C++ Contracts in London

C++
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for C++ skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited C++ over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 149 98 151
Rank change year-on-year -51 +53 -54
Contract jobs citing C++ 296 668 750
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.69% 2.63% 1.94%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.54% 6.56% 4.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 200 472 564
10th Percentile £413 £513 £513
25th Percentile £500 £600 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £659 £715 £738
Median % change year-on-year -7.87% -3.05% +13.46%
75th Percentile £851 £841 £800
90th Percentile £950 £959 £875
England median daily rate £575 £650 £700
% change year-on-year -11.54% -7.14% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 9 11
10th Percentile £44.62 £25.75 £36.25
25th Percentile £47.75 £48.60 £48.31
Median hourly rate £67.13 £52.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +27.86% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £72.03 £55.79 £67.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £63.25 £69.38
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year - +8.33% +20.00%

All Programming Languages
London

C++ is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 6,524 10,182 16,088
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 37.26% 40.03% 41.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,973 7,675 12,404
10th Percentile £375 £413 £413
25th Percentile £463 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £700 £738 £713
90th Percentile £838 £825 £800
England median daily rate £543 £564 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% +2.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 74 102
10th Percentile £23.80 £25.75 £31.03
25th Percentile £33.07 £39.31 £35.00
Median hourly rate £50.50 £60.00 £49.24
Median % change year-on-year -15.83% +21.85% +3.67%
75th Percentile £62.50 £75.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £88.50 £76.88
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year - +19.05% +20.00%

C++
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing C++ as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for C++ in London

C++
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for C++ in London

C++
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing C++ in London over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for C++ in London

C++
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for C++ in London

C++
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing C++ in London over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for C++ in London

C++
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing C++ within the London region over the 6 months to 1 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
Central London -45 41 £710 +5.19% 20
West London +41 23 £475 -29.10% 19
South London +5 5 £525 -12.50% 3
C++
England

