C++ Jobs in Central London

C++
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Central London requiring C++ skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited C++ over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 87 130 135
Rank change year-on-year +43 +5 -36
Permanent jobs citing C++ 81 67 114
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 3.19% 1.77% 2.15%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.04% 4.02% 4.26%
Number of salaries quoted 72 49 109
10th Percentile £65,000 £52,500 £50,800
25th Percentile £88,750 £81,250 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £115,000 £107,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.98% +43.33% -16.67%
75th Percentile £175,000 £122,500 £115,000
90th Percentile - £143,750 £137,500
London median annual salary £110,000 £97,500 £84,500
% change year-on-year +12.82% +15.38% -8.65%

All Programming Languages
Central London

C++ falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills in Central London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 1,150 1,666 2,678
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 45.28% 44.04% 50.55%
Number of salaries quoted 915 1,366 2,431
10th Percentile £51,250 £47,500 £48,750
25th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £79,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.27% +1.94% +3.33%
75th Percentile £103,750 £98,750 £102,500
90th Percentile £122,500 £115,000 £115,000
London median annual salary £82,500 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +3.13% - +6.67%

C++
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for C++ in Central London

C++
Salary Trend in Central London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing C++ in Central London.

Salary trend for C++ in Central London

C++
Salary Histogram in Central London

Salary distribution for jobs citing C++ in Central London over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Salary histogram for C++ in Central London

C++
Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing C++ within the Central London region over the 6 months to 30 April 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
City of London +45 77 £115,000 +6.98% 23
City of Westminster -9 5 - - 3
Southwark - 1 - -
C++
London

C++
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 2 (2.47%) Kinematics
2 1 (1.23%) MTS
Applications
1 1 (1.23%) Houdini
1 1 (1.23%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (3.70%) Orchestrade
Cloud Services
1 6 (7.41%) AWS
2 4 (4.94%) Amazon EKS
2 4 (4.94%) AWS CloudFormation
2 4 (4.94%) Azure
3 1 (1.23%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.70%) Multicast
2 1 (1.23%) HTTP
2 1 (1.23%) MQTT
2 1 (1.23%) RS-232
2 1 (1.23%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.23%) Wireless
2 1 (1.23%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.17%) RDBMS
1 5 (6.17%) Relational Database
2 4 (4.94%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (3.70%) KDB
4 2 (2.47%) ClickHouse
4 2 (2.47%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.23%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.23%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.23%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (3.70%) JIRA
2 2 (2.47%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.23%) Maven
General
1 14 (17.28%) Banking
1 14 (17.28%) Finance
2 12 (14.81%) Publishing
3 11 (13.58%) Social Skills
4 9 (11.11%) Investment Banking
5 8 (9.88%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (6.17%) Front Office
6 5 (6.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (4.94%) Advertising
8 3 (3.70%) French Language
9 2 (2.47%) Back Office
10 1 (1.23%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 26 (32.10%) Developer
2 22 (27.16%) Analyst
3 21 (25.93%) Qualitative Analyst
3 21 (25.93%) Quantitative Analyst
4 18 (22.22%) Lead
5 14 (17.28%) Senior
6 10 (12.35%) C++ Developer
7 8 (9.88%) Quantitative Developer
7 8 (9.88%) Senior Developer
7 8 (9.88%) Software Developer
8 7 (8.64%) Senior C++ Developer
8 7 (8.64%) Software Engineer
9 5 (6.17%) C# Developer
9 5 (6.17%) C++ Software Engineer
10 4 (4.94%) C++ Quantitative Developer
11 3 (3.70%) Developer/Software Engineer
11 3 (3.70%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
11 3 (3.70%) Senior Quantitative Analyst
11 3 (3.70%) Senior Software Developer
11 3 (3.70%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (13.58%) FIX Protocol
2 7 (8.64%) Web Services
3 6 (7.41%) Boost C++ Libraries
4 5 (6.17%) Middleware
5 4 (4.94%) .NET
5 4 (4.94%) Node.js
5 4 (4.94%) Pandas
6 3 (3.70%) pytest
7 1 (1.23%) REST
7 1 (1.23%) Unreal Engine
7 1 (1.23%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (17.28%) Robotics
2 12 (14.81%) Algorithms
2 12 (14.81%) Derivative
3 9 (11.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 8 (9.88%) Hedge funds
5 5 (6.17%) Fixed Income
6 4 (4.94%) Cyberattack
7 3 (3.70%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (3.70%) Equities
7 3 (3.70%) Equity Derivative
7 3 (3.70%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (2.47%) Data Structures
8 2 (2.47%) FPGA
9 1 (1.23%) Animation
9 1 (1.23%) ARM Cortex
9 1 (1.23%) Embedded Systems
9 1 (1.23%) Life Science
9 1 (1.23%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 14 (17.28%) Linux
2 4 (4.94%) Android
3 3 (3.70%) Unix
4 2 (2.47%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (44.44%) Mathematics
2 30 (37.04%) Computer Science
3 27 (33.33%) Physics
4 22 (27.16%) Statistics
5 21 (25.93%) Data Science
6 17 (20.99%) Agile
6 17 (20.99%) Kalman Filter
6 17 (20.99%) Statistical Modelling
7 16 (19.75%) Software Engineering
8 15 (18.52%) Artificial Intelligence
9 14 (17.28%) Motion Planning
10 13 (16.05%) Low Latency
10 13 (16.05%) Machine Learning
11 12 (14.81%) LLM
11 12 (14.81%) Problem-Solving
11 12 (14.81%) Reinforcement Learning
12 8 (9.88%) OOP
12 8 (9.88%) Risk Management
12 8 (9.88%) Technical Leadership
13 7 (8.64%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 58 (71.60%) Python
2 30 (37.04%) C#
3 20 (24.69%) Java
4 12 (14.81%) MATLAB
5 8 (9.88%) SQL
6 5 (6.17%) Go
7 4 (4.94%) JavaScript
7 4 (4.94%) Rust
8 3 (3.70%) F#
9 1 (1.23%) C
9 1 (1.23%) Scala
9 1 (1.23%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.23%) VBA
Qualifications
1 36 (44.44%) Degree
2 31 (38.27%) PhD
3 24 (29.63%) Master's Degree
4 5 (6.17%) DV Cleared
4 5 (6.17%) Security Cleared
5 4 (4.94%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.23%) Numerate Degree
6 1 (1.23%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.64%) QA
2 1 (1.23%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (4.94%) Docker
2 1 (1.23%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (1.23%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 6 (7.41%) Ansible
2 5 (6.17%) Kubernetes
3 4 (4.94%) Terraform
4 2 (2.47%) Grafana
4 2 (2.47%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (3.70%) Barracuda Networks
2 1 (1.23%) ION Trading
2 1 (1.23%) Microsoft
2 1 (1.23%) Murex
2 1 (1.23%) Perforce