C++ Contracts in the UK excluding London

C++
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 137 153 196
Rank change year-on-year +16 +43 -41
Contract jobs citing C++ 331 392 409
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.60% 1.63% 1.32%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.84% 5.61% 4.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 133 193 140
10th Percentile £400 £363 £368
25th Percentile £420 £413 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.96% +4.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £575
90th Percentile £688 £655 £638
UK median daily rate £575 £650 £700
% change year-on-year -11.54% -7.14% +21.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 127 121 107
10th Percentile £57.50 £51.25 £45.75
25th Percentile £61.25 £60.00 £53.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% +20.60%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £88.75 £75.00 £65.62
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year - +8.33% +20.60%

All Programming Languages
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 4,841 6,989 8,914
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 23.43% 29.03% 28.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,263 4,994 6,211
10th Percentile £318 £338 £331
25th Percentile £400 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £500 £485
Median % change year-on-year -2.20% +3.09% +14.12%
75th Percentile £585 £594 £575
90th Percentile £655 £676 £644
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 391 346 337
10th Percentile £37.50 £23.61 £17.41
25th Percentile £50.00 £50.00 £28.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £49.50
Median % change year-on-year - +26.26% +16.47%
75th Percentile £70.00 £69.31 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £65.25
UK median hourly rate £60.07 £60.70 £50.00
% change year-on-year -1.04% +21.40% +13.25%

C++
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing C++ as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for C++ in the UK excluding London

C++
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing C++ in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for C++ in the UK excluding London

C++
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing C++ in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for C++ in the UK excluding London

C++
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing C++ in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for C++ in the UK excluding London

C++
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing C++ in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for C++ in the UK excluding London

C++
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing C++ within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 28 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
East of England +27 119 £550 +10.00% 178
South East +33 115 £500 -4.76% 229
South West -30 45 £550 +18.92% 147
Midlands +13 24 £505 -13.12% 92
West Midlands +28 21 £502 -12.78% 50
North of England +3 18 £600 +26.32% 85
North West +10 10 £450 -10.00% 57
Scotland +28 8 £425 -4.49% 55
Yorkshire +7 5 £650 +35.42% 19
North East +21 3 £625 +56.25% 10
East Midlands +8 3 £590 -0.92% 42
Wales +3 3 - - 6
C++
UK

