C++ Contracts in the Midlands

C++
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 20 September 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 103 110 179
Rank change year-on-year +7 +69 -21
Contract jobs citing C++ 32 35 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.18% 1.18% 0.56%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.92% 4.99% 1.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 19 24
10th Percentile £440 £375 £331
25th Percentile £486 £428 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £547 £600 £541
90th Percentile £648 - £593
England median daily rate £550 £617 £675
% change year-on-year -10.86% -8.59% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £53.00 -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +23.81%

All Programming Languages
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 650 702 1,440
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 23.91% 23.76% 28.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 425 496 1,034
10th Percentile £313 £308 £331
25th Percentile £375 £374 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £453 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.93% -9.46% +17.65%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £550
90th Percentile £632 £694 £625
England median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 16 18
10th Percentile £28.86 £17.50 £16.60
25th Percentile £34.47 £18.13 £18.58
Median hourly rate £55.00 £51.25 £33.75
Median % change year-on-year +7.32% +51.85% +0.22%
75th Percentile £59.38 £54.00 £35.00
90th Percentile £66.00 £62.00 £59.63
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year - +13.04% +26.37%

C++
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for C++ in the Midlands

C++
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for C++ in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing C++ in the Midlands over the 6 months to 20 September 2024.

Daily rate histogram for C++ in the Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for C++ in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing C++ within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 20 September 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
West Midlands +10 28 £532 -11.42% 21
East Midlands 0 3 £440 -8.57% 25
C++
England

C++
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 1 (3.13%) Apache
1 1 (3.13%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 1 (3.13%) AWS
1 1 (3.13%) Azure
1 1 (3.13%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.13%) Firewall
1 1 (3.13%) Internet
1 1 (3.13%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (18.75%) MySQL
2 5 (15.63%) Informix
2 5 (15.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 3 (9.38%) MongoDB
4 2 (6.25%) Apache Cassandra
4 2 (6.25%) DB2
Development Applications
1 10 (31.25%) PVCS
1 10 (31.25%) Visual Studio
2 7 (21.88%) Git
3 5 (15.63%) JIRA
3 5 (15.63%) Team Foundation Server
4 4 (12.50%) C++Builder
General
1 5 (15.63%) Aviation
1 5 (15.63%) French Language
1 5 (15.63%) German Language
1 5 (15.63%) Military
1 5 (15.63%) Spanish Language
2 3 (9.38%) Finance
3 2 (6.25%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.13%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.13%) Automotive
4 1 (3.13%) Manufacturing
4 1 (3.13%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (37.50%) Developer
2 10 (31.25%) C++ Developer
3 9 (28.13%) C Programmer
3 9 (28.13%) Programmer
4 5 (15.63%) QA Engineer
4 5 (15.63%) Quality Engineer
4 5 (15.63%) Software QA Engineer
4 5 (15.63%) Software Quality Engineer
5 3 (9.38%) Designer
5 3 (9.38%) UI Designer
6 2 (6.25%) Embedded C Programmer
6 2 (6.25%) Software Programmer
7 1 (3.13%) Analytics Developer
7 1 (3.13%) Embedded Engineer
7 1 (3.13%) Embedded Software Engineer
7 1 (3.13%) Full-Stack Developer
7 1 (3.13%) Rust Developer
7 1 (3.13%) Software Developer
7 1 (3.13%) Software Engineer
7 1 (3.13%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (25.00%) Qt
2 6 (18.75%) .NET
3 5 (15.63%) RESTful
3 5 (15.63%) Web Services
4 3 (9.38%) QML
5 2 (6.25%) HTML
6 1 (3.13%) CSS
6 1 (3.13%) Django
6 1 (3.13%) Flask
6 1 (3.13%) JSON
6 1 (3.13%) OpenCV
6 1 (3.13%) PyTorch
6 1 (3.13%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.25%) Algorithms
2 1 (3.13%) Data Structures
2 1 (3.13%) Industrial Internet of Things
2 1 (3.13%) IoT
2 1 (3.13%) Operational Technology
2 1 (3.13%) PKI
2 1 (3.13%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 12 (37.50%) Linux
2 2 (6.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (21.88%) Software Engineering
2 6 (18.75%) Agile
2 6 (18.75%) Computer Science
2 6 (18.75%) SDLC
3 5 (15.63%) Code Quality
3 5 (15.63%) Configuration Management
3 5 (15.63%) Continuous Delivery
3 5 (15.63%) Customer Requirements
3 5 (15.63%) ETL
3 5 (15.63%) Programme Management
3 5 (15.63%) Project Delivery
3 5 (15.63%) Quality Management
3 5 (15.63%) Risk Management
3 5 (15.63%) Scrum
3 5 (15.63%) Six Sigma
3 5 (15.63%) Test Scripting
4 3 (9.38%) Project Management
5 2 (6.25%) Artificial Intelligence
5 2 (6.25%) OO
5 2 (6.25%) OOD
Programming Languages
1 17 (53.13%) C
2 10 (31.25%) PL/SQL
3 6 (18.75%) C#
4 5 (15.63%) Bash
5 4 (12.50%) Python
6 2 (6.25%) Java
6 2 (6.25%) JavaScript
7 1 (3.13%) MATLAB
7 1 (3.13%) PHP
7 1 (3.13%) Rust
Qualifications
1 10 (31.25%) SC Cleared
1 10 (31.25%) Security Cleared
2 6 (18.75%) Computer Science Degree
2 6 (18.75%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (15.63%) QA
1 5 (15.63%) Software Quality Assurance
2 1 (3.13%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 1 (3.13%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (3.13%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 4 (12.50%) Virgin Media
2 2 (6.25%) Oracle
3 1 (3.13%) AVEVA
3 1 (3.13%) Embarcadero
3 1 (3.13%) Google
3 1 (3.13%) Thales