C++
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 8 (2.70%) Apache Spark
2 7 (2.36%) BizTalk Server
3 5 (1.69%) Confluence
4 3 (1.01%) Apache
4 3 (1.01%) nginx
5 2 (0.68%) SAS
5 2 (0.68%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.34%) CMS
6 1 (0.34%) Ethereum
6 1 (0.34%) Hyperledger
6 1 (0.34%) JBoss
6 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.34%) WebSphere
Applications
1 12 (4.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.03%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (0.68%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.68%) Simulink
4 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (1.01%) Distributed Ledger
2 2 (0.68%) ION MarketView
3 1 (0.34%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 55 (18.58%) AWS
2 39 (13.18%) Azure
3 15 (5.07%) Azure DevOps
4 13 (4.39%) GitHub
5 7 (2.36%) AWS Lambda
5 7 (2.36%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 7 (2.36%) Azure Functions
5 7 (2.36%) Azure Logic Apps
5 7 (2.36%) Azure Storage
5 7 (2.36%) Serverless
6 4 (1.35%) GCP
7 3 (1.01%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 3 (1.01%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (1.01%) Amazon ELB
7 3 (1.01%) Cloud Computing
7 3 (1.01%) OpenShift
8 2 (0.68%) npm
8 2 (0.68%) NuGet
8 2 (0.68%) Yarn
9 1 (0.34%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.01%) 5G
1 3 (1.01%) IPv4
1 3 (1.01%) Reverse Proxy
1 3 (1.01%) TCP/IP
1 3 (1.01%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (0.68%) DNS
2 2 (0.68%) Firewall
3 1 (0.34%) 4G
3 1 (0.34%) Bluetooth
3 1 (0.34%) DHCP
3 1 (0.34%) HTTP
3 1 (0.34%) MPLS
3 1 (0.34%) Multicast
3 1 (0.34%) Network Security
3 1 (0.34%) NFC
3 1 (0.34%) RTSP
3 1 (0.34%) UWB
3 1 (0.34%) VLAN
3 1 (0.34%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (7.43%) MongoDB
2 18 (6.08%) NoSQL
3 13 (4.39%) Elasticsearch
4 12 (4.05%) Relational Database
5 9 (3.04%) Azure SQL Database
6 8 (2.70%) Couchbase
6 8 (2.70%) KDB
6 8 (2.70%) SQL Server
7 6 (2.03%) Data Mining
7 6 (2.03%) PostgreSQL
8 5 (1.69%) MySQL
9 3 (1.01%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (1.01%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (1.01%) DynamoDB
9 3 (1.01%) RDBMS
10 2 (0.68%) Apache Cassandra
10 2 (0.68%) Big Data
11 1 (0.34%) Apache Hive
11 1 (0.34%) Redis
11 1 (0.34%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 35 (11.82%) Git
2 26 (8.78%) Jenkins
3 19 (6.42%) JIRA
4 9 (3.04%) Artifactory
4 9 (3.04%) Subversion
4 9 (3.04%) Visual Studio
5 8 (2.70%) Bitbucket
6 5 (1.69%) Karma Test Runner
6 5 (1.69%) TeamCity
7 4 (1.35%) JMeter
8 3 (1.01%) Jasmine
8 3 (1.01%) LoadRunner
8 3 (1.01%) Maven
8 3 (1.01%) NeoLoad
9 2 (0.68%) Babel
9 2 (0.68%) CMake
9 2 (0.68%) Visual Studio Code
9 2 (0.68%) webpack
10 1 (0.34%) Rational DOORS
10 1 (0.34%) WebDriver
General
1 106 (35.81%) Finance
2 65 (21.96%) Banking
3 59 (19.93%) Social Skills
4 37 (12.50%) Front Office
5 36 (12.16%) Analytical Skills
6 30 (10.14%) Investment Banking
7 8 (2.70%) Games
8 5 (1.69%) Public Sector
9 4 (1.35%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.68%) Aerospace
10 2 (0.68%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.34%) Back Office
11 1 (0.34%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.34%) International Banking
11 1 (0.34%) Legal
11 1 (0.34%) Multimedia
11 1 (0.34%) Retail
Job Titles
1 134 (45.27%) Developer
2 65 (21.96%) C++ Developer
3 34 (11.49%) Senior
4 30 (10.14%) Software Engineer
5 28 (9.46%) Quantitative Developer
6 26 (8.78%) Analyst
7 22 (7.43%) Python Developer
8 15 (5.07%) Python Engineer
9 14 (4.73%) Qualitative Analyst
9 14 (4.73%) Quantitative Analyst
9 14 (4.73%) Senior Developer
10 13 (4.39%) Front Office Developer
11 12 (4.05%) Architect
11 12 (4.05%) C++ Software Engineer
12 11 (3.72%) C++ Quantitative Developer
12 11 (3.72%) Development Engineer
12 11 (3.72%) Java Developer
13 10 (3.38%) AWS Engineer
13 10 (3.38%) Front Office C++ Developer
13 10 (3.38%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (14.53%) .NET
2 24 (8.11%) Kafka
3 21 (7.09%) NumPy
