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

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 164 139 129
Rank change year-on-year -25 -10 +21
Permanent jobs citing C++ 235 369 433
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.67% 2.38% 2.38%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.46% 5.76% 5.41%
Number of salaries quoted 154 192 347
10th Percentile £68,250 £50,000 £56,250
25th Percentile £93,750 £65,000 £76,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £102,500 £90,000 £105,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.89% -14.29% +31.25%
75th Percentile £132,500 £120,000 £137,500
90th Percentile £152,500 £142,250 £168,000
England median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.85% - -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 4,307 6,405 8,005
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 30.54% 41.29% 43.97%
Number of salaries quoted 3,046 4,107 6,940
10th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £61,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.23%
75th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £101,250
90th Percentile £130,000 £125,000 £125,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +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 14 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 14 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 +40 55 £100,000 - 56
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 (0.85%) Apache Pulsar
1 2 (0.85%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.43%) Kinematics
Applications
1 2 (0.85%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 22 (9.36%) AWS
2 16 (6.81%) Azure
3 13 (5.53%) GCP
4 10 (4.26%) GitHub
5 3 (1.28%) OpenShift
6 2 (0.85%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (0.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (0.43%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 1 (0.43%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (0.43%) Azure Machine Learning
7 1 (0.43%) Entra ID
7 1 (0.43%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (0.43%) Google Workspace
7 1 (0.43%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (0.43%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 29 (12.34%) Multicast
1 29 (12.34%) TCP/IP
2 3 (1.28%) RTP
2 3 (1.28%) VoIP
3 2 (0.85%) Broadband
3 2 (0.85%) DHCP
3 2 (0.85%) DOCSIS
3 2 (0.85%) DSL
3 2 (0.85%) GPON
3 2 (0.85%) IPv4
3 2 (0.85%) IPv6
3 2 (0.85%) PPP
3 2 (0.85%) WAN
3 2 (0.85%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.43%) 4G
4 1 (0.43%) 5G
4 1 (0.43%) Diameter Protocol
4 1 (0.43%) SS7
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (2.13%) ClickHouse
1 5 (2.13%) KDB
2 2 (0.85%) Kdb+
2 2 (0.85%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.43%) Big Data
3 1 (0.43%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (0.43%) Hadoop
3 1 (0.43%) Metadata
3 1 (0.43%) Neo4j
3 1 (0.43%) Power BI
3 1 (0.43%) Redis
3 1 (0.43%) Semantic Layer
3 1 (0.43%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 16 (6.81%) JIRA
2 10 (4.26%) Git
3 2 (0.85%) CircleCI
4 1 (0.43%) CMake
4 1 (0.43%) GCC
4 1 (0.43%) GDB
4 1 (0.43%) GitLab
4 1 (0.43%) IDA Disassembler
4 1 (0.43%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.43%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (0.43%) TeamCity
4 1 (0.43%) Visual Studio
General
1 113 (48.09%) Finance
2 56 (23.83%) Front Office
3 48 (20.43%) Banking
4 29 (12.34%) Investment Banking
5 23 (9.79%) Telecoms
6 18 (7.66%) Analytical Skills
6 18 (7.66%) Social Skills
7 11 (4.68%) Manufacturing
8 9 (3.83%) Public Sector
9 8 (3.40%) Electronics
9 8 (3.40%) Marketing
10 7 (2.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 6 (2.55%) Financial Institution
12 5 (2.13%) Aerospace
13 4 (1.70%) Aeronautics
13 4 (1.70%) Automotive
14 2 (0.85%) Games
14 2 (0.85%) Military
15 1 (0.43%) Advertising
15 1 (0.43%) Law
Job Titles
1 123 (52.34%) Developer
2 93 (39.57%) C++ Developer
3 81 (34.47%) Senior
4 68 (28.94%) Software Engineer
5 37 (15.74%) Linux Developer
5 37 (15.74%) Low Latency C++ Developer
6 35 (14.89%) C++ Software Engineer
7 33 (14.04%) Quantitative Developer
8 32 (13.62%) Senior Software Engineer
9 29 (12.34%) Python Developer
9 29 (12.34%) Senior Developer
10 23 (9.79%) Senior C++ Developer
10 23 (9.79%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
11 21 (8.94%) Senior Python Developer
11 21 (8.94%) Senior Quantitative Developer
12 20 (8.51%) C++ Quantitative Developer
12 20 (8.51%) Investment Banking C++ Developer
13 18 (7.66%) C++ Software Developer
13 18 (7.66%) Linux Scripter
13 18 (7.66%) Senior C++ Quantitative Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (16.60%) Boost C++ Libraries
2 35 (14.89%) FIX Protocol
3 20 (8.51%) RESTful
4 14 (5.96%) pytest
5 9 (3.83%) WebSockets
6 8 (3.40%) Kafka
7 7 (2.98%) gRPC
7 7 (2.98%) REST
8 6 (2.55%) PyXLL
9 4 (1.70%) Android NDK
9 4 (1.70%) AngularJS
9 4 (1.70%) React
9 4 (1.70%) Sass
9 4 (1.70%) ZeroMQ
10 3 (1.28%) .NET
10 3 (1.28%) XML
11 2 (0.85%) OAuth
11 2 (0.85%) OAuth2
11 2 (0.85%) STL
11 2 (0.85%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 54 (22.98%) Algorithms
2 39 (16.60%) Derivative
3 36 (15.32%) Equities
4 30 (12.77%) Distributed Systems
5 28 (11.91%) Cloud Native
6 26 (11.06%) Hedge funds
7 25 (10.64%) Data Structures
8 24 (10.21%) Fixed Income
9 19 (8.09%) FPGA
9 19 (8.09%) Management Information System
10 16 (6.81%) Legacy Code
11 12 (5.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 8 (3.40%) Grid Computing
13 6 (2.55%) Analytical Mindset
13 6 (2.55%) Greenfield Project
14 5 (2.13%) AI Agents
14 5 (2.13%) Data Protection Act
14 5 (2.13%) Distributed Computing
15 4 (1.70%) Market Risk
15 4 (1.70%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 111 (47.23%) Linux
2 13 (5.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 10 (4.26%) Android
4 6 (2.55%) Windows
5 4 (1.70%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.85%) OpenWrt
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (39.57%) Low Latency
2 89 (37.87%) Software Engineering
3 52 (22.13%) Computer Science
4 48 (20.43%) Agile
5 36 (15.32%) AI
6 33 (14.04%) OOP
7 29 (12.34%) Problem-Solving
7 29 (12.34%) SDLC
8 25 (10.64%) Test Automation
9 24 (10.21%) Machine Learning
9 24 (10.21%) Workflow
10 22 (9.36%) Analytics
10 22 (9.36%) Mathematics
11 20 (8.51%) Fintech
11 20 (8.51%) Microservices
11 20 (8.51%) OO
12 19 (8.09%) CI/CD
12 19 (8.09%) Order Management
13 18 (7.66%) Data Pipeline
13 18 (7.66%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 110 (46.81%) Python
2 55 (23.40%) C
3 53 (22.55%) Java
4 39 (16.60%) C#
5 33 (14.04%) SQL
6 32 (13.62%) Rust
7 27 (11.49%) Go
8 15 (6.38%) TypeScript
9 6 (2.55%) Kotlin
10 5 (2.13%) JavaScript
11 3 (1.28%) Bash
11 3 (1.28%) PowerShell
11 3 (1.28%) VBA
12 2 (0.85%) Groovy
12 2 (0.85%) VC++
13 1 (0.43%) Embedded C
13 1 (0.43%) Google Apps Script
13 1 (0.43%) R
13 1 (0.43%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 29 (12.34%) Degree
2 18 (7.66%) Security Cleared
3 16 (6.81%) Computer Science Degree
3 16 (6.81%) DV Cleared
4 15 (6.38%) Master's Degree
5 14 (5.96%) SC Cleared
6 3 (1.28%) PhD
7 1 (0.43%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.43%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.43%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (7.66%) QA
2 3 (1.28%) Data Quality
2 3 (1.28%) EMIR
3 1 (0.43%) MiFID
3 1 (0.43%) NIST
System Software
1 14 (5.96%) Virtual Machines
1 14 (5.96%) Virtual Servers
2 13 (5.53%) Docker
3 2 (0.85%) Firmware
4 1 (0.43%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.43%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (0.43%) KVM
4 1 (0.43%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 33 (14.04%) Kubernetes
2 5 (2.13%) Grafana
3 4 (1.70%) Prometheus
3 4 (1.70%) Terraform
4 1 (0.43%) Ansible
4 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.43%) Progress Chef
4 1 (0.43%) Puppet
Vendors
1 12 (5.11%) Palantir
1 12 (5.11%) Red Hat
2 8 (3.40%) SAP
3 3 (1.28%) Apple
3 3 (1.28%) Microsoft
4 2 (0.85%) Ericsson
4 2 (0.85%) Foundry
4 2 (0.85%) Mavenir
4 2 (0.85%) Nokia
4 2 (0.85%) Oracle
4 2 (0.85%) Solarflare
5 1 (0.43%) Cribl.io
5 1 (0.43%) Databricks
5 1 (0.43%) Google
5 1 (0.43%) ION Trading
5 1 (0.43%) Sonatype
5 1 (0.43%) UiPath
5 1 (0.43%) VMware