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

6 months to
23 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 150 171 147
Rank change year-on-year +21 -24 -46
Contract jobs citing C++ 270 224 321
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.87% 1.50% 1.73%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.98% 3.91% 4.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 156 147 224
10th Percentile £400 £326 £393
25th Percentile £522 £453 £517
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £710 £700 £650
Median % change year-on-year +1.43% +7.69% -10.34%
75th Percentile £800 £825 £832
90th Percentile £1,000 £913 £950
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 £66.75
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 5,425 5,732 6,687
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 37.65% 38.39% 36.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,638 3,856 5,041
10th Percentile £368 £374 £400
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 £800
England median daily rate £513 £542 £550
% change year-on-year -5.44% -1.46% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 39 65
10th Percentile £25.75 £35.60 £26.24
25th Percentile £35.25 £40.06 £36.28
Median hourly rate £54.00 £52.50 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% +3.96% -12.17%
75th Percentile £65.25 £66.88 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £97.50 £72.50
England median hourly rate £65.00 £63.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +3.17% +0.80% -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 23 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 23 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 23 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 +3 39 £650 - 81
East London - 8 £1,000 - 8
West London -20 6 £365 -11.52% 10
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 (2.96%) Apache
2 5 (1.85%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.11%) Confluence
Applications
1 11 (4.07%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.74%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 39 (14.44%) AWS
2 23 (8.52%) Azure
3 12 (4.44%) Serverless
4 9 (3.33%) GCP
5 8 (2.96%) GitHub
6 4 (1.48%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (1.11%) Amazon S3
7 3 (1.11%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (1.11%) ChatGPT
7 3 (1.11%) Datadog
7 3 (1.11%) GitHub Copilot
8 2 (0.74%) Amazon Bedrock
8 2 (0.74%) Amazon EMR
8 2 (0.74%) Amazon Kinesis
8 2 (0.74%) Anthropic Claude
8 2 (0.74%) Entra ID
8 2 (0.74%) OpenShift
8 2 (0.74%) Power Platform
9 1 (0.37%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (0.37%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.22%) Multicast
2 5 (1.85%) BGP
2 5 (1.85%) DNS
2 5 (1.85%) EIGRP
2 5 (1.85%) HTTPS
2 5 (1.85%) IPsec
2 5 (1.85%) OSPF
2 5 (1.85%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.74%) Ethernet
3 2 (0.74%) Modbus
3 2 (0.74%) RS-232
3 2 (0.74%) RS-485
4 1 (0.37%) Firewall
4 1 (0.37%) Network Security
4 1 (0.37%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (5.56%) Big Data
2 7 (2.59%) Oracle Database
3 4 (1.48%) Hadoop
3 4 (1.48%) Metadata
4 3 (1.11%) KDB
4 3 (1.11%) Kdb+
5 2 (0.74%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (0.74%) BigQuery
5 2 (0.74%) Data Lake
5 2 (0.74%) Data Mining
5 2 (0.74%) Neo4j
5 2 (0.74%) NonStop SQL
5 2 (0.74%) Pinecone
5 2 (0.74%) Power BI
5 2 (0.74%) SQL Server
5 2 (0.74%) Weaviate
6 1 (0.37%) HBase
6 1 (0.37%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.37%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.37%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 30 (11.11%) Git
2 8 (2.96%) GCC
3 7 (2.59%) Jenkins
3 7 (2.59%) JIRA
4 6 (2.22%) GDB
4 6 (2.22%) Gradle
4 6 (2.22%) JUnit
4 6 (2.22%) Visual Studio
5 3 (1.11%) SonarQube
6 2 (0.74%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.74%) Clang
6 2 (0.74%) Maven
7 1 (0.37%) Appium
7 1 (0.37%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.37%) ClearCase
7 1 (0.37%) CMake
7 1 (0.37%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.37%) GitLab
7 1 (0.37%) Selenium
7 1 (0.37%) Subversion
General
1 145 (53.70%) Finance
2 46 (17.04%) Banking
3 44 (16.30%) Social Skills
4 41 (15.19%) Front Office
5 27 (10.00%) Investment Banking
6 24 (8.89%) Analytical Skills
7 14 (5.19%) Financial Institution
8 9 (3.33%) Public Sector
9 6 (2.22%) Games
10 5 (1.85%) International Banking
10 5 (1.85%) Law
11 4 (1.48%) Marketing
12 3 (1.11%) Agriculture
12 3 (1.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 2 (0.74%) Automotive
13 2 (0.74%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.74%) Electronics
13 2 (0.74%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.74%) Multimedia
