CMake Contract Job Trends

CMake
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring CMake 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 578 540 596
Rank change year-on-year -38 +56 +209
Contract jobs citing CMake 4 3 12
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.011% 0.008% 0.026%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.073% 0.064% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 7
10th Percentile £181 - £395
25th Percentile £369 - £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £715 £400 £500
Median % change year-on-year +78.75% -20.00% +100.00%
75th Percentile £761 £430 £556
90th Percentile £770 £448 £613
UK excluding London median daily rate £58 £400 £500
% change year-on-year -85.50% -20.00% +100.00%

All Development Application Skills
UK

CMake falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 5,481 4,716 5,917
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.11% 13.21% 13.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,793 2,957 4,102
10th Percentile £331 £340 £363
25th Percentile £406 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -5.09% -2.70%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £638
90th Percentile £693 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £514
% change year-on-year -2.56% -5.07% -2.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 123 109 224
10th Percentile £30.35 £34.30 £45.88
25th Percentile £50.50 £50.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £64.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.56% -1.54% +5.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £77.50
90th Percentile £85.00 £75.00 £89.63
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00

CMake
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing CMake relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

CMake job vacancy trend in the UK

CMake
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing CMake.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing CMake

CMake
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CMake over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CMake in the UK

CMake
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing CMake.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing CMake

CMake
Top 4 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CMake within the UK 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
England -36 4 £715 +78.75% 10
London -3 2 £733 +59.24% 2
UK excluding London -39 2 £58 -85.50% 8
South West - 2 £58 -

CMake
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (25.00%) CloudBees
1 1 (25.00%) GCP
1 1 (25.00%) GitHub
1 1 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Git
1 2 (50.00%) Gradle
2 1 (25.00%) Artifactory
2 1 (25.00%) GoogleTest
2 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (25.00%) Banking
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Investment Banking
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Build Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Bazel
2 1 (25.00%) Boost C++ Libraries
2 1 (25.00%) COM
2 1 (25.00%) OpenCV
2 1 (25.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) CUDA
1 1 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (25.00%) Embedded Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Raspberry Pi
1 1 (25.00%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Android
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Robot Operating System
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (50.00%) Machine Learning
1 2 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Agile
2 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Kalman Filter
2 1 (25.00%) OO
2 1 (25.00%) OOD
2 1 (25.00%) Open Source
2 1 (25.00%) Sensor Fusion
2 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) C++
1 3 (75.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) C
2 2 (50.00%) C#
3 1 (25.00%) Bash
3 1 (25.00%) Groovy
3 1 (25.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (25.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Google
1 1 (25.00%) NVIDIA