C++ Contracts in the West Midlands

C++
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West 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 89 107 170
Rank change year-on-year +18 +63 -55
Contract jobs citing C++ 19 27 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.01% 1.19% 0.14%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.41% 4.80% 0.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 19 2
10th Percentile £194 £363 £333
25th Percentile £486 £475 £344
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £502 £590 £375
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +57.33% +11.11%
75th Percentile £538 £600 £394
90th Percentile £581 - £398
England median daily rate £575 £650 £700
% change year-on-year -11.54% -7.14% +21.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £40.50 - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year - +8.33% +20.60%

All Programming Languages
West 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 West Midlands with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 431 563 924
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 22.80% 24.88% 26.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 312 383 663
10th Percentile £260 £357 £325
25th Percentile £337 £413 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £460
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +14.13% +15.00%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £541
90th Percentile £638 £700 £637
England median daily rate £550 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -2.65% +2.73% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 8 3
10th Percentile £40.10 £21.73 £16.46
25th Percentile £55.00 £23.81 £16.77
Median hourly rate £57.50 £29.32 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +96.13% +67.53% -37.50%
75th Percentile £58.75 £64.69 £39.13
90th Percentile £69.75 £98.25 £51.35
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £51.05
% change year-on-year - +22.43% +20.12%

C++
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for C++ in the West Midlands

C++
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for C++ in the West Midlands

C++
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for C++ in the West Midlands

C++
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for C++ in the West Midlands

C++
Contract Job Locations in the West 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 West 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
Shropshire - 12 £508 - 1
Birmingham +17 4 £492 +9.22% 13
Worcestershire -3 2 £590 -0.84% 5
Warwickshire 0 1 - - 3
C++
England

C++
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West 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 (5.26%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Simulink
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.53%) Data Lake
1 2 (10.53%) NoSQL
1 2 (10.53%) RDBMS
1 2 (10.53%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 12 (63.16%) PVCS
1 12 (63.16%) Visual Studio
2 1 (5.26%) Ant
2 1 (5.26%) Gradle
2 1 (5.26%) JUnit
2 1 (5.26%) Maven
General
1 3 (15.79%) Public Sector
2 2 (10.53%) Finance
2 2 (10.53%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.26%) Banking
Job Titles
1 12 (63.16%) Programmer
2 9 (47.37%) C Programmer
3 3 (15.79%) C++ Programmer
4 2 (10.53%) Data Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Embedded C Programmer
4 2 (10.53%) Senior
4 2 (10.53%) Software Programmer
5 1 (5.26%) C++ Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Data Scientist
5 1 (5.26%) Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Embedded Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Embedded Software Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Research Scientist
5 1 (5.26%) Senior C++ Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Senior Data Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Senior Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Software Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (26.32%) Algorithms
2 2 (10.53%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.26%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (15.79%) Mentoring
1 3 (15.79%) Software Engineering
2 2 (10.53%) Commercial Awareness
2 2 (10.53%) Continuous Delivery
2 2 (10.53%) Data Modelling
2 2 (10.53%) Mathematics
2 2 (10.53%) Physics
2 2 (10.53%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (10.53%) Process Improvement
2 2 (10.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (5.26%) Benchmarking
3 1 (5.26%) CI/CD
3 1 (5.26%) Full Stack Development
3 1 (5.26%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
3 1 (5.26%) Machine Learning
3 1 (5.26%) Project Management
3 1 (5.26%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (5.26%) Systems Engineering
3 1 (5.26%) Validation
3 1 (5.26%) Verification and Validation
Programming Languages
1 15 (78.95%) C
2 12 (63.16%) PL/SQL
3 5 (26.32%) Python
4 3 (15.79%) MATLAB
5 2 (10.53%) Java
6 1 (5.26%) Scala
6 1 (5.26%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 15 (78.95%) SC Cleared
1 15 (78.95%) Security Cleared
2 2 (10.53%) Degree
2 2 (10.53%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.26%) ISO 26262
Systems Management
1 1 (5.26%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 1 (5.26%) Microsoft