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

6 months to
29 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 309 135 166
Rank change year-on-year -174 +31 -60
Contract jobs citing C++ 147 276 259
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.73% 2.08% 1.60%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.32% 5.37% 4.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 162 173
10th Percentile £424 £406 £325
25th Percentile £538 £494 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £625 £675
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -7.41% -
75th Percentile £825 £800 £825
90th Percentile £889 £946 £913
England median daily rate £625 £625 £550
% change year-on-year - +13.64% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 7
10th Percentile £43.15 £33.90 £47.45
25th Percentile £44.13 £45.38 £49.75
Median hourly rate £47.00 £57.00 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.54% -15.56% +22.73%
75th Percentile £48.63 £63.94 £71.44
90th Percentile £48.85 £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 6,346 5,141 6,450
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 31.38% 38.72% 39.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,303 3,516 4,545
10th Percentile £375 £375 £369
25th Percentile £447 £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 £515 £545
% change year-on-year +1.94% -5.50% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 64 46
10th Percentile £26.52 £26.25 £25.99
25th Percentile £36.25 £33.25 £37.58
Median hourly rate £55.00 £44.20 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year +24.44% -8.87% -17.45%
75th Percentile £73.00 £63.38 £71.66
90th Percentile £88.75 £87.13 £97.50
England median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +13.04% -11.54% +3.17%

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 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++
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 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 -47 10 £678 +2.26% 70
South London -7 4 - - 5
East London 0 2 £334 -66.65% 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 4 (2.72%) WebSphere
2 3 (2.04%) IIS
3 2 (1.36%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.36%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.68%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.68%) MTS
4 1 (0.68%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (1.36%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (2.04%) Orchestrade
2 1 (0.68%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (0.68%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.68%) SunGard Martini
Cloud Services
1 22 (14.97%) AWS
2 16 (10.88%) Azure
3 11 (7.48%) GCP
4 5 (3.40%) IaaS
5 4 (2.72%) Snowflake
6 3 (2.04%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 3 (2.04%) SaaS
7 2 (1.36%) Anthropic Claude
7 2 (1.36%) AWS IoT
7 2 (1.36%) Entra ID
7 2 (1.36%) GitHub
7 2 (1.36%) GitHub Copilot
7 2 (1.36%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (1.36%) OneDrive
8 1 (0.68%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (0.68%) Amazon SQS
8 1 (0.68%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (0.68%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (0.68%) Boomi
8 1 (0.68%) Supabase
Communications & Networking
1 9 (6.12%) TCP/IP
2 7 (4.76%) HTTP
3 5 (3.40%) Firewall
4 4 (2.72%) DNS
5 3 (2.04%) MQTT
5 3 (2.04%) SSL
5 3 (2.04%) VXLAN
6 2 (1.36%) DHCP
6 2 (1.36%) Internet
6 2 (1.36%) Multicast
6 2 (1.36%) VPN
6 2 (1.36%) Wireshark
7 1 (0.68%) Bluetooth
7 1 (0.68%) IPv4
7 1 (0.68%) IPv6
7 1 (0.68%) LAN
7 1 (0.68%) MPLS
7 1 (0.68%) SSH
7 1 (0.68%) WAN
7 1 (0.68%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.04%) MySQL
1 3 (2.04%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.36%) MariaDB
2 2 (1.36%) NoSQL
2 2 (1.36%) Oracle Database
3 1 (0.68%) Big Data
3 1 (0.68%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.68%) DynamoDB
3 1 (0.68%) KDB
3 1 (0.68%) Kdb+
3 1 (0.68%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.68%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.68%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 15 (10.20%) Git
2 14 (9.52%) Jenkins
3 6 (4.08%) GitLab
4 4 (2.72%) Artifactory
4 4 (2.72%) TeamCity
5 3 (2.04%) Visual Studio
5 3 (2.04%) VTune
6 2 (1.36%) Ant
6 2 (1.36%) CMake
6 2 (1.36%) Eclipse
6 2 (1.36%) Fiddler
6 2 (1.36%) MSI
6 2 (1.36%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.68%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.68%) GoogleTest
7 1 (0.68%) PetaLinux
General
1 50 (34.01%) Finance
2 33 (22.45%) Banking
3 30 (20.41%) Analytical Skills
3 30 (20.41%) Social Skills
4 24 (16.33%) Front Office
5 19 (12.93%) Investment Banking
6 6 (4.08%) Automotive
7 4 (2.72%) Financial Institution
8 3 (2.04%) Legal
8 3 (2.04%) Public Sector
