (44.79%) C#
4 15 (15.63%) Python
5 14 (14.58%) Java
5 14 (14.58%) JavaScript
6 13 (13.54%) Perl
7 11 (11.46%) Tcl
8 8 (8.33%) MATLAB
9 3 (3.13%) Bash
10 2 (2.08%) C++/CLI
10 2 (2.08%) SQL
11 1 (1.04%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 10 (10.42%) Degree
2 9 (9.38%) Security Cleared
3 6 (6.25%) SC Cleared
4 4 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (3.13%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.04%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.13%) MISRA
System Software
1 8 (8.33%) Firmware
2 3 (3.13%) VirtualBox
3 2 (2.08%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.04%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.04%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 11 (11.46%) Google
2 7 (7.29%) Atlassian
2 7 (7.29%) Oracle
3 4 (4.17%) Microsoft
4 2 (2.08%) Xamarin
5 1 (1.04%) Compaq
5 1 (1.04%) Twitter
5 1 (1.04%) VMware