C++ Contracts in London

C++
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring C++ skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited C++ over the 6 months leading up to 9 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 154 167 100
Rank change year-on-year +13 -67 +54
Contract jobs citing C++ 211 279 671
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.69% 1.58% 2.55%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.29% 4.35% 6.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 192 466
10th Percentile £431 £354 £513
25th Percentile £628 £475 £593
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 £655 £700
Median % change year-on-year +22.14% -6.43% -6.67%
75th Percentile £875 £857 £825
90th Percentile £1,003 £950 £919
England median daily rate £750 £575 £650
% change year-on-year +30.43% -11.54% -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 8 8
10th Percentile - £44.62 £25.75
25th Percentile - £54.69 £42.88
Median hourly rate - £67.13 £52.58
Median % change year-on-year - +27.66% -4.40%
75th Percentile - £72.03 £59.06
90th Percentile - £72.50 £64.88
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +8.33%

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 4,913 6,419 10,624
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 39.39% 36.30% 40.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,467 4,908 7,938
10th Percentile £380 £381 £413
25th Percentile £447 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £713 £700 £731
90th Percentile £832 £825 £825
England median daily rate £525 £550 £564
% change year-on-year -4.55% -2.54% +2.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 52 82
10th Percentile £29.07 £23.80 £34.33
25th Percentile £35.00 £40.80 £50.11
Median hourly rate £43.75 £51.13 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.43% -14.79% +20.00%
75th Percentile £60.81 £63.01 £75.00
90th Percentile £69.38 £72.50 £85.00
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year - - +24.13%

C++
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing C++ as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for C++ in London

C++
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing C++ in London.

Daily rate trend for C++ in London

C++
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing C++ in London over the 6 months to 9 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for C++ in London

C++
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing C++ in London.

Hourly rate trend 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 9 May 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 35 £800 +11.50% 61
South London 0 1 - - 2
C++
England

