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 1 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 263 145 145
Rank change year-on-year -118 0 -48
Contract jobs citing C++ 152 226 296
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.83% 1.84% 1.69%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.63% 4.66% 4.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 141 200
10th Percentile £413 £431 £413
25th Percentile £538 £625 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £775 £659
Median % change year-on-year -12.90% +17.65% -7.87%
75th Percentile £800 £875 £851
90th Percentile £919 £1,050 £950
England median daily rate £600 £726 £575
% change year-on-year -17.36% +26.26% -11.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 8
10th Percentile - - £44.62
25th Percentile £26.25 - £47.75
Median hourly rate £27.50 - £67.13
75th Percentile £28.75 - £72.03
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 5,783 4,846 6,515
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 31.47% 39.52% 37.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,878 3,394 4,968
10th Percentile £375 £380 £375
25th Percentile £440 £438 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £650 £713 £700
90th Percentile £775 £825 £838
England median daily rate £513 £525 £543
% change year-on-year -2.38% -3.23% -3.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 57 38 53
10th Percentile £32.66 £28.52 £23.80
25th Percentile £39.25 £33.25 £33.07
Median hourly rate £58.94 £37.81 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year +55.89% -25.14% -15.83%
75th Percentile £73.00 £53.75 £62.50
90th Percentile £89.25 £73.13 £72.50
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +4.84% -0.80% -

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 1 June 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 1 June 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 -20 20 £800 - 71
South London -8 2 - - 2
East London - 2 £334 - 16
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 5 (3.29%) Apache Spark
1 5 (3.29%) Confluence
2 3 (1.97%) IIS
3 2 (1.32%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.66%) MTS
4 1 (0.66%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.66%) WebSphere
Applications
1 9 (5.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (1.32%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (0.66%) Orchestrade
Cloud Services
1 15 (9.87%) AWS
2 9 (5.92%) Azure
3 7 (4.61%) GitHub
4 4 (2.63%) GCP
5 2 (1.32%) Amazon Bedrock
5 2 (1.32%) Amazon EMR
5 2 (1.32%) Amazon Kinesis
5 2 (1.32%) AWS IoT
5 2 (1.32%) ChatGPT
5 2 (1.32%) GitHub Copilot
5 2 (1.32%) SaaS
5 2 (1.32%) Serverless
6 1 (0.66%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (0.66%) Amazon S3
6 1 (0.66%) Anthropic Claude
6 1 (0.66%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (0.66%) Datadog
6 1 (0.66%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (0.66%) OneDrive
6 1 (0.66%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.61%) HTTP
2 6 (3.95%) TCP/IP
3 5 (3.29%) Ethernet
3 5 (3.29%) Modbus
3 5 (3.29%) RS-232
3 5 (3.29%) RS-485
4 3 (1.97%) 3GPP
4 3 (1.97%) MQTT
4 3 (1.97%) MVNO
4 3 (1.97%) Network Security
4 3 (1.97%) SMPP
4 3 (1.97%) SMS
4 3 (1.97%) VXLAN
5 2 (1.32%) Internet
5 2 (1.32%) NaaS
5 2 (1.32%) NAS
5 2 (1.32%) SAN
5 2 (1.32%) WAN
6 1 (0.66%) Firewall
6 1 (0.66%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.29%) NoSQL
2 3 (1.97%) Big Data
2 3 (1.97%) Hadoop
3 2 (1.32%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (1.32%) Apache Cassandra
3 2 (1.32%) Data Lake
3 2 (1.32%) Data Mining
3 2 (1.32%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (1.32%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (1.32%) Flink
3 2 (1.32%) InfluxDB
3 2 (1.32%) MongoDB
3 2 (1.32%) MySQL
3 2 (1.32%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (1.32%) TimescaleDB
4 1 (0.66%) KDB
4 1 (0.66%) Kdb+
4 1 (0.66%) NonStop SQL
4 1 (0.66%) Snowflake Schema
4 1 (0.66%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 10 (6.58%) JIRA
2 6 (3.95%) Git
2 6 (3.95%) Jenkins
3 4 (2.63%) Visual Studio
4 3 (1.97%) Robot Framework
4 3 (1.97%) Subversion
5 2 (1.32%) GitLab
5 2 (1.32%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.66%) Appium
6 1 (0.66%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.66%) CMake
6 1 (0.66%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.66%) Fiddler
6 1 (0.66%) GoogleTest
6 1 (0.66%) JUnit
6 1 (0.66%) MSI
6 1 (0.66%) Selenium
General
1 86 (56.58%) Finance
2 32 (21.05%) Analytical Skills
3 24 (15.79%) Social Skills
4 23 (15.13%) Banking
5 18 (11.84%) Front Office
6 17 (11.18%) Investment Banking
7 8 (5.26%) Telecoms
8 5 (3.29%) Agriculture
9 4 (2.63%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.32%) Automotive
10 2 (1.32%) Billing
10 2 (1.32%) Japanese Language
