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 16 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 138 171 120
Rank change year-on-year +33 -51 -18
Contract jobs citing C++ 289 233 425
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.07% 1.48% 2.09%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.37% 3.80% 5.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 166 158 294
10th Percentile £411 £317 £433
25th Percentile £513 £433 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £700 £675
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +3.70% -6.90%
75th Percentile £790 £810 £875
90th Percentile £975 £913 £993
England median daily rate £625 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +13.64% -8.33% -11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 4 13
10th Percentile £34.15 £49.15 £42.63
25th Percentile £46.00 £50.50 £51.25
Median hourly rate £56.50 £60.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.83% +4.35% +8.55%
75th Percentile £61.25 £69.31 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.70 £70.33 £70.62
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 5,381 6,133 7,513
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 38.59% 39.01% 36.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,620 4,182 5,646
10th Percentile £370 £367 £394
25th Percentile £429 £460 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £548 £565 £580
Median % change year-on-year -3.10% -2.59% -3.33%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £700
90th Percentile £800 £825 £814
England median daily rate £513 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -4.65% -2.27% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 70 41 75
10th Percentile £22.99 £35.00 £25.53
25th Percentile £31.83 £40.06 £36.25
Median hourly rate £45.00 £47.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -13.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £63.63 £61.50 £65.05
90th Percentile £87.50 £97.50 £76.50
England median hourly rate £63.14 £65.00 £60.50
% change year-on-year -2.87% +7.44% -3.20%

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 16 November 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 16 November 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 16 November 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 34 £600 -14.89% 152
West London -24 10 £390 -17.89% 31
East London - 8 £1,000 - 4
South London - 4 £738 - 7
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 10 (3.46%) Apache Spark
2 9 (3.11%) Apache
3 4 (1.38%) Confluence
4 1 (0.35%) JBoss
4 1 (0.35%) WebSphere
Applications
1 8 (2.77%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.35%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 56 (19.38%) AWS
2 34 (11.76%) Azure
3 14 (4.84%) GCP
3 14 (4.84%) GitHub
4 8 (2.77%) Serverless
5 5 (1.73%) OpenShift
6 4 (1.38%) AWS CloudFormation
6 4 (1.38%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (0.69%) Entra ID
7 2 (0.69%) Power Platform
8 1 (0.35%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (0.35%) Azure Stack
8 1 (0.35%) Datadog
8 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (0.35%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.46%) TCP/IP
2 9 (3.11%) Multicast
3 6 (2.08%) BGP
3 6 (2.08%) DNS
3 6 (2.08%) EIGRP
3 6 (2.08%) HTTPS
3 6 (2.08%) IPsec
3 6 (2.08%) OSPF
4 1 (0.35%) Firewall
4 1 (0.35%) Internet
4 1 (0.35%) LAN
4 1 (0.35%) Network Security
4 1 (0.35%) SMS
4 1 (0.35%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (6.23%) Big Data
2 8 (2.77%) Oracle Database
3 6 (2.08%) KDB
3 6 (2.08%) NoSQL
4 5 (1.73%) Metadata
5 4 (1.38%) Data Mining
6 3 (1.04%) HPCC
6 3 (1.04%) Kdb+
7 2 (0.69%) BigQuery
7 2 (0.69%) Hadoop
7 2 (0.69%) Power BI
7 2 (0.69%) Relational Database
7 2 (0.69%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.35%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.35%) DB2
8 1 (0.35%) HBase
8 1 (0.35%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.35%) NonStop SQL
8 1 (0.35%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.35%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 49 (16.96%) Git
2 13 (4.50%) GCC
3 12 (4.15%) Jenkins
4 9 (3.11%) Artifactory
4 9 (3.11%) GDB
5 7 (2.42%) Gradle
6 6 (2.08%) JIRA
7 5 (1.73%) JUnit
8 4 (1.38%) Clang
8 4 (1.38%) Maven
9 3 (1.04%) GitLab
9 3 (1.04%) Visual Studio
10 2 (0.69%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.69%) CMake
10 2 (0.69%) Eclipse
10 2 (0.69%) IntelliJ
10 2 (0.69%) Mercurial
10 2 (0.69%) Subversion
11 1 (0.35%) ClearCase
11 1 (0.35%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 139 (48.10%) Finance
2 54 (18.69%) Banking
3 51 (17.65%) Social Skills
4 50 (17.30%) Front Office
5 32 (11.07%) Investment Banking
6 26 (9.00%) Analytical Skills
7 15 (5.19%) Public Sector
8 12 (4.15%) Financial Institution
9 8 (2.77%) International Banking
9 8 (2.77%) Marketing
10 6 (2.08%) Electronics
10 6 (2.08%) Games
10 6 (2.08%) Manufacturing
