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 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 149 179 132
Rank change year-on-year +30 -47 -30
Contract jobs citing C++ 274 224 339
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.92% 1.47% 1.77%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.09% 3.82% 4.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 162 149 234
10th Percentile £401 £319 £400
25th Percentile £508 £440 £526
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £700 £650
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -10.34%
75th Percentile £775 £825 £847
90th Percentile £1,000 £913 £968
England median daily rate £625 £575 £600
% change year-on-year +8.70% -4.17% -11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 13
10th Percentile £34.15 £54.25 £42.63
25th Percentile £46.00 £58.75 £55.00
Median hourly rate £56.50 £67.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.30% +12.50% +8.63%
75th Percentile £61.25 £69.88 £65.11
90th Percentile £67.70 £70.55 £72.40
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 5,385 5,870 6,919
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 37.75% 38.43% 36.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,615 3,963 5,209
10th Percentile £368 £375 £395
25th Percentile £430 £463 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £670 £700 £700
90th Percentile £788 £825 £810
England median daily rate £513 £545 £550
% change year-on-year -5.96% -0.91% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 63 39 65
10th Percentile £25.29 £35.60 £26.24
25th Percentile £33.88 £40.06 £36.28
Median hourly rate £47.50 £52.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% - -8.70%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.88 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £97.50 £72.50
England median hourly rate £65.00 £63.75 £62.50
% change year-on-year +1.97% +1.99% -0.79%

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 14 December 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 14 December 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 14 December 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 +7 38 £650 - 26
West London -20 8 £373 -13.37% 5
East London - 8 £1,000 - 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 8 (2.92%) Apache
2 5 (1.82%) Confluence
3 3 (1.09%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 10 (3.65%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.36%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 40 (14.60%) AWS
2 27 (9.85%) Azure
3 12 (4.38%) Serverless
4 11 (4.01%) GCP
5 10 (3.65%) GitHub
6 4 (1.46%) Amazon ECS
6 4 (1.46%) OpenShift
7 3 (1.09%) Amazon S3
7 3 (1.09%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (1.09%) ChatGPT
7 3 (1.09%) Datadog
7 3 (1.09%) GitHub Copilot
8 2 (0.73%) Anthropic Claude
8 2 (0.73%) Entra ID
8 2 (0.73%) Power Platform
9 1 (0.36%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (0.36%) Figma
9 1 (0.36%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (0.36%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.55%) Multicast
1 7 (2.55%) TCP/IP
2 6 (2.19%) BGP
2 6 (2.19%) DNS
2 6 (2.19%) EIGRP
2 6 (2.19%) HTTPS
2 6 (2.19%) IPsec
2 6 (2.19%) OSPF
3 2 (0.73%) Ethernet
3 2 (0.73%) Modbus
3 2 (0.73%) RS-232
3 2 (0.73%) RS-485
4 1 (0.36%) Firewall
4 1 (0.36%) Network Security
4 1 (0.36%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (4.74%) Big Data
2 8 (2.92%) Oracle Database
3 5 (1.82%) Metadata
4 4 (1.46%) KDB
5 3 (1.09%) Kdb+
6 2 (0.73%) BigQuery
6 2 (0.73%) Hadoop
6 2 (0.73%) Neo4j
6 2 (0.73%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.73%) Pinecone
6 2 (0.73%) Power BI
6 2 (0.73%) SQL Server
6 2 (0.73%) Weaviate
7 1 (0.36%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.36%) HBase
7 1 (0.36%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.36%) NonStop SQL
7 1 (0.36%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.36%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.36%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 34 (12.41%) Git
2 11 (4.01%) GCC
3 9 (3.28%) JIRA
4 8 (2.92%) Jenkins
5 7 (2.55%) GDB
6 6 (2.19%) Gradle
6 6 (2.19%) Visual Studio
7 5 (1.82%) JUnit
8 4 (1.46%) Clang
9 3 (1.09%) Bitbucket
9 3 (1.09%) SonarQube
9 3 (1.09%) Subversion
10 2 (0.73%) Artifactory
10 2 (0.73%) Maven
10 2 (0.73%) Mercurial
11 1 (0.36%) Appium
11 1 (0.36%) CMake
11 1 (0.36%) Cucumber
11 1 (0.36%) GitLab
11 1 (0.36%) Robot Framework
General
1 141 (51.46%) Finance
2 49 (17.88%) Banking
2 49 (17.88%) Social Skills
3 43 (15.69%) Front Office
4 28 (10.22%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (10.22%) Investment Banking
5 14 (5.11%) Public Sector
6 13 (4.74%) Financial Institution
7 8 (2.92%) Marketing
8 6 (2.19%) Electronics
8 6 (2.19%) Games
8 6 (2.19%) International Banking
8 6 (2.19%) Manufacturing
8 6 (2.19%) Telecoms
9 5 (1.82%) Law
10 3 (1.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.73%) Agriculture
11 2 (0.73%) Automotive
