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 11 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 296 140 171
Rank change year-on-year -156 +31 -69
Contract jobs citing C++ 149 270 247
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.74% 1.99% 1.52%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.37% 5.18% 3.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 168 176
10th Percentile £418 £407 £363
25th Percentile £538 £513 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £675 £700
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% -3.57% -
75th Percentile £800 £825 £866
90th Percentile £879 £974 £950
England median daily rate £600 £625 £550
% change year-on-year -4.00% +13.64% -12.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 5
10th Percentile £27.88 £33.90 £47.05
25th Percentile £30.31 £45.38 £48.25
Median hourly rate £36.25 £57.00 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year -36.40% -15.56% +28.00%
75th Percentile £42.81 £63.94 £71.88
90th Percentile £45.63 £68.78 -
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 6,296 5,217 6,430
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 31.23% 38.44% 39.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,210 3,663 4,811
10th Percentile £378 £375 £375
25th Percentile £450 £428 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £660 £700 £713
90th Percentile £775 £825 £850
England median daily rate £523 £515 £550
% change year-on-year +1.46% -6.36% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 54 43
10th Percentile £34.20 £26.64 £23.80
25th Percentile £36.25 £33.25 £32.16
Median hourly rate £52.50 £44.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +19.31% -7.37% -21.11%
75th Percentile £73.00 £62.44 £57.50
90th Percentile £88.75 £86.25 £74.38
England median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +13.04% -11.54% +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 11 August 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++
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing C++ in London over the 6 months to 11 August 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for C++ in London

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 11 August 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 -44 10 £678 -4.98% 50
South London -10 4 - - 4
East London - 2 £334 - 2
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 (2.01%) Apache Spark
1 3 (2.01%) IIS
1 3 (2.01%) WebSphere
2 2 (1.34%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.34%) Oracle Workflow
2 2 (1.34%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.67%) MTS
Applications
1 2 (1.34%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (2.01%) Orchestrade
2 1 (0.67%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (0.67%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.67%) SunGard Martini
Cloud Services
1 19 (12.75%) AWS
2 15 (10.07%) Azure
3 10 (6.71%) GCP
4 4 (2.68%) IaaS
4 4 (2.68%) SaaS
4 4 (2.68%) Snowflake
5 3 (2.01%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 2 (1.34%) Anthropic Claude
6 2 (1.34%) AWS IoT
6 2 (1.34%) Entra ID
6 2 (1.34%) GitHub
6 2 (1.34%) GitHub Copilot
6 2 (1.34%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (1.34%) OneDrive
6 2 (1.34%) Serverless
