C++ Contracts in England

C++
UK > England

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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 128 118 170
Rank change year-on-year -10 +52 -54
Contract jobs citing C++ 669 1,060 1,192
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.81% 2.22% 1.69%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.01% 6.45% 4.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 353 668 745
10th Percentile £400 £413 £450
25th Percentile £463 £525 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £650 £700
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% -7.14% +16.67%
75th Percentile £738 £806 £795
90th Percentile £893 £900 £850
UK median daily rate £575 £643 £700
% change year-on-year -10.51% -8.21% +21.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 156 123 112
10th Percentile £58.25 £50.00 £46.25
25th Percentile £61.25 £56.25 £51.63
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% +20.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.15 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £77.00 £67.33
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year - +8.33% +20.00%

All Programming Languages
England

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 England with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 11,133 16,431 25,733
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 30.15% 34.41% 36.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,040 12,043 19,088
10th Percentile £350 £381 £385
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £563 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% +2.36% +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £675
90th Percentile £775 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 471 394 438
10th Percentile £35.50 £26.48 £20.00
25th Percentile £48.84 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £51.75
Median % change year-on-year - +20.77% +17.61%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.30 £62.23
90th Percentile £78.75 £79.19 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £62.00 £62.50 £51.12
% change year-on-year -0.80% +22.26% +14.88%

C++
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for C++ in England

C++
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for C++ in England

C++
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing C++ in England over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for C++ in England

C++
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for C++ in England

C++
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing C++ in England over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for C++ in England

C++
Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 2 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
London -49 296 £659 -7.87% 375
South East +42 135 £531 +2.16% 191
East of England +19 117 £550 +10.00% 133
South West -16 62 £500 +11.11% 124
North of England +12 28 £563 +7.14% 73
Midlands +3 19 £503 -14.70% 95
North West +11 17 £520 -0.95% 49
West Midlands +3 16 £497 -15.85% 41
Yorkshire +8 9 £625 +19.05% 19
East Midlands 0 3 £590 -1.67% 53
North East +13 2 £625 +31.58% 5
C++
UK

