C++ Software Engineer Contracts

Software Engineer - C++
UK

The median Software Engineer - C++ daily rate in the UK is £475 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 8 June 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

 6 months to
8 Jun 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 471 602 691
Rank change year-on-year +131 +89 -16
Contract jobs requiring a C++ Software Engineer 128 89 163
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.30% 0.16% 0.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.32% 0.17% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 22 36
10th Percentile £413 £428 £500
25th Percentile £434 £519 £522
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £631 £625
Median % change year-on-year -24.75% +1.00% +78.57%
75th Percentile £525 £738 £752
90th Percentile £555 £825 £838
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £538 £600
% change year-on-year -11.63% -10.42% +73.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 84 40 68
10th Percentile £54.00 £57.10 £50.25
25th Percentile £61.25 £64.38 -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% +41.18%
75th Percentile £70.00 £66.19 £65.00
90th Percentile - £77.00 £67.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year - +8.33% +26.32%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 40,208 52,661 84,090
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.86% 94.53% 95.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,884 36,729 59,270
10th Percentile £280 £313 £315
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.14%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,897 1,486 1,961
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.60
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £61.75 £65.75 £49.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £76.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +6.20%

C++ Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured C++ Software Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for C++ Software Engineer in the UK

C++ Software Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for C++ Software Engineer in the UK

C++ Software Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing C++ Software Engineer over the 6 months to 8 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for C++ Software Engineer in the UK

C++ Software Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for C++ Software Engineer in the UK

C++ Software Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing C++ Software Engineer over the 6 months to 8 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for C++ Software Engineer in the UK

C++ Software Engineer
Top 11 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing C++ Software Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 8 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
England +136 116 £475 -31.16% 64
UK excluding London +84 110 £475 -11.63% 50
East of England +34 46 £425 -5.56% 12
South East +28 32 £475 -10.38% 10
South West +12 24 £500 -6.98% 18
Work from Home +105 22 £475 -31.16% 37
London +77 12 £475 -34.48% 19
Scotland +43 5 - - 6
North of England +25 2 - - 2
Yorkshire +17 2 - -
Wales +16 1 - - 1

C++ Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 8 June 2024, C++ Software Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring C++ Software Engineer in the job title.

1 128 (100.00%) C++
1 128 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 68 (53.13%) Agile
3 53 (41.41%) Linux
4 48 (37.50%) C
5 45 (35.16%) C#
6 41 (32.03%) DevOps
6 41 (32.03%) Social Skills
7 37 (28.91%) Continuous Integration
8 36 (28.13%) TDD
8 36 (28.13%) Unit Testing
9 33 (25.78%) JIRA
10 31 (24.22%) Scrum
11 28 (21.88%) Continuous Improvement
12 27 (21.09%) Software Testing
13 26 (20.31%) Google
13 26 (20.31%) Java
13 26 (20.31%) GoogleTest
14 25 (19.53%) Modbus
14 25 (19.53%) RS-485
14 25 (19.53%) RS-422
14 25 (19.53%) Customer Requirements
14 25 (19.53%) JavaScript
14 25 (19.53%) Windows
14 25 (19.53%) Electronics
14 25 (19.53%) Pair Programming
15 24 (18.75%) Eclipse
16 23 (17.97%) Validation
16 23 (17.97%) Git
17 22 (17.19%) Python

