C++ Contracts in London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for C++ skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited C++ over the 3 months to 24 June 2017 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

C++ England / London
Location	3 months to 24 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	92	97	76
Rank change year-on-year	+5	-21
Contract jobs citing C++	561	544	633
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London	2.74%	2.51%	2.71%
As % of the Programming Languages category	5.74%	5.76%	6.45%
Number of daily rates quoted	439	428	475
Median daily rate	£575	£525	£575
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+9.52%	-8.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£425	£350	£363
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£725	£675	£700
UK excluding London median daily rate	£404	£400	£338
% change year-on-year	+1.00%	+18.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted	20	5	8
Median hourly rate	£36.25	£41.00	£40.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	-11.58%	+2.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£32.40	£40.00	£36.75
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£42.75	£42.50	£94.05
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£43.25	£42.50	£40.00
% change year-on-year	+1.76%	+6.25%

C++ is in the programming language skills category. The next table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for programming language skills.

Contract Programming Language Skills London
Contract job vacancies with a requirement for programming language skills	9772	9446	9820
As % of all contract IT job vacancies advertised in London	47.80%	43.58%	41.97%
Number of daily rates quoted	7229	7201	7171
Median daily rate	£500	£475	£450
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+5.26%	+5.55%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£350	£325	£301
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£650	£625	£625
UK excluding London median daily rate	£400	£375	£350
% change year-on-year	+6.66%	+7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted	74	40	85
Median hourly rate	£33.75	£40.00	£30.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	-15.62%	+33.33%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£19.82	£15.05	£18.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£47.83	£102.00	£52.19
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£42.50	£37.50	£36.50
% change year-on-year	+13.33%	+2.73%

C++
Job Vacancy Trend in London

The job posting trend of jobs advertised in London citing C++ as a proportion of all contract or permanent IT jobs with a match in the Programming Languages category.

C++
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing C++ in London.

Contractor daily rate trend for C++ in London

C++
Contractor Daily Rate Histogram in London

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing C++ in London over the 3 months to 24 June 2017.

Contractor daily rate histogram for C++ in London

C++
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for contractor hourly rates quoted in IT jobs citing C++ in London.

Contractor hourly rate trend for C++ in London

C++
Contractor Hourly Rate Histogram in London

The hourly rate distribution of IT jobs citing C++ in London over the 3 months to 24 June 2017.

Contractor hourly rate histogram for C++ in London

C++
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing C++ within the London region over the 3 months to 24 June 2017. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Median Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Job Vacancies
City of London	-8	66	£600	+9.09%	42
Heathrow	0	7	£370	+5.71%
Canary Wharf	+2	6	£650	+8.33%
Bromley	+8	5	£520	+22.35%
Docklands, London	+5	5	£600	-
Uxbridge	-	2	£300	-	1
Croydon	-2	1	£500	+30.71%
Greenford	-	1	£344	-
Osterley	-	1	£480	-
C++ England

C++
Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills in London

For the 6 months to 24 June 2017, IT contractor jobs citing C++ also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all contract ads across the London region with a requirement for C++.

1	451 (38.88%)	Java
2	424 (36.55%)	Finance
3	395 (34.05%)	Linux
4	363 (31.29%)	C#
5	354 (30.52%)	Python
6	329 (28.36%)	Banking
7	325 (28.02%)	SQL
8	313 (26.98%)	Front Office
9	309 (26.64%)	Multithreading
10	278 (23.97%)	Foreign Exchange (FX)
11	261 (22.50%)	Unix
12	251 (21.64%)	Low Latency
13	216 (18.62%)	C
14	210 (18.10%)	Agile Software Development
15	200 (17.24%)	Fixed Income

16	195 (16.81%)	Windows
17	194 (16.72%)	Investment Banking
18	182 (15.69%)	Electronic Trading
19	172 (14.83%)	Oracle
20	168 (14.48%)	SDLC
21	158 (13.62%)	Software Engineering
22	148 (12.76%)	Degree
23	144 (12.41%)	Analytical Skills
24	136 (11.72%)	.NET
25	131 (11.29%)	Equities
26	129 (11.12%)	OO
27	122 (10.52%)	Mathematics
28	121 (10.43%)	STL
29	118 (10.17%)	Derivative
30	114 (9.83%)	TDD

