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 5 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 146 178 130
Rank change year-on-year +32 -48 -27
Contract jobs citing C++ 281 229 369
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.96% 1.45% 1.91%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.15% 3.74% 5.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 163 152 252
10th Percentile £402 £319 £401
25th Percentile £498 £426 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £700 £650
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -10.34%
75th Percentile £775 £825 £850
90th Percentile £975 £913 £973
England median daily rate £625 £565 £600
% change year-on-year +10.62% -5.83% -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 5,454 6,117 7,058
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 37.96% 38.73% 36.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,670 4,162 5,300
10th Percentile £363 £375 £395
25th Percentile £425 £463 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £670 £700 £700
90th Percentile £788 £825 £810
England median daily rate £513 £545 £550
% change year-on-year -5.96% -0.91% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 39 68
10th Percentile £25.40 £36.55 £26.11
25th Percentile £35.25 £40.32 £36.70
Median hourly rate £51.44 £52.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.02% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £64.75 £66.88 £65.00
90th Percentile £84.50 £97.50 £74.06
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £62.36
% change year-on-year - +4.24% -1.02%

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 5 December 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 5 December 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 5 December 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 +3 37 £600 -7.69% 16
West London -25 9 £380 -12.64% 5
East London - 8 £1,000 - 4
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 3 (1.07%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 8 (2.85%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.36%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 44 (15.66%) AWS
2 27 (9.61%) Azure
3 12 (4.27%) GCP
3 12 (4.27%) Serverless
4 11 (3.91%) GitHub
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
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
2 6 (2.14%) TCP/IP
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 14 (4.98%) Big Data
2 8 (2.85%) Oracle Database
3 5 (1.78%) KDB
3 5 (1.78%) Metadata
4 3 (1.07%) Kdb+
5 2 (0.71%) BigQuery
5 2 (0.71%) Hadoop
5 2 (0.71%) NoSQL
5 2 (0.71%) Power BI
5 2 (0.71%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.36%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (0.36%) HBase
6 1 (0.36%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.36%) Neo4j
6 1 (0.36%) NonStop SQL
6 1 (0.36%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.36%) Pinecone
6 1 (0.36%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.36%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.36%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 39 (13.88%) Git
2 12 (4.27%) GCC
3 10 (3.56%) Jenkins
4 9 (3.20%) JIRA
5 8 (2.85%) GDB
6 6 (2.14%) Gradle
7 5 (1.78%) Artifactory
7 5 (1.78%) JUnit
7 5 (1.78%) Visual Studio
8 4 (1.42%) Clang
9 3 (1.07%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.71%) Eclipse
10 2 (0.71%) IntelliJ
10 2 (0.71%) Maven
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
11 1 (0.36%) TensorBoard
General
1 140 (49.82%) Finance
2 49 (17.44%) Banking
3 48 (17.08%) Front Office
3 48 (17.08%) Social Skills
4 28 (9.96%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (9.96%) Investment Banking
5 15 (5.34%) Public Sector
6 14 (4.98%) Financial Institution
7 8 (2.85%) Marketing
8 7 (2.49%) International Banking
9 6 (2.14%) Electronics
9 6 (2.14%) Games
