C++ Contracts in Scotland

C++
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 13 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 105 144 161
Rank change year-on-year +39 +17 -21
Contract jobs citing C++ 10 20 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.47% 0.75% 0.44%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.68% 2.26% 1.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 11 5
10th Percentile £449 - £484
25th Percentile £503 £413 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 £425 £750
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% -43.33% +55.84%
75th Percentile £803 £525 -
90th Percentile £876 £538 £780
UK median daily rate £575 £650 £700
% change year-on-year -11.54% -7.14% +21.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 5
10th Percentile - - £50.06
25th Percentile £52.50 - £53.25
Median hourly rate £60.00 £59.03 £54.50
Median % change year-on-year +1.64% +8.31% -
75th Percentile £62.50 - £57.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year - +8.33% +16.26%

All Programming Languages
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 594 885 1,040
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 27.72% 33.12% 30.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 406 616 745
10th Percentile £350 £400 £390
25th Percentile £409 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £493 £488
Median % change year-on-year -6.60% +1.03% +14.71%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £550
90th Percentile £613 £650 £638
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 12 15
10th Percentile £29.60 £41.90 £17.50
25th Percentile £41.31 £50.37 £32.88
Median hourly rate £57.50 £58.27 £47.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.31% +23.97% +2.17%
75th Percentile £60.75 £67.11 £55.75
90th Percentile £62.50 £69.88 £57.50
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £52.25
% change year-on-year - +19.62% +16.76%

C++
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for C++ in Scotland

C++
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for C++ in Scotland

C++
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing C++ in Scotland over the 6 months to 13 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for C++ in Scotland

C++
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for C++ in Scotland

C++
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing C++ within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 13 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
Edinburgh +26 5 £638 +43.26% 17
Glasgow +17 5 - - 9
C++
UK

C++
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (30.00%) Azure
1 3 (30.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (20.00%) IaaS
2 2 (20.00%) PaaS
2 2 (20.00%) SaaS
3 1 (10.00%) GitHub
3 1 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Git
1 3 (30.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (20.00%) Cucumber
2 2 (20.00%) Cypress.io
2 2 (20.00%) JIRA
2 2 (20.00%) Selenium
2 2 (20.00%) Subversion
2 2 (20.00%) TeamCity
2 2 (20.00%) WebDriver
General
1 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) C++ Software Engineer
1 5 (50.00%) Software Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Embedded C++ Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Embedded C++ Software Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Embedded Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Embedded Software Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Analyst
3 2 (20.00%) Firmware Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Functional Analyst
3 2 (20.00%) Functional Test Analyst
3 2 (20.00%) Senior
3 2 (20.00%) Senior Analyst
3 2 (20.00%) Senior Test Analyst
3 2 (20.00%) Test Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Automation Test Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) QA Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Automation Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) .NET
1 2 (20.00%) OpenCV
2 1 (10.00%) Flash
2 1 (10.00%) Jest
2 1 (10.00%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Client/Server
1 2 (20.00%) CUDA
1 2 (20.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (10.00%) Data Structures
2 1 (10.00%) IoT
2 1 (10.00%) NB-IoT
Operating Systems
1 3 (30.00%) Embedded Linux
1 3 (30.00%) Linux
2 2 (20.00%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 3 (30.00%) DevOps
3 2 (20.00%) Agile
3 2 (20.00%) ATDD
3 2 (20.00%) BDD
3 2 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (20.00%) Feature Driven Development
3 2 (20.00%) Kanban
3 2 (20.00%) Migration
3 2 (20.00%) Multithreading
3 2 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (20.00%) SOA
3 2 (20.00%) Software Delivery
3 2 (20.00%) Software Testing
3 2 (20.00%) TDD
3 2 (20.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (20.00%) Test Strategy
3 2 (20.00%) V-Model
3 2 (20.00%) Waterfall
4 1 (10.00%) Build Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) Embedded C++
1 3 (30.00%) Java
2 2 (20.00%) C
2 2 (20.00%) C#
2 2 (20.00%) Embedded C
2 2 (20.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (20.00%) Shell Script
2 2 (20.00%) SQL
2 2 (20.00%) VBA
2 2 (20.00%) VBScript
3 1 (10.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) ISEB
1 2 (20.00%) ISTQB
1 2 (20.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (10.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Firmware
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) NVIDIA
2 1 (10.00%) Renesas