C++ Contracts with Work from Home Options

C++
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for C++ skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited C++ over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 161 134 230
Rank change year-on-year -27 +96 -45
Contract jobs citing C++ 214 478 526
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.39% 1.84% 1.18%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.17% 4.92% 3.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 136 288 336
10th Percentile £342 £421 £413
25th Percentile £475 £525 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £700 £600
Median % change year-on-year -19.64% +16.67% +17.65%
75th Percentile £775 £825 £750
90th Percentile £950 £900 £825
UK median daily rate £575 £650 £675
% change year-on-year -11.54% -3.70% +17.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 54 31
10th Percentile £55.00 £42.54 £46.25
25th Percentile £59.38 £54.88 £48.13
Median hourly rate £70.00 £65.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +18.18% +15.79%
75th Percentile £90.00 £65.75 £59.38
90th Percentile - £66.98 £65.54
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year - +8.33% +26.32%

All Programming Languages
Work from Home

C++ is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 5,128 9,722 16,916
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 33.34% 37.37% 38.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,691 7,126 12,548
10th Percentile £350 £394 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £442
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £650 £656 £631
90th Percentile £775 £775 £713
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 147 218 192
10th Percentile £27.75 £35.00 £20.75
25th Percentile £46.25 £50.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £60.00 £62.50 £49.25
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +26.90% +9.44%
75th Percentile £72.50 £70.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £89.25 £77.20 £66.23
UK median hourly rate £60.50 £60.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +0.83% +20.00% +14.29%

C++
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing C++ as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

C++ trend for jobs with a WFH option

C++
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing C++.

C++ daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

C++
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing C++ over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

C++ daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

C++
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing C++.

C++ hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

C++
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing C++ over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

