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 18 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 291 143 163
Rank change year-on-year -148 +20 -56
Contract jobs citing C++ 152 267 250
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.76% 1.98% 1.55%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.41% 5.16% 3.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 163 177
10th Percentile £419 £407 £358
25th Percentile £538 £513 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £659 £700
Median % change year-on-year -1.29% -5.93% -
75th Percentile £800 £825 £856
90th Percentile £876 £950 £950
England median daily rate £600 £625 £550
% change year-on-year -4.00% +13.64% -12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 5
10th Percentile £27.88 £33.90 £47.05
25th Percentile £30.31 £45.38 £48.25
Median hourly rate £36.25 £57.00 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year -36.40% -15.56% +28.00%
75th Percentile £42.81 £63.94 £71.88
90th Percentile £45.63 £68.78 -
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 6,297 5,170 6,439
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 31.34% 38.40% 39.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,224 3,612 4,806
10th Percentile £383 £370 £375
25th Percentile £450 £428 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £663 £700 £713
90th Percentile £775 £825 £850
England median daily rate £525 £515 £550
% change year-on-year +1.94% -6.36% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 56 42
10th Percentile £31.03 £26.86 £23.80
25th Percentile £36.25 £33.25 £31.71
Median hourly rate £52.50 £44.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +19.32% -7.37% -24.60%
75th Percentile £73.00 £62.69 £57.50
90th Percentile £88.75 £86.25 £74.69
England median hourly rate £65.00 £56.75 £65.00
% change year-on-year +14.54% -12.69% +8.14%

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 18 August 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 18 August 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 18 August 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 -28 10 £678 -4.10% 18
South London -9 4 - - 1
East London - 2 £334 - 1
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 3 (1.97%) Apache Spark
1 3 (1.97%) IIS
1 3 (1.97%) WebSphere
2 2 (1.32%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.32%) Oracle Workflow
2 2 (1.32%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.66%) MTS
Applications
1 2 (1.32%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (1.97%) Orchestrade
2 1 (0.66%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (0.66%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.66%) SunGard Martini
Cloud Services
1 19 (12.50%) AWS
2 15 (9.87%) Azure
3 10 (6.58%) GCP
4 4 (2.63%) IaaS
4 4 (2.63%) SaaS
4 4 (2.63%) Snowflake
5 3 (1.97%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 2 (1.32%) Anthropic Claude
6 2 (1.32%) AWS IoT
6 2 (1.32%) Entra ID
6 2 (1.32%) GitHub
6 2 (1.32%) GitHub Copilot
6 2 (1.32%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (1.32%) OneDrive
6 2 (1.32%) Serverless
7 1 (0.66%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (0.66%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (0.66%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (0.66%) Boomi
7 1 (0.66%) Google Drive
Communications & Networking
1 10 (6.58%) TCP/IP
2 8 (5.26%) HTTP
3 3 (1.97%) Firewall
3 3 (1.97%) MQTT
3 3 (1.97%) VXLAN
3 3 (1.97%) WAN
4 2 (1.32%) Internet
4 2 (1.32%) Multicast
4 2 (1.32%) NaaS
4 2 (1.32%) NAS
4 2 (1.32%) SAN
4 2 (1.32%) Wireshark
5 1 (0.66%) Bluetooth
5 1 (0.66%) DHCP
5 1 (0.66%) DNS
5 1 (0.66%) LAN
5 1 (0.66%) SSL
5 1 (0.66%) Unified Communications
5 1 (0.66%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.63%) MySQL
1 4 (2.63%) NoSQL
2 3 (1.97%) MongoDB
2 3 (1.97%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (1.97%) SQL Server
3 2 (1.32%) Apache Cassandra
3 2 (1.32%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (1.32%) Flink
3 2 (1.32%) InfluxDB
3 2 (1.32%) Oracle Database
3 2 (1.32%) TimescaleDB
4 1 (0.66%) Big Data
4 1 (0.66%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.66%) DynamoDB
4 1 (0.66%) KDB
4 1 (0.66%) Kdb+
4 1 (0.66%) MariaDB
4 1 (0.66%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 15 (9.87%) Git
2 12 (7.89%) Jenkins
3 4 (2.63%) GitLab
3 4 (2.63%) TeamCity
4 3 (1.97%) Visual Studio
4 3 (1.97%) VTune
5 2 (1.32%) Ant
5 2 (1.32%) Artifactory
5 2 (1.32%) CMake
5 2 (1.32%) Eclipse
5 2 (1.32%) Fiddler
5 2 (1.32%) JIRA
5 2 (1.32%) MSI
5 2 (1.32%) Robot Framework
5 2 (1.32%) Subversion
6 1 (0.66%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.66%) GoogleTest
6 1 (0.66%) PetaLinux
General
1 50 (32.89%) Finance
2 35 (23.03%) Analytical Skills
3 34 (22.37%) Banking
4 33 (21.71%) Social Skills
5 25 (16.45%) Front Office
6 20 (13.16%) Investment Banking
7 6 (3.95%) Automotive
8 4 (2.63%) Financial Institution
8 4 (2.63%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.97%) Games
9 3 (1.97%) Legal
9 3 (1.97%) Public Sector
10 2 (1.32%) Billing
10 2 (1.32%) Japanese Language
10 2 (1.32%) Polish Language
10 2 (1.32%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.66%) Agriculture
11 1 (0.66%) Electronics
11 1 (0.66%) Korean Language
Job Titles
1 39 (25.66%) Developer
1 39 (25.66%) Senior
2 26 (17.11%) Software Engineer
3 18 (11.84%) C++ Developer
4 16 (10.53%) C++ Software Engineer
5 14 (9.21%) Senior Developer
6 11 (7.24%) Quantitative Developer
7 10 (6.58%) Architect
7 10 (6.58%) Senior Software Engineer
8 9 (5.92%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
9 8 (5.26%) Senior C++ Developer
10 7 (4.61%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 7 (4.61%) C# Developer
10 7 (4.61%) Embedded Engineer
10 7 (4.61%) Linux Engineer
11 6 (3.95%) C++ Quantitative Developer
11 6 (3.95%) Robotics Engineer
11 6 (3.95%) Senior Architect
11 6 (3.95%) Support Engineer
12 5 (3.29%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (13.16%) .NET
2 15 (9.87%) FIX Protocol
2 15 (9.87%) XML
3 9 (5.92%) Kafka
4 8 (5.26%) WebSockets
5 6 (3.95%) OpenTelemetry
5 6 (3.95%) React
5 6 (3.95%) WinForms
6 5 (3.29%) gRPC
6 5 (3.29%) JSON
6 5 (3.29%) REST
6 5 (3.29%) Web Services
7 4 (2.63%) .NET Core
7 4 (2.63%) eBPF
7 4 (2.63%) Middleware
8 3 (1.97%) NumPy
8 3 (1.97%) Pandas
8 3 (1.97%) WebSphere MQ
9 2 (1.32%) HTML5
9 2 (1.32%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 28 (18.42%) Derivative
2 26 (17.11%) Distributed Systems
3 23 (15.13%) Algorithms
4 18 (11.84%) Cloud Native
4 18 (11.84%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 10 (6.58%) Data Structures
