C++ Contracts in London

C++
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring C++ skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited C++ over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 158 161 100
Rank change year-on-year +3 -61 +53
Contract jobs citing C++ 219 266 691
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.75% 1.49% 2.56%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.42% 4.14% 6.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 132 183 474
10th Percentile £434 £330 £513
25th Percentile £647 £475 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 £655 £700
Median % change year-on-year +22.14% -6.43% -3.45%
75th Percentile £875 £850 £825
90th Percentile £1,001 £950 £929
England median daily rate £750 £575 £650
% change year-on-year +30.43% -11.54% -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 9 7
10th Percentile - £45.16 £25.75
25th Percentile - £56.25 £37.88
Median hourly rate - £60.00 £52.97
Median % change year-on-year - +13.27% -3.69%
75th Percentile - £71.88 £59.38
90th Percentile - £72.50 £66.50
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +8.33%

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 4,959 6,430 11,021
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 39.52% 36.06% 40.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,479 4,906 8,206
10th Percentile £380 £380 £413
25th Percentile £449 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £712 £700 £738
90th Percentile £825 £825 £825
England median daily rate £525 £540 £565
% change year-on-year -2.78% -4.42% +2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 57 85
10th Percentile £29.07 £23.80 £34.55
25th Percentile £35.00 £36.25 £49.25
Median hourly rate £44.50 £50.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.88% -12.17% +15.00%
75th Percentile £60.81 £61.75 £75.00
90th Percentile £69.38 £70.75 £83.45
England median hourly rate £62.75 £62.50 £61.84
% change year-on-year +0.40% +1.07% +23.68%

C++
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing C++ as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for C++ in London

C++
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing C++ in London.

Daily rate trend for C++ in London

C++
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing C++ in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for C++ in London

C++
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing C++ in London.

Hourly rate trend 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 1 May 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 -2 37 £800 +13.48% 54
South London +4 1 - - 3
C++
England

