C++ Contract Job Trends in Staffordshire

C++
West Midlands > Staffordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Staffordshire requiring C++ skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 - 12
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing C++ 3 0 9
As % of all contract jobs in Staffordshire 1.66% - 6.98%
As % of the Programming Languages category 13.64% - 22.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - £451
25th Percentile £713 - £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 - £525
75th Percentile £738 - £538
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median daily rate £467 £625 £525
% change year-on-year -25.32% +19.05% -8.70%

All Programming Languages
Staffordshire

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 Staffordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 22 6 40
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Staffordshire 12.15% 10.17% 31.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 1 18
10th Percentile £366 - £306
25th Percentile £406 £425 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year - +5.88% -15.00%
75th Percentile £469 £475 £522
90th Percentile £628 - £549
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £500 £490
% change year-on-year -5.00% +2.04% +3.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £34.04
25th Percentile - - £34.20
Median hourly rate - - £34.47
75th Percentile - - £34.73
90th Percentile - - £34.89
West Midlands median hourly rate £42.50 £50.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -15.00% -13.04% +210.81%

C++
Job Vacancy Trend in Staffordshire

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

C++ job vacancy trend in Staffordshire

C++
Daily Rate Trend in Staffordshire

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

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

C++
Hourly Rate Trend in Staffordshire

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

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

C++
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Staffordshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) MongoDB
1 1 (33.33%) MySQL
1 1 (33.33%) NoSQL
1 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (33.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Git
General
1 2 (66.67%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Embedded Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Embedded Software Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Qt Software Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Software Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) QML
1 2 (66.67%) Qt
1 2 (66.67%) Yocto
2 1 (33.33%) AngularJS
2 1 (33.33%) Node.js
2 1 (33.33%) React
2 1 (33.33%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Embedded Linux
1 2 (66.67%) FreeRTOS
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Collaborative Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Customer Requirements
3 1 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) SDLC
3 1 (33.33%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) C
2 1 (33.33%) Bash
2 1 (33.33%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 1 (33.33%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) ISO 26262
1 2 (66.67%) MISRA
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) QNX
2 1 (33.33%) Google
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft