C++ Contracts in West London

C++
London > West London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West London requiring C++ skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited C++ over the 6 months leading up to 11 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 14 58
Rank change year-on-year -19 +44 -8
Contract jobs citing C++ 10 29 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West London 3.70% 9.35% 1.43%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.08% 23.20% 4.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 26 8
10th Percentile £357 £425 £346
25th Percentile £385 £463 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £475 £570
Median % change year-on-year -15.32% -16.67% +14.00%
75th Percentile £408 £498 £632
90th Percentile £416 £500 £670
London median daily rate £675 £700 £700
% change year-on-year -3.57% - -3.45%

All Programming Languages
West London

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 West London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 71 125 197
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West London 26.30% 40.32% 31.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 95 165
10th Percentile £350 £330 £389
25th Percentile £394 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% -13.91% +15.00%
75th Percentile £516 £588 £648
90th Percentile £573 £650 £650
London median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 16
10th Percentile £31.66 - £66.00
25th Percentile £35.55 £23.80 £73.75
Median hourly rate £42.04 £67.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.26% -16.25% +113.33%
75th Percentile £48.52 £75.00 £90.00
90th Percentile £52.41 £90.00 -
London median hourly rate £44.00 £47.50 £60.21
% change year-on-year -7.37% -21.11% +12.54%

C++
Job Vacancy Trend in West London

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

Job vacancy trend for C++ in West London

C++
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West London

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

Daily rate trend for C++ in West London

C++
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in West London

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

Hourly rate trend for C++ in West London

C++
Contract Job Locations in West 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 West London region over the 6 months to 11 August 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
Hounslow 0 10 £402 -18.74% 2
C++
London

C++
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West 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 2 (20.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (30.00%) GitHub
2 2 (20.00%) Azure
2 2 (20.00%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) RDBMS
1 2 (20.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 9 (90.00%) Git
2 3 (30.00%) Bitbucket
3 2 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (80.00%) C++ Developer
1 8 (80.00%) Developer
2 2 (20.00%) Angular Developer
2 2 (20.00%) C++ Software Developer
2 2 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Full-Stack Developer
2 2 (20.00%) Software Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (30.00%) Angular 2
1 3 (30.00%) AngularJS
1 3 (30.00%) CSS
1 3 (30.00%) HTML
1 3 (30.00%) JSON
1 3 (30.00%) REST
2 1 (10.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (10.00%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 7 (70.00%) Linux
1 7 (70.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Computer Science
1 6 (60.00%) OO
2 5 (50.00%) DevOps
3 3 (30.00%) Agile
3 3 (30.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 3 (30.00%) Kanban
3 3 (30.00%) Memory Management
3 3 (30.00%) OOD
3 3 (30.00%) OOP
3 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (30.00%) Scrum
3 3 (30.00%) Technical Debt
4 2 (20.00%) Clean Code
4 2 (20.00%) Customer Service
4 2 (20.00%) Migration
5 1 (10.00%) CI/CD
5 1 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (10.00%) Performance Optimisation
5 1 (10.00%) Problem Management
5 1 (10.00%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 7 (70.00%) Python
2 5 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 5 (50.00%) SQL
3 2 (20.00%) Go
3 2 (20.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (60.00%) Degree
2 4 (40.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (20.00%) OCA
3 2 (20.00%) OCP
3 2 (20.00%) Oracle Certification
4 1 (10.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (40.00%) QA
System Software
1 5 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (70.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (20.00%) Ansible
2 2 (20.00%) Grafana
2 2 (20.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Oracle
1 2 (20.00%) Splunk