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 21 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 107 93 94
Rank change year-on-year -14 +1 -41
Contract jobs citing C++ 28 38 41
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 1.23% 1.89% 1.59%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.02% 4.99% 4.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 12 16
10th Percentile £566 £602 £538
25th Percentile £638 £685 £611
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £688 £800 £693
Median % change year-on-year -14.06% +15.52% +2.59%
75th Percentile £819 £963 £871
90th Percentile £920 £1,001 £919
London median daily rate £725 £800 £650
% change year-on-year -9.38% +23.08% -10.34%

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 696 761 846
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 30.67% 37.84% 32.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 491 502 611
10th Percentile £355 £410 £411
25th Percentile £448 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £575 £568
Median % change year-on-year -7.83% +1.32% -5.46%
75th Percentile £638 £688 £689
90th Percentile £763 £763 £825
London median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 2
10th Percentile £29.70 - £46.30
25th Percentile £34.50 - £46.38
Median hourly rate £45.00 £29.07 £48.00
Median % change year-on-year +54.80% -39.44% -16.52%
75th Percentile £53.61 - £49.88
90th Percentile £57.28 - £50.10
London median hourly rate £54.75 £46.50 £51.13
% change year-on-year +17.74% -9.05% -11.09%

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 21 March 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 21 March 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 -42 10 £800 - 59
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 (3.57%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 5 (17.86%) AWS
2 3 (10.71%) Amazon ECS
2 3 (10.71%) Amazon S3
2 3 (10.71%) AWS Lambda
2 3 (10.71%) Serverless
3 2 (7.14%) Azure
3 2 (7.14%) GCP
4 1 (3.57%) ChatGPT
4 1 (3.57%) GitHub
4 1 (3.57%) GitHub Copilot
4 1 (3.57%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.14%) Big Data
2 1 (3.57%) Hadoop
2 1 (3.57%) KDB
2 1 (3.57%) Kdb+
2 1 (3.57%) Metadata
2 1 (3.57%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 5 (17.86%) Jenkins
2 4 (14.29%) Git
3 2 (7.14%) JIRA
4 1 (3.57%) SonarQube
General
1 27 (96.43%) Finance
2 7 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (25.00%) Front Office
3 5 (17.86%) Banking
4 4 (14.29%) Social Skills
5 2 (7.14%) Financial Institution
5 2 (7.14%) Investment Banking
6 1 (3.57%) Law
Job Titles
1 17 (60.71%) Senior
2 14 (50.00%) C++ Software Engineer
2 14 (50.00%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
2 14 (50.00%) Senior Software Engineer
2 14 (50.00%) Software Engineer
3 10 (35.71%) Developer
4 6 (21.43%) Quantitative Developer
5 4 (14.29%) Senior Developer
6 3 (10.71%) C++ Developer
6 3 (10.71%) Senior C++ Developer
7 2 (7.14%) Evangelist
8 1 (3.57%) Analyst
8 1 (3.57%) C++ Software Developer
8 1 (3.57%) Developer/Software Engineer
8 1 (3.57%) KDB Developer
8 1 (3.57%) Python Developer
8 1 (3.57%) Qualitative Analyst
8 1 (3.57%) Quantitative Analyst
8 1 (3.57%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (14.29%) NumPy
2 3 (10.71%) Pandas
2 3 (10.71%) PyTorch
2 3 (10.71%) SciPy
2 3 (10.71%) TensorFlow
3 2 (7.14%) Boost C++ Libraries
3 2 (7.14%) COM
3 2 (7.14%) Qt
3 2 (7.14%) Web Services
4 1 (3.57%) JSON
4 1 (3.57%) Kafka
4 1 (3.57%) LangChain
4 1 (3.57%) Node.js
4 1 (3.57%) scikit-learn
4 1 (3.57%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (39.29%) Greenfield Project
2 5 (17.86%) Derivative
3 4 (14.29%) Equities
4 3 (10.71%) Equity Derivative
4 3 (10.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (7.14%) AI Agents
5 2 (7.14%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (3.57%) Algorithms
6 1 (3.57%) Blog
6 1 (3.57%) Credit Derivative
6 1 (3.57%) Data Structures
6 1 (3.57%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (3.57%) Fixed Income
6 1 (3.57%) Hedge funds
6 1 (3.57%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 16 (57.14%) Linux
2 14 (50.00%) Unix
3 2 (7.14%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (57.14%) Software Engineering
2 13 (46.43%) Agile
3 7 (25.00%) Analytics
3 7 (25.00%) Mathematics
4 5 (17.86%) DevOps
4 5 (17.86%) Machine Learning
4 5 (17.86%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (14.29%) CI/CD
5 4 (14.29%) Decision-Making
5 4 (14.29%) Quantitative Research
6 3 (10.71%) Black-Scholes
6 3 (10.71%) Computer Science
6 3 (10.71%) Data Science
6 3 (10.71%) Greeks
6 3 (10.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 3 (10.71%) Mentoring
6 3 (10.71%) Monte Carlo Method
6 3 (10.71%) Physics
6 3 (10.71%) Risk Analytics
6 3 (10.71%) Stochastic Calculus
Programming Languages
1 11 (39.29%) C#
2 9 (32.14%) Python
3 6 (21.43%) SQL
4 4 (14.29%) Java
5 2 (7.14%) VBA
6 1 (3.57%) JavaScript
6 1 (3.57%) R
6 1 (3.57%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 21 (75.00%) Degree
2 5 (17.86%) Master's Degree
3 3 (10.71%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (10.71%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.57%) Data Quality
1 1 (3.57%) EMIR
System Software
1 4 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (14.29%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (3.57%) Databricks
1 1 (3.57%) Microsoft
1 1 (3.57%) Oracle