C++
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 19 (5.74%) Confluence
2 1 (0.30%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 12 (3.63%) Simulink
2 1 (0.30%) Adobe After Effects
2 1 (0.30%) Blender
2 1 (0.30%) Maya
2 1 (0.30%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 5 (1.51%) Teamcenter
2 3 (0.91%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.30%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 21 (6.34%) Azure
2 9 (2.72%) Azure DevOps
3 8 (2.42%) GitHub
4 7 (2.11%) AWS
5 3 (0.91%) Datadog
6 2 (0.60%) IaaS
6 2 (0.60%) PaaS
6 2 (0.60%) SaaS
7 1 (0.30%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (0.30%) Azure Batch
7 1 (0.30%) Azure Functions
7 1 (0.30%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (0.30%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (0.30%) GCP
7 1 (0.30%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (0.30%) Power Automate
7 1 (0.30%) Power Platform
7 1 (0.30%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 36 (10.88%) Modbus
1 36 (10.88%) RS-422
1 36 (10.88%) RS-485
2 18 (5.44%) Software-Defined Radio
3 16 (4.83%) Wireless
4 15 (4.53%) SNMP
5 14 (4.23%) Radio Access Network
5 14 (4.23%) TCP/IP
6 13 (3.93%) 5G
7 12 (3.63%) 802.11
7 12 (3.63%) Wi-Fi
8 9 (2.72%) Ethernet
9 5 (1.51%) 4G
9 5 (1.51%) NAS
10 4 (1.21%) RTSP
10 4 (1.21%) Wireshark
11 3 (0.91%) Bluetooth
11 3 (0.91%) Internet
11 3 (0.91%) RS-232
11 3 (0.91%) Tactical Data Link
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (1.81%) SQL Server
2 3 (0.91%) Amazon Redshift
2 3 (0.91%) Geospatial Data
3 2 (0.60%) Data Lake
3 2 (0.60%) NoSQL
3 2 (0.60%) RDBMS
3 2 (0.60%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.30%) CouchDB
4 1 (0.30%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.30%) MySQL
4 1 (0.30%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 46 (13.90%) Git
2 40 (12.08%) JIRA
3 26 (7.85%) Jenkins
4 24 (7.25%) Eclipse
4 24 (7.25%) Visual Studio
5 21 (6.34%) GoogleTest
6 19 (5.74%) Bitbucket
7 17 (5.14%) Rational DOORS
8 16 (4.83%) PVCS
9 14 (4.23%) Robot Framework
10 12 (3.63%) Subversion
11 6 (1.81%) GCC
11 6 (1.81%) Rational Rhapsody
12 5 (1.51%) GitLab
12 5 (1.51%) Gradle
13 4 (1.21%) Artifactory
13 4 (1.21%) CppUnit
13 4 (1.21%) gcov
13 4 (1.21%) GDB
14 3 (0.91%) ClearCase
General
1 70 (21.15%) Social Skills
2 49 (14.80%) Electronics
3 31 (9.37%) Public Sector
4 25 (7.55%) Aerospace
5 16 (4.83%) Telecoms
6 8 (2.42%) Military
7 7 (2.11%) Automotive
7 7 (2.11%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (1.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (1.81%) Multimedia
9 5 (1.51%) Legal
10 4 (1.21%) Analytical Skills
10 4 (1.21%) Finance
10 4 (1.21%) Law
11 3 (0.91%) Games
11 3 (0.91%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.60%) Banking
12 2 (0.60%) Front Office
12 2 (0.60%) Wearables
13 1 (0.30%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 162 (48.94%) Software Engineer
2 92 (27.79%) C++ Software Engineer
3 57 (17.22%) Developer
4 39 (11.78%) Embedded Engineer
5 34 (10.27%) Senior
6 33 (9.97%) Embedded Software Engineer
7 32 (9.67%) C++ Developer
8 24 (7.25%) C Software Engineer
9 16 (4.83%) C/C++ Software Engineer
10 15 (4.53%) Linux Engineer
10 15 (4.53%) Senior Software Engineer
11 14 (4.23%) Java Engineer
11 14 (4.23%) Java Software Engineer
12 13 (3.93%) Architect
12 13 (3.93%) Programmer
12 13 (3.93%) Software Architect
13 11 (3.32%) Python Developer
13 11 (3.32%) Software Developer
14 10 (3.02%) C Programmer
14 10 (3.02%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (5.14%) OpenGL
2 16 (4.83%) CSS
2 16 (4.83%) HTML
3 14 (4.23%) .NET
3 14 (4.23%) DirectX
3 14 (4.23%) Vulkan
4 13 (3.93%) OpenGL ES
5 12 (3.63%) 802.1X
6 11 (3.32%) XML
7 10 (3.02%) RESTful
8 8 (2.42%) Blazor
8 8 (2.42%) Node.js
8 8 (2.42%) Web Services
9 7 (2.11%) TensorFlow
10 6 (1.81%) Itk
10 6 (1.81%) LLVM
10 6 (1.81%) Qt
10 6 (1.81%) WPF
10 6 (1.81%) Yocto
11 5 (1.51%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 31 (9.37%) Self-Motivation
2 26 (7.85%) Algorithms
3 11 (3.32%) VHDL
4 9 (2.72%) CCTV
4 9 (2.72%) Ray Tracing
