C++ Contracts in the East of England

C++
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England requiring C++ skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited C++ over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 26 44 50
Rank change year-on-year +18 +6 +5
Contract jobs citing C++ 115 79 108
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 5.87% 4.06% 4.24%
As % of the Programming Languages category 27.71% 13.53% 14.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 16 38
10th Percentile £413 £331 £418
25th Percentile £424 £409 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £563
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -11.11% +25.00%
75th Percentile £588 £560 £636
90th Percentile £638 - £729
England median daily rate £575 £650 £700
% change year-on-year -11.54% -7.14% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 63 43 34
10th Percentile £60.00 £53.80 £47.50
25th Percentile £61.25 - £56.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% +20.00%
75th Percentile - £82.25 -
90th Percentile £73.25 £90.00 £67.53
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year - +8.33% +16.26%

All Programming Languages
East of England

C++ falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring coding skills in the East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 415 584 758
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 21.18% 29.99% 29.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 177 357 453
10th Percentile £313 £313 £298
25th Percentile £363 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% +2.63% +5.56%
75th Percentile £573 £575 £600
90th Percentile £638 £700 £669
England median daily rate £540 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -4.00% +2.27% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 145 95 92
10th Percentile £52.50 £49.75 £35.00
25th Percentile £58.75 £53.75 £47.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £56.00
Median % change year-on-year - +16.07% +31.76%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £89.00 £70.55
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year - +19.05% +19.12%

C++
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for C++ in the East of England

C++
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing C++ in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for C++ in the East of England

C++
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing C++ in the East of England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for C++ in the East of England

C++
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing C++ in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for C++ in the East of England

C++
Hourly Rate Histogram in the East of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing C++ in the East of England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for C++ in the East of England

C++
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing C++ within the East of England region over the 6 months to 12 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
Hertfordshire +8 74 £428 -14.50% 29
Cambridgeshire +1 26 £550 +10.00% 80
Essex +11 8 £550 +123.35% 5
Bedfordshire +7 7 £475 - 6
C++
England

