C++ Contract Job Trends in Central London

C++
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring C++ skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 117 90 86
Rank change year-on-year -27 -4 -37
Contract jobs citing C++ 22 34 42
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.89% 1.73% 1.75%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.31% 4.50% 4.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 13 17
10th Percentile - £630 £543
25th Percentile £650 £707 £628
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £755 £800 £700
Median % change year-on-year -5.63% +14.29% +3.70%
75th Percentile £859 £913 £838
90th Percentile £925 £990 £859
London median daily rate £650 £800 £650
% change year-on-year -18.75% +23.08% -7.14%

All Programming Languages
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 664 756 842
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 26.86% 38.57% 35.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 462 504 604
10th Percentile £355 £407 £400
25th Percentile £450 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £552
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% +4.21% -11.72%
75th Percentile £638 £690 £688
90th Percentile £749 £788 £796
London median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 1
10th Percentile £26.32 - -
25th Percentile £32.39 - £46.75
Median hourly rate £37.50 £29.07 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year +29.00% -40.06% -11.82%
75th Percentile £56.11 - £50.25
90th Percentile £65.83 - -
London median hourly rate £58.94 £41.66 £51.13
% change year-on-year +41.48% -18.52% -12.98%

C++
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing C++ relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London.

C++ job vacancy trend in Central London

C++
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing C++.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing C++

C++
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing C++ in Central London over the 6 months to 20 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for C++ in Central London

C++
Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing C++.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing C++

C++
Contract Job Locations in Central 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 Central London region over the 6 months to 20 May 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
City of London -31 9 £800 - 36
C++
London

C++
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London 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 (4.55%) IIS
1 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (4.55%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (13.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (4.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 1 (4.55%) Orchestrade
Cloud Services
1 3 (13.64%) Amazon ECS
1 3 (13.64%) Amazon S3
1 3 (13.64%) AWS
1 3 (13.64%) AWS Lambda
1 3 (13.64%) Serverless
2 1 (4.55%) ChatGPT
2 1 (4.55%) Entra ID
2 1 (4.55%) GitHub
2 1 (4.55%) GitHub Copilot
2 1 (4.55%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (4.55%) OneDrive
2 1 (4.55%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.55%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 5 (22.73%) Jenkins
2 3 (13.64%) Git
3 2 (9.09%) JIRA
4 1 (4.55%) Fiddler
4 1 (4.55%) MSI
4 1 (4.55%) SonarQube
4 1 (4.55%) Visual Studio
General
1 19 (86.36%) Finance
2 7 (31.82%) Banking
3 5 (22.73%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (22.73%) Front Office
4 4 (18.18%) Investment Banking
4 4 (18.18%) Social Skills
5 1 (4.55%) Financial Institution
5 1 (4.55%) Legal
Job Titles
1 12 (54.55%) Senior
2 10 (45.45%) Developer
3 9 (40.91%) C++ Software Engineer
3 9 (40.91%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
3 9 (40.91%) Senior Software Engineer
3 9 (40.91%) Software Engineer
4 5 (22.73%) Quantitative Developer
5 3 (13.64%) C++ Developer
5 3 (13.64%) Senior C++ Developer
5 3 (13.64%) Senior Developer
6 2 (9.09%) Evangelist
7 1 (4.55%) C++ Software Developer
7 1 (4.55%) Developer/Software Engineer
7 1 (4.55%) Junior
7 1 (4.55%) Junior Developer
7 1 (4.55%) Junior Software Developer
7 1 (4.55%) Pricing Developer
7 1 (4.55%) Senior Software Developer
7 1 (4.55%) Software Developer
7 1 (4.55%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (13.64%) NumPy
1 3 (13.64%) Pandas
1 3 (13.64%) SciPy
1 3 (13.64%) Web Services
2 2 (9.09%) Boost C++ Libraries
2 2 (9.09%) COM
2 2 (9.09%) PyTorch
2 2 (9.09%) Qt
2 2 (9.09%) TensorFlow
3 1 (4.55%) .NET
3 1 (4.55%) .NET Framework
3 1 (4.55%) Kafka
3 1 (4.55%) LangChain
3 1 (4.55%) Node.js
3 1 (4.55%) React
3 1 (4.55%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (36.36%) Greenfield Project
2 5 (22.73%) Derivative
2 5 (22.73%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 3 (13.64%) Equities
3 3 (13.64%) Equity Derivative
4 2 (9.09%) AI Agents
5 1 (4.55%) Algorithms
5 1 (4.55%) Blog
5 1 (4.55%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (4.55%) Exotic Derivative
5 1 (4.55%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (4.55%) OTC Derivatives
5 1 (4.55%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 11 (50.00%) Linux
2 9 (40.91%) Unix
3 3 (13.64%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (45.45%) Software Engineering
2 8 (36.36%) Agile
3 7 (31.82%) Analytics
3 7 (31.82%) Mathematics
4 4 (18.18%) DevOps
4 4 (18.18%) Monte Carlo Method
4 4 (18.18%) Physics
4 4 (18.18%) Risk Analytics
5 3 (13.64%) Benchmarking
5 3 (13.64%) Black-Scholes
5 3 (13.64%) CI/CD
5 3 (13.64%) Computer Science
5 3 (13.64%) Decision-Making
5 3 (13.64%) Greeks
5 3 (13.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 3 (13.64%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (13.64%) Quantitative Research
5 3 (13.64%) Regression Testing
5 3 (13.64%) Stochastic Calculus
6 2 (9.09%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (50.00%) C#
2 7 (31.82%) Python
3 3 (13.64%) Java
3 3 (13.64%) SQL
4 2 (9.09%) TypeScript
4 2 (9.09%) VBA
5 1 (4.55%) JavaScript
5 1 (4.55%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 15 (68.18%) Degree
2 5 (22.73%) Master's Degree
3 4 (18.18%) PhD
4 2 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
System Software
1 3 (13.64%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (13.64%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 1 (4.55%) Microsoft
1 1 (4.55%) Oracle