C++ Contracts in Edinburgh

C++
Scotland > Edinburgh

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh with 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 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 71 93 123
Rank change year-on-year +22 +30 -27
Contract jobs citing C++ 5 9 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 0.58% 0.76% 0.58%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.60% 2.21% 1.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 7
10th Percentile £449 - £370
25th Percentile £503 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 £465 £750
Median % change year-on-year +37.10% -38.00% +81.82%
75th Percentile £803 £525 -
90th Percentile £876 - £770
Scotland median daily rate £638 £465 £750
% change year-on-year +37.10% -38.00% +55.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £48.46
25th Percentile - - £49.26
Median hourly rate - - £52.81
75th Percentile - - £55.39
90th Percentile - - £55.61
Scotland median hourly rate £60.00 £59.03 £54.50
% change year-on-year +1.64% +8.31% -

All Programming Languages
Edinburgh

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 advertised in Edinburgh with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 192 407 587
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 22.20% 34.58% 30.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 136 314 419
10th Percentile £369 £410 £406
25th Percentile £415 £440 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £490
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% -0.51% +15.29%
75th Percentile £550 £537 £550
90th Percentile £603 £589 £650
Scotland median daily rate £463 £493 £488
% change year-on-year -6.09% +1.03% +14.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 6
10th Percentile £33.20 £40.23 £17.50
25th Percentile £38.00 £42.06 £19.50
Median hourly rate £60.50 £46.25 £29.50
Median % change year-on-year +30.81% +56.78% -38.54%
75th Percentile £60.75 £50.56 £49.86
90th Percentile - £52.48 £55.03
Scotland median hourly rate £57.50 £59.03 £44.50
% change year-on-year -2.59% +32.65% -2.20%

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 May 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 (60.00%) Azure
1 3 (60.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) IaaS
2 2 (40.00%) PaaS
2 2 (40.00%) SaaS
3 1 (20.00%) GitHub
3 1 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Git
1 3 (60.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (40.00%) Cucumber
2 2 (40.00%) Cypress.io
2 2 (40.00%) JIRA
2 2 (40.00%) Selenium
2 2 (40.00%) Subversion
2 2 (40.00%) TeamCity
2 2 (40.00%) WebDriver
General
1 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Analyst
1 2 (40.00%) Firmware Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Functional Analyst
1 2 (40.00%) Functional Test Analyst
1 2 (40.00%) Senior
1 2 (40.00%) Senior Analyst
1 2 (40.00%) Senior Test Analyst
1 2 (40.00%) Test Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Automation Test Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) QA Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Automation Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) .NET
2 1 (20.00%) Flash
2 1 (20.00%) Jest
2 1 (20.00%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Client/Server
1 2 (40.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (20.00%) Data Structures
2 1 (20.00%) IoT
2 1 (20.00%) NB-IoT
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) ATDD
2 2 (40.00%) BDD
2 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (40.00%) Feature Driven Development
2 2 (40.00%) Kanban
2 2 (40.00%) Migration
2 2 (40.00%) Multithreading
2 2 (40.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 2 (40.00%) SOA
2 2 (40.00%) Software Delivery
2 2 (40.00%) Software Testing
2 2 (40.00%) TDD
2 2 (40.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (40.00%) Test Strategy
2 2 (40.00%) V-Model
2 2 (40.00%) Waterfall
3 1 (20.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Java
2 2 (40.00%) C
2 2 (40.00%) C#
2 2 (40.00%) Embedded C
2 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (40.00%) Shell Script
2 2 (40.00%) SQL
2 2 (40.00%) VBA
2 2 (40.00%) VBScript
3 1 (20.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) ISEB
1 2 (40.00%) ISTQB
1 2 (40.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Firmware
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Renesas