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

6 months to
5 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 167 156 166
Rank change year-on-year -11 +10 -70
Contract jobs citing C++ 236 217 272
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.58% 1.58% 1.48%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.35% 4.07% 4.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 131 125 179
10th Percentile £463 £363 £325
25th Percentile £588 £538 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £740 £638
Median % change year-on-year -2.03% +16.08% -12.07%
75th Percentile £838 £825 £794
90th Percentile £1,050 £913 £1,010
England median daily rate £675 £625 £575
% change year-on-year +8.00% +8.65% -14.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 13
10th Percentile - £53.03 £40.82
25th Percentile £46.00 £55.69 £49.88
Median hourly rate £47.00 £61.25 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.27% +2.08% +16.54%
75th Percentile £48.00 £66.69 £66.75
90th Percentile - £69.28 £72.40
England median hourly rate £65.00 £64.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +1.56% -1.54% -

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 5,420 5,329 6,382
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 36.34% 38.88% 34.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,645 3,497 4,851
10th Percentile £363 £375 £385
25th Percentile £425 £455 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £552 £575
Median % change year-on-year -3.99% -4.00% -4.17%
75th Percentile £650 £690 £698
90th Percentile £775 £825 £800
England median daily rate £510 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -4.67% -2.73% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 36 69
10th Percentile £23.97 £35.00 £26.75
25th Percentile £35.75 £38.44 £39.85
Median hourly rate £55.00 £50.00 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -0.99% -12.17%
75th Percentile £67.10 £66.50 £62.50
90th Percentile £87.50 £97.50 £72.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.75 £60.00
% change year-on-year +3.59% +4.58% -7.69%

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 February 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 5 February 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 -8 35 £713 +9.62% 59
East London - 8 £1,000 - 5
West London -27 2 £358 -15.88% 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 8 (3.39%) Confluence
2 5 (2.12%) Apache
3 4 (1.69%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 14 (5.93%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.42%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 31 (13.14%) AWS
2 20 (8.47%) Azure
3 11 (4.66%) GitHub
4 9 (3.81%) Serverless
5 5 (2.12%) GCP
6 4 (1.69%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (1.27%) Amazon S3
7 3 (1.27%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (1.27%) ChatGPT
7 3 (1.27%) Datadog
7 3 (1.27%) GitHub Copilot
8 2 (0.85%) Amazon Bedrock
8 2 (0.85%) Amazon EMR
8 2 (0.85%) Amazon Kinesis
8 2 (0.85%) Anthropic Claude
8 2 (0.85%) Entra ID
9 1 (0.42%) Figma
9 1 (0.42%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.97%) Ethernet
1 7 (2.97%) Modbus
1 7 (2.97%) RS-232
1 7 (2.97%) RS-485
2 4 (1.69%) BGP
2 4 (1.69%) DNS
2 4 (1.69%) EIGRP
2 4 (1.69%) HTTPS
2 4 (1.69%) IPsec