C++
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 16 (7.31%) Apache Spark
2 6 (2.74%) BizTalk Server
3 3 (1.37%) Apache
4 2 (0.91%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.46%) Confluence
5 1 (0.46%) DataSynapse
5 1 (0.46%) Ethereum
5 1 (0.46%) Hyperledger
5 1 (0.46%) MetaMask
5 1 (0.46%) MQSeries
5 1 (0.46%) SAS
5 1 (0.46%) WinCC
Applications
1 6 (2.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.46%) CANalyzer
2 1 (0.46%) Siemens NX
2 1 (0.46%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 4 (1.83%) BASE24
2 1 (0.46%) Oracle TCA
2 1 (0.46%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 46 (21.00%) AWS
2 36 (16.44%) Azure
3 8 (3.65%) AWS Lambda
3 8 (3.65%) GCP
3 8 (3.65%) Serverless
4 7 (3.20%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (2.74%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 6 (2.74%) Azure Logic Apps
5 6 (2.74%) GitHub
6 5 (2.28%) Azure Functions
6 5 (2.28%) Azure Monitor
6 5 (2.28%) Azure Storage
6 5 (2.28%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (1.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 3 (1.37%) Datadog
8 2 (0.91%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (0.46%) Apple Pay
9 1 (0.46%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.74%) Multicast
2 5 (2.28%) TCP/IP
3 4 (1.83%) ATM
3 4 (1.83%) DHCP
3 4 (1.83%) DNS
3 4 (1.83%) DOCSIS
3 4 (1.83%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (0.91%) HTTP
4 2 (0.91%) Network Security
4 2 (0.91%) VLAN
4 2 (0.91%) Wireless
5 1 (0.46%) 802.11
5 1 (0.46%) Broadband
5 1 (0.46%) DSL
5 1 (0.46%) GPON
5 1 (0.46%) IPv4
5 1 (0.46%) IPv6
5 1 (0.46%) Modbus
5 1 (0.46%) PPP
5 1 (0.46%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (4.11%) Big Data
2 8 (3.65%) Data Mining
3 7 (3.20%) MongoDB
4 6 (2.74%) Azure SQL Database
5 5 (2.28%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (1.83%) KDB
6 4 (1.83%) NonStop SQL
6 4 (1.83%) Relational Database
7 3 (1.37%) InfluxDB
7 3 (1.37%) Kdb+
7 3 (1.37%) Looker
7 3 (1.37%) NoSQL
7 3 (1.37%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (1.37%) SQL Server
8 2 (0.91%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (0.91%) Metadata
9 1 (0.46%) DB2
9 1 (0.46%) Hadoop
9 1 (0.46%) Oracle Exadata
9 1 (0.46%) Text Mining
Development Applications
1 36 (16.44%) Git
2 14 (6.39%) Jenkins
3 7 (3.20%) TeamCity
3 7 (3.20%) Visual Studio
4 6 (2.74%) Bitbucket
5 4 (1.83%) Appium
5 4 (1.83%) CircleCI
5 4 (1.83%) Gatling
5 4 (1.83%) GCC
5 4 (1.83%) GDB
5 4 (1.83%) GitLab
5 4 (1.83%) JMeter
5 4 (1.83%) NeoLoad
5 4 (1.83%) Selenium
5 4 (1.83%) SpecFlow
6 1 (0.46%) Gerrit
6 1 (0.46%) GoogleTest
6 1 (0.46%) Hardhat
6 1 (0.46%) JIRA
6 1 (0.46%) Qt Creator
General
1 116 (52.97%) Finance
2 85 (38.81%) Social Skills
3 54 (24.66%) Analytical Skills
4 53 (24.20%) Banking
5 44 (20.09%) Front Office
6 42 (19.18%) Investment Banking
7 13 (5.94%) Financial Institution
8 6 (2.74%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (1.83%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (1.83%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.37%) Public Sector
11 2 (0.91%) Advertising
11 2 (0.91%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.46%) Automotive
12 1 (0.46%) Back Office
12 1 (0.46%) Electronics
12 1 (0.46%) Games
12 1 (0.46%) Marketing
12 1 (0.46%) Military
12 1 (0.46%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 112 (51.14%) Developer
2 54 (24.66%) C++ Developer
3 32 (14.61%) C# Developer
3 32 (14.61%) Quantitative Developer
4 27 (12.33%) Senior
5 26 (11.87%) C++/C# Developer
6 21 (9.59%) Software Engineer
7 19 (8.68%) Python Developer
8 16 (7.31%) Lead
9 15 (6.85%) Machine Learning Engineer
10 13 (5.94%) C++ Quantitative Developer
10 13 (5.94%) Senior Developer
11 9 (4.11%) Analyst
11 9 (4.11%) Qualitative Analyst
