C++ Job Trends in London

C++
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London requiring C++ skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 135 140 207
Rank change year-on-year +5 +67 -68
Permanent jobs citing C++ 361 315 372
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.65% 2.58% 1.54%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.72% 6.23% 3.81%
Number of salaries quoted 256 168 275
10th Percentile £58,750 £65,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £61,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £110,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +22.22% +5.88%
75th Percentile - £158,750 £115,000
90th Percentile £130,000 £175,000 £136,500
England median annual salary £69,305 £66,225 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.65% +10.38% -7.69%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills in London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 5,369 5,060 9,766
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 24.55% 41.42% 40.32%
Number of salaries quoted 3,796 3,515 7,583
10th Percentile £50,000 £49,100 £47,500
25th Percentile £64,250 £61,375 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £84,000 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.82% +3.13% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £118,750 £135,000 £130,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%

C++
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing C++ relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in London.

C++ job vacancy trend in London

C++
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing C++.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing C++

C++
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing C++ in London over the 6 months to 29 June 2026.

Salary histogram for C++ in London

C++
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing C++ within the London region over the 6 months to 29 June 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London +3 82 £100,000 -29.20% 16
South London +14 3 - -
West London -18 2 £55,000 - 7
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 5 (1.39%) Apache
1 5 (1.39%) Apache Spark
1 5 (1.39%) Kinematics
2 4 (1.11%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (0.83%) Confluence
4 1 (0.28%) Ethereum
Applications
1 3 (0.83%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 45 (12.47%) AWS
2 22 (6.09%) GCP
3 21 (5.82%) Azure
4 14 (3.88%) GitHub
5 7 (1.94%) AWS CloudFormation
5 7 (1.94%) Entra ID
5 7 (1.94%) Google Workspace
5 7 (1.94%) Microsoft 365
5 7 (1.94%) OpenShift
6 4 (1.11%) Cloud Composer
6 4 (1.11%) Dagster
6 4 (1.11%) dbt
7 3 (0.83%) Serverless
8 2 (0.55%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (0.28%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 22 (6.09%) TCP/IP
2 17 (4.71%) Multicast
3 4 (1.11%) Broadband
4 3 (0.83%) Network Security
4 3 (0.83%) SS7
5 2 (0.55%) 3GPP
5 2 (0.55%) GSM
5 2 (0.55%) LTE
5 2 (0.55%) Radio Access Network
5 2 (0.55%) RANAP
5 2 (0.55%) UMTS
5 2 (0.55%) Wireshark
6 1 (0.28%) 4G
6 1 (0.28%) 5G
6 1 (0.28%) Diameter Protocol
6 1 (0.28%) Ethernet
6 1 (0.28%) Peer-to-Peer Networking
6 1 (0.28%) RTP
6 1 (0.28%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (1.94%) NoSQL
2 6 (1.66%) Geospatial Data
3 5 (1.39%) Metadata
3 5 (1.39%) NonStop SQL
4 4 (1.11%) BigQuery
4 4 (1.11%) Semantic Layer
5 3 (0.83%) Big Data
5 3 (0.83%) DynamoDB
5 3 (0.83%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.28%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.28%) Apache Arrow
6 1 (0.28%) Delta Lake
6 1 (0.28%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.28%) InterSystems Cache
6 1 (0.28%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.28%) Parquet
6 1 (0.28%) Pinecone
6 1 (0.28%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.28%) SQLPlus
6 1 (0.28%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 25 (6.93%) Git
2 20 (5.54%) JIRA
3 6 (1.66%) TeamCity
4 5 (1.39%) Gradle
4 5 (1.39%) Jenkins
5 3 (0.83%) Visual Studio
5 3 (0.83%) WinDbg
6 2 (0.55%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 2 (0.55%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.55%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.55%) GCC
6 2 (0.55%) GDB
6 2 (0.55%) Selenium
7 1 (0.28%) CMake
7 1 (0.28%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.28%) GitLab
7 1 (0.28%) IDA Disassembler
7 1 (0.28%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.28%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.28%) Valgrind
General
1 176 (48.75%) Finance
2 53 (14.68%) Banking
3 32 (8.86%) Front Office
4 30 (8.31%) Investment Banking
4 30 (8.31%) Social Skills
5 27 (7.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 25 (6.93%) Analytical Skills
7 10 (2.77%) Law
8 8 (2.22%) Games
9 7 (1.94%) Aerospace
10 5 (1.39%) Advertising
