C++ Contracts in London

C++
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 156 101 148
Rank change year-on-year -55 +47 -51
Contract jobs citing C++ 282 669 738
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.62% 2.59% 1.91%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.41% 6.41% 4.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 191 470 550
10th Percentile £400 £513 £505
25th Percentile £484 £593 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £700 £748
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% -6.45% +15.12%
75th Percentile £850 £825 £800
90th Percentile £950 £950 £875
England median daily rate £575 £650 £700
% change year-on-year -11.54% -7.14% +21.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 9 15
10th Percentile £44.62 £25.75 £39.81
25th Percentile £54.69 £48.60 £48.31
Median hourly rate £67.13 £52.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +27.86% -4.55% +7.32%
75th Percentile £72.03 £58.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £63.25 £68.63
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year - +8.33% +20.60%

All Programming Languages
London

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 London with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 6,395 10,434 16,162
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 36.63% 40.32% 41.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,885 7,812 12,407
10th Percentile £381 £413 £416
25th Percentile £463 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £700 £738 £700
90th Percentile £835 £825 £800
England median daily rate £550 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -2.65% +2.73% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 80 113
10th Percentile £23.80 £30.30 £31.05
25th Percentile £40.77 £49.65 £35.00
Median hourly rate £51.13 £60.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.79% +20.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £64.02 £75.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £85.00 £78.75
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £51.05
% change year-on-year - +22.43% +20.12%

C++
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for C++ in London

C++
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for C++ in London

C++
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for C++ in London

C++
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for C++ in London

C++
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

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

Hourly rate histogram for C++ in London

C++
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing C++ within the London 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
Central London -44 42 £700 +3.70% 21
West London +34 18 £475 -9.52% 23
South London +5 5 £525 -12.50% 4
C++
England

