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

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 238 159 173
Rank change year-on-year -79 +14 -73
Contract jobs citing C++ 175 217 247
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.03% 1.72% 1.37%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.07% 4.40% 3.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 136 174
10th Percentile £400 £431 £325
25th Percentile £563 £638 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £720 £800 £650
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +23.08% -10.34%
75th Percentile £800 £875 £810
90th Percentile £1,050 £1,000 £959
England median daily rate £625 £700 £575
% change year-on-year -10.71% +21.74% -14.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 8
10th Percentile £28.23 - £47.16
25th Percentile £31.19 - £54.66
Median hourly rate £37.25 - £58.75
75th Percentile £43.19 - £68.19
90th Percentile £46.08 - £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 5,701 4,935 6,344
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 33.66% 39.16% 35.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,873 3,438 4,810
10th Percentile £363 £375 £385
25th Percentile £425 £448 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £700
90th Percentile £775 £825 £825
England median daily rate £501 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.67% -2.42% -5.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 31 58
10th Percentile £26.45 £29.07 £24.28
25th Percentile £39.25 £38.18 £36.90
Median hourly rate £55.00 £45.00 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -10.89% -12.17%
75th Percentile £66.50 £59.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £65.00 £67.90
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.75 £60.00
% change year-on-year +3.59% +4.58% -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 2 April 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 2 April 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 2 April 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 -21 25 £725 -9.38% 63
East London - 3 £900 - 3
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 (4.00%) Confluence
2 5 (2.86%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.71%) Apache
4 2 (1.14%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 13 (7.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.57%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 22 (12.57%) AWS
2 10 (5.71%) Azure
2 10 (5.71%) GitHub
3 8 (4.57%) Serverless
4 6 (3.43%) GCP
5 3 (1.71%) Amazon ECS
5 3 (1.71%) Amazon S3
5 3 (1.71%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (1.71%) ChatGPT
5 3 (1.71%) GitHub Copilot
6 2 (1.14%) Amazon Bedrock
6 2 (1.14%) Amazon EMR
6 2 (1.14%) Amazon Kinesis
6 2 (1.14%) Anthropic Claude
6 2 (1.14%) Datadog
7 1 (0.57%) Figma
7 1 (0.57%) Google Drive
7 1 (0.57%) PaaS
7 1 (0.57%) Power Platform
7 1 (0.57%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.00%) Ethernet
1 7 (4.00%) Modbus
1 7 (4.00%) RS-232
1 7 (4.00%) RS-485
2 5 (2.86%) TCP/IP
3 3 (1.71%) 3GPP
3 3 (1.71%) MVNO
3 3 (1.71%) Network Security
3 3 (1.71%) SMPP
3 3 (1.71%) SMS
4 2 (1.14%) NaaS
4 2 (1.14%) NAS
4 2 (1.14%) SAN
4 2 (1.14%) WAN
5 1 (0.57%) HTTP
5 1 (0.57%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (4.00%) Big Data
2 4 (2.29%) Hadoop
2 4 (2.29%) NoSQL
3 2 (1.14%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (1.14%) Apache Cassandra
3 2 (1.14%) Data Lake
3 2 (1.14%) Data Mining
3 2 (1.14%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (1.14%) Flink
3 2 (1.14%) InfluxDB
3 2 (1.14%) MongoDB
3 2 (1.14%) MySQL
3 2 (1.14%) Neo4j
3 2 (1.14%) Pinecone
3 2 (1.14%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (1.14%) TimescaleDB
3 2 (1.14%) Weaviate
4 1 (0.57%) Kdb+
4 1 (0.57%) Metadata
4 1 (0.57%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 14 (8.00%) JIRA
2 12 (6.86%) Git
3 6 (3.43%) Jenkins
4 5 (2.86%) Visual Studio
5 3 (1.71%) Robot Framework
5 3 (1.71%) SonarQube
5 3 (1.71%) Subversion
6 1 (0.57%) Appium
6 1 (0.57%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.57%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.57%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.57%) GCC
6 1 (0.57%) GDB
6 1 (0.57%) GitLab
6 1 (0.57%) JUnit
6 1 (0.57%) Selenium
General
1 104 (59.43%) Finance
2 31 (17.71%) Analytical Skills
3 29 (16.57%) Front Office
4 27 (15.43%) Social Skills
5 21 (12.00%) Banking
6 12 (6.86%) Investment Banking
7 8 (4.57%) Financial Institution
8 7 (4.00%) Telecoms
9 6 (3.43%) Agriculture
10 3 (1.71%) Law
11 2 (1.14%) Automotive
11 2 (1.14%) Billing
11 2 (1.14%) iGaming
