C++ Contract Job Trends in London

C++
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring C++ skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 246 159 177
Rank change year-on-year -87 +18 -76
Contract jobs citing C++ 160 220 248
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.92% 1.73% 1.39%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.79% 4.39% 3.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 136 173
10th Percentile £346 £431 £330
25th Percentile £531 £647 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £800 £655
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +22.14% -8.39%
75th Percentile £788 £875 £813
90th Percentile £1,050 £1,000 £950
England median daily rate £625 £750 £575
% change year-on-year -16.67% +30.43% -11.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 9
10th Percentile - - £45.16
25th Percentile £26.25 - £49.88
Median hourly rate £27.50 - £57.50
75th Percentile £28.75 - £66.75
90th Percentile - - £72.50
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00

All Programming Languages
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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 5,733 5,009 6,356
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 33.01% 39.44% 35.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,889 3,503 4,846
10th Percentile £363 £375 £381
25th Percentile £425 £448 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £700
90th Percentile £775 £825 £825
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.42% -5.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 28 57
10th Percentile £32.30 £29.07 £23.95
25th Percentile £41.56 £35.00 £36.28
Median hourly rate £58.72 £44.75 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year +31.21% -11.39% -12.17%
75th Percentile £69.43 £60.94 £60.00
90th Percentile £88.75 £65.75 £68.20
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.75 £61.60
% change year-on-year +3.59% +1.87% -1.44%

C++
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

C++ job vacancy trend in London

C++
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

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

C++
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing C++ in London over the 6 months to 18 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for C++ in London

C++
Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

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

C++
Contract Job Locations in 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 London region over the 6 months to 18 April 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
Central London -26 24 £800 - 62
East London - 2 £334 - 6
C++
England

