C++ Contracts in England

C++
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 134 120 180
Rank change year-on-year -14 +60 -64
Contract jobs citing C++ 633 1,049 1,163
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.74% 2.18% 1.65%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.84% 6.23% 4.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 336 651 709
10th Percentile £396 £413 £450
25th Percentile £453 £525 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £650 £700
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% -7.14% +21.74%
75th Percentile £750 £800 £800
90th Percentile £888 £900 £853
UK median daily rate £575 £650 £700
% change year-on-year -11.54% -7.14% +21.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 148 125 120
10th Percentile £59.70 £49.25 £45.13
25th Percentile £61.25 £56.25 £51.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% +20.60%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £76.70 £65.93
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year - +8.33% +20.60%

All Programming Languages
England

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 England with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 10,846 16,845 25,822
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 29.81% 34.96% 36.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,871 12,314 19,084
10th Percentile £350 £385 £381
25th Percentile £425 £463 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £565 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% +2.73% +10.00%
75th Percentile £656 £688 £675
90th Percentile £775 £798 £772
UK median daily rate £533 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.09% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 446 408 456
10th Percentile £37.59 £26.11 £20.13
25th Percentile £50.00 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £51.05
Median % change year-on-year - +22.43% +20.12%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £62.15
90th Percentile £80.00 £78.36 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £50.35
% change year-on-year - +24.13% +18.47%

C++
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for C++ in England

C++
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for C++ in England

C++
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing C++ in England over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for C++ in England

C++
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for C++ in England

C++
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing C++ in England over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for C++ in England

C++
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing C++ within the England region over the 6 months to 16 May 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
London -55 282 £650 -7.14% 371
South East +44 121 £514 -2.10% 207
East of England +25 117 £550 +10.00% 115
South West -21 59 £500 +11.11% 130
Midlands +8 22 £505 -14.41% 83
West Midlands +18 19 £502 -15.00% 35
North of England +1 19 £600 +23.71% 70
North West +6 9 £450 -14.29% 42
Yorkshire +2 8 £650 +35.42% 18
East Midlands +2 3 £590 -0.92% 47
North East +11 2 £625 +31.58% 10
C++
UK

