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 3 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 248 159 177
Rank change year-on-year -89 +18 -78
Contract jobs citing C++ 174 217 243
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.03% 1.72% 1.35%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.06% 4.40% 3.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 136 170
10th Percentile £400 £431 £325
25th Percentile £563 £638 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £720 £800 £650
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +23.08% -10.34%
75th Percentile £800 £875 £813
90th Percentile £1,050 £1,000 £964
England median daily rate £625 £700 £563
% change year-on-year -10.71% +24.44% -16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 8
10th Percentile £28.23 - £47.16
25th Percentile £31.19 - £54.66
Median hourly rate £37.25 - £58.75
75th Percentile £43.19 - £68.19
90th Percentile £46.08 - £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 5,694 4,929 6,345
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 33.56% 39.14% 35.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,869 3,427 4,813
10th Percentile £363 £375 £385
25th Percentile £425 £449 £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 £815
England median daily rate £505 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -3.81% -2.42% -5.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 31 58
10th Percentile £26.50 £29.07 £24.28
25th Percentile £40.25 £38.18 £36.90
Median hourly rate £55.00 £45.00 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -10.89% -12.17%
75th Percentile £66.50 £59.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £88.75 £65.00 £67.90
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.75 £60.00
% change year-on-year +3.59% +4.58% -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 3 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++
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing C++ in London over the 6 months to 3 April 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 3 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 -30 25 £725 -9.38% 63
East London - 3 £900 - 3
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 (4.02%) Confluence
2 5 (2.87%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.72%) Apache
4 2 (1.15%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 13 (7.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.57%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 21 (12.07%) AWS
2 10 (5.75%) GitHub
3 9 (5.17%) Azure
4 8 (4.60%) Serverless
5 6 (3.45%) GCP
6 3 (1.72%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (1.72%) Amazon S3
6 3 (1.72%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (1.72%) ChatGPT
6 3 (1.72%) GitHub Copilot
7 2 (1.15%) Amazon Bedrock
7 2 (1.15%) Amazon EMR
7 2 (1.15%) Amazon Kinesis
7 2 (1.15%) Anthropic Claude
7 2 (1.15%) Datadog
8 1 (0.57%) Figma
8 1 (0.57%) Google Drive
8 1 (0.57%) PaaS
8 1 (0.57%) Power Platform
8 1 (0.57%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.02%) Ethernet
1 7 (4.02%) Modbus
1 7 (4.02%) RS-232
1 7 (4.02%) RS-485
2 5 (2.87%) TCP/IP
3 3 (1.72%) 3GPP
3 3 (1.72%) MVNO
3 3 (1.72%) Network Security
3 3 (1.72%) SMPP
3 3 (1.72%) SMS
4 2 (1.15%) HTTP
4 2 (1.15%) NaaS
4 2 (1.15%) NAS
4 2 (1.15%) SAN
4 2 (1.15%) WAN
5 1 (0.57%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (4.02%) Big Data
2 4 (2.30%) Hadoop
2 4 (2.30%) NoSQL
3 2 (1.15%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (1.15%) Apache Cassandra
3 2 (1.15%) Data Lake
3 2 (1.15%) Data Mining
3 2 (1.15%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (1.15%) Flink
3 2 (1.15%) InfluxDB
3 2 (1.15%) MongoDB
3 2 (1.15%) MySQL
3 2 (1.15%) Neo4j
3 2 (1.15%) Pinecone
3 2 (1.15%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (1.15%) TimescaleDB
3 2 (1.15%) Weaviate
4 1 (0.57%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.57%) Kdb+
4 1 (0.57%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 14 (8.05%) JIRA
2 12 (6.90%) Git
3 6 (3.45%) Jenkins
4 5 (2.87%) Visual Studio
5 3 (1.72%) Robot Framework
5 3 (1.72%) SonarQube
5 3 (1.72%) Subversion
6 1 (0.57%) Appium
6 1 (0.57%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.57%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.57%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.57%) GCC
6 1 (0.57%) GDB
6 1 (0.57%) GitLab
6 1 (0.57%) JUnit
6 1 (0.57%) Selenium
General
1 105 (60.34%) Finance
2 31 (17.82%) Analytical Skills
3 28 (16.09%) Front Office
4 26 (14.94%) Social Skills
5 21 (12.07%) Banking
6 13 (7.47%) Investment Banking
7 8 (4.60%) Financial Institution
8 7 (4.02%) Telecoms
9 6 (3.45%) Agriculture
