C++ Contracts in the South East

C++
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for C++ skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited C++ over the 6 months to 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 96 119 169
Rank change year-on-year +23 +50 -54
Contract jobs citing C++ 117 103 100
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 2.09% 1.74% 1.27%
As % of the Programming Languages category 9.81% 6.22% 4.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 67 41
10th Percentile £400 £363 £388
25th Percentile £406 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £515
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +1.94% +14.44%
75th Percentile £594 £613 £575
90th Percentile £685 £675 -
England median daily rate £575 £650 £700
% change year-on-year -11.54% -7.14% +21.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 19 24
10th Percentile £57.40 £51.25 £41.79
25th Percentile £61.25 £52.75 £45.94
Median hourly rate £62.50 £59.75 £53.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.60% +12.74% +17.13%
75th Percentile £66.01 £67.50 £55.69
90th Percentile £76.00 £67.90 £63.48
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year - +8.33% +26.32%

All Programming Languages
South East

C++ is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 1,193 1,657 2,171
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 21.28% 27.98% 27.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 829 1,173 1,416
10th Percentile £325 £350 £338
25th Percentile £413 £425 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £608 £625 £588
90th Percentile £688 £713 £650
England median daily rate £540 £568 £550
% change year-on-year -4.85% +3.18% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 72 90 88
10th Percentile £35.00 £18.25 £19.52
25th Percentile £46.25 £22.18 £20.75
Median hourly rate £60.07 £54.98 £46.85
Median % change year-on-year +9.27% +17.34% +15.68%
75th Percentile £65.00 £67.50 £55.31
90th Percentile £74.88 £75.00 £67.58
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year - +25.00% +16.63%

C++
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing C++ as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for C++ in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing C++ in the South East.

Daily rate trend for C++ in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing C++ in the South East over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for C++ in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing C++ in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for C++ in the South East

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing C++ in the South East over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for C++ in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 East region over the 6 months to 19 April 2024. 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
Hampshire +3 60 £550 +3.77% 61
Surrey +21 22 £500 -9.09% 37
Thames Valley +5 16 £500 +5.26% 88
Middlesex - 13 £450 - 2
Berkshire -14 10 £500 +5.26% 33
Oxfordshire +10 5 - - 39
Kent - 4 £500 - 6
West Sussex - 2 - - 15
Buckinghamshire - 1 £400 - 16
C++
England

