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

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 257 158 159
Rank change year-on-year -99 +1 -60
Contract jobs citing C++ 150 212 278
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.84% 1.70% 1.57%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.65% 4.31% 4.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 130 191
10th Percentile £360 £431 £350
25th Percentile £531 £628 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £800 £655
Median % change year-on-year -18.75% +22.14% -6.43%
75th Percentile £788 £875 £860
90th Percentile £923 £1,003 £950
England median daily rate £600 £750 £575
% change year-on-year -20.00% +30.43% -11.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 8
10th Percentile - - £44.62
25th Percentile £26.25 - £54.69
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 5,658 4,917 6,421
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 31.82% 39.47% 36.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,813 3,460 4,914
10th Percentile £363 £380 £380
25th Percentile £431 £446 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £650 £713 £700
90th Percentile £751 £831 £825
England median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 31 54
10th Percentile £34.50 £29.07 £23.80
25th Percentile £46.00 £35.00 £36.90
Median hourly rate £58.94 £43.00 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year +37.06% -14.85% -15.83%
75th Percentile £73.00 £60.13 £62.50
90th Percentile £88.75 £67.50 £72.31
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +4.00% - +2.97%

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 8 May 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 8 May 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 22 £763 -4.69% 56
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 7 (4.67%) Confluence
2 5 (3.33%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.33%) IIS
3 2 (1.33%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (0.67%) Apache
4 1 (0.67%) MTS
Applications
1 9 (6.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.33%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (0.67%) Orchestrade
Cloud Services
1 17 (11.33%) AWS
2 10 (6.67%) GitHub
3 9 (6.00%) Azure
4 6 (4.00%) Serverless
5 5 (3.33%) GCP
6 3 (2.00%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (2.00%) Amazon S3
6 3 (2.00%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (2.00%) ChatGPT
6 3 (2.00%) GitHub Copilot
7 2 (1.33%) Amazon Bedrock
7 2 (1.33%) Amazon EMR
7 2 (1.33%) Amazon Kinesis
7 2 (1.33%) Anthropic Claude
7 2 (1.33%) AWS IoT
7 2 (1.33%) Datadog
8 1 (0.67%) Figma
8 1 (0.67%) Google Drive
8 1 (0.67%) Power Platform
8 1 (0.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.67%) Ethernet
1 7 (4.67%) Modbus
1 7 (4.67%) RS-232
1 7 (4.67%) RS-485
2 5 (3.33%) HTTP
3 4 (2.67%) TCP/IP
4 3 (2.00%) 3GPP
4 3 (2.00%) MQTT
4 3 (2.00%) MVNO
4 3 (2.00%) Network Security
4 3 (2.00%) SMPP
4 3 (2.00%) SMS
4 3 (2.00%) VXLAN
5 2 (1.33%) Internet
5 2 (1.33%) NaaS
5 2 (1.33%) NAS
5 2 (1.33%) SAN
5 2 (1.33%) WAN
6 1 (0.67%) Firewall
6 1 (0.67%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.67%) Big Data
1 4 (2.67%) Hadoop
1 4 (2.67%) NoSQL
2 2 (1.33%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (1.33%) Apache Cassandra
2 2 (1.33%) Data Lake
2 2 (1.33%) Data Mining
2 2 (1.33%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (1.33%) Flink
2 2 (1.33%) InfluxDB
2 2 (1.33%) MongoDB
2 2 (1.33%) MySQL
2 2 (1.33%) Neo4j
2 2 (1.33%) Pinecone
2 2 (1.33%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (1.33%) TimescaleDB
2 2 (1.33%) Weaviate
3 1 (0.67%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.67%) Metadata
3 1 (0.67%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 14 (9.33%) JIRA
2 8 (5.33%) Git
3 7 (4.67%) Jenkins
4 3 (2.00%) Robot Framework
4 3 (2.00%) SonarQube
4 3 (2.00%) Subversion
4 3 (2.00%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.67%) Appium
5 1 (0.67%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.67%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.67%) Claude Code
5 1 (0.67%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.67%) GitLab
5 1 (0.67%) JUnit
5 1 (0.67%) Selenium
General
1 87 (58.00%) Finance
2 33 (22.00%) Analytical Skills
3 23 (15.33%) Social Skills
4 20 (13.33%) Front Office
5 18 (12.00%) Banking
6 12 (8.00%) Investment Banking
7 7 (4.67%) Agriculture
7 7 (4.67%) Telecoms
8 6 (4.00%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.33%) Automotive
9 2 (1.33%) Billing
9 2 (1.33%) iGaming
9 2 (1.33%) Japanese Language
9 2 (1.33%) Multimedia