5 8 (2.42%) 3D Graphics
5 8 (2.42%) FPGA
5 8 (2.42%) Mobile App
6 7 (2.11%) Device Driver
6 7 (2.11%) Verilog
7 6 (1.81%) CUDA
7 6 (1.81%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 6 (1.81%) Linux Command Line
7 6 (1.81%) Operational Technology
7 6 (1.81%) Product Ownership
8 5 (1.51%) IoT
9 4 (1.21%) Augmented Reality
9 4 (1.21%) Data Structures
9 4 (1.21%) Management Information System
10 3 (0.91%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 105 (31.72%) Linux
2 54 (16.31%) Windows
3 11 (3.32%) Embedded Linux
4 8 (2.42%) Android
5 7 (2.11%) Unix
6 4 (1.21%) FreeRTOS
6 4 (1.21%) Windows Server
6 4 (1.21%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (1.21%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (0.91%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.60%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.30%) CentOS
9 1 (0.30%) RTLinux
9 1 (0.30%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 199 (60.12%) Software Engineering
2 117 (35.35%) Agile
3 76 (22.96%) DevOps
4 54 (16.31%) Problem-Solving
5 53 (16.01%) Continuous Integration
6 51 (15.41%) Validation
7 50 (15.11%) Software Testing
7 50 (15.11%) Unit Testing
8 48 (14.50%) Scrum
9 46 (13.90%) TDD
10 41 (12.39%) Continuous Improvement
11 37 (11.18%) Customer Requirements
12 36 (10.88%) Pair Programming
12 36 (10.88%) Verification and Validation
13 29 (8.76%) Test Automation
14 28 (8.46%) UML
15 26 (7.85%) CI/CD
16 25 (7.55%) OO
17 23 (6.95%) Computer Science
18 19 (5.74%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 185 (55.89%) C
2 100 (30.21%) Python
3 91 (27.49%) C#
4 51 (15.41%) Java
5 42 (12.69%) JavaScript
6 25 (7.55%) Embedded C++
7 22 (6.65%) MATLAB
8 20 (6.04%) Embedded C
8 20 (6.04%) SQL
9 19 (5.74%) Bash
10 18 (5.44%) Perl
11 15 (4.53%) PL/SQL
12 14 (4.23%) Tcl
13 12 (3.63%) Shell Script
14 10 (3.02%) PowerShell
15 7 (2.11%) Assembly Language
16 4 (1.21%) Ada
16 4 (1.21%) Ruby
16 4 (1.21%) VBScript
17 3 (0.91%) GLSL
Qualifications
1 85 (25.68%) Security Cleared
2 64 (19.34%) SC Cleared
3 37 (11.18%) Degree
4 23 (6.95%) PhD
5 20 (6.04%) Master's Degree
6 18 (5.44%) DV Cleared
7 10 (3.02%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (2.11%) CREST Certified
8 7 (2.11%) OSCP
9 6 (1.81%) CEH
9 6 (1.81%) GIAC
9 6 (1.81%) GPEN
10 4 (1.21%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.60%) ISEB
11 2 (0.60%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.60%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 2 (0.60%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (0.60%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.02%) ISO 9001
2 8 (2.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 8 (2.42%) MISRA
3 6 (1.81%) JTAG
3 6 (1.81%) NIST
4 3 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 12207
5 2 (0.60%) AUTOSAR
5 2 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 2 (0.60%) SLA
6 1 (0.30%) Def Stans
6 1 (0.30%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.30%) DO-178B
6 1 (0.30%) IEC 61508
6 1 (0.30%) ISO 26262
6 1 (0.30%) MISRA C
6 1 (0.30%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.30%) QA
System Software
1 23 (6.95%) Firmware
2 11 (3.32%) Docker
3 10 (3.02%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (2.42%) Active Directory
5 7 (2.11%) Embedded Firmware
5 7 (2.11%) VMware Infrastructure
6 5 (1.51%) VirtualBox
7 3 (0.91%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.60%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 10 (3.02%) Ansible
2 8 (2.42%) Terraform
3 6 (1.81%) Progress Chef
3 6 (1.81%) Puppet
4 5 (1.51%) Kubernetes
5 3 (0.91%) HP ALM
5 3 (0.91%) Nagios
6 2 (0.60%) WSUS
7 1 (0.30%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 22 (6.65%) Google
2 17 (5.14%) Microsoft
3 12 (3.63%) Atlassian
4 7 (2.11%) VMware
5 6 (1.81%) Xilinx
6 5 (1.51%) IBM
6 5 (1.51%) NVIDIA
6 5 (1.51%) Oracle
7 4 (1.21%) Klocwork
7 4 (1.21%) Perforce
8 3 (0.91%) HP
8 3 (0.91%) New Relic
8 3 (0.91%) Sparx
8 3 (0.91%) Splunk
9 2 (0.60%) Broadcom
9 2 (0.60%) Cadence
9 2 (0.60%) Synopsys
9 2 (0.60%) Xamarin
10 1 (0.30%) Compaq
10 1 (0.30%) Qualys