C++
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 11 (5.21%) Apache Spark
2 6 (2.84%) BizTalk Server
3 3 (1.42%) Apache
4 1 (0.47%) Confluence
4 1 (0.47%) DataSynapse
4 1 (0.47%) Ethereum
4 1 (0.47%) Hyperledger
4 1 (0.47%) IBM HTTP Server
4 1 (0.47%) MetaMask
4 1 (0.47%) MQSeries
4 1 (0.47%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.47%) SAS
4 1 (0.47%) WinCC
Applications
1 7 (3.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.47%) CANalyzer
2 1 (0.47%) Siemens NX
2 1 (0.47%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 4 (1.90%) BASE24
2 1 (0.47%) Oracle TCA
2 1 (0.47%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 45 (21.33%) AWS
2 38 (18.01%) Azure
3 9 (4.27%) GCP
4 8 (3.79%) AWS Lambda
4 8 (3.79%) Serverless
5 7 (3.32%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (2.84%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 6 (2.84%) Azure Logic Apps
6 6 (2.84%) GitHub
7 5 (2.37%) Azure Functions
7 5 (2.37%) Azure Monitor
7 5 (2.37%) Azure Storage
7 5 (2.37%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (1.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (1.42%) Datadog
9 2 (0.95%) Amazon EC2
10 1 (0.47%) Apple Pay
10 1 (0.47%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.84%) Multicast
2 5 (2.37%) TCP/IP
3 4 (1.90%) ATM
3 4 (1.90%) DHCP
3 4 (1.90%) DNS
3 4 (1.90%) DOCSIS
3 4 (1.90%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (0.95%) HTTP
4 2 (0.95%) Network Security
4 2 (0.95%) VLAN
4 2 (0.95%) Wireless
5 1 (0.47%) 802.11
5 1 (0.47%) Broadband
5 1 (0.47%) DSL
5 1 (0.47%) IPv4
5 1 (0.47%) IPv6
5 1 (0.47%) LAN
5 1 (0.47%) PPP
5 1 (0.47%) SMS
5 1 (0.47%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.32%) MongoDB
2 6 (2.84%) Azure SQL Database
2 6 (2.84%) Big Data
2 6 (2.84%) Data Mining
3 5 (2.37%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (2.37%) Relational Database
4 4 (1.90%) NonStop SQL
5 3 (1.42%) InfluxDB
5 3 (1.42%) KDB
5 3 (1.42%) Kdb+
5 3 (1.42%) Looker
5 3 (1.42%) NoSQL
5 3 (1.42%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (1.42%) SQL Server
6 2 (0.95%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.95%) DB2
6 2 (0.95%) Metadata
7 1 (0.47%) InterSystems Cache
7 1 (0.47%) Oracle Exadata
7 1 (0.47%) Text Mining
Development Applications
1 37 (17.54%) Git
2 14 (6.64%) Jenkins
3 7 (3.32%) TeamCity
4 6 (2.84%) Bitbucket
4 6 (2.84%) Visual Studio
5 4 (1.90%) Appium
5 4 (1.90%) CircleCI
5 4 (1.90%) Gatling
5 4 (1.90%) GCC
5 4 (1.90%) GDB
5 4 (1.90%) GitLab
5 4 (1.90%) JMeter
5 4 (1.90%) NeoLoad
5 4 (1.90%) Selenium
5 4 (1.90%) SpecFlow
6 1 (0.47%) Gerrit
6 1 (0.47%) GoogleTest
6 1 (0.47%) Hardhat
6 1 (0.47%) JIRA
6 1 (0.47%) Qt Creator
General
1 110 (52.13%) Finance
2 81 (38.39%) Social Skills
3 51 (24.17%) Banking
4 50 (23.70%) Analytical Skills
5 40 (18.96%) Front Office
5 40 (18.96%) Investment Banking
6 12 (5.69%) Financial Institution
7 6 (2.84%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (1.90%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.42%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.42%) Public Sector
10 2 (0.95%) Advertising
10 2 (0.95%) Games
10 2 (0.95%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.47%) Automotive
11 1 (0.47%) Back Office
11 1 (0.47%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.47%) Electronics
11 1 (0.47%) Marketing
11 1 (0.47%) Military
Job Titles
1 112 (53.08%) Developer
2 53 (25.12%) C++ Developer
3 32 (15.17%) Quantitative Developer
4 29 (13.74%) C# Developer
5 26 (12.32%) Senior
6 24 (11.37%) C++/C# Developer
7 22 (10.43%) Python Developer
8 21 (9.95%) Software Engineer
9 14 (6.64%) Lead
10 13 (6.16%) C++ Quantitative Developer
10 13 (6.16%) Senior Developer
11 10 (4.74%) Machine Learning Engineer
12 8 (3.79%) Analyst
12 8 (3.79%) AWS Developer
12 8 (3.79%) JavaScript Developer
12 8 (3.79%) Qualitative Analyst
