C++ Contracts in the Midlands

C++
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 111 119 185
Rank change year-on-year +8 +66 -61
Contract jobs citing C++ 22 41 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.82% 1.25% 0.40%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.50% 4.78% 1.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 31 13
10th Percentile £266 £363 £360
25th Percentile £486 £496 £365
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £590 £433
Median % change year-on-year -14.41% +36.42% +20.14%
75th Percentile £538 £600 £494
90th Percentile £610 £625 £499
England median daily rate £575 £650 £700
% change year-on-year -11.54% -7.14% +21.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Median hourly rate £40.50 £50.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -19.00% - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year - +8.33% +20.60%

All Programming Languages
Midlands

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 the Midlands with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 628 858 1,309
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 23.32% 26.13% 26.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 455 632 969
10th Percentile £260 £313 £313
25th Percentile £350 £375 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% +12.50%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £538
90th Percentile £638 £675 £614
England median daily rate £550 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -2.65% +2.73% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 14 18
10th Percentile £22.42 £19.74 £16.97
25th Percentile £27.38 £24.16 £23.00
Median hourly rate £51.78 £29.93 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +72.99% -14.48% +6.87%
75th Percentile £58.75 £54.69 -
90th Percentile £60.13 £88.88 £46.67
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £51.05
% change year-on-year - +22.43% +20.12%

C++
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for C++ in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for C++ in the Midlands

C++
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for C++ in the Midlands

C++
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for C++ in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing C++ within the Midlands 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
West Midlands +18 19 £502 -15.00% 35
East Midlands +2 3 £590 -0.92% 46
C++
England

C++
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 1 (4.55%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (13.64%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 1 (4.55%) AWS
1 1 (4.55%) Azure
1 1 (4.55%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.09%) Data Lake
1 2 (9.09%) NoSQL
1 2 (9.09%) RDBMS
1 2 (9.09%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 12 (54.55%) PVCS
1 12 (54.55%) Visual Studio
2 1 (4.55%) Ant
2 1 (4.55%) Gradle
2 1 (4.55%) JUnit
2 1 (4.55%) Maven
General
1 3 (13.64%) Finance
1 3 (13.64%) Public Sector
1 3 (13.64%) Social Skills
2 2 (9.09%) Automotive
3 1 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.55%) Banking
Job Titles
1 12 (54.55%) Programmer
2 9 (40.91%) C Programmer
3 3 (13.64%) C++ Programmer
3 3 (13.64%) Embedded Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) C++ Developer
4 2 (9.09%) Data Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Developer
4 2 (9.09%) Embedded C Programmer
4 2 (9.09%) Senior
4 2 (9.09%) Software Programmer
5 1 (4.55%) Analytics Developer
5 1 (4.55%) Data Scientist
5 1 (4.55%) Embedded Software Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Research Scientist
5 1 (4.55%) Rust Developer
5 1 (4.55%) Senior C++ Developer
5 1 (4.55%) Senior Data Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Senior Developer
5 1 (4.55%) Software Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (22.73%) Algorithms
2 3 (13.64%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 3 (13.64%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (27.27%) Software Engineering
2 4 (18.18%) Mentoring
3 3 (13.64%) Validation
4 2 (9.09%) Commercial Awareness
4 2 (9.09%) Continuous Delivery
4 2 (9.09%) Data Modelling
4 2 (9.09%) Mathematics
4 2 (9.09%) Physics
4 2 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (9.09%) Process Improvement
4 2 (9.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 1 (4.55%) Analytics
5 1 (4.55%) CI/CD
5 1 (4.55%) Clean Code
5 1 (4.55%) Full Stack Development
5 1 (4.55%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
5 1 (4.55%) Machine Learning
5 1 (4.55%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
5 1 (4.55%) Systems Engineering
5 1 (4.55%) Verification and Validation
Programming Languages
1 18 (81.82%) C
2 12 (54.55%) PL/SQL
3 6 (27.27%) Python
4 5 (22.73%) MATLAB
5 2 (9.09%) Embedded C
5 2 (9.09%) Embedded C++
5 2 (9.09%) Java
6 1 (4.55%) JavaScript
6 1 (4.55%) Rust
6 1 (4.55%) Scala
6 1 (4.55%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 15 (68.18%) SC Cleared
1 15 (68.18%) Security Cleared
2 3 (13.64%) Degree
3 2 (9.09%) PhD
4 1 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.09%) AUTOSAR
2 1 (4.55%) ISO 26262
Systems Management
1 1 (4.55%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 1 (4.55%) Google
1 1 (4.55%) Microsoft