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 22 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 296 138 167
Rank change year-on-year -158 +29 -58
Contract jobs citing C++ 149 266 256
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.74% 2.00% 1.59%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.36% 5.20% 3.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 155 174
10th Percentile £418 £404 £325
25th Percentile £538 £485 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £630 £678
Median % change year-on-year +3.17% -7.01% -3.21%
75th Percentile £825 £813 £821
90th Percentile £889 £950 £913
England median daily rate £625 £625 £550
% change year-on-year - +13.64% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 6
10th Percentile £29.50 £33.90 £47.25
25th Percentile £34.38 £45.38 £49.00
Median hourly rate £45.00 £57.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.05% -5.00% +9.09%
75th Percentile £48.25 £63.94 £71.09
90th Percentile £48.70 £68.78 £71.88
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 6,324 5,114 6,494
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 31.27% 38.52% 40.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,258 3,506 4,638
10th Percentile £375 £375 £364
25th Percentile £450 £431 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £663 £688 £700
90th Percentile £775 £813 £850
England median daily rate £525 £514 £550
% change year-on-year +2.14% -6.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 57 64 45
10th Percentile £26.51 £26.60 £25.54
25th Percentile £36.25 £33.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £52.50 £44.20 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +18.78% -6.95% -20.83%
75th Percentile £73.00 £63.38 £68.75
90th Percentile £88.75 £87.13 £90.50
England median hourly rate £65.00 £56.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +16.07% -13.85% -

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 22 September 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 22 September 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 22 September 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 -41 10 £678 -3.21% 69
South London -8 4 - - 7
East London +1 2 £334 -66.65% 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 4 (2.68%) WebSphere
2 3 (2.01%) IIS
3 2 (1.34%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.34%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.67%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.67%) MTS
Applications
1 2 (1.34%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (2.01%) Orchestrade
2 1 (0.67%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (0.67%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.67%) SunGard Martini
Cloud Services
1 19 (12.75%) AWS
2 14 (9.40%) Azure
3 8 (5.37%) GCP
4 5 (3.36%) IaaS
5 4 (2.68%) Snowflake
6 3 (2.01%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 3 (2.01%) SaaS
7 2 (1.34%) Anthropic Claude
7 2 (1.34%) AWS IoT
7 2 (1.34%) Entra ID
7 2 (1.34%) GitHub
7 2 (1.34%) GitHub Copilot
7 2 (1.34%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (1.34%) OneDrive
8 1 (0.67%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (0.67%) AWS Fargate
8 1 (0.67%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (0.67%) AWS Step Functions
8 1 (0.67%) Figma
8 1 (0.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 10 (6.71%) TCP/IP
2 7 (4.70%) HTTP
3 3 (2.01%) Firewall
3 3 (2.01%) MQTT
3 3 (2.01%) VXLAN
4 2 (1.34%) DHCP
4 2 (1.34%) DNS
4 2 (1.34%) Internet
4 2 (1.34%) Multicast
4 2 (1.34%) Wireshark
5 1 (0.67%) BGP
5 1 (0.67%) Bluetooth
5 1 (0.67%) IPv4
5 1 (0.67%) IPv6
5 1 (0.67%) LAN
5 1 (0.67%) MPLS
5 1 (0.67%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (0.67%) SSL
5 1 (0.67%) Unified Communications
5 1 (0.67%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.01%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.34%) MySQL
2 2 (1.34%) NoSQL
2 2 (1.34%) Oracle Database
3 1 (0.67%) Big Data
3 1 (0.67%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.67%) DynamoDB
3 1 (0.67%) KDB
3 1 (0.67%) Kdb+
3 1 (0.67%) MariaDB
3 1 (0.67%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.67%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.67%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 15 (10.07%) Git
2 12 (8.05%) Jenkins
3 4 (2.68%) GitLab
3 4 (2.68%) TeamCity
4 3 (2.01%) Visual Studio
4 3 (2.01%) VTune
5 2 (1.34%) Ant
5 2 (1.34%) Artifactory
5 2 (1.34%) CMake
5 2 (1.34%) Eclipse
5 2 (1.34%) Fiddler
5 2 (1.34%) JIRA
5 2 (1.34%) MSI
5 2 (1.34%) Subversion
6 1 (0.67%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.67%) GoogleTest
6 1 (0.67%) PetaLinux
General
1 51 (34.23%) Finance
2 33 (22.15%) Banking
3 31 (20.81%) Analytical Skills
3 31 (20.81%) Social Skills
4 24 (16.11%) Front Office
5 19 (12.75%) Investment Banking
