C++ Developer Contracts

C++ Developer
UK

The median C++ Developer daily rate in the UK is £514, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 483 460 570
Rank change year-on-year -23 +110 -125
Contract jobs requiring a C++ Developer 101 247 285
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.23% 0.44% 0.33%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.25% 0.47% 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 170 206
10th Percentile £400 £400 £520
25th Percentile £421 £550 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £750 £725
Median % change year-on-year -31.47% +3.45% +11.54%
75th Percentile £852 £825 £775
90th Percentile £1,150 £964 £838
UK excluding London median daily rate £410 £425 £539
% change year-on-year -3.53% -21.11% +17.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 10 9
10th Percentile £67.38 £25.75 £51.25
25th Percentile £69.06 £38.75 £55.00
Median hourly rate £70.00 £57.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +21.74% - -
75th Percentile - £66.88 £67.50
90th Percentile - £75.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year - +27.27% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides 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 40,557 52,491 83,111
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.86% 94.51% 95.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,070 36,644 58,616
10th Percentile £280 £313 £318
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
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% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,936 1,486 1,938
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.75
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.42 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £61.81 £65.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.08 £20.00
% change year-on-year -4.94% +110.39% +7.82%

C++ Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for C++ Developer in the UK

C++ Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for C++ Developer in the UK

C++ Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing C++ Developer over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for C++ Developer in the UK

C++ Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for C++ Developer in the UK

C++ Developer
Top 12 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing C++ Developer within the UK 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
England -36 94 £550 -26.67% 51
London -50 62 £750 - 25
Work from Home +57 39 £750 - 27
UK excluding London +26 30 £410 -3.53% 26
South East +19 14 £400 -5.88% 9
East of England +11 8 £430 -14.00% 5
South West +4 4 - -
North of England +17 2 £410 -0.61% 9
North West +16 2 £410 +17.14% 8
Wales +16 1 - -
Midlands +14 1 £675 +80.00% 6
East Midlands +7 1 £675 +125.00% 1

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

For the 6 months to 12 June 2024, C++ Developer 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++ Developer in the job title.

1 101 (100.00%) C++
2 34 (33.66%) Python
3 29 (28.71%) Finance
4 27 (26.73%) Linux
5 26 (25.74%) Derivative
6 23 (22.77%) Banking
7 18 (17.82%) C
8 15 (14.85%) Agile
8 15 (14.85%) Social Skills
9 14 (13.86%) Analytics
9 14 (13.86%) OO
10 13 (12.87%) JavaScript
10 13 (12.87%) Front Office
10 13 (12.87%) Problem-Solving
11 12 (11.88%) REST
11 12 (11.88%) C#
11 12 (11.88%) Windows
11 12 (11.88%) Investment Banking
11 12 (11.88%) Software Engineering
12 11 (10.89%) Degree
12 11 (10.89%) Unit Testing
12 11 (10.89%) Git
12 11 (10.89%) HTML
12 11 (10.89%) SQL
12 11 (10.89%) CSS
12 11 (10.89%) Hedge funds
13 10 (9.90%) Swagger
14 9 (8.91%) Equities
14 9 (8.91%) Java
14 9 (8.91%) Algorithmic Trading

