C++ Jobs in London

C++
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in 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 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 134 221 154
Rank change year-on-year +87 -67 -29
Permanent jobs citing C++ 326 330 821
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 2.53% 1.40% 2.43%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.24% 3.47% 4.90%
Number of salaries quoted 179 243 633
10th Percentile £62,500 £50,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £80,125 £64,375 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £92,500 £81,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.92% +14.20% -12.43%
75th Percentile £135,000 £123,750 £121,250
90th Percentile £175,000 £145,000 £162,000
England median annual salary £66,212 £60,000 £69,000
% change year-on-year +10.35% -13.04% -1.43%

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 5,221 9,508 16,755
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 40.50% 40.23% 49.67%
Number of salaries quoted 3,724 7,574 12,447
10th Percentile £49,250 £47,500 £48,750
25th Percentile £61,250 £60,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% - +6.67%
75th Percentile £110,000 £102,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £130,875 £130,000 £120,000
England median annual salary £61,500 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +2.50% -7.69% +4.00%

C++
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for C++ in London

C++
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for C++ in London

C++
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing C++ in London over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

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 16 May 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
Central London +45 80 £115,000 +13.58% 62
South London +7 9 £65,000 +4.00% 9
East London -6 8 - - 6
West London +35 3 - - 19
C++
England