11 2 (1.14%) Japanese Language
11 2 (1.14%) Marketing
11 2 (1.14%) Multimedia
11 2 (1.14%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.57%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.57%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 85 (48.57%) Developer
2 49 (28.00%) Senior
3 42 (24.00%) C++ Developer
4 35 (20.00%) Quantitative Developer
5 25 (14.29%) Software Engineer
6 23 (13.14%) Python Developer
7 19 (10.86%) Senior Software Engineer
8 16 (9.14%) C++ Software Engineer
9 15 (8.57%) C++ Quantitative Developer
9 15 (8.57%) Linux Developer
9 15 (8.57%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
9 15 (8.57%) Senior Developer
10 14 (8.00%) Linux Engineer
10 14 (8.00%) Low Latency C++ Developer
11 13 (7.43%) Kafka Engineer
11 13 (7.43%) Senior C++ Developer
11 13 (7.43%) Senior Linux Engineer
11 13 (7.43%) Senior Unix Engineer
11 13 (7.43%) Unix Engineer
11 13 (7.43%) Unix Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (13.14%) Kafka
2 10 (5.71%) NumPy
3 9 (5.14%) Pandas
3 9 (5.14%) SciPy
4 7 (4.00%) PyTorch
4 7 (4.00%) React
4 7 (4.00%) TensorFlow
5 5 (2.86%) .NET
5 5 (2.86%) HTML
5 5 (2.86%) LangChain
5 5 (2.86%) Node.js
6 4 (2.29%) AngularJS
6 4 (2.29%) FIX Protocol
7 3 (1.71%) Apache NiFi
7 3 (1.71%) FastAPI
7 3 (1.71%) Flask
7 3 (1.71%) Polars
7 3 (1.71%) REST
7 3 (1.71%) scikit-learn
7 3 (1.71%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 34 (19.43%) Equities
2 30 (17.14%) Derivative
3 27 (15.43%) Algorithms
4 23 (13.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 19 (10.86%) Distributed Systems
5 19 (10.86%) Equity Derivative
6 17 (9.71%) Data Structures
7 12 (6.86%) Greenfield Project
8 8 (4.57%) Data Protection Act
9 7 (4.00%) Embedded Systems
10 6 (3.43%) AI Agents
11 4 (2.29%) Fixed Income
11 4 (2.29%) Hedge funds
12 3 (1.71%) Blog
12 3 (1.71%) Cloud Native
12 3 (1.71%) Distributed Computing
12 3 (1.71%) Exotic Derivative
12 3 (1.71%) FPGA
12 3 (1.71%) IoT
12 3 (1.71%) Java Card
Operating Systems
1 67 (38.29%) Linux
2 30 (17.14%) Unix
3 7 (4.00%) FreeRTOS
4 5 (2.86%) Windows
5 1 (0.57%) Android
5 1 (0.57%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.57%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (30.86%) Software Engineering
2 38 (21.71%) Problem-Solving
3 37 (21.14%) Agile
4 34 (19.43%) Low Latency
5 32 (18.29%) Mathematics
6 26 (14.86%) CI/CD
7 25 (14.29%) Analytics
7 25 (14.29%) Computer Science
8 24 (13.71%) Quantitative Finance
9 23 (13.14%) Multithreading
10 19 (10.86%) Risk Management
11 18 (10.29%) Quantitative Research
11 18 (10.29%) Test Automation
12 15 (8.57%) Benchmarking
12 15 (8.57%) Validation
13 13 (7.43%) AI
13 13 (7.43%) Mentoring
14 12 (6.86%) Continuous Improvement
14 12 (6.86%) Order Management
14 12 (6.86%) Ultra-Low Latency
Programming Languages
1 92 (52.57%) Python
2 56 (32.00%) C#
3 49 (28.00%) SQL
4 45 (25.71%) Java
5 22 (12.57%) C
6 13 (7.43%) JavaScript
7 10 (5.71%) Rust
8 8 (4.57%) Embedded C++
9 7 (4.00%) TypeScript
10 6 (3.43%) R
11 4 (2.29%) Go
12 3 (1.71%) Embedded C
13 2 (1.14%) Ada
13 2 (1.14%) Bash
13 2 (1.14%) Shell Script
13 2 (1.14%) VBA
14 1 (0.57%) COBOL
14 1 (0.57%) Erlang
14 1 (0.57%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.57%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 50 (28.57%) Degree
2 13 (7.43%) Numerate Degree
3 10 (5.71%) Master's Degree
4 9 (5.14%) Computer Science Degree
4 9 (5.14%) Security Cleared
5 5 (2.86%) SC Cleared
6 4 (2.29%) DV Cleared
6 4 (2.29%) PhD
7 2 (1.14%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.57%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.43%) QA
2 4 (2.29%) SLA
3 2 (1.14%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.14%) DICOM
3 2 (1.14%) HL7
4 1 (0.57%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.57%) EMIR
4 1 (0.57%) MiFID
System Software
1 15 (8.57%) Docker
2 7 (4.00%) Embedded Firmware
2 7 (4.00%) Firmware
3 2 (1.14%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.14%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 14 (8.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.71%) Ansible
2 3 (1.71%) Terraform
3 2 (1.14%) Amdocs OSS
3 2 (1.14%) Grafana
3 2 (1.14%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.57%) Progress Chef
4 1 (0.57%) Puppet
Vendors
1 24 (13.71%) Oracle
2 4 (2.29%) Dynatrace
3 3 (1.71%) Databricks
3 3 (1.71%) Thales
4 2 (1.14%) Amdocs
4 2 (1.14%) Ciena
4 2 (1.14%) Google
4 2 (1.14%) OpenAI
4 2 (1.14%) Perforce
4 2 (1.14%) Salesforce
4 2 (1.14%) ServiceNow
4 2 (1.14%) Veritas
5 1 (0.57%) Bloomberg
5 1 (0.57%) BT
5 1 (0.57%) Calypso
5 1 (0.57%) HP
5 1 (0.57%) Microsoft
5 1 (0.57%) Murex
5 1 (0.57%) Reuters
5 1 (0.57%) Solace