9 2 (1.33%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.67%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.67%) Games
10 1 (0.67%) Korean Language
10 1 (0.67%) Legal
10 1 (0.67%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 67 (44.67%) Developer
2 35 (23.33%) Senior
3 34 (22.67%) C++ Developer
4 28 (18.67%) Quantitative Developer
5 21 (14.00%) Software Engineer
6 18 (12.00%) C++ Software Engineer
7 16 (10.67%) Senior Software Engineer
8 15 (10.00%) Python Developer
8 15 (10.00%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
9 11 (7.33%) Senior C++ Developer
9 11 (7.33%) Senior Developer
10 10 (6.67%) Linux Developer
11 9 (6.00%) C++ Quantitative Developer
11 9 (6.00%) Embedded Engineer
11 9 (6.00%) Linux Engineer
11 9 (6.00%) Low Latency C++ Developer
11 9 (6.00%) Senior Linux Engineer
11 9 (6.00%) Senior Unix Engineer
11 9 (6.00%) Unix Engineer
11 9 (6.00%) Unix Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (11.33%) Kafka
2 7 (4.67%) FIX Protocol
2 7 (4.67%) NumPy
2 7 (4.67%) PyTorch
2 7 (4.67%) TensorFlow
3 6 (4.00%) Pandas
3 6 (4.00%) SciPy
4 5 (3.33%) .NET
4 5 (3.33%) LangChain
4 5 (3.33%) Node.js
4 5 (3.33%) WebSockets
5 4 (2.67%) HTML
6 3 (2.00%) REST
6 3 (2.00%) scikit-learn
6 3 (2.00%) Web Services
6 3 (2.00%) XML
7 2 (1.33%) GraphQL
7 2 (1.33%) LangGraph
7 2 (1.33%) React
7 2 (1.33%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 27 (18.00%) Derivative
2 21 (14.00%) Algorithms
2 21 (14.00%) Equities
3 16 (10.67%) Distributed Systems
4 14 (9.33%) Data Structures
4 14 (9.33%) Equity Derivative
4 14 (9.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 10 (6.67%) Data Protection Act
6 8 (5.33%) Greenfield Project
7 7 (4.67%) Embedded Systems
8 6 (4.00%) AI Agents
8 6 (4.00%) IoT
9 4 (2.67%) Cloud Native
10 3 (2.00%) Blog
10 3 (2.00%) Exotic Derivative
10 3 (2.00%) Fixed Income
10 3 (2.00%) Java Card
11 2 (1.33%) Credit Derivative
11 2 (1.33%) Mainframe
11 2 (1.33%) PACS
Operating Systems
1 50 (33.33%) Linux
2 23 (15.33%) Unix
3 7 (4.67%) FreeRTOS
4 6 (4.00%) Windows
5 3 (2.00%) Android
5 3 (2.00%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.67%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (30.00%) Software Engineering
2 35 (23.33%) Problem-Solving
3 27 (18.00%) Low Latency
4 26 (17.33%) Agile
5 25 (16.67%) Analytics
6 24 (16.00%) Mathematics
7 20 (13.33%) Quantitative Finance
8 18 (12.00%) CI/CD
8 18 (12.00%) Computer Science
9 16 (10.67%) Multithreading
9 16 (10.67%) Validation
10 14 (9.33%) AI
11 13 (8.67%) Risk Management
11 13 (8.67%) Test Automation
12 12 (8.00%) Machine Learning
12 12 (8.00%) Quantitative Research
13 11 (7.33%) Benchmarking
13 11 (7.33%) Mentoring
13 11 (7.33%) Observability
13 11 (7.33%) Ultra-Low Latency
Programming Languages
1 81 (54.00%) Python
2 52 (34.67%) C#
3 48 (32.00%) SQL
4 34 (22.67%) Java
5 23 (15.33%) C
6 12 (8.00%) TypeScript
7 10 (6.67%) Rust
8 7 (4.67%) Embedded C++
8 7 (4.67%) R
9 6 (4.00%) JavaScript
10 5 (3.33%) PowerShell
11 3 (2.00%) Embedded C
11 3 (2.00%) Go
12 2 (1.33%) Ada
12 2 (1.33%) Bash
12 2 (1.33%) Shell Script
12 2 (1.33%) VBA
13 1 (0.67%) COBOL
13 1 (0.67%) Erlang
Qualifications
1 42 (28.00%) Degree
2 9 (6.00%) Numerate Degree
3 7 (4.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (4.67%) Master's Degree
3 7 (4.67%) Security Cleared
4 3 (2.00%) PhD
5 2 (1.33%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.33%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.33%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.67%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.00%) QA
2 3 (2.00%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.00%) SLA
3 2 (1.33%) DICOM
3 2 (1.33%) HL7
4 1 (0.67%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.67%) EMIR
4 1 (0.67%) MiFID
System Software
1 9 (6.00%) Firmware
2 8 (5.33%) Docker
3 7 (4.67%) Embedded Firmware
4 2 (1.33%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.33%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 8 (5.33%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.33%) Amdocs OSS
2 2 (1.33%) Grafana
2 2 (1.33%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.67%) Ansible
3 1 (0.67%) ITRS Geneos
3 1 (0.67%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 21 (14.00%) Oracle
2 4 (2.67%) Dynatrace
3 3 (2.00%) Cisco
3 3 (2.00%) Databricks
3 3 (2.00%) Thales
4 2 (1.33%) Amdocs
4 2 (1.33%) Bloomberg
4 2 (1.33%) Ciena
4 2 (1.33%) Google
4 2 (1.33%) OpenAI
4 2 (1.33%) Perforce
4 2 (1.33%) Salesforce
4 2 (1.33%) ServiceNow
4 2 (1.33%) Veritas
5 1 (0.67%) BT
5 1 (0.67%) ION Trading
5 1 (0.67%) MarketAxess
5 1 (0.67%) Reuters
5 1 (0.67%) Splunk
5 1 (0.67%) Tradeweb