10 6 (2.08%) Telecoms
11 5 (1.73%) Law
12 3 (1.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 2 (0.69%) Military
13 2 (0.69%) Presentation Skills
14 1 (0.35%) Back Office
14 1 (0.35%) iGaming
Job Titles
1 126 (43.60%) Developer
2 62 (21.45%) Software Engineer
3 61 (21.11%) Senior
4 55 (19.03%) C++ Developer
5 33 (11.42%) Python Developer
6 29 (10.03%) Quantitative Developer
7 26 (9.00%) C++ Software Engineer
7 26 (9.00%) Senior Software Engineer
8 22 (7.61%) Linux Engineer
9 18 (6.23%) AWS Developer
9 18 (6.23%) JavaScript Developer
10 15 (5.19%) Analyst
10 15 (5.19%) Linux Developer
11 14 (4.84%) Kafka Engineer
11 14 (4.84%) Senior Linux Engineer
11 14 (4.84%) Senior Unix Engineer
11 14 (4.84%) Unix Engineer
11 14 (4.84%) Unix Linux Engineer
12 13 (4.50%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
13 12 (4.15%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (15.92%) Kafka
2 28 (9.69%) React
3 26 (9.00%) AngularJS
4 19 (6.57%) NumPy
4 19 (6.57%) Pandas
4 19 (6.57%) SciPy
4 19 (6.57%) Vue
5 18 (6.23%) FastAPI
5 18 (6.23%) FIX Protocol
5 18 (6.23%) Flask
5 18 (6.23%) Polars
6 16 (5.54%) Middleware
7 13 (4.50%) HTML
8 12 (4.15%) STL
9 11 (3.81%) .NET
10 10 (3.46%) Boost C++ Libraries
10 10 (3.46%) JSON
11 8 (2.77%) Apache NiFi
11 8 (2.77%) REST
12 7 (2.42%) iOS SDK
Miscellaneous
1 54 (18.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 36 (12.46%) Derivative
3 31 (10.73%) Equities
4 24 (8.30%) Algorithms
5 20 (6.92%) Hedge funds
6 18 (6.23%) Distributed Systems
7 17 (5.88%) Distributed Computing
8 16 (5.54%) Equity Derivative
9 14 (4.84%) Data Structures
10 10 (3.46%) Virtual Reality
11 9 (3.11%) Distributed Architecture
11 9 (3.11%) Fixed Income
12 7 (2.42%) Augmented Reality
12 7 (2.42%) Data Protection Act
13 6 (2.08%) Greenfield Project
13 6 (2.08%) PKI
14 5 (1.73%) Credit Risk
14 5 (1.73%) Embedded Systems
14 5 (1.73%) Product Ownership
15 4 (1.38%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 130 (44.98%) Linux
2 50 (17.30%) Unix
3 24 (8.30%) Windows
4 12 (4.15%) Android
5 7 (2.42%) Apple iOS
6 5 (1.73%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.35%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 113 (39.10%) Software Engineering
2 70 (24.22%) Agile
3 58 (20.07%) CI/CD
3 58 (20.07%) Low Latency
4 55 (19.03%) Mathematics
5 39 (13.49%) Computer Science
5 39 (13.49%) Problem-Solving
6 30 (10.38%) Clean Code
6 30 (10.38%) Data Engineering
6 30 (10.38%) Data Pipeline
7 25 (8.65%) Risk Management
8 22 (7.61%) Mentoring
9 21 (7.27%) Machine Learning
10 19 (6.57%) DevOps
10 19 (6.57%) Multithreading
11 18 (6.23%) Analytics
11 18 (6.23%) Structured Programming
11 18 (6.23%) Systematic Trading
11 18 (6.23%) Test Automation
12 17 (5.88%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 171 (59.17%) Python
2 101 (34.95%) Java
3 87 (30.10%) C#
4 79 (27.34%) SQL
5 41 (14.19%) JavaScript
6 36 (12.46%) C
7 30 (10.38%) Rust
8 13 (4.50%) Bash
8 13 (4.50%) Kotlin
9 11 (3.81%) Go
9 11 (3.81%) Perl
9 11 (3.81%) PowerShell
10 9 (3.11%) Shell Script
11 8 (2.77%) PHP
11 8 (2.77%) PL/SQL
12 5 (1.73%) Groovy
13 4 (1.38%) TypeScript
13 4 (1.38%) VBA
14 3 (1.04%) R
15 2 (0.69%) Swift
Qualifications
1 58 (20.07%) Degree
2 21 (7.27%) Security Cleared
3 20 (6.92%) Master's Degree
4 16 (5.54%) SC Cleared
5 15 (5.19%) Computer Science Degree
6 11 (3.81%) PhD
7 10 (3.46%) DV Cleared
8 8 (2.77%) CCNP
8 8 (2.77%) Cisco Certification
9 7 (2.42%) Numerate Degree
10 6 (2.08%) JNCIA
10 6 (2.08%) JNCIS
11 4 (1.38%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.69%) CCNA
12 2 (0.69%) GPEN
12 2 (0.69%) GWAPT
12 2 (0.69%) OCA
12 2 (0.69%) OCP
12 2 (0.69%) Oracle Certification
12 2 (0.69%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.46%) QA
2 3 (1.04%) Data Quality
2 3 (1.04%) EMIR
3 2 (0.69%) NIST
4 1 (0.35%) SLA
System Software
1 42 (14.53%) Docker
2 7 (2.42%) Firmware
3 3 (1.04%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.04%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.69%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.69%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.35%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (0.35%) KVM
Systems Management
1 45 (15.57%) Kubernetes
2 14 (4.84%) Ansible
3 11 (3.81%) Terraform
4 8 (2.77%) Puppet
5 3 (1.04%) Grafana
5 3 (1.04%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.69%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.35%) Oracle Identity Management
7 1 (0.35%) Podman
7 1 (0.35%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 33 (11.42%) Oracle
2 10 (3.46%) Microsoft
3 9 (3.11%) SAP
4 8 (2.77%) Cisco
4 8 (2.77%) Solace
5 6 (2.08%) Juniper
5 6 (2.08%) Sophis
6 3 (1.04%) Alibaba
6 3 (1.04%) Splunk
6 3 (1.04%) VMware
7 2 (0.69%) CrowdStrike
7 2 (0.69%) Databricks
7 2 (0.69%) Google
7 2 (0.69%) Murex
7 2 (0.69%) Palantir
7 2 (0.69%) Virgin Media
8 1 (0.35%) Fortinet
8 1 (0.35%) IBM
8 1 (0.35%) NetApp
8 1 (0.35%) Quark