6 6 (4.03%) Automotive
7 4 (2.68%) Financial Institution
8 3 (2.01%) Games
8 3 (2.01%) Legal
8 3 (2.01%) Public Sector
8 3 (2.01%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.34%) Japanese Language
9 2 (1.34%) Polish Language
10 1 (0.67%) Agriculture
10 1 (0.67%) Back Office
10 1 (0.67%) Electronics
10 1 (0.67%) Korean Language
Job Titles
1 38 (25.50%) Senior
2 37 (24.83%) Developer
3 25 (16.78%) Software Engineer
4 17 (11.41%) C++ Developer
5 15 (10.07%) C++ Software Engineer
6 14 (9.40%) Senior Developer
7 10 (6.71%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 10 (6.71%) Quantitative Developer
8 9 (6.04%) Analyst
8 9 (6.04%) Senior Software Engineer
9 8 (5.37%) Architect
9 8 (5.37%) Senior C++ Developer
9 8 (5.37%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
10 7 (4.70%) C# Developer
10 7 (4.70%) Linux Engineer
11 6 (4.03%) Robotics Engineer
11 6 (4.03%) Senior Architect
11 6 (4.03%) Support Engineer
12 5 (3.36%) Embedded Engineer
12 5 (3.36%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (12.75%) .NET
2 16 (10.74%) XML
3 13 (8.72%) FIX Protocol
4 7 (4.70%) Kafka
4 7 (4.70%) WebSockets
5 6 (4.03%) JSON
5 6 (4.03%) React
5 6 (4.03%) WinForms
6 5 (3.36%) Middleware
6 5 (3.36%) OpenTelemetry
6 5 (3.36%) Web Services
7 4 (2.68%) .NET Core
7 4 (2.68%) eBPF
7 4 (2.68%) Terraform
7 4 (2.68%) WebSphere MQ
8 3 (2.01%) gRPC
8 3 (2.01%) REST
9 2 (1.34%) .NET Framework
9 2 (1.34%) HTML5
9 2 (1.34%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 28 (18.79%) Derivative
2 26 (17.45%) Distributed Systems
3 25 (16.78%) Algorithms
4 18 (12.08%) Cloud Native
5 17 (11.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 11 (7.38%) Data Structures
7 10 (6.71%) AI Agents
8 8 (5.37%) Legacy Systems
9 7 (4.70%) Embedded Systems
9 7 (4.70%) Robotics
10 6 (4.03%) Data Protection Act
10 6 (4.03%) Equity Derivative
10 6 (4.03%) OTC Derivatives
10 6 (4.03%) Private Cloud
11 5 (3.36%) Enterprise Software
11 5 (3.36%) Fixed Income
11 5 (3.36%) Onboarding
12 4 (2.68%) Equities
12 4 (2.68%) Exotic Derivative
12 4 (2.68%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 47 (31.54%) Linux
2 17 (11.41%) Unix
3 15 (10.07%) Windows
4 10 (6.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (5.37%) Android
5 8 (5.37%) Apple iOS
6 4 (2.68%) Solaris
7 1 (0.67%) Embedded Linux
7 1 (0.67%) FreeRTOS
7 1 (0.67%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (35.57%) Software Engineering
2 34 (22.82%) Low Latency
2 34 (22.82%) Problem-Solving
3 27 (18.12%) CI/CD
4 23 (15.44%) Observability
5 22 (14.77%) AI
6 20 (13.42%) Mathematics
7 19 (12.75%) Analytics
7 19 (12.75%) Multithreading
8 16 (10.74%) Computer Science
9 15 (10.07%) Validation
10 13 (8.72%) DevOps
10 13 (8.72%) Performance Optimisation
11 12 (8.05%) Algorithmic Trading
11 12 (8.05%) Test Automation
12 11 (7.38%) Performance Engineering
12 11 (7.38%) Software Testing
13 10 (6.71%) Agile
14 9 (6.04%) Software Architecture
14 9 (6.04%) Ultra-Low Latency
Programming Languages
1 74 (49.66%) Python
2 42 (28.19%) Java
3 40 (26.85%) C#
4 33 (22.15%) SQL
5 27 (18.12%) C
6 22 (14.77%) Rust
7 18 (12.08%) TypeScript
8 11 (7.38%) PowerShell
9 9 (6.04%) Go
10 8 (5.37%) R
11 7 (4.70%) JavaScript
12 6 (4.03%) Perl
13 4 (2.68%) Embedded C++
13 4 (2.68%) PL/SQL
14 2 (1.34%) Shell Script
15 1 (0.67%) COBOL
15 1 (0.67%) Embedded C
15 1 (0.67%) Fortran
15 1 (0.67%) Haskell
15 1 (0.67%) Swift
Qualifications
1 31 (20.81%) Degree
2 10 (6.71%) Computer Science Degree
2 10 (6.71%) Security Cleared
3 5 (3.36%) Master's Degree
3 5 (3.36%) PhD
4 4 (2.68%) SC Cleared
5 3 (2.01%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.34%) Numerate Degree
7 1 (0.67%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.68%) Data Quality
1 4 (2.68%) ISO 15022
1 4 (2.68%) ISO 20022
2 3 (2.01%) Automotive SPICE
3 2 (1.34%) MISRA
3 2 (1.34%) QA
4 1 (0.67%) JTAG
System Software
1 5 (3.36%) Firmware
2 3 (2.01%) Docker
2 3 (2.01%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.67%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 15 (10.07%) Kubernetes
2 8 (5.37%) Progress Chef
2 8 (5.37%) Puppet
3 6 (4.03%) Ansible
4 3 (2.01%) Functional Safety
4 3 (2.01%) Grafana
5 2 (1.34%) Cilium
5 2 (1.34%) ITRS Geneos
5 2 (1.34%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (1.34%) ZABBIX
6 1 (0.67%) Argo
6 1 (0.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 13 (8.72%) Oracle
2 9 (6.04%) Microsoft
3 6 (4.03%) IBM
3 6 (4.03%) SaltStack
4 5 (3.36%) Red Hat
5 4 (2.68%) Cisco
6 2 (1.34%) ION Trading
6 2 (1.34%) Perforce
6 2 (1.34%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.34%) Splunk
7 1 (0.67%) Arista
7 1 (0.67%) Ciena
7 1 (0.67%) FIS
7 1 (0.67%) Google
7 1 (0.67%) MarketAxess
7 1 (0.67%) Mistral
7 1 (0.67%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.67%) Tradeweb
7 1 (0.67%) VMware
7 1 (0.67%) Xilinx