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

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 149 174 141
Rank change year-on-year +25 -33 -37
Contract jobs citing C++ 273 226 330
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.90% 1.50% 1.75%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.04% 3.91% 4.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 157 149 231
10th Percentile £400 £329 £400
25th Percentile £513 £454 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £700 £650
Median % change year-on-year - +7.69% -10.34%
75th Percentile £800 £825 £838
90th Percentile £1,000 £913 £950
England median daily rate £625 £575 £600
% change year-on-year +8.70% -4.17% -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 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.30% +12.50% +8.63%
75th Percentile £61.25 £69.88 £66.75
90th Percentile £67.70 £70.55 £72.40
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 5,416 5,780 6,794
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 37.66% 38.46% 36.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,627 3,899 5,124
10th Percentile £370 £375 £400
25th Percentile £430 £463 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £671 £700 £700
90th Percentile £788 £825 £810
England median daily rate £513 £543 £550
% change year-on-year -5.53% -1.36% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 62 39 65
10th Percentile £25.80 £35.60 £26.24
25th Percentile £35.50 £40.06 £36.28
Median hourly rate £50.75 £52.50 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +3.96% -12.17%
75th Percentile £65.13 £66.88 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £97.50 £72.50
England median hourly rate £65.00 £63.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +3.17% +0.80% -1.96%

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 20 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 20 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 20 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 +9 39 £650 - 27
East London - 8 £1,000 - 6
West London -21 7 £365 -11.52% 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 (2.93%) Apache
2 5 (1.83%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.47%) Confluence
Applications
1 11 (4.03%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.73%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 40 (14.65%) AWS
2 25 (9.16%) Azure
3 12 (4.40%) Serverless
4 10 (3.66%) GCP
5 9 (3.30%) GitHub
6 4 (1.47%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (1.10%) Amazon S3
7 3 (1.10%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (1.10%) ChatGPT
7 3 (1.10%) Datadog
7 3 (1.10%) GitHub Copilot
7 3 (1.10%) OpenShift
8 2 (0.73%) Amazon Bedrock
8 2 (0.73%) Amazon EMR
8 2 (0.73%) Amazon Kinesis
8 2 (0.73%) Anthropic Claude
8 2 (0.73%) Entra ID
8 2 (0.73%) Power Platform
9 1 (0.37%) Figma
9 1 (0.37%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.20%) Multicast
1 6 (2.20%) TCP/IP
2 5 (1.83%) BGP
2 5 (1.83%) DNS
2 5 (1.83%) EIGRP
2 5 (1.83%) HTTPS
2 5 (1.83%) IPsec
2 5 (1.83%) OSPF
3 2 (0.73%) Ethernet
3 2 (0.73%) Modbus
3 2 (0.73%) RS-232
3 2 (0.73%) RS-485
4 1 (0.37%) Firewall
4 1 (0.37%) Network Security
4 1 (0.37%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (5.49%) Big Data
2 8 (2.93%) Oracle Database
3 4 (1.47%) Hadoop
3 4 (1.47%) KDB
3 4 (1.47%) Metadata
4 3 (1.10%) Kdb+
5 2 (0.73%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (0.73%) BigQuery
5 2 (0.73%) Data Lake
5 2 (0.73%) Data Mining
5 2 (0.73%) Neo4j
5 2 (0.73%) Pinecone
5 2 (0.73%) Power BI
5 2 (0.73%) SQL Server
5 2 (0.73%) Weaviate
6 1 (0.37%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (0.37%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.37%) NonStop SQL
6 1 (0.37%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.37%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 31 (11.36%) Git
2 9 (3.30%) GCC
3 8 (2.93%) JIRA
4 7 (2.56%) Jenkins
5 6 (2.20%) GDB
5 6 (2.20%) Gradle
5 6 (2.20%) JUnit
5 6 (2.20%) Visual Studio
6 3 (1.10%) Bitbucket
6 3 (1.10%) Clang
6 3 (1.10%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.73%) Maven
7 2 (0.73%) Subversion
8 1 (0.37%) ClearCase
8 1 (0.37%) CMake
8 1 (0.37%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.37%) Eclipse
8 1 (0.37%) IntelliJ
8 1 (0.37%) Mercurial
8 1 (0.37%) Selenium
General
1 144 (52.75%) Finance
2 47 (17.22%) Banking
2 47 (17.22%) Social Skills
3 41 (15.02%) Front Office
4 27 (9.89%) Investment Banking
5 26 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (5.13%) Financial Institution
7 11 (4.03%) Public Sector
8 6 (2.20%) Games
8 6 (2.20%) Marketing
9 5 (1.83%) International Banking
9 5 (1.83%) Law
10 4 (1.47%) Electronics
10 4 (1.47%) Manufacturing
10 4 (1.47%) Telecoms
11 3 (1.10%) Agriculture
11 3 (1.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.73%) Automotive