C++
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 (0.87%) Confluence
Applications
1 7 (6.09%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 4 (3.48%) Azure
1 4 (3.48%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 33 (28.70%) Modbus
1 33 (28.70%) RS-422
1 33 (28.70%) RS-485
2 11 (9.57%) Radio Access Network
3 9 (7.83%) 5G
4 6 (5.22%) Ethernet
4 6 (5.22%) TCP/IP
5 5 (4.35%) NAS
6 4 (3.48%) Wireshark
7 2 (1.74%) 4G
7 2 (1.74%) 5G NR
7 2 (1.74%) Software-Defined Radio
7 2 (1.74%) Wireless
8 1 (0.87%) MQTT
8 1 (0.87%) RS-232
8 1 (0.87%) RTMP
8 1 (0.87%) RTP
8 1 (0.87%) RTSP
Development Applications
1 12 (10.43%) Visual Studio
2 11 (9.57%) Git
3 8 (6.96%) Eclipse
3 8 (6.96%) JIRA
4 7 (6.09%) Subversion
5 6 (5.22%) Rational DOORS
6 4 (3.48%) gcov
6 4 (3.48%) GDB
6 4 (3.48%) Gradle
6 4 (3.48%) Rational Rhapsody
7 2 (1.74%) CppUnit
7 2 (1.74%) GCC
7 2 (1.74%) PVCS
8 1 (0.87%) CMake
8 1 (0.87%) Gerrit
8 1 (0.87%) VTune
General
1 40 (34.78%) Electronics
2 37 (32.17%) Social Skills
3 7 (6.09%) Telecoms
4 6 (5.22%) Military
4 6 (5.22%) Multimedia
4 6 (5.22%) Presentation Skills
5 5 (4.35%) Aerospace
6 3 (2.61%) Law
6 3 (2.61%) Public Sector
7 2 (1.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.74%) Wearables
8 1 (0.87%) Aviation
8 1 (0.87%) Finance
8 1 (0.87%) Games
8 1 (0.87%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.87%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 75 (65.22%) Software Engineer
2 45 (39.13%) C++ Software Engineer
3 19 (16.52%) Developer
4 17 (14.78%) C Software Engineer
5 13 (11.30%) C/C++ Software Engineer
5 13 (11.30%) Embedded Engineer
6 12 (10.43%) Embedded Software Engineer
7 8 (6.96%) Architect
7 8 (6.96%) C# Software Engineer
7 8 (6.96%) C++ Developer
7 8 (6.96%) Linux Engineer
7 8 (6.96%) Real Time Engineer
7 8 (6.96%) Software Architect
8 7 (6.09%) Real Time Software Engineer
9 6 (5.22%) Python Developer
10 5 (4.35%) Embedded Developer
10 5 (4.35%) Python Engineer
10 5 (4.35%) Verification Engineer
11 4 (3.48%) Ada Engineer
11 4 (3.48%) Ada Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (7.83%) DirectX
1 9 (7.83%) OpenGL
1 9 (7.83%) Vulkan
2 8 (6.96%) OpenGL ES
2 8 (6.96%) Web Services
3 6 (5.22%) Node.js
3 6 (5.22%) Yocto
4 4 (3.48%) .NET
5 3 (2.61%) JSON
5 3 (2.61%) YAML
6 2 (1.74%) LLVM
6 2 (1.74%) MFC
6 2 (1.74%) WinForms
6 2 (1.74%) WPF
7 1 (0.87%) FFmpeg
7 1 (0.87%) GStreamer
7 1 (0.87%) Middleware
7 1 (0.87%) NumPy
7 1 (0.87%) Unity (Game Engine)
7 1 (0.87%) Unreal Engine
Miscellaneous
1 28 (24.35%) Self-Motivation
2 9 (7.83%) Ray Tracing
3 8 (6.96%) 3D Graphics
4 3 (2.61%) ASIC
4 3 (2.61%) FPGA
4 3 (2.61%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (2.61%) Verilog
5 1 (0.87%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.87%) Data Structures
5 1 (0.87%) MPEG
5 1 (0.87%) STB
Operating Systems
1 31 (26.96%) Linux
2 12 (10.43%) Windows
3 4 (3.48%) Unix
4 2 (1.74%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (72.17%) Software Engineering
2 47 (40.87%) Agile
3 43 (37.39%) Continuous Integration
4 41 (35.65%) Unit Testing
5 39 (33.91%) TDD
6 37 (32.17%) DevOps
7 36 (31.30%) Software Testing
8 33 (28.70%) Continuous Improvement
8 33 (28.70%) Customer Requirements
8 33 (28.70%) Pair Programming
9 19 (16.52%) Problem-Solving
9 19 (16.52%) Validation
10 14 (12.17%) Multithreading
11 13 (11.30%) Visualisation
12 12 (10.43%) CI/CD
12 12 (10.43%) Verification and Validation
13 10 (8.70%) Continuous Delivery
14 8 (6.96%) Digital Twin
14 8 (6.96%) Software Architecture
14 8 (6.96%) Synthetic Environment
Programming Languages
1 83 (72.17%) C
2 50 (43.48%) C#
3 23 (20.00%) Python
4 9 (7.83%) Bash
5 7 (6.09%) Embedded C
5 7 (6.09%) JavaScript
5 7 (6.09%) MATLAB
6 6 (5.22%) Embedded C++
7 4 (3.48%) Ada
8 3 (2.61%) Assembly Language
8 3 (2.61%) Java
8 3 (2.61%) Shell Script
8 3 (2.61%) SystemVerilog
8 3 (2.61%) Tcl
9 2 (1.74%) C++/CLI
9 2 (1.74%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.87%) GLSL
10 1 (0.87%) HLSL
10 1 (0.87%) Rust
Qualifications
1 13 (11.30%) Security Cleared
2 12 (10.43%) Degree
3 11 (9.57%) PhD
3 11 (9.57%) SC Cleared
4 10 (8.70%) Master's Degree
5 2 (1.74%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.87%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.87%) ISO 13485
1 1 (0.87%) MISRA
System Software
1 2 (1.74%) Virtual Machines
1 2 (1.74%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.87%) Firmware
Vendors
1 8 (6.96%) Microsoft
2 4 (3.48%) IBM
2 4 (3.48%) Klocwork
2 4 (3.48%) Perforce
3 3 (2.61%) Cadence
3 3 (2.61%) Synopsys
3 3 (2.61%) Xilinx
4 2 (1.74%) Broadcom
4 2 (1.74%) VMware
5 1 (0.87%) SAP
5 1 (0.87%) Twitter