C++ Contracts in Cheshire

C++
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire 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 31 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 42 47 58
Rank change year-on-year +5 +11 -6
Contract jobs citing C++ 9 3 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 1.75% 0.74% 1.49%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.32% 2.86% 4.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 4
10th Percentile - - £484
25th Percentile £480 £525 £534
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £605
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -9.02% +53.04%
75th Percentile £560 £575 £634
90th Percentile £570 - -
North West median daily rate £523 £540 £600
% change year-on-year -3.24% -10.00% +29.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £40.75
Median hourly rate - - £41.50
75th Percentile - - £42.25
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate £44.66 £56.25 £46.09
% change year-on-year -20.60% +22.04% +2.42%

All Programming Languages
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 123 105 189
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 23.98% 25.93% 31.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 72 142
10th Percentile £322 £407 £326
25th Percentile £356 £462 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £518 £450
Median % change year-on-year -12.56% +15.00% +9.09%
75th Percentile £548 £586 £540
90th Percentile £638 £612 £632
North West median daily rate £450 £500 £513
% change year-on-year -10.00% -2.53% +14.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 8
10th Percentile £73.50 - £21.70
25th Percentile £75.00 - £21.78
Median hourly rate £80.00 £40.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +100.00% +33.33% +50.00%
75th Percentile £85.00 £57.50 £33.13
90th Percentile £86.50 £68.00 £37.18
North West median hourly rate £49.00 £46.18 £47.50
% change year-on-year +6.11% -2.78% +8.96%

C++
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for C++ in Cheshire

C++
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Daily rate trend for C++ in Cheshire

C++
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Hourly rate trend for C++ in Cheshire

C++
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing C++ within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 31 October 2024. 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
Congleton - 4 - -
Crewe - 2 £538 -
Knutsford -12 1 £568 -
C++
North West

C++
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (11.11%) AWS
1 1 (11.11%) Azure
Development Applications
1 4 (44.44%) Git
General
1 8 (88.89%) Social Skills
2 4 (44.44%) Automotive
2 4 (44.44%) Electronics
2 4 (44.44%) German Language
3 2 (22.22%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (11.11%) Finance
4 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
4 1 (11.11%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Security Engineer
2 4 (44.44%) Cybersecurity Engineer
2 4 (44.44%) Real Time Engineer
2 4 (44.44%) Real Time Software Engineer
2 4 (44.44%) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (44.44%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Linux
1 1 (11.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) Agile
1 4 (44.44%) Cybersecurity
1 4 (44.44%) Defect Tracking
1 4 (44.44%) Embedded Software Development
1 4 (44.44%) Product Requirements
1 4 (44.44%) Project Management
1 4 (44.44%) Requirements Engineering
1 4 (44.44%) Software Engineering
2 1 (11.11%) Change Management
2 1 (11.11%) Computer Science
2 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (11.11%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 8 (88.89%) C
2 4 (44.44%) Assembly Language
2 4 (44.44%) Embedded C
2 4 (44.44%) Embedded C++
3 1 (11.11%) Go
3 1 (11.11%) Java
3 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
3 1 (11.11%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) Degree
2 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
1 1 (11.11%) Tanium