C++ Developer Contracts

C++ Developer
UK

The median C++ Developer daily rate in the UK is £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 490 461 605
Rank change year-on-year -29 +144 -176
Contract jobs requiring a C++ Developer 96 245 269
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.22% 0.42% 0.31%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.24% 0.44% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 160 198
10th Percentile £397 £436 £496
25th Percentile £405 £550 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £750 £725
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +3.45% +16.00%
75th Percentile £775 £825 £775
90th Percentile £1,190 £963 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £420 £450 £553
% change year-on-year -6.67% -18.55% +22.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 12 7
10th Percentile - £26.68 £49.24
25th Percentile - £45.11 £54.13
Median hourly rate £70.00 £62.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% +8.70% +14.43%
75th Percentile - £65.63 £62.50
90th Percentile - £74.25 £67.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £70.00 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +7.69% +18.18% +27.91%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 39,893 55,060 83,598
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.65% 95.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,957 38,445 58,715
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,673 1,534 2,047
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.89
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +88.21% +5.89%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.90 £76.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.08 £20.00
% change year-on-year -4.94% +110.39% +2.56%

C++ Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured C++ Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for C++ Developer in the UK

C++ Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing C++ Developer.

Daily rate trend for C++ Developer in the UK

C++ Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing C++ Developer over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for C++ Developer in the UK

C++ Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing C++ Developer.

Hourly rate trend for C++ Developer in the UK

C++ Developer
Top 12 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing C++ Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 12 May 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
England -20 89 £500 -33.33% 50
London -46 57 £725 -3.33% 27
Work from Home +51 41 £675 -10.00% 21
UK excluding London +65 30 £420 -6.67% 23
South East +28 15 £400 -23.81% 10
East of England +14 10 £430 -14.00% 2
Midlands +28 2 £588 +56.67% 3
North West +23 2 £410 +17.14% 6
North of England +23 2 £410 -0.61% 6
East Midlands +22 1 £675 +125.00% 3
Wales +18 1 - -
West Midlands +15 1 £500 +11.11%

C++ Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 12 May 2024, C++ Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring C++ Developer in the job title.

1 96 (100.00%) C++
2 31 (32.29%) Linux
3 27 (28.13%) Python
4 25 (26.04%) Derivative
5 22 (22.92%) Finance
6 21 (21.88%) C
7 17 (17.71%) Agile
8 16 (16.67%) Banking
8 16 (16.67%) Git
9 14 (14.58%) Analytics
10 13 (13.54%) Hedge funds
11 12 (12.50%) Low Latency
11 12 (12.50%) C#
11 12 (12.50%) SQL
11 12 (12.50%) Windows
12 11 (11.46%) Software Engineering
12 11 (11.46%) Algorithmic Trading
12 11 (11.46%) Social Skills
13 10 (10.42%) Algorithms
13 10 (10.42%) Degree
13 10 (10.42%) Equity Derivative
14 9 (9.38%) Investment Banking
14 9 (9.38%) Front Office
14 9 (9.38%) Systematic Trading
14 9 (9.38%) Radio Access Network
14 9 (9.38%) Public Sector
14 9 (9.38%) 5G
15 8 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
15 8 (8.33%) Equities
15 8 (8.33%) Computer Science

