C++ Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

C++
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 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 124 103 131
Rank change year-on-year -21 +28 +16
Contract jobs citing C++ 4 21 14
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.20% 1.00% 0.55%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.88% 3.97% 2.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 11 8
10th Percentile £519 - £400
25th Percentile £528 - £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £400 £525
Median % change year-on-year +37.50% -23.81% -8.70%
75th Percentile £566 £426 £825
90th Percentile £571 £500 £870
South East median daily rate £475 £500 £560
% change year-on-year -5.00% -10.71% +1.82%

All Programming Languages
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 456 529 557
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 22.54% 25.12% 21.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 298 335 421
10th Percentile £340 £382 £350
25th Percentile £408 £421 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -12.16% +4.76% -
75th Percentile £565 £638 £619
90th Percentile £610 £663 £688
South East median daily rate £488 £504 £525
% change year-on-year -3.23% -4.05% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 9 12
10th Percentile £34.13 £34.02 £33.93
25th Percentile £57.19 £52.50 £48.40
Median hourly rate £75.00 £56.75 £52.15
Median % change year-on-year +32.17% +8.82% -9.31%
75th Percentile £81.50 £69.69 £58.96
90th Percentile £84.20 £77.39 £69.04
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £57.41
% change year-on-year -12.00% +8.87% -4.32%

C++
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

C++ job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

C++
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing C++.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing C++

C++
Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing C++.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing C++

C++
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing C++ within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 13 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
Berkshire -17 4 £550 +37.50% 26
C++
South East

C++
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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