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

6 months to
24 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 271 156 170
Rank change year-on-year -115 +14 -71
Contract jobs citing C++ 154 224 255
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.88% 1.76% 1.43%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.68% 4.46% 3.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 136 176
10th Percentile £342 £431 £338
25th Percentile £513 £647 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £800 £650
Median % change year-on-year -15.63% +23.08% -7.14%
75th Percentile £788 £875 £828
90th Percentile £1,025 £1,000 £950
England median daily rate £625 £750 £575
% change year-on-year -16.67% +30.43% -11.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 8
10th Percentile - - £44.62
25th Percentile £26.25 - £53.75
Median hourly rate £27.50 - £58.75
75th Percentile £28.75 - £68.19
90th Percentile - - £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 5,753 5,019 6,392
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 32.84% 39.40% 35.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,895 3,516 4,871
10th Percentile £363 £375 £385
25th Percentile £428 £449 £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 £766 £825 £825
England median daily rate £501 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.67% -2.78% -4.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 29 56
10th Percentile £32.12 £29.07 £23.80
25th Percentile £41.88 £35.00 £36.27
Median hourly rate £58.94 £44.50 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year +32.44% -11.88% -12.17%
75th Percentile £71.25 £60.75 £60.44
90th Percentile £88.75 £65.50 £68.50
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £62.18
% change year-on-year +4.00% +0.52% -0.52%

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 24 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++
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 24 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 23 £800 - 51
East London - 2 £334 - 6
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 (4.55%) Confluence
2 5 (3.25%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.30%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (0.65%) Apache
Applications
1 10 (6.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.65%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 1 (0.65%) Orchestrade
Cloud Services
1 18 (11.69%) AWS
2 10 (6.49%) GitHub
3 8 (5.19%) Azure
4 6 (3.90%) Serverless
5 5 (3.25%) GCP
6 3 (1.95%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (1.95%) Amazon S3
6 3 (1.95%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (1.95%) ChatGPT
6 3 (1.95%) GitHub Copilot
7 2 (1.30%) Amazon Bedrock
7 2 (1.30%) Amazon EMR
7 2 (1.30%) Amazon Kinesis
7 2 (1.30%) Anthropic Claude
7 2 (1.30%) AWS IoT
7 2 (1.30%) Datadog
8 1 (0.65%) Figma
8 1 (0.65%) Google Drive
8 1 (0.65%) Power Platform
8 1 (0.65%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.55%) Ethernet
1 7 (4.55%) Modbus
1 7 (4.55%) RS-232
1 7 (4.55%) RS-485
2 5 (3.25%) TCP/IP
3 4 (2.60%) HTTP
4 3 (1.95%) 3GPP
4 3 (1.95%) MQTT
4 3 (1.95%) MVNO
4 3 (1.95%) Network Security
4 3 (1.95%) SMPP
4 3 (1.95%) SMS
4 3 (1.95%) VXLAN
5 2 (1.30%) Internet
5 2 (1.30%) NaaS
5 2 (1.30%) NAS
5 2 (1.30%) SAN
5 2 (1.30%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.60%) Big Data
1 4 (2.60%) Hadoop
1 4 (2.60%) NoSQL
2 2 (1.30%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (1.30%) Apache Cassandra
2 2 (1.30%) Data Lake
2 2 (1.30%) Data Mining
2 2 (1.30%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (1.30%) Flink
2 2 (1.30%) InfluxDB
2 2 (1.30%) MongoDB
2 2 (1.30%) MySQL
2 2 (1.30%) Neo4j
2 2 (1.30%) Pinecone
2 2 (1.30%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (1.30%) TimescaleDB
2 2 (1.30%) Weaviate
3 1 (0.65%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.65%) Metadata
3 1 (0.65%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 14 (9.09%) JIRA
2 9 (5.84%) Git
3 6 (3.90%) Jenkins
4 4 (2.60%) Visual Studio
5 3 (1.95%) Robot Framework
5 3 (1.95%) SonarQube
5 3 (1.95%) Subversion
6 1 (0.65%) Appium
6 1 (0.65%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.65%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.65%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.65%) GitLab
6 1 (0.65%) JUnit
6 1 (0.65%) Selenium
General
1 91 (59.09%) Finance
2 31 (20.13%) Analytical Skills
3 23 (14.94%) Social Skills
4 17 (11.04%) Front Office
5 16 (10.39%) Banking
6 12 (7.79%) Investment Banking
7 7 (4.55%) Telecoms
8 6 (3.90%) Agriculture
8 6 (3.90%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.30%) Automotive
