C++ Software Engineer Contracts

Software Engineer - C++
UK

The median Software Engineer - C++ daily rate in the UK is £475 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 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
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 456 595 695
Rank change year-on-year +139 +100 -35
Contract jobs requiring a C++ Software Engineer 115 92 150
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.27% 0.16% 0.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.29% 0.17% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 23 30
10th Percentile £413 £415 £499
25th Percentile £434 £506 £507
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £650 £675
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% -3.70% +94.24%
75th Percentile £525 £775 £817
90th Percentile £555 £825 £838
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £530
% change year-on-year -3.06% -7.46% +53.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 70 41 65
10th Percentile £57.50 £57.75 £49.26
25th Percentile £61.25 - -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% +33.33%
75th Percentile - £65.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.00 £71.30
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year - +8.33% +26.32%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 39,507 53,867 83,506
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.79% 94.60% 95.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,718 37,620 58,687
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £544 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.40% +3.52% +9.38%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,672 1,498 2,036
10th Percentile £12.82 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.29 £19.13 £15.75
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.90 £76.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

C++ Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for C++ Software Engineer in the UK

C++ Software Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for C++ Software Engineer in the UK

C++ Software Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing C++ Software Engineer over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for C++ Software Engineer in the UK

C++ Software Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for C++ Software Engineer in the UK

C++ Software Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing C++ Software Engineer over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for C++ Software Engineer in the UK

C++ Software Engineer
Top 11 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing C++ Software Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 18 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
England +138 107 £475 -31.16% 83
UK excluding London +96 101 £475 -3.06% 61
East of England +30 47 £425 +65.05% 13
South East +50 28 £475 -10.38% 21
Work from Home +100 21 £475 -25.78% 42
South West -1 18 £500 - 11
London +96 12 £475 -34.48% 36
Scotland +45 5 - - 1
North of England +33 2 - - 4
Yorkshire +16 2 - - 3
Wales +17 1 - - 2

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

For the 6 months to 18 May 2024, C++ Software Engineer 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++ Software Engineer in the job title.

1 115 (100.00%) C++
1 115 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 61 (53.04%) Agile
3 47 (40.87%) C
4 46 (40.00%) C#
5 45 (39.13%) Linux
6 43 (37.39%) Social Skills
7 38 (33.04%) DevOps
7 38 (33.04%) Continuous Integration
8 37 (32.17%) Unit Testing
8 37 (32.17%) TDD
9 29 (25.22%) Continuous Improvement
10 28 (24.35%) Scrum
10 28 (24.35%) Software Testing
11 26 (22.61%) Pair Programming
11 26 (22.61%) Electronics
11 26 (22.61%) Modbus
11 26 (22.61%) RS-485
11 26 (22.61%) RS-422
11 26 (22.61%) Customer Requirements
12 25 (21.74%) Windows
12 25 (21.74%) JIRA
13 23 (20.00%) Validation
14 21 (18.26%) JavaScript
15 20 (17.39%) Java
15 20 (17.39%) Eclipse
16 19 (16.52%) Git
16 19 (16.52%) Self-Motivation
17 18 (15.65%) CI/CD
17 18 (15.65%) GoogleTest

C++ Software Engineer 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:

Application Platforms
1 13 (11.30%) Confluence
Applications
1 7 (6.09%) Simulink
2 2 (1.74%) Adobe After Effects
2 2 (1.74%) Blender
2 2 (1.74%) Maya
2 2 (1.74%) Photoshop
Cloud Services
1 10 (8.70%) GitHub
2 9 (7.83%) Azure
3 3 (2.61%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (0.87%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 26 (22.61%) Modbus
1 26 (22.61%) RS-422
1 26 (22.61%) RS-485
2 11 (9.57%) Software-Defined Radio
2 11 (9.57%) TCP/IP
3 10 (8.70%) SNMP
4 9 (7.83%) Ethernet
5 8 (6.96%) 802.11
5 8 (6.96%) Wi-Fi
6 4 (3.48%) Radio Access Network
7 2 (1.74%) Diameter Protocol
7 2 (1.74%) Wireless
8 1 (0.87%) MQTT
8 1 (0.87%) RS-232
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.22%) Couchbase
2 1 (0.87%) CouchDB
2 1 (0.87%) MongoDB
2 1 (0.87%) MySQL
2 1 (0.87%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (0.87%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 25 (21.74%) JIRA
2 20 (17.39%) Eclipse
3 19 (16.52%) Git
4 18 (15.65%) GoogleTest
5 14 (12.17%) Jenkins
6 13 (11.30%) Bitbucket
7 11 (9.57%) Visual Studio
8 10 (8.70%) Robot Framework
9 2 (1.74%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.87%) CMake
General
1 43 (37.39%) Social Skills
2 26 (22.61%) Electronics
3 10 (8.70%) Presentation Skills
4 9 (7.83%) Military
5 6 (5.22%) Aerospace
6 3 (2.61%) Games
7 2 (1.74%) Finance
7 2 (1.74%) Law
7 2 (1.74%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.87%) Automotive
8 1 (0.87%) Aviation
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (12.17%) CSS
1 14 (12.17%) HTML
2 10 (8.70%) Node.js
3 9 (7.83%) Web Services
4 8 (6.96%) 802.1X
4 8 (6.96%) Qt
5 6 (5.22%) .NET
5 6 (5.22%) Kafka
6 3 (2.61%) WPF
7 2 (1.74%) ADO
7 2 (1.74%) Blazor
7 2 (1.74%) MFC
7 2 (1.74%) OpenCV
7 2 (1.74%) RESTful
7 2 (1.74%) SOAP
7 2 (1.74%) Unreal Engine
7 2 (1.74%) WinForms
7 2 (1.74%) XML
8 1 (0.87%) OpenVINO
8 1 (0.87%) React
Miscellaneous
1 19 (16.52%) Self-Motivation
2 8 (6.96%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 4 (3.48%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (2.61%) Augmented Reality
4 3 (2.61%) Virtual Reality
5 2 (1.74%) CUDA
6 1 (0.87%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.87%) Client/Server
6 1 (0.87%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (0.87%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 45 (39.13%) Linux
2 25 (21.74%) Windows
3 6 (5.22%) Embedded Linux
4 2 (1.74%) Android
4 2 (1.74%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 61 (53.04%) Agile
3 38 (33.04%) Continuous Integration
3 38 (33.04%) DevOps
4 37 (32.17%) TDD
4 37 (32.17%) Unit Testing
5 29 (25.22%) Continuous Improvement
6 28 (24.35%) Scrum
6 28 (24.35%) Software Testing
7 26 (22.61%) Customer Requirements
7 26 (22.61%) Pair Programming
8 23 (20.00%) Validation
9 18 (15.65%) CI/CD
10 16 (13.91%) Problem-Solving
10 16 (13.91%) Verification and Validation
10 16 (13.91%) Visualisation
11 15 (13.04%) UML
12 11 (9.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 11 (9.57%) SysML
13 9 (7.83%) Digital Twin
Programming Languages
1 115 (100.00%) C++
2 47 (40.87%) C
3 46 (40.00%) C#
4 21 (18.26%) JavaScript
5 20 (17.39%) Java
6 17 (14.78%) Python
7 10 (8.70%) Perl
8 8 (6.96%) Tcl
9 7 (6.09%) MATLAB
10 3 (2.61%) Bash
10 3 (2.61%) Embedded C++
11 2 (1.74%) C++/CLI
11 2 (1.74%) SQL
12 1 (0.87%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 12 (10.43%) Degree
2 11 (9.57%) Security Cleared
3 8 (6.96%) SC Cleared
4 3 (2.61%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.74%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.87%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.96%) MISRA
System Software
1 11 (9.57%) Firmware
2 3 (2.61%) VirtualBox
3 2 (1.74%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.87%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.87%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 18 (15.65%) Google
2 10 (8.70%) Atlassian
3 9 (7.83%) Microsoft
4 8 (6.96%) Oracle
5 2 (1.74%) Adobe
5 2 (1.74%) NVIDIA
5 2 (1.74%) Xamarin
6 1 (0.87%) Compaq
6 1 (0.87%) Twitter
6 1 (0.87%) VMware