10 2 (1.32%) Multimedia
10 2 (1.32%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.66%) Games
11 1 (0.66%) Korean Language
11 1 (0.66%) Legal
11 1 (0.66%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 66 (43.42%) Developer
2 43 (28.29%) Senior
3 35 (23.03%) C++ Developer
4 26 (17.11%) Software Engineer
5 23 (15.13%) C++ Software Engineer
5 23 (15.13%) Quantitative Developer
6 18 (11.84%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
6 18 (11.84%) Senior Developer
6 18 (11.84%) Senior Software Engineer
7 16 (10.53%) Senior C++ Developer
8 11 (7.24%) Python Developer
9 10 (6.58%) Linux Engineer
10 8 (5.26%) C++ Quantitative Developer
10 8 (5.26%) Kafka Engineer
10 8 (5.26%) Linux Developer
10 8 (5.26%) Senior Linux Engineer
10 8 (5.26%) Senior Unix Engineer
10 8 (5.26%) Unix Engineer
10 8 (5.26%) Unix Linux Engineer
11 7 (4.61%) Embedded Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (10.53%) Kafka
2 11 (7.24%) FIX Protocol
3 8 (5.26%) .NET
4 7 (4.61%) WebSockets
5 5 (3.29%) NumPy
5 5 (3.29%) Pandas
5 5 (3.29%) PyTorch
5 5 (3.29%) TensorFlow
5 5 (3.29%) XML
6 4 (2.63%) HTML
6 4 (2.63%) LangChain
6 4 (2.63%) Node.js
6 4 (2.63%) SciPy
6 4 (2.63%) Web Services
7 3 (1.97%) Boost C++ Libraries
7 3 (1.97%) COM
7 3 (1.97%) OpenTelemetry
7 3 (1.97%) REST
8 2 (1.32%) GraphQL
8 2 (1.32%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 28 (18.42%) Derivative
2 22 (14.47%) Algorithms
2 22 (14.47%) Distributed Systems
3 17 (11.18%) Equities
3 17 (11.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 14 (9.21%) Data Structures
5 12 (7.89%) Equity Derivative
6 9 (5.92%) Data Protection Act
7 7 (4.61%) Cloud Native
7 7 (4.61%) Greenfield Project
8 6 (3.95%) Embedded Systems
8 6 (3.95%) IoT
8 6 (3.95%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (3.29%) Exotic Derivative
10 4 (2.63%) AI Agents
11 3 (1.97%) Credit Derivative
11 3 (1.97%) Fixed Income
11 3 (1.97%) Java Card
11 3 (1.97%) Mainframe
11 3 (1.97%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 56 (36.84%) Linux
2 27 (17.76%) Unix
3 9 (5.92%) Windows
4 5 (3.29%) FreeRTOS
5 4 (2.63%) Solaris
6 3 (1.97%) Android
6 3 (1.97%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.66%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (31.58%) Software Engineering
2 36 (23.68%) Low Latency
3 35 (23.03%) Problem-Solving
4 22 (14.47%) Mathematics
5 21 (13.82%) Agile
5 21 (13.82%) Analytics
6 20 (13.16%) CI/CD
7 18 (11.84%) Multithreading
8 17 (11.18%) Computer Science
8 17 (11.18%) Quantitative Finance
9 16 (10.53%) Observability
10 13 (8.55%) Ultra-Low Latency
10 13 (8.55%) Validation
11 11 (7.24%) AI
11 11 (7.24%) Test Automation
12 10 (6.58%) Financial Modelling
12 10 (6.58%) Performance Optimisation
12 10 (6.58%) Risk Management
13 9 (5.92%) Fintech
13 9 (5.92%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 76 (50.00%) Python
2 51 (33.55%) C#
3 49 (32.24%) SQL
4 33 (21.71%) Java
5 23 (15.13%) C
6 15 (9.87%) Rust
7 14 (9.21%) TypeScript
8 8 (5.26%) PowerShell
9 6 (3.95%) R
10 5 (3.29%) Embedded C++
10 5 (3.29%) Go
11 4 (2.63%) JavaScript
12 2 (1.32%) Ada
12 2 (1.32%) Bash
12 2 (1.32%) COBOL
12 2 (1.32%) Shell Script
12 2 (1.32%) VBA
13 1 (0.66%) Embedded C
13 1 (0.66%) Erlang
13 1 (0.66%) Fortran
Qualifications
1 41 (26.97%) Degree
2 8 (5.26%) Numerate Degree
3 7 (4.61%) Security Cleared
4 6 (3.95%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (3.95%) Master's Degree
5 4 (2.63%) PhD
6 2 (1.32%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.32%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.66%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.63%) QA
2 2 (1.32%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.32%) DICOM
2 2 (1.32%) HL7
2 2 (1.32%) SLA
3 1 (0.66%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.66%) ISO 15022
3 1 (0.66%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 7 (4.61%) Firmware
2 6 (3.95%) Docker
3 5 (3.29%) Embedded Firmware
4 2 (1.32%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.32%) HDFS
5 1 (0.66%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 9 (5.92%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.63%) Grafana
3 2 (1.32%) Amdocs OSS
3 2 (1.32%) Cilium
3 2 (1.32%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.66%) Ansible
4 1 (0.66%) ITRS Geneos
4 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.66%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 23 (15.13%) Oracle
2 3 (1.97%) Cisco
2 3 (1.97%) Dynatrace
2 3 (1.97%) Thales
3 2 (1.32%) Amdocs
3 2 (1.32%) Bloomberg
3 2 (1.32%) Ciena
3 2 (1.32%) Databricks
3 2 (1.32%) IBM
3 2 (1.32%) OpenAI
3 2 (1.32%) Perforce
3 2 (1.32%) Salesforce
3 2 (1.32%) ServiceNow
3 2 (1.32%) Veritas
4 1 (0.66%) BT
4 1 (0.66%) Google
4 1 (0.66%) HP
4 1 (0.66%) ION Trading
4 1 (0.66%) Microsoft
4 1 (0.66%) Reuters