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 30 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 136 178 132
Rank change year-on-year +42 -46 -29
Contract jobs citing C++ 281 231 381
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.99% 1.46% 1.93%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.24% 3.78% 5.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 164 154 265
10th Percentile £402 £319 £418
25th Percentile £502 £427 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £700 £650
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -10.34%
75th Percentile £775 £825 £875
90th Percentile £968 £913 £975
England median daily rate £625 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +13.64% -8.33% -11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 13
10th Percentile £34.15 £54.25 £42.63
25th Percentile £46.00 £58.75 £55.00
Median hourly rate £56.50 £67.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.30% +17.39% +4.10%
75th Percentile £61.25 £69.88 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.70 £70.55 £70.62
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 5,367 6,104 7,201
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 38.09% 38.66% 36.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,605 4,152 5,405
10th Percentile £363 £373 £392
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £575 £576
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% -0.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £700
90th Percentile £800 £825 £813
England median daily rate £513 £545 £550
% change year-on-year -5.96% -0.91% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 64 41 68
10th Percentile £25.34 £35.75 £26.11
25th Percentile £34.56 £40.06 £36.70
Median hourly rate £49.47 £52.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.77% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £66.50 £68.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £87.50 £97.50 £74.06
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £61.84
% change year-on-year - +5.11% -1.06%

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 30 November 2025.

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 30 November 2025.

