C++ Contracts in the UK excluding London

C++
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 130 150 197
Rank change year-on-year +20 +47 -41
Contract jobs citing C++ 348 383 405
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.71% 1.66% 1.33%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.27% 5.77% 4.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 139 185 144
10th Percentile £398 £363 £386
25th Percentile £420 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - +16.67%
75th Percentile £603 £600 £591
90th Percentile £688 £648 £653
UK median daily rate £575 £650 £700
% change year-on-year -11.54% -7.14% +21.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 144 115 104
10th Percentile £57.95 £51.25 £47.50
25th Percentile £61.25 £60.45 £53.63
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% +20.60%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £77.00 £65.38
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year - +8.33% +20.60%

All Programming Languages
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 4,786 6,635 8,756
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 23.59% 28.84% 28.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,218 4,688 6,111
10th Percentile £315 £350 £337
25th Percentile £400 £413 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £490
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +2.04% +15.29%
75th Percentile £588 £591 £575
90th Percentile £650 £676 £650
UK median daily rate £533 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.09% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 410 329 336
10th Percentile £37.96 £23.08 £17.00
25th Percentile £52.50 £50.00 £27.75
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year - +25.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £77.00 £68.38
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £50.35
% change year-on-year - +24.13% +18.47%

C++
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

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

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

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

C++
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

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

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

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

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

C++
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate histogram for C++ in the UK excluding London

C++
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++ within the UK excluding 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
South East +44 121 £514 -2.10% 211
East of England +25 117 £550 +10.00% 120
South West -21 59 £500 +11.11% 130
Midlands +8 22 £505 -14.41% 83
West Midlands +18 19 £502 -15.00% 35
North of England +1 19 £600 +23.71% 72
North West +6 9 £450 -14.29% 44
Scotland +26 8 £425 - 40
Yorkshire +2 8 £650 +35.42% 18
Wales +10 3 - - 10
East Midlands +2 3 £590 -0.92% 47
North East +11 2 £625 +31.58% 10
C++
UK

