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 15 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 276 145 168
Rank change year-on-year -131 +23 -72
Contract jobs citing C++ 144 235 283
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.76% 1.91% 1.60%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.43% 4.82% 4.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 148 187
10th Percentile £393 £431 £400
25th Percentile £513 £613 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £775 £663
Median % change year-on-year -16.13% +16.98% -8.62%
75th Percentile £800 £875 £844
90th Percentile £893 £1,036 £950
England median daily rate £600 £707 £575
% change year-on-year -15.07% +22.87% -11.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 6
10th Percentile - - £43.54
25th Percentile £26.25 - £46.75
Median hourly rate £27.50 - £59.13
75th Percentile £28.75 - £71.88
90th Percentile - - £72.19
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 5,935 4,871 6,666
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 31.39% 39.51% 37.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,954 3,420 5,061
10th Percentile £375 £375 £375
25th Percentile £438 £431 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £700
90th Percentile £775 £825 £838
England median daily rate £513 £521 £538
% change year-on-year -1.54% -3.25% -4.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 42 51
10th Percentile £32.93 £29.01 £23.80
25th Percentile £37.00 £33.25 £36.91
Median hourly rate £58.50 £40.25 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year +45.34% -20.30% -15.83%
75th Percentile £74.50 £57.81 £61.97
90th Percentile £89.13 £85.63 £72.50
England median hourly rate £65.00 £56.75 £62.50
% change year-on-year +14.54% -9.20% -

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 15 June 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++
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 15 June 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 -27 18 £800 - 27
South London -8 3 - - 1
East London - 2 £334 - 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 5 (3.47%) Apache Spark
1 5 (3.47%) Confluence
2 3 (2.08%) IIS
3 2 (1.39%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.69%) MTS
4 1 (0.69%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.69%) WebSphere
Applications
1 6 (4.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (2.08%) Orchestrade
2 2 (1.39%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 13 (9.03%) AWS
2 8 (5.56%) Azure
3 5 (3.47%) GCP
3 5 (3.47%) GitHub
4 2 (1.39%) Amazon Bedrock
4 2 (1.39%) Amazon EMR
4 2 (1.39%) Amazon Kinesis
4 2 (1.39%) AWS IoT
4 2 (1.39%) SaaS
5 1 (0.69%) Entra ID
5 1 (0.69%) Google Drive
5 1 (0.69%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 1 (0.69%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (0.69%) OneDrive
5 1 (0.69%) PaaS
5 1 (0.69%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 8 (5.56%) HTTP
2 6 (4.17%) TCP/IP
3 5 (3.47%) Ethernet
3 5 (3.47%) Modbus
3 5 (3.47%) RS-232
3 5 (3.47%) RS-485
4 3 (2.08%) 3GPP
4 3 (2.08%) MQTT
4 3 (2.08%) MVNO
4 3 (2.08%) Network Security
4 3 (2.08%) SMPP
4 3 (2.08%) SMS
4 3 (2.08%) VXLAN
5 2 (1.39%) Firewall
5 2 (1.39%) Internet
5 2 (1.39%) Multicast
5 2 (1.39%) NaaS
5 2 (1.39%) NAS
5 2 (1.39%) SAN
5 2 (1.39%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.47%) NoSQL
2 3 (2.08%) Big Data
2 3 (2.08%) Hadoop
3 2 (1.39%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (1.39%) Apache Cassandra
3 2 (1.39%) Data Lake
3 2 (1.39%) Data Mining
3 2 (1.39%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (1.39%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (1.39%) Flink
3 2 (1.39%) InfluxDB
3 2 (1.39%) MongoDB
3 2 (1.39%) MySQL
3 2 (1.39%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (1.39%) TimescaleDB
4 1 (0.69%) KDB
4 1 (0.69%) Kdb+
4 1 (0.69%) NonStop SQL
4 1 (0.69%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.69%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 9 (6.25%) JIRA
2 6 (4.17%) Jenkins
3 4 (2.78%) Git
4 2 (1.39%) Artifactory
4 2 (1.39%) Robot Framework
4 2 (1.39%) Subversion
4 2 (1.39%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.69%) CMake
5 1 (0.69%) Fiddler
5 1 (0.69%) GitLab
5 1 (0.69%) GoogleTest
5 1 (0.69%) JUnit
5 1 (0.69%) MSI
5 1 (0.69%) VTune
General
1 78 (54.17%) Finance
2 31 (21.53%) Analytical Skills
3 22 (15.28%) Banking
4 21 (14.58%) Social Skills
5 18 (12.50%) Front Office
6 16 (11.11%) Investment Banking
7 8 (5.56%) Telecoms
8 5 (3.47%) Agriculture
9 3 (2.08%) Financial Institution
9 3 (2.08%) Legal
10 2 (1.39%) Billing