2 4 (1.69%) Network Security
2 4 (1.69%) OSPF
2 4 (1.69%) TCP/IP
3 3 (1.27%) 3GPP
3 3 (1.27%) Multicast
3 3 (1.27%) MVNO
3 3 (1.27%) SMPP
3 3 (1.27%) SMS
4 1 (0.42%) Firewall
4 1 (0.42%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (4.66%) Big Data
2 5 (2.12%) Hadoop
3 4 (1.69%) Metadata
4 2 (0.85%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (0.85%) Data Lake
4 2 (0.85%) Data Mining
4 2 (0.85%) KDB
4 2 (0.85%) Kdb+
4 2 (0.85%) Neo4j
4 2 (0.85%) NonStop SQL
4 2 (0.85%) NoSQL
4 2 (0.85%) Oracle Database
4 2 (0.85%) Pinecone
4 2 (0.85%) SQL Server
4 2 (0.85%) Weaviate
5 1 (0.42%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (0.42%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.42%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.42%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.42%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 20 (8.47%) Git
2 13 (5.51%) JIRA
3 7 (2.97%) Jenkins
4 6 (2.54%) Visual Studio
5 3 (1.27%) GCC
5 3 (1.27%) GDB
5 3 (1.27%) Gradle
5 3 (1.27%) SonarQube
6 2 (0.85%) Maven
7 1 (0.42%) Appium
7 1 (0.42%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.42%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.42%) ClearCase
7 1 (0.42%) CMake
7 1 (0.42%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.42%) GitLab
7 1 (0.42%) JUnit
7 1 (0.42%) Robot Framework
7 1 (0.42%) Selenium
7 1 (0.42%) Subversion
General
1 143 (60.59%) Finance
2 38 (16.10%) Banking
3 36 (15.25%) Front Office
3 36 (15.25%) Social Skills
4 28 (11.86%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (9.32%) Investment Banking
6 13 (5.51%) Financial Institution
7 6 (2.54%) Agriculture
8 5 (2.12%) Law
9 4 (1.69%) Public Sector
9 4 (1.69%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.85%) Automotive
11 2 (0.85%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.85%) iGaming
11 2 (0.85%) International Banking
11 2 (0.85%) Marketing
11 2 (0.85%) Military
11 2 (0.85%) Multimedia
12 1 (0.42%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 115 (48.73%) Developer
2 67 (28.39%) Senior
3 51 (21.61%) C++ Developer
4 46 (19.49%) Quantitative Developer
4 46 (19.49%) Software Engineer
5 29 (12.29%) Senior Software Engineer
6 28 (11.86%) Python Developer
7 26 (11.02%) C++ Software Engineer
8 21 (8.90%) Linux Engineer
8 21 (8.90%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
9 19 (8.05%) Linux Developer
10 18 (7.63%) Kafka Engineer
10 18 (7.63%) Senior Linux Engineer
10 18 (7.63%) Senior Unix Engineer
10 18 (7.63%) Unix Engineer
10 18 (7.63%) Unix Linux Engineer
11 17 (7.20%) C++ Quantitative Developer
12 16 (6.78%) Low Latency C++ Developer
13 13 (5.51%) Senior Developer
14 11 (4.66%) Senior C++ Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (18.22%) Kafka
2 16 (6.78%) NumPy
3 15 (6.36%) Pandas
3 15 (6.36%) React
3 15 (6.36%) SciPy
4 14 (5.93%) AngularJS
5 10 (4.24%) Vue
6 9 (3.81%) FastAPI
6 9 (3.81%) Flask
6 9 (3.81%) Polars
7 8 (3.39%) .NET
7 8 (3.39%) HTML
7 8 (3.39%) PyTorch
7 8 (3.39%) TensorFlow
8 5 (2.12%) Apache NiFi
8 5 (2.12%) LangChain
8 5 (2.12%) Node.js
9 4 (1.69%) CSS
9 4 (1.69%) REST
9 4 (1.69%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 43 (18.22%) Equities
2 38 (16.10%) Derivative
2 38 (16.10%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 28 (11.86%) Algorithms