C++
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 29 (4.58%) Confluence
2 10 (1.58%) BizTalk Server
3 8 (1.26%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.47%) Apache
4 3 (0.47%) nginx
5 2 (0.32%) SAS
5 2 (0.32%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.32%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.16%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.16%) CMS
6 1 (0.16%) Ethereum
6 1 (0.16%) Hyperledger
6 1 (0.16%) JBoss
6 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 14 (2.21%) Simulink
2 12 (1.90%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.95%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.32%) Adobe After Effects
4 2 (0.32%) Blender
4 2 (0.32%) Maya
4 2 (0.32%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.32%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.32%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 5 (0.79%) Teamcenter
2 4 (0.63%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 3 (0.47%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.32%) ION MarketView
5 1 (0.16%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.16%) Misys Midas
Cloud Services
1 68 (10.74%) AWS
2 59 (9.32%) Azure
3 29 (4.58%) GitHub
4 21 (3.32%) Azure DevOps
5 11 (1.74%) Azure Functions
5 11 (1.74%) Azure Logic Apps
5 11 (1.74%) Serverless
6 10 (1.58%) AWS Lambda
6 10 (1.58%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 10 (1.58%) Azure Storage
7 5 (0.79%) GCP
8 4 (0.63%) Datadog
9 3 (0.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 3 (0.47%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (0.47%) Amazon ELB
9 3 (0.47%) Cloud Computing
9 3 (0.47%) OpenShift
10 2 (0.32%) npm
10 2 (0.32%) NuGet
10 2 (0.32%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 35 (5.53%) Modbus
1 35 (5.53%) RS-422
1 35 (5.53%) RS-485
2 23 (3.63%) TCP/IP
3 20 (3.16%) Software-Defined Radio
4 17 (2.69%) SNMP
5 14 (2.21%) 5G
5 14 (2.21%) Ethernet
6 13 (2.05%) Radio Access Network
6 13 (2.05%) Wireless
7 11 (1.74%) Wi-Fi
8 8 (1.26%) 802.11
9 5 (0.79%) 4G
9 5 (0.79%) NAS
9 5 (0.79%) RTSP
10 4 (0.63%) DNS
10 4 (0.63%) Internet
10 4 (0.63%) Link 16
10 4 (0.63%) Tactical Data Link
10 4 (0.63%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (3.48%) MongoDB
2 18 (2.84%) NoSQL
3 15 (2.37%) Relational Database
4 14 (2.21%) SQL Server
5 13 (2.05%) Elasticsearch
6 11 (1.74%) Azure SQL Database
7 8 (1.26%) Couchbase
7 8 (1.26%) KDB
7 8 (1.26%) PostgreSQL
8 7 (1.11%) Data Mining
8 7 (1.11%) MySQL
9 5 (0.79%) Amazon Redshift
9 5 (0.79%) RDBMS
10 4 (0.63%) Geospatial Data
11 3 (0.47%) Amazon RDS
11 3 (0.47%) Data Lake
11 3 (0.47%) DynamoDB
12 2 (0.32%) Apache Cassandra
12 2 (0.32%) CouchDB
12 2 (0.32%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 79 (12.48%) Git
2 71 (11.22%) JIRA
3 57 (9.00%) Jenkins
4 38 (6.00%) Visual Studio
5 31 (4.90%) Eclipse
6 29 (4.58%) GoogleTest
7 28 (4.42%) Bitbucket
8 20 (3.16%) Subversion
9 16 (2.53%) Robot Framework
10 15 (2.37%) PVCS
10 15 (2.37%) Rational DOORS
11 13 (2.05%) Artifactory
12 6 (0.95%) Gradle
12 6 (0.95%) Rational Rhapsody
13 5 (0.79%) TeamCity
14 4 (0.63%) ClearCase
14 4 (0.63%) ClearQuest
14 4 (0.63%) CMake
14 4 (0.63%) GDB
14 4 (0.63%) JMeter
General
1 134 (21.17%) Social Skills
2 107 (16.90%) Finance
3 60 (9.48%) Banking
4 48 (7.58%) Electronics
5 39 (6.16%) Front Office
5 39 (6.16%) Public Sector
6 38 (6.00%) Analytical Skills
7 31 (4.90%) Aerospace
8 24 (3.79%) Investment Banking
9 18 (2.84%) Presentation Skills
10 17 (2.69%) Telecoms
11 14 (2.21%) Games
12 12 (1.90%) Military
13 11 (1.74%) Automotive
14 7 (1.11%) Multimedia
15 6 (0.95%) Legal
16 4 (0.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 4 (0.63%) Law
16 4 (0.63%) Manufacturing
17 3 (0.47%) Retail
Job Titles
1 195 (30.81%) Software Engineer
2 190 (30.02%) Developer
3 107 (16.90%) C++ Software Engineer
4 94 (14.85%) C++ Developer
5 57 (9.00%) Senior
6 37 (5.85%) Embedded Engineer
7 31 (4.90%) Embedded Software Engineer
8 29 (4.58%) Java Engineer
9 28 (4.42%) Analyst
9 28 (4.42%) Python Developer
10 26 (4.11%) Quantitative Developer
11 25 (3.95%) Architect
12 24 (3.79%) Python Engineer
13 22 (3.48%) C Software Engineer
13 22 (3.48%) Java Software Engineer
14 19 (3.00%) Senior Software Engineer
15 18 (2.84%) Lead
15 18 (2.84%) Senior Developer
16 16 (2.53%) C# Software Engineer
16 16 (2.53%) C/C++ Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (9.32%) .NET
2 28 (4.42%) HTML
3 25 (3.95%) CSS
4 23 (3.63%) Node.js
5 22 (3.48%) Kafka
5 22 (3.48%) NumPy
6 21 (3.32%) .NET Core
7 19 (3.00%) Pandas
8 17 (2.69%) Blazor
8 17 (2.69%) OpenGL
8 17 (2.69%) RESTful
9 16 (2.53%) AngularJS
9 16 (2.53%) REST
9 16 (2.53%) SciPy
