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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 150 94 159
Rank change year-on-year -56 +65 -61
Contract jobs citing C++ 286 672 739
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.64% 2.58% 1.90%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.45% 6.41% 4.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 194 469 551
10th Percentile £362 £512 £513
25th Percentile £475 £590 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £700 £750
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% -6.67% +15.38%
75th Percentile £847 £825 £800
90th Percentile £950 £950 £875
England median daily rate £575 £650 £700
% change year-on-year -11.54% -7.14% +17.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 9 14
10th Percentile £45.16 £25.75 £39.81
25th Percentile £48.25 £48.60 £48.62
Median hourly rate £65.50 £52.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +24.76% -4.55% +7.32%
75th Percentile £71.88 £58.75 £67.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £63.25 £68.81
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year - +8.33% +20.00%

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 6,433 10,486 16,276
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 36.81% 40.30% 41.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,915 7,864 12,496
10th Percentile £377 £413 £413
25th Percentile £463 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £700 £738 £703
90th Percentile £838 £825 £800
England median daily rate £550 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -2.22% +2.27% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 78 109
10th Percentile £23.80 £26.10 £30.45
25th Percentile £40.79 £46.84 £35.00
Median hourly rate £50.50 £58.75 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.04% +17.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £63.52 £75.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £85.00 £77.75
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £50.64
% change year-on-year - +23.43% +19.14%

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 20 May 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 20 May 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 20 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
Central London -45 41 £700 +3.70% 18
West London +34 19 £475 -9.52% 22
South London +4 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 (2.80%) BizTalk Server
2 7 (2.45%) Apache Spark
3 6 (2.10%) Confluence
4 3 (1.05%) Apache
4 3 (1.05%) nginx
5 2 (0.70%) SAS
5 2 (0.70%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.70%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.35%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.35%) CMS
6 1 (0.35%) Ethereum
6 1 (0.35%) Hyperledger
6 1 (0.35%) JBoss
6 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 12 (4.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.10%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (0.70%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.70%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.70%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 3 (1.05%) Distributed Ledger
2 2 (0.70%) ION MarketView
3 1 (0.35%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 54 (18.88%) AWS
2 39 (13.64%) Azure
3 15 (5.24%) Azure DevOps
4 13 (4.55%) GitHub
5 8 (2.80%) AWS Lambda
5 8 (2.80%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 8 (2.80%) Azure Functions
5 8 (2.80%) Azure Logic Apps
5 8 (2.80%) Azure Storage
5 8 (2.80%) Serverless