C++
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 22 (6.32%) Confluence
2 1 (0.29%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 12 (3.45%) Simulink
2 2 (0.57%) Adobe After Effects
2 2 (0.57%) Blender
2 2 (0.57%) Maya
2 2 (0.57%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 5 (1.44%) Teamcenter
2 3 (0.86%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.29%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.29%) Misys Midas
Cloud Services
1 20 (5.75%) Azure
2 18 (5.17%) GitHub
3 11 (3.16%) AWS
4 9 (2.59%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (0.86%) Datadog
6 2 (0.57%) IaaS
6 2 (0.57%) PaaS
6 2 (0.57%) SaaS
7 1 (0.29%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (0.29%) Azure Batch
7 1 (0.29%) Azure Functions
7 1 (0.29%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (0.29%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (0.29%) GCP
7 1 (0.29%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (0.29%) Power Automate
7 1 (0.29%) Power Platform
7 1 (0.29%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 35 (10.06%) Modbus
1 35 (10.06%) RS-422
1 35 (10.06%) RS-485
2 20 (5.75%) Software-Defined Radio
3 19 (5.46%) TCP/IP
4 17 (4.89%) SNMP
5 14 (4.02%) Ethernet
6 13 (3.74%) Radio Access Network
6 13 (3.74%) Wireless
7 11 (3.16%) 5G
8 8 (2.30%) 802.11
8 8 (2.30%) Wi-Fi
9 5 (1.44%) NAS
10 4 (1.15%) 4G
10 4 (1.15%) Link 16
10 4 (1.15%) RTSP
10 4 (1.15%) Tactical Data Link
10 4 (1.15%) Wireshark
11 3 (0.86%) Internet
11 3 (0.86%) RS-232
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (2.01%) SQL Server
2 3 (0.86%) Amazon Redshift
2 3 (0.86%) Geospatial Data
3 2 (0.57%) Data Lake
3 2 (0.57%) NoSQL
3 2 (0.57%) RDBMS
3 2 (0.57%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.29%) CouchDB
4 1 (0.29%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.29%) MySQL
4 1 (0.29%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 53 (15.23%) JIRA
2 48 (13.79%) Git
3 34 (9.77%) Jenkins
4 31 (8.91%) Eclipse
5 30 (8.62%) Visual Studio
6 29 (8.33%) GoogleTest
7 20 (5.75%) Bitbucket
8 16 (4.60%) Robot Framework
9 15 (4.31%) PVCS
10 14 (4.02%) Rational DOORS
11 13 (3.74%) Subversion
12 6 (1.72%) Rational Rhapsody
13 5 (1.44%) Gradle
14 4 (1.15%) Artifactory
14 4 (1.15%) gcov
14 4 (1.15%) GDB
14 4 (1.15%) GitLab
15 3 (0.86%) ClearCase
15 3 (0.86%) CppUnit
15 3 (0.86%) GCC
General
1 72 (20.69%) Social Skills
2 49 (14.08%) Electronics
3 32 (9.20%) Public Sector
4 28 (8.05%) Aerospace
5 17 (4.89%) Telecoms
6 13 (3.74%) Presentation Skills
7 12 (3.45%) Military
8 11 (3.16%) Automotive
9 6 (1.72%) Multimedia
10 5 (1.44%) Legal
11 4 (1.15%) Analytical Skills
11 4 (1.15%) Finance
11 4 (1.15%) Games
11 4 (1.15%) Law
12 3 (0.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (0.86%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.57%) Banking
13 2 (0.57%) Front Office
13 2 (0.57%) Wearables
14 1 (0.29%) Billing
Job Titles
1 170 (48.85%) Software Engineer
2 101 (29.02%) C++ Software Engineer
3 59 (16.95%) Developer
4 38 (10.92%) Embedded Engineer
5 33 (9.48%) C++ Developer
5 33 (9.48%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 29 (8.33%) Senior
7 23 (6.61%) Java Engineer
8 22 (6.32%) C Software Engineer
8 22 (6.32%) Java Software Engineer
9 16 (4.60%) C/C++ Software Engineer
10 14 (4.02%) Architect
10 14 (4.02%) C# Software Engineer
10 14 (4.02%) Linux Engineer
10 14 (4.02%) Senior Software Engineer
11 13 (3.74%) Programmer
11 13 (3.74%) Software Architect
12 11 (3.16%) Software Developer
13 10 (2.87%) C Programmer
13 10 (2.87%) Embedded C++ Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (5.75%) HTML
2 18 (5.17%) CSS
3 17 (4.89%) OpenGL
4 16 (4.60%) .NET
5 15 (4.31%) Qt
6 14 (4.02%) DirectX
6 14 (4.02%) Vulkan
7 13 (3.74%) Node.js
7 13 (3.74%) OpenGL ES
7 13 (3.74%) Web Services
8 12 (3.45%) XML
9 10 (2.87%) RESTful
10 8 (2.30%) 802.1X
10 8 (2.30%) Blazor
11 7 (2.01%) TensorFlow
12 6 (1.72%) Itk
12 6 (1.72%) Yocto
13 5 (1.44%) PyTorch
13 5 (1.44%) Spring Boot
13 5 (1.44%) Unreal Engine
Miscellaneous
1 30 (8.62%) Self-Motivation
2 25 (7.18%) Algorithms