9 16 (2.53%) Web Services
10 15 (2.37%) Qt
11 14 (2.21%) DirectX
11 14 (2.21%) Vulkan
11 14 (2.21%) XML
12 13 (2.05%) React
Miscellaneous
1 65 (10.27%) Algorithms
2 59 (9.32%) Derivative
3 40 (6.32%) Self-Motivation
4 28 (4.42%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 25 (3.95%) Distributed Systems
6 24 (3.79%) Hedge funds
7 20 (3.16%) Data Protection Act
7 20 (3.16%) Data Structures
8 17 (2.69%) Equity Derivative
9 13 (2.05%) Equities
9 13 (2.05%) Linux Command Line
10 12 (1.90%) Fixed Income
11 11 (1.74%) Cloud Native
11 11 (1.74%) Legacy Systems
11 11 (1.74%) VHDL
12 10 (1.58%) Augmented Reality
13 9 (1.42%) 3D Graphics
13 9 (1.42%) CCTV
13 9 (1.42%) Device Driver
13 9 (1.42%) Verilog
Operating Systems
1 160 (25.28%) Linux
2 93 (14.69%) Windows
3 16 (2.53%) Unix
4 13 (2.05%) Windows Server
5 10 (1.58%) Android
6 7 (1.11%) Apple iOS
7 6 (0.95%) Embedded Linux
8 4 (0.63%) FreeRTOS
8 4 (0.63%) Windows Server 2016
8 4 (0.63%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (0.47%) Windows 10
10 2 (0.32%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.16%) CentOS
11 1 (0.16%) RTLinux
11 1 (0.16%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 264 (41.71%) Software Engineering
2 183 (28.91%) Agile
3 131 (20.70%) DevOps
4 87 (13.74%) Problem-Solving
5 80 (12.64%) CI/CD
6 72 (11.37%) Continuous Integration
6 72 (11.37%) Unit Testing
7 71 (11.22%) Validation
8 70 (11.06%) Computer Science
9 63 (9.95%) Test Automation
10 61 (9.64%) TDD
11 57 (9.00%) Scrum
12 54 (8.53%) Software Testing
13 51 (8.06%) Mathematics
13 51 (8.06%) OO
14 50 (7.90%) Multithreading
15 47 (7.42%) Continuous Improvement
16 43 (6.79%) Analytics
17 38 (6.00%) Customer Requirements
18 37 (5.85%) Verification and Validation
Programming Languages
1 264 (41.71%) Python
2 252 (39.81%) C
3 177 (27.96%) Java
4 165 (26.07%) C#
5 85 (13.43%) SQL
6 74 (11.69%) JavaScript
7 34 (5.37%) Bash
8 30 (4.74%) Shell Script
9 28 (4.42%) Go
10 25 (3.95%) PL/SQL
11 23 (3.63%) MATLAB
11 23 (3.63%) Perl
12 22 (3.48%) Embedded C++
12 22 (3.48%) PowerShell
13 21 (3.32%) Rust
14 18 (2.84%) Embedded C
15 16 (2.53%) VBA
16 12 (1.90%) Tcl
16 12 (1.90%) TypeScript
17 10 (1.58%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 106 (16.75%) Degree
2 103 (16.27%) Security Cleared
3 80 (12.64%) SC Cleared
4 34 (5.37%) Master's Degree
5 32 (5.06%) Computer Science Degree
6 29 (4.58%) PhD
7 19 (3.00%) DV Cleared
8 16 (2.53%) Numerate Degree
9 8 (1.26%) CREST Certified
9 8 (1.26%) OSCP
10 6 (0.95%) CEH
10 6 (0.95%) GIAC
10 6 (0.95%) GPEN
11 4 (0.63%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.32%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.32%) MBA
12 2 (0.32%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.16%) ISEB
13 1 (0.16%) ISTQB
13 1 (0.16%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (2.84%) MISRA
2 10 (1.58%) ISO 9001
3 9 (1.42%) QA
4 8 (1.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (1.11%) JTAG
5 7 (1.11%) NIST
6 4 (0.63%) MiFID
7 3 (0.47%) AUTOSAR
7 3 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 12207
7 3 (0.47%) SLA
8 2 (0.32%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.32%) GDPR
8 2 (0.32%) ISO 20022
8 2 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 2 (0.32%) MISRA C
8 2 (0.32%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.16%) Def Stans
9 1 (0.16%) DO-178B
9 1 (0.16%) IEC 61508
9 1 (0.16%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 26 (4.11%) Firmware
2 25 (3.95%) Docker
3 9 (1.42%) Active Directory
3 9 (1.42%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (1.11%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (0.95%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 6 (0.95%) Embedded Firmware
6 5 (0.79%) VirtualBox
7 3 (0.47%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.32%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 37 (5.85%) Kubernetes
2 21 (3.32%) Terraform
3 20 (3.16%) Ansible
4 9 (1.42%) BladeLogic
4 9 (1.42%) Consul
4 9 (1.42%) ITRS Geneos
4 9 (1.42%) Puppet
5 8 (1.26%) Grafana
5 8 (1.26%) Progress Chef
6 7 (1.11%) Prometheus
7 4 (0.63%) HP ALM
7 4 (0.63%) Kibana
7 4 (0.63%) Nagios
8 3 (0.47%) Packer
9 2 (0.32%) WSUS
10 1 (0.16%) Functional Safety
10 1 (0.16%) logstash
10 1 (0.16%) systemd
Vendors
1 39 (6.16%) Oracle
2 35 (5.53%) Google
2 35 (5.53%) Microsoft
3 16 (2.53%) Atlassian
4 13 (2.05%) Dynatrace
5 10 (1.58%) MuleSoft
6 9 (1.42%) Altiris
6 9 (1.42%) Citrix
7 8 (1.26%) Splunk
8 7 (1.11%) IBM
8 7 (1.11%) VMware
8 7 (1.11%) Xilinx
9 6 (0.95%) SaltStack
10 5 (0.79%) HP
11 4 (0.63%) AppDynamics
11 4 (0.63%) ION Trading
11 4 (0.63%) Klocwork
11 4 (0.63%) New Relic
11 4 (0.63%) NVIDIA
11 4 (0.63%) Perforce