C++ Contracts in Portsmouth

C++
Hampshire > Portsmouth

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Portsmouth 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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 10 31
Rank change year-on-year -3 +21 +5
Contract jobs citing C++ 13 34 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Portsmouth 10.32% 11.93% 4.60%
As % of the Programming Languages category 30.95% 45.95% 18.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 10 3
10th Percentile £620 £367 £425
25th Percentile £621 - £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £640 £400 £500
Median % change year-on-year +60.00% -20.00% -
75th Percentile £671 £414 £525
90th Percentile £675 £419 £540
Hampshire median daily rate £633 £544 £525
% change year-on-year +16.41% +3.57% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 16 6
10th Percentile £53.65 £59.50 £53.05
25th Percentile £55.38 £61.25 £54.89
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year - +8.70% +18.36%
75th Percentile - £70.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £63.25 - £60.86
Hampshire median hourly rate £60.13 £66.25 £58.50
% change year-on-year -9.25% +13.25% +17.00%

All Programming Languages
Portsmouth

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 Portsmouth.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 42 74 60
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Portsmouth 33.33% 25.96% 25.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 32 26
10th Percentile £463 £100 £406
25th Percentile £507 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £531 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.53% +6.25% +5.26%
75th Percentile £626 £603 £569
90th Percentile £671 £637 £676
Hampshire median daily rate £528 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -4.09% +10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 23 13
10th Percentile - £60.25 £51.97
25th Percentile £50.00 £62.00 £55.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +13.04% +10.82%
75th Percentile £62.50 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £63.50 £73.00 £71.02
Hampshire median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year -12.00% +8.70% +64.29%

C++
Job Vacancy Trend in Portsmouth

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

Job vacancy trend for C++ in Portsmouth

C++
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Portsmouth

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

Daily rate trend for C++ in Portsmouth

C++
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Portsmouth

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

Hourly rate trend for C++ in Portsmouth

C++
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Portsmouth 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 10 (76.92%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (7.69%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 5 (38.46%) Software-Defined Radio
2 4 (30.77%) SNMP
3 1 (7.69%) HTTP
Development Applications
1 11 (84.62%) Robot Framework
2 10 (76.92%) Bitbucket
2 10 (76.92%) GoogleTest
2 10 (76.92%) JIRA
3 9 (69.23%) Eclipse
4 7 (53.85%) Jenkins
5 6 (46.15%) GitLab
6 4 (30.77%) Git
General
1 2 (15.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (7.69%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 7 (53.85%) Embedded Engineer
1 7 (53.85%) Software Engineer
2 6 (46.15%) Embedded Software Engineer
3 4 (30.77%) Software Test Engineer
3 4 (30.77%) Test Engineer
4 3 (23.08%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
5 2 (15.38%) Developer
5 2 (15.38%) FPGA Developer
5 2 (15.38%) FPGA Engineer
6 1 (7.69%) C++ Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (30.77%) CSS
1 4 (30.77%) HTML
2 1 (7.69%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Algorithms
1 2 (15.38%) FPGA
1 2 (15.38%) Verilog
1 2 (15.38%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 11 (84.62%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (76.92%) Agile
1 10 (76.92%) Scrum
1 10 (76.92%) Software Engineering
2 8 (61.54%) Migration
3 5 (38.46%) Software Testing
4 4 (30.77%) Prototyping
4 4 (30.77%) SysML
4 4 (30.77%) UML
4 4 (30.77%) Validation
4 4 (30.77%) Verification and Validation
5 2 (15.38%) Digital Signal Processing
5 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 2 (15.38%) Integration Testing
5 2 (15.38%) Risk Management
5 2 (15.38%) Signal Processing
6 1 (7.69%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 4 (30.77%) JavaScript
2 3 (23.08%) Python
3 2 (15.38%) Java
Qualifications
1 11 (84.62%) Security Cleared
2 9 (69.23%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 4 (30.77%) Firmware
Vendors
1 10 (76.92%) Atlassian
1 10 (76.92%) Google
2 8 (61.54%) Intel
3 2 (15.38%) Algorithmics