C++
Co-occurring IT Skills in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
Applications
Business Applications
Cloud Services
Communications & Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
Development Applications
General
Job Titles
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
Miscellaneous
Operating Systems
Processes & Methodologies
Programming Languages
Qualifications
Quality Assurance & Compliance
System Software
Systems Management
Vendors

Application Platforms
1	29 (2.50%)	WebSphere
2	26 (2.24%)	Apache Spark
3	22 (1.90%)	Apache
4	18 (1.55%)	Tomcat
5	17 (1.47%)	CMS
6	16 (1.38%)	WebLogic
7	15 (1.29%)	Oracle Coherence
8	13 (1.12%)	Confluence
9	12 (1.03%)	JBoss
10	11 (0.95%)	nginx
11	10 (0.86%)	DataSynapse
11	10 (0.86%)	Tuxedo
12	7 (0.60%)	IIS
12	7 (0.60%)	MQSeries
13	6 (0.52%)	Elasticsearch
14	5 (0.43%)	SAS
15	4 (0.34%)	NServiceBus
15	4 (0.34%)	SharePoint
16	3 (0.26%)	Jupyter
16	3 (0.26%)	Oracle SOA Suite

Applications
1	52 (4.48%)	Microsoft Excel
2	13 (1.12%)	Spreadsheet
3	8 (0.69%)	Microsoft Office
4	7 (0.60%)	MS Visio
5	5 (0.43%)	Microsoft Project
5	5 (0.43%)	SPSS
6	4 (0.34%)	Doxygen
7	2 (0.17%)	Microsoft PowerPoint
7	2 (0.17%)	SmartSuite
8	1 (0.086%)	Mathematica
8	1 (0.086%)	Stata

Business Applications
1	40 (3.45%)	ION MarketView
2	4 (0.34%)	Murex MxG2000
2	4 (0.34%)	Summit
3	3 (0.26%)	NetSuite
3	3 (0.26%)	RMDS
3	3 (0.26%)	SunGard Martini
4	2 (0.17%)	Dynamics CRM
4	2 (0.17%)	Oracle BPM
4	2 (0.17%)	thinkFolio
5	1 (0.086%)	Bloomberg AIM
5	1 (0.086%)	Front Arena
5	1 (0.086%)	Relativity
5	1 (0.086%)	Salesforce.com CRM
5	1 (0.086%)	SAP Oil and Gas

Cloud Services
1	41 (3.53%)	Amazon AWS
2	18 (1.55%)	Microsoft Azure
3	10 (0.86%)	PaaS
4	9 (0.78%)	Cloud Computing
5	8 (0.69%)	Google Cloud Platform
6	6 (0.52%)	IaaS
7	5 (0.43%)	Force.com
7	5 (0.43%)	SaaS
8	4 (0.34%)	Google Analytics
9	3 (0.26%)	Amazon EC2
9	3 (0.26%)	Azure Active Directory
9	3 (0.26%)	Bluemix
9	3 (0.26%)	Heroku
9	3 (0.26%)	IBM Cloud
9	3 (0.26%)	OpenShift
10	2 (0.17%)	Amazon Kinesis
10	2 (0.17%)	CloudFront
10	2 (0.17%)	GitHub
10	2 (0.17%)	Google Play
10	2 (0.17%)	iTunes

Communications & Networking
1	36 (3.10%)	TCP/IP
2	19 (1.64%)	HTTP
3	12 (1.03%)	Internet
4	7 (0.60%)	Wi-Fi
5	5 (0.43%)	Firewall
5	5 (0.43%)	LDAP
5	5 (0.43%)	Network Security
5	5 (0.43%)	SNMP
5	5 (0.43%)	Wireless
6	4 (0.34%)	Bluetooth
6	4 (0.34%)	IP Telephony
6	4 (0.34%)	Kerberos
6	4 (0.34%)	Multicast
7	3 (0.26%)	AMQP
7	3 (0.26%)	FIX Connectivity
8	2 (0.17%)	802.11
8	2 (0.17%)	SSL
9	1 (0.086%)	DVB
9	1 (0.086%)	GPRS
9	1 (0.086%)	Intranet

