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 7 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 312 136 166
Rank change year-on-year -176 +30 -74
Contract jobs citing C++ 127 264 279
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.65% 1.99% 1.59%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.08% 5.05% 4.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 164 191
10th Percentile £416 £418 £390
25th Percentile £513 £583 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £750 £675
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +11.11% -5.59%
75th Percentile £788 £875 £875
90th Percentile £883 £1,018 £950
England median daily rate £600 £659 £550
% change year-on-year -8.88% +19.73% -15.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 6
10th Percentile - - £43.54
25th Percentile £26.25 - £46.75
Median hourly rate £27.50 - £59.13
75th Percentile £28.75 - £71.88
90th Percentile - - £72.19
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 6,106 5,230 6,822
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 31.26% 39.33% 38.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,068 3,668 5,168
10th Percentile £375 £370 £375
25th Percentile £447 £431 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £700
90th Percentile £775 £825 £850
England median daily rate £520 £520 £540
% change year-on-year - -3.70% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 49 51
10th Percentile £33.48 £27.18 £23.80
25th Percentile £36.25 £33.25 £36.57
Median hourly rate £57.63 £42.82 £49.50
Median % change year-on-year +34.61% -13.51% -21.43%
75th Percentile £75.00 £59.00 £61.97
90th Percentile £88.88 £81.25 £72.50
England median hourly rate £65.00 £56.75 £65.00
% change year-on-year +14.54% -12.69% +4.00%

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 7 July 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 7 July 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 -35 14 £778 +5.42% 61
South London -7 3 - - 1
East London - 2 £334 - 13
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 3 (2.36%) Apache Spark
1 3 (2.36%) IIS
2 2 (1.57%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.57%) Oracle Workflow
2 2 (1.57%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.57%) WebSphere
3 1 (0.79%) Confluence
3 1 (0.79%) MTS
Applications
1 4 (3.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (2.36%) Orchestrade
2 1 (0.79%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (0.79%) SunGard Martini
Cloud Services
1 13 (10.24%) AWS
2 9 (7.09%) Azure
3 8 (6.30%) GCP
4 4 (3.15%) SaaS
5 3 (2.36%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 2 (1.57%) Anthropic Claude
6 2 (1.57%) AWS IoT
6 2 (1.57%) Entra ID
6 2 (1.57%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (1.57%) OneDrive
6 2 (1.57%) Serverless
7 1 (0.79%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (0.79%) Amazon S3
7 1 (0.79%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (0.79%) AWS Fargate
7 1 (0.79%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (0.79%) Figma
7 1 (0.79%) GitHub
7 1 (0.79%) Google Drive
7 1 (0.79%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (6.30%) HTTP
2 7 (5.51%) TCP/IP
3 3 (2.36%) Firewall
3 3 (2.36%) MQTT
3 3 (2.36%) VXLAN
3 3 (2.36%) WAN
4 2 (1.57%) Internet
4 2 (1.57%) Multicast
4 2 (1.57%) NaaS
4 2 (1.57%) NAS
4 2 (1.57%) SAN
4 2 (1.57%) Wireshark
5 1 (0.79%) DHCP
5 1 (0.79%) DNS
5 1 (0.79%) Ethernet
5 1 (0.79%) LAN
5 1 (0.79%) Network Security
5 1 (0.79%) SMPP
5 1 (0.79%) SMS
5 1 (0.79%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.94%) NoSQL
2 3 (2.36%) MongoDB
2 3 (2.36%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (1.57%) Apache Cassandra
3 2 (1.57%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (1.57%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (1.57%) Flink
3 2 (1.57%) InfluxDB
3 2 (1.57%) MySQL
3 2 (1.57%) TimescaleDB
4 1 (0.79%) Big Data
4 1 (0.79%) DynamoDB
4 1 (0.79%) Hadoop
4 1 (0.79%) KDB
4 1 (0.79%) Kdb+
4 1 (0.79%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.79%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 7 (5.51%) Jenkins
2 5 (3.94%) JIRA
3 4 (3.15%) Git
4 3 (2.36%) Visual Studio
4 3 (2.36%) VTune
5 2 (1.57%) Artifactory
5 2 (1.57%) CMake
5 2 (1.57%) Fiddler
5 2 (1.57%) GitLab
5 2 (1.57%) MSI
5 2 (1.57%) Robot Framework
5 2 (1.57%) Subversion
6 1 (0.79%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.79%) GoogleTest
General
1 62 (48.82%) Finance
2 31 (24.41%) Analytical Skills
3 25 (19.69%) Banking
4 24 (18.90%) Social Skills
5 19 (14.96%) Front Office
5 19 (14.96%) Investment Banking
6 6 (4.72%) Telecoms
7 3 (2.36%) Financial Institution
7 3 (2.36%) Games
7 3 (2.36%) Legal
7 3 (2.36%) Public Sector
8 2 (1.57%) Agriculture
8 2 (1.57%) Billing
