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 3 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 170 145 125
Rank change year-on-year -25 -20 +22
Permanent jobs citing C++ 224 373 443
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.62% 2.38% 2.49%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.24% 5.73% 5.63%
Number of salaries quoted 143 197 359
10th Percentile £70,000 £50,000 £56,250
25th Percentile £93,750 £65,000 £77,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £105,000 £90,000 £110,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -18.18% +37.50%
75th Percentile £136,250 £120,000 £142,500
90th Percentile £152,500 £140,000 £170,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -3.70%

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 4,277 6,506 7,874
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 31.02% 41.55% 44.18%
Number of salaries quoted 3,014 4,176 6,841
10th Percentile £43,750 £50,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £61,250 £61,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.23%
75th Percentile £102,500 £105,000 £101,250
90th Percentile £130,000 £125,000 £125,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -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 3 January 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 3 January 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 +45 49 £100,000 -1.23% 75
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 2 (0.89%) Apache Pulsar
1 2 (0.89%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.45%) Kinematics
Applications
1 2 (0.89%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 23 (10.27%) AWS
2 16 (7.14%) Azure
3 12 (5.36%) GCP
4 9 (4.02%) GitHub
5 3 (1.34%) OpenShift
6 2 (0.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (0.89%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 2 (0.89%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (0.45%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (0.45%) Azure Machine Learning
7 1 (0.45%) Entra ID
7 1 (0.45%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (0.45%) Google Workspace
7 1 (0.45%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (0.45%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 28 (12.50%) Multicast
2 26 (11.61%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.89%) Broadband
3 2 (0.89%) DHCP
3 2 (0.89%) DOCSIS
3 2 (0.89%) DSL
3 2 (0.89%) GPON
3 2 (0.89%) IPv4
3 2 (0.89%) IPv6
3 2 (0.89%) PPP
3 2 (0.89%) RTP
3 2 (0.89%) VoIP
3 2 (0.89%) WAN
3 2 (0.89%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (2.68%) ClickHouse
2 5 (2.23%) KDB
3 2 (0.89%) Kdb+
3 2 (0.89%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.45%) Big Data
4 1 (0.45%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.45%) Hadoop
4 1 (0.45%) Metadata
4 1 (0.45%) Neo4j
4 1 (0.45%) Power BI
4 1 (0.45%) Redis
4 1 (0.45%) Semantic Layer
4 1 (0.45%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 15 (6.70%) JIRA
2 9 (4.02%) Git
3 2 (0.89%) CircleCI
3 2 (0.89%) CMake
3 2 (0.89%) GitLab
3 2 (0.89%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.89%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (0.45%) GCC
4 1 (0.45%) GDB
4 1 (0.45%) MSBuild
4 1 (0.45%) TeamCity
4 1 (0.45%) Visual Studio
General
1 114 (50.89%) Finance
2 54 (24.11%) Front Office
3 47 (20.98%) Banking
4 29 (12.95%) Investment Banking
5 23 (10.27%) Telecoms
6 18 (8.04%) Social Skills
7 16 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
8 12 (5.36%) Manufacturing
9 10 (4.46%) Public Sector
10 9 (4.02%) Electronics
10 9 (4.02%) Marketing
11 6 (2.68%) Financial Institution
12 5 (2.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 3 (1.34%) Aerospace
14 2 (0.89%) Aeronautics
14 2 (0.89%) Automotive
14 2 (0.89%) Games
14 2 (0.89%) Law
14 2 (0.89%) Military
15 1 (0.45%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 116 (51.79%) Developer
2 87 (38.84%) C++ Developer
3 74 (33.04%) Senior
4 61 (27.23%) Software Engineer
5 37 (16.52%) Linux Developer
5 37 (16.52%) Low Latency C++ Developer
6 33 (14.73%) Quantitative Developer
7 29 (12.95%) C++ Software Engineer
7 29 (12.95%) Python Developer
7 29 (12.95%) Senior Software Engineer
