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

6 months to
28 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 98 92 91
Rank change year-on-year -6 -1 -51
Contract jobs citing C++ 35 34 46
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 1.69% 1.60% 1.75%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.35% 4.58% 5.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 9 21
10th Percentile £574 £445 £325
25th Percentile £650 £538 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £713 £650 £655
Median % change year-on-year +9.62% -0.76% +0.77%
75th Percentile £821 £925 £875
90th Percentile £910 £1,010 £900
London median daily rate £725 £725 £638
% change year-on-year - +13.73% -12.07%

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 654 742 865
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 31.56% 34.97% 32.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 473 475 644
10th Percentile £358 £413 £413
25th Percentile £425 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £670 £688 £700
90th Percentile £787 £754 £825
London median daily rate £535 £563 £575
% change year-on-year -4.89% -2.17% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 2
10th Percentile £27.70 £38.10 £46.30
25th Percentile £29.50 £40.13 £46.38
Median hourly rate £34.00 £76.75 £48.00
Median % change year-on-year -55.70% +59.90% -4.48%
75th Percentile £41.50 £112.00 £49.88
90th Percentile £45.10 - £50.10
London median hourly rate £55.00 £52.50 £50.25
% change year-on-year +4.76% +4.48% -12.61%

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 28 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 28 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 -20 13 £800 +23.08% 44
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 (2.86%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (2.86%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 5 (14.29%) AWS
2 3 (8.57%) Amazon ECS
2 3 (8.57%) Amazon S3
2 3 (8.57%) AWS Lambda
2 3 (8.57%) Azure
2 3 (8.57%) Serverless
3 2 (5.71%) GCP
4 1 (2.86%) ChatGPT
4 1 (2.86%) Entra ID
4 1 (2.86%) GitHub
4 1 (2.86%) GitHub Copilot
4 1 (2.86%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.71%) Big Data
2 1 (2.86%) Hadoop
2 1 (2.86%) KDB
2 1 (2.86%) Kdb+
2 1 (2.86%) Metadata
2 1 (2.86%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (11.43%) Git
2 3 (8.57%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.86%) SonarQube
General
1 32 (91.43%) Finance
2 8 (22.86%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (22.86%) Front Office
3 6 (17.14%) Banking
4 5 (14.29%) Social Skills
5 3 (8.57%) Investment Banking
6 2 (5.71%) Financial Institution
7 1 (2.86%) Law
Job Titles
1 21 (60.00%) Senior
2 20 (57.14%) C++ Software Engineer
2 20 (57.14%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
2 20 (57.14%) Senior Software Engineer
2 20 (57.14%) Software Engineer
3 10 (28.57%) Developer
4 7 (20.00%) Quantitative Developer
5 2 (5.71%) Analyst
5 2 (5.71%) Evangelist
5 2 (5.71%) Qualitative Analyst
5 2 (5.71%) Quantitative Analyst
5 2 (5.71%) Senior Developer
6 1 (2.86%) C++ Developer
6 1 (2.86%) C++ Software Developer
6 1 (2.86%) Developer/Software Engineer
6 1 (2.86%) KDB Developer
6 1 (2.86%) Python Developer
6 1 (2.86%) Senior C++ Developer
6 1 (2.86%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (11.43%) NumPy
2 3 (8.57%) Pandas
2 3 (8.57%) PyTorch
2 3 (8.57%) SciPy
2 3 (8.57%) TensorFlow
3 2 (5.71%) XML
4 1 (2.86%) .NET
4 1 (2.86%) AngularJS
4 1 (2.86%) HTML
4 1 (2.86%) JSON
4 1 (2.86%) Kafka
4 1 (2.86%) LangChain
4 1 (2.86%) LDAP
4 1 (2.86%) Node.js
4 1 (2.86%) scikit-learn
4 1 (2.86%) Web Services
4 1 (2.86%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 10 (28.57%) Greenfield Project
2 5 (14.29%) Derivative
3 4 (11.43%) Equities
4 3 (8.57%) Distributed Computing
4 3 (8.57%) Equity Derivative
4 3 (8.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (5.71%) AI Agents
5 2 (5.71%) Algorithms
6 1 (2.86%) Blog
6 1 (2.86%) Credit Derivative
6 1 (2.86%) Data Structures
6 1 (2.86%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (2.86%) Fixed Income
6 1 (2.86%) Hedge funds
6 1 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (2.86%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 20 (57.14%) Linux
1 20 (57.14%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (62.86%) Software Engineering
2 19 (54.29%) Agile
3 10 (28.57%) Mentoring
4 9 (25.71%) Mathematics
5 6 (17.14%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (14.29%) Analytics
6 5 (14.29%) DevOps
6 5 (14.29%) Machine Learning
6 5 (14.29%) Quantitative Research
7 4 (11.43%) CI/CD
7 4 (11.43%) Computer Science
7 4 (11.43%) Decision-Making
7 4 (11.43%) Monte Carlo Method
8 3 (8.57%) AI
8 3 (8.57%) Benchmarking
8 3 (8.57%) Black-Scholes
8 3 (8.57%) Greeks
8 3 (8.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 3 (8.57%) Physics
8 3 (8.57%) Regression Testing
Programming Languages
1 15 (42.86%) SQL
2 12 (34.29%) C#
3 10 (28.57%) Python
4 4 (11.43%) Java
5 1 (2.86%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.86%) PowerShell
5 1 (2.86%) R
5 1 (2.86%) TypeScript
5 1 (2.86%) VB.NET
5 1 (2.86%) VBA
5 1 (2.86%) VC++
Qualifications
1 28 (80.00%) Degree
2 6 (17.14%) Master's Degree
3 4 (11.43%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (8.57%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.71%) EMIR
2 1 (2.86%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (11.43%) Docker
2 1 (2.86%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (11.43%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (8.57%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.71%) Oracle
3 1 (2.86%) Databricks
3 1 (2.86%) SAP