9 6 (2.14%) Manufacturing
9 6 (2.14%) Telecoms
10 5 (1.78%) Law
11 3 (1.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.71%) Agriculture
12 2 (0.71%) Back Office
12 2 (0.71%) iGaming
12 2 (0.71%) Military
Job Titles
1 119 (42.35%) Developer
2 64 (22.78%) Senior
3 63 (22.42%) Software Engineer
4 51 (18.15%) C++ Developer
5 33 (11.74%) Quantitative Developer
6 32 (11.39%) Python Developer
7 28 (9.96%) Senior Software Engineer
8 27 (9.61%) C++ Software Engineer
9 22 (7.83%) Linux Engineer
10 17 (6.05%) Linux Developer
11 16 (5.69%) AWS Developer
11 16 (5.69%) JavaScript Developer
12 15 (5.34%) Analyst
12 15 (5.34%) Kafka Engineer
12 15 (5.34%) Senior Linux Engineer
12 15 (5.34%) Senior Unix Engineer
12 15 (5.34%) Unix Engineer
12 15 (5.34%) Unix Linux Engineer
13 14 (4.98%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
14 13 (4.63%) Low Latency C++ Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (17.08%) 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 12 (4.27%) .NET
8 12 (4.27%) FIX Protocol
9 10 (3.56%) Middleware
10 9 (3.20%) Apache NiFi
10 9 (3.20%) Boost C++ Libraries
10 9 (3.20%) HTML
10 9 (3.20%) STL
11 8 (2.85%) REST
12 7 (2.49%) CSS
12 7 (2.49%) iOS SDK
Miscellaneous
1 48 (17.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 37 (13.17%) Derivative
3 31 (11.03%) Equities
4 22 (7.83%) Algorithms
5 19 (6.76%) Hedge funds
6 18 (6.41%) Equity Derivative
7 15 (5.34%) Distributed Systems
8 12 (4.27%) Data Structures
9 10 (3.56%) Distributed Computing
9 10 (3.56%) Virtual Reality
10 8 (2.85%) Data Protection Act
10 8 (2.85%) Distributed Architecture
11 7 (2.49%) Augmented Reality
11 7 (2.49%) Greenfield Project
12 6 (2.14%) Embedded Systems
12 6 (2.14%) PKI
13 5 (1.78%) Credit Risk
13 5 (1.78%) Fixed Income
13 5 (1.78%) Product Ownership
14 4 (1.42%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 127 (45.20%) Linux
2 48 (17.08%) Unix
3 22 (7.83%) 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
1 115 (40.93%) Software Engineering
2 67 (23.84%) Agile
3 54 (19.22%) Mathematics
4 52 (18.51%) 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
9 27 (9.61%) Mentoring
10 26 (9.25%) Risk Management
11 22 (7.83%) Analytics
12 21 (7.47%) DevOps
12 21 (7.47%) Test Automation
13 20 (7.12%) SDLC
14 19 (6.76%) Multithreading
15 16 (5.69%) Machine Learning
15 16 (5.69%) Structured Programming
15 16 (5.69%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 160 (56.94%) Python
2 88 (31.32%) Java
3 87 (30.96%) C#
4 74 (26.33%) SQL
5 40 (14.23%) JavaScript
6 27 (9.61%) C
6 27 (9.61%) Rust
7 13 (4.63%) Kotlin
8 12 (4.27%) Bash
9 11 (3.91%) Perl
10 10 (3.56%) Go
11 9 (3.20%) PowerShell
12 8 (2.85%) PHP
12 8 (2.85%) PL/SQL
13 5 (1.78%) TypeScript
14 4 (1.42%) Embedded C++
14 4 (1.42%) R
14 4 (1.42%) VBA
15 3 (1.07%) Shell Script
16 2 (0.71%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 56 (19.93%) Degree
2 23 (8.19%) Security Cleared
3 18 (6.41%) Master's Degree
4 17 (6.05%) SC Cleared
5 12 (4.27%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (4.27%) DV Cleared
6 9 (3.20%) Numerate Degree
7 8 (2.85%) CCNP
7 8 (2.85%) Cisco Certification
8 7 (2.49%) PhD
9 6 (2.14%) JNCIA
9 6 (2.14%) JNCIS
10 4 (1.42%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.71%) CCNA
11 2 (0.71%) GPEN
11 2 (0.71%) GWAPT
11 2 (0.71%) OCA
11 2 (0.71%) OCP
11 2 (0.71%) Oracle Certification
11 2 (0.71%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.27%) QA
2 4 (1.42%) Data Quality
2 4 (1.42%) EMIR
3 3 (1.07%) SLA
4 2 (0.71%) NIST
5 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 34 (12.10%) Oracle
2 9 (3.20%) SAP
3 8 (2.85%) Cisco
4 7 (2.49%) Microsoft
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%) 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%) Ruckus Wireless
9 1 (0.36%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.36%) ServiceNow