C++ Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

C++
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring C++ skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 129 93 89
Rank change year-on-year -36 -4 +57
Contract jobs citing C++ 9 17 27
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.39% 1.03% 1.49%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.59% 4.22% 6.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 7 17
10th Percentile - £478 £408
25th Percentile £400 £513 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -
75th Percentile £588 £648 £610
90th Percentile £618 £649 £638
England median daily rate £625 £575 £600
% change year-on-year +8.70% -4.17% -10.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £50.00 - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00

All Programming Languages
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 567 403 391
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 24.78% 24.37% 21.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 381 234 282
10th Percentile £360 £354 £291
25th Percentile £450 £409 £376
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% +5.26% -9.00%
75th Percentile £575 £594 £600
90th Percentile £638 £696 £688
England median daily rate £513 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -4.65% -2.27% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 10 9
10th Percentile £40.20 £16.98 £17.43
25th Percentile £46.50 £17.81 £17.50
Median hourly rate £50.00 £23.87 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year +109.47% +29.03% -15.91%
75th Percentile £56.88 £33.44 £19.25
90th Percentile £69.25 £53.25 £25.80
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.75 £62.50
% change year-on-year +3.59% +0.40% -3.47%

C++
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

C++ job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

C++
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing C++.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing C++

C++
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing C++ in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 29 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for C++ in the West Midlands

C++
Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing C++.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing C++

C++
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 29 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
Staffordshire -5 2 - - 20
Birmingham -14 2 £400 -36.51% 14
Warwickshire - 2 - - 3
Worcestershire - 2 £563 - 18
Solihull +1 1 £625 -
C++
England

C++
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Maya
1 2 (22.22%) NUKE
Cloud Services
1 1 (11.11%) Azure
1 1 (11.11%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (11.11%) Azure Machine Learning
1 1 (11.11%) Azure Stack
1 1 (11.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 1 (11.11%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Power BI
General
1 4 (44.44%) Manufacturing
2 2 (22.22%) Automotive
2 2 (22.22%) Games
3 1 (11.11%) Electronics
3 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
3 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Software Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Firmware Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Senior
3 1 (11.11%) Data Scientist
3 1 (11.11%) Embedded Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Embedded Software Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) FPGA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (44.44%) CSS
2 2 (22.22%) Django
2 2 (22.22%) HTML
2 2 (22.22%) Node.js
2 2 (22.22%) React
3 1 (11.11%) NumPy
3 1 (11.11%) SciPy
3 1 (11.11%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Animation
1 2 (22.22%) FPGA
2 1 (11.11%) Algorithms
2 1 (11.11%) Embedded Systems
2 1 (11.11%) MicroBlaze
2 1 (11.11%) RISC-V
2 1 (11.11%) Verilog
2 1 (11.11%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 5 (55.56%) Linux
2 3 (33.33%) Embedded Linux
3 2 (22.22%) Debian
3 2 (22.22%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (33.33%) Software Engineering
1 3 (33.33%) Validation
2 2 (22.22%) Data Management
2 2 (22.22%) Full-Stack Development
2 2 (22.22%) Microservices
2 2 (22.22%) Visualisation
3 1 (11.11%) Actionable Insight
3 1 (11.11%) Architectural Design
3 1 (11.11%) Data Science
3 1 (11.11%) Decision-Making
3 1 (11.11%) Digital Signal Processing
3 1 (11.11%) FPGA Design
3 1 (11.11%) Linear Algebra
3 1 (11.11%) Naive Bayes
3 1 (11.11%) Predictive Modelling
3 1 (11.11%) Prototyping
3 1 (11.11%) Rapid Prototyping
3 1 (11.11%) Support Vector Machines
3 1 (11.11%) UVM
3 1 (11.11%) Verification and Validation
Programming Languages
1 6 (66.67%) Python
2 3 (33.33%) Java
2 3 (33.33%) SQL
3 2 (22.22%) Tcl
3 2 (22.22%) TypeScript
4 1 (11.11%) C
4 1 (11.11%) MATLAB
4 1 (11.11%) R
4 1 (11.11%) Scala
4 1 (11.11%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) SC Cleared
1 2 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (11.11%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) Embedded Firmware
1 2 (22.22%) Firmware
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) Databricks
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft