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 19 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 188 154 164
Rank change year-on-year -34 +10 -71
Contract jobs citing C++ 230 223 268
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.48% 1.65% 1.47%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.11% 4.25% 4.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 126 131 177
10th Percentile £438 £363 £325
25th Percentile £575 £558 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £740 £625
Median % change year-on-year -2.03% +18.40% -13.79%
75th Percentile £847 £838 £800
90th Percentile £1,050 £939 £1,070
England median daily rate £675 £650 £575
% change year-on-year +3.85% +13.04% -14.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 12
10th Percentile - £53.03 £41.73
25th Percentile £46.00 £55.69 £53.72
Median hourly rate £47.00 £61.25 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.27% +2.08% +16.54%
75th Percentile £48.00 £66.69 £68.06
90th Percentile - £69.28 £72.45
England median hourly rate £65.00 £63.25 £65.00
% change year-on-year +2.77% -2.69% -

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 5,597 5,250 6,342
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 35.91% 38.77% 34.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,763 3,486 4,801
10th Percentile £363 £373 £385
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 £690 £700
90th Percentile £775 £825 £800
England median daily rate £507 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.52% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 36 69
10th Percentile £23.38 £35.00 £26.75
25th Percentile £36.25 £38.44 £39.85
Median hourly rate £54.75 £50.00 £51.75
Median % change year-on-year +9.50% -3.38% -10.00%
75th Percentile £66.50 £65.00 £62.50
90th Percentile £81.38 £95.63 £72.10
England median hourly rate £65.00 £63.00 £61.05
% change year-on-year +3.17% +3.19% -6.08%

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 19 February 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 19 February 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 -14 35 £713 -16.18% 52
East London - 8 £1,000 - 3
West London -28 2 £358 -16.37% 11
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 (3.48%) Confluence
2 5 (2.17%) Apache
3 4 (1.74%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 15 (6.52%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.43%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 30 (13.04%) AWS
2 19 (8.26%) Azure
3 11 (4.78%) GitHub
4 9 (3.91%) Serverless
5 5 (2.17%) GCP
6 4 (1.74%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (1.30%) Amazon S3
7 3 (1.30%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (1.30%) ChatGPT
7 3 (1.30%) GitHub Copilot
8 2 (0.87%) Amazon Bedrock
8 2 (0.87%) Amazon EMR
8 2 (0.87%) Amazon Kinesis
8 2 (0.87%) Anthropic Claude
8 2 (0.87%) Datadog
8 2 (0.87%) Entra ID
9 1 (0.43%) Figma
9 1 (0.43%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.04%) Ethernet
1 7 (3.04%) Modbus
1 7 (3.04%) RS-232
1 7 (3.04%) RS-485
2 4 (1.74%) TCP/IP
3 3 (1.30%) 3GPP
3 3 (1.30%) BGP
3 3 (1.30%) DNS
3 3 (1.30%) EIGRP
3 3 (1.30%) HTTPS
3 3 (1.30%) IPsec
3 3 (1.30%) Multicast
3 3 (1.30%) MVNO
3 3 (1.30%) Network Security
3 3 (1.30%) OSPF
3 3 (1.30%) SMPP
3 3 (1.30%) SMS
4 1 (0.43%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (4.78%) Big Data
2 5 (2.17%) Hadoop
3 4 (1.74%) Metadata
4 2 (0.87%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (0.87%) Data Lake
4 2 (0.87%) Data Mining
4 2 (0.87%) KDB
4 2 (0.87%) Kdb+
4 2 (0.87%) Neo4j
4 2 (0.87%) NoSQL
4 2 (0.87%) Oracle Database
4 2 (0.87%) Pinecone
4 2 (0.87%) SQL Server
4 2 (0.87%) Weaviate
5 1 (0.43%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (0.43%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.43%) HBase
5 1 (0.43%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.43%) NonStop SQL
5 1 (0.43%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 20 (8.70%) Git
2 14 (6.09%) JIRA
3 8 (3.48%) Jenkins
4 6 (2.61%) Visual Studio
5 3 (1.30%) GCC
5 3 (1.30%) GDB
5 3 (1.30%) Gradle
5 3 (1.30%) SonarQube
6 2 (0.87%) Maven
7 1 (0.43%) Appium
7 1 (0.43%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.43%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.43%) ClearCase
7 1 (0.43%) CMake
7 1 (0.43%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.43%) GitLab
7 1 (0.43%) JUnit
7 1 (0.43%) Robot Framework
7 1 (0.43%) Selenium
7 1 (0.43%) Subversion
General
1 139 (60.43%) Finance
2 36 (15.65%) Banking
2 36 (15.65%) Social Skills
3 35 (15.22%) Front Office
4 27 (11.74%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (8.70%) Investment Banking
6 13 (5.65%) Financial Institution
7 6 (2.61%) Agriculture
8 5 (2.17%) Law
9 4 (1.74%) Public Sector