6 9 (5.92%) Embedded Systems
6 9 (5.92%) Legacy Systems
7 7 (4.61%) AI Agents
7 7 (4.61%) Data Protection Act
7 7 (4.61%) Robotics
8 6 (3.95%) Fixed Income
8 6 (3.95%) OTC Derivatives
9 5 (3.29%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (3.29%) Equity Derivative
9 5 (3.29%) Onboarding
9 5 (3.29%) Private Cloud
10 4 (2.63%) Credit Derivative
10 4 (2.63%) Exotic Derivative
10 4 (2.63%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 49 (32.24%) Linux
2 17 (11.18%) Windows
3 16 (10.53%) Unix
4 8 (5.26%) Android
4 8 (5.26%) Apple iOS
4 8 (5.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (2.63%) Solaris
6 1 (0.66%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (0.66%) FreeRTOS
6 1 (0.66%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (34.21%) Software Engineering
2 39 (25.66%) Low Latency
3 37 (24.34%) Problem-Solving
4 25 (16.45%) CI/CD
5 24 (15.79%) Observability
6 20 (13.16%) Multithreading
7 19 (12.50%) AI
7 19 (12.50%) Mathematics
8 16 (10.53%) Performance Optimisation
8 16 (10.53%) Validation
9 15 (9.87%) Analytics
9 15 (9.87%) Computer Science
10 13 (8.55%) Algorithmic Trading
11 12 (7.89%) DevOps
11 12 (7.89%) Performance Engineering
11 12 (7.89%) Workflow
12 11 (7.24%) Agile
12 11 (7.24%) Test Automation
13 10 (6.58%) Containerisation
13 10 (6.58%) Ultra-Low Latency
Programming Languages
1 75 (49.34%) Python
2 46 (30.26%) Java
3 39 (25.66%) C#
4 38 (25.00%) SQL
5 23 (15.13%) C
6 20 (13.16%) Rust
7 19 (12.50%) TypeScript
8 12 (7.89%) PowerShell
9 8 (5.26%) Go
9 8 (5.26%) R
10 7 (4.61%) JavaScript
11 5 (3.29%) Perl
12 4 (2.63%) Embedded C++
13 3 (1.97%) PL/SQL
14 2 (1.32%) COBOL
15 1 (0.66%) Embedded C
15 1 (0.66%) Fortran
15 1 (0.66%) Haskell
15 1 (0.66%) Shell Script
15 1 (0.66%) Swift
Qualifications
1 32 (21.05%) Degree
2 11 (7.24%) Security Cleared
3 9 (5.92%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (3.95%) Master's Degree
5 5 (3.29%) PhD
6 4 (2.63%) SC Cleared
7 3 (1.97%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.32%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.66%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.63%) Data Quality
2 3 (1.97%) Automotive SPICE
2 3 (1.97%) ISO 15022
2 3 (1.97%) ISO 20022
3 2 (1.32%) DICOM
3 2 (1.32%) HL7
3 2 (1.32%) MISRA
4 1 (0.66%) JTAG
4 1 (0.66%) QA
System Software
1 5 (3.29%) Firmware
2 4 (2.63%) Docker
3 3 (1.97%) Embedded Firmware
4 2 (1.32%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.66%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 16 (10.53%) Kubernetes
2 7 (4.61%) Progress Chef
3 6 (3.95%) Puppet
4 5 (3.29%) Ansible
4 5 (3.29%) Grafana
5 4 (2.63%) Terraform
6 3 (1.97%) Functional Safety
6 3 (1.97%) Prometheus
7 2 (1.32%) Amdocs OSS
7 2 (1.32%) Cilium
7 2 (1.32%) ITRS Geneos
7 2 (1.32%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (1.32%) ZABBIX
8 1 (0.66%) Argo
Vendors
1 17 (11.18%) Oracle
2 9 (5.92%) Microsoft
3 5 (3.29%) IBM
3 5 (3.29%) SaltStack
4 4 (2.63%) Red Hat
4 4 (2.63%) ServiceNow
5 3 (1.97%) Cisco
6 2 (1.32%) Amdocs
6 2 (1.32%) Bloomberg
6 2 (1.32%) Ciena
6 2 (1.32%) Dynatrace
6 2 (1.32%) ION Trading
6 2 (1.32%) Perforce
6 2 (1.32%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.32%) Splunk
6 2 (1.32%) Veritas
7 1 (0.66%) F5
7 1 (0.66%) FIS
7 1 (0.66%) Google
7 1 (0.66%) MuleSoft