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 30 November 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 +12 37 £600 -14.89% 19
West London -20 9 £380 -16.94% 5
East London - 8 £1,000 - 4
South London - 2 £850 - 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 9 (3.20%) Apache
2 6 (2.14%) Confluence
3 4 (1.42%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 7 (2.49%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.36%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 46 (16.37%) AWS
2 29 (10.32%) Azure
3 13 (4.63%) GitHub
4 12 (4.27%) GCP
4 12 (4.27%) Serverless
5 4 (1.42%) OpenShift
6 3 (1.07%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (0.71%) Amazon S3
7 2 (0.71%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (0.71%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (0.71%) Datadog
7 2 (0.71%) Entra ID
7 2 (0.71%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (0.71%) Power Platform
8 1 (0.36%) Anthropic Claude
8 1 (0.36%) ChatGPT
8 1 (0.36%) Figma
8 1 (0.36%) GitHub Copilot
8 1 (0.36%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (2.85%) Multicast
1 8 (2.85%) TCP/IP
2 6 (2.14%) BGP
2 6 (2.14%) DNS
2 6 (2.14%) EIGRP
2 6 (2.14%) HTTPS
2 6 (2.14%) IPsec
2 6 (2.14%) OSPF
3 2 (0.71%) Ethernet
3 2 (0.71%) Modbus
3 2 (0.71%) RS-232
3 2 (0.71%) RS-485
4 1 (0.36%) Firewall
4 1 (0.36%) Network Security
4 1 (0.36%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (5.69%) Big Data
2 8 (2.85%) Oracle Database
3 5 (1.78%) KDB
3 5 (1.78%) Metadata
4 4 (1.42%) NoSQL
5 3 (1.07%) Kdb+
6 2 (0.71%) BigQuery
6 2 (0.71%) Hadoop
6 2 (0.71%) HPCC
6 2 (0.71%) Power BI
6 2 (0.71%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.36%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.36%) Data Mining
7 1 (0.36%) HBase
7 1 (0.36%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.36%) Neo4j
7 1 (0.36%) NonStop SQL
7 1 (0.36%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.36%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.36%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 41 (14.59%) Git
2 12 (4.27%) GCC
3 10 (3.56%) Jenkins
4 9 (3.20%) JIRA
5 8 (2.85%) GDB
6 7 (2.49%) Gradle
7 5 (1.78%) Artifactory
7 5 (1.78%) JUnit
8 4 (1.42%) Clang
8 4 (1.42%) Visual Studio
9 3 (1.07%) Bitbucket
9 3 (1.07%) Maven
10 2 (0.71%) Eclipse
10 2 (0.71%) GitLab
10 2 (0.71%) IntelliJ
10 2 (0.71%) Mercurial
10 2 (0.71%) Subversion
11 1 (0.36%) ClearCase
11 1 (0.36%) CMake
11 1 (0.36%) SonarQube
General
1 137 (48.75%) Finance
2 50 (17.79%) Front Office
3 49 (17.44%) Banking
4 47 (16.73%) Social Skills
5 28 (9.96%) Analytical Skills
5 28 (9.96%) Investment Banking
6 15 (5.34%) Public Sector
7 12 (4.27%) Financial Institution
8 8 (2.85%) Marketing
9 7 (2.49%) International Banking
10 6 (2.14%) Electronics
10 6 (2.14%) Games
10 6 (2.14%) Manufacturing
10 6 (2.14%) Telecoms
11 5 (1.78%) Law
12 3 (1.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 2 (0.71%) Back Office
13 2 (0.71%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.71%) Military
13 2 (0.71%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 119 (42.35%) Developer
2 64 (22.78%) Software Engineer
3 63 (22.42%) Senior
4 51 (18.15%) C++ Developer
5 32 (11.39%) Python Developer
6 31 (11.03%) Quantitative Developer
7 28 (9.96%) Senior Software Engineer
8 27 (9.61%) C++ Software Engineer
9 21 (7.47%) Linux Engineer
10 16 (5.69%) AWS Developer
10 16 (5.69%) JavaScript Developer
10 16 (5.69%) Linux Developer
11 15 (5.34%) Analyst
12 14 (4.98%) Kafka Engineer
12 14 (4.98%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
12 14 (4.98%) Senior Linux Engineer
12 14 (4.98%) Senior Unix Engineer
12 14 (4.98%) Unix Engineer
12 14 (4.98%) Unix Linux Engineer
13 12 (4.27%) Low Latency C++ Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (16.73%) Kafka
2 26 (9.25%) React
3 24 (8.54%) AngularJS
4 20 (7.12%) NumPy
5 19 (6.76%) Pandas
5 19 (6.76%) SciPy
6 17 (6.05%) Vue
7 16 (5.69%) FastAPI
7 16 (5.69%) Flask
7 16 (5.69%) Polars
8 14 (4.98%) FIX Protocol
9 12 (4.27%) .NET
9 12 (4.27%) Middleware
10 11 (3.91%) HTML
11 9 (3.20%) Apache NiFi
11 9 (3.20%) Boost C++ Libraries
11 9 (3.20%) STL
12 8 (2.85%) JSON
12 8 (2.85%) REST
13 7 (2.49%) iOS SDK
Miscellaneous
1 50 (17.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 37 (13.17%) Derivative
3 29 (10.32%) Equities
4 22 (7.83%) Algorithms
5 19 (6.76%) Hedge funds
6 17 (6.05%) Equity Derivative
7 15 (5.34%) Distributed Systems
8 13 (4.63%) Data Structures
9 11 (3.91%) Distributed Computing
10 10 (3.56%) Virtual Reality
11 8 (2.85%) Data Protection Act
11 8 (2.85%) Distributed Architecture
12 7 (2.49%) Augmented Reality
12 7 (2.49%) Fixed Income
12 7 (2.49%) Greenfield Project
13 6 (2.14%) Embedded Systems
13 6 (2.14%) PKI
14 5 (1.78%) Credit Risk
14 5 (1.78%) Product Ownership
15 4 (1.42%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 124 (44.13%) Linux
2 49 (17.44%) Unix
3 24 (8.54%) Windows
4 12 (4.27%) Android
5 7 (2.49%) Apple iOS
6 5 (1.78%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.71%) FreeRTOS
8 1 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.36%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (41.28%) Software Engineering
2 70 (24.91%) Agile
3 54 (19.22%) Mathematics
4 51 (18.15%) CI/CD
5 49 (17.44%) Low Latency
6 40 (14.23%) Problem-Solving
7 36 (12.81%) Computer Science
8 28 (9.96%) Clean Code
8 28 (9.96%) Data Pipeline
9 27 (9.61%) Data Engineering
10 26 (9.25%) Mentoring
11 24 (8.54%) Risk Management
12 21 (7.47%) DevOps
13 20 (7.12%) Analytics
13 20 (7.12%) SDLC
13 20 (7.12%) Test Automation
14 18 (6.41%) Multithreading
15 17 (6.05%) Machine Learning
16 16 (5.69%) Structured Programming
16 16 (5.69%) Systematic Trading
Programming Languages
1 163 (58.01%) Python
2 93 (33.10%) Java
3 86 (30.60%) C#
4 77 (27.40%) SQL
5 40 (14.23%) JavaScript
6 30 (10.68%) C
7 27 (9.61%) Rust
8 13 (4.63%) Kotlin
9 12 (4.27%) Bash
10 11 (3.91%) Perl
11 10 (3.56%) Go
12 9 (3.20%) PowerShell
13 8 (2.85%) PHP
13 8 (2.85%) PL/SQL
14 5 (1.78%) TypeScript
15 4 (1.42%) Embedded C++
15 4 (1.42%) R
15 4 (1.42%) VBA
16 3 (1.07%) Shell Script
17 2 (0.71%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 55 (19.57%) Degree
2 23 (8.19%) Security Cleared
3 19 (6.76%) Master's Degree
4 17 (6.05%) SC Cleared
5 12 (4.27%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (4.27%) DV Cleared
6 8 (2.85%) CCNP
6 8 (2.85%) Cisco Certification
6 8 (2.85%) PhD
7 7 (2.49%) Numerate Degree
8 6 (2.14%) JNCIA
8 6 (2.14%) JNCIS
9 4 (1.42%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.71%) CCNA
10 2 (0.71%) GPEN
10 2 (0.71%) GWAPT
10 2 (0.71%) OCA
10 2 (0.71%) OCP
10 2 (0.71%) Oracle Certification
10 2 (0.71%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.27%) QA
2 4 (1.42%) Data Quality
2 4 (1.42%) EMIR
3 2 (0.71%) NIST
3 2 (0.71%) SLA
4 1 (0.36%) MiFID
System Software
1 40 (14.23%) Docker
2 9 (3.20%) Firmware
3 3 (1.07%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.07%) Embedded Firmware
3 3 (1.07%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.71%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.71%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.36%) KVM
Systems Management
1 40 (14.23%) Kubernetes
2 11 (3.91%) Ansible
3 9 (3.20%) Terraform
4 5 (1.78%) Puppet
5 3 (1.07%) Grafana
5 3 (1.07%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.71%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.36%) Oracle Identity Management
7 1 (0.36%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 33 (11.74%) Oracle
2 9 (3.20%) Microsoft
2 9 (3.20%) SAP
3 8 (2.85%) Cisco
4 7 (2.49%) Solace
5 6 (2.14%) Juniper
6 5 (1.78%) Sophis
7 3 (1.07%) Alibaba
7 3 (1.07%) Google
7 3 (1.07%) VMware
8 2 (0.71%) Calypso
8 2 (0.71%) CrowdStrike
8 2 (0.71%) Databricks
8 2 (0.71%) Murex
8 2 (0.71%) Palantir
8 2 (0.71%) Splunk
9 1 (0.36%) HP
9 1 (0.36%) NetApp
9 1 (0.36%) Remedy
9 1 (0.36%) Salesforce