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 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 145 166 154
Rank change year-on-year +21 -12 -52
Contract jobs citing C++ 261 208 287
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.86% 1.49% 1.58%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.98% 3.91% 4.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 148 130 199
10th Percentile £400 £359 £325
25th Percentile £547 £469 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £700 £650
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% +7.69% -10.34%
75th Percentile £800 £825 £801
90th Percentile £1,000 £913 £950
England median daily rate £625 £600 £590
% change year-on-year +4.17% +1.69% -12.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 12
10th Percentile £34.15 £53.03 £41.73
25th Percentile £46.00 £55.69 £53.72
Median hourly rate £56.50 £61.25 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.76% +2.08% +8.63%
75th Percentile £61.25 £66.69 £68.06
90th Percentile £67.70 £69.28 £72.45
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 5,238 5,315 6,405
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 37.30% 38.18% 35.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,520 3,530 4,831
10th Percentile £363 £375 £400
25th Percentile £425 £460 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £563 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.49% -2.13% -4.17%
75th Percentile £669 £699 £700
90th Percentile £776 £825 £800
England median daily rate £513 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -4.65% -2.27% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 34 66
10th Percentile £25.93 £35.00 £26.25
25th Percentile £35.50 £39.02 £36.42
Median hourly rate £54.50 £52.50 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.81% +3.96% -12.17%
75th Percentile £66.19 £69.50 £64.31
90th Percentile £81.38 £97.50 £72.50
England median hourly rate £65.00 £63.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +3.17% +0.80% -3.85%

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 12 January 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 12 January 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 12 January 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 +3 38 £675 +8.00% 56
East London - 8 £1,000 - 7
West London -25 3 £350 -12.50% 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 (2.68%) Apache
1 7 (2.68%) Confluence
2 4 (1.53%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 13 (4.98%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.38%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 31 (11.88%) AWS
2 19 (7.28%) Azure
3 11 (4.21%) Serverless
4 10 (3.83%) GitHub
5 6 (2.30%) GCP
6 4 (1.53%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (1.15%) Amazon S3
7 3 (1.15%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (1.15%) ChatGPT
7 3 (1.15%) Datadog
7 3 (1.15%) GitHub Copilot
8 2 (0.77%) Amazon Bedrock
8 2 (0.77%) Amazon EMR
8 2 (0.77%) Amazon Kinesis
8 2 (0.77%) Anthropic Claude
8 2 (0.77%) Entra ID
8 2 (0.77%) OpenShift
8 2 (0.77%) Power Platform
9 1 (0.38%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.30%) Ethernet
1 6 (2.30%) Modbus
1 6 (2.30%) RS-232
1 6 (2.30%) RS-485
2 5 (1.92%) BGP
2 5 (1.92%) DNS