C++ Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 17 (13.28%) Confluence
Applications
1 7 (5.47%) Simulink
2 2 (1.56%) Adobe After Effects
2 2 (1.56%) Blender
2 2 (1.56%) Maya
2 2 (1.56%) Photoshop
Cloud Services
1 14 (10.94%) GitHub
2 9 (7.03%) Azure
3 3 (2.34%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (0.78%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 25 (19.53%) Modbus
1 25 (19.53%) RS-422
1 25 (19.53%) RS-485
2 15 (11.72%) Software-Defined Radio
3 14 (10.94%) SNMP
4 11 (8.59%) TCP/IP
5 9 (7.03%) Ethernet
6 6 (4.69%) 802.11
6 6 (4.69%) Wi-Fi
7 5 (3.91%) Diameter Protocol
8 4 (3.13%) Radio Access Network
9 2 (1.56%) Wireless
10 1 (0.78%) MQTT
10 1 (0.78%) RS-232
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.69%) Couchbase
2 1 (0.78%) CouchDB
2 1 (0.78%) MongoDB
2 1 (0.78%) MySQL
2 1 (0.78%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (0.78%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 33 (25.78%) JIRA
2 26 (20.31%) GoogleTest
3 24 (18.75%) Eclipse
4 23 (17.97%) Git
5 18 (14.06%) Jenkins
6 17 (13.28%) Bitbucket
7 14 (10.94%) Robot Framework
8 11 (8.59%) Visual Studio
9 2 (1.56%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.78%) CMake
General
1 41 (32.03%) Social Skills
2 25 (19.53%) Electronics
3 10 (7.81%) Aerospace
3 10 (7.81%) Presentation Skills
4 9 (7.03%) Military
5 5 (3.91%) Telecoms
6 3 (2.34%) Games
7 2 (1.56%) Finance
7 2 (1.56%) Law
8 1 (0.78%) Automotive
8 1 (0.78%) Aviation
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (14.06%) CSS
1 18 (14.06%) HTML
2 12 (9.38%) Qt
3 10 (7.81%) Node.js
4 9 (7.03%) Web Services
5 6 (4.69%) .NET
5 6 (4.69%) 802.1X
5 6 (4.69%) Kafka
6 3 (2.34%) WPF
7 2 (1.56%) ADO
7 2 (1.56%) Blazor
7 2 (1.56%) MFC
7 2 (1.56%) OpenCV
7 2 (1.56%) RESTful
7 2 (1.56%) SOAP
7 2 (1.56%) Unreal Engine
7 2 (1.56%) WinForms
7 2 (1.56%) XML
8 1 (0.78%) AngularJS
8 1 (0.78%) OpenVINO
Miscellaneous
1 19 (14.84%) Self-Motivation
2 12 (9.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 8 (6.25%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (2.34%) Augmented Reality
4 3 (2.34%) Virtual Reality
5 2 (1.56%) CUDA
6 1 (0.78%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.78%) Client/Server
6 1 (0.78%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (0.78%) GPGPU
6 1 (0.78%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 53 (41.41%) Linux
2 25 (19.53%) Windows
3 6 (4.69%) Embedded Linux
4 2 (1.56%) Android
4 2 (1.56%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 128 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 68 (53.13%) Agile
3 41 (32.03%) DevOps
4 37 (28.91%) Continuous Integration
5 36 (28.13%) TDD
5 36 (28.13%) Unit Testing
6 31 (24.22%) Scrum
7 28 (21.88%) Continuous Improvement
8 27 (21.09%) Software Testing
9 25 (19.53%) Customer Requirements
9 25 (19.53%) Pair Programming
10 23 (17.97%) Validation
11 22 (17.19%) CI/CD
12 19 (14.84%) UML
13 16 (12.50%) Verification and Validation
13 16 (12.50%) Visualisation
14 15 (11.72%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 15 (11.72%) SysML
15 14 (10.94%) Problem-Solving
16 9 (7.03%) Digital Twin
Programming Languages
1 128 (100.00%) C++
2 48 (37.50%) C
3 45 (35.16%) C#
4 26 (20.31%) Java
5 25 (19.53%) JavaScript
6 22 (17.19%) Python
7 9 (7.03%) Perl
8 7 (5.47%) MATLAB
9 6 (4.69%) Tcl
10 4 (3.13%) Bash
11 3 (2.34%) Embedded C++
12 2 (1.56%) C++/CLI
12 2 (1.56%) SQL
13 1 (0.78%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 12 (9.38%) Degree
2 11 (8.59%) Security Cleared
3 8 (6.25%) SC Cleared
4 3 (2.34%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.56%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.78%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (9.38%) MISRA
System Software
1 15 (11.72%) Firmware
2 3 (2.34%) VirtualBox
3 2 (1.56%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.78%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.78%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 26 (20.31%) Google
2 14 (10.94%) Atlassian
3 9 (7.03%) Microsoft
4 8 (6.25%) Oracle
5 2 (1.56%) Adobe
5 2 (1.56%) NVIDIA
5 2 (1.56%) Xamarin
6 1 (0.78%) Compaq
6 1 (0.78%) Twitter
6 1 (0.78%) VMware
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