C++ Contracts in the Thames Valley

C++
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 112 129 130
Rank change year-on-year +17 +1 -28
Contract jobs citing C++ 20 21 36
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.76% 0.73% 1.00%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.80% 3.21% 4.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 16 22
10th Percentile £384 £356 £391
25th Percentile £413 £363 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £425 £550
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -22.73% +34.15%
75th Percentile - £553 £575
90th Percentile £580 £602 -
South East median daily rate £531 £520 £500
% change year-on-year +2.16% +4.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £61.60 £51.25 -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £52.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +23.81% - -
75th Percentile - £53.75 -
90th Percentile £70.75 - -
South East median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £51.25
% change year-on-year +13.04% +12.20% -18.65%

All Programming Languages
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 526 655 793
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 19.92% 22.87% 22.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 359 475 583
10th Percentile £331 £350 £350
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £608 £604 £586
90th Percentile £650 £683 £650
South East median daily rate £501 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.57% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 20 5
10th Percentile £33.94 £25.64 £61.45
25th Percentile £46.25 £32.30 £62.50
Median hourly rate £58.40 £56.88 £67.36
Median % change year-on-year +2.67% -15.57% +68.40%
75th Percentile £65.00 £76.61 £80.40
90th Percentile £67.63 £79.41 £81.66
South East median hourly rate £61.60 £55.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +12.00% +57.14% -18.24%

C++
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for C++ in the Thames Valley

C++
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate trend for C++ in the Thames Valley

C++
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing C++ in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for C++ in the Thames Valley

C++
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Hourly rate trend for C++ in the Thames Valley

C++
Hourly Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing C++ in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for C++ in the Thames Valley

C++
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing C++ within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 1 June 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
Berkshire -12 11 £500 +17.65% 29
Oxfordshire +9 7 - - 42
Buckinghamshire +32 2 £413 - 19
C++
South East

C++
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Business Applications
1 5 (25.00%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 9 (45.00%) Azure
2 1 (5.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (20.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (5.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (35.00%) Git
2 4 (20.00%) JIRA
2 4 (20.00%) Subversion
3 1 (5.00%) CMake
General
1 5 (25.00%) Telecoms
2 4 (20.00%) Aerospace
2 4 (20.00%) Public Sector
3 3 (15.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.00%) Automotive
4 1 (5.00%) Manufacturing
4 1 (5.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (35.00%) Software Engineer
2 6 (30.00%) Administrator
2 6 (30.00%) Senior
2 6 (30.00%) Systems Administrator
3 5 (25.00%) Embedded Engineer
3 5 (25.00%) Embedded Software Engineer
3 5 (25.00%) Senior Systems Administrator
4 2 (10.00%) Architect
4 2 (10.00%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
4 2 (10.00%) Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Security Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Applications Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) C++ Software Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Python Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Python Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (30.00%) Itk
2 2 (10.00%) PyTorch
2 2 (10.00%) TensorFlow
2 2 (10.00%) WinForms
3 1 (5.00%) .NET
3 1 (5.00%) .NET Framework
3 1 (5.00%) CNTK
3 1 (5.00%) Google JAX
3 1 (5.00%) OpenVINO
3 1 (5.00%) scikit-learn
3 1 (5.00%) WCF
3 1 (5.00%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 6 (30.00%) Algorithms
2 4 (20.00%) Device Driver
3 2 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (5.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 5 (25.00%) Windows
2 4 (20.00%) Windows Server
2 4 (20.00%) Windows Server 2016
2 4 (20.00%) Windows Server 2019
3 1 (5.00%) Android
3 1 (5.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (55.00%) DevOps
2 9 (45.00%) Software Engineering
3 8 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (30.00%) PLM
5 5 (25.00%) CI/CD
5 5 (25.00%) Computer Science
6 4 (20.00%) Change Management
6 4 (20.00%) Defect Tracking
6 4 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
6 4 (20.00%) Signal Processing
6 4 (20.00%) Software Optimisation
6 4 (20.00%) Validation
7 3 (15.00%) Agile
7 3 (15.00%) Artificial Intelligence
7 3 (15.00%) Data Protection
7 3 (15.00%) Machine Learning
7 3 (15.00%) MLOps
8 2 (10.00%) Data Science
8 2 (10.00%) LLM
8 2 (10.00%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 14 (70.00%) C
2 11 (55.00%) Python
3 4 (20.00%) Assembly Language
3 4 (20.00%) MATLAB
3 4 (20.00%) Shell Script
4 3 (15.00%) C#
5 2 (10.00%) Java
6 1 (5.00%) Fortran
6 1 (5.00%) Go
6 1 (5.00%) JavaScript
6 1 (5.00%) R
6 1 (5.00%) Rust
6 1 (5.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (30.00%) Degree
1 6 (30.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (25.00%) DV Cleared
2 5 (25.00%) Master's Degree
3 4 (20.00%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (20.00%) JTAG
2 1 (5.00%) AUTOSAR
2 1 (5.00%) GDPR
2 1 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (5.00%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (20.00%) Embedded Firmware
1 4 (20.00%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (5.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (5.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (35.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.00%) Cadence
2 1 (5.00%) QNX