10 2 (1.39%) Games
10 2 (1.39%) Japanese Language
10 2 (1.39%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.69%) Korean Language
11 1 (0.69%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.69%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 60 (41.67%) Developer
2 46 (31.94%) Senior
3 31 (21.53%) C++ Developer
4 26 (18.06%) Software Engineer
5 23 (15.97%) C++ Software Engineer
6 20 (13.89%) Quantitative Developer
7 19 (13.19%) Senior Developer
8 17 (11.81%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
8 17 (11.81%) Senior Software Engineer
9 15 (10.42%) Senior C++ Developer
10 9 (6.25%) Linux Engineer
11 8 (5.56%) Python Developer
12 7 (4.86%) C++ Quantitative Developer
12 7 (4.86%) Embedded Engineer
13 6 (4.17%) Kafka Engineer
13 6 (4.17%) Linux Developer
13 6 (4.17%) Senior Linux Engineer
13 6 (4.17%) Senior Unix Engineer
13 6 (4.17%) Unix Engineer
13 6 (4.17%) Unix Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (9.72%) Kafka
2 12 (8.33%) FIX Protocol
3 10 (6.94%) .NET
4 8 (5.56%) WebSockets
5 6 (4.17%) Web Services
6 5 (3.47%) XML
7 4 (2.78%) HTML
7 4 (2.78%) NumPy
7 4 (2.78%) Pandas
8 3 (2.08%) Boost C++ Libraries
8 3 (2.08%) COM
8 3 (2.08%) gRPC
8 3 (2.08%) OpenTelemetry
8 3 (2.08%) React
8 3 (2.08%) REST
8 3 (2.08%) SciPy
8 3 (2.08%) WinForms
9 2 (1.39%) eBPF
9 2 (1.39%) OpenAPI
9 2 (1.39%) Plotly
Miscellaneous
1 29 (20.14%) Derivative
2 21 (14.58%) Distributed Systems
3 19 (13.19%) Algorithms
4 17 (11.81%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 15 (10.42%) Data Structures
6 12 (8.33%) Equities
7 9 (6.25%) Equity Derivative
8 7 (4.86%) Cloud Native
8 7 (4.86%) Data Protection Act
9 6 (4.17%) Greenfield Project
9 6 (4.17%) IoT
9 6 (4.17%) Legacy Systems
10 5 (3.47%) Embedded Systems
10 5 (3.47%) Exotic Derivative
10 5 (3.47%) Onboarding
11 4 (2.78%) OTC Derivatives
12 3 (2.08%) Credit Derivative
12 3 (2.08%) Fixed Income
12 3 (2.08%) Java Card
12 3 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 52 (36.11%) Linux
2 24 (16.67%) Unix
3 11 (7.64%) Windows
4 5 (3.47%) FreeRTOS
5 4 (2.78%) Android
5 4 (2.78%) Apple iOS
5 4 (2.78%) Solaris
6 1 (0.69%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (32.64%) Software Engineering
2 36 (25.00%) Low Latency
3 35 (24.31%) Problem-Solving
4 20 (13.89%) Analytics
4 20 (13.89%) Multithreading
5 18 (12.50%) Agile
6 17 (11.81%) Mathematics
7 15 (10.42%) CI/CD
7 15 (10.42%) Observability
8 13 (9.03%) Quantitative Finance
9 12 (8.33%) Computer Science
9 12 (8.33%) Ultra-Low Latency
10 11 (7.64%) Algorithmic Trading
10 11 (7.64%) Continuous Improvement
10 11 (7.64%) Validation
11 10 (6.94%) Performance Optimisation
12 9 (6.25%) Full-Stack Development
12 9 (6.25%) Test Automation
13 8 (5.56%) Backtesting
13 8 (5.56%) Financial Modelling
Programming Languages
1 71 (49.31%) Python
2 49 (34.03%) C#
3 48 (33.33%) SQL
4 32 (22.22%) Java
5 21 (14.58%) C
6 16 (11.11%) Rust
7 15 (10.42%) TypeScript
8 11 (7.64%) PowerShell
9 6 (4.17%) R
10 5 (3.47%) Embedded C++
11 4 (2.78%) Go
12 3 (2.08%) JavaScript
13 2 (1.39%) Ada
13 2 (1.39%) COBOL
13 2 (1.39%) Shell Script
13 2 (1.39%) VBA
14 1 (0.69%) Bash
14 1 (0.69%) Embedded C
14 1 (0.69%) Erlang
14 1 (0.69%) Fortran
Qualifications
1 32 (22.22%) Degree
2 6 (4.17%) Security Cleared
3 4 (2.78%) Master's Degree
3 4 (2.78%) Numerate Degree
4 3 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (2.08%) PhD
5 2 (1.39%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.69%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.08%) QA
2 2 (1.39%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.39%) DICOM
2 2 (1.39%) HL7
3 1 (0.69%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.69%) ISO 15022
3 1 (0.69%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 7 (4.86%) Firmware
2 5 (3.47%) Embedded Firmware
3 3 (2.08%) Docker
4 2 (1.39%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.39%) HDFS
5 1 (0.69%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 7 (4.86%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.78%) Grafana
3 2 (1.39%) Amdocs OSS
3 2 (1.39%) Ansible
3 2 (1.39%) Cilium
3 2 (1.39%) ITRS Geneos
3 2 (1.39%) Prometheus
3 2 (1.39%) ZABBIX
4 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 21 (14.58%) Oracle
2 3 (2.08%) Cisco
2 3 (2.08%) Thales
3 2 (1.39%) Amdocs
3 2 (1.39%) Bloomberg
3 2 (1.39%) Ciena
3 2 (1.39%) Databricks
3 2 (1.39%) Dynatrace
3 2 (1.39%) IBM
3 2 (1.39%) ION Trading
3 2 (1.39%) OpenAI
3 2 (1.39%) Perforce
3 2 (1.39%) Salesforce
3 2 (1.39%) ServiceNow
3 2 (1.39%) Splunk
3 2 (1.39%) Veritas
4 1 (0.69%) BT
4 1 (0.69%) Google
4 1 (0.69%) MarketAxess
4 1 (0.69%) Tradeweb