C++ Contracts in the City of London

C++
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring C++ skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited C++ over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 86 86 51
Rank change year-on-year 0 -35 +72
Contract jobs citing C++ 33 41 167
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.88% 1.87% 4.58%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.67% 5.51% 10.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 18 75
10th Percentile £611 £563 £490
25th Percentile £683 £633 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £775 £705 £675
Median % change year-on-year +9.93% +4.44% -3.57%
75th Percentile £919 £838 £806
90th Percentile £1,000 £891 £945
Central London median daily rate £800 £705 £675
% change year-on-year +13.48% +4.44% -3.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £56.25
Median hourly rate - - £57.50
75th Percentile - - £58.75
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate - - £57.50

All Programming Languages
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 706 744 1,585
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 40.21% 33.86% 43.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 466 530 1,040
10th Percentile £413 £406 £425
25th Percentile £463 £463 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £577 £575 £625
Median % change year-on-year +0.26% -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £694 £688 £738
90th Percentile £788 £788 £825
Central London median daily rate £575 £565 £620
% change year-on-year +1.77% -8.87% +3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 8
10th Percentile - - £35.00
25th Percentile - £46.75 £47.19
Median hourly rate - £48.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year - -15.65% -4.96%
75th Percentile - £50.25 £65.00
90th Percentile - - £84.13
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £48.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year -40.06% -15.65% -4.96%

C++
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for C++ in the City of London

C++
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

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

Daily rate trend for C++ in the City of London

C++
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing C++ in the City of London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for C++ in the City of London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

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

Hourly rate trend for C++ in the City of London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 1 (3.03%) BizTalk Server
1 1 (3.03%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 1 (3.03%) BASE24
Cloud Services
1 7 (21.21%) Azure
2 4 (12.12%) AWS
3 3 (9.09%) GitHub
4 2 (6.06%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (3.03%) Apple Pay
5 1 (3.03%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (3.03%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (3.03%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (3.03%) Azure Functions
5 1 (3.03%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (3.03%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (3.03%) Azure Storage
5 1 (3.03%) GCP
5 1 (3.03%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.06%) HTTP
2 1 (3.03%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.03%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (3.03%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (3.03%) KDB
1 1 (3.03%) MongoDB
1 1 (3.03%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 9 (27.27%) Git
2 2 (6.06%) Jenkins
General
1 15 (45.45%) Finance
2 8 (24.24%) Front Office
3 7 (21.21%) Social Skills
4 6 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (12.12%) Banking
6 2 (6.06%) Advertising
6 2 (6.06%) Investment Banking
6 2 (6.06%) Telecoms
7 1 (3.03%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (3.03%) Financial Institution
7 1 (3.03%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 13 (39.39%) Developer
2 7 (21.21%) C++ Developer
3 6 (18.18%) Lead
3 6 (18.18%) Senior
3 6 (18.18%) Software Engineer
4 5 (15.15%) C# Developer
4 5 (15.15%) C++/C# Developer
4 5 (15.15%) Senior Developer
4 5 (15.15%) Team Leader
5 3 (9.09%) Quantitative Developer
5 3 (9.09%) Senior C# Developer
5 3 (9.09%) Senior C++ Developer
6 2 (6.06%) C# Software Developer
6 2 (6.06%) C++ Software Developer
6 2 (6.06%) C++ Software Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Consultant
6 2 (6.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Python Developer
6 2 (6.06%) Senior Software Developer
6 2 (6.06%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (12.12%) .NET
2 3 (9.09%) .NET Core
3 2 (6.06%) CSS
3 2 (6.06%) FastAPI
3 2 (6.06%) HTML
3 2 (6.06%) NumPy
3 2 (6.06%) Pandas
3 2 (6.06%) Web Services
4 1 (3.03%) ADO
4 1 (3.03%) ASP.NET
4 1 (3.03%) Blazor
4 1 (3.03%) JSON
4 1 (3.03%) Kafka
4 1 (3.03%) scikit-learn
4 1 (3.03%) SciPy
4 1 (3.03%) Unreal Engine
4 1 (3.03%) WCF
4 1 (3.03%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (21.21%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (15.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 3 (9.09%) Algorithms
4 2 (6.06%) Derivative
4 2 (6.06%) Fixed Income
5 1 (3.03%) Cloud Native
5 1 (3.03%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (3.03%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (3.03%) Grid Computing
5 1 (3.03%) Hedge funds
5 1 (3.03%) Interest Rate Derivative
5 1 (3.03%) TWAP
5 1 (3.03%) VWAP
Operating Systems
1 9 (27.27%) Linux
2 3 (9.09%) Windows
3 1 (3.03%) Unix
3 1 (3.03%) Windows Server
3 1 (3.03%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (48.48%) CI/CD
2 13 (39.39%) Software Engineering
3 12 (36.36%) Algorithmic Trading
4 11 (33.33%) Market Making
5 9 (27.27%) Continuous Integration
5 9 (27.27%) Electronic Trading
6 7 (21.21%) Continuous Deployment
7 6 (18.18%) Computer Science
7 6 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (15.15%) Analytics
8 5 (15.15%) Low Latency
8 5 (15.15%) Multithreading
9 4 (12.12%) DevOps
9 4 (12.12%) Mathematics
9 4 (12.12%) Risk Management
10 3 (9.09%) Agile
10 3 (9.09%) Containerisation
10 3 (9.09%) Financial Modelling
10 3 (9.09%) Performance Optimisation
10 3 (9.09%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 21 (63.64%) Python
2 15 (45.45%) Java
3 8 (24.24%) C
3 8 (24.24%) C#
4 3 (9.09%) JavaScript
4 3 (9.09%) SQL
5 2 (6.06%) Go
6 1 (3.03%) Ada
6 1 (3.03%) Bash
6 1 (3.03%) COBOL
6 1 (3.03%) PL/SQL
6 1 (3.03%) PowerShell
6 1 (3.03%) Rust
6 1 (3.03%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (21.21%) Degree
2 3 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (9.09%) Master's Degree
3 1 (3.03%) Numerate Degree
3 1 (3.03%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.03%) ISO 8583
1 1 (3.03%) PSD2
System Software
1 4 (12.12%) Docker
2 1 (3.03%) Platform Symphony
2 1 (3.03%) XYGATE
Systems Management
1 5 (15.15%) Kubernetes
2 2 (6.06%) Terraform
3 1 (3.03%) Ansible
3 1 (3.03%) Grafana
3 1 (3.03%) ITRS Geneos
3 1 (3.03%) Kibana
3 1 (3.03%) Progress Chef
3 1 (3.03%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (6.06%) Oracle
2 1 (3.03%) Databricks
2 1 (3.03%) HP
2 1 (3.03%) IBM
2 1 (3.03%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.03%) MuleSoft
2 1 (3.03%) TIBCO