C++ Contracts in London

C++
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 152 92 148
Rank change year-on-year -60 +56 -53
Contract jobs citing C++ 295 674 764
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.68% 2.68% 1.97%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.48% 6.67% 4.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 199 477 577
10th Percentile £413 £516 £513
25th Percentile £496 £600 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £655 £725 £750
Median % change year-on-year -9.66% -3.33% +15.38%
75th Percentile £850 £850 £813
90th Percentile £950 £960 £875
England median daily rate £575 £650 £700
% change year-on-year -11.54% -7.14% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 10 12
10th Percentile £44.62 £25.75 £37.44
25th Percentile £47.75 £48.95 £48.40
Median hourly rate £67.13 £52.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +27.86% -12.50% +20.00%
75th Percentile £72.03 £55.59 £67.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £61.63 £69.19
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year - +8.33% +16.26%

All Programming Languages
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 London with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 6,588 10,103 16,148
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 37.53% 40.17% 41.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,007 7,620 12,436
10th Percentile £375 £413 £413
25th Percentile £463 £495 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £700 £738 £713
90th Percentile £838 £825 £800
England median daily rate £540 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -4.00% +2.27% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 74 106
10th Percentile £23.80 £25.40 £28.75
25th Percentile £40.75 £39.31 £35.00
Median hourly rate £50.50 £60.00 £48.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.83% +25.00% +1.05%
75th Percentile £62.50 £75.00 £67.06
90th Percentile £72.50 £88.50 £75.62
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year - +19.05% +19.32%

C++
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for C++ in London

C++
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for C++ in London

C++
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing C++ in London over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for C++ in London

C++
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for C++ in London

C++
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing C++ in London over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for C++ in London

C++
Contract Job Locations in 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 London region over the 6 months to 9 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
Central London -51 37 £710 +2.90% 26
West London +48 26 £475 -29.10% 23
South London +5 5 £525 -12.50% 3
C++
England

C++
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 8 (2.71%) Apache Spark
2 5 (1.69%) BizTalk Server
2 5 (1.69%) Confluence
3 3 (1.02%) Apache
3 3 (1.02%) nginx
4 2 (0.68%) SAS
4 2 (0.68%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.34%) CMS
5 1 (0.34%) Ethereum
5 1 (0.34%) Hyperledger
5 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.34%) WebSphere
Applications
1 12 (4.07%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.03%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (0.68%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.68%) Simulink
4 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.68%) Distributed Ledger
1 2 (0.68%) ION MarketView
2 1 (0.34%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 53 (17.97%) AWS
2 36 (12.20%) Azure
3 15 (5.08%) Azure DevOps
4 13 (4.41%) GitHub
5 5 (1.69%) AWS Lambda
5 5 (1.69%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 5 (1.69%) Azure Functions
5 5 (1.69%) Azure Logic Apps
5 5 (1.69%) Azure Storage
5 5 (1.69%) Serverless
6 4 (1.36%) GCP
7 3 (1.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 3 (1.02%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (1.02%) Amazon ELB
7 3 (1.02%) Cloud Computing
7 3 (1.02%) OpenShift
8 2 (0.68%) npm
8 2 (0.68%) NuGet
8 2 (0.68%) Yarn
9 1 (0.34%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.02%) 5G
1 3 (1.02%) IPv4
1 3 (1.02%) Reverse Proxy
1 3 (1.02%) TCP/IP
1 3 (1.02%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (0.68%) DNS
2 2 (0.68%) Firewall
3 1 (0.34%) 4G
3 1 (0.34%) Bluetooth
3 1 (0.34%) DHCP
3 1 (0.34%) HTTP
3 1 (0.34%) MPLS
3 1 (0.34%) Multicast
3 1 (0.34%) Network Security
3 1 (0.34%) NFC
3 1 (0.34%) RTSP
3 1 (0.34%) UWB
3 1 (0.34%) VLAN
3 1 (0.34%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (6.44%) MongoDB
2 17 (5.76%) NoSQL
3 13 (4.41%) Elasticsearch
4 12 (4.07%) Relational Database
5 8 (2.71%) Couchbase
5 8 (2.71%) KDB
5 8 (2.71%) SQL Server
6 7 (2.37%) Azure SQL Database
7 6 (2.03%) Data Mining
7 6 (2.03%) PostgreSQL
8 5 (1.69%) MySQL
9 3 (1.02%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (1.02%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (1.02%) DynamoDB
9 3 (1.02%) RDBMS
10 2 (0.68%) Apache Cassandra
10 2 (0.68%) Big Data
11 1 (0.34%) Hadoop
11 1 (0.34%) Redis
11 1 (0.34%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 35 (11.86%) Git
2 26 (8.81%) Jenkins
3 19 (6.44%) JIRA
4 9 (3.05%) Artifactory
4 9 (3.05%) Subversion
4 9 (3.05%) Visual Studio
5 8 (2.71%) Bitbucket
6 5 (1.69%) Karma Test Runner
6 5 (1.69%) TeamCity
7 4 (1.36%) JMeter
8 3 (1.02%) Jasmine
8 3 (1.02%) LoadRunner
8 3 (1.02%) Maven
8 3 (1.02%) NeoLoad
9 2 (0.68%) Babel
9 2 (0.68%) CMake
9 2 (0.68%) Visual Studio Code
9 2 (0.68%) webpack
10 1 (0.34%) Gradle
10 1 (0.34%) Mercurial
General
1 106 (35.93%) Finance
2 66 (22.37%) Banking
3 60 (20.34%) Social Skills
4 38 (12.88%) Front Office
5 36 (12.20%) Analytical Skills
6 30 (10.17%) Investment Banking
7 8 (2.71%) Games
8 5 (1.69%) Public Sector
9 4 (1.36%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.68%) Aerospace
10 2 (0.68%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.34%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.34%) International Banking
11 1 (0.34%) Legal
11 1 (0.34%) Multimedia
11 1 (0.34%) Retail
Job Titles
1 132 (44.75%) Developer
2 65 (22.03%) C++ Developer
3 36 (12.20%) Senior
4 29 (9.83%) Software Engineer
5 27 (9.15%) Quantitative Developer
6 25 (8.47%) Analyst
7 22 (7.46%) Python Developer
8 15 (5.08%) Python Engineer
8 15 (5.08%) Senior Developer
9 13 (4.41%) Front Office Developer
9 13 (4.41%) Qualitative Analyst
9 13 (4.41%) Quantitative Analyst
10 12 (4.07%) Architect
10 12 (4.07%) C++ Software Engineer
10 12 (4.07%) Java Developer
11 11 (3.73%) C++ Quantitative Developer
11 11 (3.73%) Development Engineer
12 10 (3.39%) AWS Engineer
12 10 (3.39%) Front Office C++ Developer
12 10 (3.39%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (13.90%) .NET
2 25 (8.47%) Kafka
3 21 (7.12%) NumPy
4 19 (6.44%) Pandas
4 19 (6.44%) REST
5 18 (6.10%) AngularJS
6 16 (5.42%) SciPy