6 3 (1.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (1.05%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (1.05%) Amazon ELB
6 3 (1.05%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (1.05%) GCP
6 3 (1.05%) OpenShift
7 2 (0.70%) npm
7 2 (0.70%) NuGet
7 2 (0.70%) Yarn
8 1 (0.35%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.05%) 5G
1 3 (1.05%) IPv4
1 3 (1.05%) Reverse Proxy
1 3 (1.05%) TCP/IP
1 3 (1.05%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (0.70%) DNS
2 2 (0.70%) Firewall
3 1 (0.35%) 4G
3 1 (0.35%) Bluetooth
3 1 (0.35%) DHCP
3 1 (0.35%) HTTP
3 1 (0.35%) MPLS
3 1 (0.35%) Multicast
3 1 (0.35%) Network Security
3 1 (0.35%) NFC
3 1 (0.35%) RTSP
3 1 (0.35%) UWB
3 1 (0.35%) VLAN
3 1 (0.35%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (6.64%) MongoDB
2 16 (5.59%) NoSQL
3 13 (4.55%) Elasticsearch
4 12 (4.20%) Relational Database
5 10 (3.50%) Azure SQL Database
6 8 (2.80%) Couchbase
6 8 (2.80%) KDB
7 7 (2.45%) SQL Server
8 6 (2.10%) Data Mining
8 6 (2.10%) PostgreSQL
9 5 (1.75%) MySQL
10 3 (1.05%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (1.05%) DynamoDB
10 3 (1.05%) RDBMS
11 2 (0.70%) Apache Cassandra
11 2 (0.70%) Data Warehouse
12 1 (0.35%) Apache Hive
12 1 (0.35%) DB2
12 1 (0.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 1 (0.35%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 32 (11.19%) Git
2 24 (8.39%) Jenkins
3 17 (5.94%) JIRA
4 9 (3.15%) Artifactory
4 9 (3.15%) Subversion
5 8 (2.80%) Bitbucket
5 8 (2.80%) Visual Studio
6 5 (1.75%) TeamCity
7 4 (1.40%) JMeter
7 4 (1.40%) Karma Test Runner
8 3 (1.05%) LoadRunner
8 3 (1.05%) NeoLoad
9 2 (0.70%) Babel
9 2 (0.70%) CMake
9 2 (0.70%) Jasmine
9 2 (0.70%) Visual Studio Code
9 2 (0.70%) webpack
10 1 (0.35%) Mercurial
10 1 (0.35%) Rational DOORS
10 1 (0.35%) WebDriver
General
1 101 (35.31%) Finance
2 57 (19.93%) Banking
2 57 (19.93%) Social Skills
3 36 (12.59%) Front Office
4 33 (11.54%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (8.39%) Investment Banking
6 8 (2.80%) Games
7 5 (1.75%) Public Sector
8 4 (1.40%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (0.70%) Aerospace
9 2 (0.70%) Financial Institution
9 2 (0.70%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.35%) Back Office
10 1 (0.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.35%) International Banking
10 1 (0.35%) Legal
10 1 (0.35%) Multimedia
10 1 (0.35%) Retail
Job Titles
1 128 (44.76%) Developer
2 60 (20.98%) C++ Developer
3 32 (11.19%) Senior
4 30 (10.49%) Software Engineer
5 26 (9.09%) Analyst
5 26 (9.09%) Quantitative Developer
6 17 (5.94%) Python Developer
7 14 (4.90%) Python Engineer
7 14 (4.90%) Qualitative Analyst
7 14 (4.90%) Quantitative Analyst
7 14 (4.90%) Senior Developer
8 12 (4.20%) C++ Software Engineer
9 11 (3.85%) Architect
9 11 (3.85%) Front Office Developer
10 10 (3.50%) Java Developer
11 9 (3.15%) AWS Engineer
11 9 (3.15%) Development Engineer
12 8 (2.80%) C++ Quantitative Developer
12 8 (2.80%) Linux Developer
12 8 (2.80%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (15.38%) .NET
2 21 (7.34%) Kafka
2 21 (7.34%) NumPy
3 19 (6.64%) Pandas
4 16 (5.59%) .NET Core
4 16 (5.59%) SciPy
5 15 (5.24%) AngularJS
6 13 (4.55%) REST
7 12 (4.20%) React
8 11 (3.85%) ADO
9 10 (3.50%) Middleware
9 10 (3.50%) Node.js
10 8 (2.80%) CSS
10 8 (2.80%) HTML
10 8 (2.80%) Spring Boot
11 7 (2.45%) Blazor
11 7 (2.45%) RESTful
12 6 (2.10%) RabbitMQ
13 5 (1.75%) iOS SDK
13 5 (1.75%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 59 (20.63%) Derivative
2 39 (13.64%) Algorithms
3 25 (8.74%) Hedge funds
4 22 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