8 26 (11.61%) Senior Developer
9 21 (9.38%) Senior Python Developer
9 21 (9.38%) Senior Quantitative Developer
10 20 (8.93%) C++ Quantitative Developer
10 20 (8.93%) Investment Banking C++ Developer
10 20 (8.93%) Senior C++ Developer
10 20 (8.93%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
11 18 (8.04%) Linux Scripter
11 18 (8.04%) Senior C++ Quantitative Developer
12 17 (7.59%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (16.52%) Boost C++ Libraries
2 33 (14.73%) FIX Protocol
3 20 (8.93%) RESTful
4 13 (5.80%) pytest
5 9 (4.02%) WebSockets
6 8 (3.57%) Kafka
7 7 (3.13%) gRPC
7 7 (3.13%) REST
8 6 (2.68%) PyXLL
9 4 (1.79%) .NET
9 4 (1.79%) Android NDK
9 4 (1.79%) AngularJS
9 4 (1.79%) React
10 3 (1.34%) Sass
10 3 (1.34%) XML
10 3 (1.34%) ZeroMQ
11 2 (0.89%) DPDK
11 2 (0.89%) Node.js
11 2 (0.89%) OAuth
11 2 (0.89%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 52 (23.21%) Algorithms
2 37 (16.52%) Derivative
3 35 (15.63%) Equities
4 29 (12.95%) Distributed Systems
5 28 (12.50%) Cloud Native
6 26 (11.61%) Data Structures
6 26 (11.61%) Hedge funds
7 22 (9.82%) Fixed Income
8 19 (8.48%) FPGA
8 19 (8.48%) Management Information System
9 16 (7.14%) Legacy Code
10 12 (5.36%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 8 (3.57%) Grid Computing
12 5 (2.23%) AI Agents
12 5 (2.23%) Analytical Mindset
12 5 (2.23%) Data Protection Act
12 5 (2.23%) Distributed Computing
12 5 (2.23%) Market Risk
13 4 (1.79%) Greenfield Project
13 4 (1.79%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 106 (47.32%) Linux
2 13 (5.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 9 (4.02%) Android
4 5 (2.23%) Windows
5 2 (0.89%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.89%) OpenWrt
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (40.63%) Low Latency
2 81 (36.16%) Software Engineering
3 47 (20.98%) Agile
4 46 (20.54%) Computer Science
5 35 (15.63%) AI
6 32 (14.29%) OOP
7 30 (13.39%) SDLC
8 28 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
9 25 (11.16%) Test Automation
10 24 (10.71%) Machine Learning
10 24 (10.71%) Workflow
11 21 (9.38%) Analytics
12 20 (8.93%) Fintech
12 20 (8.93%) Mathematics
12 20 (8.93%) Microservices
12 20 (8.93%) OO
13 19 (8.48%) DevOps
13 19 (8.48%) Order Management
14 18 (8.04%) CI/CD
15 17 (7.59%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 110 (49.11%) Python
2 54 (24.11%) Java
3 53 (23.66%) C
4 39 (17.41%) C#
5 32 (14.29%) SQL
6 30 (13.39%) Rust
7 25 (11.16%) Go
8 15 (6.70%) TypeScript
9 6 (2.68%) JavaScript
9 6 (2.68%) Kotlin
10 4 (1.79%) Bash
11 3 (1.34%) PowerShell
12 2 (0.89%) Embedded C
12 2 (0.89%) Groovy
12 2 (0.89%) Ruby
12 2 (0.89%) VBA
12 2 (0.89%) VC++
13 1 (0.45%) R
13 1 (0.45%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.45%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 25 (11.16%) Degree
2 18 (8.04%) Security Cleared
3 15 (6.70%) Computer Science Degree
3 15 (6.70%) DV Cleared
3 15 (6.70%) SC Cleared
4 13 (5.80%) Master's Degree
5 3 (1.34%) PhD
6 1 (0.45%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.45%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (0.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.45%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (7.59%) QA
2 3 (1.34%) Data Quality
2 3 (1.34%) EMIR
3 1 (0.45%) MiFID
3 1 (0.45%) NIST
System Software
1 14 (6.25%) Virtual Machines
1 14 (6.25%) Virtual Servers
2 12 (5.36%) Docker
3 2 (0.89%) Embedded Firmware
3 2 (0.89%) Firmware
4 1 (0.45%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.45%) KVM
4 1 (0.45%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 33 (14.73%) Kubernetes
2 5 (2.23%) Grafana
3 4 (1.79%) Prometheus
3 4 (1.79%) Terraform
4 2 (0.89%) Ansible
5 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.45%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.45%) Puppet
Vendors
1 12 (5.36%) Palantir
1 12 (5.36%) Red Hat
2 9 (4.02%) SAP
3 3 (1.34%) Microsoft
4 2 (0.89%) Cribl.io
4 2 (0.89%) Ericsson
4 2 (0.89%) Foundry
4 2 (0.89%) Mavenir
4 2 (0.89%) Nokia
4 2 (0.89%) Oracle
4 2 (0.89%) Solarflare
4 2 (0.89%) Sonatype
5 1 (0.45%) Apple
5 1 (0.45%) Databricks
5 1 (0.45%) Google
5 1 (0.45%) ION Trading
5 1 (0.45%) UiPath
5 1 (0.45%) VMware