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

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 258 163 158
Rank change year-on-year -95 -5 -58
Contract jobs citing C++ 151 212 278
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.85% 1.69% 1.58%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.67% 4.29% 4.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 131 190
10th Percentile £384 £431 £348
25th Percentile £547 £631 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £663 £800 £653
Median % change year-on-year -17.19% +22.61% -6.79%
75th Percentile £791 £888 £850
90th Percentile £923 £1,001 £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 5,648 4,946 6,411
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 31.71% 39.33% 36.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,802 3,489 4,897
10th Percentile £363 £380 £381
25th Percentile £431 £447 £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 £750 £834 £825
England median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% -2.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 57 31 51
10th Percentile £32.66 £29.07 £23.80
25th Percentile £45.25 £34.13 £40.79
Median hourly rate £58.94 £43.00 £51.75
Median % change year-on-year +37.06% -16.91% -13.75%
75th Percentile £73.00 £60.13 £63.52
90th Percentile £88.75 £67.50 £72.50
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +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 11 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 11 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 -19 21 £800 - 66
East London - 2 £334 - 13
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 (4.64%) Confluence
2 4 (2.65%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.32%) IIS
3 2 (1.32%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (0.66%) Apache
4 1 (0.66%) MTS
Applications
1 9 (5.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.32%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (0.66%) Orchestrade
Cloud Services
1 16 (10.60%) AWS
2 10 (6.62%) GitHub
3 8 (5.30%) Azure
4 6 (3.97%) Serverless
5 4 (2.65%) GCP
6 3 (1.99%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (1.99%) Amazon S3
6 3 (1.99%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (1.99%) ChatGPT
6 3 (1.99%) GitHub Copilot
7 2 (1.32%) Amazon Bedrock
7 2 (1.32%) Amazon EMR
7 2 (1.32%) Amazon Kinesis
7 2 (1.32%) Anthropic Claude
7 2 (1.32%) AWS IoT
7 2 (1.32%) Datadog
8 1 (0.66%) Figma
8 1 (0.66%) Google Drive
8 1 (0.66%) PaaS
8 1 (0.66%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.64%) Ethernet
1 7 (4.64%) Modbus
1 7 (4.64%) RS-232
1 7 (4.64%) RS-485
2 6 (3.97%) HTTP
3 4 (2.65%) TCP/IP
4 3 (1.99%) 3GPP
4 3 (1.99%) MQTT
4 3 (1.99%) MVNO
4 3 (1.99%) Network Security
4 3 (1.99%) SMPP
4 3 (1.99%) SMS
4 3 (1.99%) 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 4 (2.65%) NoSQL
2 3 (1.99%) Big Data
2 3 (1.99%) 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%) 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%) Neo4j
3 2 (1.32%) Pinecone
3 2 (1.32%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (1.32%) TimescaleDB
3 2 (1.32%) Weaviate
4 1 (0.66%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.66%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 14 (9.27%) JIRA
2 8 (5.30%) Git
3 7 (4.64%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.99%) Robot Framework
4 3 (1.99%) SonarQube
4 3 (1.99%) Subversion
4 3 (1.99%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.66%) Appium
5 1 (0.66%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.66%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.66%) Claude Code
5 1 (0.66%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.66%) GitLab
5 1 (0.66%) JUnit
5 1 (0.66%) Selenium
General
1 90 (59.60%) Finance
2 34 (22.52%) Analytical Skills
3 23 (15.23%) Social Skills
4 20 (13.25%) Front Office
5 19 (12.58%) Banking
6 13 (8.61%) Investment Banking
7 8 (5.30%) Telecoms
8 7 (4.64%) Agriculture
9 6 (3.97%) 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%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.66%) Games
11 1 (0.66%) iGaming
11 1 (0.66%) Korean Language
11 1 (0.66%) Legal
11 1 (0.66%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 67 (44.37%) Developer
2 38 (25.17%) Senior
3 34 (22.52%) C++ Developer
4 27 (17.88%) Quantitative Developer
