C++ Contracts in England

C++
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 126 117 166
Rank change year-on-year -9 +49 -47
Contract jobs citing C++ 684 1,062 1,200
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.82% 2.26% 1.71%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.02% 6.56% 4.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 353 669 756
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 £713 £806 £800
90th Percentile £886 £901 £863
UK median daily rate £575 £650 £700
% change year-on-year -11.54% -7.14% +21.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 163 125 115
10th Percentile £57.80 £50.00 £46.25
25th Percentile £61.25 £55.00 £52.13
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% +16.26%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.00 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year - +8.33% +16.26%

All Programming Languages
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 11,366 16,181 25,623
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 30.30% 34.40% 36.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,149 11,851 18,996
10th Percentile £350 £375 £388
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £563 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +2.27% +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 481 398 445
10th Percentile £35.52 £29.13 £20.00
25th Percentile £49.25 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year - +19.05% +19.12%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.30 £63.25
90th Percentile £77.50 £79.65 £73.70
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £52.25
% change year-on-year - +19.62% +16.76%

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 12 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 12 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 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
London -56 293 £655 -9.66% 306
South East +49 144 £538 +3.37% 191
East of England +18 115 £550 +10.00% 121
South West -16 73 £500 +8.11% 120
North of England -2 30 £568 +8.10% 66
Midlands -2 20 £505 -14.41% 95
North West +11 19 £520 -0.95% 45
West Midlands +9 17 £502 -15.00% 47
Yorkshire -2 9 £625 +4.17% 14
East Midlands -3 3 £590 -1.67% 47
North East +10 2 £625 +31.58% 7
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 30 (4.39%) Confluence
2 9 (1.32%) Apache Spark
3 5 (0.73%) BizTalk Server
4 3 (0.44%) Apache
4 3 (0.44%) nginx
5 2 (0.29%) SAS
5 2 (0.29%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.15%) CMS
6 1 (0.15%) Ethereum
6 1 (0.15%) Hyperledger
6 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 14 (2.05%) Simulink
2 12 (1.75%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.88%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.29%) Adobe After Effects
4 2 (0.29%) Blender
4 2 (0.29%) Maya
4 2 (0.29%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.29%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (0.73%) Teamcenter
2 4 (0.58%) Misys Midas
2 4 (0.58%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 2 (0.29%) Distributed Ledger
3 2 (0.29%) ION MarketView
4 1 (0.15%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 73 (10.67%) AWS
2 57 (8.33%) Azure
3 46 (6.73%) GitHub
4 22 (3.22%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (1.02%) GCP
6 6 (0.88%) Azure Functions
6 6 (0.88%) Azure Logic Apps
6 6 (0.88%) Serverless
7 5 (0.73%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (0.73%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 5 (0.73%) Azure Storage
8 4 (0.58%) Datadog
9 3 (0.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 3 (0.44%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (0.44%) Amazon ELB
9 3 (0.44%) Cloud Computing
9 3 (0.44%) OpenShift
10 2 (0.29%) npm
10 2 (0.29%) NuGet
