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

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 305 142 163
Rank change year-on-year -163 +21 -62
Contract jobs citing C++ 138 277 254
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.69% 2.03% 1.56%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.22% 5.27% 3.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 172 183
10th Percentile £418 £408 £363
25th Percentile £538 £513 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £688 £680
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% +1.10% -2.86%
75th Percentile £800 £841 £863
90th Percentile £889 £1,001 £950
England median daily rate £600 £626 £550
% change year-on-year -4.15% +13.82% -15.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 5
10th Percentile £27.88 £33.90 £47.05
25th Percentile £30.31 £45.38 £48.25
Median hourly rate £36.25 £57.00 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year -36.40% -15.56% +27.43%
75th Percentile £42.81 £63.94 £71.88
90th Percentile £45.63 £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 6,225 5,257 6,453
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 31.12% 38.59% 39.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,168 3,698 4,854
10th Percentile £383 £375 £375
25th Percentile £450 £431 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £549 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.18% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £663 £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 55 51 42
10th Percentile £34.35 £26.32 £23.80
25th Percentile £36.25 £33.25 £31.71
Median hourly rate £52.50 £45.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -5.26% -20.97%
75th Percentile £73.00 £62.88 £57.50
90th Percentile £88.75 £86.25 £74.69
England median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +13.04% -11.54% +4.00%

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 4 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 4 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 4 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 -33 11 £678 -5.77% 48
South London -14 4 - - 5
East London - 2 £334 - 5
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 3 (2.17%) Apache Spark
1 3 (2.17%) IIS
2 2 (1.45%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.45%) Oracle Workflow
2 2 (1.45%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.45%) WebSphere
3 1 (0.72%) MTS
Applications
1 3 (2.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (2.17%) Orchestrade
2 1 (0.72%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (0.72%) SunGard Martini
Cloud Services
1 16 (11.59%) AWS
2 12 (8.70%) Azure
3 9 (6.52%) GCP
4 4 (2.90%) SaaS
5 3 (2.17%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 2 (1.45%) Anthropic Claude
6 2 (1.45%) AWS IoT
6 2 (1.45%) Entra ID
6 2 (1.45%) GitHub
6 2 (1.45%) GitHub Copilot
6 2 (1.45%) IaaS
6 2 (1.45%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (1.45%) OneDrive
6 2 (1.45%) Serverless
6 2 (1.45%) Snowflake
7 1 (0.72%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (0.72%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (0.72%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (0.72%) Google Drive
7 1 (0.72%) Supabase
Communications & Networking
1 9 (6.52%) TCP/IP
2 8 (5.80%) HTTP
3 3 (2.17%) Firewall
3 3 (2.17%) MQTT
3 3 (2.17%) VXLAN
3 3 (2.17%) WAN
4 2 (1.45%) Internet
4 2 (1.45%) Multicast
4 2 (1.45%) NaaS
4 2 (1.45%) NAS
4 2 (1.45%) SAN
4 2 (1.45%) Wireshark
5 1 (0.72%) DHCP
5 1 (0.72%) DNS
5 1 (0.72%) LAN
5 1 (0.72%) SSL
5 1 (0.72%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.90%) NoSQL
2 3 (2.17%) MongoDB
2 3 (2.17%) MySQL
2 3 (2.17%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (1.45%) Apache Cassandra
3 2 (1.45%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (1.45%) Flink
3 2 (1.45%) InfluxDB
3 2 (1.45%) SQL Server
3 2 (1.45%) TimescaleDB
4 1 (0.72%) Big Data
4 1 (0.72%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.72%) DynamoDB
4 1 (0.72%) KDB
4 1 (0.72%) Kdb+
4 1 (0.72%) MariaDB
4 1 (0.72%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.72%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 11 (7.97%) Git
2 10 (7.25%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.17%) GitLab
3 3 (2.17%) JIRA
3 3 (2.17%) Visual Studio
3 3 (2.17%) VTune
4 2 (1.45%) Artifactory
4 2 (1.45%) CMake
4 2 (1.45%) Fiddler
4 2 (1.45%) MSI
4 2 (1.45%) Robot Framework
4 2 (1.45%) Subversion
4 2 (1.45%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.72%) Claude Code
5 1 (0.72%) GoogleTest
General
1 50 (36.23%) Finance
2 30 (21.74%) Analytical Skills
2 30 (21.74%) Banking
2 30 (21.74%) Social Skills
3 24 (17.39%) Front Office
4 20 (14.49%) Investment Banking
5 4 (2.90%) Telecoms
6 3 (2.17%) Financial Institution
6 3 (2.17%) Games
6 3 (2.17%) Legal
6 3 (2.17%) Public Sector
7 2 (1.45%) Billing
