C++ Contracts in Edinburgh

C++
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh 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 67 67 125
Rank change year-on-year 0 +58 -19
Contract jobs citing C++ 7 21 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 0.93% 2.13% 0.47%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.50% 7.78% 1.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 14 7
10th Percentile £403 - £263
25th Percentile £406 £413 £334
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £438 £425
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +2.94% -2.86%
75th Percentile £681 £525 £453
90th Percentile £828 £534 £469
Scotland median daily rate £425 £450 £425
% change year-on-year -5.56% +5.88% -5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 0
Median hourly rate £75.00 £60.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% - -
Scotland median hourly rate £75.00 £59.03 £52.21
% change year-on-year +27.05% +13.06% -

All Programming Languages
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 200 270 615
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 26.67% 27.44% 35.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 111 187 450
10th Percentile £380 £383 £400
25th Percentile £413 £425 £421
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £480 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.04% +1.05% +5.56%
75th Percentile £533 £538 £537
90th Percentile £613 £575 £588
Scotland median daily rate £450 £495 £479
% change year-on-year -9.09% +3.34% +6.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 4
10th Percentile - £44.99 £14.43
25th Percentile - £50.59 £19.16
Median hourly rate £75.00 £56.85 £33.84
Median % change year-on-year +31.93% +67.98% -
75th Percentile - £61.75 £52.50
90th Percentile - £62.20 £61.50
Scotland median hourly rate £19.59 £59.52 £45.00
% change year-on-year -67.08% +32.26% -25.00%

C++
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for C++ in Edinburgh

C++
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate trend for C++ in Edinburgh

C++
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing C++ in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 31 October 2024.

Daily rate histogram for C++ in Edinburgh

C++
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Hourly rate trend for C++ in Edinburgh

C++
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 3 (42.86%) Azure
2 2 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (28.57%) IaaS
2 2 (28.57%) PaaS
2 2 (28.57%) SaaS
3 1 (14.29%) AWS
3 1 (14.29%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) Bluetooth
1 1 (14.29%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Git
2 2 (28.57%) Cucumber
2 2 (28.57%) Cypress.io
2 2 (28.57%) Jenkins
2 2 (28.57%) JIRA
2 2 (28.57%) Selenium
2 2 (28.57%) Subversion
2 2 (28.57%) TeamCity
2 2 (28.57%) WebDriver
General
1 2 (28.57%) Public Sector
2 1 (14.29%) Aerospace
2 1 (14.29%) Banking
2 1 (14.29%) Electronics
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Senior
2 2 (28.57%) Analyst
2 2 (28.57%) Automation Test Analyst
2 2 (28.57%) Firmware Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Senior Analyst
2 2 (28.57%) Senior Automation Test Analyst
2 2 (28.57%) Senior Test Analyst
2 2 (28.57%) Test Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Software Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) .NET
2 1 (14.29%) Flash
2 1 (14.29%) JSON
2 1 (14.29%) React
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Client/Server
1 2 (28.57%) IoT
1 2 (28.57%) Mobile App
2 1 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (14.29%) Data Structures
2 1 (14.29%) NB-IoT
2 1 (14.29%) PCIe
2 1 (14.29%) Verilog
2 1 (14.29%) VHDL
2 1 (14.29%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) ThreadX
2 1 (14.29%) Embedded Linux
2 1 (14.29%) Linux
2 1 (14.29%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Agile
1 4 (57.14%) CI/CD
2 2 (28.57%) ATDD
2 2 (28.57%) BDD
2 2 (28.57%) Build Automation
2 2 (28.57%) DevOps
2 2 (28.57%) Feature Driven Development
2 2 (28.57%) Kanban
2 2 (28.57%) Multithreading
2 2 (28.57%) Roadmaps
2 2 (28.57%) SOA
2 2 (28.57%) Software Engineering
2 2 (28.57%) TDD
2 2 (28.57%) Test Automation
2 2 (28.57%) Test Strategy
2 2 (28.57%) V-Model
2 2 (28.57%) Waterfall
3 1 (14.29%) Configuration Management
3 1 (14.29%) Migration
3 1 (14.29%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) C
2 3 (42.86%) C#
2 3 (42.86%) Embedded C
2 3 (42.86%) Java
3 2 (28.57%) JavaScript
3 2 (28.57%) Python
3 2 (28.57%) Shell Script
3 2 (28.57%) SQL
3 2 (28.57%) VBA
3 2 (28.57%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) ISEB
1 1 (14.29%) ISTQB
1 1 (14.29%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
1 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) MISRA
1 1 (14.29%) MISRA C
1 1 (14.29%) QA
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) Firmware
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Atlassian
1 1 (14.29%) Intel
1 1 (14.29%) Renesas