C++ Contract Job Trends in the South West

C++
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring C++ skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 60 65 54
Rank change year-on-year +5 -11 -8
Contract jobs citing C++ 73 65 108
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 3.14% 3.07% 3.64%
As % of the Programming Languages category 13.44% 11.00% 13.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 9 47
10th Percentile £67 £453 £475
25th Percentile - £500 £520
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £68 £501 £600
Median % change year-on-year -86.43% -16.50% -2.64%
75th Percentile £251 £688 £675
90th Percentile £512 £691 £760
England median daily rate £625 £572 £600
% change year-on-year +9.36% -4.75% -11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 27 31
10th Percentile £61.25 £61.25 £48.32
25th Percentile - £62.25 £61.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile - £67.50 £69.62
90th Percentile £68.00 £69.25 £70.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00

All Programming Languages
South West

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 the South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 543 591 818
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 23.37% 27.90% 27.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 358 337 553
10th Percentile £324 £400 £357
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +0.47%
75th Percentile £605 £638 £675
90th Percentile £714 £685 £713
England median daily rate £513 £545 £550
% change year-on-year -5.96% -0.91% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 61 78
10th Percentile £61.25 £61.25 £46.13
25th Percentile - £62.50 £53.44
Median hourly rate £65.00 £66.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.26% +2.31% -
75th Percentile £67.88 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £74.00 -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £63.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +3.17% +0.80% -0.79%

C++
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

C++ job vacancy trend in the South West

C++
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing C++.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing C++

C++
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing C++ in the South West over the 6 months to 17 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for C++ in the South West

C++
Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing C++.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing C++

C++
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing C++ in the South West over the 6 months to 17 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for C++ in the South West

C++
Contract Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing C++ within the South West region over the 6 months to 17 December 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
Bristol +11 64 £68 -87.64% 42
Gloucestershire -22 5 £588 +1.08% 18
Dorset +10 2 - - 6
Devon +7 1 - - 2
C++
England

C++
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (2.74%) Apache
1 2 (2.74%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.37%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (2.74%) Abaqus
2 1 (1.37%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 2 (2.74%) Azure
2 1 (1.37%) AWS
2 1 (1.37%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (1.37%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (1.37%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (1.37%) GCP
2 1 (1.37%) GitHub
2 1 (1.37%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.37%) Ethernet
1 1 (1.37%) Internet
1 1 (1.37%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (8.22%) GIS
2 1 (1.37%) MongoDB
2 1 (1.37%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.37%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (12.33%) Rational Rhapsody
2 4 (5.48%) GitLab
3 2 (2.74%) Artifactory
3 2 (2.74%) Bitbucket
3 2 (2.74%) CMake
3 2 (2.74%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.74%) Snakemake
4 1 (1.37%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (1.37%) Eclipse
4 1 (1.37%) Git
4 1 (1.37%) GoogleTest
4 1 (1.37%) Gradle
4 1 (1.37%) JIRA
4 1 (1.37%) NUnit
4 1 (1.37%) SonarQube
4 1 (1.37%) Visual Studio
General
1 3 (4.11%) Law
2 2 (2.74%) Aerospace
2 2 (2.74%) Military
2 2 (2.74%) Social Skills
2 2 (2.74%) Telecoms
3 1 (1.37%) Aviation
3 1 (1.37%) Electronics
3 1 (1.37%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 51 (69.86%) Software Engineer
2 45 (61.64%) C++ Software Engineer
3 12 (16.44%) Product Engineer
3 12 (16.44%) Products Support Engineer
3 12 (16.44%) Software Support Engineer
3 12 (16.44%) Support Engineer
4 2 (2.74%) Automation Engineer
4 2 (2.74%) C Software Engineer
4 2 (2.74%) C/C++ Software Engineer
4 2 (2.74%) Developer
4 2 (2.74%) FPGA Engineer
4 2 (2.74%) Senior
5 1 (1.37%) Build Engineer
5 1 (1.37%) Embedded C++ Engineer
5 1 (1.37%) Embedded C++ Software Engineer
5 1 (1.37%) Linux Engineer
5 1 (1.37%) Linux Support
5 1 (1.37%) Linux Support Engineer
5 1 (1.37%) Python Software Engineer
5 1 (1.37%) Research Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (41.10%) Middleware
2 16 (21.92%) Qt
3 3 (4.11%) RESTful
4 2 (2.74%) .NET
4 2 (2.74%) .NET Framework
4 2 (2.74%) Node.js
4 2 (2.74%) XML
5 1 (1.37%) .NET Core
5 1 (1.37%) ASP.NET
5 1 (1.37%) Boost C++ Libraries
5 1 (1.37%) Entity Framework
5 1 (1.37%) OAuth
5 1 (1.37%) OAuth2
5 1 (1.37%) OpenID
5 1 (1.37%) OpenMP
5 1 (1.37%) React
5 1 (1.37%) REST
5 1 (1.37%) Vue
5 1 (1.37%) Web Services
5 1 (1.37%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (10.96%) CUDA
2 6 (8.22%) Video\Live Streaming
3 3 (4.11%) Algorithms
3 3 (4.11%) FPGA
3 3 (4.11%) Verilog
4 2 (2.74%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (2.74%) VHDL
5 1 (1.37%) Analogue Electronics
5 1 (1.37%) Contactless
5 1 (1.37%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (1.37%) Raspberry Pi
5 1 (1.37%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 22 (30.14%) Linux
2 12 (16.44%) Ubuntu
3 9 (12.33%) Windows
4 3 (4.11%) Android
5 1 (1.37%) Robot Operating System
5 1 (1.37%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (87.67%) Software Engineering
2 10 (13.70%) CI/CD
3 8 (10.96%) Test Automation
4 7 (9.59%) Agile
4 7 (9.59%) UML
5 6 (8.22%) Information Security
5 6 (8.22%) Integration Testing
5 6 (8.22%) Software Testing
6 3 (4.11%) DevOps
6 3 (4.11%) Ontologies
6 3 (4.11%) Virtual Environments
6 3 (4.11%) Workflow
7 2 (2.74%) Android Development
7 2 (2.74%) Containerisation
7 2 (2.74%) Design Patterns
7 2 (2.74%) Microservices
7 2 (2.74%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (2.74%) Scrum
7 2 (2.74%) TDD
7 2 (2.74%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 26 (35.62%) C
2 23 (31.51%) Ada
3 15 (20.55%) JavaScript
4 13 (17.81%) Shell Script
5 8 (10.96%) Python
6 6 (8.22%) C#
7 3 (4.11%) Tcl
8 2 (2.74%) Embedded C++
8 2 (2.74%) MATLAB
9 1 (1.37%) Assembly Language
9 1 (1.37%) Bash
9 1 (1.37%) Embedded C
9 1 (1.37%) Fortran
9 1 (1.37%) Go
9 1 (1.37%) Java
9 1 (1.37%) Perl
9 1 (1.37%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.37%) SQL
9 1 (1.37%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 30 (41.10%) Security Cleared
2 27 (36.99%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.74%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.37%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.37%) Degree
4 1 (1.37%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (17.81%) Def Stans
1 13 (17.81%) IEC 61508
2 10 (13.70%) MISRA
2 10 (13.70%) MISRA C
3 1 (1.37%) QA
3 1 (1.37%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 10 (13.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (2.74%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.37%) Ansible
2 1 (1.37%) Podman
2 1 (1.37%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (16.44%) Red Hat
2 2 (2.74%) NVIDIA
3 1 (1.37%) Google
3 1 (1.37%) IBM
3 1 (1.37%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.37%) Xamarin