9 4 (1.74%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.87%) Automotive
11 2 (0.87%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.87%) iGaming
11 2 (0.87%) International Banking
11 2 (0.87%) Marketing
11 2 (0.87%) Military
11 2 (0.87%) Multimedia
12 1 (0.43%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 115 (50.00%) Developer
2 67 (29.13%) Senior
3 52 (22.61%) C++ Developer
4 46 (20.00%) Quantitative Developer
5 42 (18.26%) Software Engineer
6 28 (12.17%) Python Developer
6 28 (12.17%) Senior Software Engineer
7 24 (10.43%) C++ Software Engineer
8 21 (9.13%) Linux Engineer
9 20 (8.70%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
10 19 (8.26%) Linux Developer
11 18 (7.83%) Kafka Engineer
11 18 (7.83%) Senior Linux Engineer
11 18 (7.83%) Senior Unix Engineer
11 18 (7.83%) Unix Engineer
11 18 (7.83%) Unix Linux Engineer
12 17 (7.39%) C++ Quantitative Developer
13 16 (6.96%) Low Latency C++ Developer
14 14 (6.09%) Senior Developer
15 12 (5.22%) Senior C++ Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (17.39%) Kafka
2 15 (6.52%) NumPy
3 14 (6.09%) Pandas
3 14 (6.09%) React
3 14 (6.09%) SciPy
4 13 (5.65%) AngularJS
5 9 (3.91%) Vue
6 8 (3.48%) FastAPI
6 8 (3.48%) Flask
6 8 (3.48%) HTML
6 8 (3.48%) Polars
6 8 (3.48%) PyTorch
6 8 (3.48%) TensorFlow
7 7 (3.04%) .NET
8 5 (2.17%) Apache NiFi
8 5 (2.17%) Boost C++ Libraries
8 5 (2.17%) LangChain
8 5 (2.17%) Node.js
8 5 (2.17%) Web Services
9 4 (1.74%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 43 (18.70%) Equities
2 38 (16.52%) Derivative
3 37 (16.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 28 (12.17%) Algorithms
5 24 (10.43%) Equity Derivative
6 18 (7.83%) Distributed Systems
7 15 (6.52%) Data Structures
8 13 (5.65%) Greenfield Project
9 10 (4.35%) Data Protection Act
9 10 (4.35%) Hedge funds
10 8 (3.48%) Distributed Computing
11 6 (2.61%) AI Agents
12 5 (2.17%) Embedded Systems
12 5 (2.17%) Fixed Income
13 4 (1.74%) FPGA
14 3 (1.30%) Blog
14 3 (1.30%) Exotic Derivative
14 3 (1.30%) IoT
14 3 (1.30%) Java Card
14 3 (1.30%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 97 (42.17%) Linux
2 46 (20.00%) Unix
3 13 (5.65%) Windows
4 7 (3.04%) FreeRTOS
5 1 (0.43%) Android
5 1 (0.43%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.43%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (36.52%) Software Engineering
2 58 (25.22%) Agile
3 50 (21.74%) Mathematics
4 39 (16.96%) Problem-Solving
5 37 (16.09%) CI/CD
5 37 (16.09%) Low Latency
6 31 (13.48%) Analytics
6 31 (13.48%) Computer Science
7 26 (11.30%) Multithreading
8 25 (10.87%) Risk Management
9 24 (10.43%) Quantitative Finance
10 22 (9.57%) Quantitative Research
11 21 (9.13%) Data Pipeline
11 21 (9.13%) Mentoring
12 19 (8.26%) Test Automation
13 16 (6.96%) Benchmarking
13 16 (6.96%) Data Engineering
14 15 (6.52%) Clean Code
14 15 (6.52%) DevOps
14 15 (6.52%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 122 (53.04%) Python
2 79 (34.35%) C#
3 64 (27.83%) SQL
4 57 (24.78%) Java
5 23 (10.00%) C
6 22 (9.57%) JavaScript
7 21 (9.13%) Rust
8 9 (3.91%) Embedded C++
9 8 (3.48%) TypeScript
10 6 (2.61%) VBA
11 5 (2.17%) Bash
11 5 (2.17%) Go
11 5 (2.17%) Kotlin
11 5 (2.17%) R
12 3 (1.30%) Embedded C
12 3 (1.30%) Perl
12 3 (1.30%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.87%) Ada
13 2 (0.87%) VB.NET
13 2 (0.87%) VC++
Qualifications
1 58 (25.22%) Degree
2 15 (6.52%) Security Cleared
3 14 (6.09%) Numerate Degree
4 13 (5.65%) Master's Degree
5 11 (4.78%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (4.35%) SC Cleared
7 8 (3.48%) DV Cleared
8 4 (1.74%) PhD
9 3 (1.30%) CCNP
9 3 (1.30%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (1.30%) JNCIA
9 3 (1.30%) JNCIS
10 2 (0.87%) GPEN
10 2 (0.87%) GWAPT
10 2 (0.87%) OSCP
11 1 (0.43%) CCSAS
11 1 (0.43%) GXPN
11 1 (0.43%) ISTQB
11 1 (0.43%) OSCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.48%) QA
2 4 (1.74%) Data Quality
2 4 (1.74%) EMIR
2 4 (1.74%) SLA
3 2 (0.87%) NIST
4 1 (0.43%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.43%) MiFID
System Software
1 26 (11.30%) Docker
2 10 (4.35%) Firmware
3 7 (3.04%) Embedded Firmware
4 2 (0.87%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.87%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 25 (10.87%) Kubernetes
2 5 (2.17%) Ansible
2 5 (2.17%) Terraform
3 1 (0.43%) Oracle Identity Management
3 1 (0.43%) Progress Chef
3 1 (0.43%) Puppet
Vendors
1 27 (11.74%) Oracle
2 6 (2.61%) Microsoft
3 5 (2.17%) Sophis
4 4 (1.74%) Cisco
5 3 (1.30%) Databricks
5 3 (1.30%) Juniper
5 3 (1.30%) Thales
6 2 (0.87%) Alibaba
6 2 (0.87%) CrowdStrike
6 2 (0.87%) Dynatrace
6 2 (0.87%) Google
6 2 (0.87%) OpenAI
6 2 (0.87%) Palantir
6 2 (0.87%) SAP
6 2 (0.87%) Solace
7 1 (0.43%) Calypso
7 1 (0.43%) Fortinet
7 1 (0.43%) Murex
7 1 (0.43%) NetApp
7 1 (0.43%) Remedy