10 3 (1.72%) Law
11 2 (1.15%) Automotive
11 2 (1.15%) Billing
11 2 (1.15%) iGaming
11 2 (1.15%) Japanese Language
11 2 (1.15%) Marketing
11 2 (1.15%) Multimedia
11 2 (1.15%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.57%) International Banking
12 1 (0.57%) Korean Language
12 1 (0.57%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 84 (48.28%) Developer
2 50 (28.74%) Senior
3 42 (24.14%) C++ Developer
4 35 (20.11%) Quantitative Developer
5 25 (14.37%) Software Engineer
6 23 (13.22%) Python Developer
7 20 (11.49%) Senior Software Engineer
8 17 (9.77%) C++ Software Engineer
9 16 (9.20%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
10 15 (8.62%) C++ Quantitative Developer
10 15 (8.62%) Linux Developer
10 15 (8.62%) Senior Developer
11 14 (8.05%) Linux Engineer
11 14 (8.05%) Low Latency C++ Developer
12 13 (7.47%) Kafka Engineer
12 13 (7.47%) Senior C++ Developer
12 13 (7.47%) Senior Linux Engineer
12 13 (7.47%) Senior Unix Engineer
12 13 (7.47%) Unix Engineer
12 13 (7.47%) Unix Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (13.22%) Kafka
2 10 (5.75%) NumPy
3 9 (5.17%) Pandas
3 9 (5.17%) SciPy
4 7 (4.02%) PyTorch
4 7 (4.02%) React
4 7 (4.02%) TensorFlow
5 5 (2.87%) .NET
5 5 (2.87%) FIX Protocol
5 5 (2.87%) HTML
5 5 (2.87%) LangChain
5 5 (2.87%) Node.js
6 4 (2.30%) AngularJS
7 3 (1.72%) Apache NiFi
7 3 (1.72%) FastAPI
7 3 (1.72%) Flask
7 3 (1.72%) Polars
7 3 (1.72%) REST
7 3 (1.72%) scikit-learn
7 3 (1.72%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 33 (18.97%) Equities
2 31 (17.82%) Derivative
3 28 (16.09%) Algorithms
4 22 (12.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 20 (11.49%) Distributed Systems
6 19 (10.92%) Equity Derivative
7 18 (10.34%) Data Structures
8 12 (6.90%) Greenfield Project
9 8 (4.60%) Data Protection Act
10 7 (4.02%) Embedded Systems
11 6 (3.45%) AI Agents
12 4 (2.30%) Fixed Income
12 4 (2.30%) Hedge funds
13 3 (1.72%) Blog
13 3 (1.72%) Cloud Native
13 3 (1.72%) Distributed Computing
13 3 (1.72%) Exotic Derivative
13 3 (1.72%) FPGA
13 3 (1.72%) IoT
13 3 (1.72%) Java Card
Operating Systems
1 67 (38.51%) Linux
2 30 (17.24%) Unix
3 7 (4.02%) FreeRTOS
4 5 (2.87%) Windows
5 1 (0.57%) Android
5 1 (0.57%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.57%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (31.03%) Software Engineering
2 37 (21.26%) Agile
2 37 (21.26%) Problem-Solving
3 34 (19.54%) Low Latency
4 32 (18.39%) Mathematics
5 26 (14.94%) CI/CD
6 25 (14.37%) Analytics
6 25 (14.37%) Computer Science
7 24 (13.79%) Quantitative Finance
8 23 (13.22%) Multithreading
9 19 (10.92%) Risk Management
10 18 (10.34%) Quantitative Research
10 18 (10.34%) Test Automation
11 15 (8.62%) Benchmarking
11 15 (8.62%) Validation
12 13 (7.47%) AI
12 13 (7.47%) Mentoring
12 13 (7.47%) Ultra-Low Latency
13 12 (6.90%) Order Management
14 11 (6.32%) Automated Trading
Programming Languages
1 92 (52.87%) Python
2 57 (32.76%) C#
3 50 (28.74%) SQL
4 43 (24.71%) Java
5 22 (12.64%) C
6 13 (7.47%) JavaScript
7 11 (6.32%) Rust
8 8 (4.60%) Embedded C++
8 8 (4.60%) TypeScript
9 6 (3.45%) R
10 4 (2.30%) Go
11 3 (1.72%) Embedded C
12 2 (1.15%) Ada
12 2 (1.15%) Bash
12 2 (1.15%) PowerShell
12 2 (1.15%) Shell Script
12 2 (1.15%) VBA
13 1 (0.57%) COBOL
13 1 (0.57%) Erlang
13 1 (0.57%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 50 (28.74%) Degree
2 13 (7.47%) Numerate Degree
3 10 (5.75%) Master's Degree
4 9 (5.17%) Computer Science Degree
4 9 (5.17%) Security Cleared
5 5 (2.87%) SC Cleared
6 4 (2.30%) DV Cleared
6 4 (2.30%) PhD
7 2 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.57%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.45%) QA
2 4 (2.30%) SLA
3 2 (1.15%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.15%) DICOM
3 2 (1.15%) HL7
4 1 (0.57%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.57%) EMIR
4 1 (0.57%) MiFID
System Software
1 14 (8.05%) Docker
2 7 (4.02%) Embedded Firmware
2 7 (4.02%) Firmware
3 2 (1.15%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.15%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 13 (7.47%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.15%) Amdocs OSS
2 2 (1.15%) Ansible
2 2 (1.15%) Grafana
2 2 (1.15%) Prometheus
2 2 (1.15%) Terraform
3 1 (0.57%) Progress Chef
3 1 (0.57%) Puppet
Vendors
1 24 (13.79%) Oracle
2 4 (2.30%) Dynatrace
3 3 (1.72%) Databricks
3 3 (1.72%) Thales
4 2 (1.15%) Amdocs
4 2 (1.15%) Ciena
4 2 (1.15%) Google
4 2 (1.15%) OpenAI
4 2 (1.15%) Perforce
4 2 (1.15%) Salesforce
4 2 (1.15%) ServiceNow
4 2 (1.15%) Veritas
5 1 (0.57%) Bloomberg
5 1 (0.57%) BT
5 1 (0.57%) Calypso
5 1 (0.57%) HP
5 1 (0.57%) Microsoft
5 1 (0.57%) Murex
5 1 (0.57%) Reuters
5 1 (0.57%) Solace