10 5 (1.39%) Automotive
10 5 (1.39%) Manufacturing
11 4 (1.11%) Aeronautics
11 4 (1.11%) Financial Institution
11 4 (1.11%) Telecoms
12 3 (0.83%) Electronics
12 3 (0.83%) Legal
13 2 (0.55%) Aviation
13 2 (0.55%) Military
Job Titles
1 137 (37.95%) Software Engineer
2 125 (34.63%) Senior
3 119 (32.96%) Developer
4 89 (24.65%) C++ Developer
4 89 (24.65%) C++ Software Engineer
5 62 (17.17%) Senior Software Engineer
6 43 (11.91%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
7 39 (10.80%) Linux Developer
7 39 (10.80%) Low Latency C++ Developer
8 36 (9.97%) Senior Developer
9 34 (9.42%) Senior C++ Developer
10 32 (8.86%) Python Engineer
11 28 (7.76%) Python Software Engineer
12 26 (7.20%) Lead
13 20 (5.54%) Software Developer
14 19 (5.26%) Quantitative Developer
14 19 (5.26%) Rust Engineer
14 19 (5.26%) Senior Quantitative Developer
15 18 (4.99%) Python Developer
15 18 (4.99%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (13.30%) Boost C++ Libraries
2 27 (7.48%) RESTful
3 21 (5.82%) FIX Protocol
4 17 (4.71%) pytest
5 14 (3.88%) Kafka
6 11 (3.05%) React
7 9 (2.49%) Web Services
8 8 (2.22%) .NET
8 8 (2.22%) STL
9 7 (1.94%) OpenGL
9 7 (1.94%) PyTorch
10 6 (1.66%) TensorFlow
11 5 (1.39%) Spring
11 5 (1.39%) Spring Boot
11 5 (1.39%) Vaadin
12 4 (1.11%) Apache NiFi
12 4 (1.11%) Open3D
12 4 (1.11%) ZeroMQ
13 3 (0.83%) AngularJS
13 3 (0.83%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 72 (19.94%) Algorithms
2 39 (10.80%) Equities
3 33 (9.14%) Data Structures
4 32 (8.86%) Distributed Systems
5 31 (8.59%) Derivative
6 24 (6.65%) Hedge funds
7 23 (6.37%) Robotics
8 22 (6.09%) Fixed Income
9 21 (5.82%) Management Information System
10 18 (4.99%) FPGA
11 9 (2.49%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 8 (2.22%) Embedded Systems
12 8 (2.22%) Reinsurance
12 8 (2.22%) Sports Betting
13 7 (1.94%) Augmented Reality
13 7 (1.94%) Distributed Architecture
13 7 (1.94%) PKI
13 7 (1.94%) Virtual Reality
14 5 (1.39%) Social Media
15 4 (1.11%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 124 (34.35%) Linux
2 24 (6.65%) Windows
3 5 (1.39%) Robot Operating System
4 4 (1.11%) Unix
5 2 (0.55%) Embedded Linux
5 2 (0.55%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.28%) Android
6 1 (0.28%) FreeRTOS
6 1 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 179 (49.58%) Software Engineering
2 130 (36.01%) Low Latency
3 82 (22.71%) Computer Science
4 64 (17.73%) Agile
5 60 (16.62%) Fintech
6 44 (12.19%) CI/CD
7 40 (11.08%) Mathematics
8 38 (10.53%) SDLC
9 36 (9.97%) Analytics
9 36 (9.97%) OOP
10 33 (9.14%) Microservices
10 33 (9.14%) Problem-Solving
11 32 (8.86%) AI
12 31 (8.59%) Test Automation
13 30 (8.31%) Multithreading
14 27 (7.48%) OO
15 26 (7.20%) DevOps
16 24 (6.65%) Process Improvement
17 23 (6.37%) Workflow
18 21 (5.82%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 166 (45.98%) Python
2 95 (26.32%) Java
3 66 (18.28%) C#
4 63 (17.45%) C
5 59 (16.34%) Rust
6 50 (13.85%) SQL
7 27 (7.48%) Go
8 21 (5.82%) JavaScript
9 15 (4.16%) TypeScript
10 8 (2.22%) Julia
10 8 (2.22%) MATLAB
10 8 (2.22%) R
11 7 (1.94%) Bash
11 7 (1.94%) Kotlin
11 7 (1.94%) PowerShell
11 7 (1.94%) Scala
12 5 (1.39%) Erlang
12 5 (1.39%) Google Apps Script
13 3 (0.83%) Perl
13 3 (0.83%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 42 (11.63%) Degree
2 22 (6.09%) Security Cleared
3 16 (4.43%) Master's Degree
4 14 (3.88%) DV Cleared
5 12 (3.32%) PhD
6 11 (3.05%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (2.22%) SC Cleared
8 7 (1.94%) AWS Certification
9 6 (1.66%) OSCP
10 5 (1.39%) AWS Certified Developer
10 5 (1.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 4 (1.11%) CREST Certified
11 4 (1.11%) GPEN
11 4 (1.11%) GXPN
11 4 (1.11%) OSCE
12 3 (0.83%) CCSAM
13 2 (0.55%) Azure Certification
13 2 (0.55%) CEH
14 1 (0.28%) CCSAS
14 1 (0.28%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (8.03%) QA
2 7 (1.94%) GDPR
3 5 (1.39%) ISO 20022
4 3 (0.83%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.28%) EMIR
5 1 (0.28%) MiFID
5 1 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 13 (3.60%) Docker
2 5 (1.39%) Firmware
2 5 (1.39%) KVM
2 5 (1.39%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.28%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 13 (3.60%) Kubernetes
2 11 (3.05%) Terraform
3 8 (2.22%) Grafana
4 7 (1.94%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.55%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.28%) Ansible
6 1 (0.28%) Argo
6 1 (0.28%) Kibana
6 1 (0.28%) logstash
Vendors
1 10 (2.77%) Palantir
2 9 (2.49%) Google
3 8 (2.22%) Microsoft
4 5 (1.39%) VMware
5 4 (1.11%) Databricks
6 3 (0.83%) Blue Prism
6 3 (0.83%) EMC
6 3 (0.83%) Solace
7 2 (0.55%) Apple
7 2 (0.55%) FIS
7 2 (0.55%) HP
7 2 (0.55%) SunGard
8 1 (0.28%) Bloomberg
8 1 (0.28%) FXall
8 1 (0.28%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.28%) Oracle
8 1 (0.28%) Red Hat