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

6 months to
26 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 136 175 130
Rank change year-on-year +39 -45 -26
Contract jobs citing C++ 294 232 387
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.07% 1.47% 1.97%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.39% 3.78% 5.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 170 154 266
10th Percentile £402 £319 £431
25th Percentile £508 £427 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £640 £700 £650
Median % change year-on-year -8.57% +7.69% -10.34%
75th Percentile £775 £825 £875
90th Percentile £953 £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% +8.55%
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 5,457 6,138 7,189
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 38.43% 38.83% 36.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,667 4,176 5,399
10th Percentile £364 £374 £390
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £575 £580
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% -0.86% -3.33%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £700
90th Percentile £800 £825 £810
England median daily rate £513 £543 £550
% change year-on-year -5.53% -1.36% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 67 42 69
10th Percentile £21.60 £35.08 £26.16
25th Percentile £32.50 £40.06 £36.28
Median hourly rate £47.50 £51.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.77% -6.36% -4.35%
75th Percentile £64.25 £67.81 £65.00
90th Percentile £87.50 £97.50 £73.92
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 26 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 26 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 26 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 +14 35 £600 -14.89% 23
West London -25 10 £390 -17.89% 3
East London - 8 £1,000 - 3
South London - 4 £738 - 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 10 (3.40%) Apache
2 6 (2.04%) Apache Spark
2 6 (2.04%) Confluence
3 1 (0.34%) JBoss
3 1 (0.34%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (2.38%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.34%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 53 (18.03%) AWS
2 34 (11.56%) Azure
3 17 (5.78%) GitHub
4 14 (4.76%) GCP
5 11 (3.74%) Serverless
6 5 (1.70%) OpenShift
7 4 (1.36%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (1.36%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (0.68%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (0.68%) Datadog
8 2 (0.68%) Entra ID
8 2 (0.68%) Power Platform
9 1 (0.34%) Amazon S3
9 1 (0.34%) Anthropic Claude
9 1 (0.34%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (0.34%) ChatGPT
9 1 (0.34%) Figma
9 1 (0.34%) GitHub Copilot
9 1 (0.34%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.40%) TCP/IP
2 9 (3.06%) Multicast
3 6 (2.04%) BGP
3 6 (2.04%) DNS
3 6 (2.04%) EIGRP
3 6 (2.04%) HTTPS
3 6 (2.04%) IPsec
3 6 (2.04%) OSPF
4 2 (0.68%) Ethernet
4 2 (0.68%) Modbus
4 2 (0.68%) RS-232
4 2 (0.68%) RS-485
5 1 (0.34%) Firewall
5 1 (0.34%) Internet
5 1 (0.34%) LAN
5 1 (0.34%) Network Security
5 1 (0.34%) SMS
5 1 (0.34%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (5.78%) Big Data
2 8 (2.72%) Oracle Database
3 6 (2.04%) NoSQL
4 5 (1.70%) KDB
4 5 (1.70%) Metadata
5 3 (1.02%) HPCC
5 3 (1.02%) Kdb+
6 2 (0.68%) BigQuery
6 2 (0.68%) Data Mining
6 2 (0.68%) Hadoop
6 2 (0.68%) Power BI
6 2 (0.68%) Relational Database
6 2 (0.68%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.34%) DB2
7 1 (0.34%) HBase
7 1 (0.34%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.34%) Neo4j
7 1 (0.34%) NonStop SQL
7 1 (0.34%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.34%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 49 (16.67%) Git
2 13 (4.42%) GCC
2 13 (4.42%) Jenkins
3 10 (3.40%) JIRA
4 9 (3.06%) Artifactory
4 9 (3.06%) GDB
5 7 (2.38%) Gradle
6 5 (1.70%) JUnit
7 4 (1.36%) Clang
7 4 (1.36%) Maven
8 3 (1.02%) Bitbucket
8 3 (1.02%) GitLab
8 3 (1.02%) Visual Studio
9 2 (0.68%) Eclipse
9 2 (0.68%) IntelliJ
9 2 (0.68%) Mercurial
9 2 (0.68%) Subversion
10 1 (0.34%) Ant
10 1 (0.34%) ClearCase
10 1 (0.34%) CMake
General
1 144 (48.98%) Finance
2 53 (18.03%) Banking
2 53 (18.03%) Front Office
3 51 (17.35%) Social Skills
4 30 (10.20%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (10.20%) Investment Banking
5 15 (5.10%) Public Sector
6 14 (4.76%) Financial Institution
7 8 (2.72%) International Banking
7 8 (2.72%) Marketing
8 6 (2.04%) Electronics
8 6 (2.04%) Games
8 6 (2.04%) Manufacturing
8 6 (2.04%) Telecoms
9 5 (1.70%) Law
10 3 (1.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.68%) Back Office
11 2 (0.68%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.68%) Military
11 2 (0.68%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 127 (43.20%) Developer