11 9 (4.11%) Quantitative Analyst
12 8 (3.65%) Software Developer
13 7 (3.20%) Analyst Developer
13 7 (3.20%) AWS Developer
13 7 (3.20%) C++ Software Engineer
13 7 (3.20%) JavaScript Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (20.55%) .NET
2 35 (15.98%) Kafka
3 31 (14.16%) .NET Core
4 29 (13.24%) ASP.NET
5 22 (10.05%) Web Services
6 20 (9.13%) WCF
7 17 (7.76%) React
8 12 (5.48%) NumPy
8 12 (5.48%) Pandas
9 10 (4.57%) FastAPI
9 10 (4.57%) SciPy
10 9 (4.11%) AngularJS
11 8 (3.65%) CSS
11 8 (3.65%) Flask
11 8 (3.65%) HTML
11 8 (3.65%) Vue
12 7 (3.20%) Polars
12 7 (3.20%) Protocol Buffers
12 7 (3.20%) Ray
13 6 (2.74%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 55 (25.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 36 (16.44%) Algorithms
3 35 (15.98%) Distributed Systems
4 21 (9.59%) Distributed Computing
4 21 (9.59%) Hedge funds
5 19 (8.68%) Equities
6 18 (8.22%) Derivative
6 18 (8.22%) Legacy Applications
7 13 (5.94%) Fixed Income
8 11 (5.02%) Data Structures
8 11 (5.02%) Equity Derivative
9 9 (4.11%) Grid Computing
10 8 (3.65%) Cloud Native
11 7 (3.20%) TWAP
11 7 (3.20%) VWAP
12 6 (2.74%) Credit Risk
12 6 (2.74%) Enterprise Software
13 5 (2.28%) Embedded Systems
13 5 (2.28%) Renewable Energy
13 5 (2.28%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 50 (22.83%) Linux
2 20 (9.13%) Windows
3 6 (2.74%) Unix
4 5 (2.28%) Windows Server
4 5 (2.28%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.46%) Embedded Linux
5 1 (0.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (29.22%) CI/CD
2 56 (25.57%) Analytics
3 51 (23.29%) Agile
3 51 (23.29%) Software Engineering
4 43 (19.63%) Low Latency
5 41 (18.72%) DevOps
6 39 (17.81%) Mathematics
7 37 (16.89%) Problem-Solving
8 34 (15.53%) Computer Science
9 32 (14.61%) Algorithmic Trading
10 28 (12.79%) OO
11 26 (11.87%) OOP
12 25 (11.42%) Market Making
12 25 (11.42%) Test Automation
13 24 (10.96%) Risk Management
14 21 (9.59%) Machine Learning
14 21 (9.59%) Multithreading
14 21 (9.59%) Scrum
15 19 (8.68%) Quantitative Finance
15 19 (8.68%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 136 (62.10%) Python
2 102 (46.58%) Java
3 72 (32.88%) C#
4 45 (20.55%) C
5 37 (16.89%) SQL
6 28 (12.79%) JavaScript
7 24 (10.96%) Shell Script
8 14 (6.39%) Go
9 13 (5.94%) Rust
10 11 (5.02%) TypeScript
11 6 (2.74%) PL/SQL
11 6 (2.74%) PowerShell
11 6 (2.74%) T-SQL
12 5 (2.28%) PHP
13 4 (1.83%) Ruby
13 4 (1.83%) Scala
14 3 (1.37%) Bash
14 3 (1.37%) MATLAB
15 2 (0.91%) COBOL
15 2 (0.91%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 45 (20.55%) Degree
2 30 (13.70%) Master's Degree
3 15 (6.85%) PhD
4 14 (6.39%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (5.02%) Numerate Degree
6 8 (3.65%) SC Cleared
6 8 (3.65%) Security Cleared
7 3 (1.37%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.46%) CEH
8 1 (0.46%) CISSP
8 1 (0.46%) CREST Certified
8 1 (0.46%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.65%) QA
2 2 (0.91%) ISO 8583
3 1 (0.46%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.46%) MiFID
3 1 (0.46%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.46%) PSD2
System Software
1 21 (9.59%) Docker
2 4 (1.83%) Platform Symphony
3 1 (0.46%) XYGATE
Systems Management
1 28 (12.79%) Kubernetes
2 8 (3.65%) Grafana
3 5 (2.28%) ITRS Geneos
3 5 (2.28%) Kibana
4 4 (1.83%) Terraform
5 3 (1.37%) Ansible
6 1 (0.46%) Functional Safety
6 1 (0.46%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.46%) Puppet
Vendors
1 33 (15.07%) Oracle
2 9 (4.11%) TIBCO
3 8 (3.65%) Microsoft
4 6 (2.74%) IBM
4 6 (2.74%) MuleSoft
5 4 (1.83%) HP
5 4 (1.83%) Splunk
6 3 (1.37%) Google
7 2 (0.91%) Alibaba
7 2 (0.91%) Databricks
8 1 (0.46%) Hitachi
8 1 (0.46%) Informatica
8 1 (0.46%) NVIDIA
8 1 (0.46%) Perforce
8 1 (0.46%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.46%) SAP
8 1 (0.46%) Siemens