C++
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 7 (4.38%) Confluence
2 5 (3.13%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.25%) Apache
3 2 (1.25%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 11 (6.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.63%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 1 (0.63%) Orchestrade
Cloud Services
1 19 (11.88%) AWS
2 10 (6.25%) GitHub
3 8 (5.00%) Azure
4 7 (4.38%) Serverless
5 5 (3.13%) GCP
6 3 (1.88%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (1.88%) Amazon S3
6 3 (1.88%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (1.88%) ChatGPT
6 3 (1.88%) GitHub Copilot
7 2 (1.25%) Amazon Bedrock
7 2 (1.25%) Amazon EMR
7 2 (1.25%) Amazon Kinesis
7 2 (1.25%) Anthropic Claude
7 2 (1.25%) AWS IoT
7 2 (1.25%) Datadog
8 1 (0.63%) Figma
8 1 (0.63%) Google Drive
8 1 (0.63%) Power Platform
8 1 (0.63%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.38%) Ethernet
1 7 (4.38%) Modbus
1 7 (4.38%) RS-232
1 7 (4.38%) RS-485
2 5 (3.13%) TCP/IP
3 4 (2.50%) HTTP
4 3 (1.88%) 3GPP
4 3 (1.88%) MQTT
4 3 (1.88%) MVNO
4 3 (1.88%) Network Security
4 3 (1.88%) SMPP
4 3 (1.88%) SMS
4 3 (1.88%) VXLAN
5 2 (1.25%) Internet
5 2 (1.25%) NaaS
5 2 (1.25%) NAS
5 2 (1.25%) SAN
5 2 (1.25%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.13%) Big Data
2 4 (2.50%) Hadoop
2 4 (2.50%) NoSQL
3 2 (1.25%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (1.25%) Apache Cassandra
3 2 (1.25%) Data Lake
3 2 (1.25%) Data Mining
3 2 (1.25%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (1.25%) Flink
3 2 (1.25%) InfluxDB
3 2 (1.25%) MongoDB
3 2 (1.25%) MySQL
3 2 (1.25%) Neo4j
3 2 (1.25%) Pinecone
3 2 (1.25%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (1.25%) TimescaleDB
3 2 (1.25%) Weaviate
4 1 (0.63%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.63%) Metadata
4 1 (0.63%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 14 (8.75%) JIRA
2 10 (6.25%) Git
3 6 (3.75%) Jenkins
4 4 (2.50%) Visual Studio
5 3 (1.88%) Robot Framework
5 3 (1.88%) SonarQube
5 3 (1.88%) Subversion
6 1 (0.63%) Appium
6 1 (0.63%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.63%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.63%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.63%) GitLab
6 1 (0.63%) JUnit
6 1 (0.63%) Selenium
General
1 95 (59.38%) Finance
2 31 (19.38%) Analytical Skills
3 23 (14.38%) Social Skills
4 18 (11.25%) Banking
4 18 (11.25%) Front Office
5 13 (8.13%) Investment Banking
6 7 (4.38%) Telecoms
7 6 (3.75%) Agriculture
7 6 (3.75%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.25%) Automotive
8 2 (1.25%) Billing
8 2 (1.25%) iGaming
8 2 (1.25%) Japanese Language
8 2 (1.25%) Marketing
8 2 (1.25%) Multimedia
8 2 (1.25%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.63%) Back Office
9 1 (0.63%) Games
9 1 (0.63%) Korean Language
9 1 (0.63%) Legal
Job Titles
1 72 (45.00%) Developer
2 41 (25.63%) Senior
3 38 (23.75%) C++ Developer
4 31 (19.38%) Quantitative Developer
5 24 (15.00%) Software Engineer
6 19 (11.88%) C++ Software Engineer
6 19 (11.88%) Python Developer
6 19 (11.88%) Senior Software Engineer
7 16 (10.00%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
8 14 (8.75%) Linux Developer
9 13 (8.13%) C++ Quantitative Developer
9 13 (8.13%) Low Latency C++ Developer
10 12 (7.50%) Kafka Engineer
10 12 (7.50%) Linux Engineer
10 12 (7.50%) Senior Linux Engineer
10 12 (7.50%) Senior Unix Engineer
10 12 (7.50%) Unix Engineer
10 12 (7.50%) Unix Linux Engineer
11 11 (6.88%) Senior C++ Developer
11 11 (6.88%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (12.50%) Kafka
2 9 (5.63%) NumPy
3 8 (5.00%) Pandas
3 8 (5.00%) SciPy
4 7 (4.38%) PyTorch
4 7 (4.38%) TensorFlow
5 6 (3.75%) FIX Protocol
6 5 (3.13%) LangChain
6 5 (3.13%) Node.js
6 5 (3.13%) React
7 4 (2.50%) .NET
7 4 (2.50%) HTML
7 4 (2.50%) WebSockets
8 3 (1.88%) REST
8 3 (1.88%) scikit-learn
8 3 (1.88%) Web Services
9 2 (1.25%) GraphQL
9 2 (1.25%) gRPC
9 2 (1.25%) Swagger
9 2 (1.25%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 28 (17.50%) Derivative
2 27 (16.88%) Equities
3 25 (15.63%) Algorithms
4 17 (10.63%) Distributed Systems
5 16 (10.00%) Data Structures
5 16 (10.00%) Equity Derivative
6 15 (9.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 10 (6.25%) Greenfield Project
8 8 (5.00%) Data Protection Act
9 7 (4.38%) Embedded Systems
10 6 (3.75%) AI Agents
10 6 (3.75%) IoT
11 3 (1.88%) Blog
11 3 (1.88%) Cloud Native
11 3 (1.88%) Exotic Derivative
11 3 (1.88%) Fixed Income
11 3 (1.88%) FPGA
11 3 (1.88%) Hedge funds
11 3 (1.88%) Java Card
12 2 (1.25%) Credit Derivative
Operating Systems
1 61 (38.13%) Linux
2 27 (16.88%) Unix
3 7 (4.38%) FreeRTOS
4 5 (3.13%) Windows
5 1 (0.63%) Android
5 1 (0.63%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.63%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (31.88%) Software Engineering
2 34 (21.25%) Problem-Solving
3 31 (19.38%) Agile
4 30 (18.75%) Low Latency
5 28 (17.50%) Mathematics
6 23 (14.38%) Analytics
7 21 (13.13%) Computer Science
7 21 (13.13%) Quantitative Finance
8 20 (12.50%) CI/CD
8 20 (12.50%) Multithreading
9 16 (10.00%) Test Automation
10 15 (9.38%) Quantitative Research
10 15 (9.38%) Risk Management
10 15 (9.38%) Validation
11 14 (8.75%) Benchmarking
12 13 (8.13%) AI
12 13 (8.13%) Ultra-Low Latency
13 11 (6.88%) Mentoring
13 11 (6.88%) Order Management
14 10 (6.25%) Automated Trading
Programming Languages
1 85 (53.13%) Python
2 54 (33.75%) C#
3 49 (30.63%) SQL
4 36 (22.50%) Java
5 24 (15.00%) C
6 10 (6.25%) Rust
6 10 (6.25%) TypeScript
7 9 (5.63%) JavaScript
8 7 (4.38%) Embedded C++
9 6 (3.75%) R
10 3 (1.88%) Embedded C
10 3 (1.88%) PowerShell
11 2 (1.25%) Ada
11 2 (1.25%) Bash
11 2 (1.25%) Go
11 2 (1.25%) Shell Script
11 2 (1.25%) VBA
12 1 (0.63%) COBOL
12 1 (0.63%) Erlang
Qualifications
1 46 (28.75%) Degree
2 11 (6.88%) Numerate Degree
3 8 (5.00%) Master's Degree
3 8 (5.00%) Security Cleared
4 7 (4.38%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.88%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.88%) PhD
5 3 (1.88%) SC Cleared
6 2 (1.25%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.63%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.75%) QA
2 3 (1.88%) SLA
3 2 (1.25%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.25%) DICOM
3 2 (1.25%) HL7
4 1 (0.63%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.63%) EMIR
4 1 (0.63%) MiFID
System Software
1 10 (6.25%) Docker
2 9 (5.63%) Firmware
3 7 (4.38%) Embedded Firmware
4 2 (1.25%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.25%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 9 (5.63%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.25%) Amdocs OSS
2 2 (1.25%) Grafana
2 2 (1.25%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.63%) Ansible
3 1 (0.63%) Progress Chef
3 1 (0.63%) Puppet
Vendors
1 23 (14.38%) Oracle
2 4 (2.50%) Dynatrace
3 3 (1.88%) Cisco
3 3 (1.88%) Databricks
3 3 (1.88%) Thales
4 2 (1.25%) Amdocs
4 2 (1.25%) Ciena
4 2 (1.25%) Google
4 2 (1.25%) OpenAI
4 2 (1.25%) Perforce
4 2 (1.25%) Salesforce
4 2 (1.25%) ServiceNow
4 2 (1.25%) Veritas
5 1 (0.63%) Bloomberg
5 1 (0.63%) BT
5 1 (0.63%) Calypso
5 1 (0.63%) HP
5 1 (0.63%) Murex
5 1 (0.63%) Reuters