12 8 (3.79%) Quantitative Analyst
12 8 (3.79%) Software Developer
13 7 (3.32%) C++ Software Engineer
14 6 (2.84%) Analyst Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (19.91%) .NET
2 32 (15.17%) Kafka
3 28 (13.27%) .NET Core
4 26 (12.32%) ASP.NET
5 21 (9.95%) Web Services
6 19 (9.00%) React
6 19 (9.00%) WCF
7 13 (6.16%) NumPy
7 13 (6.16%) Pandas
8 11 (5.21%) FastAPI
8 11 (5.21%) SciPy
9 10 (4.74%) AngularJS
10 9 (4.27%) Flask
10 9 (4.27%) HTML
10 9 (4.27%) Vue
11 8 (3.79%) CSS
11 8 (3.79%) Polars
12 7 (3.32%) Node.js
12 7 (3.32%) Protocol Buffers
13 6 (2.84%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 53 (25.12%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 33 (15.64%) Algorithms
2 33 (15.64%) Distributed Systems
3 21 (9.95%) Hedge funds
4 19 (9.00%) Derivative
4 19 (9.00%) Equities
5 17 (8.06%) Legacy Applications
6 15 (7.11%) Distributed Computing
7 13 (6.16%) Fixed Income
8 12 (5.69%) Equity Derivative
9 11 (5.21%) Data Structures
10 9 (4.27%) Grid Computing
11 8 (3.79%) Cloud Native
12 7 (3.32%) TWAP
12 7 (3.32%) VWAP
13 6 (2.84%) Credit Risk
13 6 (2.84%) Enterprise Software
14 5 (2.37%) Distributed Architecture
14 5 (2.37%) Embedded Systems
14 5 (2.37%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 50 (23.70%) Linux
2 20 (9.48%) Windows
3 7 (3.32%) Unix
4 5 (2.37%) Windows Server
4 5 (2.37%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (0.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.47%) AIX
6 1 (0.47%) Android
6 1 (0.47%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (31.75%) CI/CD
2 52 (24.64%) Software Engineering
3 51 (24.17%) Analytics
4 49 (23.22%) Agile
5 41 (19.43%) DevOps
6 39 (18.48%) Low Latency
7 38 (18.01%) Mathematics
8 35 (16.59%) Problem-Solving
9 30 (14.22%) Algorithmic Trading
9 30 (14.22%) Computer Science
10 26 (12.32%) OO
11 25 (11.85%) Test Automation
12 24 (11.37%) Risk Management
13 23 (10.90%) Market Making
13 23 (10.90%) OOP
14 21 (9.95%) Scrum
15 20 (9.48%) Multithreading
16 18 (8.53%) Microservices
17 17 (8.06%) Quantitative Finance
17 17 (8.06%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 132 (62.56%) Python
2 97 (45.97%) Java
3 72 (34.12%) C#
4 40 (18.96%) C
5 37 (17.54%) SQL
6 30 (14.22%) JavaScript
7 21 (9.95%) Shell Script
8 15 (7.11%) Rust
9 14 (6.64%) Go
10 11 (5.21%) TypeScript
11 6 (2.84%) PHP
11 6 (2.84%) PL/SQL
11 6 (2.84%) PowerShell
11 6 (2.84%) T-SQL
12 4 (1.90%) Ruby
12 4 (1.90%) Scala
13 3 (1.42%) Bash
13 3 (1.42%) MATLAB
14 2 (0.95%) COBOL
14 2 (0.95%) VBA
Qualifications
1 40 (18.96%) Degree
2 24 (11.37%) Master's Degree
3 13 (6.16%) Computer Science Degree
4 11 (5.21%) Numerate Degree
4 11 (5.21%) PhD
5 8 (3.79%) SC Cleared
5 8 (3.79%) Security Cleared
6 3 (1.42%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.47%) CEH
7 1 (0.47%) CISSP
7 1 (0.47%) CREST Certified
7 1 (0.47%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.79%) QA
2 2 (0.95%) ISO 8583
3 1 (0.47%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.47%) MiFID
3 1 (0.47%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.47%) PSD2
System Software
1 23 (10.90%) Docker
2 4 (1.90%) Platform Symphony
3 1 (0.47%) XYGATE
Systems Management
1 31 (14.69%) Kubernetes
2 8 (3.79%) Grafana
3 5 (2.37%) ITRS Geneos
3 5 (2.37%) Kibana
4 4 (1.90%) Terraform
5 3 (1.42%) Ansible
6 1 (0.47%) Functional Safety
6 1 (0.47%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.47%) Puppet
Vendors
1 32 (15.17%) Oracle
2 9 (4.27%) Microsoft
2 9 (4.27%) TIBCO
3 7 (3.32%) IBM
4 6 (2.84%) MuleSoft
5 5 (2.37%) Splunk
6 4 (1.90%) HP
7 3 (1.42%) Google
8 2 (0.95%) Alibaba
8 2 (0.95%) Databricks
8 2 (0.95%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.47%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.47%) Hitachi
9 1 (0.47%) Informatica
9 1 (0.47%) NVIDIA
9 1 (0.47%) Perforce
9 1 (0.47%) SAP
9 1 (0.47%) Siemens