8 2 (1.57%) Japanese Language
8 2 (1.57%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.79%) Korean Language
9 1 (0.79%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.79%) Polish Language
Job Titles
1 42 (33.07%) Developer
2 39 (30.71%) Senior
3 24 (18.90%) Software Engineer
4 23 (18.11%) C++ Developer
5 18 (14.17%) C++ Software Engineer
6 16 (12.60%) Senior Developer
7 12 (9.45%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
7 12 (9.45%) Senior Software Engineer
8 11 (8.66%) Quantitative Developer
8 11 (8.66%) Senior C++ Developer
9 7 (5.51%) Linux Engineer
10 6 (4.72%) Architect
10 6 (4.72%) Support Engineer
11 5 (3.94%) C# Developer
11 5 (3.94%) Linux Support
11 5 (3.94%) Python Developer
12 4 (3.15%) C++ Quantitative Developer
12 4 (3.15%) Senior Linux Engineer
12 4 (3.15%) Senior Systems Engineer
12 4 (3.15%) Senior Unix Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (10.24%) .NET
1 13 (10.24%) FIX Protocol
2 12 (9.45%) Kafka
3 10 (7.87%) XML
4 8 (6.30%) WebSockets
5 7 (5.51%) Web Services
6 5 (3.94%) gRPC
6 5 (3.94%) OpenTelemetry
7 4 (3.15%) React
8 3 (2.36%) Boost C++ Libraries
8 3 (2.36%) COM
8 3 (2.36%) NumPy
8 3 (2.36%) Pandas
8 3 (2.36%) WinForms
9 2 (1.57%) .NET Framework
9 2 (1.57%) HTML5
9 2 (1.57%) JSON
9 2 (1.57%) Qt
9 2 (1.57%) RabbitMQ
9 2 (1.57%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 26 (20.47%) Derivative
2 20 (15.75%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (11.81%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 14 (11.02%) Algorithms
5 12 (9.45%) Data Structures
6 11 (8.66%) Cloud Native
7 6 (4.72%) Equity Derivative
7 6 (4.72%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (3.94%) Equities
8 5 (3.94%) Onboarding
8 5 (3.94%) OTC Derivatives
9 4 (3.15%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (3.15%) Exotic Derivative
9 4 (3.15%) Fixed Income
9 4 (3.15%) IoT
10 3 (2.36%) Credit Derivative
10 3 (2.36%) Embedded Systems
10 3 (2.36%) Mainframe
10 3 (2.36%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (2.36%) SIMD
Operating Systems
1 45 (35.43%) Linux
2 17 (13.39%) Unix
3 13 (10.24%) Windows
4 5 (3.94%) Android
4 5 (3.94%) Apple iOS
5 4 (3.15%) Solaris
6 2 (1.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.79%) FreeRTOS
7 1 (0.79%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (36.22%) Software Engineering
2 36 (28.35%) Low Latency
3 32 (25.20%) Problem-Solving
4 18 (14.17%) Analytics
4 18 (14.17%) Observability
5 17 (13.39%) Multithreading
6 14 (11.02%) Agile
6 14 (11.02%) Mathematics
7 13 (10.24%) CI/CD
8 12 (9.45%) Algorithmic Trading
8 12 (9.45%) Performance Optimisation
9 11 (8.66%) Validation
9 11 (8.66%) Workflow
10 9 (7.09%) Performance Engineering
10 9 (7.09%) Ultra-Low Latency
11 8 (6.30%) AI
11 8 (6.30%) Backtesting
11 8 (6.30%) Computer Science
11 8 (6.30%) Financial Modelling
11 8 (6.30%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 63 (49.61%) Python
2 43 (33.86%) SQL
3 37 (29.13%) C#
4 32 (25.20%) Java
5 20 (15.75%) Rust
6 19 (14.96%) C
7 18 (14.17%) TypeScript
8 12 (9.45%) PowerShell
9 7 (5.51%) R
10 6 (4.72%) Go
11 5 (3.94%) JavaScript
12 2 (1.57%) COBOL
12 2 (1.57%) PL/SQL
12 2 (1.57%) Shell Script
12 2 (1.57%) VBA
13 1 (0.79%) Bash
13 1 (0.79%) Embedded C++
13 1 (0.79%) Erlang
13 1 (0.79%) Fortran
13 1 (0.79%) Haskell
Qualifications
1 26 (20.47%) Degree
2 7 (5.51%) Security Cleared
3 5 (3.94%) Master's Degree
4 4 (3.15%) PhD
5 2 (1.57%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.57%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.79%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.79%) Numerate Degree
6 1 (0.79%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.36%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.57%) DICOM
2 2 (1.57%) HL7
2 2 (1.57%) ISO 15022
2 2 (1.57%) ISO 20022
2 2 (1.57%) QA
3 1 (0.79%) Accessibility
System Software
1 4 (3.15%) Docker
2 3 (2.36%) Firmware
3 2 (1.57%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.79%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (0.79%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 11 (8.66%) Kubernetes
2 5 (3.94%) Grafana
3 3 (2.36%) Ansible
3 3 (2.36%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.57%) Amdocs OSS
4 2 (1.57%) Cilium
4 2 (1.57%) ITRS Geneos
4 2 (1.57%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (1.57%) ZABBIX
5 1 (0.79%) Terraform
Vendors
1 20 (15.75%) Oracle
2 5 (3.94%) Microsoft
3 4 (3.15%) IBM
4 3 (2.36%) Cisco
5 2 (1.57%) Amdocs
5 2 (1.57%) Bloomberg
5 2 (1.57%) Ciena
5 2 (1.57%) Dynatrace
5 2 (1.57%) ION Trading
5 2 (1.57%) Perforce
5 2 (1.57%) Salesforce
5 2 (1.57%) ServiceNow
5 2 (1.57%) Splunk
5 2 (1.57%) Veritas
6 1 (0.79%) F5
6 1 (0.79%) FIS
6 1 (0.79%) Google
6 1 (0.79%) MarketAxess
6 1 (0.79%) Thales
6 1 (0.79%) Tradeweb