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

6 months to
25 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 284 145 171
Rank change year-on-year -139 +26 -60
Contract jobs citing C++ 156 264 248
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.78% 1.97% 1.52%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.48% 5.14% 3.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 165 176
10th Percentile £421 £408 £356
25th Percentile £538 £525 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £663 £700
Median % change year-on-year -1.89% -5.36% -
75th Percentile £806 £825 £858
90th Percentile £886 £960 £950
England median daily rate £600 £625 £550
% change year-on-year -4.00% +13.64% -12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 5
10th Percentile £29.50 £33.90 £47.05
25th Percentile £34.38 £45.38 £48.25
Median hourly rate £45.00 £57.00 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year -21.05% -15.56% +25.03%
75th Percentile £48.25 £63.94 £71.88
90th Percentile £48.70 £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 6,294 5,138 6,480
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 31.38% 38.42% 39.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,224 3,581 4,777
10th Percentile £385 £375 £373
25th Percentile £450 £431 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £659 £700 £710
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 54 60 40
10th Percentile £27.87 £26.31 £25.11
25th Percentile £36.25 £33.25 £38.31
Median hourly rate £52.50 £44.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +19.32% -7.37% -24.60%
75th Percentile £73.00 £62.31 £57.50
90th Percentile £88.75 £86.25 £75.13
England median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +3.59%

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 25 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 25 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 25 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 -39 10 £678 -4.91% 20
South London -13 4 - - 3
East London +4 2 £334 -66.65% 2
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 4 (2.56%) WebSphere
2 3 (1.92%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.92%) IIS
3 2 (1.28%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.28%) Oracle Workflow
3 2 (1.28%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.64%) MTS
Applications
1 2 (1.28%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (1.92%) Orchestrade
2 1 (0.64%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (0.64%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.64%) SunGard Martini
Cloud Services
1 19 (12.18%) AWS
2 15 (9.62%) Azure
3 10 (6.41%) GCP
4 4 (2.56%) IaaS
4 4 (2.56%) SaaS
4 4 (2.56%) Snowflake
5 3 (1.92%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 2 (1.28%) Anthropic Claude
6 2 (1.28%) AWS IoT
6 2 (1.28%) Entra ID
6 2 (1.28%) GitHub
6 2 (1.28%) GitHub Copilot
6 2 (1.28%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (1.28%) OneDrive
6 2 (1.28%) Serverless
7 1 (0.64%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (0.64%) AWS Fargate
7 1 (0.64%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (0.64%) AWS Step Functions
7 1 (0.64%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 10 (6.41%) TCP/IP
2 8 (5.13%) HTTP
3 3 (1.92%) Firewall
3 3 (1.92%) MQTT
3 3 (1.92%) VXLAN
3 3 (1.92%) WAN
4 2 (1.28%) DHCP
4 2 (1.28%) DNS
4 2 (1.28%) Internet
4 2 (1.28%) Multicast
4 2 (1.28%) NaaS
4 2 (1.28%) NAS
4 2 (1.28%) SAN
4 2 (1.28%) Wireshark
5 1 (0.64%) Bluetooth
5 1 (0.64%) IPv4
5 1 (0.64%) IPv6
5 1 (0.64%) LAN
5 1 (0.64%) SSH
5 1 (0.64%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.21%) NoSQL
2 4 (2.56%) MySQL
3 3 (1.92%) MongoDB
3 3 (1.92%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (1.92%) SQL Server
4 2 (1.28%) Apache Cassandra
4 2 (1.28%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (1.28%) Flink
4 2 (1.28%) InfluxDB
4 2 (1.28%) Oracle Database
4 2 (1.28%) TimescaleDB
5 1 (0.64%) Big Data
5 1 (0.64%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.64%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.64%) KDB
5 1 (0.64%) Kdb+
5 1 (0.64%) MariaDB
5 1 (0.64%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 15 (9.62%) Git
2 12 (7.69%) Jenkins
3 4 (2.56%) GitLab
3 4 (2.56%) TeamCity
4 3 (1.92%) Visual Studio
4 3 (1.92%) VTune
5 2 (1.28%) Ant
5 2 (1.28%) Artifactory
5 2 (1.28%) CMake
5 2 (1.28%) Eclipse
5 2 (1.28%) Fiddler
5 2 (1.28%) JIRA
5 2 (1.28%) MSI
5 2 (1.28%) Robot Framework
5 2 (1.28%) Subversion
6 1 (0.64%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.64%) GoogleTest
6 1 (0.64%) PetaLinux
General
1 52 (33.33%) Finance
2 36 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
3 34 (21.79%) Banking
4 33 (21.15%) Social Skills
5 26 (16.67%) Front Office
6 20 (12.82%) Investment Banking
7 6 (3.85%) Automotive
8 4 (2.56%) Financial Institution
8 4 (2.56%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.92%) Games
9 3 (1.92%) Legal
9 3 (1.92%) Public Sector
10 2 (1.28%) Billing
10 2 (1.28%) Japanese Language
10 2 (1.28%) Polish Language
10 2 (1.28%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.64%) Agriculture
11 1 (0.64%) Back Office
11 1 (0.64%) Electronics
11 1 (0.64%) Korean Language
Job Titles
1 40 (25.64%) Developer
2 39 (25.00%) Senior
3 26 (16.67%) Software Engineer
4 19 (12.18%) C++ Developer
5 16 (10.26%) C++ Software Engineer
6 14 (8.97%) Senior Developer
7 11 (7.05%) Quantitative Developer
8 10 (6.41%) Architect
8 10 (6.41%) Senior Software Engineer
9 9 (5.77%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
10 8 (5.13%) Analyst
10 8 (5.13%) Senior C++ Developer
11 7 (4.49%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 7 (4.49%) C# Developer
11 7 (4.49%) Embedded Engineer
11 7 (4.49%) Linux Engineer
12 6 (3.85%) C++ Quantitative Developer
12 6 (3.85%) Robotics Engineer
12 6 (3.85%) Senior Architect
12 6 (3.85%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (13.46%) .NET
2 16 (10.26%) XML
3 15 (9.62%) FIX Protocol
4 9 (5.77%) Kafka
5 8 (5.13%) WebSockets
6 6 (3.85%) JSON
6 6 (3.85%) OpenTelemetry
6 6 (3.85%) React
6 6 (3.85%) WinForms
7 5 (3.21%) gRPC
7 5 (3.21%) Middleware
7 5 (3.21%) REST
7 5 (3.21%) Web Services
8 4 (2.56%) .NET Core
8 4 (2.56%) eBPF
8 4 (2.56%) Terraform
8 4 (2.56%) WebSphere MQ
9 3 (1.92%) NumPy
9 3 (1.92%) Pandas
10 2 (1.28%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 30 (19.23%) Derivative
2 26 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
3 24 (15.38%) Algorithms
4 18 (11.54%) Cloud Native
4 18 (11.54%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 11 (7.05%) Data Structures
6 9 (5.77%) Embedded Systems
6 9 (5.77%) Legacy Systems
7 7 (4.49%) AI Agents
7 7 (4.49%) Data Protection Act
7 7 (4.49%) Robotics
8 6 (3.85%) Equity Derivative
8 6 (3.85%) Fixed Income
8 6 (3.85%) OTC Derivatives
9 5 (3.21%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (3.21%) Onboarding
9 5 (3.21%) Private Cloud
10 4 (2.56%) IoT
10 4 (2.56%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (2.56%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 50 (32.05%) Linux
2 17 (10.90%) Windows
3 16 (10.26%) Unix
4 9 (5.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (5.13%) Android
5 8 (5.13%) Apple iOS
6 4 (2.56%) Solaris
7 1 (0.64%) Embedded Linux
7 1 (0.64%) FreeRTOS
7 1 (0.64%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (33.97%) Software Engineering
2 38 (24.36%) Low Latency
3 37 (23.72%) Problem-Solving
4 26 (16.67%) CI/CD
5 24 (15.38%) Observability
6 21 (13.46%) AI
6 21 (13.46%) Mathematics
6 21 (13.46%) Multithreading
7 18 (11.54%) Computer Science
8 17 (10.90%) Analytics
9 16 (10.26%) Performance Optimisation
9 16 (10.26%) Validation
10 13 (8.33%) Algorithmic Trading
10 13 (8.33%) DevOps
11 12 (7.69%) Performance Engineering
11 12 (7.69%) Test Automation
11 12 (7.69%) Workflow
12 11 (7.05%) Agile
13 10 (6.41%) Software Testing
13 10 (6.41%) Ultra-Low Latency
Programming Languages
1 77 (49.36%) Python
2 48 (30.77%) Java
3 41 (26.28%) C#
3 41 (26.28%) SQL
4 25 (16.03%) C
5 20 (12.82%) Rust
6 19 (12.18%) TypeScript
7 12 (7.69%) PowerShell
8 9 (5.77%) Go
9 8 (5.13%) R
10 7 (4.49%) JavaScript
11 5 (3.21%) Perl
12 4 (2.56%) Embedded C++
12 4 (2.56%) PL/SQL
13 2 (1.28%) COBOL
13 2 (1.28%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.64%) Embedded C
14 1 (0.64%) Fortran
14 1 (0.64%) Haskell
14 1 (0.64%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 35 (22.44%) Degree
2 11 (7.05%) Computer Science Degree
2 11 (7.05%) Security Cleared
3 6 (3.85%) Master's Degree
4 5 (3.21%) PhD
5 4 (2.56%) SC Cleared
6 3 (1.92%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.28%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.28%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.56%) Data Quality
1 4 (2.56%) ISO 15022
1 4 (2.56%) ISO 20022
2 3 (1.92%) Automotive SPICE
3 2 (1.28%) DICOM
3 2 (1.28%) HL7
3 2 (1.28%) MISRA
4 1 (0.64%) JTAG
4 1 (0.64%) QA
System Software
1 5 (3.21%) Firmware
2 4 (2.56%) Docker
3 3 (1.92%) Embedded Firmware
4 2 (1.28%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.64%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 16 (10.26%) Kubernetes
2 7 (4.49%) Progress Chef
2 7 (4.49%) Puppet
3 6 (3.85%) Ansible
4 5 (3.21%) Grafana
5 3 (1.92%) Functional Safety
5 3 (1.92%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.28%) Amdocs OSS
6 2 (1.28%) Cilium
6 2 (1.28%) ITRS Geneos
6 2 (1.28%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (1.28%) ZABBIX
7 1 (0.64%) Argo
Vendors
1 17 (10.90%) Oracle
2 9 (5.77%) Microsoft
3 6 (3.85%) IBM
4 5 (3.21%) SaltStack
5 4 (2.56%) Cisco
5 4 (2.56%) Red Hat
5 4 (2.56%) ServiceNow
6 3 (1.92%) Ciena
7 2 (1.28%) Amdocs
7 2 (1.28%) Bloomberg
7 2 (1.28%) Dynatrace
7 2 (1.28%) ION Trading
7 2 (1.28%) Perforce
7 2 (1.28%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.28%) Splunk
7 2 (1.28%) Veritas
8 1 (0.64%) Google
8 1 (0.64%) MarketAxess
8 1 (0.64%) Tradeweb
8 1 (0.64%) Xilinx