7 1 (0.67%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (0.67%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (0.67%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (0.67%) Boomi
7 1 (0.67%) Google Drive
Communications & Networking
1 10 (6.71%) TCP/IP
2 8 (5.37%) HTTP
3 3 (2.01%) Firewall
3 3 (2.01%) MQTT
3 3 (2.01%) VXLAN
3 3 (2.01%) WAN
4 2 (1.34%) Internet
4 2 (1.34%) Multicast
4 2 (1.34%) NaaS
4 2 (1.34%) NAS
4 2 (1.34%) SAN
4 2 (1.34%) Wireshark
5 1 (0.67%) Bluetooth
5 1 (0.67%) DHCP
5 1 (0.67%) DNS
5 1 (0.67%) LAN
5 1 (0.67%) SSL
5 1 (0.67%) Unified Communications
5 1 (0.67%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.68%) NoSQL
2 3 (2.01%) MongoDB
2 3 (2.01%) MySQL
2 3 (2.01%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (1.34%) Apache Cassandra
3 2 (1.34%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (1.34%) Flink
3 2 (1.34%) InfluxDB
3 2 (1.34%) Oracle Database
3 2 (1.34%) SQL Server
3 2 (1.34%) TimescaleDB
4 1 (0.67%) Big Data
4 1 (0.67%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.67%) DynamoDB
4 1 (0.67%) KDB
4 1 (0.67%) Kdb+
4 1 (0.67%) MariaDB
4 1 (0.67%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 15 (10.07%) Git
2 11 (7.38%) Jenkins
3 4 (2.68%) TeamCity
4 3 (2.01%) GitLab
4 3 (2.01%) Visual Studio
4 3 (2.01%) VTune
5 2 (1.34%) Artifactory
5 2 (1.34%) CMake
5 2 (1.34%) Fiddler
5 2 (1.34%) JIRA
5 2 (1.34%) MSI
5 2 (1.34%) Robot Framework
5 2 (1.34%) Subversion
6 1 (0.67%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.67%) GoogleTest
6 1 (0.67%) PetaLinux
General
1 52 (34.90%) Finance
2 33 (22.15%) Analytical Skills
3 32 (21.48%) Banking
4 31 (20.81%) Social Skills
5 24 (16.11%) Front Office
6 20 (13.42%) Investment Banking
7 5 (3.36%) Automotive
8 4 (2.68%) Telecoms
9 3 (2.01%) Financial Institution
9 3 (2.01%) Games
9 3 (2.01%) Legal
9 3 (2.01%) Public Sector
10 2 (1.34%) Billing
10 2 (1.34%) Japanese Language
10 2 (1.34%) Polish Language
10 2 (1.34%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.67%) Agriculture
11 1 (0.67%) Electronics
11 1 (0.67%) Korean Language
Job Titles
1 40 (26.85%) Senior
2 36 (24.16%) Developer
3 26 (17.45%) Software Engineer
4 19 (12.75%) C++ Developer
5 16 (10.74%) C++ Software Engineer
6 14 (9.40%) Senior Developer
7 13 (8.72%) Quantitative Developer
8 10 (6.71%) Architect
8 10 (6.71%) Senior Software Engineer
9 9 (6.04%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
10 8 (5.37%) Linux Engineer
10 8 (5.37%) Senior C++ Developer
11 7 (4.70%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 7 (4.70%) C++ Quantitative Developer
11 7 (4.70%) Embedded Engineer
12 6 (4.03%) C# Developer
12 6 (4.03%) Senior Architect
12 6 (4.03%) Support Engineer
13 5 (3.36%) Analyst
13 5 (3.36%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (12.75%) .NET
2 15 (10.07%) FIX Protocol
2 15 (10.07%) XML
3 9 (6.04%) Kafka
4 8 (5.37%) WebSockets
5 6 (4.03%) OpenTelemetry
6 5 (3.36%) gRPC
6 5 (3.36%) JSON
6 5 (3.36%) React
6 5 (3.36%) REST
6 5 (3.36%) Web Services
6 5 (3.36%) WinForms
7 4 (2.68%) eBPF
7 4 (2.68%) Middleware
8 3 (2.01%) .NET Core
8 3 (2.01%) NumPy
8 3 (2.01%) Pandas
8 3 (2.01%) WebSphere MQ
9 2 (1.34%) GraphQL
9 2 (1.34%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 28 (18.79%) Derivative
2 27 (18.12%) Distributed Systems
3 21 (14.09%) Algorithms
4 17 (11.41%) Cloud Native
