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

6 months to
28 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 228 161 176
Rank change year-on-year -67 +15 -82
Contract jobs citing C++ 183 216 245
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.09% 1.71% 1.36%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.20% 4.34% 3.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 135 170
10th Percentile £400 £431 £325
25th Percentile £563 £638 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £800 £650
Median % change year-on-year -9.38% +23.08% -10.34%
75th Percentile £800 £875 £801
90th Percentile £1,050 £1,000 £951
England median daily rate £625 £694 £575
% change year-on-year -9.91% +20.65% -14.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 8
10th Percentile £28.23 - £47.16
25th Percentile £31.19 - £54.66
Median hourly rate £37.25 - £58.75
75th Percentile £43.19 - £68.19
90th Percentile £46.08 - £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 5,724 4,973 6,328
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 33.97% 39.37% 35.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,862 3,465 4,796
10th Percentile £363 £375 £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 £700 £700
90th Percentile £775 £825 £813
England median daily rate £501 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.67% -2.42% -5.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 31 60
10th Percentile £25.54 £29.07 £24.93
25th Percentile £39.25 £38.18 £37.02
Median hourly rate £54.25 £45.00 £51.13
Median % change year-on-year +20.56% -11.98% -11.09%
75th Percentile £66.50 £59.75 £60.44
90th Percentile £76.25 £65.00 £70.25
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.75 £60.00
% change year-on-year +3.59% +4.58% -4.76%

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 28 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++
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing C++ in London over the 6 months to 28 March 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 28 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 -23 26 £725 -9.38% 63
East London - 3 £900 - 3
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 (3.83%) Confluence
2 5 (2.73%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.64%) Apache
4 2 (1.09%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 13 (7.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.55%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 25 (13.66%) AWS
2 13 (7.10%) Azure
3 10 (5.46%) GitHub
4 8 (4.37%) Serverless
5 6 (3.28%) GCP
6 3 (1.64%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (1.64%) Amazon S3
6 3 (1.64%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (1.64%) ChatGPT
6 3 (1.64%) GitHub Copilot
7 2 (1.09%) Amazon Bedrock
7 2 (1.09%) Amazon EMR
7 2 (1.09%) Amazon Kinesis
7 2 (1.09%) Anthropic Claude
7 2 (1.09%) Datadog
8 1 (0.55%) Figma
8 1 (0.55%) Google Drive
8 1 (0.55%) PaaS
8 1 (0.55%) Power Platform
8 1 (0.55%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.83%) Ethernet
1 7 (3.83%) Modbus
1 7 (3.83%) RS-232
1 7 (3.83%) RS-485
2 5 (2.73%) TCP/IP
3 3 (1.64%) 3GPP
3 3 (1.64%) MVNO
3 3 (1.64%) Network Security
3 3 (1.64%) SMPP
3 3 (1.64%) SMS
4 2 (1.09%) NaaS
4 2 (1.09%) NAS
4 2 (1.09%) SAN
4 2 (1.09%) WAN
5 1 (0.55%) HTTP
5 1 (0.55%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.83%) Big Data
2 4 (2.19%) Hadoop
2 4 (2.19%) NoSQL
3 2 (1.09%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (1.09%) Apache Cassandra
3 2 (1.09%) Data Lake
3 2 (1.09%) Data Mining
3 2 (1.09%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (1.09%) Flink
3 2 (1.09%) InfluxDB
3 2 (1.09%) KDB
3 2 (1.09%) Kdb+
3 2 (1.09%) MongoDB
3 2 (1.09%) MySQL
3 2 (1.09%) Neo4j
3 2 (1.09%) Pinecone
3 2 (1.09%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (1.09%) TimescaleDB
3 2 (1.09%) Weaviate
4 1 (0.55%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 14 (7.65%) Git
1 14 (7.65%) JIRA
2 7 (3.83%) Jenkins
3 5 (2.73%) Visual Studio
4 3 (1.64%) Robot Framework
4 3 (1.64%) SonarQube
4 3 (1.64%) Subversion
5 1 (0.55%) Appium
5 1 (0.55%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.55%) Claude Code
5 1 (0.55%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.55%) GCC
5 1 (0.55%) GDB
5 1 (0.55%) GitLab
5 1 (0.55%) JUnit
5 1 (0.55%) Selenium
General
1 107 (58.47%) Finance
2 31 (16.94%) Analytical Skills
3 30 (16.39%) Social Skills
4 28 (15.30%) Front Office
5 22 (12.02%) Banking
6 13 (7.10%) Investment Banking
7 8 (4.37%) Financial Institution
8 6 (3.28%) Agriculture
8 6 (3.28%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.64%) Law
10 2 (1.09%) Automotive
10 2 (1.09%) Billing
10 2 (1.09%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.09%) iGaming
