C++ Contract Job Trends in West Yorkshire

C++
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire requiring C++ skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 79 65 73
Rank change year-on-year -14 +8 +43
Contract jobs citing C++ 4 6 21
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 0.48% 0.73% 1.53%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.40% 2.26% 6.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 17
10th Percentile - £466 £463
25th Percentile - £528 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £275 £603 £600
Median % change year-on-year -54.36% +0.42% +33.33%
75th Percentile - £648 £625
90th Percentile - - £635
Yorkshire median daily rate £275 £450 £600
% change year-on-year -38.89% -25.00% +33.33%

All Programming Languages
West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 285 266 328
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 33.97% 32.48% 23.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 167 201 241
10th Percentile £366 £350 £400
25th Percentile £413 £419 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -
75th Percentile £575 £575 £625
90th Percentile £675 £625 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £507 £513
% change year-on-year -1.38% -1.07% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 5
10th Percentile - - £17.72
25th Percentile - £26.25 -
Median hourly rate - £30.00 £21.31
Median % change year-on-year - +40.78% -9.65%
75th Percentile - £39.38 £26.78
90th Percentile - £49.50 £47.91
Yorkshire median hourly rate £49.50 £40.00 £21.31
% change year-on-year +23.75% +87.71% -18.04%

C++
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

C++ job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

C++
Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

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

C++
Hourly Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

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

C++
Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 11 October 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
Leeds -9 4 £275 -56.35% 11
C++
Yorkshire

C++
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (25.00%) Relational Database
General
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Java Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 1 (25.00%) Java Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Java Software Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) .NET
1 2 (50.00%) React
2 1 (25.00%) J2EE
2 1 (25.00%) JPA
2 1 (25.00%) RESTful
2 1 (25.00%) Spring
2 1 (25.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (25.00%) Agile
1 1 (25.00%) API Development
1 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (25.00%) Clean Code
1 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (25.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (25.00%) Front End Development
1 1 (25.00%) Microservices
1 1 (25.00%) Product Requirements
1 1 (25.00%) Requirements Workshops
1 1 (25.00%) Scrum
1 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (25.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Java
2 3 (75.00%) Python
3 2 (50.00%) C
4 1 (25.00%) C#
4 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes