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 14 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 252 149 169
Rank change year-on-year -103 +20 -68
Contract jobs citing C++ 164 217 242
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.95% 1.72% 1.36%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.88% 4.35% 3.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 136 169
10th Percentile £349 £431 £345
25th Percentile £550 £650 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £800 £655
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +22.14% -8.39%
75th Percentile £788 £875 £813
90th Percentile £1,050 £1,013 £953
England median daily rate £625 £726 £575
% change year-on-year -13.85% +26.17% -11.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 9
10th Percentile £28.23 - £45.16
25th Percentile £31.19 - £49.88
Median hourly rate £37.25 - £57.50
75th Percentile £43.19 - £66.75
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 5,698 4,994 6,283
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 33.05% 39.47% 35.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,861 3,484 4,783
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 £825
England median daily rate £501 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.67% -2.42% -5.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 29 57
10th Percentile £27.42 £29.07 £23.95
25th Percentile £41.25 £38.11 £36.28
Median hourly rate £57.77 £45.00 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year +28.37% -10.89% -12.17%
75th Percentile £67.70 £60.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £88.75 £65.50 £68.20
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.75 £60.32
% change year-on-year +3.59% +4.03% -3.49%

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 14 April 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 14 April 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 14 April 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 -26 25 £763 -7.58% 68
East London - 2 £334 - 8
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 (4.27%) Confluence
2 5 (3.05%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.22%) Apache
3 2 (1.22%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 12 (7.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.61%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 1 (0.61%) Orchestrade
Cloud Services
1 22 (13.41%) AWS
2 11 (6.71%) Azure
3 10 (6.10%) GitHub
4 7 (4.27%) Serverless
5 6 (3.66%) GCP
6 3 (1.83%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (1.83%) Amazon S3
6 3 (1.83%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (1.83%) ChatGPT
6 3 (1.83%) GitHub Copilot
7 2 (1.22%) Amazon Bedrock
7 2 (1.22%) Amazon EMR
7 2 (1.22%) Amazon Kinesis
7 2 (1.22%) Anthropic Claude
7 2 (1.22%) AWS IoT
7 2 (1.22%) Datadog
8 1 (0.61%) Figma
8 1 (0.61%) Google Drive
8 1 (0.61%) Power Platform
8 1 (0.61%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.27%) Ethernet
1 7 (4.27%) Modbus
1 7 (4.27%) RS-232
1 7 (4.27%) RS-485
2 5 (3.05%) TCP/IP
3 3 (1.83%) 3GPP
3 3 (1.83%) HTTP
3 3 (1.83%) MQTT
3 3 (1.83%) MVNO
3 3 (1.83%) Network Security
3 3 (1.83%) SMPP
3 3 (1.83%) SMS
3 3 (1.83%) VXLAN
4 2 (1.22%) Internet
4 2 (1.22%) NaaS
4 2 (1.22%) NAS
4 2 (1.22%) SAN
4 2 (1.22%) WAN
5 1 (0.61%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (3.66%) Big Data
2 4 (2.44%) Hadoop
2 4 (2.44%) NoSQL
3 2 (1.22%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (1.22%) Apache Cassandra
3 2 (1.22%) Data Lake
3 2 (1.22%) Data Mining
3 2 (1.22%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (1.22%) Flink
3 2 (1.22%) InfluxDB
3 2 (1.22%) MongoDB
3 2 (1.22%) MySQL
3 2 (1.22%) Neo4j
3 2 (1.22%) Pinecone
3 2 (1.22%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (1.22%) TimescaleDB
3 2 (1.22%) Weaviate
4 1 (0.61%) Kdb+
4 1 (0.61%) Metadata
4 1 (0.61%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 14 (8.54%) JIRA
2 11 (6.71%) Git
3 6 (3.66%) Jenkins
4 4 (2.44%) Visual Studio
5 3 (1.83%) Robot Framework
5 3 (1.83%) SonarQube
5 3 (1.83%) Subversion
6 1 (0.61%) Appium
6 1 (0.61%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.61%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.61%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.61%) GCC
6 1 (0.61%) GDB
6 1 (0.61%) GitLab
6 1 (0.61%) JUnit
6 1 (0.61%) Selenium
General
1 98 (59.76%) Finance
2 32 (19.51%) Analytical Skills
3 27 (16.46%) Social Skills
4 22 (13.41%) Front Office
5 20 (12.20%) Banking
6 13 (7.93%) Investment Banking
7 7 (4.27%) Financial Institution
7 7 (4.27%) Telecoms
8 6 (3.66%) Agriculture
9 2 (1.22%) Automotive
9 2 (1.22%) Billing
9 2 (1.22%) iGaming