C++ hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

C++
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 7 (3.27%) Confluence
2 2 (0.93%) Apache Spark
2 2 (0.93%) BizTalk Server
2 2 (0.93%) WebSphere
3 1 (0.47%) Ethereum
3 1 (0.47%) Hyperledger
3 1 (0.47%) nginx
Applications
1 6 (2.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.87%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.93%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.47%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 25 (11.68%) AWS
2 17 (7.94%) Azure
3 3 (1.40%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (1.40%) Datadog
4 2 (0.93%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (0.93%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 2 (0.93%) Azure Functions
4 2 (0.93%) Azure Logic Apps
4 2 (0.93%) Azure Storage
4 2 (0.93%) GCP
4 2 (0.93%) GitHub
4 2 (0.93%) SaaS
4 2 (0.93%) Serverless
5 1 (0.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (0.47%) Amazon ELB
5 1 (0.47%) Azure Batch
5 1 (0.47%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (0.47%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (0.47%) IaaS
5 1 (0.47%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (5.61%) 802.11
1 12 (5.61%) Wi-Fi
2 10 (4.67%) TCP/IP
3 8 (3.74%) Wireless
4 4 (1.87%) DNS
5 3 (1.40%) DHCP
5 3 (1.40%) Ethernet
5 3 (1.40%) Internet
6 2 (0.93%) Bluetooth
6 2 (0.93%) Diameter Protocol
6 2 (0.93%) RTSP
6 2 (0.93%) SNMP
6 2 (0.93%) Software-Defined Radio
7 1 (0.47%) MPLS
7 1 (0.47%) MQTT
7 1 (0.47%) NFC
7 1 (0.47%) Reverse Proxy
7 1 (0.47%) RS-232
7 1 (0.47%) VLAN
7 1 (0.47%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (4.67%) MongoDB
2 6 (2.80%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (2.34%) Relational Database
4 4 (1.87%) Amazon Redshift
4 4 (1.87%) Couchbase
4 4 (1.87%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (1.40%) MySQL
6 2 (0.93%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (0.93%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.93%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.47%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.47%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.47%) Apache Hive
7 1 (0.47%) Big Data
7 1 (0.47%) CouchDB
7 1 (0.47%) Data Mining
7 1 (0.47%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.47%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.47%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.47%) Redis
Development Applications
1 23 (10.75%) Git
2 18 (8.41%) Jenkins
3 16 (7.48%) JIRA
4 14 (6.54%) Visual Studio
5 11 (5.14%) Rational DOORS
6 9 (4.21%) Subversion
7 8 (3.74%) PVCS
8 7 (3.27%) Artifactory
9 6 (2.80%) Bitbucket
10 4 (1.87%) Eclipse
11 3 (1.40%) GoogleTest
12 2 (0.93%) Robot Framework
13 1 (0.47%) CircleCI
13 1 (0.47%) CMake
13 1 (0.47%) Darcs
13 1 (0.47%) Jaeger
13 1 (0.47%) NeoLoad
13 1 (0.47%) Rational Rhapsody
13 1 (0.47%) TestRail
13 1 (0.47%) Travis CI
General
1 49 (22.90%) Social Skills
2 43 (20.09%) Finance
3 24 (11.21%) Banking
4 20 (9.35%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (6.54%) Front Office
6 11 (5.14%) Aerospace
7 9 (4.21%) Investment Banking
7 9 (4.21%) Public Sector
7 9 (4.21%) Telecoms
8 5 (2.34%) Automotive
9 3 (1.40%) Games
10 2 (0.93%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.93%) International Banking
10 2 (0.93%) Legal
10 2 (0.93%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.47%) Billing
11 1 (0.47%) German Language
11 1 (0.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.47%) Military
11 1 (0.47%) Retail
Job Titles
1 76 (35.51%) Developer
2 51 (23.83%) Software Engineer
3 44 (20.56%) C++ Developer
4 24 (11.21%) C++ Software Engineer
5 21 (9.81%) Embedded Engineer
5 21 (9.81%) Senior
6 20 (9.35%) Embedded Software Engineer
7 14 (6.54%) Analyst
8 11 (5.14%) Senior Developer
9 10 (4.67%) Qualitative Analyst
9 10 (4.67%) Quantitative Analyst
10 9 (4.21%) Architect
10 9 (4.21%) C Software Engineer
10 9 (4.21%) Embedded C Engineer
10 9 (4.21%) Embedded C Software Engineer
10 9 (4.21%) Low Latency C++ Developer
11 8 (3.74%) DevOps Engineer
11 8 (3.74%) Python Engineer
12 7 (3.27%) Development Engineer
12 7 (3.27%) Linux Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (12.15%) .NET
2 15 (7.01%) 802.1X
3 12 (5.61%) Kafka
3 12 (5.61%) RESTful
4 8 (3.74%) XML
5 7 (3.27%) HTML
5 7 (3.27%) Smart Contracts
6 6 (2.80%) RabbitMQ
7 5 (2.34%) AngularJS
