STL Contracts in London

Standard Template Library (STL)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring STL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited STL over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 347 - 446
Rank change year-on-year - - +83
Contract jobs citing STL 6 0 47
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.048% - 0.17%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.18% - 0.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 32
10th Percentile £675 - £726
25th Percentile - - £769
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 - £788
Median % change year-on-year - - +8.62%
75th Percentile - - £825
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £750 - £788
% change year-on-year - - +8.62%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
London

STL falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 3,271 4,464 7,402
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.07% 25.04% 27.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,298 3,349 5,511
10th Percentile £385 £375 £413
25th Percentile £450 £459 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -4.17% -
75th Percentile £725 £700 £730
90th Percentile £838 £825 £813
England median daily rate £530 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 26 40
10th Percentile £33.25 £16.25 £30.68
25th Percentile £36.06 £23.90 £37.84
Median hourly rate £52.50 £37.17 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year +41.24% -43.68% +35.86%
75th Percentile £65.00 £61.25 £75.00
90th Percentile £76.25 £68.50 £76.63
England median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

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Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing STL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for STL in London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing STL in London.

Daily rate trend for STL in London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing STL in London.

Hourly rate trend for STL in London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 1 (16.67%) MQSeries
Communications & Networking
1 4 (66.67%) Multicast
Development Applications
1 4 (66.67%) GCC
1 4 (66.67%) GDB
2 1 (16.67%) Git
2 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (83.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Banking
2 2 (33.33%) Investment Banking
3 1 (16.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) C++ Developer
1 6 (100.00%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (83.33%) Boost C++ Libraries
2 1 (16.67%) .NET
2 1 (16.67%) .NET Core
2 1 (16.67%) .NET Framework
2 1 (16.67%) FpML
2 1 (16.67%) Rendezvous
2 1 (16.67%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Distributed Architecture
1 4 (66.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (16.67%) Equities
2 1 (16.67%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 5 (83.33%) Linux
2 1 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) High Availability
1 4 (66.67%) Risk Management
1 4 (66.67%) Test Automation
2 1 (16.67%) Code Quality
2 1 (16.67%) DevOps
2 1 (16.67%) Investment Management
2 1 (16.67%) Low Latency
2 1 (16.67%) Multithreading
2 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (16.67%) Refactoring
2 1 (16.67%) Software Testing
2 1 (16.67%) Static Application Security Testing
2 1 (16.67%) TDD
2 1 (16.67%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) C++
1 6 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (16.67%) C
2 1 (16.67%) C#
2 1 (16.67%) Java
2 1 (16.67%) Shell Script
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Ansible
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) IBM
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle
1 1 (16.67%) TIBCO