C++
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 10 (3.55%) BizTalk Server
2 7 (2.48%) Apache Spark
3 6 (2.13%) Confluence
4 3 (1.06%) Apache
4 3 (1.06%) nginx
5 2 (0.71%) SAS
5 2 (0.71%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.71%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.35%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.35%) CMS
6 1 (0.35%) Ethereum
6 1 (0.35%) Hyperledger
6 1 (0.35%) JBoss
6 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 12 (4.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.13%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (0.71%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.71%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.71%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 3 (1.06%) Distributed Ledger
2 2 (0.71%) ION MarketView
3 1 (0.35%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 55 (19.50%) AWS
2 40 (14.18%) Azure
3 15 (5.32%) Azure DevOps
4 12 (4.26%) GitHub
5 10 (3.55%) AWS Lambda
5 10 (3.55%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 10 (3.55%) Azure Functions
5 10 (3.55%) Azure Logic Apps
5 10 (3.55%) Azure Storage
5 10 (3.55%) Serverless
6 3 (1.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (1.06%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (1.06%) Amazon ELB
6 3 (1.06%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (1.06%) GCP
6 3 (1.06%) OpenShift
7 2 (0.71%) npm
7 2 (0.71%) NuGet
7 2 (0.71%) Yarn
8 1 (0.35%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.06%) 5G
1 3 (1.06%) IPv4
1 3 (1.06%) Reverse Proxy
1 3 (1.06%) TCP/IP
1 3 (1.06%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (0.71%) DNS
2 2 (0.71%) Firewall
3 1 (0.35%) 4G
3 1 (0.35%) Bluetooth
3 1 (0.35%) DHCP
3 1 (0.35%) HTTP
3 1 (0.35%) MPLS
3 1 (0.35%) Multicast
3 1 (0.35%) Network Security
3 1 (0.35%) NFC
3 1 (0.35%) RTSP
3 1 (0.35%) UWB
3 1 (0.35%) VLAN
3 1 (0.35%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (7.45%) MongoDB
2 16 (5.67%) NoSQL
3 13 (4.61%) Elasticsearch
4 12 (4.26%) Relational Database
5 11 (3.90%) Azure SQL Database
6 8 (2.84%) Couchbase
6 8 (2.84%) KDB
7 7 (2.48%) SQL Server
8 6 (2.13%) Data Mining
8 6 (2.13%) PostgreSQL
9 5 (1.77%) MySQL
10 3 (1.06%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (1.06%) DynamoDB
10 3 (1.06%) RDBMS
11 2 (0.71%) Apache Cassandra
11 2 (0.71%) Data Warehouse
12 1 (0.35%) Apache Hive
12 1 (0.35%) CouchDB
12 1 (0.35%) DB2
12 1 (0.35%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 32 (11.35%) Git
2 24 (8.51%) Jenkins
3 17 (6.03%) JIRA
4 9 (3.19%) Artifactory
4 9 (3.19%) Subversion
5 8 (2.84%) Bitbucket
5 8 (2.84%) Visual Studio
6 5 (1.77%) TeamCity
7 4 (1.42%) JMeter
7 4 (1.42%) Karma Test Runner
8 3 (1.06%) LoadRunner
8 3 (1.06%) NeoLoad
9 2 (0.71%) Babel
9 2 (0.71%) CMake
9 2 (0.71%) Jasmine
9 2 (0.71%) Visual Studio Code
9 2 (0.71%) webpack
10 1 (0.35%) Mercurial
10 1 (0.35%) Selenium
10 1 (0.35%) WebDriver
General
1 101 (35.82%) Finance
2 57 (20.21%) Social Skills
3 56 (19.86%) Banking
4 36 (12.77%) Front Office
5 33 (11.70%) Analytical Skills
6 24 (8.51%) Investment Banking
7 8 (2.84%) Games
8 5 (1.77%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (1.77%) Public Sector
9 2 (0.71%) Aerospace
9 2 (0.71%) Financial Institution
9 2 (0.71%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.35%) Back Office
10 1 (0.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.35%) International Banking
10 1 (0.35%) Legal
10 1 (0.35%) Multimedia
10 1 (0.35%) Retail
Job Titles
1 127 (45.04%) Developer
2 59 (20.92%) C++ Developer
3 31 (10.99%) Senior
4 30 (10.64%) Software Engineer
5 26 (9.22%) Analyst
5 26 (9.22%) Quantitative Developer
6 17 (6.03%) Python Developer
7 14 (4.96%) Python Engineer
7 14 (4.96%) Qualitative Analyst
7 14 (4.96%) Quantitative Analyst
7 14 (4.96%) Senior Developer
8 12 (4.26%) C++ Software Engineer
9 11 (3.90%) Architect
9 11 (3.90%) Front Office Developer
10 10 (3.55%) Java Developer
11 9 (3.19%) AWS Engineer
11 9 (3.19%) Development Engineer
11 9 (3.19%) Full Stack Developer
12 8 (2.84%) Linux Developer
12 8 (2.84%) Software Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (15.60%) .NET