C++
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 4 (1.23%) Kinematics
2 3 (0.92%) WinCC
3 1 (0.31%) Ethereum
3 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.31%) MTS
3 1 (0.31%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (0.31%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (1.23%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.31%) 3ds Max
2 1 (0.31%) Blender
2 1 (0.31%) Houdini
2 1 (0.31%) Maya
2 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 7 (2.15%) Ripple
1 7 (2.15%) Ripple XRP
2 4 (1.23%) Remedy ITSM
3 3 (0.92%) Orchestrade
4 1 (0.31%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
Cloud Services
1 56 (17.18%) AWS
2 40 (12.27%) Azure
3 26 (7.98%) Amazon EKS
4 19 (5.83%) Amazon S3
4 19 (5.83%) AWS Lambda
4 19 (5.83%) Serverless
5 14 (4.29%) Amazon EC2
5 14 (4.29%) Datadog
6 12 (3.68%) AWS CloudFormation
7 8 (2.45%) GCP
8 7 (2.15%) GitHub
9 4 (1.23%) Amazon Bedrock
10 2 (0.61%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (0.61%) PaaS
11 1 (0.31%) Azure Machine Learning
11 1 (0.31%) Cloud Computing
11 1 (0.31%) CloudAMQP
11 1 (0.31%) IaaS
11 1 (0.31%) Microsoft 365
11 1 (0.31%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 22 (6.75%) TCP/IP
2 12 (3.68%) Multicast
3 5 (1.53%) Bluetooth
4 2 (0.61%) DNS
4 2 (0.61%) HTTP
4 2 (0.61%) VPN
4 2 (0.61%) Wireshark
5 1 (0.31%) MQTT
5 1 (0.31%) Network Security
5 1 (0.31%) RS-232
5 1 (0.31%) Wireless
5 1 (0.31%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (3.99%) Elasticsearch
2 10 (3.07%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (1.53%) RDBMS
3 5 (1.53%) Relational Database
4 4 (1.23%) NoSQL
4 4 (1.23%) Tick Data
5 3 (0.92%) KDB
5 3 (0.92%) MongoDB
5 3 (0.92%) MySQL
5 3 (0.92%) SQL Server
6 2 (0.61%) ClickHouse
7 1 (0.31%) Big Data
7 1 (0.31%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.31%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.31%) HBase
7 1 (0.31%) Metadata
7 1 (0.31%) Power BI
7 1 (0.31%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 28 (8.59%) Git
2 20 (6.13%) Jenkins
3 16 (4.91%) GitLab
3 16 (4.91%) Maven
4 14 (4.29%) Cucumber
4 14 (4.29%) IntelliJ
4 14 (4.29%) JUnit
4 14 (4.29%) Mockito
5 10 (3.07%) JIRA
6 2 (0.61%) Postman
7 1 (0.31%) CMake
7 1 (0.31%) Qt Creator
7 1 (0.31%) Subversion
7 1 (0.31%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.31%) TestRail
General
1 140 (42.94%) Finance
2 47 (14.42%) Banking
3 44 (13.50%) Front Office
4 35 (10.74%) Social Skills
5 33 (10.12%) Investment Banking
6 25 (7.67%) Analytical Skills
7 18 (5.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 13 (3.99%) Publishing
9 12 (3.68%) Law
10 9 (2.76%) Financial Institution
10 9 (2.76%) Legal
11 7 (2.15%) Digital Economy
11 7 (2.15%) Games
12 6 (1.84%) Marketing
13 4 (1.23%) Advertising
13 4 (1.23%) Electronics
14 3 (0.92%) French Language
14 3 (0.92%) Manufacturing
14 3 (0.92%) Public Sector
15 2 (0.61%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 165 (50.61%) Developer
2 107 (32.82%) Senior
3 96 (29.45%) C++ Developer
4 75 (23.01%) Software Engineer
5 64 (19.63%) Senior Developer
6 54 (16.56%) Lead
6 54 (16.56%) Low Latency C++ Developer
7 47 (14.42%) Quantitative Developer
8 40 (12.27%) Senior C++ Developer
9 39 (11.96%) C++ Quantitative Developer
10 38 (11.66%) Senior Software Engineer
11 35 (10.74%) Cloud Engineer
11 35 (10.74%) Cloud Native Engineer
11 35 (10.74%) Cloud Software Engineer
11 35 (10.74%) Senior C++ Quantitative Developer
11 35 (10.74%) Senior Quantitative Developer
12 34 (10.43%) Linux Developer
13 24 (7.36%) Lead Software Engineer
13 24 (7.36%) Software Developer
14 20 (6.13%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (8.28%) Boost C++ Libraries
2 21 (6.44%) .NET
3 19 (5.83%) FIX Protocol
4 14 (4.29%) ActiveMQ
4 14 (4.29%) JMS
4 14 (4.29%) Node.js
4 14 (4.29%) Spring
4 14 (4.29%) Spring Boot
5 12 (3.68%) Pandas
6 11 (3.37%) CSS
6 11 (3.37%) HTML
6 11 (3.37%) Middleware
7 10 (3.07%) pytest
8 8 (2.45%) Web Services
8 8 (2.45%) WebSockets
9 5 (1.53%) Django
9 5 (1.53%) Kafka
10 4 (1.23%) .NET Framework
10 4 (1.23%) HTML5
10 4 (1.23%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 62 (19.02%) Algorithms
2 52 (15.95%) Hedge funds
3 50 (15.34%) Distributed Systems
4 44 (13.50%) Equities
5 42 (12.88%) Cloud Native
6 35 (10.74%) Legacy Code
7 33 (10.12%) Management Information System
8 30 (9.20%) Derivative
9 27 (8.28%) Data Structures
10 26 (7.98%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 23 (7.06%) FPGA
12 18 (5.52%) Robotics
13 16 (4.91%) Enterprise Software
14 15 (4.60%) Embedded Systems
14 15 (4.60%) Fixed Income
15 14 (4.29%) Credit Derivative
15 14 (4.29%) Cyberattack
16 8 (2.45%) Blockchain
17 7 (2.15%) Greenfield Project
18 6 (1.84%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 169 (51.84%) Linux
2 16 (4.91%) Android
3 8 (2.45%) Unix
4 5 (1.53%) Ubuntu
4 5 (1.53%) Windows
5 4 (1.23%) Robot Operating System
6 3 (0.92%) Embedded Linux
6 3 (0.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.31%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (34.97%) Low Latency
1 114 (34.97%) Software Engineering
2 65 (19.94%) Mathematics
3 64 (19.63%) Agile
4 58 (17.79%) Computer Science
5 42 (12.88%) CI/CD
6 40 (12.27%) OOP
7 39 (11.96%) OO
8 36 (11.04%) SDLC
9 34 (10.43%) Analytics
10 33 (10.12%) Multithreading
11 32 (9.82%) Problem-Solving
12 31 (9.51%) Artificial Intelligence
12 31 (9.51%) DevOps
12 31 (9.51%) Physics
12 31 (9.51%) Statistics
12 31 (9.51%) Test Automation
13 30 (9.20%) Fintech
13 30 (9.20%) Machine Learning
14 26 (7.98%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 173 (53.07%) Python
2 104 (31.90%) Java
3 100 (30.67%) C
4 61 (18.71%) Go
5 60 (18.40%) Rust
6 56 (17.18%) C#
7 36 (11.04%) SQL
8 28 (8.59%) JavaScript
9 15 (4.60%) MATLAB
10 11 (3.37%) Kotlin
10 11 (3.37%) TypeScript
11 7 (2.15%) PHP
12 5 (1.53%) Ladder Logic
12 5 (1.53%) Shell Script
13 4 (1.23%) Bash
13 4 (1.23%) Embedded C++
14 3 (0.92%) F#
14 3 (0.92%) Objective-C
14 3 (0.92%) VB
15 2 (0.61%) VBA
Qualifications
1 62 (19.02%) Degree
2 35 (10.74%) PhD
3 27 (8.28%) Master's Degree
4 22 (6.75%) Security Cleared
5 19 (5.83%) Computer Science Degree
6 17 (5.21%) DV Cleared
7 4 (1.23%) SC Cleared
8 2 (0.61%) Numerate Degree
9 1 (0.31%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (0.31%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.31%) CCSP
9 1 (0.31%) CISA
9 1 (0.31%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.31%) CISM
9 1 (0.31%) CISSP
9 1 (0.31%) CRISC
9 1 (0.31%) FFIEC
9 1 (0.31%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (5.21%) QA
2 1 (0.31%) COBIT
2 1 (0.31%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.31%) NIST
System Software
1 27 (8.28%) Docker
2 2 (0.61%) Embedded Firmware
2 2 (0.61%) Firmware
3 1 (0.31%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 62 (19.02%) Kubernetes
2 30 (9.20%) Ansible
3 28 (8.59%) Terraform
4 4 (1.23%) Grafana
4 4 (1.23%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.92%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 14 (4.29%) IBM
2 8 (2.45%) Siemens
3 4 (1.23%) Databricks
3 4 (1.23%) Google
3 4 (1.23%) OpenAI
3 4 (1.23%) Oracle
3 4 (1.23%) Remedy
3 4 (1.23%) ServiceNow
4 3 (0.92%) Alibaba
4 3 (0.92%) Barracuda Networks
4 3 (0.92%) Microsoft
4 3 (0.92%) Red Hat
5 2 (0.61%) Murex
5 2 (0.61%) Perforce
6 1 (0.31%) Bloomberg
6 1 (0.31%) ION Trading
6 1 (0.31%) Palantir
6 1 (0.31%) Reuters
6 1 (0.31%) SAP
6 1 (0.31%) Sybase