Database & Business Intelligence
1	86 (7.41%)	SQL Server
2	51 (4.40%)	Big Data
2	51 (4.40%)	Relational Database
3	40 (3.45%)	NoSQL
4	38 (3.28%)	KDB
5	34 (2.93%)	Hadoop
6	31 (2.67%)	Oracle Database
6	31 (2.67%)	Tick Data
7	23 (1.98%)	RDBMS
8	21 (1.81%)	DB2
9	19 (1.64%)	Kdb+
10	18 (1.55%)	MySQL
11	17 (1.47%)	Data Warehouse
11	17 (1.47%)	OLTP
11	17 (1.47%)	PostgreSQL
12	14 (1.21%)	MongoDB
13	12 (1.03%)	Apache Cassandra
14	11 (0.95%)	QlikView
15	8 (0.69%)	Apache Hive
15	8 (0.69%)	HBase

Development Applications
1	79 (6.81%)	Subversion
2	64 (5.52%)	Git (software)
3	55 (4.74%)	JIRA
4	31 (2.67%)	Visual Studio
5	29 (2.50%)	TeamCity
6	27 (2.33%)	Jenkins
7	16 (1.38%)	VSS/SourceSafe
8	13 (1.12%)	Eclipse
9	12 (1.03%)	Oracle APEX
9	12 (1.03%)	Vagrant
10	11 (0.95%)	gulp
10	11 (0.95%)	NUnit
10	11 (0.95%)	Team Foundation Server
11	10 (0.86%)	Cucumber
12	9 (0.78%)	Mercurial
13	8 (0.69%)	Bitbucket
13	8 (0.69%)	Bower
13	8 (0.69%)	Gradle
14	7 (0.60%)	Moq
15	6 (0.52%)	Maven

General
1	424 (36.55%)	Finance
2	329 (28.36%)	Banking
3	313 (26.98%)	Front Office
4	194 (16.72%)	Investment Banking
5	24 (2.07%)	Games
6	21 (1.81%)	Financial Institution
7	16 (1.38%)	Electronics
8	15 (1.29%)	Back Office
9	14 (1.21%)	Retail
10	12 (1.03%)	Marketing
11	11 (0.95%)	Telecoms
12	6 (0.52%)	Advertising
13	3 (0.26%)	Aerospace
13	3 (0.26%)	Automotive
13	3 (0.26%)	Manufacturing
13	3 (0.26%)	Prime Brokerage
14	2 (0.17%)	Avionics
14	2 (0.17%)	Law
14	2 (0.17%)	Polish Language
14	2 (0.17%)	Publishing

Job Titles
1	881 (75.95%)	Developer
2	451 (38.88%)	C++ Developer
3	150 (12.93%)	Java Developer
4	132 (11.38%)	C# Developer
5	129 (11.12%)	Quantitative Developer
6	100 (8.62%)	Electronic Trading Developer
7	82 (7.07%)	Front Office Developer
8	75 (6.47%)	C++/C# Developer
9	74 (6.38%)	Python Developer
10	73 (6.29%)	Software Engineer
11	66 (5.69%)	Analyst
12	63 (5.43%)	Senior Developer
13	62 (5.34%)	Electronic Trading Java Developer
14	60 (5.17%)	Linux Developer
15	59 (5.09%)	C++ Quantitative Developer
16	53 (4.57%)	SQL Developer
17	48 (4.14%)	Software Developer
18	47 (4.05%)	C++ Software Developer
19	44 (3.79%)	Low Latency Java Developer
20	43 (3.71%)	Low Latency C++ Developer

