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

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 170 148 168
Rank change year-on-year -22 +20 -47
Permanent jobs citing C++ 306 281 402
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.27% 2.34% 2.08%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.55% 5.81% 5.04%
Number of salaries quoted 207 147 280
10th Percentile £54,700 £62,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £77,125 £85,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £110,000 £88,750
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +23.94% -1.39%
75th Percentile £107,500 £154,375 £115,000
90th Percentile £133,500 £175,000 £130,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -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 5,509 4,834 7,979
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 22.85% 40.23% 41.21%
Number of salaries quoted 3,769 3,286 5,549
10th Percentile £50,000 £48,750 £50,000
25th Percentile £63,750 £61,250 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £83,000 £80,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.75% -3.03% +3.13%
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £108,750
90th Percentile £116,250 £135,000 £137,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% - -3.85%

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 1 September 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 1 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London +15 62 £100,000 -33.33% 46
South London +5 7 - - 6
West London -23 3 £55,500 - 27
North London - 1 £62,500 - 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 6 (1.96%) Apache
2 5 (1.63%) Confluence
3 4 (1.31%) Kinematics
4 1 (0.33%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.33%) Ethereum
Applications
1 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.65%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
Cloud Services
1 41 (13.40%) AWS
2 21 (6.86%) Azure
3 18 (5.88%) GCP
4 8 (2.61%) GitHub
5 6 (1.96%) AWS CloudFormation
5 6 (1.96%) Entra ID
5 6 (1.96%) Google Workspace
5 6 (1.96%) Microsoft 365
5 6 (1.96%) OpenShift
6 4 (1.31%) Serverless
7 3 (0.98%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (0.65%) Datadog
8 2 (0.65%) Snowflake
9 1 (0.33%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 15 (4.90%) Multicast
2 12 (3.92%) TCP/IP
3 7 (2.29%) 3GPP
3 7 (2.29%) GSM
3 7 (2.29%) LTE
3 7 (2.29%) Radio Access Network
3 7 (2.29%) RANAP
3 7 (2.29%) SS7
3 7 (2.29%) UMTS
3 7 (2.29%) Wireshark
4 3 (0.98%) Network Security
5 1 (0.33%) BGP
5 1 (0.33%) DHCP
5 1 (0.33%) DNS
5 1 (0.33%) IPv4
5 1 (0.33%) IPv6
5 1 (0.33%) MPLS
5 1 (0.33%) Peer-to-Peer Networking
5 1 (0.33%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (1.96%) Geospatial Data
2 4 (1.31%) Big Data
2 4 (1.31%) NonStop SQL
2 4 (1.31%) Semantic Layer
3 3 (0.98%) Data Lake
3 3 (0.98%) DynamoDB
3 3 (0.98%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (0.65%) Amazon Athena
4 2 (0.65%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.33%) Apache Arrow
5 1 (0.33%) Apache Iceberg
5 1 (0.33%) Delta Lake
5 1 (0.33%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.33%) InterSystems Cache
5 1 (0.33%) Metadata
5 1 (0.33%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.33%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.33%) Pinecone
5 1 (0.33%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.33%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 28 (9.15%) Git
2 17 (5.56%) Jenkins
2 17 (5.56%) JIRA
3 7 (2.29%) GCC
3 7 (2.29%) GDB
4 6 (1.96%) TeamCity
5 4 (1.31%) Gradle
6 2 (0.65%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 2 (0.65%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.65%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.65%) Selenium
6 2 (0.65%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.33%) CMake
7 1 (0.33%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.33%) GitLab
7 1 (0.33%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.33%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.33%) Valgrind
7 1 (0.33%) WinDbg
General
1 153 (50.00%) Finance
2 51 (16.67%) Banking
3 43 (14.05%) Social Skills
4 34 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
5 27 (8.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 27 (8.82%) Investment Banking
6 26 (8.50%) Front Office
7 16 (5.23%) Law
8 8 (2.61%) Telecoms
9 7 (2.29%) Legal
10 6 (1.96%) Manufacturing
11 4 (1.31%) Electronics
11 4 (1.31%) Tech for Good
12 2 (0.65%) Aerospace
12 2 (0.65%) Aviation
12 2 (0.65%) Games
12 2 (0.65%) Military
12 2 (0.65%) Public Speaking
12 2 (0.65%) Publishing