2 21 (7.45%) Kafka
2 21 (7.45%) NumPy
3 19 (6.74%) Pandas
4 18 (6.38%) .NET Core
5 16 (5.67%) SciPy
6 14 (4.96%) AngularJS
7 12 (4.26%) REST
8 11 (3.90%) ADO
8 11 (3.90%) React
9 10 (3.55%) Middleware
9 10 (3.55%) Node.js
10 9 (3.19%) Blazor
11 8 (2.84%) Spring Boot
12 7 (2.48%) CSS
12 7 (2.48%) HTML
12 7 (2.48%) RESTful
13 6 (2.13%) RabbitMQ
14 5 (1.77%) FIX Protocol
14 5 (1.77%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 59 (20.92%) Derivative
2 39 (13.83%) Algorithms
3 24 (8.51%) Hedge funds
4 22 (7.80%) Distributed Systems
5 17 (6.03%) Equity Derivative
6 16 (5.67%) Data Structures
7 15 (5.32%) Data Protection Act
8 13 (4.61%) Equities
8 13 (4.61%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 12 (4.26%) Fixed Income
10 11 (3.90%) Cloud Native
10 11 (3.90%) Legacy Systems
11 10 (3.55%) Self-Motivation
12 8 (2.84%) Blockchain
12 8 (2.84%) Distributed Computing
13 6 (2.13%) Credit Derivative
13 6 (2.13%) Distributed Applications
14 5 (1.77%) Team-Oriented Environment
15 4 (1.42%) iPad
15 4 (1.42%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 43 (15.25%) Linux
2 34 (12.06%) Windows
3 9 (3.19%) Windows Server
4 6 (2.13%) Apple iOS
4 6 (2.13%) Unix
5 2 (0.71%) Android
6 1 (0.35%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.35%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (20.57%) Software Engineering
2 46 (16.31%) Agile
2 46 (16.31%) Computer Science
3 45 (15.96%) DevOps
4 41 (14.54%) Analytics
4 41 (14.54%) CI/CD
5 38 (13.48%) Mathematics
6 36 (12.77%) Problem-Solving
6 36 (12.77%) Test Automation
7 31 (10.99%) Multithreading
8 23 (8.16%) OO
9 21 (7.45%) Full Stack Development
9 21 (7.45%) Quantitative Finance
10 20 (7.09%) Roadmaps
11 19 (6.74%) Low Latency
11 19 (6.74%) Microservices
12 18 (6.38%) Data Pipeline
12 18 (6.38%) Physics
12 18 (6.38%) SDLC
12 18 (6.38%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 154 (54.61%) Python
2 111 (39.36%) Java
3 71 (25.18%) C#
4 65 (23.05%) SQL
5 60 (21.28%) C
6 26 (9.22%) JavaScript
7 25 (8.87%) Go
8 18 (6.38%) Rust
8 18 (6.38%) Shell Script
9 16 (5.67%) VBA
10 14 (4.96%) Bash
11 11 (3.90%) PowerShell
12 10 (3.55%) PL/SQL
12 10 (3.55%) T-SQL
12 10 (3.55%) TypeScript
13 8 (2.84%) Scala
14 7 (2.48%) Perl
14 7 (2.48%) R
14 7 (2.48%) VB.NET
15 4 (1.42%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 66 (23.40%) Degree
2 24 (8.51%) Computer Science Degree
3 16 (5.67%) Numerate Degree
4 15 (5.32%) Master's Degree
5 9 (3.19%) PhD
5 9 (3.19%) SC Cleared
5 9 (3.19%) Security Cleared
6 3 (1.06%) DV Cleared
7 2 (0.71%) MBA
8 1 (0.35%) CREST Certified
8 1 (0.35%) ISEB
8 1 (0.35%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.35%) OSCP
8 1 (0.35%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (2.84%) QA
2 4 (1.42%) MiFID
3 2 (0.71%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.71%) GDPR
4 1 (0.35%) COPPA
4 1 (0.35%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.35%) JTAG
4 1 (0.35%) NIST
4 1 (0.35%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.35%) SLA
4 1 (0.35%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 13 (4.61%) Docker
2 6 (2.13%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 3 (1.06%) Firmware
4 1 (0.35%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.35%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (0.35%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 31 (10.99%) Kubernetes
2 10 (3.55%) Ansible
3 9 (3.19%) BladeLogic
3 9 (3.19%) Consul
3 9 (3.19%) ITRS Geneos
3 9 (3.19%) Terraform
4 8 (2.84%) Grafana
5 7 (2.48%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.42%) Kibana
7 3 (1.06%) Packer
8 2 (0.71%) Puppet
9 1 (0.35%) HP ALM
9 1 (0.35%) logstash
9 1 (0.35%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.35%) systemd
Vendors
1 33 (11.70%) Oracle
2 13 (4.61%) Dynatrace
3 11 (3.90%) Microsoft
4 10 (3.55%) MuleSoft
5 9 (3.19%) Altiris
5 9 (3.19%) Citrix
6 6 (2.13%) SaltStack
7 4 (1.42%) AppDynamics
7 4 (1.42%) ION Trading
7 4 (1.42%) Splunk
8 2 (0.71%) CA
8 2 (0.71%) Google
8 2 (0.71%) HP
8 2 (0.71%) IBM
8 2 (0.71%) MarketAxess
8 2 (0.71%) Red Hat
8 2 (0.71%) ServiceNow
8 2 (0.71%) Tradeweb
9 1 (0.35%) Alteryx
9 1 (0.35%) NVIDIA