4 17 (11.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 10 (6.71%) Data Structures
6 9 (6.04%) Embedded Systems
6 9 (6.04%) Legacy Systems
7 7 (4.70%) AI Agents
7 7 (4.70%) Data Protection Act
7 7 (4.70%) Fixed Income
8 6 (4.03%) OTC Derivatives
8 6 (4.03%) Robotics
9 5 (3.36%) Equity Derivative
9 5 (3.36%) Onboarding
9 5 (3.36%) Private Cloud
10 4 (2.68%) Credit Derivative
10 4 (2.68%) Exotic Derivative
10 4 (2.68%) IoT
10 4 (2.68%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 50 (33.56%) Linux
2 17 (11.41%) Unix
2 17 (11.41%) Windows
3 8 (5.37%) Android
3 8 (5.37%) Apple iOS
3 8 (5.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (2.68%) Solaris
5 1 (0.67%) Embedded Linux
5 1 (0.67%) FreeRTOS
5 1 (0.67%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (35.57%) Software Engineering
2 40 (26.85%) Low Latency
3 33 (22.15%) Problem-Solving
4 25 (16.78%) CI/CD
5 24 (16.11%) Observability
6 19 (12.75%) Multithreading
7 18 (12.08%) Mathematics
8 17 (11.41%) AI
8 17 (11.41%) Analytics
9 16 (10.74%) Performance Optimisation
10 15 (10.07%) Validation
11 13 (8.72%) Algorithmic Trading
11 13 (8.72%) DevOps
12 12 (8.05%) Computer Science
12 12 (8.05%) Performance Engineering
12 12 (8.05%) Test Automation
12 12 (8.05%) Workflow
13 10 (6.71%) Agile
13 10 (6.71%) Containerisation
13 10 (6.71%) Ultra-Low Latency
Programming Languages
1 75 (50.34%) Python
2 42 (28.19%) Java
3 39 (26.17%) SQL
4 36 (24.16%) C#
5 26 (17.45%) C
6 20 (13.42%) Rust
7 18 (12.08%) TypeScript
8 12 (8.05%) PowerShell
9 8 (5.37%) Go
9 8 (5.37%) R
10 6 (4.03%) JavaScript
11 5 (3.36%) Perl
12 4 (2.68%) Embedded C++
13 3 (2.01%) PL/SQL
13 3 (2.01%) Shell Script
14 2 (1.34%) COBOL
15 1 (0.67%) Bash
15 1 (0.67%) Embedded C
15 1 (0.67%) Fortran
15 1 (0.67%) Haskell
Qualifications
1 29 (19.46%) Degree
2 11 (7.38%) Security Cleared
3 6 (4.03%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (4.03%) Master's Degree
4 5 (3.36%) PhD
5 4 (2.68%) SC Cleared
6 2 (1.34%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.34%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.67%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.68%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.01%) Automotive SPICE
2 3 (2.01%) ISO 15022
2 3 (2.01%) ISO 20022
3 2 (1.34%) DICOM
3 2 (1.34%) HL7
4 1 (0.67%) MISRA
4 1 (0.67%) QA
System Software
1 5 (3.36%) Docker
2 4 (2.68%) Firmware
3 2 (1.34%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.34%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (0.67%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 16 (10.74%) Kubernetes
2 6 (4.03%) Progress Chef
2 6 (4.03%) Puppet
3 5 (3.36%) Grafana
4 4 (2.68%) Ansible
5 3 (2.01%) Functional Safety
5 3 (2.01%) Prometheus
5 3 (2.01%) Terraform
6 2 (1.34%) Amdocs OSS
6 2 (1.34%) Cilium
6 2 (1.34%) ITRS Geneos
6 2 (1.34%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (1.34%) ZABBIX
7 1 (0.67%) Argo
Vendors
1 18 (12.08%) Oracle
2 9 (6.04%) Microsoft
3 5 (3.36%) IBM
3 5 (3.36%) SaltStack
4 4 (2.68%) Red Hat
4 4 (2.68%) ServiceNow
5 3 (2.01%) Cisco
6 2 (1.34%) Amdocs
6 2 (1.34%) Bloomberg
6 2 (1.34%) Ciena
6 2 (1.34%) Dynatrace
6 2 (1.34%) ION Trading
6 2 (1.34%) Perforce
6 2 (1.34%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.34%) Splunk
6 2 (1.34%) Veritas
7 1 (0.67%) F5
7 1 (0.67%) FIS
7 1 (0.67%) Google
7 1 (0.67%) MuleSoft