4 24 (10.17%) Equity Derivative
5 17 (7.20%) Distributed Systems
6 15 (6.36%) Data Structures
7 13 (5.51%) Greenfield Project
8 11 (4.66%) Hedge funds
9 10 (4.24%) Data Protection Act
10 8 (3.39%) Distributed Computing
11 6 (2.54%) AI Agents
12 5 (2.12%) Embedded Systems
13 4 (1.69%) Fixed Income
13 4 (1.69%) FPGA
13 4 (1.69%) PKI
14 3 (1.27%) Blog
14 3 (1.27%) Exotic Derivative
14 3 (1.27%) IoT
14 3 (1.27%) Java Card
Operating Systems
1 97 (41.10%) Linux
2 47 (19.92%) Unix
3 12 (5.08%) Windows
4 7 (2.97%) FreeRTOS
5 1 (0.42%) Android
5 1 (0.42%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.42%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.42%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (37.71%) Software Engineering
2 59 (25.00%) Agile
3 51 (21.61%) Mathematics
4 39 (16.53%) Problem-Solving
5 37 (15.68%) CI/CD
6 36 (15.25%) Low Latency
7 32 (13.56%) Computer Science
8 28 (11.86%) Analytics
9 25 (10.59%) Risk Management
10 24 (10.17%) Data Pipeline
10 24 (10.17%) Multithreading
10 24 (10.17%) Quantitative Finance
11 22 (9.32%) Mentoring
12 21 (8.90%) Quantitative Research
13 18 (7.63%) Machine Learning
13 18 (7.63%) Test Automation
14 17 (7.20%) Data Engineering
15 16 (6.78%) Benchmarking
15 16 (6.78%) Clean Code
16 15 (6.36%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 127 (53.81%) Python
2 79 (33.47%) C#
3 67 (28.39%) SQL
4 59 (25.00%) Java
5 23 (9.75%) JavaScript
6 22 (9.32%) C
6 22 (9.32%) Rust
7 9 (3.81%) Embedded C++
8 8 (3.39%) TypeScript
9 6 (2.54%) Bash
10 5 (2.12%) Go
10 5 (2.12%) Kotlin
10 5 (2.12%) Perl
10 5 (2.12%) R
10 5 (2.12%) VBA
11 3 (1.27%) Embedded C
12 2 (0.85%) Ada
12 2 (0.85%) Scala
12 2 (0.85%) VB.NET
12 2 (0.85%) VC++
Qualifications
1 61 (25.85%) Degree
2 14 (5.93%) Master's Degree
2 14 (5.93%) Numerate Degree
2 14 (5.93%) Security Cleared
3 12 (5.08%) Computer Science Degree
4 10 (4.24%) SC Cleared
5 8 (3.39%) DV Cleared
6 4 (1.69%) CCNP
6 4 (1.69%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (1.69%) JNCIA
6 4 (1.69%) JNCIS
6 4 (1.69%) PhD
7 2 (0.85%) GPEN
7 2 (0.85%) GWAPT
7 2 (0.85%) OSCP
8 1 (0.42%) CCSAS
8 1 (0.42%) GXPN
8 1 (0.42%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.42%) OSCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (3.81%) QA
2 4 (1.69%) Data Quality
2 4 (1.69%) EMIR
2 4 (1.69%) SLA
3 2 (0.85%) NIST
4 1 (0.42%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.42%) MiFID
System Software
1 27 (11.44%) Docker
2 12 (5.08%) Firmware
3 8 (3.39%) Embedded Firmware
4 2 (0.85%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.85%) HDFS
5 1 (0.42%) KVM
5 1 (0.42%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 25 (10.59%) Kubernetes
2 5 (2.12%) Ansible
2 5 (2.12%) Terraform
3 1 (0.42%) Grafana
3 1 (0.42%) Oracle Identity Management
3 1 (0.42%) Progress Chef
3 1 (0.42%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.42%) Puppet
Vendors
1 28 (11.86%) Oracle
2 6 (2.54%) Microsoft
3 5 (2.12%) Cisco
3 5 (2.12%) Sophis
4 4 (1.69%) Juniper
5 3 (1.27%) Databricks
5 3 (1.27%) Thales
6 2 (0.85%) Alibaba
6 2 (0.85%) CrowdStrike
6 2 (0.85%) Dynatrace
6 2 (0.85%) Google
6 2 (0.85%) HP
6 2 (0.85%) OpenAI
6 2 (0.85%) Palantir
6 2 (0.85%) SAP
6 2 (0.85%) Solace
7 1 (0.42%) Calypso
7 1 (0.42%) Fortinet
7 1 (0.42%) Murex
7 1 (0.42%) NetApp