2 63 (21.43%) Senior
2 63 (21.43%) Software Engineer
3 56 (19.05%) C++ Developer
4 34 (11.56%) Python Developer
5 31 (10.54%) Quantitative Developer
6 27 (9.18%) Senior Software Engineer
7 26 (8.84%) C++ Software Engineer
8 22 (7.48%) Linux Engineer
9 17 (5.78%) AWS Developer
9 17 (5.78%) JavaScript Developer
10 16 (5.44%) Analyst
10 16 (5.44%) Linux Developer
11 14 (4.76%) Kafka Engineer
11 14 (4.76%) Senior Linux Engineer
11 14 (4.76%) Senior Unix Engineer
11 14 (4.76%) Unix Engineer
11 14 (4.76%) Unix Linux Engineer
12 13 (4.42%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
13 12 (4.08%) Low Latency C++ Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (16.33%) Kafka
2 28 (9.52%) React
3 25 (8.50%) AngularJS
4 20 (6.80%) NumPy
5 19 (6.46%) Pandas
5 19 (6.46%) SciPy
6 18 (6.12%) Vue
7 17 (5.78%) FastAPI
7 17 (5.78%) FIX Protocol
7 17 (5.78%) Flask
7 17 (5.78%) Polars
8 16 (5.44%) Middleware
9 13 (4.42%) HTML
10 12 (4.08%) .NET
11 11 (3.74%) STL
12 10 (3.40%) Boost C++ Libraries
12 10 (3.40%) JSON
13 9 (3.06%) Apache NiFi
14 8 (2.72%) REST
15 7 (2.38%) iOS SDK
Miscellaneous
1 54 (18.37%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 39 (13.27%) Derivative
3 30 (10.20%) Equities
4 24 (8.16%) Algorithms
5 20 (6.80%) Hedge funds
6 16 (5.44%) Distributed Systems
6 16 (5.44%) Equity Derivative
7 15 (5.10%) Data Structures
8 13 (4.42%) Distributed Computing
9 10 (3.40%) Virtual Reality
10 9 (3.06%) Distributed Architecture
10 9 (3.06%) Fixed Income
11 7 (2.38%) Augmented Reality
11 7 (2.38%) Data Protection Act
12 6 (2.04%) Embedded Systems
12 6 (2.04%) Greenfield Project
12 6 (2.04%) PKI
13 5 (1.70%) Credit Risk
13 5 (1.70%) Product Ownership
14 4 (1.36%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 130 (44.22%) Linux
2 51 (17.35%) Unix
3 25 (8.50%) Windows
4 12 (4.08%) Android
5 7 (2.38%) Apple iOS
6 5 (1.70%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.68%) FreeRTOS
7 2 (0.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.34%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (39.46%) Software Engineering
2 74 (25.17%) Agile
3 57 (19.39%) CI/CD
4 56 (19.05%) Mathematics
5 53 (18.03%) Low Latency
6 42 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
7 40 (13.61%) Computer Science
8 29 (9.86%) Clean Code
8 29 (9.86%) Data Engineering
8 29 (9.86%) Data Pipeline
9 27 (9.18%) Risk Management
10 26 (8.84%) Mentoring
11 22 (7.48%) DevOps
12 21 (7.14%) Test Automation
13 20 (6.80%) Analytics
13 20 (6.80%) SDLC
14 19 (6.46%) Machine Learning
15 18 (6.12%) Multithreading
16 17 (5.78%) Structured Programming
16 17 (5.78%) Systematic Trading
Programming Languages
1 176 (59.86%) Python
2 100 (34.01%) Java
3 93 (31.63%) C#
4 82 (27.89%) SQL
5 41 (13.95%) JavaScript
6 35 (11.90%) C
7 29 (9.86%) Rust
8 13 (4.42%) Bash
8 13 (4.42%) Kotlin
9 12 (4.08%) Go
10 11 (3.74%) Perl
10 11 (3.74%) PowerShell
11 8 (2.72%) PHP
11 8 (2.72%) PL/SQL
12 6 (2.04%) Shell Script
13 5 (1.70%) Groovy
13 5 (1.70%) TypeScript
14 4 (1.36%) Embedded C++
14 4 (1.36%) R
14 4 (1.36%) VBA
Qualifications
1 58 (19.73%) Degree
2 22 (7.48%) Security Cleared
3 20 (6.80%) Master's Degree
4 17 (5.78%) SC Cleared
5 15 (5.10%) Computer Science Degree
6 11 (3.74%) DV Cleared
7 9 (3.06%) PhD
8 8 (2.72%) CCNP
8 8 (2.72%) Cisco Certification
9 7 (2.38%) Numerate Degree
10 6 (2.04%) JNCIA
10 6 (2.04%) JNCIS
11 4 (1.36%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.68%) CCNA
12 2 (0.68%) GPEN
12 2 (0.68%) GWAPT
12 2 (0.68%) OCA
12 2 (0.68%) OCP
12 2 (0.68%) Oracle Certification
12 2 (0.68%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.08%) QA
2 4 (1.36%) Data Quality
2 4 (1.36%) EMIR
3 2 (0.68%) NIST
4 1 (0.34%) MiFID
4 1 (0.34%) SLA
System Software
1 43 (14.63%) Docker
2 9 (3.06%) Firmware
3 3 (1.02%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.02%) Embedded Firmware
3 3 (1.02%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.68%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.68%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.34%) KVM
Systems Management
1 45 (15.31%) Kubernetes
2 14 (4.76%) Ansible
3 11 (3.74%) Terraform
4 8 (2.72%) Puppet
5 3 (1.02%) Grafana
5 3 (1.02%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.68%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.34%) Oracle Identity Management
7 1 (0.34%) Podman
7 1 (0.34%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 34 (11.56%) Oracle
2 10 (3.40%) Microsoft
3 9 (3.06%) SAP
4 8 (2.72%) Cisco
4 8 (2.72%) Solace
5 6 (2.04%) Juniper
5 6 (2.04%) Sophis
6 3 (1.02%) Alibaba
6 3 (1.02%) Splunk
6 3 (1.02%) VMware
7 2 (0.68%) Calypso
7 2 (0.68%) CrowdStrike
7 2 (0.68%) Databricks
7 2 (0.68%) Dynatrace
7 2 (0.68%) Google
7 2 (0.68%) Murex
7 2 (0.68%) Palantir
7 2 (0.68%) Virgin Media
8 1 (0.34%) Fortinet
8 1 (0.34%) HP