C++
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 29 (4.33%) Confluence
2 9 (1.35%) Apache Spark
3 7 (1.05%) BizTalk Server
4 3 (0.45%) Apache
4 3 (0.45%) nginx
5 2 (0.30%) SAS
5 2 (0.30%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.15%) CMS
6 1 (0.15%) Ethereum
6 1 (0.15%) Hyperledger
6 1 (0.15%) JBoss
6 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.15%) WebSphere
Applications
1 14 (2.09%) Simulink
2 12 (1.79%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.90%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.30%) Adobe After Effects
4 2 (0.30%) Blender
4 2 (0.30%) Maya
4 2 (0.30%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.30%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (0.75%) Teamcenter
2 4 (0.60%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 3 (0.45%) Distributed Ledger
3 3 (0.45%) Misys Midas
4 2 (0.30%) ION MarketView
5 1 (0.15%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 74 (11.06%) AWS
2 58 (8.67%) Azure
3 34 (5.08%) GitHub
4 21 (3.14%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (1.20%) Azure Functions
5 8 (1.20%) Azure Logic Apps
5 8 (1.20%) Serverless
6 7 (1.05%) AWS Lambda
6 7 (1.05%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 7 (1.05%) Azure Storage
7 6 (0.90%) GCP
8 4 (0.60%) Datadog
9 3 (0.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 3 (0.45%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (0.45%) Amazon ELB
9 3 (0.45%) Cloud Computing
9 3 (0.45%) OpenShift
10 2 (0.30%) npm
10 2 (0.30%) NuGet
10 2 (0.30%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 35 (5.23%) RS-485
2 34 (5.08%) Modbus
2 34 (5.08%) RS-422
3 23 (3.44%) TCP/IP
4 21 (3.14%) Software-Defined Radio
5 19 (2.84%) SNMP
6 14 (2.09%) Ethernet
7 13 (1.94%) 5G
7 13 (1.94%) Wireless
8 12 (1.79%) Radio Access Network
9 10 (1.49%) Wi-Fi
10 7 (1.05%) 802.11
11 5 (0.75%) Link 16
11 5 (0.75%) NAS
11 5 (0.75%) RTSP
12 4 (0.60%) 4G
12 4 (0.60%) DNS
12 4 (0.60%) Internet
12 4 (0.60%) Tactical Data Link
12 4 (0.60%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (3.44%) MongoDB
2 20 (2.99%) NoSQL
3 16 (2.39%) Relational Database
3 16 (2.39%) SQL Server
4 13 (1.94%) Elasticsearch
5 9 (1.35%) Azure SQL Database
6 8 (1.20%) Couchbase
6 8 (1.20%) KDB
6 8 (1.20%) PostgreSQL
7 7 (1.05%) Data Mining
7 7 (1.05%) MySQL
8 5 (0.75%) Amazon Redshift
8 5 (0.75%) RDBMS
9 4 (0.60%) Data Lake
9 4 (0.60%) Geospatial Data
10 3 (0.45%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (0.45%) Big Data
10 3 (0.45%) Data Warehouse
10 3 (0.45%) DynamoDB
11 2 (0.30%) CouchDB
Development Applications
1 88 (13.15%) Git
2 82 (12.26%) JIRA
3 64 (9.57%) Jenkins
4 40 (5.98%) Visual Studio
5 35 (5.23%) GoogleTest
6 33 (4.93%) Eclipse
7 29 (4.33%) Bitbucket
8 20 (2.99%) Subversion
9 17 (2.54%) Robot Framework
10 16 (2.39%) Rational DOORS
11 15 (2.24%) PVCS
12 13 (1.94%) Artifactory
13 6 (0.90%) Gradle
13 6 (0.90%) Rational Rhapsody
14 5 (0.75%) Karma Test Runner
14 5 (0.75%) TeamCity
15 4 (0.60%) ClearCase
15 4 (0.60%) ClearQuest
15 4 (0.60%) JMeter
15 4 (0.60%) Maven
General
1 146 (21.82%) Social Skills
2 112 (16.74%) Finance
3 69 (10.31%) Banking
4 47 (7.03%) Electronics
5 44 (6.58%) Analytical Skills
6 40 (5.98%) Front Office
7 39 (5.83%) Public Sector
8 32 (4.78%) Aerospace
9 30 (4.48%) Investment Banking
10 19 (2.84%) Presentation Skills
11 18 (2.69%) Telecoms
12 15 (2.24%) Military
13 14 (2.09%) Automotive
13 14 (2.09%) Games
14 7 (1.05%) Multimedia
15 6 (0.90%) Legal
16 4 (0.60%) Aviation
16 4 (0.60%) German Language
16 4 (0.60%) Law
16 4 (0.60%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 205 (30.64%) Software Engineer
2 197 (29.45%) Developer
3 111 (16.59%) C++ Software Engineer
4 98 (14.65%) C++ Developer
5 59 (8.82%) Senior
6 39 (5.83%) Embedded Engineer
7 34 (5.08%) Java Engineer
8 32 (4.78%) Python Developer
9 31 (4.63%) Embedded Software Engineer
10 30 (4.48%) Architect
11 28 (4.19%) Analyst
11 28 (4.19%) Quantitative Developer
12 26 (3.89%) Java Software Engineer
13 25 (3.74%) Python Engineer
14 20 (2.99%) C Software Engineer
14 20 (2.99%) Lead
15 19 (2.84%) Senior Software Engineer
16 17 (2.54%) Senior Developer
17 16 (2.39%) C# Software Engineer
17 16 (2.39%) Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (8.82%) .NET
2 34 (5.08%) HTML
3 30 (4.48%) CSS
4 25 (3.74%) Kafka
5 23 (3.44%) Node.js
5 23 (3.44%) Spring Boot
6 22 (3.29%) NumPy
6 22 (3.29%) REST
7 19 (2.84%) AngularJS
7 19 (2.84%) J2EE
7 19 (2.84%) Pandas
7 19 (2.84%) Qt
7 19 (2.84%) RESTful
8 18 (2.69%) .NET Core
8 18 (2.69%) XML
9 17 (2.54%) OpenGL
10 16 (2.39%) SciPy
10 16 (2.39%) Web Services