2 5 (1.92%) EIGRP
2 5 (1.92%) HTTPS
2 5 (1.92%) IPsec
2 5 (1.92%) OSPF
3 4 (1.53%) Network Security
3 4 (1.53%) TCP/IP
4 3 (1.15%) 3GPP
4 3 (1.15%) Multicast
4 3 (1.15%) MVNO
4 3 (1.15%) SMPP
4 3 (1.15%) SMS
5 1 (0.38%) Firewall
5 1 (0.38%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (4.98%) Big Data
2 7 (2.68%) Oracle Database
3 4 (1.53%) Hadoop
3 4 (1.53%) Metadata
4 2 (0.77%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (0.77%) BigQuery
4 2 (0.77%) Data Lake
4 2 (0.77%) Data Mining
4 2 (0.77%) KDB
4 2 (0.77%) Kdb+
4 2 (0.77%) Neo4j
4 2 (0.77%) NonStop SQL
4 2 (0.77%) Pinecone
4 2 (0.77%) Power BI
4 2 (0.77%) SQL Server
4 2 (0.77%) Weaviate
5 1 (0.38%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (0.38%) HBase
5 1 (0.38%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.38%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 23 (8.81%) Git
2 11 (4.21%) JIRA
3 6 (2.30%) Jenkins
3 6 (2.30%) JUnit
3 6 (2.30%) Visual Studio
4 3 (1.15%) GCC
4 3 (1.15%) GDB
4 3 (1.15%) Gradle
4 3 (1.15%) SonarQube
5 2 (0.77%) Maven
6 1 (0.38%) Appium
6 1 (0.38%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.38%) ClearCase
6 1 (0.38%) CMake
6 1 (0.38%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.38%) GitLab
6 1 (0.38%) Robot Framework
6 1 (0.38%) Selenium
6 1 (0.38%) Subversion
General
1 142 (54.41%) Finance
2 40 (15.33%) Banking
3 39 (14.94%) Social Skills
4 36 (13.79%) Front Office
5 26 (9.96%) Analytical Skills
6 24 (9.20%) Investment Banking
7 13 (4.98%) Financial Institution
8 7 (2.68%) Public Sector
9 5 (1.92%) Agriculture
9 5 (1.92%) Games
9 5 (1.92%) Law
10 3 (1.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.15%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.77%) Automotive
11 2 (0.77%) Back Office
11 2 (0.77%) iGaming
11 2 (0.77%) International Banking
11 2 (0.77%) Marketing
11 2 (0.77%) Military
11 2 (0.77%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 117 (44.83%) Developer
2 71 (27.20%) Senior
3 62 (23.75%) Software Engineer
4 48 (18.39%) C++ Developer
5 43 (16.48%) Quantitative Developer
6 32 (12.26%) Senior Software Engineer
7 30 (11.49%) C++ Software Engineer
8 29 (11.11%) Python Developer
9 25 (9.58%) Linux Engineer
10 20 (7.66%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
11 18 (6.90%) Kafka Engineer
11 18 (6.90%) Linux Developer
11 18 (6.90%) Senior Linux Engineer
11 18 (6.90%) Senior Unix Engineer
11 18 (6.90%) Unix Engineer
11 18 (6.90%) Unix Linux Engineer
12 16 (6.13%) C++ Quantitative Developer
13 15 (5.75%) Low Latency C++ Developer
14 13 (4.98%) Senior Developer
15 11 (4.21%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (17.24%) Kafka
2 19 (7.28%) React
3 18 (6.90%) NumPy
4 17 (6.51%) AngularJS
4 17 (6.51%) Pandas
4 17 (6.51%) SciPy
5 12 (4.60%) Vue
6 11 (4.21%) FastAPI
6 11 (4.21%) Flask
6 11 (4.21%) Polars
7 10 (3.83%) .NET
8 9 (3.45%) HTML
9 8 (3.07%) iOS SDK
9 8 (3.07%) PyTorch
9 8 (3.07%) TensorFlow
10 7 (2.68%) Apache NiFi
11 6 (2.30%) Android NDK
11 6 (2.30%) Android SDK
11 6 (2.30%) JNI
11 6 (2.30%) Unity (Game Engine)
Miscellaneous
1 42 (16.09%) Equities
2 39 (14.94%) Derivative
2 39 (14.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 27 (10.34%) Algorithms
4 23 (8.81%) Equity Derivative
5 18 (6.90%) Distributed Systems
