C++ Contract Job Trends in Leeds

C++
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Leeds requiring C++ skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 70 61 64
Rank change year-on-year -9 +3 +46
Contract jobs citing C++ 4 5 21
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 0.59% 0.72% 1.92%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.63% 2.03% 6.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 17
10th Percentile - £573 £463
25th Percentile - £588 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £275 £630 £600
Median % change year-on-year -56.35% +5.00% +50.00%
75th Percentile - £648 £625
90th Percentile - - £635
West Yorkshire median daily rate £275 £603 £600
% change year-on-year -54.36% +0.42% +33.33%

All Programming Languages
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 245 246 301
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 36.08% 35.34% 27.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 145 184 228
10th Percentile £368 £333 £404
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -
75th Percentile £575 £575 £628
90th Percentile £675 £625 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 3
10th Percentile - £28.50 -
25th Percentile - £31.88 -
Median hourly rate - £40.00 £21.31
Median % change year-on-year - +87.71% -18.04%
75th Percentile - £49.38 £41.66
90th Percentile - £53.50 £53.86
West Yorkshire median hourly rate - £30.00 £21.31
% change year-on-year - +40.78% -9.65%

C++
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing C++ relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds.

C++ job vacancy trend in Leeds

C++
Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

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

C++
Hourly Rate Trend in Leeds

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

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

C++
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (25.00%) Relational Database
General
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Java Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 1 (25.00%) Java Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Java Software Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) .NET
1 2 (50.00%) React
2 1 (25.00%) J2EE
2 1 (25.00%) JPA
2 1 (25.00%) RESTful
2 1 (25.00%) Spring
2 1 (25.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (25.00%) Agile
1 1 (25.00%) API Development
1 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (25.00%) Clean Code
1 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (25.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (25.00%) Front End Development
1 1 (25.00%) Microservices
1 1 (25.00%) Product Requirements
1 1 (25.00%) Requirements Workshops
1 1 (25.00%) Scrum
1 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (25.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Java
2 3 (75.00%) Python
3 2 (50.00%) C
4 1 (25.00%) C#
4 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes