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 25 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 273 162 154
Rank change year-on-year -111 -8 -59
Contract jobs citing C++ 154 213 287
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.85% 1.75% 1.65%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.70% 4.45% 4.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 134 198
10th Percentile £415 £431 £412
25th Percentile £538 £641 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £663 £788 £655
Median % change year-on-year -15.87% +20.23% -6.43%
75th Percentile £791 £894 £850
90th Percentile £923 £1,044 £950
England median daily rate £600 £750 £575
% change year-on-year -20.00% +30.43% -11.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 8
10th Percentile - - £44.62
25th Percentile £26.25 - £47.75
Median hourly rate £27.50 - £67.13
75th Percentile £28.75 - £72.03
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 5,694 4,791 6,466
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 31.36% 39.25% 37.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,803 3,373 4,952
10th Percentile £370 £376 £375
25th Percentile £438 £440 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £650 £713 £700
90th Percentile £763 £825 £838
England median daily rate £512 £525 £549
% change year-on-year -2.45% -4.37% -2.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 33 50
10th Percentile £33.48 £29.07 £23.80
25th Percentile £41.25 £33.25 £40.77
Median hourly rate £58.94 £38.11 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year +54.64% -24.53% -15.83%
75th Percentile £73.00 £53.75 £64.02
90th Percentile £88.75 £66.65 £72.50
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +4.84% -0.80% -

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 25 May 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 25 May 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 -24 21 £778 -2.81% 35
East London - 2 £334 - 4
South London -17 1 - - 1
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 6 (3.90%) Confluence
2 5 (3.25%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.95%) IIS
4 2 (1.30%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.65%) MTS
5 1 (0.65%) SharePoint
Applications
1 10 (6.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (1.30%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (0.65%) Orchestrade
Cloud Services
1 16 (10.39%) AWS
2 8 (5.19%) Azure
2 8 (5.19%) GitHub
3 5 (3.25%) GCP
4 3 (1.95%) Serverless
5 2 (1.30%) Amazon Bedrock
5 2 (1.30%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (1.30%) Amazon EMR
5 2 (1.30%) Amazon Kinesis
5 2 (1.30%) Amazon S3
5 2 (1.30%) AWS IoT
5 2 (1.30%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (1.30%) ChatGPT
5 2 (1.30%) GitHub Copilot
5 2 (1.30%) SaaS
6 1 (0.65%) Entra ID
6 1 (0.65%) Google Drive
6 1 (0.65%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (0.65%) OneDrive
6 1 (0.65%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.55%) HTTP
2 6 (3.90%) Ethernet
2 6 (3.90%) Modbus
2 6 (3.90%) RS-232
2 6 (3.90%) RS-485
3 5 (3.25%) TCP/IP
4 3 (1.95%) 3GPP
4 3 (1.95%) MQTT
4 3 (1.95%) MVNO
4 3 (1.95%) Network Security
4 3 (1.95%) SMPP
4 3 (1.95%) SMS
4 3 (1.95%) VXLAN
5 2 (1.30%) Internet
5 2 (1.30%) NaaS
5 2 (1.30%) NAS
5 2 (1.30%) SAN
5 2 (1.30%) WAN
6 1 (0.65%) Firewall
6 1 (0.65%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.25%) NoSQL
2 3 (1.95%) Big Data
2 3 (1.95%) Hadoop
3 2 (1.30%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (1.30%) Apache Cassandra
3 2 (1.30%) Data Lake
3 2 (1.30%) Data Mining
3 2 (1.30%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (1.30%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (1.30%) Flink
3 2 (1.30%) InfluxDB
3 2 (1.30%) MongoDB
3 2 (1.30%) MySQL
3 2 (1.30%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (1.30%) TimescaleDB
4 1 (0.65%) KDB
4 1 (0.65%) Kdb+
4 1 (0.65%) NonStop SQL
4 1 (0.65%) Snowflake Schema
4 1 (0.65%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 11 (7.14%) JIRA
2 7 (4.55%) Git
2 7 (4.55%) Jenkins
3 5 (3.25%) Visual Studio
4 3 (1.95%) Robot Framework
4 3 (1.95%) Subversion
5 2 (1.30%) GitLab
5 2 (1.30%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.65%) Appium
6 1 (0.65%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.65%) CMake
6 1 (0.65%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.65%) Fiddler
6 1 (0.65%) GoogleTest
6 1 (0.65%) JUnit
6 1 (0.65%) MSI
6 1 (0.65%) Selenium
General
1 87 (56.49%) Finance
2 31 (20.13%) Analytical Skills
3 23 (14.94%) Social Skills
4 22 (14.29%) Banking
5 19 (12.34%) Front Office
6 16 (10.39%) Investment Banking
7 8 (5.19%) Telecoms
8 6 (3.90%) Agriculture
9 5 (3.25%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.30%) Automotive
10 2 (1.30%) Billing
10 2 (1.30%) Japanese Language
10 2 (1.30%) Multimedia
10 2 (1.30%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.65%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.65%) Games
11 1 (0.65%) Korean Language
11 1 (0.65%) Legal
11 1 (0.65%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 66 (42.86%) Developer
2 41 (26.62%) Senior
3 33 (21.43%) C++ Developer
4 27 (17.53%) Software Engineer
5 25 (16.23%) Quantitative Developer
6 23 (14.94%) C++ Software Engineer
7 19 (12.34%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
7 19 (12.34%) Senior Software Engineer
8 15 (9.74%) Senior Developer
9 14 (9.09%) Senior C++ Developer
10 12 (7.79%) Python Developer
11 9 (5.84%) Linux Engineer
12 8 (5.19%) C++ Quantitative Developer
12 8 (5.19%) Embedded Engineer
12 8 (5.19%) Kafka Engineer
12 8 (5.19%) Linux Developer
12 8 (5.19%) Senior Linux Engineer
12 8 (5.19%) Senior Unix Engineer
12 8 (5.19%) Unix Engineer
12 8 (5.19%) Unix Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (10.39%) Kafka
2 11 (7.14%) FIX Protocol
3 7 (4.55%) WebSockets
4 6 (3.90%) .NET
4 6 (3.90%) NumPy
4 6 (3.90%) Pandas
5 5 (3.25%) PyTorch
5 5 (3.25%) SciPy
5 5 (3.25%) TensorFlow
6 4 (2.60%) HTML
6 4 (2.60%) LangChain
6 4 (2.60%) Node.js
7 3 (1.95%) Boost C++ Libraries
7 3 (1.95%) COM
7 3 (1.95%) OpenTelemetry
7 3 (1.95%) REST
7 3 (1.95%) Web Services
7 3 (1.95%) XML
8 2 (1.30%) Matplotlib
8 2 (1.30%) Qt
Miscellaneous
1 30 (19.48%) Derivative
2 23 (14.94%) Algorithms
2 23 (14.94%) Distributed Systems
3 18 (11.69%) Equities
4 16 (10.39%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 14 (9.09%) Data Structures
5 14 (9.09%) Equity Derivative
6 10 (6.49%) Data Protection Act
7 8 (5.19%) Greenfield Project
8 7 (4.55%) Cloud Native
8 7 (4.55%) Embedded Systems
9 6 (3.90%) IoT
10 5 (3.25%) Exotic Derivative
10 5 (3.25%) Legacy Systems
11 4 (2.60%) AI Agents
12 3 (1.95%) Credit Derivative
12 3 (1.95%) Fixed Income
12 3 (1.95%) Java Card
12 3 (1.95%) Mainframe
13 2 (1.30%) PACS
Operating Systems
1 55 (35.71%) Linux
2 27 (17.53%) Unix
3 8 (5.19%) Windows
4 6 (3.90%) FreeRTOS
5 3 (1.95%) Android
5 3 (1.95%) Apple iOS
5 3 (1.95%) Solaris
6 1 (0.65%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (31.17%) Software Engineering
2 36 (23.38%) Low Latency
2 36 (23.38%) Problem-Solving
3 24 (15.58%) Mathematics
4 23 (14.94%) Analytics
5 22 (14.29%) Agile
5 22 (14.29%) CI/CD
6 19 (12.34%) Quantitative Finance
7 17 (11.04%) Computer Science
7 17 (11.04%) Multithreading
8 16 (10.39%) Observability
9 13 (8.44%) Ultra-Low Latency
9 13 (8.44%) Validation
10 11 (7.14%) AI
10 11 (7.14%) Risk Management
10 11 (7.14%) Test Automation
11 10 (6.49%) Data Protection
11 10 (6.49%) Full-Stack Development
11 10 (6.49%) Performance Optimisation
12 9 (5.84%) Quantitative Research
Programming Languages
1 79 (51.30%) Python
2 51 (33.12%) C#
3 47 (30.52%) SQL
4 35 (22.73%) Java
5 23 (14.94%) C
6 15 (9.74%) Rust
7 14 (9.09%) TypeScript
8 8 (5.19%) PowerShell
9 6 (3.90%) Embedded C++
9 6 (3.90%) R
10 5 (3.25%) Go
10 5 (3.25%) JavaScript
11 2 (1.30%) Ada
11 2 (1.30%) Bash
11 2 (1.30%) COBOL
11 2 (1.30%) Embedded C
11 2 (1.30%) Shell Script
11 2 (1.30%) VBA
12 1 (0.65%) Erlang
12 1 (0.65%) Fortran
Qualifications
1 43 (27.92%) Degree
2 9 (5.84%) Numerate Degree
3 8 (5.19%) Security Cleared
4 7 (4.55%) Master's Degree
5 6 (3.90%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (3.25%) PhD
7 2 (1.30%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.30%) SC Cleared
8 1 (0.65%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.65%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.60%) QA
2 3 (1.95%) SLA
3 2 (1.30%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.30%) DICOM
3 2 (1.30%) HL7
4 1 (0.65%) Accessibility
System Software
1 8 (5.19%) Firmware
2 7 (4.55%) Docker
3 6 (3.90%) Embedded Firmware
4 2 (1.30%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.30%) HDFS
5 1 (0.65%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 11 (7.14%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.60%) Grafana
3 2 (1.30%) Amdocs OSS
3 2 (1.30%) Cilium
3 2 (1.30%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.65%) Ansible
4 1 (0.65%) ITRS Geneos
4 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.65%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 21 (13.64%) Oracle
2 3 (1.95%) Cisco
2 3 (1.95%) Dynatrace
2 3 (1.95%) Thales
3 2 (1.30%) Amdocs
3 2 (1.30%) Bloomberg
3 2 (1.30%) Ciena
3 2 (1.30%) Databricks
3 2 (1.30%) Google
3 2 (1.30%) OpenAI
3 2 (1.30%) Perforce
3 2 (1.30%) Salesforce
3 2 (1.30%) ServiceNow
3 2 (1.30%) Veritas
4 1 (0.65%) BT
4 1 (0.65%) ION Trading
4 1 (0.65%) MarketAxess
4 1 (0.65%) Reuters
4 1 (0.65%) Splunk
4 1 (0.65%) Tradeweb