5 17 (5.94%) Data Structures
5 17 (5.94%) Equity Derivative
6 15 (5.24%) Data Protection Act
7 13 (4.55%) Equities
7 13 (4.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 12 (4.20%) Fixed Income
9 10 (3.50%) Self-Motivation
10 9 (3.15%) Cloud Native
10 9 (3.15%) Legacy Systems
11 8 (2.80%) Blockchain
11 8 (2.80%) Distributed Computing
12 6 (2.10%) Credit Derivative
12 6 (2.10%) Distributed Applications
13 5 (1.75%) iPad
13 5 (1.75%) iPhone
13 5 (1.75%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 43 (15.03%) Linux
2 32 (11.19%) Windows
3 9 (3.15%) Windows Server
4 8 (2.80%) Apple iOS
5 6 (2.10%) Unix
6 2 (0.70%) Android
7 1 (0.35%) Embedded Linux
7 1 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.35%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (20.28%) Software Engineering
2 46 (16.08%) Computer Science
3 45 (15.73%) DevOps
4 44 (15.38%) Agile
5 41 (14.34%) Analytics
6 39 (13.64%) CI/CD
7 38 (13.29%) Mathematics
8 37 (12.94%) Problem-Solving
9 36 (12.59%) Test Automation
10 30 (10.49%) Multithreading
11 25 (8.74%) OO
12 21 (7.34%) Quantitative Finance
13 20 (6.99%) Full Stack Development
13 20 (6.99%) Roadmaps
14 19 (6.64%) Low Latency
14 19 (6.64%) Unit Testing
15 18 (6.29%) Data Pipeline
15 18 (6.29%) Physics
15 18 (6.29%) Validation
16 17 (5.94%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 153 (53.50%) Python
2 112 (39.16%) Java
3 72 (25.17%) C#
4 64 (22.38%) SQL
5 61 (21.33%) C
6 25 (8.74%) JavaScript
7 23 (8.04%) Go
8 18 (6.29%) Rust
8 18 (6.29%) Shell Script
9 16 (5.59%) VBA
10 14 (4.90%) Bash
11 12 (4.20%) PowerShell
12 10 (3.50%) TypeScript
13 8 (2.80%) PL/SQL
13 8 (2.80%) R
13 8 (2.80%) Scala
13 8 (2.80%) T-SQL
13 8 (2.80%) VB.NET
14 7 (2.45%) Perl
15 6 (2.10%) Swift
Qualifications
1 66 (23.08%) Degree
2 24 (8.39%) Computer Science Degree
3 16 (5.59%) Numerate Degree
4 15 (5.24%) Master's Degree
5 9 (3.15%) PhD
5 9 (3.15%) SC Cleared
5 9 (3.15%) Security Cleared
6 3 (1.05%) DV Cleared
7 2 (0.70%) MBA
8 1 (0.35%) CREST Certified
8 1 (0.35%) ISEB
8 1 (0.35%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.35%) OSCP
8 1 (0.35%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (2.80%) QA
2 4 (1.40%) MiFID
3 2 (0.70%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.70%) GDPR
4 1 (0.35%) COPPA
4 1 (0.35%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.35%) JTAG
4 1 (0.35%) NIST
4 1 (0.35%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.35%) SLA
4 1 (0.35%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 13 (4.55%) Docker
2 6 (2.10%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 3 (1.05%) Firmware
4 1 (0.35%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.35%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (0.35%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 29 (10.14%) Kubernetes
2 10 (3.50%) Ansible
3 9 (3.15%) BladeLogic
3 9 (3.15%) Consul
3 9 (3.15%) ITRS Geneos
3 9 (3.15%) Terraform
4 8 (2.80%) Grafana
5 7 (2.45%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.40%) Kibana
7 3 (1.05%) Packer
8 2 (0.70%) Puppet
9 1 (0.35%) HP ALM
9 1 (0.35%) logstash
9 1 (0.35%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.35%) systemd
Vendors
1 31 (10.84%) Oracle
2 13 (4.55%) Dynatrace
3 11 (3.85%) Microsoft
4 9 (3.15%) Altiris
4 9 (3.15%) Citrix
5 8 (2.80%) MuleSoft
6 6 (2.10%) SaltStack
7 4 (1.40%) AppDynamics
7 4 (1.40%) ION Trading
7 4 (1.40%) Splunk
8 2 (0.70%) CA
8 2 (0.70%) Google
8 2 (0.70%) HP
8 2 (0.70%) IBM
8 2 (0.70%) MarketAxess
8 2 (0.70%) Red Hat
8 2 (0.70%) ServiceNow
8 2 (0.70%) Tradeweb
9 1 (0.35%) Alteryx
9 1 (0.35%) QNX