11 2 (0.73%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.73%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 119 (43.43%) Developer
2 65 (23.72%) Senior
3 63 (22.99%) Software Engineer
4 52 (18.98%) C++ Developer
5 34 (12.41%) Quantitative Developer
6 31 (11.31%) Python Developer
7 28 (10.22%) C++ Software Engineer
7 28 (10.22%) Senior Software Engineer
8 23 (8.39%) Linux Engineer
9 18 (6.57%) Linux Developer
10 16 (5.84%) Kafka Engineer
10 16 (5.84%) Senior Linux Engineer
10 16 (5.84%) Senior Unix Engineer
10 16 (5.84%) Unix Engineer
10 16 (5.84%) Unix Linux Engineer
11 15 (5.47%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
12 14 (5.11%) AWS Developer
12 14 (5.11%) JavaScript Developer
12 14 (5.11%) Low Latency C++ Developer
13 13 (4.74%) C++ Quantitative Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (17.52%) Kafka
2 23 (8.39%) React
3 22 (8.03%) AngularJS
4 19 (6.93%) NumPy
5 18 (6.57%) Pandas
5 18 (6.57%) SciPy
6 15 (5.47%) Vue
7 14 (5.11%) FastAPI
7 14 (5.11%) Flask
7 14 (5.11%) Polars
8 11 (4.01%) .NET
8 11 (4.01%) FIX Protocol
9 9 (3.28%) HTML
10 8 (2.92%) Apache NiFi
10 8 (2.92%) Boost C++ Libraries
10 8 (2.92%) Middleware
10 8 (2.92%) REST
10 8 (2.92%) STL
11 7 (2.55%) iOS SDK
11 7 (2.55%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 47 (17.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 34 (12.41%) Derivative
2 34 (12.41%) Equities
3 22 (8.03%) Algorithms
4 18 (6.57%) Equity Derivative
5 16 (5.84%) Distributed Systems
5 16 (5.84%) Hedge funds
6 11 (4.01%) Data Structures
7 10 (3.65%) Data Protection Act
7 10 (3.65%) Distributed Computing
7 10 (3.65%) Virtual Reality
8 8 (2.92%) Greenfield Project
9 7 (2.55%) Augmented Reality
9 7 (2.55%) Distributed Architecture
9 7 (2.55%) Embedded Systems
10 6 (2.19%) PKI
11 5 (1.82%) Blog
11 5 (1.82%) FPGA
11 5 (1.82%) Product Ownership
12 4 (1.46%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 124 (45.26%) Linux
2 48 (17.52%) Unix
3 22 (8.03%) Windows
4 12 (4.38%) Android
5 7 (2.55%) Apple iOS
6 5 (1.82%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.73%) FreeRTOS
8 1 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.36%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 113 (41.24%) Software Engineering
2 67 (24.45%) Agile
3 53 (19.34%) Mathematics
4 50 (18.25%) CI/CD
5 49 (17.88%) Low Latency
6 42 (15.33%) Problem-Solving
7 35 (12.77%) Computer Science
8 27 (9.85%) Clean Code
8 27 (9.85%) Risk Management
9 26 (9.49%) Data Engineering
9 26 (9.49%) Data Pipeline
9 26 (9.49%) Mentoring
10 24 (8.76%) Analytics
10 24 (8.76%) DevOps
11 21 (7.66%) Test Automation
12 19 (6.93%) Machine Learning
12 19 (6.93%) Multithreading
12 19 (6.93%) SDLC
13 18 (6.57%) Quantitative Finance
14 17 (6.20%) Quantitative Research
Programming Languages
1 149 (54.38%) Python
2 85 (31.02%) C#
3 83 (30.29%) Java
4 73 (26.64%) SQL
5 37 (13.50%) JavaScript
6 26 (9.49%) Rust
7 25 (9.12%) C
8 13 (4.74%) Bash
8 13 (4.74%) Kotlin
9 10 (3.65%) Go
10 8 (2.92%) Perl
10 8 (2.92%) PHP
10 8 (2.92%) PowerShell
11 7 (2.55%) TypeScript
12 5 (1.82%) PL/SQL
13 4 (1.46%) Embedded C++
13 4 (1.46%) R
13 4 (1.46%) VBA
14 3 (1.09%) Shell Script
15 2 (0.73%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 59 (21.53%) Degree
2 22 (8.03%) Security Cleared
3 17 (6.20%) Master's Degree
3 17 (6.20%) SC Cleared
4 14 (5.11%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (4.01%) DV Cleared
5 11 (4.01%) Numerate Degree
6 8 (2.92%) CCNP
6 8 (2.92%) Cisco Certification
7 6 (2.19%) JNCIA
7 6 (2.19%) JNCIS
8 5 (1.82%) PhD
9 4 (1.46%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.73%) CCNA
10 2 (0.73%) GPEN
10 2 (0.73%) GWAPT
10 2 (0.73%) OCA
10 2 (0.73%) OCP
10 2 (0.73%) Oracle Certification
10 2 (0.73%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.01%) QA
2 4 (1.46%) Data Quality
2 4 (1.46%) EMIR
2 4 (1.46%) SLA
3 2 (0.73%) NIST
4 1 (0.36%) MiFID
System Software
1 39 (14.23%) Docker
2 9 (3.28%) Firmware
3 3 (1.09%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.09%) Embedded Firmware
3 3 (1.09%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.73%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.73%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.36%) KVM
Systems Management
1 36 (13.14%) Kubernetes
2 10 (3.65%) Ansible
3 8 (2.92%) Terraform
4 4 (1.46%) Puppet
5 3 (1.09%) Grafana
5 3 (1.09%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.73%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.36%) Oracle Identity Management
7 1 (0.36%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 35 (12.77%) Oracle
2 9 (3.28%) SAP
3 8 (2.92%) Cisco
4 6 (2.19%) Juniper
4 6 (2.19%) Microsoft
4 6 (2.19%) Solace
5 5 (1.82%) Sophis
6 3 (1.09%) Alibaba
6 3 (1.09%) Google
6 3 (1.09%) VMware
7 2 (0.73%) CrowdStrike
7 2 (0.73%) Dynatrace
7 2 (0.73%) Palantir
7 2 (0.73%) Splunk
8 1 (0.36%) Databricks
8 1 (0.36%) NetApp
8 1 (0.36%) Remedy
8 1 (0.36%) Ruckus Wireless
8 1 (0.36%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.36%) ServiceNow