11 15 (2.24%) React
12 14 (2.09%) Vulkan
Miscellaneous
1 66 (9.87%) Algorithms
2 63 (9.42%) Derivative
3 41 (6.13%) Self-Motivation
4 33 (4.93%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 28 (4.19%) Data Structures
6 27 (4.04%) Distributed Systems
6 27 (4.04%) Hedge funds
7 21 (3.14%) Data Protection Act
8 18 (2.69%) Equity Derivative
9 17 (2.54%) Linux Command Line
10 14 (2.09%) Equities
11 12 (1.79%) Fixed Income
12 11 (1.64%) VHDL
13 10 (1.49%) Augmented Reality
13 10 (1.49%) Distributed Computing
14 9 (1.35%) 3D Graphics
14 9 (1.35%) CCTV
14 9 (1.35%) Legacy Systems
14 9 (1.35%) Ray Tracing
14 9 (1.35%) Verilog
Operating Systems
1 172 (25.71%) Linux
2 90 (13.45%) Windows
3 17 (2.54%) Unix
4 13 (1.94%) Windows Server
5 10 (1.49%) Android
6 9 (1.35%) Apple iOS
7 6 (0.90%) Embedded Linux
8 4 (0.60%) Windows Server 2016
8 4 (0.60%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (0.45%) FreeRTOS
9 3 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (0.45%) Windows 10
10 2 (0.30%) ThreadX
10 2 (0.30%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.15%) CentOS
11 1 (0.15%) RTLinux
11 1 (0.15%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 279 (41.70%) Software Engineering
2 191 (28.55%) Agile
3 146 (21.82%) DevOps
4 95 (14.20%) Problem-Solving
5 90 (13.45%) CI/CD
6 77 (11.51%) Unit Testing
7 74 (11.06%) Continuous Integration
8 71 (10.61%) Computer Science
9 67 (10.01%) Validation
10 62 (9.27%) Test Automation
11 61 (9.12%) TDD
12 60 (8.97%) OO
13 59 (8.82%) Scrum
14 54 (8.07%) Software Testing
15 50 (7.47%) Multithreading
16 49 (7.32%) Mathematics
17 47 (7.03%) Analytics
18 44 (6.58%) Continuous Improvement
19 37 (5.53%) Customer Requirements
20 35 (5.23%) Verification and Validation
Programming Languages
1 280 (41.85%) Python
2 259 (38.71%) C
3 196 (29.30%) Java
4 163 (24.36%) C#
5 83 (12.41%) SQL
6 77 (11.51%) JavaScript
7 33 (4.93%) Bash
8 32 (4.78%) Shell Script
9 26 (3.89%) Go
10 23 (3.44%) Perl
10 23 (3.44%) PowerShell
11 22 (3.29%) Rust
12 21 (3.14%) Embedded C++
12 21 (3.14%) MATLAB
12 21 (3.14%) PL/SQL
13 19 (2.84%) Embedded C
14 16 (2.39%) VBA
15 13 (1.94%) TypeScript
16 11 (1.64%) Tcl
17 10 (1.49%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 109 (16.29%) Degree
2 103 (15.40%) Security Cleared
3 81 (12.11%) SC Cleared
4 35 (5.23%) Computer Science Degree
5 33 (4.93%) Master's Degree
6 25 (3.74%) PhD
7 17 (2.54%) DV Cleared
7 17 (2.54%) Numerate Degree
8 8 (1.20%) CREST Certified
8 8 (1.20%) OSCP
9 6 (0.90%) CEH
9 6 (0.90%) GIAC
9 6 (0.90%) GPEN
10 4 (0.60%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.30%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (0.30%) MBA
11 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.15%) ISEB
12 1 (0.15%) ISTQB
12 1 (0.15%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (3.74%) MISRA
2 10 (1.49%) ISO 9001
3 9 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (1.35%) QA
4 8 (1.20%) NIST
5 7 (1.05%) JTAG
6 4 (0.60%) Accessibility
6 4 (0.60%) MiFID
6 4 (0.60%) MISRA C
7 3 (0.45%) AUTOSAR
7 3 (0.45%) GDPR
7 3 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 12207
7 3 (0.45%) SLA
8 2 (0.30%) ISO 20022
8 2 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 2 (0.30%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.15%) Def Stans
9 1 (0.15%) IEC 61508
9 1 (0.15%) ISO 13485
9 1 (0.15%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 30 (4.48%) Firmware
2 25 (3.74%) Docker
3 9 (1.35%) Active Directory
3 9 (1.35%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (1.20%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 7 (1.05%) VMware Infrastructure
6 6 (0.90%) Embedded Firmware
7 5 (0.75%) VirtualBox
8 3 (0.45%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.30%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 37 (5.53%) Kubernetes
2 29 (4.33%) Terraform
3 20 (2.99%) Ansible
4 11 (1.64%) Consul
5 10 (1.49%) Grafana
6 9 (1.35%) BladeLogic
6 9 (1.35%) ITRS Geneos
6 9 (1.35%) Prometheus
6 9 (1.35%) Puppet
7 8 (1.20%) Progress Chef
8 4 (0.60%) HP ALM
8 4 (0.60%) Kibana
8 4 (0.60%) Nagios
9 3 (0.45%) Packer
10 2 (0.30%) WSUS
11 1 (0.15%) Functional Safety
11 1 (0.15%) logstash
11 1 (0.15%) systemd
Vendors
1 42 (6.28%) Google
2 38 (5.68%) Microsoft
3 37 (5.53%) Oracle
4 18 (2.69%) Atlassian
5 13 (1.94%) Dynatrace
6 9 (1.35%) Altiris
6 9 (1.35%) Citrix
7 8 (1.20%) SaltStack
7 8 (1.20%) Splunk
8 7 (1.05%) MuleSoft
8 7 (1.05%) VMware
8 7 (1.05%) Xilinx
9 6 (0.90%) IBM
10 5 (0.75%) HP
11 4 (0.60%) Adobe
11 4 (0.60%) AppDynamics
11 4 (0.60%) Cadence
11 4 (0.60%) ION Trading
11 4 (0.60%) New Relic
11 4 (0.60%) Perforce