C++ Contracts in Manchester

C++
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 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 74 92 99
Rank change year-on-year +18 +7 +24
Contract jobs citing C++ 5 4 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.54% 0.26% 1.00%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.65% 0.89% 3.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 15
10th Percentile £729 - £325
25th Percentile £734 £405 £364
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £763 £480 £475
Median % change year-on-year +58.85% +1.05% -20.83%
75th Percentile £784 £594 £632
90th Percentile £786 £628 £638
North West median daily rate £763 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +69.44% -10.00% -16.67%

All Programming Languages
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 303 450 570
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 32.72% 29.66% 30.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 231 355 442
10th Percentile £375 £343 £339
25th Percentile £400 £401 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% -10.00% -1.96%
75th Percentile £539 £538 £600
90th Percentile £622 £620 £675
North West median daily rate £470 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -1.05% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 13 5
10th Percentile £68.38 - £39.10
25th Percentile £69.69 £52.50 £40.00
Median hourly rate £76.25 £70.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.93% +55.56% +192.87%
75th Percentile £84.69 £81.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £87.13 £82.90 £59.10
North West median hourly rate £70.00 £48.43 £40.59
% change year-on-year +44.54% +19.32% -2.19%

C++
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for C++ in Manchester

C++
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing C++ in Manchester.

Daily rate trend for C++ in Manchester

C++
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing C++ in Manchester.

Hourly rate trend for C++ in Manchester

C++
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing C++ within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Stockport - 2 - - 18
C++
North West

C++
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Subversion
1 2 (40.00%) Visual Studio
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Developer
2 3 (60.00%) C++ Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Software Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Qt
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Data Protection
2 2 (40.00%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Python
1 2 (40.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft