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 26 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 136 165 112
Rank change year-on-year +29 -53 -3
Contract jobs citing C++ 289 243 459
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.16% 1.54% 2.22%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.64% 3.92% 5.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 170 164 325
10th Percentile £412 £319 £455
25th Percentile £513 £449 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £688 £675
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% +1.85% -9.79%
75th Percentile £800 £810 £875
90th Percentile £1,000 £913 £1,000
England median daily rate £625 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +13.64% -8.33% -11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 5 13
10th Percentile £34.15 £49.45 £42.38
25th Percentile £46.00 £51.25 £49.88
Median hourly rate £56.50 £67.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.30% +22.73% -6.76%
75th Percentile £61.25 £71.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.70 £71.53 £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 5,125 6,202 7,675
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 38.22% 39.42% 37.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,453 4,278 5,787
10th Percentile £371 £370 £400
25th Percentile £430 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £565 £590
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% -4.24% -1.67%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £713
90th Percentile £800 £838 £825
England median daily rate £513 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -5.09% -1.82% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 71 43 64
10th Percentile £23.45 £35.15 £25.49
25th Percentile £32.06 £40.06 £38.95
Median hourly rate £43.50 £49.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.12% -10.00% -4.35%
75th Percentile £62.88 £71.44 £70.00
90th Percentile £87.50 £97.50 £86.09
England median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -

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 26 October 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 26 October 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 26 October 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 +4 32 £600 -14.89% 124
West London -18 12 £400 -17.53% 26
East London - 8 £1,000 - 8
South London -2 4 £738 - 5
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 9 (3.11%) Apache
1 9 (3.11%) Apache Spark
2 4 (1.38%) Confluence
3 1 (0.35%) IBM HTTP Server
3 1 (0.35%) JBoss
3 1 (0.35%) WebSphere
Applications
1 9 (3.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.35%) CANalyzer
Business Applications
1 1 (0.35%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 58 (20.07%) AWS
2 37 (12.80%) Azure
3 16 (5.54%) GCP
4 15 (5.19%) GitHub
5 8 (2.77%) Serverless
6 5 (1.73%) OpenShift
7 4 (1.38%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (1.38%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (0.69%) Entra ID
9 1 (0.35%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (0.35%) Azure Stack
9 1 (0.35%) Datadog
9 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Purview
9 1 (0.35%) Power Platform
9 1 (0.35%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.11%) Multicast
1 9 (3.11%) TCP/IP
2 6 (2.08%) BGP
2 6 (2.08%) DNS
2 6 (2.08%) EIGRP
2 6 (2.08%) HTTPS
2 6 (2.08%) IPsec
2 6 (2.08%) OSPF
3 2 (0.69%) Internet
3 2 (0.69%) LAN
3 2 (0.69%) SMS
4 1 (0.35%) Firewall
4 1 (0.35%) J1939
4 1 (0.35%) Network Security
4 1 (0.35%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (5.88%) Big Data
2 8 (2.77%) Oracle Database
3 6 (2.08%) KDB
3 6 (2.08%) NoSQL
4 5 (1.73%) Metadata
5 4 (1.38%) Data Mining
5 4 (1.38%) Relational Database
6 3 (1.04%) HPCC
6 3 (1.04%) Kdb+
7 2 (0.69%) BigQuery
7 2 (0.69%) DB2
7 2 (0.69%) RDBMS
7 2 (0.69%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.35%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.35%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.35%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.35%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.35%) NonStop SQL
8 1 (0.35%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.35%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 53 (18.34%) Git
2 13 (4.50%) GCC
3 12 (4.15%) Jenkins
4 9 (3.11%) Artifactory
4 9 (3.11%) GDB
5 7 (2.42%) Gradle
6 6 (2.08%) JIRA
7 5 (1.73%) JUnit
8 4 (1.38%) Bitbucket
8 4 (1.38%) Clang
8 4 (1.38%) Maven
9 3 (1.04%) GitLab
10 2 (0.69%) CMake
10 2 (0.69%) Eclipse
10 2 (0.69%) IntelliJ
10 2 (0.69%) Mercurial
10 2 (0.69%) Subversion
10 2 (0.69%) Visual Studio
11 1 (0.35%) Ant
11 1 (0.35%) ClearCase
General
1 131 (45.33%) Finance
2 58 (20.07%) Banking
3 52 (17.99%) Social Skills
4 51 (17.65%) Front Office
5 35 (12.11%) Investment Banking
6 27 (9.34%) Analytical Skills
7 17 (5.88%) Public Sector
8 11 (3.81%) Financial Institution
9 8 (2.77%) International Banking