10 2 (0.29%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 34 (4.97%) RS-485
2 33 (4.82%) Modbus
2 33 (4.82%) RS-422
3 23 (3.36%) TCP/IP
4 22 (3.22%) Software-Defined Radio
5 20 (2.92%) SNMP
6 14 (2.05%) Ethernet
7 13 (1.90%) Wireless
8 12 (1.75%) 5G
9 11 (1.61%) Radio Access Network
10 8 (1.17%) Wi-Fi
11 5 (0.73%) 802.11
11 5 (0.73%) Link 16
11 5 (0.73%) NAS
11 5 (0.73%) RTSP
12 4 (0.58%) DNS
12 4 (0.58%) Internet
12 4 (0.58%) Tactical Data Link
12 4 (0.58%) Wireshark
13 3 (0.44%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (3.07%) MongoDB
2 19 (2.78%) NoSQL
3 16 (2.34%) Relational Database
3 16 (2.34%) SQL Server
4 13 (1.90%) Elasticsearch
5 9 (1.32%) Azure SQL Database
6 8 (1.17%) Couchbase
6 8 (1.17%) KDB
6 8 (1.17%) PostgreSQL
7 7 (1.02%) Data Mining
7 7 (1.02%) MySQL
8 5 (0.73%) Amazon Redshift
8 5 (0.73%) RDBMS
9 4 (0.58%) Data Lake
9 4 (0.58%) Geospatial Data
10 3 (0.44%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (0.44%) Big Data
10 3 (0.44%) Data Warehouse
10 3 (0.44%) DynamoDB
10 3 (0.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 93 (13.60%) JIRA
2 86 (12.57%) Git
3 73 (10.67%) Jenkins
4 46 (6.73%) GoogleTest
5 41 (5.99%) Visual Studio
6 34 (4.97%) Eclipse
7 30 (4.39%) Bitbucket
8 20 (2.92%) Subversion
9 18 (2.63%) Robot Framework
10 16 (2.34%) Rational DOORS
11 14 (2.05%) PVCS
12 13 (1.90%) Artifactory
13 6 (0.88%) Gradle
13 6 (0.88%) Rational Rhapsody
14 5 (0.73%) ClearCase
14 5 (0.73%) ClearQuest
14 5 (0.73%) Karma Test Runner
14 5 (0.73%) TeamCity
15 4 (0.58%) JMeter
15 4 (0.58%) Maven
General
1 152 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 112 (16.37%) Finance
3 68 (9.94%) Banking
4 49 (7.16%) Analytical Skills
5 46 (6.73%) Electronics
6 41 (5.99%) Public Sector
7 40 (5.85%) Front Office
8 32 (4.68%) Aerospace
9 30 (4.39%) Investment Banking
10 20 (2.92%) Presentation Skills
11 18 (2.63%) Telecoms
12 16 (2.34%) Military
13 15 (2.19%) Automotive
14 14 (2.05%) Games
15 7 (1.02%) Multimedia
16 6 (0.88%) Legal
17 5 (0.73%) Aviation
18 4 (0.58%) German Language
18 4 (0.58%) Law
18 4 (0.58%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 218 (31.87%) Software Engineer
2 190 (27.78%) Developer
3 118 (17.25%) C++ Software Engineer
4 94 (13.74%) C++ Developer
5 60 (8.77%) Senior
6 44 (6.43%) Java Engineer
7 43 (6.29%) Embedded Engineer
8 35 (5.12%) Embedded Software Engineer
8 35 (5.12%) Java Software Engineer
9 33 (4.82%) Architect
10 31 (4.53%) Python Developer
11 27 (3.95%) Quantitative Developer
12 25 (3.65%) Analyst
12 25 (3.65%) Python Engineer
13 22 (3.22%) Lead
14 19 (2.78%) Senior Software Engineer
15 18 (2.63%) C Software Engineer
15 18 (2.63%) Java Developer
16 17 (2.49%) Senior Developer
17 16 (2.34%) C# Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (8.77%) .NET
2 38 (5.56%) HTML
3 34 (4.97%) CSS
4 29 (4.24%) Qt
5 28 (4.09%) Kafka
6 26 (3.80%) Spring Boot
7 25 (3.65%) REST
8 22 (3.22%) J2EE
8 22 (3.22%) Node.js
8 22 (3.22%) NumPy
9 21 (3.07%) XML
10 20 (2.92%) AngularJS
10 20 (2.92%) RESTful
11 19 (2.78%) Pandas
12 17 (2.49%) OpenGL
13 16 (2.34%) .NET Core
13 16 (2.34%) SciPy
13 16 (2.34%) Web Services
14 15 (2.19%) React
15 14 (2.05%) Vulkan
Miscellaneous
1 65 (9.50%) Algorithms
2 60 (8.77%) Derivative
3 45 (6.58%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 42 (6.14%) Self-Motivation
5 32 (4.68%) Data Structures
6 27 (3.95%) Distributed Systems
6 27 (3.95%) Linux Command Line
7 26 (3.80%) Hedge funds
8 21 (3.07%) Data Protection Act
9 16 (2.34%) Equity Derivative
10 14 (2.05%) Equities
11 12 (1.75%) Fixed Income
12 11 (1.61%) VHDL
13 10 (1.46%) Augmented Reality
14 9 (1.32%) 3D Graphics
14 9 (1.32%) CCTV
14 9 (1.32%) Ray Tracing
14 9 (1.32%) Verilog
15 8 (1.17%) Distributed Computing
15 8 (1.17%) FPGA
Operating Systems
1 184 (26.90%) Linux
2 89 (13.01%) Windows
3 16 (2.34%) Unix