7 5 (2.34%) Blazor
7 5 (2.34%) CSS
7 5 (2.34%) Node.js
7 5 (2.34%) REST
8 4 (1.87%) Middleware
8 4 (1.87%) OpenGL
8 4 (1.87%) React
8 4 (1.87%) TensorFlow
9 3 (1.40%) iOS SDK
9 3 (1.40%) NumPy
9 3 (1.40%) Unreal Engine
Miscellaneous
1 36 (16.82%) Algorithms
2 32 (14.95%) Derivative
3 19 (8.88%) Hedge funds
4 13 (6.07%) Equity Derivative
5 9 (4.21%) Data Structures
6 8 (3.74%) Blockchain
6 8 (3.74%) Device Driver
6 8 (3.74%) Equities
7 7 (3.27%) Distributed Systems
7 7 (3.27%) Fixed Income
8 6 (2.80%) Credit Derivative
8 6 (2.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 6 (2.80%) Self-Motivation
9 5 (2.34%) Mobile App
10 4 (1.87%) Distributed Computing
10 4 (1.87%) Verilog
11 3 (1.40%) Data Centre
11 3 (1.40%) Distributed Applications
11 3 (1.40%) Operational Technology
11 3 (1.40%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 43 (20.09%) Linux
2 29 (13.55%) Windows
3 10 (4.67%) Unix
4 5 (2.34%) Embedded Linux
4 5 (2.34%) Windows Server
5 3 (1.40%) Android
5 3 (1.40%) Apple iOS
5 3 (1.40%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.93%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.47%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.47%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (34.11%) Software Engineering
2 53 (24.77%) Problem-Solving
3 39 (18.22%) Computer Science
4 28 (13.08%) Test Automation
5 26 (12.15%) DevOps
6 25 (11.68%) Agile
6 25 (11.68%) Validation
7 18 (8.41%) Analytics
7 18 (8.41%) Mathematics
8 17 (7.94%) CI/CD
9 14 (6.54%) Quantitative Finance
10 13 (6.07%) Low Latency
10 13 (6.07%) Verification and Validation
11 12 (5.61%) Algorithmic Trading
12 11 (5.14%) Multithreading
12 11 (5.14%) OO
12 11 (5.14%) Physics
12 11 (5.14%) Systematic Trading
12 11 (5.14%) Test Scripting
12 11 (5.14%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 89 (41.59%) Python
2 72 (33.64%) C
3 52 (24.30%) Java
4 47 (21.96%) C#
5 33 (15.42%) SQL
6 23 (10.75%) Perl
7 18 (8.41%) Shell Script
8 17 (7.94%) JavaScript
9 15 (7.01%) Bash
10 13 (6.07%) PowerShell
10 13 (6.07%) Tcl
11 12 (5.61%) Embedded C++
12 11 (5.14%) Go
12 11 (5.14%) VBA
13 10 (4.67%) PL/SQL
14 9 (4.21%) Embedded C
15 8 (3.74%) MATLAB
16 6 (2.80%) R
16 6 (2.80%) VB.NET
17 5 (2.34%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 51 (23.83%) Degree
2 26 (12.15%) Security Cleared
3 22 (10.28%) SC Cleared
4 20 (9.35%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (7.48%) Master's Degree
6 12 (5.61%) Numerate Degree
7 11 (5.14%) PhD
8 4 (1.87%) CREST Certified
9 3 (1.40%) CEH
9 3 (1.40%) GIAC
9 3 (1.40%) GPEN
9 3 (1.40%) OSCP
10 2 (0.93%) ISEB
10 2 (0.93%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.93%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (0.93%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.47%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.47%) CISM
11 1 (0.47%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 1 (0.47%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (1.87%) JTAG
1 4 (1.87%) NIST
2 2 (0.93%) GDPR
2 2 (0.93%) ISO 9001
2 2 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 20000
2 2 (0.93%) MiFID
2 2 (0.93%) SLA
3 1 (0.47%) COPPA
3 1 (0.47%) ISO 20022
3 1 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.47%) QA
System Software
1 9 (4.21%) Docker
2 7 (3.27%) Firmware
3 6 (2.80%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 6 (2.80%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (2.34%) Active Directory
5 4 (1.87%) Embedded Firmware
6 3 (1.40%) VirtualBox
6 3 (1.40%) VMware Infrastructure
7 2 (0.93%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.93%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 13 (6.07%) Kubernetes
2 12 (5.61%) Ansible
3 9 (4.21%) Terraform
4 7 (3.27%) Consul
4 7 (3.27%) Grafana
4 7 (3.27%) Progress Chef
4 7 (3.27%) Prometheus
4 7 (3.27%) Puppet
5 4 (1.87%) BladeLogic
5 4 (1.87%) ITRS Geneos
6 3 (1.40%) Nagios
7 2 (0.93%) Kibana
7 2 (0.93%) WSUS
8 1 (0.47%) logstash
8 1 (0.47%) Packer
Vendors
1 16 (7.48%) Oracle
2 11 (5.14%) Microsoft
3 6 (2.80%) SaltStack
4 5 (2.34%) Atlassian
4 5 (2.34%) Dynatrace
4 5 (2.34%) Google
4 5 (2.34%) Splunk
5 4 (1.87%) Altiris
5 4 (1.87%) Citrix
6 3 (1.40%) New Relic
6 3 (1.40%) VMware
7 2 (0.93%) IBM
7 2 (0.93%) MuleSoft
7 2 (0.93%) NVIDIA
7 2 (0.93%) QNX
7 2 (0.93%) Xamarin
8 1 (0.47%) Adobe
8 1 (0.47%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.47%) Quadient
8 1 (0.47%) Qualys