C++ Developer 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (0.99%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 4 (3.96%) GitHub
2 3 (2.97%) Azure
3 1 (0.99%) AWS
3 1 (0.99%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 7 (6.93%) 5G
1 7 (6.93%) Radio Access Network
2 5 (4.95%) NAS
3 4 (3.96%) Link 16
3 4 (3.96%) Tactical Data Link
3 4 (3.96%) Wireshark
4 2 (1.98%) 4G
4 2 (1.98%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.99%) Multicast
5 1 (0.99%) RTMP
5 1 (0.99%) RTP
5 1 (0.99%) RTSP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.98%) KDB
2 1 (0.99%) Couchbase
2 1 (0.99%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 11 (10.89%) Git
2 9 (8.91%) JIRA
3 7 (6.93%) Jenkins
4 4 (3.96%) Bitbucket
4 4 (3.96%) gcov
4 4 (3.96%) GDB
4 4 (3.96%) Gradle
4 4 (3.96%) Subversion
4 4 (3.96%) Visual Studio
5 3 (2.97%) GoogleTest
6 2 (1.98%) Karma Test Runner
6 2 (1.98%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.99%) ClearCase
7 1 (0.99%) ClearQuest
7 1 (0.99%) CMake
7 1 (0.99%) GitLab
7 1 (0.99%) Rational DOORS
7 1 (0.99%) Rational Rhapsody
7 1 (0.99%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 29 (28.71%) Finance
2 23 (22.77%) Banking
3 15 (14.85%) Social Skills
4 13 (12.87%) Front Office
5 12 (11.88%) Investment Banking
6 8 (7.92%) Public Sector
7 7 (6.93%) Games
8 6 (5.94%) Multimedia
9 5 (4.95%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.98%) Automotive
11 1 (0.99%) Analytical Skills
11 1 (0.99%) Billing
11 1 (0.99%) German Language
11 1 (0.99%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.99%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (11.88%) REST
2 11 (10.89%) CSS
2 11 (10.89%) HTML
3 10 (9.90%) Swagger
4 8 (7.92%) JSON
4 8 (7.92%) XML
4 8 (7.92%) YAML
5 4 (3.96%) Qt
6 3 (2.97%) AngularJS
6 3 (2.97%) Twitter Bootstrap
7 2 (1.98%) .NET
7 2 (1.98%) FFmpeg
7 2 (1.98%) OpenAPI
7 2 (1.98%) Playwright
7 2 (1.98%) Unreal Engine
8 1 (0.99%) ADO
8 1 (0.99%) Bazel
8 1 (0.99%) Kafka
8 1 (0.99%) React
8 1 (0.99%) Unity (Game Engine)
Miscellaneous
1 26 (25.74%) Derivative
2 11 (10.89%) Hedge funds
3 9 (8.91%) Data Structures
3 9 (8.91%) Equities
3 9 (8.91%) Equity Derivative
4 8 (7.92%) Algorithms
5 6 (5.94%) CCTV
6 4 (3.96%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 4 (3.96%) State Machine
7 3 (2.97%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (2.97%) Distributed Computing
7 3 (2.97%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (2.97%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.98%) Augmented Reality
8 2 (1.98%) Fixed Income
8 2 (1.98%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 2 (1.98%) Virtual Reality
9 1 (0.99%) Embedded Systems
9 1 (0.99%) Renewable Energy
9 1 (0.99%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 27 (26.73%) Linux
2 12 (11.88%) Windows
3 2 (1.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (1.98%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (14.85%) Agile
2 14 (13.86%) Analytics
2 14 (13.86%) OO
3 13 (12.87%) Problem-Solving
4 12 (11.88%) Software Engineering
5 11 (10.89%) Unit Testing
6 9 (8.91%) Algorithmic Trading
6 9 (8.91%) Low Latency
6 9 (8.91%) Web Development
7 8 (7.92%) Computer Science
7 8 (7.92%) XML Parsing
8 7 (6.93%) CI/CD
8 7 (6.93%) DevOps
8 7 (6.93%) Systematic Trading
9 6 (5.94%) Full Stack Development
9 6 (5.94%) OCR
9 6 (5.94%) Refactoring
9 6 (5.94%) Stakeholder Management
10 5 (4.95%) Multithreading
11 4 (3.96%) Product Management
Programming Languages
1 101 (100.00%) C++
2 34 (33.66%) Python
3 18 (17.82%) C
4 13 (12.87%) JavaScript
5 12 (11.88%) C#
6 11 (10.89%) SQL
7 9 (8.91%) Java
8 5 (4.95%) TypeScript
9 2 (1.98%) Bash
10 1 (0.99%) Embedded C++
10 1 (0.99%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.99%) ProC
10 1 (0.99%) Rust
10 1 (0.99%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 11 (10.89%) Degree
2 8 (7.92%) Computer Science Degree
2 8 (7.92%) SC Cleared
2 8 (7.92%) Security Cleared
3 3 (2.97%) Numerate Degree
4 1 (0.99%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.95%) ISO 9001
1 5 (4.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (3.96%) MISRA
Systems Management
1 1 (0.99%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 5 (4.95%) Google
2 4 (3.96%) Klocwork
2 4 (3.96%) Perforce
3 2 (1.98%) Oracle
3 2 (1.98%) QNX
4 1 (0.99%) HP
4 1 (0.99%) Red Hat
4 1 (0.99%) Sparx