7 13 (4.41%) .NET Core
7 13 (4.41%) React
7 13 (4.41%) Spring Boot
8 12 (4.07%) CSS
8 12 (4.07%) HTML
9 11 (3.73%) ADO
10 10 (3.39%) Middleware
11 9 (3.05%) Node.js
11 9 (3.05%) RESTful
12 8 (2.71%) J2EE
12 8 (2.71%) RabbitMQ
13 7 (2.37%) Swagger
14 6 (2.03%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 62 (21.02%) Derivative
2 40 (13.56%) Algorithms
3 27 (9.15%) Hedge funds
4 23 (7.80%) Data Structures
4 23 (7.80%) Distributed Systems
5 17 (5.76%) Equity Derivative
6 16 (5.42%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 15 (5.08%) Data Protection Act
8 14 (4.75%) Equities
9 12 (4.07%) Fixed Income
10 10 (3.39%) Self-Motivation
11 8 (2.71%) Distributed Computing
12 7 (2.37%) Legacy Systems
13 6 (2.03%) Blockchain
13 6 (2.03%) Cloud Native
13 6 (2.03%) Credit Derivative
14 5 (1.69%) Distributed Applications
14 5 (1.69%) iPad
14 5 (1.69%) iPhone
14 5 (1.69%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 45 (15.25%) Linux
2 28 (9.49%) Windows
3 9 (3.05%) Windows Server
4 8 (2.71%) Apple iOS
5 5 (1.69%) Unix
6 2 (0.68%) Android
7 1 (0.34%) Embedded Linux
7 1 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.34%) ThreadX
7 1 (0.34%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (18.98%) Software Engineering
2 50 (16.95%) DevOps
3 43 (14.58%) Computer Science
4 42 (14.24%) Analytics
4 42 (14.24%) Problem-Solving
5 41 (13.90%) Agile
5 41 (13.90%) CI/CD
6 37 (12.54%) Mathematics
7 34 (11.53%) Test Automation
8 29 (9.83%) OO
9 28 (9.49%) Multithreading
10 23 (7.80%) Unit Testing
11 21 (7.12%) Full Stack Development
12 20 (6.78%) Roadmaps
13 19 (6.44%) Low Latency
13 19 (6.44%) Microservices
13 19 (6.44%) Quantitative Finance
14 18 (6.10%) Data Pipeline
14 18 (6.10%) Physics
15 16 (5.42%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 158 (53.56%) Python
2 119 (40.34%) Java
3 70 (23.73%) C#
4 62 (21.02%) SQL
5 60 (20.34%) C
6 26 (8.81%) JavaScript
7 22 (7.46%) Go
8 20 (6.78%) Shell Script
9 18 (6.10%) Rust
10 16 (5.42%) VBA
11 13 (4.41%) Bash
11 13 (4.41%) PowerShell
12 11 (3.73%) TypeScript
13 8 (2.71%) R
13 8 (2.71%) Scala
13 8 (2.71%) VB.NET
14 7 (2.37%) Perl
15 6 (2.03%) Swift
16 5 (1.69%) PL/SQL
16 5 (1.69%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 64 (21.69%) Degree
2 24 (8.14%) Computer Science Degree
3 16 (5.42%) Numerate Degree
4 13 (4.41%) Master's Degree
5 8 (2.71%) SC Cleared
5 8 (2.71%) Security Cleared
6 7 (2.37%) PhD
7 3 (1.02%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.68%) MBA
9 1 (0.34%) CREST Certified
9 1 (0.34%) ISEB
9 1 (0.34%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.34%) OSCP
9 1 (0.34%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (2.71%) QA
2 4 (1.36%) Accessibility
2 4 (1.36%) MiFID
3 2 (0.68%) GDPR
4 1 (0.34%) COPPA
4 1 (0.34%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.34%) JTAG
4 1 (0.34%) NIST
4 1 (0.34%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.34%) SLA
4 1 (0.34%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 13 (4.41%) Docker
2 8 (2.71%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 6 (2.03%) Firmware
4 1 (0.34%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.34%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (0.34%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 29 (9.83%) Kubernetes
2 13 (4.41%) Terraform
3 11 (3.73%) Consul
4 10 (3.39%) Ansible
4 10 (3.39%) Grafana
5 9 (3.05%) BladeLogic
5 9 (3.05%) ITRS Geneos
5 9 (3.05%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.36%) Kibana
7 3 (1.02%) Packer
8 2 (0.68%) Puppet
9 1 (0.34%) HP ALM
9 1 (0.34%) logstash
9 1 (0.34%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.34%) systemd
Vendors
1 28 (9.49%) Oracle
2 13 (4.41%) Dynatrace
2 13 (4.41%) Microsoft
3 9 (3.05%) Altiris
3 9 (3.05%) Citrix
4 8 (2.71%) SaltStack
5 5 (1.69%) MuleSoft
6 4 (1.36%) AppDynamics
6 4 (1.36%) Google
6 4 (1.36%) ION Trading
6 4 (1.36%) Splunk
7 2 (0.68%) CA
7 2 (0.68%) HP
7 2 (0.68%) MarketAxess
7 2 (0.68%) Red Hat
7 2 (0.68%) ServiceNow
7 2 (0.68%) Tradeweb
8 1 (0.34%) Alteryx
8 1 (0.34%) NVIDIA
8 1 (0.34%) Renesas