C++ Contracts in Gloucestershire

C++
South West > Gloucestershire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Gloucestershire 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 23 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 44 39
Rank change year-on-year +13 -5 -7
DemandTrendContract jobs citing C++ 4 16 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 1.44% 3.52% 3.74%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.35% 9.47% 7.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 13
10th Percentile £565 - £375
25th Percentile £578 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -16.67% -33.33%
75th Percentile £666 £525 £675
90th Percentile £675 - £758
South West median daily rate £544 £425 £515
% change year-on-year +27.94% -17.48% -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 2
10th Percentile - - £70.50
25th Percentile - - £71.25
Median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year - -6.67% +25.00%
75th Percentile - - £81.25
90th Percentile - - £83.50
South West median hourly rate £67.50 £70.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -

All Programming Languages
Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 63 169 226
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 22.74% 37.22% 46.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 100 140
10th Percentile £184 £425 £412
25th Percentile £409 £484 £485
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -2.22% -
75th Percentile £619 £625 £700
90th Percentile £722 £676 £764
South West median daily rate £475 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -9.52% +2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 8 22
10th Percentile £49.60 - £70.05
25th Percentile £70.00 £30.00 £75.75
Median hourly rate £75.00 £70.00 £78.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -10.26% +56.98%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £76.50 - £84.30
South West median hourly rate £68.00 £70.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -2.86% +7.69% -

C++
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Job vacancy trend for C++ in Gloucestershire

C++
Daily Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing C++.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing C++

C++
Hourly Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing C++.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing C++

C++
DemandTrendContract Job Locations in Gloucestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing C++ within the Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 23 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Cheltenham +29 3 £625 +25.00% 6
Filton -4 1 - - 6
C++
South West

C++
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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 (50.00%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) MongoDB
1 2 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (25.00%) NoSQL
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Backend Developer
2 1 (25.00%) C++ Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Research Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Research Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) AngularJS
1 2 (50.00%) Node.js
1 2 (50.00%) React
1 2 (50.00%) Vue
2 1 (25.00%) Middleware
2 1 (25.00%) Qt
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Unix
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (25.00%) Configuration Management
3 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (25.00%) Software Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Research
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) C
1 3 (75.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) Bash
2 2 (50.00%) Go
2 2 (50.00%) Java
2 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (50.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (25.00%) Ada
3 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) DV Cleared
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Def Stans
1 1 (25.00%) IEC 61508
1 1 (25.00%) MISRA
1 1 (25.00%) MISRA C
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Ansible
1 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (50.00%) Podman
1 2 (50.00%) Terraform