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 15 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 219 162 170
Rank change year-on-year -57 +8 -80
Contract jobs citing C++ 196 220 258
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.20% 1.69% 1.42%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.44% 4.32% 4.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 107 134 177
10th Percentile £408 £431 £325
25th Percentile £563 £625 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £800 £638
Median % change year-on-year -9.38% +25.49% -12.07%
75th Percentile £800 £875 £801
90th Percentile £1,050 £993 £955
England median daily rate £625 £675 £568
% change year-on-year -7.41% +18.94% -15.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 8
10th Percentile - - £47.16
25th Percentile £46.00 £69.00 £54.66
Median hourly rate £47.00 £70.00 £58.75
Median % change year-on-year -32.86% +19.15% +21.96%
75th Percentile £48.00 £71.00 £68.19
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 5,692 5,094 6,353
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 34.73% 39.07% 34.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,848 3,494 4,824
10th Percentile £363 £375 £388
25th Percentile £425 £450 £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 £813
England median daily rate £505 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -3.81% -2.33% -6.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 34 61
10th Percentile £18.81 £30.32 £25.79
25th Percentile £39.42 £38.15 £39.85
Median hourly rate £55.00 £45.75 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year +20.22% -9.41% -12.17%
75th Percentile £66.50 £62.81 £60.00
90th Percentile £73.50 £93.75 £70.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -7.51%

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 15 March 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 15 March 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 -18 29 £700 -12.50% 59
East London - 3 £900 - 1
West London -18 1 £350 -12.50% 5
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 8 (4.08%) Confluence
2 6 (3.06%) Apache Spark
3 4 (2.04%) Apache
4 2 (1.02%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 15 (7.65%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.51%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 28 (14.29%) AWS
2 16 (8.16%) Azure
3 10 (5.10%) GitHub
4 9 (4.59%) Serverless
5 7 (3.57%) GCP
6 3 (1.53%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (1.53%) Amazon S3
6 3 (1.53%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (1.53%) ChatGPT
6 3 (1.53%) GitHub Copilot
7 2 (1.02%) Amazon Bedrock
7 2 (1.02%) Amazon EMR
7 2 (1.02%) Amazon Kinesis
7 2 (1.02%) Anthropic Claude
7 2 (1.02%) Datadog
7 2 (1.02%) Entra ID
8 1 (0.51%) Figma
8 1 (0.51%) PaaS
8 1 (0.51%) Power Platform
8 1 (0.51%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.57%) Ethernet
1 7 (3.57%) Modbus
1 7 (3.57%) RS-232
1 7 (3.57%) RS-485
2 3 (1.53%) 3GPP
2 3 (1.53%) MVNO
2 3 (1.53%) Network Security
2 3 (1.53%) SMPP
2 3 (1.53%) SMS
2 3 (1.53%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.02%) Multicast
3 2 (1.02%) NaaS
3 2 (1.02%) NAS
3 2 (1.02%) SAN
3 2 (1.02%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (4.59%) Big Data
2 5 (2.55%) Hadoop
2 5 (2.55%) NoSQL
3 3 (1.53%) Apache Cassandra
3 3 (1.53%) MongoDB
4 2 (1.02%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (1.02%) Data Lake
4 2 (1.02%) Data Mining
4 2 (1.02%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (1.02%) Flink
4 2 (1.02%) InfluxDB
4 2 (1.02%) KDB
4 2 (1.02%) Kdb+
4 2 (1.02%) MySQL
4 2 (1.02%) Neo4j
4 2 (1.02%) Pinecone
4 2 (1.02%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.02%) SQL Server
4 2 (1.02%) TimescaleDB
4 2 (1.02%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 15 (7.65%) Git
2 13 (6.63%) JIRA
3 8 (4.08%) Jenkins
4 5 (2.55%) Visual Studio
5 3 (1.53%) Gradle
5 3 (1.53%) Robot Framework
5 3 (1.53%) SonarQube
6 2 (1.02%) GCC
6 2 (1.02%) GDB
7 1 (0.51%) Appium
7 1 (0.51%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.51%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.51%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.51%) GitLab
7 1 (0.51%) JUnit
7 1 (0.51%) Maven
7 1 (0.51%) Selenium
7 1 (0.51%) Subversion
General
1 113 (57.65%) Finance
2 31 (15.82%) Social Skills
3 30 (15.31%) Front Office
4 29 (14.80%) Analytical Skills
5 27 (13.78%) Banking
6 16 (8.16%) Investment Banking
7 8 (4.08%) Financial Institution
8 6 (3.06%) Agriculture
8 6 (3.06%) Telecoms
9 5 (2.55%) Law
10 2 (1.02%) Automotive
10 2 (1.02%) Billing
10 2 (1.02%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.02%) iGaming
10 2 (1.02%) International Banking
10 2 (1.02%) Marketing
10 2 (1.02%) Multimedia
10 2 (1.02%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.02%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 99 (50.51%) Developer
2 57 (29.08%) Senior
3 44 (22.45%) C++ Developer
4 40 (20.41%) Quantitative Developer
5 29 (14.80%) Software Engineer
6 27 (13.78%) Python Developer
7 21 (10.71%) Senior Software Engineer
8 17 (8.67%) C++ Quantitative Developer
8 17 (8.67%) Linux Engineer
9 16 (8.16%) C++ Software Engineer
9 16 (8.16%) Kafka Engineer
9 16 (8.16%) Linux Developer
9 16 (8.16%) Senior Linux Engineer
9 16 (8.16%) Senior Unix Engineer
9 16 (8.16%) Unix Engineer
9 16 (8.16%) Unix Linux Engineer
10 15 (7.65%) Low Latency C++ Developer
10 15 (7.65%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
11 14 (7.14%) Senior Developer
12 12 (6.12%) Senior C++ Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (14.80%) Kafka
2 14 (7.14%) NumPy
3 13 (6.63%) Pandas
3 13 (6.63%) SciPy
4 11 (5.61%) React
5 10 (5.10%) AngularJS
6 8 (4.08%) .NET
6 8 (4.08%) PyTorch
6 8 (4.08%) TensorFlow
7 6 (3.06%) FastAPI
7 6 (3.06%) Flask
7 6 (3.06%) HTML
7 6 (3.06%) Polars
7 6 (3.06%) Vue
8 5 (2.55%) LangChain
8 5 (2.55%) Node.js
8 5 (2.55%) Web Services
9 4 (2.04%) Boost C++ Libraries
9 4 (2.04%) LDAP
9 4 (2.04%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 38 (19.39%) Equities
2 31 (15.82%) Derivative
3 29 (14.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 26 (13.27%) Algorithms
5 19 (9.69%) Equity Derivative
6 18 (9.18%) Distributed Systems
7 16 (8.16%) Data Structures
8 12 (6.12%) Greenfield Project
9 8 (4.08%) Data Protection Act
9 8 (4.08%) Hedge funds
10 7 (3.57%) Embedded Systems
11 6 (3.06%) AI Agents
12 5 (2.55%) Fixed Income
13 3 (1.53%) Blog
13 3 (1.53%) Cloud Native
13 3 (1.53%) Distributed Computing
13 3 (1.53%) Exotic Derivative
13 3 (1.53%) FPGA
13 3 (1.53%) IoT
13 3 (1.53%) Java Card
Operating Systems
1 75 (38.27%) Linux
2 37 (18.88%) Unix
3 7 (3.57%) FreeRTOS
3 7 (3.57%) Windows
4 1 (0.51%) Android
4 1 (0.51%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.51%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (33.16%) Software Engineering
2 45 (22.96%) Agile
3 37 (18.88%) Mathematics
4 35 (17.86%) Problem-Solving
5 32 (16.33%) Low Latency
6 31 (15.82%) CI/CD
7 29 (14.80%) Analytics
8 27 (13.78%) Computer Science
9 24 (12.24%) Multithreading
9 24 (12.24%) Quantitative Finance
10 23 (11.73%) Risk Management
11 21 (10.71%) Test Automation
12 20 (10.20%) Quantitative Research
13 17 (8.67%) Mentoring
14 16 (8.16%) Benchmarking
15 15 (7.65%) Validation
16 14 (7.14%) AI
16 14 (7.14%) Continuous Improvement
16 14 (7.14%) DevOps
17 13 (6.63%) Order Management
Programming Languages
1 103 (52.55%) Python
2 67 (34.18%) C#
3 59 (30.10%) SQL
4 55 (28.06%) Java
5 21 (10.71%) C
6 16 (8.16%) JavaScript
7 15 (7.65%) Rust
8 8 (4.08%) Embedded C++
8 8 (4.08%) TypeScript
9 5 (2.55%) R
10 4 (2.04%) Go
10 4 (2.04%) VBA
11 3 (1.53%) Embedded C
11 3 (1.53%) Kotlin
12 2 (1.02%) Ada
12 2 (1.02%) Bash
12 2 (1.02%) PowerShell
12 2 (1.02%) Scala
12 2 (1.02%) Shell Script
12 2 (1.02%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 52 (26.53%) Degree
2 14 (7.14%) Security Cleared
3 13 (6.63%) Master's Degree
3 13 (6.63%) Numerate Degree
4 9 (4.59%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (4.08%) SC Cleared
6 7 (3.57%) DV Cleared
7 4 (2.04%) PhD
8 2 (1.02%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.02%) GPEN
8 2 (1.02%) GWAPT
8 2 (1.02%) OSCP
9 1 (0.51%) CCSAS
9 1 (0.51%) GXPN
9 1 (0.51%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.51%) OSCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.57%) QA
2 4 (2.04%) SLA
3 3 (1.53%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.02%) DICOM
4 2 (1.02%) EMIR
4 2 (1.02%) HL7
4 2 (1.02%) NIST
5 1 (0.51%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.51%) MiFID
System Software
1 20 (10.20%) Docker
2 7 (3.57%) Embedded Firmware
2 7 (3.57%) Firmware
3 4 (2.04%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.02%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 19 (9.69%) Kubernetes
2 5 (2.55%) Ansible
3 4 (2.04%) Terraform
4 2 (1.02%) Amdocs OSS
4 2 (1.02%) Grafana
4 2 (1.02%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.51%) Oracle Identity Management
5 1 (0.51%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.51%) Puppet
Vendors
1 24 (12.24%) Oracle
2 4 (2.04%) Dynatrace
2 4 (2.04%) Microsoft
3 3 (1.53%) Databricks
3 3 (1.53%) Thales
4 2 (1.02%) Amdocs
4 2 (1.02%) Ciena
4 2 (1.02%) CrowdStrike
4 2 (1.02%) Google
4 2 (1.02%) OpenAI
4 2 (1.02%) Palantir
4 2 (1.02%) Salesforce
4 2 (1.02%) SAP
4 2 (1.02%) ServiceNow
4 2 (1.02%) Solace
4 2 (1.02%) Veritas
5 1 (0.51%) BT
5 1 (0.51%) Calypso
5 1 (0.51%) HP
5 1 (0.51%) Murex