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

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 132 179 129
Rank change year-on-year +47 -50 -26
Contract jobs citing C++ 288 233 382
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.03% 1.47% 1.93%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.31% 3.80% 5.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 167 155 265
10th Percentile £405 £319 £431
25th Percentile £509 £428 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £630 £700 £650
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +7.69% -10.34%
75th Percentile £775 £825 £875
90th Percentile £960 £913 £975
England median daily rate £625 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +13.64% -8.33% -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 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.30% +17.39% +8.55%
75th Percentile £61.25 £69.88 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.70 £70.55 £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 5,424 6,125 7,221
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 38.25% 38.66% 36.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,647 4,165 5,424
10th Percentile £363 £373 £390
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £575 £576
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% -0.09% -4.08%
75th Percentile £671 £700 £700
90th Percentile £797 £825 £810
England median daily rate £513 £543 £550
% change year-on-year -5.62% -1.27% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 42 69
10th Percentile £25.40 £35.85 £26.16
25th Percentile £34.48 £40.19 £36.28
Median hourly rate £47.50 £52.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £66.50 £67.81 £65.00
90th Percentile £87.50 £97.50 £73.92
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £61.84
% change year-on-year - +5.11% -1.06%

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 29 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 29 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 29 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 +11 37 £600 -14.89% 20
West London -26 9 £380 -20.00% 5
East London - 8 £1,000 - 3
South London - 4 £738 - 4
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 (3.47%) Apache
2 6 (2.08%) Confluence
3 5 (1.74%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.35%) JBoss
4 1 (0.35%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (2.43%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.35%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 51 (17.71%) AWS
2 33 (11.46%) Azure
3 16 (5.56%) GitHub
4 14 (4.86%) GCP
5 12 (4.17%) Serverless
6 5 (1.74%) OpenShift
7 4 (1.39%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (1.39%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (1.04%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (0.69%) Amazon S3
9 2 (0.69%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (0.69%) Datadog
9 2 (0.69%) Entra ID
9 2 (0.69%) Power Platform
10 1 (0.35%) Anthropic Claude
10 1 (0.35%) ChatGPT
10 1 (0.35%) Figma
10 1 (0.35%) GitHub Copilot
10 1 (0.35%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.47%) TCP/IP
2 8 (2.78%) 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 2 (0.69%) Ethernet
4 2 (0.69%) Modbus
4 2 (0.69%) RS-232
4 2 (0.69%) RS-485
5 1 (0.35%) Firewall
5 1 (0.35%) Network Security
5 1 (0.35%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (5.90%) Big Data
2 8 (2.78%) Oracle Database
3 6 (2.08%) NoSQL
4 5 (1.74%) KDB
4 5 (1.74%) Metadata
5 3 (1.04%) HPCC
5 3 (1.04%) Kdb+
6 2 (0.69%) BigQuery
6 2 (0.69%) Hadoop
6 2 (0.69%) Power BI
6 2 (0.69%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.35%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.35%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.35%) Data Mining
7 1 (0.35%) HBase
7 1 (0.35%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.35%) Neo4j
7 1 (0.35%) NonStop SQL
7 1 (0.35%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.35%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 45 (15.63%) Git
2 13 (4.51%) Jenkins
3 12 (4.17%) GCC
4 10 (3.47%) JIRA
5 8 (2.78%) Artifactory
5 8 (2.78%) GDB
6 7 (2.43%) Gradle
7 5 (1.74%) JUnit
8 4 (1.39%) Clang
8 4 (1.39%) Maven
8 4 (1.39%) Visual Studio
9 3 (1.04%) Bitbucket
9 3 (1.04%) GitLab
10 2 (0.69%) Eclipse
10 2 (0.69%) IntelliJ
10 2 (0.69%) Mercurial
10 2 (0.69%) Subversion
11 1 (0.35%) Ant
11 1 (0.35%) ClearCase
11 1 (0.35%) CMake
General
1 141 (48.96%) Finance
2 52 (18.06%) Front Office
3 50 (17.36%) Banking
4 49 (17.01%) Social Skills
5 30 (10.42%) Analytical Skills
6 28 (9.72%) Investment Banking
7 15 (5.21%) Public Sector
8 14 (4.86%) Financial Institution
9 8 (2.78%) Marketing
10 7 (2.43%) International Banking