4 19 (6.42%) Pandas
5 18 (6.08%) REST
6 17 (5.74%) AngularJS
7 16 (5.41%) SciPy
8 15 (5.07%) .NET Core
9 13 (4.39%) React
10 12 (4.05%) Spring Boot
11 11 (3.72%) ADO
11 11 (3.72%) CSS
11 11 (3.72%) HTML
12 10 (3.38%) Middleware
12 10 (3.38%) Node.js
13 9 (3.04%) RESTful
14 8 (2.70%) RabbitMQ
15 7 (2.36%) J2EE
15 7 (2.36%) Spring
16 6 (2.03%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 63 (21.28%) Derivative
2 41 (13.85%) Algorithms
3 27 (9.12%) Hedge funds
4 24 (8.11%) Distributed Systems
5 22 (7.43%) Data Structures
6 18 (6.08%) Equity Derivative
7 15 (5.07%) Data Protection Act
8 14 (4.73%) Equities
8 14 (4.73%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 12 (4.05%) Fixed Income
10 10 (3.38%) Self-Motivation
11 9 (3.04%) Distributed Computing
11 9 (3.04%) Legacy Systems
12 8 (2.70%) Blockchain
12 8 (2.70%) Cloud Native
13 6 (2.03%) Credit Derivative
13 6 (2.03%) Distributed Applications
14 5 (1.69%) iPad
14 5 (1.69%) iPhone
14 5 (1.69%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 46 (15.54%) Linux
2 30 (10.14%) Windows
3 9 (3.04%) Windows Server
4 8 (2.70%) Apple iOS
5 6 (2.03%) Unix
6 2 (0.68%) Android
7 1 (0.34%) Embedded Linux
7 1 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.34%) ThreadX
7 1 (0.34%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (19.59%) Software Engineering
2 49 (16.55%) DevOps
3 45 (15.20%) Computer Science
4 44 (14.86%) Analytics
5 43 (14.53%) Agile
5 43 (14.53%) CI/CD
6 41 (13.85%) Problem-Solving
7 38 (12.84%) Mathematics
8 35 (11.82%) Test Automation
9 29 (9.80%) Multithreading
10 28 (9.46%) OO
11 22 (7.43%) Full Stack Development
11 22 (7.43%) Unit Testing
12 21 (7.09%) Quantitative Finance
13 20 (6.76%) Microservices
13 20 (6.76%) Roadmaps
14 19 (6.42%) Data Pipeline
14 19 (6.42%) Low Latency
14 19 (6.42%) Physics
15 17 (5.74%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 160 (54.05%) Python
2 118 (39.86%) Java
3 72 (24.32%) C#
4 64 (21.62%) SQL
5 60 (20.27%) C
6 27 (9.12%) JavaScript
7 23 (7.77%) Go
8 20 (6.76%) Shell Script
9 18 (6.08%) Rust
10 16 (5.41%) VBA
11 12 (4.05%) Bash
11 12 (4.05%) PowerShell
12 11 (3.72%) TypeScript
13 8 (2.70%) R
13 8 (2.70%) VB.NET
14 7 (2.36%) Perl
14 7 (2.36%) PL/SQL
14 7 (2.36%) Scala
14 7 (2.36%) T-SQL
15 6 (2.03%) Swift
Qualifications
1 66 (22.30%) Degree
2 24 (8.11%) Computer Science Degree
3 17 (5.74%) Numerate Degree
4 14 (4.73%) Master's Degree
5 8 (2.70%) PhD
5 8 (2.70%) SC Cleared
5 8 (2.70%) Security Cleared
6 3 (1.01%) DV Cleared
7 2 (0.68%) MBA
8 1 (0.34%) CREST Certified
8 1 (0.34%) ISEB
8 1 (0.34%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.34%) OSCP
8 1 (0.34%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (2.70%) QA
2 4 (1.35%) Accessibility
2 4 (1.35%) MiFID
3 2 (0.68%) GDPR
4 1 (0.34%) COPPA
4 1 (0.34%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.34%) JTAG
4 1 (0.34%) NIST
4 1 (0.34%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.34%) SLA
4 1 (0.34%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 13 (4.39%) Docker
2 8 (2.70%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 5 (1.69%) Firmware
4 1 (0.34%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.34%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (0.34%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 30 (10.14%) Kubernetes
2 11 (3.72%) Consul
2 11 (3.72%) Terraform
3 10 (3.38%) Ansible
3 10 (3.38%) Grafana
4 9 (3.04%) BladeLogic
4 9 (3.04%) ITRS Geneos
4 9 (3.04%) Prometheus
5 4 (1.35%) Kibana
6 3 (1.01%) Packer
7 2 (0.68%) Puppet
8 1 (0.34%) HP ALM
8 1 (0.34%) logstash
8 1 (0.34%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.34%) systemd
Vendors
1 31 (10.47%) Oracle
2 13 (4.39%) Dynatrace
2 13 (4.39%) Microsoft
3 9 (3.04%) Altiris
3 9 (3.04%) Citrix
4 8 (2.70%) SaltStack
5 7 (2.36%) MuleSoft
6 4 (1.35%) AppDynamics
6 4 (1.35%) ION Trading
6 4 (1.35%) Splunk
7 3 (1.01%) Google
8 2 (0.68%) CA
8 2 (0.68%) HP
8 2 (0.68%) MarketAxess
8 2 (0.68%) Red Hat
8 2 (0.68%) ServiceNow
8 2 (0.68%) Tradeweb
9 1 (0.34%) Alteryx
9 1 (0.34%) IBM
9 1 (0.34%) Renesas