C++ Developer Contracts in the UK excluding London

C++ Developer
UK > UK excluding London

The median C++ Developer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £420 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 359 412 472
Rank change year-on-year +53 +60 -61
Contract jobs requiring a C++ Developer 32 32 36
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.16% 0.14% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.15% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 21 14
10th Percentile - £363 £363
25th Percentile £400 £400 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £450 £543
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% -17.05% +20.56%
75th Percentile £497 £575 £636
90th Percentile £524 £650 £714
UK median daily rate £500 £750 £725
% change year-on-year -33.33% +3.45% +13.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 6 5
10th Percentile £67.38 £55.49 £47.24
25th Percentile £69.06 £63.13 £53.25
Median hourly rate £70.00 £65.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +18.18% +27.91%
75th Percentile - £73.13 £57.50
90th Percentile - £75.00 -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £60.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year +16.67% +4.35% +14.43%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 18,752 21,824 29,184
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.48% 94.30% 95.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,467 15,208 20,476
10th Percentile £213 £225 £204
25th Percentile £363 £394 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £595 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £543 £525
% change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,268 1,112 1,441
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.38
25th Percentile £15.74 £18.07 £14.51
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.00 £45.00
90th Percentile £73.83 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -18.89% +87.50% +6.67%

C++ Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured C++ Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for C++ Developer in the UK excluding London

C++ Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing C++ Developer in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for C++ Developer in the UK excluding London

C++ Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing C++ Developer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 19 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for C++ Developer in the UK excluding London

C++ Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing C++ Developer in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for C++ Developer in the UK excluding London

C++ Developer
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing C++ Developer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 19 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
South East +31 16 £400 -15.79% 18
East of England +20 10 £430 -14.00% 2
North of England +29 2 £410 -0.61% 9
North West +15 2 £410 +17.14% 9
South West +11 2 - -
Midlands +20 1 £675 +80.00% 4
East Midlands +18 1 £675 +125.00% 3
Wales +16 1 - -
C++ Developer
UK

C++ Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 19 May 2024, C++ Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring C++ Developer in the job title.

1 32 (100.00%) C++
2 17 (53.13%) Linux
3 13 (40.63%) Python
4 10 (31.25%) C
4 10 (31.25%) Agile
5 9 (28.13%) Software Engineering
5 9 (28.13%) Radio Access Network
5 9 (28.13%) 5G
6 8 (25.00%) Public Sector
6 8 (25.00%) JIRA
6 8 (25.00%) SC Cleared
6 8 (25.00%) Security Cleared
6 8 (25.00%) Git
6 8 (25.00%) Windows
7 7 (21.88%) C#
8 6 (18.75%) Stakeholder Management
8 6 (18.75%) Refactoring
8 6 (18.75%) Multimedia
8 6 (18.75%) CCTV
8 6 (18.75%) OCR
9 5 (15.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 5 (15.63%) Google
9 5 (15.63%) NAS
9 5 (15.63%) Telecoms
9 5 (15.63%) ISO 9001
9 5 (15.63%) SQL
9 5 (15.63%) OO
10 4 (12.50%) Java
10 4 (12.50%) JavaScript
10 4 (12.50%) Perforce

C++ Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 2 (6.25%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (6.25%) GitHub
2 1 (3.13%) AWS
2 1 (3.13%) Azure
2 1 (3.13%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 9 (28.13%) 5G
1 9 (28.13%) Radio Access Network
2 5 (15.63%) NAS
3 4 (12.50%) 4G
3 4 (12.50%) Link 16
3 4 (12.50%) Tactical Data Link
3 4 (12.50%) Wireshark
4 2 (6.25%) SNMP
4 2 (6.25%) Software-Defined Radio
4 2 (6.25%) TCP/IP
5 1 (3.13%) RTMP
5 1 (3.13%) RTP
5 1 (3.13%) RTSP
Development Applications
1 8 (25.00%) Git
1 8 (25.00%) JIRA
2 4 (12.50%) gcov
2 4 (12.50%) GDB
2 4 (12.50%) Gradle
2 4 (12.50%) Subversion
3 3 (9.38%) GoogleTest
4 2 (6.25%) Bitbucket
4 2 (6.25%) Eclipse
4 2 (6.25%) Jenkins
4 2 (6.25%) Robot Framework
5 1 (3.13%) CMake
5 1 (3.13%) GitLab
General
1 8 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 6 (18.75%) Multimedia
3 5 (15.63%) Telecoms
4 4 (12.50%) Social Skills
5 2 (6.25%) Aerospace
6 1 (3.13%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (3.13%) Billing
6 1 (3.13%) Finance
6 1 (3.13%) Health Technology
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.25%) CSS
1 2 (6.25%) HTML
1 2 (6.25%) Qt
1 2 (6.25%) REST
2 1 (3.13%) FFmpeg
2 1 (3.13%) GStreamer
2 1 (3.13%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 6 (18.75%) CCTV
2 2 (6.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (3.13%) Data Structures
3 1 (3.13%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (3.13%) MPEG
Operating Systems
1 17 (53.13%) Linux
2 8 (25.00%) Windows
3 2 (6.25%) Unix
4 1 (3.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (31.25%) Agile
2 9 (28.13%) Software Engineering
3 6 (18.75%) OCR
3 6 (18.75%) Refactoring
3 6 (18.75%) Stakeholder Management
4 5 (15.63%) OO
5 4 (12.50%) Requirements Analysis
6 3 (9.38%) Computer Science
6 3 (9.38%) Scrum
7 2 (6.25%) CI/CD
7 2 (6.25%) DevOps
7 2 (6.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 2 (6.25%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (6.25%) Prototyping
7 2 (6.25%) SysML
7 2 (6.25%) UML
7 2 (6.25%) Validation
7 2 (6.25%) Verification and Validation
8 1 (3.13%) Clean Code
8 1 (3.13%) Full Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 32 (100.00%) C++
2 13 (40.63%) Python
3 10 (31.25%) C
4 7 (21.88%) C#
5 5 (15.63%) SQL
6 4 (12.50%) Java
6 4 (12.50%) JavaScript
7 1 (3.13%) ProC
7 1 (3.13%) Rust
7 1 (3.13%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 8 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 8 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (9.38%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (9.38%) Degree
3 1 (3.13%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (15.63%) ISO 9001
1 5 (15.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (6.25%) MISRA
System Software
1 2 (6.25%) Firmware
Vendors
1 5 (15.63%) Google
2 4 (12.50%) Klocwork
2 4 (12.50%) Perforce
3 2 (6.25%) Atlassian
4 1 (3.13%) Oracle