12 2 (0.73%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.73%) iGaming
Job Titles
1 121 (44.32%) Developer
2 67 (24.54%) Senior
3 64 (23.44%) Software Engineer
4 53 (19.41%) C++ Developer
5 37 (13.55%) Quantitative Developer
6 31 (11.36%) Python Developer
7 30 (10.99%) Senior Software Engineer
8 29 (10.62%) C++ Software Engineer
9 23 (8.42%) Linux Engineer
10 19 (6.96%) Linux Developer
11 17 (6.23%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
12 16 (5.86%) Kafka Engineer
12 16 (5.86%) Senior Linux Engineer
12 16 (5.86%) Senior Unix Engineer
12 16 (5.86%) Unix Engineer
12 16 (5.86%) Unix Linux Engineer
13 14 (5.13%) AWS Developer
13 14 (5.13%) C++ Quantitative Developer
13 14 (5.13%) JavaScript Developer
13 14 (5.13%) Low Latency C++ Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (17.58%) Kafka
2 23 (8.42%) React
3 22 (8.06%) AngularJS
4 21 (7.69%) NumPy
5 20 (7.33%) Pandas
5 20 (7.33%) SciPy
6 15 (5.49%) Vue
7 14 (5.13%) FastAPI
7 14 (5.13%) Flask
7 14 (5.13%) Polars
8 11 (4.03%) .NET
8 11 (4.03%) HTML
9 9 (3.30%) PyTorch
9 9 (3.30%) TensorFlow
10 8 (2.93%) Apache NiFi
10 8 (2.93%) iOS SDK
11 7 (2.56%) CSS
11 7 (2.56%) FIX Protocol
11 7 (2.56%) Middleware
11 7 (2.56%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 47 (17.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 36 (13.19%) Equities
3 35 (12.82%) Derivative
4 23 (8.42%) Algorithms
5 19 (6.96%) Equity Derivative
6 16 (5.86%) Distributed Systems
6 16 (5.86%) Hedge funds
7 13 (4.76%) Data Protection Act
8 11 (4.03%) Data Structures
8 11 (4.03%) Virtual Reality
9 10 (3.66%) Distributed Computing
10 9 (3.30%) Greenfield Project
11 8 (2.93%) Augmented Reality
11 8 (2.93%) Embedded Systems
12 6 (2.20%) AI Agents
12 6 (2.20%) Distributed Architecture
13 5 (1.83%) FPGA
13 5 (1.83%) PKI
13 5 (1.83%) Product Ownership
14 4 (1.47%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 120 (43.96%) Linux
2 49 (17.95%) Unix
3 21 (7.69%) Windows
4 13 (4.76%) Android
5 8 (2.93%) Apple iOS
6 6 (2.20%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.73%) FreeRTOS
8 1 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.37%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 113 (41.39%) Software Engineering
2 67 (24.54%) Agile
3 55 (20.15%) Mathematics
4 49 (17.95%) CI/CD
5 46 (16.85%) Low Latency
6 38 (13.92%) Problem-Solving
7 36 (13.19%) Computer Science
8 28 (10.26%) Clean Code
9 27 (9.89%) Risk Management
10 26 (9.52%) Mentoring
11 25 (9.16%) Analytics
11 25 (9.16%) Data Engineering
11 25 (9.16%) Data Pipeline
12 21 (7.69%) DevOps
12 21 (7.69%) Machine Learning
12 21 (7.69%) Quantitative Finance
12 21 (7.69%) Test Automation
13 20 (7.33%) Multithreading
14 19 (6.96%) SDLC
15 18 (6.59%) Quantitative Research
Programming Languages
1 144 (52.75%) Python
2 90 (32.97%) C#
3 83 (30.40%) Java
4 75 (27.47%) SQL
5 37 (13.55%) JavaScript
6 26 (9.52%) Rust
7 23 (8.42%) C
8 13 (4.76%) Kotlin
9 11 (4.03%) Bash
10 8 (2.93%) Go
11 7 (2.56%) PHP
11 7 (2.56%) PowerShell
11 7 (2.56%) TypeScript
12 6 (2.20%) Perl
12 6 (2.20%) R
13 4 (1.47%) Embedded C++
13 4 (1.47%) PL/SQL
13 4 (1.47%) VBA
14 2 (0.73%) Ada
14 2 (0.73%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 63 (23.08%) Degree
2 21 (7.69%) Security Cleared
3 17 (6.23%) Master's Degree
4 16 (5.86%) SC Cleared
5 13 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (4.40%) Numerate Degree
7 11 (4.03%) DV Cleared
8 6 (2.20%) CCNP
8 6 (2.20%) Cisco Certification
9 5 (1.83%) JNCIA
9 5 (1.83%) JNCIS
9 5 (1.83%) PhD
10 4 (1.47%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.73%) GPEN
11 2 (0.73%) GWAPT
11 2 (0.73%) MCP
11 2 (0.73%) OSCP
12 1 (0.37%) CCNA
12 1 (0.37%) OSCE
12 1 (0.37%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.03%) QA
2 4 (1.47%) Data Quality
2 4 (1.47%) EMIR
2 4 (1.47%) SLA
3 2 (0.73%) NIST
4 1 (0.37%) MiFID
System Software
1 37 (13.55%) Docker
2 8 (2.93%) Firmware
3 3 (1.10%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.10%) Embedded Firmware
4 2 (0.73%) HDFS
4 2 (0.73%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.73%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.37%) KVM
5 1 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 33 (12.09%) Kubernetes
2 8 (2.93%) Ansible
3 7 (2.56%) Terraform
4 3 (1.10%) Puppet
5 2 (0.73%) Grafana
5 2 (0.73%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.37%) Oracle Identity Management
6 1 (0.37%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.37%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 35 (12.82%) Oracle
2 7 (2.56%) Cisco
2 7 (2.56%) SAP
3 6 (2.20%) Microsoft
4 5 (1.83%) Juniper
4 5 (1.83%) Solace
4 5 (1.83%) Sophis
5 3 (1.10%) Alibaba
5 3 (1.10%) Databricks
5 3 (1.10%) Google
6 2 (0.73%) CrowdStrike
6 2 (0.73%) Dynatrace
6 2 (0.73%) OpenAI
6 2 (0.73%) Palantir
6 2 (0.73%) VMware
7 1 (0.37%) Fortinet
7 1 (0.37%) NetApp
7 1 (0.37%) Ruckus Wireless
7 1 (0.37%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.37%) Splunk