7 2 (1.45%) Japanese Language
7 2 (1.45%) Polish Language
7 2 (1.45%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.72%) Agriculture
8 1 (0.72%) Automotive
8 1 (0.72%) Electronics
8 1 (0.72%) Korean Language
Job Titles
1 39 (28.26%) Senior
2 37 (26.81%) Developer
3 25 (18.12%) Software Engineer
4 20 (14.49%) C++ Developer
5 16 (11.59%) C++ Software Engineer
6 14 (10.14%) Senior Developer
7 13 (9.42%) Quantitative Developer
8 9 (6.52%) Architect
8 9 (6.52%) Senior C++ Developer
8 9 (6.52%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
8 9 (6.52%) Senior Software Engineer
9 7 (5.07%) C++ Quantitative Developer
9 7 (5.07%) Linux Engineer
10 6 (4.35%) C# Developer
10 6 (4.35%) Support Engineer
11 5 (3.62%) Analyst
11 5 (3.62%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 5 (3.62%) Linux Support
11 5 (3.62%) Senior Architect
12 4 (2.90%) Embedded Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (12.32%) .NET
2 15 (10.87%) FIX Protocol
3 13 (9.42%) XML
4 9 (6.52%) Kafka
5 8 (5.80%) WebSockets
6 6 (4.35%) OpenTelemetry
6 6 (4.35%) Web Services
7 5 (3.62%) gRPC
7 5 (3.62%) React
7 5 (3.62%) WinForms
8 4 (2.90%) eBPF
9 3 (2.17%) .NET Core
9 3 (2.17%) JSON
9 3 (2.17%) NumPy
9 3 (2.17%) Pandas
9 3 (2.17%) REST
10 2 (1.45%) .NET Framework
10 2 (1.45%) Boost C++ Libraries
10 2 (1.45%) HTML5
10 2 (1.45%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 28 (20.29%) Derivative
2 26 (18.84%) Distributed Systems
3 17 (12.32%) Algorithms
3 17 (12.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 16 (11.59%) Cloud Native
5 10 (7.25%) Data Structures
6 9 (6.52%) Legacy Systems
7 7 (5.07%) Fixed Income
8 6 (4.35%) Data Protection Act
8 6 (4.35%) OTC Derivatives
9 5 (3.62%) AI Agents
9 5 (3.62%) Embedded Systems
9 5 (3.62%) Equity Derivative
9 5 (3.62%) Onboarding
10 4 (2.90%) Credit Derivative
10 4 (2.90%) Exotic Derivative
11 3 (2.17%) Equities
11 3 (2.17%) IoT
11 3 (2.17%) Private Cloud
11 3 (2.17%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 45 (32.61%) Linux
2 17 (12.32%) Windows
3 15 (10.87%) Unix
4 8 (5.80%) Android
4 8 (5.80%) Apple iOS
5 5 (3.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (2.90%) Solaris
7 1 (0.72%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (34.06%) Software Engineering
2 40 (28.99%) Low Latency
3 31 (22.46%) Problem-Solving
4 23 (16.67%) Observability
5 20 (14.49%) CI/CD
5 20 (14.49%) Multithreading
6 18 (13.04%) Analytics
6 18 (13.04%) Mathematics
7 15 (10.87%) Performance Optimisation
8 13 (9.42%) Algorithmic Trading
9 12 (8.70%) AI
9 12 (8.70%) Performance Engineering
9 12 (8.70%) Workflow
10 11 (7.97%) Computer Science
10 11 (7.97%) Validation
11 10 (7.25%) DevOps
11 10 (7.25%) Ultra-Low Latency
12 9 (6.52%) Containerisation
12 9 (6.52%) Continuous Improvement
12 9 (6.52%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 71 (51.45%) Python
2 38 (27.54%) Java
3 36 (26.09%) SQL
4 35 (25.36%) C#
5 23 (16.67%) C
6 20 (14.49%) Rust
7 18 (13.04%) TypeScript
8 12 (8.70%) PowerShell
9 8 (5.80%) Go
9 8 (5.80%) R
10 6 (4.35%) JavaScript
11 3 (2.17%) Perl
12 2 (1.45%) COBOL
12 2 (1.45%) Embedded C++
12 2 (1.45%) PL/SQL
12 2 (1.45%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.72%) Bash
13 1 (0.72%) Embedded C
13 1 (0.72%) Fortran
13 1 (0.72%) VBA
Qualifications
1 27 (19.57%) Degree
2 9 (6.52%) Security Cleared
3 6 (4.35%) Master's Degree
4 5 (3.62%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (3.62%) PhD
5 2 (1.45%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.45%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.45%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.72%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.90%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.45%) DICOM
2 2 (1.45%) HL7
2 2 (1.45%) ISO 15022
2 2 (1.45%) ISO 20022
3 1 (0.72%) Automotive SPICE
3 1 (0.72%) QA
System Software
1 4 (2.90%) Docker
2 3 (2.17%) Firmware
3 2 (1.45%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.72%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (0.72%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 15 (10.87%) Kubernetes
2 5 (3.62%) Grafana
3 4 (2.90%) Ansible
3 4 (2.90%) Progress Chef
3 4 (2.90%) Puppet
4 3 (2.17%) Prometheus
4 3 (2.17%) Terraform
5 2 (1.45%) Amdocs OSS
5 2 (1.45%) Cilium
5 2 (1.45%) ITRS Geneos
5 2 (1.45%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (1.45%) ZABBIX
6 1 (0.72%) Argo
6 1 (0.72%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 17 (12.32%) Oracle
2 8 (5.80%) Microsoft
3 4 (2.90%) IBM
4 3 (2.17%) Cisco
4 3 (2.17%) SaltStack
4 3 (2.17%) ServiceNow
5 2 (1.45%) Amdocs
5 2 (1.45%) Bloomberg
5 2 (1.45%) Ciena
5 2 (1.45%) Dynatrace
5 2 (1.45%) ION Trading
5 2 (1.45%) Perforce
5 2 (1.45%) Red Hat
5 2 (1.45%) Salesforce
5 2 (1.45%) Splunk
5 2 (1.45%) Veritas
6 1 (0.72%) Google
6 1 (0.72%) MarketAxess
6 1 (0.72%) Tradeweb
6 1 (0.72%) VMware