C++ Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

C++
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring C++ skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 181 126 108
Rank change year-on-year -55 -18 +2
Contract jobs citing C++ 16 22 28
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.32% 0.83% 1.05%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.58% 3.20% 4.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 19
10th Percentile £259 - £437
25th Percentile £350 £613 £486
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £401 £625 £525
Median % change year-on-year -35.84% +19.05% -4.55%
75th Percentile £486 £638 £544
90th Percentile £637 - £648
England median daily rate £625 £625 £550
% change year-on-year - +13.64% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 19 0
10th Percentile - £33.91 -
25th Percentile £72.50 £41.96 -
Median hourly rate £75.00 £50.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% - -
75th Percentile £77.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00

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 1,010 688 638
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 20.50% 26.03% 23.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 706 472 416
10th Percentile £361 £302 £313
25th Percentile £413 £385 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £463 £473
Median % change year-on-year +2.70% -2.12% +1.07%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £552
90th Percentile £650 £621 £631
England median daily rate £525 £514 £550
% change year-on-year +2.14% -6.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 24 7
10th Percentile £17.08 £28.53 £28.86
25th Percentile £21.25 £33.91 £34.47
Median hourly rate £45.00 £50.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £67.84 - £59.38
90th Percentile £68.80 - £66.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £56.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +16.07% -13.85% -

C++
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing C++ relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

C++ job vacancy trend in the Midlands

C++
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing C++.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing C++

C++
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing C++ in the Midlands over the 6 months to 23 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for C++ in the Midlands

C++
Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing C++.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing C++

C++
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 23 September 2026. 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
East Midlands -13 8 £402 - 54
West Midlands -52 8 £400 -36.00% 79
C++
England

C++
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (6.25%) Confluence
1 1 (6.25%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 1 (6.25%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (6.25%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 1 (6.25%) AWS
1 1 (6.25%) Azure
1 1 (6.25%) GCP
1 1 (6.25%) GitHub
1 1 (6.25%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) HTTP
1 1 (6.25%) HTTPS
1 1 (6.25%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (6.25%) MongoDB
2 1 (6.25%) MySQL
2 1 (6.25%) NoSQL
2 1 (6.25%) Relational Database
2 1 (6.25%) SQL Server
2 1 (6.25%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (18.75%) Git
2 1 (6.25%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (6.25%) JIRA
2 1 (6.25%) PetaLinux
2 1 (6.25%) TeamCity
General
1 2 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (12.50%) Automotive
1 2 (12.50%) Electronics
2 1 (6.25%) Aerospace
2 1 (6.25%) Retail
2 1 (6.25%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (62.50%) Software Engineer
2 7 (43.75%) C++ Software Engineer
2 7 (43.75%) Senior
3 6 (37.50%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
3 6 (37.50%) Senior Software Engineer
4 3 (18.75%) Developer
4 3 (18.75%) Embedded Engineer
4 3 (18.75%) Embedded Software Engineer
5 2 (12.50%) Qt Software Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Build Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) C++ Developer
6 1 (6.25%) Full-Stack Developer
6 1 (6.25%) Reliability Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Senior Developer
6 1 (6.25%) Support Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (12.50%) QML
1 2 (12.50%) Qt
1 2 (12.50%) Yocto
2 1 (6.25%) AngularJS
2 1 (6.25%) Itk
2 1 (6.25%) Node.js
2 1 (6.25%) PostGIS
2 1 (6.25%) React
2 1 (6.25%) REST
2 1 (6.25%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) Embedded Systems
2 1 (6.25%) Contactless
2 1 (6.25%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (6.25%) EMV
2 1 (6.25%) FPGA
2 1 (6.25%) IoT
2 1 (6.25%) Verilog
2 1 (6.25%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 5 (31.25%) Linux
2 4 (25.00%) Embedded Linux
3 2 (12.50%) FreeRTOS
4 1 (6.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (68.75%) Software Engineering
2 6 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (12.50%) Agile
3 2 (12.50%) Collaborative Engineering
3 2 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (12.50%) Validation
4 1 (6.25%) Concurrent Programming
4 1 (6.25%) Data Modelling
4 1 (6.25%) Embedded Software Development
4 1 (6.25%) ETL
4 1 (6.25%) Line Management
4 1 (6.25%) Migration
4 1 (6.25%) OO
4 1 (6.25%) OOP
4 1 (6.25%) PLM
4 1 (6.25%) Scrum
4 1 (6.25%) SDLC
4 1 (6.25%) Six Sigma
4 1 (6.25%) SOA
4 1 (6.25%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 6 (37.50%) C
2 4 (25.00%) Python
3 3 (18.75%) Java
4 1 (6.25%) Bash
4 1 (6.25%) C#
4 1 (6.25%) JavaScript
4 1 (6.25%) PowerShell
4 1 (6.25%) SQL
4 1 (6.25%) SystemVerilog
4 1 (6.25%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 1 (6.25%) Degree
1 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared
1 1 (6.25%) Security Cleared
1 1 (6.25%) Six Sigma Black Belt
1 1 (6.25%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (18.75%) QA
2 2 (12.50%) ISO 26262
2 2 (12.50%) MISRA
3 1 (6.25%) Data Quality
3 1 (6.25%) ISO 14001
3 1 (6.25%) ISO 8583
3 1 (6.25%) ISO 9001
3 1 (6.25%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (12.50%) Docker
2 1 (6.25%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (6.25%) Firmware
2 1 (6.25%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 1 (6.25%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (12.50%) Microsoft
1 2 (12.50%) QNX
2 1 (6.25%) Google
2 1 (6.25%) Oracle
2 1 (6.25%) Perforce
2 1 (6.25%) Xilinx