5 24 (15.89%) Software Engineer
6 20 (13.25%) C++ Software Engineer
7 18 (11.92%) Senior Software Engineer
8 17 (11.26%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
9 14 (9.27%) Python Developer
10 13 (8.61%) Senior C++ Developer
10 13 (8.61%) Senior Developer
11 9 (5.96%) Embedded Engineer
11 9 (5.96%) Kafka Engineer
11 9 (5.96%) Linux Developer
11 9 (5.96%) Linux Engineer
11 9 (5.96%) Senior Linux Engineer
11 9 (5.96%) Senior Unix Engineer
11 9 (5.96%) Unix Engineer
11 9 (5.96%) Unix Linux Engineer
12 8 (5.30%) Low Latency C++ Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (11.26%) Kafka
2 8 (5.30%) FIX Protocol
3 7 (4.64%) NumPy
3 7 (4.64%) PyTorch
3 7 (4.64%) TensorFlow
4 6 (3.97%) Pandas
4 6 (3.97%) SciPy
4 6 (3.97%) WebSockets
5 5 (3.31%) .NET
5 5 (3.31%) LangChain
5 5 (3.31%) Node.js
6 4 (2.65%) HTML
7 3 (1.99%) REST
7 3 (1.99%) scikit-learn
7 3 (1.99%) Web Services
8 2 (1.32%) GraphQL
8 2 (1.32%) LangGraph
8 2 (1.32%) React
8 2 (1.32%) Swagger
8 2 (1.32%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 28 (18.54%) Derivative
2 21 (13.91%) Algorithms
3 20 (13.25%) Equities
4 18 (11.92%) Distributed Systems
5 14 (9.27%) Data Structures
5 14 (9.27%) Equity Derivative
5 14 (9.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 10 (6.62%) Data Protection Act
7 8 (5.30%) Greenfield Project
8 7 (4.64%) Embedded Systems
9 6 (3.97%) AI Agents
9 6 (3.97%) IoT
10 5 (3.31%) Cloud Native
11 3 (1.99%) Blog
11 3 (1.99%) Exotic Derivative
11 3 (1.99%) Fixed Income
11 3 (1.99%) Java Card
11 3 (1.99%) Mainframe
12 2 (1.32%) Credit Derivative
12 2 (1.32%) PACS
Operating Systems
1 51 (33.77%) Linux
2 24 (15.89%) Unix
3 7 (4.64%) FreeRTOS
4 6 (3.97%) Windows
5 3 (1.99%) Android
5 3 (1.99%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.66%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (31.13%) Software Engineering
2 36 (23.84%) Problem-Solving
3 28 (18.54%) Low Latency
4 26 (17.22%) Agile
5 24 (15.89%) Analytics
5 24 (15.89%) Mathematics
6 20 (13.25%) Quantitative Finance
7 18 (11.92%) CI/CD
8 17 (11.26%) Computer Science
9 16 (10.60%) Multithreading
10 15 (9.93%) Validation
11 14 (9.27%) AI
12 13 (8.61%) Observability
12 13 (8.61%) Risk Management
12 13 (8.61%) Test Automation
13 12 (7.95%) Ultra-Low Latency
14 11 (7.28%) Fintech
14 11 (7.28%) Machine Learning
14 11 (7.28%) Mentoring
14 11 (7.28%) Quantitative Research
Programming Languages
1 81 (53.64%) Python
2 54 (35.76%) C#
3 49 (32.45%) SQL
4 35 (23.18%) Java
5 23 (15.23%) C
6 13 (8.61%) TypeScript
7 12 (7.95%) Rust
8 7 (4.64%) Embedded C++
8 7 (4.64%) R
9 6 (3.97%) JavaScript
9 6 (3.97%) PowerShell
10 4 (2.65%) Go
11 3 (1.99%) Embedded C
12 2 (1.32%) Ada
12 2 (1.32%) Bash
12 2 (1.32%) Shell Script
12 2 (1.32%) VBA
13 1 (0.66%) COBOL
13 1 (0.66%) Erlang
Qualifications
1 43 (28.48%) Degree
2 9 (5.96%) Numerate Degree
3 7 (4.64%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (4.64%) Master's Degree
3 7 (4.64%) Security Cleared
4 3 (1.99%) PhD
5 2 (1.32%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.32%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.32%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.66%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.97%) QA
2 3 (1.99%) SLA
3 2 (1.32%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.32%) DICOM
3 2 (1.32%) HL7
4 1 (0.66%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.66%) EMIR
4 1 (0.66%) MiFID
System Software
1 9 (5.96%) Firmware
2 8 (5.30%) Docker
3 7 (4.64%) Embedded Firmware
4 2 (1.32%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.32%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 9 (5.96%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.99%) Grafana
3 2 (1.32%) Amdocs OSS
3 2 (1.32%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.66%) Ansible
4 1 (0.66%) Cilium
4 1 (0.66%) ITRS Geneos
4 1 (0.66%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 21 (13.91%) Oracle
2 4 (2.65%) Dynatrace
3 3 (1.99%) Cisco
3 3 (1.99%) Thales
4 2 (1.32%) Amdocs
4 2 (1.32%) Bloomberg
4 2 (1.32%) Ciena
4 2 (1.32%) Databricks
4 2 (1.32%) Google
4 2 (1.32%) OpenAI
4 2 (1.32%) Perforce
4 2 (1.32%) Salesforce
4 2 (1.32%) ServiceNow
4 2 (1.32%) Veritas
5 1 (0.66%) BT
5 1 (0.66%) ION Trading
5 1 (0.66%) MarketAxess
5 1 (0.66%) Reuters
5 1 (0.66%) Splunk
5 1 (0.66%) Tradeweb