13 1 (0.33%) Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 107 (34.97%) Software Engineer
2 90 (29.41%) Senior
3 88 (28.76%) Developer
4 65 (21.24%) C++ Software Engineer
5 58 (18.95%) C++ Developer
6 45 (14.71%) Senior Software Engineer
7 31 (10.13%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
8 26 (8.50%) Lead
9 25 (8.17%) Linux Developer
10 22 (7.19%) Low Latency C++ Developer
10 22 (7.19%) Python Engineer
11 21 (6.86%) Senior Developer
12 17 (5.56%) Quantitative Developer
12 17 (5.56%) Senior C++ Developer
13 16 (5.23%) Python Software Engineer
14 15 (4.90%) Analyst
15 14 (4.58%) Senior Quantitative Developer
16 13 (4.25%) C++ Quantitative Developer
17 11 (3.59%) Java Engineer
17 11 (3.59%) Linux Scripter
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (11.11%) Boost C++ Libraries
2 25 (8.17%) FIX Protocol
3 23 (7.52%) RESTful
4 12 (3.92%) pytest
4 12 (3.92%) React
4 12 (3.92%) STL
5 11 (3.59%) .NET
6 10 (3.27%) Terraform
7 9 (2.94%) Web Services
8 7 (2.29%) OpenGL
8 7 (2.29%) PyTorch
9 6 (1.96%) Kafka
9 6 (1.96%) TensorFlow
10 5 (1.63%) Apache NiFi
10 5 (1.63%) REST
11 4 (1.31%) AngularJS
11 4 (1.31%) Open3D
11 4 (1.31%) Spring
11 4 (1.31%) Spring Boot
11 4 (1.31%) Vaadin
Miscellaneous
1 55 (17.97%) Algorithms
2 33 (10.78%) Equities
3 31 (10.13%) Derivative
4 29 (9.48%) Hedge funds
5 24 (7.84%) Fixed Income
6 22 (7.19%) Distributed Systems
7 17 (5.56%) Data Structures
8 16 (5.23%) Management Information System
9 15 (4.90%) Robotics
10 12 (3.92%) FPGA
11 10 (3.27%) Distributed Architecture
12 9 (2.94%) Reinsurance
13 8 (2.61%) Embedded Systems
14 7 (2.29%) Augmented Reality
14 7 (2.29%) Equity Derivative
14 7 (2.29%) Virtual Reality
15 6 (1.96%) PKI
16 4 (1.31%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 4 (1.31%) Lidar
16 4 (1.31%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 104 (33.99%) Linux
2 16 (5.23%) Windows
3 6 (1.96%) Unix
4 2 (0.65%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.65%) Embedded Linux
5 1 (0.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 146 (47.71%) Software Engineering
2 110 (35.95%) Low Latency
3 76 (24.84%) Computer Science
4 50 (16.34%) Agile
4 50 (16.34%) Fintech
5 45 (14.71%) Problem-Solving
6 42 (13.73%) Mathematics
7 40 (13.07%) AI
8 38 (12.42%) CI/CD
9 34 (11.11%) SDLC
10 31 (10.13%) Microservices
11 27 (8.82%) Test Automation
12 26 (8.50%) Machine Learning
12 26 (8.50%) OOP
13 23 (7.52%) Decision-Making
13 23 (7.52%) Multithreading
14 21 (6.86%) Analytics
15 20 (6.54%) Continuous Integration
16 18 (5.88%) Containerisation
16 18 (5.88%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 158 (51.63%) Python
2 81 (26.47%) Java
3 55 (17.97%) C
4 52 (16.99%) C#
5 39 (12.75%) SQL
6 33 (10.78%) Rust
7 26 (8.50%) JavaScript
8 20 (6.54%) Go
9 14 (4.58%) R
9 14 (4.58%) TypeScript
10 8 (2.61%) Julia
10 8 (2.61%) MATLAB
11 7 (2.29%) Bash
12 6 (1.96%) Kotlin
12 6 (1.96%) Perl
12 6 (1.96%) PowerShell
13 5 (1.63%) Google Apps Script
13 5 (1.63%) Ruby
14 4 (1.31%) Embedded C
14 4 (1.31%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 54 (17.65%) Degree
2 29 (9.48%) Computer Science Degree
3 24 (7.84%) Security Cleared
4 14 (4.58%) DV Cleared
4 14 (4.58%) Master's Degree
5 9 (2.94%) SC Cleared
6 8 (2.61%) OSCP
6 8 (2.61%) PhD
7 6 (1.96%) AWS Certification
8 5 (1.63%) AWS Certified Developer
8 5 (1.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 5 (1.63%) CEH
8 5 (1.63%) CREST Certified
9 3 (0.98%) CCSAM
9 3 (0.98%) GPEN
9 3 (0.98%) GXPN
9 3 (0.98%) OSCE
10 2 (0.65%) CHECK Team Leader
10 2 (0.65%) CHECK Team Member
10 2 (0.65%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (10.13%) QA
2 7 (2.29%) GDPR
3 5 (1.63%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.31%) ISO 20022
5 3 (0.98%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.33%) MiFID
System Software
1 19 (6.21%) Docker
2 5 (1.63%) KVM
2 5 (1.63%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.98%) Firmware
4 2 (0.65%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 21 (6.86%) Kubernetes
2 6 (1.96%) Grafana
2 6 (1.96%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (0.65%) Ansible
3 2 (0.65%) ITRS Geneos
4 1 (0.33%) Argo
4 1 (0.33%) Kibana
4 1 (0.33%) logstash
4 1 (0.33%) Puppet
Vendors
1 9 (2.94%) FIS
1 9 (2.94%) Palantir
1 9 (2.94%) SunGard
2 8 (2.61%) Google
2 8 (2.61%) Microsoft
3 5 (1.63%) VMware
4 3 (0.98%) Databricks
4 3 (0.98%) EMC
4 3 (0.98%) Solace
5 2 (0.65%) Bloomberg
5 2 (0.65%) Blue Prism
5 2 (0.65%) Dynatrace
5 2 (0.65%) FactSet
6 1 (0.33%) Arista
6 1 (0.33%) Ciena
6 1 (0.33%) Cisco
6 1 (0.33%) HP
6 1 (0.33%) Juniper
6 1 (0.33%) Nokia
6 1 (0.33%) Oracle