8 3 (2.04%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.36%) Games
9 2 (1.36%) Polish Language
10 1 (0.68%) Agriculture
10 1 (0.68%) Back Office
10 1 (0.68%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 38 (25.85%) Senior
2 37 (25.17%) Developer
3 27 (18.37%) Software Engineer
4 17 (11.56%) C++ Developer
5 16 (10.88%) C++ Software Engineer
6 14 (9.52%) Senior Developer
7 10 (6.80%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 10 (6.80%) Quantitative Developer
8 9 (6.12%) Senior Software Engineer
9 8 (5.44%) Analyst
9 8 (5.44%) Architect
9 8 (5.44%) Senior C++ Developer
9 8 (5.44%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
10 7 (4.76%) C# Developer
10 7 (4.76%) Linux Engineer
11 6 (4.08%) Robotics Engineer
11 6 (4.08%) Senior Architect
12 5 (3.40%) C++ Quantitative Developer
12 5 (3.40%) Support Engineer
12 5 (3.40%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (12.93%) .NET
2 16 (10.88%) XML
3 12 (8.16%) FIX Protocol
4 9 (6.12%) Kafka
5 7 (4.76%) WebSockets
6 6 (4.08%) JSON
6 6 (4.08%) React
6 6 (4.08%) Terraform
6 6 (4.08%) WinForms
7 5 (3.40%) Middleware
7 5 (3.40%) OpenTelemetry
7 5 (3.40%) Web Services
8 4 (2.72%) .NET Core
8 4 (2.72%) eBPF
8 4 (2.72%) WebSphere MQ
9 3 (2.04%) Apache NiFi
9 3 (2.04%) gRPC
9 3 (2.04%) OAuth
9 3 (2.04%) OpenID
9 3 (2.04%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 28 (19.05%) Derivative
2 26 (17.69%) Algorithms
2 26 (17.69%) Distributed Systems
3 19 (12.93%) Cloud Native
4 15 (10.20%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 12 (8.16%) Data Structures
6 10 (6.80%) AI Agents
7 8 (5.44%) Legacy Systems
8 7 (4.76%) Embedded Systems
8 7 (4.76%) Robotics
9 6 (4.08%) Data Protection Act
9 6 (4.08%) Equity Derivative
9 6 (4.08%) OTC Derivatives
9 6 (4.08%) Private Cloud
10 5 (3.40%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (3.40%) Fixed Income
10 5 (3.40%) Onboarding
11 4 (2.72%) Equities
11 4 (2.72%) Exotic Derivative
11 4 (2.72%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 49 (33.33%) Linux
2 17 (11.56%) Unix
2 17 (11.56%) Windows
3 10 (6.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (5.44%) Android
4 8 (5.44%) Apple iOS
5 4 (2.72%) Solaris
6 1 (0.68%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (0.68%) FreeRTOS
6 1 (0.68%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (38.10%) Software Engineering
2 33 (22.45%) Low Latency
3 31 (21.09%) Problem-Solving
4 29 (19.73%) CI/CD
5 24 (16.33%) Observability
6 22 (14.97%) AI
7 20 (13.61%) Mathematics
8 19 (12.93%) Analytics
9 18 (12.24%) Multithreading
10 15 (10.20%) Computer Science
10 15 (10.20%) Test Automation
10 15 (10.20%) Validation
11 14 (9.52%) DevOps
12 13 (8.84%) Performance Optimisation
13 12 (8.16%) Algorithmic Trading
14 11 (7.48%) Containerisation
14 11 (7.48%) Performance Engineering
14 11 (7.48%) Software Testing
15 10 (6.80%) Continuous Improvement
15 10 (6.80%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 74 (50.34%) Python
2 43 (29.25%) Java
3 42 (28.57%) C#
4 33 (22.45%) SQL
5 25 (17.01%) C
6 22 (14.97%) Rust
7 18 (12.24%) TypeScript
8 11 (7.48%) PowerShell
9 9 (6.12%) Go
10 8 (5.44%) R
11 7 (4.76%) JavaScript
12 6 (4.08%) Perl
13 4 (2.72%) Embedded C++
13 4 (2.72%) PL/SQL
14 2 (1.36%) Shell Script
15 1 (0.68%) COBOL
15 1 (0.68%) Embedded C
15 1 (0.68%) Fortran
15 1 (0.68%) Haskell
15 1 (0.68%) Swift
Qualifications
1 29 (19.73%) Degree
2 12 (8.16%) Security Cleared
3 9 (6.12%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (3.40%) DV Cleared
4 5 (3.40%) Master's Degree
4 5 (3.40%) PhD
5 4 (2.72%) SC Cleared
6 2 (1.36%) Numerate Degree
7 1 (0.68%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.72%) Data Quality
1 4 (2.72%) ISO 15022
1 4 (2.72%) ISO 20022
2 3 (2.04%) Automotive SPICE
3 2 (1.36%) MISRA
3 2 (1.36%) QA
4 1 (0.68%) JTAG
System Software
1 5 (3.40%) Docker
1 5 (3.40%) Firmware
2 3 (2.04%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.68%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 17 (11.56%) Kubernetes
2 10 (6.80%) Progress Chef
2 10 (6.80%) Puppet
3 8 (5.44%) Ansible
4 5 (3.40%) Grafana
5 3 (2.04%) Argo
5 3 (2.04%) Functional Safety
5 3 (2.04%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.36%) Cilium
6 2 (1.36%) ITRS Geneos
6 2 (1.36%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (1.36%) ZABBIX
7 1 (0.68%) HAProxy
7 1 (0.68%) Podman
Vendors
1 12 (8.16%) Oracle
2 11 (7.48%) Microsoft
3 6 (4.08%) IBM
3 6 (4.08%) SaltStack
4 5 (3.40%) Red Hat
5 4 (2.72%) Cisco
6 2 (1.36%) Bloomberg
6 2 (1.36%) ION Trading
6 2 (1.36%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.36%) Splunk
7 1 (0.68%) Arista
7 1 (0.68%) Ciena
7 1 (0.68%) F5
7 1 (0.68%) FactSet
7 1 (0.68%) FIS
7 1 (0.68%) MarketAxess
7 1 (0.68%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.68%) Tradeweb
7 1 (0.68%) webMethods
7 1 (0.68%) Xilinx