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	136 (11.72%)	.NET
2	121 (10.43%)	STL
3	108 (9.31%)	Boost C++ Libraries
4	98 (8.45%)	XML
5	63 (5.43%)	JNI
6	60 (5.17%)	Middleware
7	58 (5.00%)	HTML
8	53 (4.57%)	WPF
9	48 (4.14%)	FIX Protocol
10	46 (3.97%)	Web Services
11	40 (3.45%)	HTML5
11	40 (3.45%)	JSON
12	30 (2.59%)	AngularJS
13	28 (2.41%)	Rendezvous
13	28 (2.41%)	RESTful
14	27 (2.33%)	CSS
15	26 (2.24%)	ASP.NET
15	26 (2.24%)	XSLT
16	25 (2.16%)	Node.js
17	24 (2.07%)	Spring

Miscellaneous
1	278 (23.97%)	Foreign Exchange (FX)
2	200 (17.24%)	Fixed Income
3	144 (12.41%)	Analytical Skills
4	131 (11.29%)	Equities
5	118 (10.17%)	Derivative
6	108 (9.31%)	Computer Science
7	97 (8.36%)	Greenfield Project
8	87 (7.50%)	Algorithms
9	56 (4.83%)	Market Risk
10	50 (4.31%)	Fintech
11	40 (3.45%)	Data Structures
12	29 (2.50%)	Mobile App
13	23 (1.98%)	Equity Derivative
14	22 (1.90%)	Credit Risk
15	21 (1.81%)	Management Information System
16	19 (1.64%)	Interest Rate Derivative
17	17 (1.47%)	Swaptions
18	15 (1.29%)	Hedge funds
19	13 (1.12%)	User Experience
20	12 (1.03%)	Embedded Systems

Operating Systems
1	395 (34.05%)	Linux
2	261 (22.50%)	Unix
3	195 (16.81%)	Windows
4	42 (3.62%)	Android
5	29 (2.50%)	Apple iOS
6	25 (2.16%)	Solaris
7	13 (1.12%)	CentOS
8	7 (0.60%)	Windows 7
9	6 (0.52%)	Embedded Linux
10	5 (0.43%)	Windows Mobile
10	5 (0.43%)	Windows Server
11	3 (0.26%)	Tizen
11	3 (0.26%)	Windows Server 2012
12	2 (0.17%)	Mac OS X
12	2 (0.17%)	VMS
12	2 (0.17%)	Windows Server 2008
13	1 (0.086%)	Debian
13	1 (0.086%)	Ubuntu
13	1 (0.086%)	Windows 10
13	1 (0.086%)	Windows Embedded Compact

Processes & Methodologies
1	309 (26.64%)	Multithreading
2	251 (21.64%)	Low Latency
3	210 (18.10%)	Agile Software Development
4	182 (15.69%)	Electronic Trading
5	168 (14.48%)	SDLC
6	158 (13.62%)	Software Engineering
7	129 (11.12%)	OO
8	122 (10.52%)	Mathematics
9	114 (9.83%)	TDD
10	94 (8.10%)	Multithreaded Programming
11	77 (6.64%)	Analytics
11	77 (6.64%)	Risk Management
12	72 (6.21%)	Scrum
13	70 (6.03%)	Continuous Integration
14	63 (5.43%)	Test Automation
15	62 (5.34%)	Quantitative Research
16	61 (5.26%)	DevOps
17	57 (4.91%)	Unit Testing
18	50 (4.31%)	Algorithmic Trading
19	49 (4.22%)	Release Management

Programming Languages
1	451 (38.88%)	Java
2	363 (31.29%)	C#
3	354 (30.52%)	Python
4	325 (28.02%)	SQL
5	216 (18.62%)	C
6	98 (8.45%)	Perl
7	80 (6.90%)	Shell Script
8	72 (6.21%)	JavaScript
9	55 (4.74%)	Scala
10	49 (4.22%)	VBA
11	37 (3.19%)	R
12	31 (2.67%)	Bash Shell
13	29 (2.50%)	PL/SQL
14	28 (2.41%)	Objective-C
15	22 (1.90%)	Ruby
16	20 (1.72%)	MATLAB
17	17 (1.47%)	PowerShell
18	16 (1.38%)	PHP
19	15 (1.29%)	VB
20	14 (1.21%)	Embedded C

