C++ Contracts in Northern Ireland

C++
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Northern Ireland 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 30 - 26
Rank change year-on-year - - +6
Contract jobs citing C++ 2 0 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 1.26% - 3.47%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.33% - 11.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 7
10th Percentile £295 - -
25th Percentile £329 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 - £400
75th Percentile £467 - £425
90th Percentile £487 - £450
UK median daily rate £713 £575 £650
% change year-on-year +24.00% -11.54% -7.14%

All Programming Languages
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 60 36 59
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 37.74% 24.16% 29.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 18 38
10th Percentile £273 £318 -
25th Percentile £325 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £443 £450
Median % change year-on-year -3.95% -1.67% -7.22%
75th Percentile £517 £505 £530
90th Percentile £627 £575 £615
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 1
10th Percentile £27.03 £19.02 -
25th Percentile £33.86 £23.37 £13.25
Median hourly rate £47.85 £31.25 £13.50
Median % change year-on-year +53.13% +131.48% -28.95%
75th Percentile £64.47 £31.88 £13.75
90th Percentile £72.87 - -
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £60.50 £60.70
% change year-on-year +3.31% -0.33% +21.40%

C++
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Job vacancy trend for C++ in Northern Ireland

C++
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Daily rate trend for C++ in Northern Ireland

C++
Daily Rate Histogram in Northern Ireland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing C++ in Northern Ireland over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for C++ in Northern Ireland

C++
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Hourly rate trend for C++ in Northern Ireland

C++
Contract Job Locations in Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing C++ within the Northern Ireland 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
County Antrim - 2 £410 - 24
C++
UK

C++
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
2 1 (50.00%) C# Developer
2 1 (50.00%) C# Software Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Core Java Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Java Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Software Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Algorithms
1 1 (50.00%) Data Structures
1 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Low Latency
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C#
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) SQL