C++ Developer Contracts in England

C++ Developer
UK > England

The median C++ Developer daily rate in England is £514 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 445 420 536
Rank change year-on-year -25 +116 -149
Contract jobs requiring a C++ Developer 98 226 251
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.27% 0.48% 0.36%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.29% 0.50% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 152 196
10th Percentile £400 £439 £521
25th Percentile £425 £600 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £750 £725
Median % change year-on-year -31.47% +3.45% +11.54%
75th Percentile £869 £825 £775
90th Percentile £1,175 £975 £825
UK median daily rate £500 £750 £725
% change year-on-year -33.33% +3.45% +11.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 8 5
10th Percentile £67.38 £25.75 £47.94
25th Percentile £69.06 £43.94 £55.00
Median hourly rate £70.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% -3.85% -4.41%
75th Percentile - £69.38 £67.50
90th Percentile - £75.00 -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £60.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year +16.67% +4.35% -15.44%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 34,161 44,903 67,296
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.57% 95.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,530 31,932 48,137
10th Percentile £285 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +6.11%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,560 1,303 1,794
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.75
Median hourly rate £37.63 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -16.39% +88.21% +11.21%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £74.00 £77.50 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.15
% change year-on-year -16.67% +86.37% +9.75%

C++ Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for C++ Developer in England

C++ Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for C++ Developer in England

C++ Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing C++ Developer in England over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for C++ Developer in England

C++ Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for C++ Developer in England

C++ Developer
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++ Developer within the England region over the 6 months to 31 May 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 -42 65 £750 - 34
South East +18 16 £400 -5.88% 8
East of England +15 9 £430 -14.00% 3
North of England +26 2 £410 -0.61% 11
North West +20 2 £410 +17.14% 10
South West +9 2 - -
Midlands +19 1 £675 +80.00% 9
East Midlands +14 1 £675 +125.00% 2
C++ Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 31 May 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 across the England region featuring C++ Developer in the job title.

1 98 (100.00%) C++
2 32 (32.65%) Python
3 29 (29.59%) Finance
4 28 (28.57%) Derivative
5 26 (26.53%) Linux
6 23 (23.47%) Banking
7 18 (18.37%) Agile
8 17 (17.35%) C
9 16 (16.33%) Analytics
10 15 (15.31%) Git
11 13 (13.27%) Front Office
11 13 (13.27%) Hedge funds
11 13 (13.27%) Social Skills
12 12 (12.24%) SQL
12 12 (12.24%) Investment Banking
12 12 (12.24%) Software Engineering
13 11 (11.22%) Equity Derivative
13 11 (11.22%) Algorithmic Trading
13 11 (11.22%) JavaScript
13 11 (11.22%) Windows
13 11 (11.22%) Low Latency
14 10 (10.20%) Algorithms
14 10 (10.20%) C#
14 10 (10.20%) OO
14 10 (10.20%) Degree
15 9 (9.18%) JIRA
15 9 (9.18%) SC Cleared
15 9 (9.18%) Security Cleared
15 9 (9.18%) HTML
15 9 (9.18%) CSS

