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 9 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
9 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 174 119 101
Rank change year-on-year -55 -18 +5
Contract jobs citing C++ 16 21 30
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.33% 0.81% 1.11%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.65% 3.16% 4.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 22
10th Percentile £239 - £440
25th Percentile £300 £613 £486
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £625 £525
Median % change year-on-year -36.00% +19.05% -4.55%
75th Percentile £401 £638 £547
90th Percentile £402 - £648
England median daily rate £625 £625 £550
% change year-on-year - +13.64% -11.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 19 0
10th Percentile £30.88 £33.91 -
25th Percentile £37.81 £41.96 -
Median hourly rate £51.25 £50.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% - -
75th Percentile £65.31 - -
90th Percentile £72.63 - -
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 969 664 619
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 20.05% 25.47% 22.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 681 456 409
10th Percentile £358 £297 £313
25th Percentile £413 £375 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.50% -5.21% -
75th Percentile £563 £535 £550
90th Percentile £638 £620 £636
England median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 24 7
10th Percentile £20.45 £28.53 £28.86
25th Percentile £21.25 £33.91 £34.47
Median hourly rate £45.00 £50.00 £48.56
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +2.97% -2.88%
75th Percentile £67.84 - £56.88
90th Percentile £71.70 - £65.25
England median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +3.17%

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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

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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++

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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 9 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for C++ in the Midlands

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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++

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing C++ in the Midlands over the 6 months to 9 September 2026.

Hourly rate histogram 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 9 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 -8 8 £402 - 39
West Midlands -58 8 £304 -51.32% 40
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England

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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%) 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 1 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (6.25%) SQL Server
1 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%) Embedded Engineer
4 3 (18.75%) Embedded Software Engineer
5 2 (12.50%) Developer
5 2 (12.50%) Qt Software Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Build Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) C++ 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%) Itk
2 1 (6.25%) PostGIS
2 1 (6.25%) REST
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 10 (62.50%) Software Engineering
2 5 (31.25%) 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%) Data Management
4 1 (6.25%) Data Migration
4 1 (6.25%) Data Modelling
4 1 (6.25%) Data Protection
4 1 (6.25%) ETL
4 1 (6.25%) Migration
4 1 (6.25%) Multithreading
4 1 (6.25%) OO
4 1 (6.25%) OOP
4 1 (6.25%) PLM
4 1 (6.25%) Scrum
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 2 (12.50%) Java
4 1 (6.25%) C#
4 1 (6.25%) SQL
4 1 (6.25%) SystemVerilog
4 1 (6.25%) Tcl
4 1 (6.25%) VB
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) Degree
2 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared
2 1 (6.25%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.25%) Six Sigma Black Belt
2 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 1 (6.25%) Docker
1 1 (6.25%) Embedded Firmware
1 1 (6.25%) Firmware
1 1 (6.25%) Oracle RAC
Vendors
1 2 (12.50%) QNX
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.25%) Oracle
2 1 (6.25%) Perforce
2 1 (6.25%) Xilinx
79 C++ jobs in the Midlands