4 13 (1.90%) Windows Server
5 10 (1.46%) Android
6 9 (1.32%) Apple iOS
7 6 (0.88%) Embedded Linux
8 4 (0.58%) Windows Server 2016
8 4 (0.58%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (0.44%) Windows 10
10 2 (0.29%) FreeRTOS
10 2 (0.29%) ThreadX
10 2 (0.29%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.15%) CentOS
11 1 (0.15%) RTLinux
11 1 (0.15%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 294 (42.98%) Software Engineering
2 196 (28.65%) Agile
3 161 (23.54%) DevOps
4 101 (14.77%) CI/CD
5 99 (14.47%) Problem-Solving
6 79 (11.55%) Unit Testing
7 73 (10.67%) Continuous Integration
8 71 (10.38%) Computer Science
9 63 (9.21%) OO
9 63 (9.21%) Validation
10 59 (8.63%) Scrum
10 59 (8.63%) TDD
10 59 (8.63%) Test Automation
11 54 (7.89%) Software Testing
12 49 (7.16%) Multithreading
13 48 (7.02%) Mathematics
14 44 (6.43%) Analytics
15 41 (5.99%) Continuous Improvement
16 38 (5.56%) UML
17 36 (5.26%) Customer Requirements
Programming Languages
1 293 (42.84%) Python
2 258 (37.72%) C
3 214 (31.29%) Java
4 161 (23.54%) C#
5 82 (11.99%) SQL
6 79 (11.55%) JavaScript
7 35 (5.12%) Bash
8 33 (4.82%) Shell Script
9 27 (3.95%) Go
9 27 (3.95%) PowerShell
10 22 (3.22%) Rust
11 21 (3.07%) Embedded C++
11 21 (3.07%) MATLAB
11 21 (3.07%) Perl
12 19 (2.78%) PL/SQL
13 18 (2.63%) Embedded C
14 16 (2.34%) VBA
15 14 (2.05%) R
16 13 (1.90%) TypeScript
17 12 (1.75%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 110 (16.08%) Degree
2 105 (15.35%) Security Cleared
3 81 (11.84%) SC Cleared
4 37 (5.41%) Computer Science Degree
5 32 (4.68%) Master's Degree
6 24 (3.51%) PhD
7 17 (2.49%) DV Cleared
8 16 (2.34%) Numerate Degree
9 8 (1.17%) CREST Certified
9 8 (1.17%) OSCP
10 6 (0.88%) CEH
10 6 (0.88%) GIAC
10 6 (0.88%) GPEN
11 4 (0.58%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.29%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.29%) MBA
12 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.15%) ISEB
13 1 (0.15%) ISTQB
13 1 (0.15%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (5.26%) MISRA
2 11 (1.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (1.46%) ISO 9001
3 10 (1.46%) NIST
4 8 (1.17%) QA
5 6 (0.88%) JTAG
6 5 (0.73%) GDPR
6 5 (0.73%) MISRA C
7 4 (0.58%) Accessibility
7 4 (0.58%) MiFID
8 3 (0.44%) AUTOSAR
8 3 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 12207
8 3 (0.44%) SLA
9 2 (0.29%) ISO 20022
9 2 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 2 (0.29%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.15%) COPPA
10 1 (0.15%) Def Stans
10 1 (0.15%) ISO 13485
10 1 (0.15%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 33 (4.82%) Firmware
2 25 (3.65%) Docker
3 9 (1.32%) Active Directory
3 9 (1.32%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 8 (1.17%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.88%) Embedded Firmware
5 6 (0.88%) VMware Infrastructure
6 5 (0.73%) VirtualBox
7 3 (0.44%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.29%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 40 (5.85%) Kubernetes
2 34 (4.97%) Terraform
3 20 (2.92%) Ansible
4 12 (1.75%) Consul
5 11 (1.61%) Grafana
6 10 (1.46%) Prometheus
7 9 (1.32%) BladeLogic
7 9 (1.32%) ITRS Geneos
7 9 (1.32%) Puppet
8 8 (1.17%) Progress Chef
9 4 (0.58%) HP ALM
9 4 (0.58%) Kibana
9 4 (0.58%) Nagios
10 3 (0.44%) Packer
11 2 (0.29%) WSUS
12 1 (0.15%) Functional Safety
12 1 (0.15%) logstash
12 1 (0.15%) systemd
Vendors
1 55 (8.04%) Google
2 41 (5.99%) Microsoft
3 33 (4.82%) Oracle
4 20 (2.92%) Atlassian
5 13 (1.90%) Dynatrace
6 9 (1.32%) Altiris
6 9 (1.32%) Citrix
6 9 (1.32%) SaltStack
7 8 (1.17%) Splunk
8 7 (1.02%) Xilinx
9 6 (0.88%) VMware
10 5 (0.73%) HP
10 5 (0.73%) IBM
10 5 (0.73%) MuleSoft
11 4 (0.58%) Adobe
11 4 (0.58%) AppDynamics
11 4 (0.58%) Klocwork
11 4 (0.58%) New Relic
11 4 (0.58%) NVIDIA
11 4 (0.58%) Sparx