C++ Jobs in the City of London

C++
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 68 113 138
Rank change year-on-year +45 +25 -52
Permanent jobs citing C++ 72 65 92
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 3.68% 1.94% 2.06%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.96% 4.20% 3.99%
Number of salaries quoted 64 45 88
10th Percentile £65,750 £76,000 £51,250
25th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £127,500 £102,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +24.39% +41.38% -23.68%
75th Percentile £175,000 £122,500 £115,000
90th Percentile £183,750 £130,000 £142,500
Central London median annual salary £125,000 £102,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year +21.95% +41.38% -23.68%

All Programming Languages
City of 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 the City of London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 904 1,546 2,306
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 46.22% 46.20% 51.52%
Number of salaries quoted 753 1,233 2,071
10th Percentile £52,500 £47,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £61,250 £60,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.23% +3.33%
75th Percentile £105,000 £97,500 £103,750
90th Percentile £129,500 £115,000 £117,500
Central London median annual salary £80,000 £77,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year +3.23% - +3.33%

C++
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for C++ in the City of London

C++
Salary Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing C++ in the City of London.

Salary trend for C++ in the City of London

C++
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing C++ in the City of London over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for C++ in the City of London

C++
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 (2.78%) Kinematics
2 1 (1.39%) MTS
Applications
1 1 (1.39%) Houdini
1 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (4.17%) Orchestrade
Cloud Services
1 6 (8.33%) AWS
2 4 (5.56%) Azure
3 3 (4.17%) Amazon EKS
3 3 (4.17%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (2.78%) GCP
5 1 (1.39%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.17%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.94%) RDBMS
1 5 (6.94%) Relational Database
2 3 (4.17%) ClickHouse
2 3 (4.17%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (4.17%) KDB
3 2 (2.78%) Big Data
3 2 (2.78%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (4.17%) Jenkins
1 3 (4.17%) JIRA
General
1 14 (19.44%) Banking
2 13 (18.06%) Publishing
3 11 (15.28%) Social Skills
4 8 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (11.11%) Finance
4 8 (11.11%) Investment Banking
5 4 (5.56%) Front Office
5 4 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (4.17%) French Language
7 2 (2.78%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.39%) Advertising
8 1 (1.39%) Law
Job Titles
1 21 (29.17%) Developer
2 20 (27.78%) Lead
3 18 (25.00%) Analyst
4 17 (23.61%) Qualitative Analyst
4 17 (23.61%) Quantitative Analyst
5 8 (11.11%) Quantitative Developer
5 8 (11.11%) Senior
6 7 (9.72%) Software Developer
7 5 (6.94%) C# Developer
7 5 (6.94%) C++ Developer
7 5 (6.94%) Software Engineer
8 4 (5.56%) Senior Developer
9 3 (4.17%) C++ Software Developer
9 3 (4.17%) C++ Software Engineer
9 3 (4.17%) Senior Analyst
9 3 (4.17%) Senior C++ Developer
9 3 (4.17%) Senior Quantitative Analyst
9 3 (4.17%) Senior Software Developer
9 3 (4.17%) Senior Software Engineer
9 3 (4.17%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (13.89%) FIX Protocol
2 7 (9.72%) Web Services
3 5 (6.94%) Boost C++ Libraries
3 5 (6.94%) Middleware
4 3 (4.17%) .NET
4 3 (4.17%) Node.js
4 3 (4.17%) Pandas
4 3 (4.17%) pytest
5 1 (1.39%) Unreal Engine
5 1 (1.39%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (20.83%) Robotics
2 10 (13.89%) Algorithms
2 10 (13.89%) Derivative
3 7 (9.72%) Fixed Income
3 7 (9.72%) Hedge funds
4 6 (8.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 4 (5.56%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (4.17%) Cyberattack
6 3 (4.17%) Equity Derivative
7 2 (2.78%) Data Structures
7 2 (2.78%) Equities
7 2 (2.78%) Sports Betting
8 1 (1.39%) Animation
8 1 (1.39%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (1.39%) FPGA
8 1 (1.39%) Interest Rate Derivative
8 1 (1.39%) Life Science
8 1 (1.39%) Reinsurance
8 1 (1.39%) Swaptions
Operating Systems
1 10 (13.89%) Linux
2 3 (4.17%) Android
2 3 (4.17%) Unix
3 2 (2.78%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (36.11%) Mathematics
2 23 (31.94%) Computer Science
3 20 (27.78%) Physics
3 20 (27.78%) Statistics
4 19 (26.39%) Data Science
5 18 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
5 18 (25.00%) Machine Learning
6 16 (22.22%) Kalman Filter
7 15 (20.83%) Agile
7 15 (20.83%) Motion Planning
8 13 (18.06%) LLM
8 13 (18.06%) Low Latency
8 13 (18.06%) Reinforcement Learning
9 12 (16.67%) Software Engineering
10 11 (15.28%) Statistical Modelling
11 10 (13.89%) Problem-Solving
12 9 (12.50%) Mathematical Modelling
12 9 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
13 8 (11.11%) Decision-Making
13 8 (11.11%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 52 (72.22%) Python
2 26 (36.11%) C#
3 23 (31.94%) Java
4 16 (22.22%) MATLAB
5 8 (11.11%) SQL
6 4 (5.56%) Go
7 3 (4.17%) F#
7 3 (4.17%) JavaScript
7 3 (4.17%) Rust
8 1 (1.39%) VBA
Qualifications
1 26 (36.11%) Degree
2 24 (33.33%) PhD
3 18 (25.00%) Master's Degree
4 6 (8.33%) Security Cleared
5 5 (6.94%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.39%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.39%) Numerate Degree
6 1 (1.39%) Postgraduate
6 1 (1.39%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.33%) QA
2 1 (1.39%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (4.17%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (8.33%) Ansible
2 3 (4.17%) Grafana
2 3 (4.17%) Kubernetes
2 3 (4.17%) Prometheus
2 3 (4.17%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (4.17%) Barracuda Networks
2 2 (2.78%) Murex
3 1 (1.39%) ION Trading
3 1 (1.39%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.39%) Perforce