C++ Developer Skill Set
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 2 (2.04%) Confluence
2 1 (1.02%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 1 (1.02%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 3 (3.06%) Azure
2 2 (2.04%) AWS
2 2 (2.04%) GitHub
3 1 (1.02%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 8 (8.16%) 5G
1 8 (8.16%) Radio Access Network
2 5 (5.10%) NAS
3 4 (4.08%) Link 16
3 4 (4.08%) Tactical Data Link
3 4 (4.08%) Wireshark
4 3 (3.06%) 4G
5 2 (2.04%) SNMP
5 2 (2.04%) Software-Defined Radio
5 2 (2.04%) TCP/IP
6 1 (1.02%) MPLS
6 1 (1.02%) Multicast
6 1 (1.02%) RTMP
6 1 (1.02%) RTP
6 1 (1.02%) RTSP
6 1 (1.02%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.04%) KDB
2 1 (1.02%) Couchbase
2 1 (1.02%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 15 (15.31%) Git
2 9 (9.18%) JIRA
3 6 (6.12%) Bitbucket
4 5 (5.10%) Jenkins
5 4 (4.08%) gcov
5 4 (4.08%) GDB
5 4 (4.08%) Gradle
5 4 (4.08%) Subversion
5 4 (4.08%) Visual Studio
6 3 (3.06%) GoogleTest
7 2 (2.04%) Eclipse
7 2 (2.04%) Karma Test Runner
7 2 (2.04%) Robot Framework
7 2 (2.04%) TeamCity
8 1 (1.02%) ClearCase
8 1 (1.02%) ClearQuest
8 1 (1.02%) CMake
8 1 (1.02%) Rational DOORS
8 1 (1.02%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 29 (29.59%) Finance
2 23 (23.47%) Banking
3 13 (13.27%) Front Office
3 13 (13.27%) Social Skills
4 12 (12.24%) Investment Banking
5 8 (8.16%) Public Sector
6 7 (7.14%) Games
7 6 (6.12%) Multimedia
8 5 (5.10%) Telecoms
9 2 (2.04%) Aerospace
10 1 (1.02%) Analytical Skills
10 1 (1.02%) Billing
10 1 (1.02%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (9.18%) CSS
1 9 (9.18%) HTML
2 8 (8.16%) REST
3 6 (6.12%) Swagger
4 4 (4.08%) JSON
4 4 (4.08%) XML
4 4 (4.08%) YAML
5 3 (3.06%) .NET
5 3 (3.06%) AngularJS
5 3 (3.06%) Twitter Bootstrap
6 2 (2.04%) FFmpeg
6 2 (2.04%) OpenAPI
6 2 (2.04%) Playwright
6 2 (2.04%) Qt
6 2 (2.04%) Unreal Engine
7 1 (1.02%) Bazel
7 1 (1.02%) GStreamer
7 1 (1.02%) Kafka
7 1 (1.02%) React
7 1 (1.02%) Unity (Game Engine)
Miscellaneous
1 28 (28.57%) Derivative
2 13 (13.27%) Hedge funds
3 11 (11.22%) Equity Derivative
4 10 (10.20%) Algorithms
5 9 (9.18%) Equities
6 6 (6.12%) CCTV
7 5 (5.10%) Data Structures
7 5 (5.10%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 3 (3.06%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (3.06%) Distributed Computing
8 3 (3.06%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (2.04%) Augmented Reality
9 2 (2.04%) Fixed Income
9 2 (2.04%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (2.04%) State Machine
9 2 (2.04%) Virtual Reality
10 1 (1.02%) Data Centre
10 1 (1.02%) Linux Command Line
10 1 (1.02%) Renewable Energy
10 1 (1.02%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 26 (26.53%) Linux
2 11 (11.22%) Windows
3 2 (2.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (2.04%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (18.37%) Agile
2 16 (16.33%) Analytics
3 12 (12.24%) Software Engineering
4 11 (11.22%) Algorithmic Trading
4 11 (11.22%) Low Latency
5 10 (10.20%) OO
6 9 (9.18%) Systematic Trading
7 8 (8.16%) Problem-Solving
8 7 (7.14%) Computer Science
8 7 (7.14%) Unit Testing
9 6 (6.12%) Clean Code
9 6 (6.12%) Full Stack Development
9 6 (6.12%) OCR
9 6 (6.12%) Refactoring
9 6 (6.12%) Stakeholder Management
9 6 (6.12%) Validation
10 5 (5.10%) CI/CD
10 5 (5.10%) Code Quality
10 5 (5.10%) Collaborative Working
10 5 (5.10%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 98 (100.00%) C++
2 32 (32.65%) Python
3 17 (17.35%) C
4 12 (12.24%) SQL
5 11 (11.22%) JavaScript
6 10 (10.20%) C#
7 7 (7.14%) Java
8 5 (5.10%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.02%) Bash
9 1 (1.02%) Embedded C++
9 1 (1.02%) ProC
9 1 (1.02%) Rust
9 1 (1.02%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 10 (10.20%) Degree
2 9 (9.18%) SC Cleared
2 9 (9.18%) Security Cleared
3 7 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (3.06%) Numerate Degree
5 1 (1.02%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.10%) ISO 9001
1 5 (5.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (2.04%) MISRA
System Software
1 2 (2.04%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (1.02%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 5 (5.10%) Google
2 4 (4.08%) Klocwork
2 4 (4.08%) Perforce
3 3 (3.06%) Oracle
4 2 (2.04%) Atlassian
5 1 (1.02%) HP
5 1 (1.02%) IBM
5 1 (1.02%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.02%) Sparx