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 15 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 92 95 102
Rank change year-on-year +3 +7 -62
Contract jobs citing C++ 39 32 46
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 1.93% 1.48% 1.79%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.99% 4.38% 5.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 8 23
10th Percentile £499 £441 £348
25th Percentile £625 £516 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £625 £655
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% -4.58% +9.17%
75th Percentile £814 £762 £870
90th Percentile £905 £963 £898
London median daily rate £725 £700 £650
% change year-on-year +3.57% +7.69% -10.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £26.25 - -
Median hourly rate £27.50 - -
75th Percentile £28.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £56.50 £61.25 £60.00
% change year-on-year -7.76% +2.08% +20.83%

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 651 731 857
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 32.29% 33.89% 33.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 470 466 638
10th Percentile £357 £407 £413
25th Percentile £435 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £589
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -2.34% -1.88%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £713
90th Percentile £788 £788 £831
London median daily rate £538 £563 £575
% change year-on-year -4.44% -2.17% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 1
10th Percentile £26.33 £38.10 -
25th Percentile £26.44 £40.13 £46.25
Median hourly rate £31.00 £76.75 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -59.61% +61.58% -5.47%
75th Percentile £38.50 £112.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £43.90 - -
London median hourly rate £55.00 £52.50 £50.50
% change year-on-year +4.76% +3.96% -12.17%

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 15 January 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 15 January 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 -26 18 £763 +22.00% 51
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 (2.56%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (2.56%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 5 (12.82%) AWS
2 3 (7.69%) Amazon ECS
2 3 (7.69%) Amazon S3
2 3 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
2 3 (7.69%) Azure
2 3 (7.69%) Serverless
3 2 (5.13%) GCP
4 1 (2.56%) ChatGPT
4 1 (2.56%) Entra ID
4 1 (2.56%) GitHub
4 1 (2.56%) GitHub Copilot
4 1 (2.56%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.13%) Big Data
2 1 (2.56%) Hadoop
2 1 (2.56%) KDB
2 1 (2.56%) Kdb+
2 1 (2.56%) Metadata
2 1 (2.56%) Oracle Database
2 1 (2.56%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (10.26%) Git
2 3 (7.69%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.56%) SonarQube
General
1 32 (82.05%) Finance
2 9 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (20.51%) Front Office
4 6 (15.38%) Banking
4 6 (15.38%) Social Skills
5 3 (7.69%) Investment Banking
6 2 (5.13%) Financial Institution
6 2 (5.13%) Games
7 1 (2.56%) Back Office
7 1 (2.56%) Law
7 1 (2.56%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 22 (56.41%) Software Engineer
2 21 (53.85%) Senior
3 20 (51.28%) C++ Software Engineer
3 20 (51.28%) Senior Software Engineer
4 19 (48.72%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
5 11 (28.21%) Developer
6 7 (17.95%) Quantitative Developer
7 3 (7.69%) Analyst
8 2 (5.13%) Evangelist
8 2 (5.13%) Qualitative Analyst
8 2 (5.13%) Quantitative Analyst
8 2 (5.13%) Senior Developer
9 1 (2.56%) C++ Software Developer
9 1 (2.56%) Developer/Software Engineer
9 1 (2.56%) KDB Developer
9 1 (2.56%) Linux Engineer
9 1 (2.56%) Python Engineer
9 1 (2.56%) Python Software Engineer
9 1 (2.56%) Senior C++ Developer
9 1 (2.56%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (10.26%) NumPy
2 3 (7.69%) Pandas
2 3 (7.69%) PyTorch
2 3 (7.69%) SciPy
2 3 (7.69%) TensorFlow
3 2 (5.13%) Unity (Game Engine)
3 2 (5.13%) XML
4 1 (2.56%) .NET
4 1 (2.56%) AngularJS
4 1 (2.56%) Bazel
4 1 (2.56%) HTML
4 1 (2.56%) JSON
4 1 (2.56%) Kafka
4 1 (2.56%) LangChain
4 1 (2.56%) LDAP
4 1 (2.56%) Node.js
4 1 (2.56%) scikit-learn
4 1 (2.56%) Web Services
4 1 (2.56%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 9 (23.08%) Greenfield Project
2 5 (12.82%) Derivative
3 4 (10.26%) Distributed Computing
3 4 (10.26%) Equities
4 3 (7.69%) Equity Derivative
4 3 (7.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (5.13%) 3D Graphics
5 2 (5.13%) AI Agents
5 2 (5.13%) Algorithms
5 2 (5.13%) Virtual Reality
6 1 (2.56%) Blog
6 1 (2.56%) Credit Derivative
6 1 (2.56%) Credit Risk
6 1 (2.56%) Data Structures
6 1 (2.56%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (2.56%) Fixed Income
6 1 (2.56%) Hedge funds
6 1 (2.56%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (2.56%) Virtual Team
6 1 (2.56%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 20 (51.28%) Linux
2 19 (48.72%) Unix
3 2 (5.13%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (61.54%) Software Engineering
2 20 (51.28%) Agile
3 10 (25.64%) Mathematics
3 10 (25.64%) Mentoring
4 7 (17.95%) CI/CD
4 7 (17.95%) DevOps
4 7 (17.95%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (12.82%) Analytics
5 5 (12.82%) Decision-Making
5 5 (12.82%) Machine Learning
5 5 (12.82%) Quantitative Research
6 4 (10.26%) Computer Science
6 4 (10.26%) Data Science
6 4 (10.26%) Monte Carlo Method
6 4 (10.26%) Validation
7 3 (7.69%) AI
7 3 (7.69%) Benchmarking
7 3 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 3 (7.69%) Regression Testing
7 3 (7.69%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 17 (43.59%) SQL
2 15 (38.46%) C#
3 14 (35.90%) Python
4 4 (10.26%) Java
5 2 (5.13%) PHP
5 2 (5.13%) R
6 1 (2.56%) C
6 1 (2.56%) Fortran
6 1 (2.56%) JavaScript
6 1 (2.56%) MATLAB
6 1 (2.56%) PowerShell
6 1 (2.56%) TypeScript
6 1 (2.56%) VB.NET
6 1 (2.56%) VBA
6 1 (2.56%) VC++
Qualifications
1 27 (69.23%) Degree
2 6 (15.38%) Master's Degree
3 4 (10.26%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (7.69%) PhD
5 1 (2.56%) Postgraduate
5 1 (2.56%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.13%) EMIR
2 1 (2.56%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (10.26%) Docker
2 1 (2.56%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (10.26%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (7.69%) Microsoft
1 3 (7.69%) Oracle
2 1 (2.56%) Databricks
2 1 (2.56%) SAP