10 2 (1.09%) Japanese Language
10 2 (1.09%) Marketing
10 2 (1.09%) Multimedia
10 2 (1.09%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.09%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 89 (48.63%) Developer
2 51 (27.87%) Senior
3 42 (22.95%) C++ Developer
4 37 (20.22%) Quantitative Developer
5 26 (14.21%) Python Developer
6 25 (13.66%) Software Engineer
7 19 (10.38%) Senior Software Engineer
8 16 (8.74%) C++ Quantitative Developer
8 16 (8.74%) C++ Software Engineer
8 16 (8.74%) Linux Developer
9 15 (8.20%) Linux Engineer
9 15 (8.20%) Low Latency C++ Developer
9 15 (8.20%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
10 14 (7.65%) Kafka Engineer
10 14 (7.65%) Senior Developer
10 14 (7.65%) Senior Linux Engineer
10 14 (7.65%) Senior Unix Engineer
10 14 (7.65%) Unix Engineer
10 14 (7.65%) Unix Linux Engineer
11 12 (6.56%) Senior C++ Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (13.11%) Kafka
2 12 (6.56%) NumPy
3 11 (6.01%) Pandas
3 11 (6.01%) SciPy
4 8 (4.37%) PyTorch
4 8 (4.37%) React
4 8 (4.37%) TensorFlow
5 5 (2.73%) .NET
5 5 (2.73%) AngularJS
5 5 (2.73%) HTML
5 5 (2.73%) LangChain
5 5 (2.73%) Node.js
6 4 (2.19%) FastAPI
6 4 (2.19%) FIX Protocol
6 4 (2.19%) Flask
6 4 (2.19%) Polars
6 4 (2.19%) Vue
7 3 (1.64%) Apache NiFi
7 3 (1.64%) REST
7 3 (1.64%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 35 (19.13%) Equities
2 30 (16.39%) Derivative
3 28 (15.30%) Algorithms
4 24 (13.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 20 (10.93%) Distributed Systems
6 19 (10.38%) Equity Derivative
7 18 (9.84%) Data Structures
8 12 (6.56%) Greenfield Project
9 9 (4.92%) Data Protection Act
10 7 (3.83%) Embedded Systems
11 6 (3.28%) AI Agents
12 5 (2.73%) Hedge funds
13 4 (2.19%) Fixed Income
14 3 (1.64%) Blog
14 3 (1.64%) Cloud Native
14 3 (1.64%) Distributed Computing
14 3 (1.64%) Exotic Derivative
14 3 (1.64%) FPGA
14 3 (1.64%) IoT
14 3 (1.64%) Java Card
Operating Systems
1 70 (38.25%) Linux
2 33 (18.03%) Unix
3 7 (3.83%) FreeRTOS
3 7 (3.83%) Windows
4 1 (0.55%) Android
4 1 (0.55%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.55%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (31.15%) Software Engineering
2 40 (21.86%) Agile
3 36 (19.67%) Problem-Solving
4 33 (18.03%) Low Latency
4 33 (18.03%) Mathematics
5 28 (15.30%) CI/CD
6 26 (14.21%) Analytics
6 26 (14.21%) Computer Science
7 24 (13.11%) Multithreading
7 24 (13.11%) Quantitative Finance
8 20 (10.93%) Test Automation
9 19 (10.38%) Quantitative Research
9 19 (10.38%) Risk Management
10 16 (8.74%) Benchmarking
11 15 (8.20%) Validation
12 14 (7.65%) AI
12 14 (7.65%) Mentoring
13 13 (7.10%) Continuous Improvement
13 13 (7.10%) DevOps
13 13 (7.10%) Ultra-Low Latency
Programming Languages
1 99 (54.10%) Python
2 59 (32.24%) C#
3 50 (27.32%) Java
4 49 (26.78%) SQL
5 22 (12.02%) C
6 14 (7.65%) JavaScript
7 12 (6.56%) Rust
8 8 (4.37%) Embedded C++
8 8 (4.37%) TypeScript
9 5 (2.73%) R
10 4 (2.19%) Go
11 3 (1.64%) Embedded C
12 2 (1.09%) Ada
12 2 (1.09%) Bash
12 2 (1.09%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (1.09%) Shell Script
12 2 (1.09%) VBA
13 1 (0.55%) COBOL
13 1 (0.55%) Erlang
13 1 (0.55%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 51 (27.87%) Degree
2 13 (7.10%) Numerate Degree
3 11 (6.01%) Security Cleared
4 10 (5.46%) Master's Degree
5 9 (4.92%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (3.28%) SC Cleared
7 5 (2.73%) DV Cleared
8 4 (2.19%) PhD
9 2 (1.09%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.55%) GPEN
10 1 (0.55%) GWAPT
10 1 (0.55%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.55%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.28%) QA
2 4 (2.19%) SLA
3 2 (1.09%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.09%) DICOM
3 2 (1.09%) HL7
3 2 (1.09%) NIST
4 1 (0.55%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.55%) EMIR
4 1 (0.55%) MiFID
System Software
1 16 (8.74%) Docker
2 7 (3.83%) Embedded Firmware
2 7 (3.83%) Firmware
3 2 (1.09%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.09%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 15 (8.20%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.19%) Ansible
3 3 (1.64%) Terraform
4 2 (1.09%) Amdocs OSS
4 2 (1.09%) Grafana
4 2 (1.09%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.55%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.55%) Puppet
Vendors
1 23 (12.57%) Oracle
2 4 (2.19%) Dynatrace
3 3 (1.64%) Databricks
3 3 (1.64%) Thales
4 2 (1.09%) Amdocs
4 2 (1.09%) Ciena
4 2 (1.09%) CrowdStrike
4 2 (1.09%) Google
4 2 (1.09%) Microsoft
4 2 (1.09%) OpenAI
4 2 (1.09%) Perforce
4 2 (1.09%) Salesforce
4 2 (1.09%) ServiceNow
4 2 (1.09%) Veritas
5 1 (0.55%) Bloomberg
5 1 (0.55%) BT
5 1 (0.55%) Calypso
5 1 (0.55%) Cisco
5 1 (0.55%) Murex
5 1 (0.55%) Reuters