13 2 (0.74%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 122 (45.19%) Developer
2 68 (25.19%) Senior
3 65 (24.07%) Software Engineer
4 53 (19.63%) C++ Developer
5 38 (14.07%) Quantitative Developer
6 31 (11.48%) Python Developer
6 31 (11.48%) Senior Software Engineer
7 30 (11.11%) C++ Software Engineer
8 23 (8.52%) Linux Engineer
9 19 (7.04%) Linux Developer
10 18 (6.67%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
11 16 (5.93%) Kafka Engineer
11 16 (5.93%) Senior Linux Engineer
11 16 (5.93%) Senior Unix Engineer
11 16 (5.93%) Unix Engineer
11 16 (5.93%) Unix Linux Engineer
12 14 (5.19%) AWS Developer
12 14 (5.19%) C++ Quantitative Developer
12 14 (5.19%) JavaScript Developer
12 14 (5.19%) Low Latency C++ Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (17.78%) Kafka
2 23 (8.52%) React
3 22 (8.15%) AngularJS
4 21 (7.78%) NumPy
5 20 (7.41%) Pandas
5 20 (7.41%) SciPy
6 15 (5.56%) Vue
7 14 (5.19%) FastAPI
7 14 (5.19%) Flask
7 14 (5.19%) Polars
8 11 (4.07%) .NET
8 11 (4.07%) HTML
9 8 (2.96%) Apache NiFi
9 8 (2.96%) iOS SDK
9 8 (2.96%) PyTorch
9 8 (2.96%) TensorFlow
10 7 (2.59%) CSS
10 7 (2.59%) FIX Protocol
10 7 (2.59%) REST
11 6 (2.22%) Boost C++ Libraries
Miscellaneous
1 48 (17.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 36 (13.33%) Equities
3 35 (12.96%) Derivative
4 23 (8.52%) Algorithms
5 19 (7.04%) Equity Derivative
6 16 (5.93%) Distributed Systems
6 16 (5.93%) Hedge funds
7 14 (5.19%) Data Protection Act
8 11 (4.07%) Data Structures
8 11 (4.07%) Virtual Reality
9 10 (3.70%) Distributed Computing
9 10 (3.70%) Greenfield Project
10 8 (2.96%) Augmented Reality
10 8 (2.96%) Embedded Systems
11 6 (2.22%) AI Agents
11 6 (2.22%) Distributed Architecture
12 5 (1.85%) FPGA
12 5 (1.85%) PKI
12 5 (1.85%) Product Ownership
13 4 (1.48%) Credit Risk
Operating Systems
1 116 (42.96%) Linux
2 47 (17.41%) Unix
3 19 (7.04%) Windows
4 13 (4.81%) Android
5 8 (2.96%) Apple iOS
6 6 (2.22%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.74%) FreeRTOS
8 1 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.37%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (42.22%) Software Engineering
2 68 (25.19%) Agile
3 55 (20.37%) Mathematics
4 47 (17.41%) CI/CD
5 46 (17.04%) Low Latency
6 36 (13.33%) Computer Science
7 35 (12.96%) Problem-Solving
8 28 (10.37%) Clean Code
9 27 (10.00%) Risk Management
10 26 (9.63%) Mentoring
11 25 (9.26%) Analytics
11 25 (9.26%) Data Engineering
11 25 (9.26%) Data Pipeline
12 21 (7.78%) Quantitative Finance
13 20 (7.41%) Machine Learning
13 20 (7.41%) Multithreading
13 20 (7.41%) Test Automation
14 19 (7.04%) DevOps
14 19 (7.04%) SDLC
15 18 (6.67%) Quantitative Research
Programming Languages
1 139 (51.48%) Python
2 90 (33.33%) C#
3 80 (29.63%) Java
4 76 (28.15%) SQL
5 36 (13.33%) JavaScript
6 26 (9.63%) Rust
7 21 (7.78%) C
8 13 (4.81%) Kotlin
9 9 (3.33%) Bash
10 7 (2.59%) TypeScript
11 6 (2.22%) Go
11 6 (2.22%) Perl
11 6 (2.22%) PHP
11 6 (2.22%) R
12 5 (1.85%) PowerShell
13 4 (1.48%) Embedded C++
13 4 (1.48%) PL/SQL
13 4 (1.48%) VBA
14 2 (0.74%) Ada
14 2 (0.74%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 64 (23.70%) Degree
2 20 (7.41%) Security Cleared
3 17 (6.30%) Master's Degree
4 15 (5.56%) SC Cleared
5 14 (5.19%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (4.44%) Numerate Degree
7 11 (4.07%) DV Cleared
8 5 (1.85%) CCNP
8 5 (1.85%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (1.85%) JNCIA
8 5 (1.85%) JNCIS
8 5 (1.85%) PhD
9 4 (1.48%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.74%) GPEN
10 2 (0.74%) GWAPT
10 2 (0.74%) MCP
10 2 (0.74%) OSCP
11 1 (0.37%) ISTQB
11 1 (0.37%) OSCE
11 1 (0.37%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.07%) QA
2 4 (1.48%) Data Quality
2 4 (1.48%) EMIR
2 4 (1.48%) SLA
3 2 (0.74%) NIST
4 1 (0.37%) MiFID
System Software
1 36 (13.33%) Docker
2 8 (2.96%) Firmware
3 3 (1.11%) Embedded Firmware
4 2 (0.74%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.74%) HDFS
4 2 (0.74%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.37%) KVM
5 1 (0.37%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 32 (11.85%) Kubernetes
2 6 (2.22%) Ansible
2 6 (2.22%) Terraform
3 2 (0.74%) Puppet
4 1 (0.37%) Grafana
4 1 (0.37%) Oracle Identity Management
4 1 (0.37%) Progress Chef
4 1 (0.37%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 33 (12.22%) Oracle
2 6 (2.22%) Cisco
2 6 (2.22%) Microsoft
3 5 (1.85%) Juniper
3 5 (1.85%) Solace
3 5 (1.85%) Sophis
4 4 (1.48%) SAP
5 3 (1.11%) Alibaba
5 3 (1.11%) Databricks
5 3 (1.11%) Google
6 2 (0.74%) CrowdStrike
6 2 (0.74%) Dynatrace
6 2 (0.74%) HP
6 2 (0.74%) OpenAI
6 2 (0.74%) Palantir
7 1 (0.37%) Calypso
7 1 (0.37%) Murex
7 1 (0.37%) NetApp
7 1 (0.37%) Remedy
7 1 (0.37%) VMware