6 14 (5.36%) Data Protection Act
7 13 (4.98%) Data Structures
7 13 (4.98%) Hedge funds
8 11 (4.21%) Greenfield Project
8 11 (4.21%) Virtual Reality
9 9 (3.45%) Distributed Computing
9 9 (3.45%) Embedded Systems
10 8 (3.07%) Augmented Reality
11 6 (2.30%) AI Agents
12 5 (1.92%) PKI
13 4 (1.53%) Credit Risk
13 4 (1.53%) Fixed Income
13 4 (1.53%) FPGA
14 3 (1.15%) Java Card
Operating Systems
1 106 (40.61%) Linux
2 47 (18.01%) Unix
3 16 (6.13%) Windows
4 13 (4.98%) Android
5 8 (3.07%) Apple iOS
6 6 (2.30%) FreeRTOS
6 6 (2.30%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.38%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (41.00%) Software Engineering
2 65 (24.90%) Agile
3 54 (20.69%) Mathematics
4 47 (18.01%) CI/CD
5 36 (13.79%) Computer Science
5 36 (13.79%) Low Latency
5 36 (13.79%) Problem-Solving
6 27 (10.34%) Analytics
7 26 (9.96%) Data Pipeline
7 26 (9.96%) Mentoring
7 26 (9.96%) Risk Management
8 25 (9.58%) Quantitative Finance
9 23 (8.81%) Clean Code
10 22 (8.43%) Data Engineering
10 22 (8.43%) Multithreading
11 20 (7.66%) Quantitative Research
12 19 (7.28%) Test Automation
12 19 (7.28%) Validation
13 18 (6.90%) Machine Learning
14 17 (6.51%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 138 (52.87%) Python
2 89 (34.10%) C#
3 72 (27.59%) Java
3 72 (27.59%) SQL
4 28 (10.73%) JavaScript
5 22 (8.43%) C
5 22 (8.43%) Rust
6 12 (4.60%) Kotlin
7 8 (3.07%) Embedded C++
8 7 (2.68%) Bash
9 6 (2.30%) Perl
9 6 (2.30%) PHP
9 6 (2.30%) R
9 6 (2.30%) TypeScript
10 5 (1.92%) Go
11 4 (1.53%) VBA
12 3 (1.15%) Embedded C
12 3 (1.15%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.77%) Ada
13 2 (0.77%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 64 (24.52%) Degree
2 17 (6.51%) Security Cleared
3 16 (6.13%) Master's Degree
4 14 (5.36%) Numerate Degree
5 13 (4.98%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (4.60%) SC Cleared
7 10 (3.83%) DV Cleared
8 5 (1.92%) CCNP
8 5 (1.92%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (1.92%) JNCIA
8 5 (1.92%) JNCIS
9 4 (1.53%) PhD
10 3 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.77%) GPEN
11 2 (0.77%) GWAPT
11 2 (0.77%) MCP
11 2 (0.77%) OSCP
12 1 (0.38%) ISTQB
12 1 (0.38%) OSCE
12 1 (0.38%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (3.45%) QA
2 4 (1.53%) Data Quality
2 4 (1.53%) EMIR
2 4 (1.53%) SLA
3 2 (0.77%) NIST
4 1 (0.38%) MiFID
System Software
1 29 (11.11%) Docker
2 12 (4.60%) Firmware
3 7 (2.68%) Embedded Firmware
4 2 (0.77%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.77%) HDFS
4 2 (0.77%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.38%) KVM
5 1 (0.38%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 27 (10.34%) Kubernetes
2 5 (1.92%) Ansible
2 5 (1.92%) Terraform
3 1 (0.38%) Grafana
3 1 (0.38%) Oracle Identity Management
3 1 (0.38%) Progress Chef
3 1 (0.38%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.38%) Puppet
Vendors
1 33 (12.64%) Oracle
2 6 (2.30%) Cisco
2 6 (2.30%) Microsoft
3 5 (1.92%) Juniper
3 5 (1.92%) Sophis
4 3 (1.15%) Databricks
4 3 (1.15%) Google
4 3 (1.15%) Thales
5 2 (0.77%) Alibaba
5 2 (0.77%) CrowdStrike
5 2 (0.77%) Dynatrace
5 2 (0.77%) HP
5 2 (0.77%) OpenAI
5 2 (0.77%) Palantir
5 2 (0.77%) SAP
5 2 (0.77%) Solace
6 1 (0.38%) Calypso
6 1 (0.38%) Murex
6 1 (0.38%) NetApp
6 1 (0.38%) Remedy