C++ Contracts in London

C++
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring C++ skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited C++ over the 6 months leading up to 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 136 159 96
Rank change year-on-year +23 -63 +49
Contract jobs citing C++ 261 278 677
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 2.01% 1.58% 2.68%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.11% 4.10% 6.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 162 187 479
10th Percentile £416 £396 £517
25th Percentile £586 £493 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £680 £725
Median % change year-on-year +10.29% -6.21% -2.88%
75th Percentile £875 £875 £863
90th Percentile £1,023 £950 £966
England median daily rate £663 £550 £650
% change year-on-year +20.45% -15.38% -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 11
10th Percentile - £43.54 £25.75
25th Percentile - £46.75 £49.30
Median hourly rate - £59.13 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year - +12.62% -12.50%
75th Percentile - £71.88 £55.39
90th Percentile - £72.19 £60.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +8.33%

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 5,106 6,780 10,074
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 39.31% 38.49% 39.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,582 5,152 7,571
10th Percentile £375 £375 £406
25th Percentile £431 £463 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £700 £700 £738
90th Percentile £825 £840 £835
England median daily rate £521 £543 £555
% change year-on-year -4.01% -2.25% +0.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 51 77
10th Percentile £27.08 £23.80 £25.55
25th Percentile £33.25 £36.57 £48.60
Median hourly rate £41.66 £50.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.69% -16.67% +20.00%
75th Percentile £58.81 £61.97 £75.00
90th Percentile £81.88 £72.50 £87.94
England median hourly rate £56.75 £65.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -12.69% +4.00% +19.05%

C++
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing C++ as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for C++ in London

C++
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing C++ in London.

Daily rate trend for C++ in London

C++
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing C++ in London over the 6 months to 2 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for C++ in London

C++
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing C++ in London.

Hourly rate trend 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 2 July 2025. 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 +2 33 £738 +4.24% 276
West London -15 9 £405 -14.84% 45
South London -1 4 £738 +40.48% 19
C++
England

C++
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 15 (5.75%) Apache Spark
2 6 (2.30%) Apache
3 3 (1.15%) BizTalk Server
3 3 (1.15%) Confluence
4 1 (0.38%) DataSynapse
4 1 (0.38%) Ethereum
4 1 (0.38%) Hyperledger
4 1 (0.38%) IBM HTTP Server
4 1 (0.38%) JBoss
4 1 (0.38%) MetaMask
4 1 (0.38%) MQSeries
4 1 (0.38%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.38%) WebSphere
Applications
1 10 (3.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.38%) CANalyzer
2 1 (0.38%) Siemens NX
2 1 (0.38%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 1 (0.38%) BASE24
1 1 (0.38%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 1 (0.38%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 61 (23.37%) AWS
2 41 (15.71%) Azure
3 15 (5.75%) GCP
3 15 (5.75%) GitHub
4 7 (2.68%) Serverless
5 5 (1.92%) AWS Lambda
5 5 (1.92%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (1.92%) Azure Monitor
5 5 (1.92%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (1.53%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (1.15%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 3 (1.15%) Azure Logic Apps
7 3 (1.15%) OpenShift
8 2 (0.77%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (0.77%) Azure Functions
8 2 (0.77%) Azure Storage
9 1 (0.38%) Azure Stack
9 1 (0.38%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Purview
9 1 (0.38%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.07%) TCP/IP
2 7 (2.68%) Multicast
3 2 (0.77%) HTTP
3 2 (0.77%) Internet
3 2 (0.77%) LAN
3 2 (0.77%) SMS
4 1 (0.38%) ATM
4 1 (0.38%) BGP
4 1 (0.38%) DNS
4 1 (0.38%) EIGRP
4 1 (0.38%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.38%) IPsec
4 1 (0.38%) J1939
4 1 (0.38%) Modbus
4 1 (0.38%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (4.60%) Big Data
2 7 (2.68%) Data Mining
2 7 (2.68%) NoSQL
2 7 (2.68%) Relational Database
3 5 (1.92%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (1.53%) KDB
4 4 (1.53%) Metadata
4 4 (1.53%) MongoDB
5 3 (1.15%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (1.15%) DB2
5 3 (1.15%) HPCC
6 2 (0.77%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.77%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (0.77%) RDBMS
6 2 (0.77%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.38%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.38%) Kdb+
7 1 (0.38%) NonStop SQL
7 1 (0.38%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.38%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 62 (23.75%) Git
2 18 (6.90%) Jenkins
3 9 (3.45%) Artifactory
3 9 (3.45%) Bitbucket
4 7 (2.68%) GCC
4 7 (2.68%) GitLab
4 7 (2.68%) TeamCity
5 5 (1.92%) GDB
6 4 (1.53%) Appium
6 4 (1.53%) CircleCI
6 4 (1.53%) Gatling
6 4 (1.53%) Gradle
6 4 (1.53%) JIRA
6 4 (1.53%) JMeter
6 4 (1.53%) NeoLoad
6 4 (1.53%) Selenium
6 4 (1.53%) SpecFlow
6 4 (1.53%) Visual Studio
7 2 (0.77%) Eclipse
7 2 (0.77%) IntelliJ
General
1 125 (47.89%) Finance
2 79 (30.27%) Social Skills
3 64 (24.52%) Banking
4 52 (19.92%) Analytical Skills
5 48 (18.39%) Front Office
5 48 (18.39%) Investment Banking
6 14 (5.36%) Financial Institution
7 10 (3.83%) Public Sector
8 6 (2.30%) Organisational Skills
8 6 (2.30%) Telecoms
9 5 (1.92%) Manufacturing
10 4 (1.53%) Electronics
10 4 (1.53%) International Banking
10 4 (1.53%) Marketing
11 3 (1.15%) Games
11 3 (1.15%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.77%) Military
13 1 (0.38%) Advertising
13 1 (0.38%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 132 (50.57%) Developer
2 65 (24.90%) C++ Developer
3 34 (13.03%) Quantitative Developer
4 30 (11.49%) Python Developer
5 29 (11.11%) Senior
6 25 (9.58%) Software Engineer
7 17 (6.51%) C# Developer
8 15 (5.75%) C++/C# Developer
9 14 (5.36%) C++ Quantitative Developer
9 14 (5.36%) Lead
9 14 (5.36%) Machine Learning Engineer
10 13 (4.98%) Analyst
10 13 (4.98%) AWS Developer
10 13 (4.98%) JavaScript Developer
10 13 (4.98%) Senior Developer
11 12 (4.60%) Qualitative Analyst
11 12 (4.60%) Quantitative Analyst
12 11 (4.21%) Software Developer
13 9 (3.45%) C++ Software Engineer
13 9 (3.45%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (11.88%) Kafka
2 30 (11.49%) .NET
3 26 (9.96%) React
4 18 (6.90%) ASP.NET
5 16 (6.13%) .NET Core
5 16 (6.13%) AngularJS
6 15 (5.75%) FIX Protocol
6 15 (5.75%) HTML
6 15 (5.75%) NumPy
6 15 (5.75%) Pandas
7 14 (5.36%) Flask
7 14 (5.36%) SciPy
7 14 (5.36%) Vue
8 13 (4.98%) FastAPI
8 13 (4.98%) Polars
8 13 (4.98%) Web Services
9 12 (4.60%) WCF
10 11 (4.21%) Middleware
11 10 (3.83%) CSS
11 10 (3.83%) STL
Miscellaneous
1 51 (19.54%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 36 (13.79%) Distributed Systems
3 31 (11.88%) Derivative
4 30 (11.49%) Algorithms
5 27 (10.34%) Hedge funds
6 25 (9.58%) Equities
7 18 (6.90%) Distributed Computing
8 16 (6.13%) Data Structures
8 16 (6.13%) Equity Derivative
9 13 (4.98%) Fixed Income
10 10 (3.83%) Legacy Applications
11 9 (3.45%) Grid Computing
12 6 (2.30%) Credit Risk
12 6 (2.30%) Distributed Architecture
12 6 (2.30%) Enterprise Software
13 5 (1.92%) Cloud Native
13 5 (1.92%) Reference Data
13 5 (1.92%) Team-Oriented Environment
13 5 (1.92%) TWAP
13 5 (1.92%) VWAP
Operating Systems
1 77 (29.50%) Linux
2 22 (8.43%) Windows
3 21 (8.05%) Unix
4 5 (1.92%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.92%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (0.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.38%) AIX
6 1 (0.38%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (27.59%) CI/CD
2 63 (24.14%) Software Engineering
3 54 (20.69%) Low Latency
4 52 (19.92%) Mathematics
5 49 (18.77%) Agile
6 45 (17.24%) Problem-Solving
7 43 (16.48%) Computer Science
8 41 (15.71%) Analytics
9 40 (15.33%) DevOps
10 33 (12.64%) OO
11 29 (11.11%) Algorithmic Trading
11 29 (11.11%) Scrum
12 27 (10.34%) Risk Management
13 22 (8.43%) Clean Code
14 21 (8.05%) Data Pipeline
14 21 (8.05%) OOP
15 20 (7.66%) Electronic Trading
16 19 (7.28%) Machine Learning
16 19 (7.28%) Market Making
17 18 (6.90%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 177 (67.82%) Python
2 116 (44.44%) Java
3 82 (31.42%) C#
4 48 (18.39%) C
5 46 (17.62%) SQL
6 44 (16.86%) JavaScript
7 21 (8.05%) Shell Script
8 19 (7.28%) Rust
9 14 (5.36%) PowerShell
10 13 (4.98%) TypeScript
11 12 (4.60%) Go
12 8 (3.07%) Bash
12 8 (3.07%) PHP
12 8 (3.07%) PL/SQL
13 7 (2.68%) Perl
14 5 (1.92%) Groovy
15 4 (1.53%) Ruby
15 4 (1.53%) Scala
16 3 (1.15%) T-SQL
17 2 (0.77%) VBA
Qualifications
1 59 (22.61%) Degree
2 29 (11.11%) Master's Degree
3 22 (8.43%) Computer Science Degree
4 17 (6.51%) PhD
5 13 (4.98%) Numerate Degree
5 13 (4.98%) Security Cleared
6 12 (4.60%) SC Cleared
7 3 (1.15%) CCNP
7 3 (1.15%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (0.77%) CCNA
8 2 (0.77%) CEH
8 2 (0.77%) CISSP
8 2 (0.77%) CREST Certified
8 2 (0.77%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.77%) OCA
8 2 (0.77%) OCP
8 2 (0.77%) Oracle Certification
8 2 (0.77%) OSCP
9 1 (0.38%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.38%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (3.45%) QA
2 1 (0.38%) ISO 8583
2 1 (0.38%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 38 (14.56%) Docker
2 4 (1.53%) Platform Symphony
3 2 (0.77%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (0.77%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.38%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.38%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 51 (19.54%) Kubernetes
2 11 (4.21%) Ansible
3 8 (3.07%) Puppet
3 8 (3.07%) Terraform
4 7 (2.68%) Grafana
5 5 (1.92%) ITRS Geneos
5 5 (1.92%) Kibana
6 2 (0.77%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.77%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.38%) Podman
7 1 (0.38%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 26 (9.96%) Oracle
2 10 (3.83%) Microsoft
3 8 (3.07%) IBM
4 6 (2.30%) TIBCO
5 5 (1.92%) Google
5 5 (1.92%) SAP
6 4 (1.53%) Solace
6 4 (1.53%) Splunk
7 3 (1.15%) MuleSoft
8 2 (0.77%) Alibaba
8 2 (0.77%) Cisco
8 2 (0.77%) Dynatrace
8 2 (0.77%) Murex
8 2 (0.77%) Virgin Media
8 2 (0.77%) VMware
9 1 (0.38%) Hitachi
9 1 (0.38%) Juniper
9 1 (0.38%) NVIDIA
9 1 (0.38%) Quark
9 1 (0.38%) Salesforce