C++ Contract Job Trends in Reading

C++
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Reading requiring C++ skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 72 81 82
Rank change year-on-year +9 +1 +6
Contract jobs citing C++ 4 10 4
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 0.57% 0.92% 0.38%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.63% 3.38% 1.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 2
10th Percentile £519 - -
25th Percentile £528 £400 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £418 £400
Median % change year-on-year +31.74% +4.38% -31.33%
75th Percentile £566 £464 -
90th Percentile £571 £486 -
Berkshire median daily rate £550 £400 £525
% change year-on-year +37.50% -23.81% -9.87%

All Programming Languages
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 152 296 248
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 21.65% 27.36% 23.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 188 195
10th Percentile £363 £400 £375
25th Percentile £425 £500 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £600 £580
Median % change year-on-year -11.67% +3.45% +10.48%
75th Percentile £600 £651 £644
90th Percentile £633 £671 £691
Berkshire median daily rate £492 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -14.43% +4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 1
10th Percentile £71.00 £69.57 -
25th Percentile £72.50 £70.34 £59.89
Median hourly rate £75.00 £73.25 £60.14
Median % change year-on-year +2.40% +21.79% +9.35%
75th Percentile £83.00 £81.18 £60.39
90th Percentile £84.80 £84.97 -
Berkshire median hourly rate £75.00 £56.75 £54.56
% change year-on-year +32.17% +4.00% -26.02%

C++
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing C++ relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading.

C++ job vacancy trend in Reading

C++
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing C++.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing C++

C++
Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing C++.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing C++

C++
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) Git
General
1 4 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (75.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Architect
1 4 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
1 4 (100.00%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) Google JAX
1 4 (100.00%) JAX
1 4 (100.00%) PyTorch
1 4 (100.00%) scikit-learn
1 4 (100.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Algorithms
2 2 (50.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) AI
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 4 (100.00%) Data Science
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
1 4 (100.00%) LLM
1 4 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 4 (100.00%) Security Architecture
1 4 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
2 3 (75.00%) Data Protection
2 3 (75.00%) Deep Learning
2 3 (75.00%) Incident Response
2 3 (75.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
2 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (75.00%) SDLC
2 3 (75.00%) Secure Coding
2 3 (75.00%) Software Engineering
2 3 (75.00%) Workflow
3 2 (50.00%) DataOps
3 2 (50.00%) MLOps
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Java
1 4 (100.00%) Python
1 4 (100.00%) R
2 3 (75.00%) C
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (100.00%) EU AI Act
1 4 (100.00%) GDPR
1 4 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (50.00%) NIST
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Kubernetes