Qualifications
1	148 (12.76%)	Degree
2	68 (5.86%)	PhD
3	26 (2.24%)	Numerate Degree
4	22 (1.90%)	Computer Science Degree
5	15 (1.29%)	Security Cleared
6	8 (0.69%)	DV Cleared
6	8 (0.69%)	Master's Degree
7	6 (0.52%)	CISSP
8	5 (0.43%)	CEH
8	5 (0.43%)	CISA
8	5 (0.43%)	SC Cleared
9	4 (0.34%)	OSCP
10	3 (0.26%)	CFA
10	3 (0.26%)	MBA
10	3 (0.26%)	PMI Certification
10	3 (0.26%)	PMP
11	2 (0.17%)	ISEB
12	1 (0.086%)	A+ Certification
12	1 (0.086%)	MCSE
12	1 (0.086%)	Microsoft Certification

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	62 (5.34%)	QA
2	30 (2.59%)	MiFID
3	9 (0.78%)	Data Quality
4	7 (0.60%)	SLA
5	5 (0.43%)	ISO 20022
6	4 (0.34%)	MISRA
7	3 (0.26%)	JSP 440
8	2 (0.17%)	Solvency II
9	1 (0.086%)	Basel III
9	1 (0.086%)	ISO 15022
9	1 (0.086%)	ISO 9001
9	1 (0.086%)	ISO/IEC 27001
9	1 (0.086%)	PCI DSS
9	1 (0.086%)	Sarbanes-Oxley

System Software
1	19 (1.64%)	Docker
2	8 (0.69%)	Firmware
3	6 (0.52%)	Apache ZooKeeper
3	6 (0.52%)	HDFS
4	4 (0.34%)	Active Directory
5	3 (0.26%)	VMware Infrastructure
6	2 (0.17%)	Hyper-V
7	1 (0.086%)	Virtual Machines
7	1 (0.086%)	VMware ESXi
7	1 (0.086%)	VMware Workstation
7	1 (0.086%)	vSphere
7	1 (0.086%)	XenServer

Systems Management
1	30 (2.59%)	Ansible
2	18 (1.55%)	Opscode Chef
3	13 (1.12%)	Control-M
3	13 (1.12%)	Puppet
4	5 (0.43%)	HP Fortify
5	3 (0.26%)	BladeLogic
5	3 (0.26%)	Kubernetes
5	3 (0.26%)	Salt
5	3 (0.26%)	Terraform
6	2 (0.17%)	ITRS Geneos
6	2 (0.17%)	Mesos
6	2 (0.17%)	OpenView
6	2 (0.17%)	RSA Archer
7	1 (0.086%)	CA Single Sign-On
7	1 (0.086%)	Hadoop YARN
7	1 (0.086%)	Nagios
7	1 (0.086%)	Oracle Enterprise Manager
7	1 (0.086%)	SCOM
7	1 (0.086%)	Thomson Reuters DACS

Vendors
1	172 (14.83%)	Oracle
2	82 (7.07%)	Sybase
3	62 (5.34%)	ION Trading
4	59 (5.09%)	Microsoft
5	55 (4.74%)	TIBCO
6	26 (2.24%)	Solace
7	22 (1.90%)	IBM
8	19 (1.64%)	Google
9	18 (1.55%)	Bloomberg
10	15 (1.29%)	Perforce
10	15 (1.29%)	Red Hat
11	14 (1.21%)	Tableau
12	11 (0.95%)	Sun
12	11 (0.95%)	Teradata
13	10 (0.86%)	Murex
13	10 (0.86%)	Netezza
14	9 (0.78%)	Reuters
15	8 (0.69%)	Cognizant
15	8 (0.69%)	Talarian
15	8 (0.69%)	Tradeweb