11 6 (2.08%) Electronics
11 6 (2.08%) Games
11 6 (2.08%) Manufacturing
11 6 (2.08%) Telecoms
12 5 (1.74%) Law
13 3 (1.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 2 (0.69%) Documentation Skills
14 2 (0.69%) iGaming
14 2 (0.69%) Military
14 2 (0.69%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 121 (42.01%) Developer
2 65 (22.57%) Software Engineer
3 63 (21.88%) Senior
4 51 (17.71%) C++ Developer
5 34 (11.81%) Python Developer
6 31 (10.76%) Quantitative Developer
7 28 (9.72%) Senior Software Engineer
8 27 (9.38%) C++ Software Engineer
9 22 (7.64%) Linux Engineer
10 16 (5.56%) AWS Developer
10 16 (5.56%) JavaScript Developer
10 16 (5.56%) Linux Developer
11 15 (5.21%) Analyst
12 14 (4.86%) Kafka Engineer
12 14 (4.86%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
12 14 (4.86%) Senior Linux Engineer
12 14 (4.86%) Senior Unix Engineer
12 14 (4.86%) Unix Engineer
12 14 (4.86%) Unix Linux Engineer
13 12 (4.17%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (16.67%) Kafka
2 26 (9.03%) React
3 24 (8.33%) AngularJS
4 20 (6.94%) NumPy
5 19 (6.60%) Pandas
5 19 (6.60%) SciPy
6 17 (5.90%) Vue
7 16 (5.56%) FastAPI
7 16 (5.56%) FIX Protocol
7 16 (5.56%) Flask
7 16 (5.56%) Polars
8 15 (5.21%) Middleware
9 12 (4.17%) .NET
9 12 (4.17%) HTML
10 9 (3.13%) Apache NiFi
10 9 (3.13%) Boost C++ Libraries
10 9 (3.13%) JSON
10 9 (3.13%) STL
11 8 (2.78%) REST
12 7 (2.43%) iOS SDK
Miscellaneous
1 52 (18.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 39 (13.54%) Derivative
3 29 (10.07%) Equities
4 24 (8.33%) Algorithms
5 19 (6.60%) Hedge funds
6 17 (5.90%) Equity Derivative
7 15 (5.21%) Data Structures
7 15 (5.21%) Distributed Systems
8 12 (4.17%) Distributed Computing
9 10 (3.47%) Virtual Reality
10 9 (3.13%) Fixed Income
11 8 (2.78%) Data Protection Act
11 8 (2.78%) Distributed Architecture
12 7 (2.43%) Augmented Reality
12 7 (2.43%) Greenfield Project
13 6 (2.08%) Embedded Systems
13 6 (2.08%) PKI
14 5 (1.74%) Credit Risk
14 5 (1.74%) Product Ownership
15 4 (1.39%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 125 (43.40%) Linux
2 50 (17.36%) Unix
3 25 (8.68%) Windows
4 12 (4.17%) Android
5 7 (2.43%) Apple iOS
6 5 (1.74%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.69%) FreeRTOS
7 2 (0.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.35%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (40.63%) Software Engineering
2 75 (26.04%) Agile
3 56 (19.44%) Mathematics
4 54 (18.75%) CI/CD
5 49 (17.01%) Low Latency
6 42 (14.58%) Problem-Solving
7 39 (13.54%) Computer Science
8 28 (9.72%) Clean Code
8 28 (9.72%) Data Engineering
8 28 (9.72%) Data Pipeline
9 26 (9.03%) Mentoring
10 24 (8.33%) Risk Management
11 23 (7.99%) DevOps
12 21 (7.29%) Analytics
13 20 (6.94%) SDLC
13 20 (6.94%) Test Automation
14 18 (6.25%) Machine Learning
14 18 (6.25%) Multithreading
15 17 (5.90%) Physics
16 16 (5.56%) Structured Programming
Programming Languages
1 170 (59.03%) Python
2 97 (33.68%) Java
3 91 (31.60%) C#
4 80 (27.78%) SQL
5 42 (14.58%) JavaScript
6 32 (11.11%) C
7 27 (9.38%) Rust
8 13 (4.51%) Bash
8 13 (4.51%) Kotlin
9 12 (4.17%) Go
10 11 (3.82%) Perl
10 11 (3.82%) PowerShell
11 8 (2.78%) PHP
11 8 (2.78%) PL/SQL
12 5 (1.74%) Groovy
12 5 (1.74%) TypeScript
13 4 (1.39%) Embedded C++
13 4 (1.39%) R
13 4 (1.39%) Shell Script
13 4 (1.39%) VBA
Qualifications
1 58 (20.14%) Degree
2 23 (7.99%) Security Cleared
3 20 (6.94%) Master's Degree
4 17 (5.90%) SC Cleared
5 14 (4.86%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (4.17%) DV Cleared
7 9 (3.13%) PhD
8 8 (2.78%) CCNP
8 8 (2.78%) Cisco Certification
9 7 (2.43%) Numerate Degree
10 6 (2.08%) JNCIA
10 6 (2.08%) JNCIS
11 4 (1.39%) 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 12 (4.17%) QA
2 4 (1.39%) Data Quality
2 4 (1.39%) EMIR
3 2 (0.69%) NIST
3 2 (0.69%) SLA
4 1 (0.35%) MiFID
System Software
1 41 (14.24%) Docker
2 9 (3.13%) Firmware
3 3 (1.04%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.04%) Embedded Firmware
3 3 (1.04%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.69%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.69%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.35%) KVM
Systems Management
1 43 (14.93%) Kubernetes
2 14 (4.86%) Ansible
3 11 (3.82%) Terraform
4 8 (2.78%) 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 34 (11.81%) Oracle
2 10 (3.47%) Microsoft
3 9 (3.13%) SAP
4 8 (2.78%) Cisco
5 7 (2.43%) Solace
6 6 (2.08%) Juniper
7 5 (1.74%) Sophis
8 3 (1.04%) Alibaba
8 3 (1.04%) Google
8 3 (1.04%) VMware
9 2 (0.69%) Calypso
9 2 (0.69%) CrowdStrike
9 2 (0.69%) Databricks
9 2 (0.69%) Murex
9 2 (0.69%) Palantir
9 2 (0.69%) Splunk
10 1 (0.35%) HP
10 1 (0.35%) NetApp
10 1 (0.35%) Ruckus Wireless
10 1 (0.35%) ServiceNow