3 15 (4.31%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 13 (3.74%) Linux Command Line
5 11 (3.16%) VHDL
6 9 (2.59%) CCTV
6 9 (2.59%) Ray Tracing
7 8 (2.30%) 3D Graphics
7 8 (2.30%) FPGA
7 8 (2.30%) Mobile App
7 8 (2.30%) Verilog
8 6 (1.72%) CUDA
8 6 (1.72%) Operational Technology
8 6 (1.72%) Product Ownership
9 5 (1.44%) Augmented Reality
9 5 (1.44%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (1.44%) Device Driver
9 5 (1.44%) IoT
10 4 (1.15%) Data Structures
11 3 (0.86%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 116 (33.33%) Linux
2 59 (16.95%) Windows
3 9 (2.59%) Unix
4 8 (2.30%) Android
4 8 (2.30%) Embedded Linux
5 4 (1.15%) FreeRTOS
5 4 (1.15%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.15%) Windows Server 2016
5 4 (1.15%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (0.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.57%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.57%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.29%) CentOS
7 1 (0.29%) RTLinux
7 1 (0.29%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 206 (59.20%) Software Engineering
2 136 (39.08%) Agile
3 87 (25.00%) DevOps
4 56 (16.09%) Continuous Integration
5 54 (15.52%) Unit Testing
6 53 (15.23%) Software Testing
6 53 (15.23%) Validation
7 52 (14.94%) TDD
8 49 (14.08%) Scrum
9 48 (13.79%) Problem-Solving
10 40 (11.49%) CI/CD
11 39 (11.21%) Continuous Improvement
12 37 (10.63%) Verification and Validation
13 36 (10.34%) Customer Requirements
14 35 (10.06%) Pair Programming
15 30 (8.62%) UML
16 27 (7.76%) Test Automation
17 26 (7.47%) OO
18 25 (7.18%) Computer Science
19 19 (5.46%) SysML
Programming Languages
1 187 (53.74%) C
2 103 (29.60%) Python
3 95 (27.30%) C#
4 64 (18.39%) Java
5 49 (14.08%) JavaScript
6 24 (6.90%) Embedded C++
7 22 (6.32%) SQL
8 19 (5.46%) Bash
8 19 (5.46%) MATLAB
9 18 (5.17%) Embedded C
10 15 (4.31%) PL/SQL
11 14 (4.02%) Perl
12 13 (3.74%) Shell Script
13 11 (3.16%) Tcl
14 9 (2.59%) PowerShell
15 8 (2.30%) Assembly Language
16 4 (1.15%) Ada
16 4 (1.15%) Ruby
16 4 (1.15%) VBScript
17 3 (0.86%) GLSL
Qualifications
1 89 (25.57%) Security Cleared
2 67 (19.25%) SC Cleared
3 40 (11.49%) Degree
4 20 (5.75%) PhD
5 19 (5.46%) Master's Degree
6 16 (4.60%) DV Cleared
7 9 (2.59%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (2.01%) CREST Certified
8 7 (2.01%) OSCP
9 6 (1.72%) CEH
9 6 (1.72%) GIAC
9 6 (1.72%) GPEN
10 4 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.57%) ISEB
11 2 (0.57%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.57%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 2 (0.57%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (5.17%) MISRA
2 10 (2.87%) ISO 9001
3 8 (2.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (1.72%) JTAG
4 6 (1.72%) NIST
5 3 (0.86%) AUTOSAR
5 3 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 12207
6 2 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 2 (0.57%) MISRA C
6 2 (0.57%) SLA
7 1 (0.29%) Def Stans
7 1 (0.29%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.29%) DO-178B
7 1 (0.29%) IEC 61508
7 1 (0.29%) ISO 26262
7 1 (0.29%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.29%) QA
System Software
1 23 (6.61%) Firmware
2 11 (3.16%) Docker
3 9 (2.59%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (2.30%) Active Directory
5 6 (1.72%) VMware Infrastructure
6 5 (1.44%) Embedded Firmware
6 5 (1.44%) VirtualBox
7 3 (0.86%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.57%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 11 (3.16%) Terraform
2 9 (2.59%) Ansible
3 6 (1.72%) Progress Chef
3 6 (1.72%) Puppet
4 4 (1.15%) Kubernetes
5 3 (0.86%) HP ALM
5 3 (0.86%) Nagios
6 2 (0.57%) WSUS
7 1 (0.29%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 32 (9.20%) Google
2 24 (6.90%) Microsoft
3 15 (4.31%) Atlassian
4 7 (2.01%) Xilinx
5 6 (1.72%) VMware
6 5 (1.44%) IBM
6 5 (1.44%) NVIDIA
6 5 (1.44%) Oracle
7 4 (1.15%) Klocwork
7 4 (1.15%) Perforce
8 3 (0.86%) Cadence
8 3 (0.86%) HP
8 3 (0.86%) New Relic
8 3 (0.86%) Sparx
8 3 (0.86%) Splunk
8 3 (0.86%) Synopsys
9 2 (0.57%) Adobe
9 2 (0.57%) Broadcom
9 2 (0.57%) Xamarin
10 1 (0.29%) Twitter