C++ Contracts in Scotland

C++
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 117 143 149
Rank change year-on-year +26 +6 -12
Contract jobs citing C++ 8 17 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.37% 0.63% 0.53%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.28% 1.83% 1.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 8 7
10th Percentile - - £370
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £425 £750
Median % change year-on-year - -43.33% +55.84%
75th Percentile £438 £485 -
90th Percentile - £533 £770
UK median daily rate £575 £650 £700
% change year-on-year -11.54% -7.14% +21.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 5
10th Percentile - - £50.06
25th Percentile £52.50 - £53.25
Median hourly rate £60.00 £59.03 £54.50
Median % change year-on-year +1.64% +8.31% -
75th Percentile £62.50 - £57.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year - +8.33% +20.60%

All Programming Languages
Scotland

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 Scotland with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 623 929 946
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 28.96% 34.37% 27.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 411 665 660
10th Percentile £360 £406 £363
25th Percentile £413 £433 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% +3.16% +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £553 £550
90th Percentile £650 £656 £638
UK median daily rate £533 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.09% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 12 15
10th Percentile £29.60 £48.08 £17.50
25th Percentile £41.31 £55.00 £27.50
Median hourly rate £57.50 £59.79 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.83% +34.36% -2.20%
75th Percentile £60.75 £67.81 £55.03
90th Percentile £62.50 £69.88 £56.80
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £50.35
% change year-on-year - +24.13% +18.47%

C++
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for C++ in Scotland

C++
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for C++ in Scotland

C++
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for C++ in Scotland

C++
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing C++ within the Scotland 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
Glasgow +10 5 - - 8
Edinburgh +31 3 £425 - 14
C++
UK

C++
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 (37.50%) Azure
1 3 (37.50%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (25.00%) IaaS
2 2 (25.00%) PaaS
2 2 (25.00%) SaaS
3 1 (12.50%) GitHub
3 1 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Jenkins
2 2 (25.00%) Cucumber
2 2 (25.00%) Cypress.io
2 2 (25.00%) Git
2 2 (25.00%) JIRA
2 2 (25.00%) Selenium
2 2 (25.00%) Subversion
2 2 (25.00%) TeamCity
2 2 (25.00%) WebDriver
General
1 2 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) C++ Software Engineer
1 5 (62.50%) Software Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) Embedded C++ Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) Embedded C++ Software Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) Embedded Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) Embedded Software Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Analyst
3 2 (25.00%) Functional Analyst
3 2 (25.00%) Functional Test Analyst
3 2 (25.00%) Senior
3 2 (25.00%) Senior Analyst
3 2 (25.00%) Senior Test Analyst
3 2 (25.00%) Test Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) Automation Test Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) QA Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Automation Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) .NET
1 2 (25.00%) OpenCV
2 1 (12.50%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Client/Server
1 2 (25.00%) CUDA
1 2 (25.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 3 (37.50%) Embedded Linux
1 3 (37.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Software Engineering
2 3 (37.50%) DevOps
3 2 (25.00%) Agile
3 2 (25.00%) ATDD
3 2 (25.00%) BDD
3 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (25.00%) Feature Driven Development
3 2 (25.00%) Kanban
3 2 (25.00%) Migration
3 2 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (25.00%) SOA
3 2 (25.00%) Software Delivery
3 2 (25.00%) Software Testing
3 2 (25.00%) TDD
3 2 (25.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (25.00%) Test Strategy
3 2 (25.00%) V-Model
3 2 (25.00%) Waterfall
4 1 (12.50%) Build Automation
4 1 (12.50%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) Embedded C++
1 3 (37.50%) Java
2 2 (25.00%) C#
2 2 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (25.00%) Shell Script
2 2 (25.00%) SQL
2 2 (25.00%) VBA
2 2 (25.00%) VBScript
3 1 (12.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) ISEB
1 2 (25.00%) ISTQB
1 2 (25.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (12.50%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) NVIDIA