C++
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 18 (15.38%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (1.71%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 5 (4.27%) Teamcenter
2 3 (2.56%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.85%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 10 (8.55%) Azure
2 5 (4.27%) AWS
3 3 (2.56%) Datadog
4 2 (1.71%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (0.85%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (0.85%) Azure Functions
5 1 (0.85%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (0.85%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (0.85%) Power Automate
5 1 (0.85%) Power Platform
5 1 (0.85%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 16 (13.68%) Software-Defined Radio
2 15 (12.82%) SNMP
3 13 (11.11%) 802.11
3 13 (11.11%) Wi-Fi
4 6 (5.13%) TCP/IP
5 4 (3.42%) Wireless
6 3 (2.56%) Link 16
6 3 (2.56%) Tactical Data Link
7 2 (1.71%) DHCP
7 2 (1.71%) DNS
7 2 (1.71%) RS-232
8 1 (0.85%) NFC
8 1 (0.85%) PPP
8 1 (0.85%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.27%) SQL Server
2 3 (2.56%) Amazon Redshift
2 3 (2.56%) Geospatial Data
3 1 (0.85%) CouchDB
3 1 (0.85%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.85%) MySQL
3 1 (0.85%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 30 (25.64%) Git
2 23 (19.66%) JIRA
3 19 (16.24%) Bitbucket
4 17 (14.53%) Eclipse
5 15 (12.82%) GoogleTest
6 14 (11.97%) Robot Framework
7 13 (11.11%) Jenkins
8 5 (4.27%) Rational DOORS
8 5 (4.27%) Subversion
9 4 (3.42%) Artifactory
10 3 (2.56%) ClearCase
10 3 (2.56%) ClearQuest
10 3 (2.56%) GitLab
10 3 (2.56%) LabVIEW
11 2 (1.71%) Visual Studio
12 1 (0.85%) CMake
12 1 (0.85%) MagicDraw
12 1 (0.85%) NUnit
12 1 (0.85%) Rational Rhapsody
12 1 (0.85%) Valgrind
General
1 23 (19.66%) Social Skills
2 21 (17.95%) Public Sector
3 12 (10.26%) Aerospace
4 5 (4.27%) Electronics
5 4 (3.42%) Telecoms
6 2 (1.71%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (1.71%) Front Office
6 2 (1.71%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.85%) Billing
7 1 (0.85%) Legal
7 1 (0.85%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (0.85%) Retail
Job Titles
1 50 (42.74%) Software Engineer
2 29 (24.79%) C++ Software Engineer
3 25 (21.37%) Developer
3 25 (21.37%) Senior
4 15 (12.82%) C++ Developer
5 14 (11.97%) Senior Software Engineer
6 11 (9.40%) Embedded Engineer
7 9 (7.69%) Embedded Software Engineer
8 7 (5.98%) DevOps Engineer
8 7 (5.98%) FPGA Engineer
8 7 (5.98%) Java Engineer
8 7 (5.98%) Java Software Engineer
8 7 (5.98%) Linux Engineer
8 7 (5.98%) Software Developer
9 6 (5.13%) Administrator
9 6 (5.13%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
9 6 (5.13%) Systems Administrator
10 5 (4.27%) Machine Learning Engineer
10 5 (4.27%) Python Engineer
10 5 (4.27%) Senior Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (11.97%) CSS
1 14 (11.97%) HTML
2 13 (11.11%) 802.1X
3 7 (5.98%) .NET
4 6 (5.13%) Itk
4 6 (5.13%) PyTorch
4 6 (5.13%) TensorFlow
5 5 (4.27%) DirectX
5 5 (4.27%) OpenGL
5 5 (4.27%) OpenGL ES
5 5 (4.27%) Vulkan
5 5 (4.27%) XML
6 4 (3.42%) RESTful
6 4 (3.42%) SOAP
7 3 (2.56%) .NET Core
7 3 (2.56%) Blazor
7 3 (2.56%) Razor View Engine
7 3 (2.56%) Unity (Game Engine)
8 2 (1.71%) React
8 2 (1.71%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 18 (15.38%) Algorithms
2 8 (6.84%) CCTV
3 7 (5.98%) FPGA
3 7 (5.98%) VHDL
4 4 (3.42%) Device Driver
5 3 (2.56%) Animation
5 3 (2.56%) Augmented Reality
5 3 (2.56%) Data Centre
5 3 (2.56%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (2.56%) Management Information System
5 3 (2.56%) Mixed Reality
5 3 (2.56%) Photography
5 3 (2.56%) Private Cloud
5 3 (2.56%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.71%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.71%) GNSS
7 1 (0.85%) Client/Server
7 1 (0.85%) Digital Media
7 1 (0.85%) Embedded Systems
7 1 (0.85%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 48 (41.03%) Linux
2 35 (29.91%) Windows
3 8 (6.84%) Android
4 6 (5.13%) Embedded Linux
5 4 (3.42%) Windows Server
5 4 (3.42%) Windows Server 2016
5 4 (3.42%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (2.56%) Ubuntu
6 3 (2.56%) Unix
7 1 (0.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.85%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (62.39%) Software Engineering
2 48 (41.03%) Agile
3 32 (27.35%) Scrum
4 28 (23.93%) Problem-Solving
5 23 (19.66%) Validation
6 20 (17.09%) Computer Science
6 20 (17.09%) UML
7 19 (16.24%) OO
8 17 (14.53%) DevOps
8 17 (14.53%) Verification and Validation
9 16 (13.68%) Prototyping
9 16 (13.68%) SysML
10 15 (12.82%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 15 (12.82%) Kanban
11 12 (10.26%) Test Automation
12 10 (8.55%) Software Testing
12 10 (8.55%) Stakeholder Management
13 9 (7.69%) Continuous Integration
13 9 (7.69%) Machine Learning
13 9 (7.69%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 55 (47.01%) C
2 35 (29.91%) Python
3 26 (22.22%) Java
4 24 (20.51%) C#
5 19 (16.24%) JavaScript
6 18 (15.38%) Perl
7 13 (11.11%) Tcl
8 12 (10.26%) SQL
9 9 (7.69%) Embedded C
9 9 (7.69%) Embedded C++
10 8 (6.84%) Bash
10 8 (6.84%) PowerShell
11 7 (5.98%) MATLAB
12 6 (5.13%) Shell Script
13 5 (4.27%) Assembly Language
14 3 (2.56%) Kotlin
14 3 (2.56%) Ruby
15 2 (1.71%) GLSL
15 2 (1.71%) HLSL
15 2 (1.71%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 34 (29.06%) Security Cleared
2 21 (17.95%) Degree
2 21 (17.95%) SC Cleared
3 11 (9.40%) DV Cleared
4 10 (8.55%) Master's Degree
5 9 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (5.98%) PhD
7 3 (2.56%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.71%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (1.71%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.69%) ISO 9001
2 7 (5.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (3.42%) JTAG
4 3 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 12207
5 2 (1.71%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 2 (1.71%) SLA
6 1 (0.85%) IEC 61508
6 1 (0.85%) MISRA
6 1 (0.85%) MISRA C
System Software
1 20 (17.09%) Firmware
2 6 (5.13%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (4.27%) Embedded Firmware
3 5 (4.27%) VirtualBox
4 4 (3.42%) Docker
5 3 (2.56%) Hyper-V
5 3 (2.56%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (1.71%) Active Directory
6 2 (1.71%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (5.13%) Ansible
1 6 (5.13%) Terraform
2 5 (4.27%) Progress Chef
2 5 (4.27%) Puppet
3 4 (3.42%) Kubernetes
4 3 (2.56%) HP ALM
4 3 (2.56%) Nagios
5 2 (1.71%) WSUS
Vendors
1 15 (12.82%) Google
2 12 (10.26%) Atlassian
3 9 (7.69%) Microsoft
4 6 (5.13%) Xilinx
5 5 (4.27%) Oracle
6 3 (2.56%) HP
6 3 (2.56%) New Relic
6 3 (2.56%) Sparx
6 3 (2.56%) Splunk
6 3 (2.56%) VMware
7 1 (0.85%) Compaq
7 1 (0.85%) Qualys