9 2 (1.22%) Japanese Language
9 2 (1.22%) Marketing
9 2 (1.22%) Multimedia
9 2 (1.22%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.61%) International Banking
10 1 (0.61%) Korean Language
10 1 (0.61%) Law
10 1 (0.61%) Legal
Job Titles
1 76 (46.34%) Developer
2 44 (26.83%) Senior
3 39 (23.78%) C++ Developer
4 31 (18.90%) Quantitative Developer
5 23 (14.02%) Software Engineer
6 19 (11.59%) Python Developer
6 19 (11.59%) Senior Software Engineer
7 16 (9.76%) C++ Software Engineer
7 16 (9.76%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
8 14 (8.54%) Linux Developer
8 14 (8.54%) Senior Developer
9 13 (7.93%) C++ Quantitative Developer
9 13 (7.93%) Low Latency C++ Developer
10 12 (7.32%) Kafka Engineer
10 12 (7.32%) Linux Engineer
10 12 (7.32%) Senior C++ Developer
10 12 (7.32%) Senior Linux Engineer
10 12 (7.32%) Senior Unix Engineer
10 12 (7.32%) Unix Engineer
10 12 (7.32%) Unix Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (12.20%) Kafka
2 9 (5.49%) NumPy
3 8 (4.88%) Pandas
3 8 (4.88%) SciPy
4 7 (4.27%) PyTorch
4 7 (4.27%) TensorFlow
5 6 (3.66%) FIX Protocol
5 6 (3.66%) React
6 5 (3.05%) HTML
6 5 (3.05%) LangChain
6 5 (3.05%) Node.js
7 4 (2.44%) .NET
8 3 (1.83%) AngularJS
8 3 (1.83%) Boost C++ Libraries
8 3 (1.83%) REST
8 3 (1.83%) scikit-learn
8 3 (1.83%) Web Services
8 3 (1.83%) WebSockets
9 2 (1.22%) Flask
9 2 (1.22%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 30 (18.29%) Equities
2 29 (17.68%) Derivative
3 27 (16.46%) Algorithms
4 19 (11.59%) Distributed Systems
4 19 (11.59%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 18 (10.98%) Data Structures
6 17 (10.37%) Equity Derivative
7 11 (6.71%) Greenfield Project
8 8 (4.88%) Data Protection Act
9 7 (4.27%) Embedded Systems
10 6 (3.66%) AI Agents
10 6 (3.66%) IoT
11 4 (2.44%) Fixed Income
12 3 (1.83%) Blog
12 3 (1.83%) Cloud Native
12 3 (1.83%) Exotic Derivative
12 3 (1.83%) FPGA
12 3 (1.83%) Hedge funds
12 3 (1.83%) Java Card
13 2 (1.22%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 62 (37.80%) Linux
2 27 (16.46%) Unix
3 7 (4.27%) FreeRTOS
4 5 (3.05%) Windows
5 1 (0.61%) Android
5 1 (0.61%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.61%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (31.10%) Software Engineering
2 37 (22.56%) Problem-Solving
3 33 (20.12%) Low Latency
4 32 (19.51%) Agile
5 30 (18.29%) Mathematics
6 25 (15.24%) Analytics
7 23 (14.02%) CI/CD
7 23 (14.02%) Computer Science
8 22 (13.41%) Multithreading
8 22 (13.41%) Quantitative Finance
9 18 (10.98%) Risk Management
10 17 (10.37%) Test Automation
11 15 (9.15%) Quantitative Research
11 15 (9.15%) Validation
12 14 (8.54%) Benchmarking
13 13 (7.93%) AI
13 13 (7.93%) Ultra-Low Latency
14 12 (7.32%) Mentoring
15 11 (6.71%) Continuous Improvement
15 11 (6.71%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 88 (53.66%) Python
2 54 (32.93%) C#
3 50 (30.49%) SQL
4 42 (25.61%) Java
5 25 (15.24%) C
6 11 (6.71%) JavaScript
7 10 (6.10%) Rust
7 10 (6.10%) TypeScript
8 7 (4.27%) Embedded C++
9 6 (3.66%) R
10 4 (2.44%) Go
11 3 (1.83%) Embedded C
11 3 (1.83%) PowerShell
12 2 (1.22%) Ada
12 2 (1.22%) Bash
12 2 (1.22%) Shell Script
12 2 (1.22%) VBA
13 1 (0.61%) COBOL
13 1 (0.61%) Erlang
13 1 (0.61%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 49 (29.88%) Degree
2 12 (7.32%) Numerate Degree
3 9 (5.49%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (5.49%) Master's Degree
3 9 (5.49%) Security Cleared
4 4 (2.44%) SC Cleared
5 3 (1.83%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.83%) PhD
6 2 (1.22%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.61%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.66%) QA
2 3 (1.83%) SLA
3 2 (1.22%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.22%) DICOM
3 2 (1.22%) HL7
4 1 (0.61%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.61%) EMIR
4 1 (0.61%) MiFID
System Software
1 13 (7.93%) Docker
2 9 (5.49%) Firmware
3 7 (4.27%) Embedded Firmware
4 2 (1.22%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.22%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 12 (7.32%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.22%) Amdocs OSS
2 2 (1.22%) Ansible
2 2 (1.22%) Grafana
2 2 (1.22%) Prometheus
2 2 (1.22%) Terraform
3 1 (0.61%) Progress Chef
3 1 (0.61%) Puppet
Vendors
1 23 (14.02%) Oracle
2 4 (2.44%) Dynatrace
3 3 (1.83%) Cisco
3 3 (1.83%) Databricks
3 3 (1.83%) Thales
4 2 (1.22%) Amdocs
4 2 (1.22%) Ciena
4 2 (1.22%) Google
4 2 (1.22%) OpenAI
4 2 (1.22%) Perforce
4 2 (1.22%) Salesforce
4 2 (1.22%) ServiceNow
4 2 (1.22%) Veritas
5 1 (0.61%) Bloomberg
5 1 (0.61%) BT
5 1 (0.61%) Calypso
5 1 (0.61%) HP
5 1 (0.61%) Microsoft
5 1 (0.61%) Reuters
5 1 (0.61%) Solace