10 7 (2.42%) Games
11 6 (2.08%) Electronics
11 6 (2.08%) Manufacturing
11 6 (2.08%) Marketing
11 6 (2.08%) Telecoms
12 5 (1.73%) Law
13 3 (1.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 3 (1.04%) Military
14 2 (0.69%) Presentation Skills
15 1 (0.35%) Documentation Skills
15 1 (0.35%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 129 (44.64%) Developer
2 62 (21.45%) Software Engineer
3 56 (19.38%) Senior
4 55 (19.03%) C++ Developer
5 34 (11.76%) Python Developer
6 28 (9.69%) Quantitative Developer
7 25 (8.65%) C++ Software Engineer
8 24 (8.30%) Senior Software Engineer
9 19 (6.57%) Linux Engineer
10 18 (6.23%) AWS Developer
10 18 (6.23%) JavaScript Developer
11 15 (5.19%) Analyst
12 12 (4.15%) Linux Developer
12 12 (4.15%) Python Engineer
12 12 (4.15%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
13 11 (3.81%) Kafka Engineer
13 11 (3.81%) Senior Linux Engineer
13 11 (3.81%) Senior Unix Engineer
13 11 (3.81%) Unix Engineer
13 11 (3.81%) Unix Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (15.57%) Kafka
2 30 (10.38%) React
3 26 (9.00%) AngularJS
4 20 (6.92%) NumPy
4 20 (6.92%) Pandas
5 19 (6.57%) SciPy
5 19 (6.57%) Vue
6 18 (6.23%) FastAPI
6 18 (6.23%) FIX Protocol
6 18 (6.23%) Flask
6 18 (6.23%) Polars
7 16 (5.54%) Middleware
8 15 (5.19%) HTML
9 13 (4.50%) STL
10 12 (4.15%) .NET
11 10 (3.46%) Boost C++ Libraries
11 10 (3.46%) JSON
12 9 (3.11%) REST
13 8 (2.77%) Apache NiFi
13 8 (2.77%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 55 (19.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 37 (12.80%) Derivative
3 30 (10.38%) Equities
4 20 (6.92%) Algorithms
4 20 (6.92%) Hedge funds
5 19 (6.57%) Distributed Systems
6 18 (6.23%) Equity Derivative
7 16 (5.54%) Distributed Computing
8 11 (3.81%) Data Structures
9 10 (3.46%) Virtual Reality
10 9 (3.11%) Distributed Architecture
11 8 (2.77%) Fixed Income
12 7 (2.42%) Augmented Reality
12 7 (2.42%) Data Protection Act
13 6 (2.08%) Embedded Systems
13 6 (2.08%) PKI
14 5 (1.73%) Greenfield Project
14 5 (1.73%) Product Ownership
15 4 (1.38%) Reference Data
16 3 (1.04%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 125 (43.25%) Linux
2 49 (16.96%) Unix
3 25 (8.65%) Windows
4 13 (4.50%) Android
5 7 (2.42%) Apple iOS
6 5 (1.73%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.35%) AIX
8 1 (0.35%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (38.06%) Software Engineering
2 68 (23.53%) Agile
3 63 (21.80%) CI/CD
4 57 (19.72%) Mathematics
5 56 (19.38%) Low Latency
6 39 (13.49%) Computer Science
6 39 (13.49%) Problem-Solving
7 31 (10.73%) Clean Code
7 31 (10.73%) Data Pipeline
8 30 (10.38%) Data Engineering
9 27 (9.34%) Risk Management
10 22 (7.61%) DevOps
10 22 (7.61%) Mentoring
11 20 (6.92%) Machine Learning
12 18 (6.23%) OO
12 18 (6.23%) Structured Programming
12 18 (6.23%) Systematic Trading
13 17 (5.88%) Analytics
13 17 (5.88%) Multithreading
13 17 (5.88%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 176 (60.90%) Python
2 107 (37.02%) Java
3 87 (30.10%) C#
4 77 (26.64%) SQL
5 45 (15.57%) JavaScript
6 39 (13.49%) C
7 31 (10.73%) Rust
8 13 (4.50%) Bash
8 13 (4.50%) Kotlin
9 12 (4.15%) Perl
9 12 (4.15%) PowerShell
9 12 (4.15%) Shell Script
10 11 (3.81%) Go
11 9 (3.11%) PHP
12 8 (2.77%) PL/SQL
13 6 (2.08%) TypeScript
14 5 (1.73%) Groovy
15 4 (1.38%) VBA
16 3 (1.04%) Embedded C++
17 2 (0.69%) VC++
Qualifications
1 60 (20.76%) Degree
2 22 (7.61%) Security Cleared
3 19 (6.57%) Master's Degree
4 17 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
4 17 (5.88%) SC Cleared
5 11 (3.81%) PhD
6 10 (3.46%) DV Cleared
7 8 (2.77%) CCNP
7 8 (2.77%) Cisco Certification
7 8 (2.77%) Numerate Degree
8 6 (2.08%) JNCIA
8 6 (2.08%) JNCIS
9 4 (1.38%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (1.04%) OSCP
11 2 (0.69%) CCNA
11 2 (0.69%) GPEN
11 2 (0.69%) GWAPT
11 2 (0.69%) OCA
11 2 (0.69%) OCP
11 2 (0.69%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.46%) QA
2 3 (1.04%) EMIR
3 2 (0.69%) Data Quality
3 2 (0.69%) NIST
4 1 (0.35%) SLA
System Software
1 47 (16.26%) Docker
2 7 (2.42%) Firmware
3 3 (1.04%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.04%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.69%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.69%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.35%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (0.35%) KVM
Systems Management
1 51 (17.65%) Kubernetes
2 13 (4.50%) Ansible
3 11 (3.81%) Terraform
4 7 (2.42%) 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
Vendors
1 30 (10.38%) Oracle
2 11 (3.81%) Microsoft
3 9 (3.11%) SAP
4 8 (2.77%) Cisco
4 8 (2.77%) Solace
5 6 (2.08%) Juniper
5 6 (2.08%) Sophis
6 4 (1.38%) Google
6 4 (1.38%) Splunk
7 3 (1.04%) Alibaba
7 3 (1.04%) VMware
8 2 (0.69%) CrowdStrike
8 2 (0.69%) Dynatrace
8 2 (0.69%) IBM
8 2 (0.69%) Murex
8 2 (0.69%) Palantir
8 2 (0.69%) Virgin Media
9 1 (0.35%) Databricks
9 1 (0.35%) Ruckus Wireless
9 1 (0.35%) ServiceNow