C++ Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 2 (2.08%) Confluence
2 1 (1.04%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 1 (1.04%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 3 (3.13%) Azure
2 2 (2.08%) AWS
3 1 (1.04%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 9 (9.38%) 5G
1 9 (9.38%) Radio Access Network
2 5 (5.21%) NAS
3 4 (4.17%) 4G
3 4 (4.17%) Wireshark
4 3 (3.13%) Link 16
4 3 (3.13%) Tactical Data Link
5 2 (2.08%) SNMP
5 2 (2.08%) Software-Defined Radio
5 2 (2.08%) TCP/IP
6 1 (1.04%) MPLS
6 1 (1.04%) Multicast
6 1 (1.04%) RTMP
6 1 (1.04%) RTP
6 1 (1.04%) RTSP
6 1 (1.04%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.08%) KDB
2 1 (1.04%) Couchbase
2 1 (1.04%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 16 (16.67%) Git
2 7 (7.29%) JIRA
3 6 (6.25%) Bitbucket
4 4 (4.17%) gcov
4 4 (4.17%) GDB
4 4 (4.17%) Gradle
4 4 (4.17%) Subversion
5 3 (3.13%) Jenkins
5 3 (3.13%) Visual Studio
6 2 (2.08%) Eclipse
6 2 (2.08%) GoogleTest
6 2 (2.08%) Karma Test Runner
6 2 (2.08%) Robot Framework
6 2 (2.08%) TeamCity
7 1 (1.04%) ClearCase
7 1 (1.04%) ClearQuest
7 1 (1.04%) CMake
7 1 (1.04%) GitLab
7 1 (1.04%) Rational Rhapsody
7 1 (1.04%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 22 (22.92%) Finance
2 16 (16.67%) Banking
3 11 (11.46%) Social Skills
4 9 (9.38%) Front Office
4 9 (9.38%) Investment Banking
4 9 (9.38%) Public Sector
5 7 (7.29%) Games
6 6 (6.25%) Multimedia
7 5 (5.21%) Telecoms
8 2 (2.08%) Aerospace
8 2 (2.08%) Automotive
9 1 (1.04%) Analytical Skills
9 1 (1.04%) Billing
9 1 (1.04%) German Language
9 1 (1.04%) Health Technology
9 1 (1.04%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.21%) CSS
1 5 (5.21%) HTML
2 4 (4.17%) REST
3 3 (3.13%) .NET
3 3 (3.13%) AngularJS
3 3 (3.13%) Twitter Bootstrap
4 2 (2.08%) FFmpeg
4 2 (2.08%) OpenAPI
4 2 (2.08%) Playwright
4 2 (2.08%) Swagger
4 2 (2.08%) Unreal Engine
5 1 (1.04%) ADO
5 1 (1.04%) Bazel
5 1 (1.04%) FIX Protocol
5 1 (1.04%) GStreamer
5 1 (1.04%) Kafka
5 1 (1.04%) React
5 1 (1.04%) Unity (Game Engine)
5 1 (1.04%) WebSphere MQ
5 1 (1.04%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 25 (26.04%) Derivative
2 13 (13.54%) Hedge funds
3 10 (10.42%) Algorithms
3 10 (10.42%) Equity Derivative
4 8 (8.33%) Equities
5 6 (6.25%) CCTV
6 5 (5.21%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 4 (4.17%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (3.13%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (2.08%) Augmented Reality
9 2 (2.08%) Distributed Computing
9 2 (2.08%) Virtual Reality
10 1 (1.04%) Animation
10 1 (1.04%) Credit Risk
10 1 (1.04%) Data Centre
10 1 (1.04%) Data Structures
10 1 (1.04%) Embedded Systems
10 1 (1.04%) Renewable Energy
10 1 (1.04%) Solar Panel
10 1 (1.04%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 31 (32.29%) Linux
2 12 (12.50%) Windows
3 3 (3.13%) Unix
4 2 (2.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (17.71%) Agile
2 14 (14.58%) Analytics
3 12 (12.50%) Low Latency
4 11 (11.46%) Algorithmic Trading
4 11 (11.46%) Software Engineering
5 9 (9.38%) Systematic Trading
6 8 (8.33%) Computer Science
7 7 (7.29%) Stakeholder Management
8 6 (6.25%) Clean Code
8 6 (6.25%) Full Stack Development
8 6 (6.25%) OCR
8 6 (6.25%) Refactoring
8 6 (6.25%) Validation
9 5 (5.21%) Code Quality
9 5 (5.21%) Collaborative Working
9 5 (5.21%) Multithreading
9 5 (5.21%) OO
9 5 (5.21%) Problem-Solving
10 4 (4.17%) Continuous Integration
10 4 (4.17%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 96 (100.00%) C++
2 27 (28.13%) Python
3 21 (21.88%) C
4 12 (12.50%) C#
4 12 (12.50%) SQL
5 7 (7.29%) JavaScript
6 6 (6.25%) Java
7 5 (5.21%) Bash
7 5 (5.21%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.04%) Embedded C++
8 1 (1.04%) MATLAB
8 1 (1.04%) ProC
8 1 (1.04%) Rust
8 1 (1.04%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 10 (10.42%) Degree
2 8 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 8 (8.33%) SC Cleared
2 8 (8.33%) Security Cleared
3 2 (2.08%) Numerate Degree
4 1 (1.04%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.21%) ISO 9001
1 5 (5.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (2.08%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (1.04%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 4 (4.17%) Klocwork
1 4 (4.17%) Perforce
2 3 (3.13%) Google
2 3 (3.13%) Oracle
3 2 (2.08%) Atlassian
3 2 (2.08%) QNX
4 1 (1.04%) HP
4 1 (1.04%) IBM
4 1 (1.04%) Red Hat
4 1 (1.04%) Sparx