9 2 (1.30%) Billing
9 2 (1.30%) iGaming
9 2 (1.30%) Japanese Language
9 2 (1.30%) Marketing
9 2 (1.30%) Multimedia
9 2 (1.30%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.65%) Back Office
10 1 (0.65%) Games
10 1 (0.65%) Korean Language
10 1 (0.65%) Legal
Job Titles
1 68 (44.16%) Developer
2 37 (24.03%) Senior
3 36 (23.38%) C++ Developer
4 30 (19.48%) Quantitative Developer
5 22 (14.29%) Software Engineer
6 18 (11.69%) C++ Software Engineer
7 17 (11.04%) Python Developer
7 17 (11.04%) Senior Software Engineer
8 15 (9.74%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
9 13 (8.44%) Linux Developer
10 12 (7.79%) C++ Quantitative Developer
10 12 (7.79%) Low Latency C++ Developer
11 11 (7.14%) Kafka Engineer
11 11 (7.14%) Linux Engineer
11 11 (7.14%) Senior Linux Engineer
11 11 (7.14%) Senior Unix Engineer
11 11 (7.14%) Unix Engineer
11 11 (7.14%) Unix Linux Engineer
12 10 (6.49%) Senior C++ Developer
12 10 (6.49%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (11.69%) Kafka
2 8 (5.19%) NumPy
3 7 (4.55%) Pandas
3 7 (4.55%) PyTorch
3 7 (4.55%) SciPy
3 7 (4.55%) TensorFlow
4 6 (3.90%) FIX Protocol
5 5 (3.25%) LangChain
5 5 (3.25%) Node.js
6 4 (2.60%) HTML
6 4 (2.60%) WebSockets
7 3 (1.95%) .NET
7 3 (1.95%) React
7 3 (1.95%) REST
7 3 (1.95%) scikit-learn
7 3 (1.95%) Web Services
8 2 (1.30%) gRPC
8 2 (1.30%) Keras
8 2 (1.30%) Swagger
8 2 (1.30%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 27 (17.53%) Derivative
2 24 (15.58%) Equities
3 23 (14.94%) Algorithms
4 16 (10.39%) Distributed Systems
5 15 (9.74%) Data Structures
5 15 (9.74%) Equity Derivative
6 13 (8.44%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 9 (5.84%) Data Protection Act
7 9 (5.84%) Greenfield Project
8 7 (4.55%) Embedded Systems
9 6 (3.90%) AI Agents
9 6 (3.90%) IoT
10 3 (1.95%) Blog
10 3 (1.95%) Cloud Native
10 3 (1.95%) Exotic Derivative
10 3 (1.95%) Fixed Income
10 3 (1.95%) FPGA
10 3 (1.95%) Java Card
11 2 (1.30%) Credit Derivative
11 2 (1.30%) PACS
Operating Systems
1 57 (37.01%) Linux
2 25 (16.23%) Unix
3 7 (4.55%) FreeRTOS
4 5 (3.25%) Windows
5 2 (1.30%) Android
5 2 (1.30%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.65%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (30.52%) Software Engineering
2 33 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
3 28 (18.18%) Agile
3 28 (18.18%) Low Latency
4 26 (16.88%) Mathematics
5 22 (14.29%) Analytics
6 20 (12.99%) Computer Science
6 20 (12.99%) Quantitative Finance
7 18 (11.69%) CI/CD
7 18 (11.69%) Multithreading
8 15 (9.74%) Test Automation
8 15 (9.74%) Validation
9 14 (9.09%) AI
9 14 (9.09%) Quantitative Research
9 14 (9.09%) Risk Management
10 13 (8.44%) Benchmarking
11 12 (7.79%) Ultra-Low Latency
12 11 (7.14%) Machine Learning
13 10 (6.49%) Continuous Improvement
13 10 (6.49%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 81 (52.60%) Python
2 51 (33.12%) C#
3 48 (31.17%) SQL
4 33 (21.43%) Java
5 24 (15.58%) C
6 10 (6.49%) TypeScript
7 9 (5.84%) Rust
8 7 (4.55%) Embedded C++
8 7 (4.55%) JavaScript
9 6 (3.90%) R
10 3 (1.95%) Embedded C
10 3 (1.95%) PowerShell
11 2 (1.30%) Ada
11 2 (1.30%) Bash
11 2 (1.30%) Go
11 2 (1.30%) Shell Script
11 2 (1.30%) VBA
12 1 (0.65%) COBOL
12 1 (0.65%) Erlang
Qualifications
1 44 (28.57%) Degree
2 10 (6.49%) Numerate Degree
3 8 (5.19%) Master's Degree
4 7 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (4.55%) Security Cleared
5 3 (1.95%) PhD
6 2 (1.30%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.30%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.30%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.65%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.90%) QA
2 3 (1.95%) SLA
3 2 (1.30%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.30%) DICOM
3 2 (1.30%) HL7
4 1 (0.65%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.65%) EMIR
4 1 (0.65%) MiFID
System Software
1 9 (5.84%) Docker
1 9 (5.84%) Firmware
2 7 (4.55%) Embedded Firmware
3 2 (1.30%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.30%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 8 (5.19%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.30%) Amdocs OSS
2 2 (1.30%) Grafana
2 2 (1.30%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.65%) Ansible
3 1 (0.65%) Progress Chef
3 1 (0.65%) Puppet
Vendors
1 22 (14.29%) Oracle
2 4 (2.60%) Dynatrace
3 3 (1.95%) Cisco
3 3 (1.95%) Databricks
3 3 (1.95%) Thales
4 2 (1.30%) Amdocs
4 2 (1.30%) Ciena
4 2 (1.30%) Google
4 2 (1.30%) OpenAI
4 2 (1.30%) Perforce
4 2 (1.30%) Salesforce
4 2 (1.30%) ServiceNow
4 2 (1.30%) Veritas
5 1 (0.65%) Bloomberg
5 1 (0.65%) BT
5 1 (0.65%) Calypso
5 1 (0.65%) HP
5 1 (0.65%) Murex
5 1 (0.65%) Reuters