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 8 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 126 127 232
Rank change year-on-year +1 +105 -95
Permanent jobs citing C++ 364 315 340
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.72% 2.61% 1.40%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.87% 6.30% 3.51%
Number of salaries quoted 256 171 246
10th Percentile £59,375 £62,500 £49,500
25th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £110,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +22.22% +6.51%
75th Percentile - £141,250 £121,875
90th Percentile £130,000 £175,000 £140,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £66,225 £60,000
% change year-on-year +5.70% +10.38% -11.11%

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 5,302 4,998 9,700
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 25.01% 41.37% 39.96%
Number of salaries quoted 3,726 3,515 7,621
10th Percentile £50,000 £49,550 £47,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £61,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - +3.13% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £118,750 £132,500 £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 8 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 8 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 +13 87 £100,000 -23.08% 62
West London -13 2 £55,000 - 4
South London +11 1 - - 2
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 (1.65%) Kinematics
2 5 (1.37%) Apache
2 5 (1.37%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.10%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.82%) Confluence
5 1 (0.27%) Apache Pulsar
5 1 (0.27%) Ethereum
Applications
1 4 (1.10%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 44 (12.09%) AWS
2 23 (6.32%) GCP
3 20 (5.49%) Azure
4 16 (4.40%) GitHub
5 6 (1.65%) AWS CloudFormation
5 6 (1.65%) Entra ID
5 6 (1.65%) Google Workspace
5 6 (1.65%) Microsoft 365
5 6 (1.65%) OpenShift
6 4 (1.10%) Cloud Composer
6 4 (1.10%) Dagster
6 4 (1.10%) dbt
7 3 (0.82%) Serverless
8 1 (0.27%) Azure Machine Learning
8 1 (0.27%) Azure Service Bus
8 1 (0.27%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 26 (7.14%) TCP/IP
2 18 (4.95%) Multicast
3 4 (1.10%) Broadband
4 3 (0.82%) Network Security
5 1 (0.27%) 4G
5 1 (0.27%) 5G
5 1 (0.27%) Diameter Protocol
5 1 (0.27%) Ethernet
5 1 (0.27%) Peer-to-Peer Networking
5 1 (0.27%) RTP
5 1 (0.27%) SS7
5 1 (0.27%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (1.92%) NoSQL
2 5 (1.37%) Geospatial Data
2 5 (1.37%) Metadata
2 5 (1.37%) NonStop SQL
2 5 (1.37%) Semantic Layer
3 4 (1.10%) BigQuery
4 3 (0.82%) Big Data
4 3 (0.82%) DynamoDB
4 3 (0.82%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.27%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.27%) Apache Arrow
5 1 (0.27%) Apache Iceberg
5 1 (0.27%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.27%) InterSystems Cache
5 1 (0.27%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.27%) Parquet
5 1 (0.27%) Pinecone
5 1 (0.27%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.27%) SQLPlus
5 1 (0.27%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 24 (6.59%) Git
2 20 (5.49%) JIRA
3 5 (1.37%) Gradle
3 5 (1.37%) TeamCity
4 3 (0.82%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.82%) Visual Studio
4 3 (0.82%) WinDbg
5 2 (0.55%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 2 (0.55%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.55%) CMake
5 2 (0.55%) Cypress.io
5 2 (0.55%) Selenium
6 1 (0.27%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.27%) GitLab
6 1 (0.27%) IDA Disassembler
6 1 (0.27%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.27%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.27%) Valgrind
General
1 182 (50.00%) Finance
2 54 (14.84%) Banking
3 34 (9.34%) Front Office
4 31 (8.52%) Investment Banking
5 27 (7.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 27 (7.42%) Social Skills
6 26 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
7 8 (2.20%) Games
7 8 (2.20%) Law
8 6 (1.65%) Aerospace
8 6 (1.65%) Telecoms
9 5 (1.37%) Advertising
9 5 (1.37%) Financial Institution
10 4 (1.10%) Aeronautics
10 4 (1.10%) Automotive
10 4 (1.10%) Electronics
11 2 (0.55%) Aviation
11 2 (0.55%) Military
11 2 (0.55%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.27%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 133 (36.54%) Developer
2 129 (35.44%) Senior
2 129 (35.44%) Software Engineer
3 102 (28.02%) C++ Developer
4 88 (24.18%) C++ Software Engineer
5 60 (16.48%) Senior Software Engineer
6 43 (11.81%) Linux Developer
6 43 (11.81%) Low Latency C++ Developer
7 42 (11.54%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
8 39 (10.71%) Senior Developer
9 36 (9.89%) Senior C++ Developer
10 32 (8.79%) Python Engineer
11 28 (7.69%) Python Software Engineer
12 26 (7.14%) Software Developer
13 24 (6.59%) Lead
14 21 (5.77%) Quantitative Developer
14 21 (5.77%) Senior Quantitative Developer
15 20 (5.49%) C++ Quantitative Developer
15 20 (5.49%) Python Developer
15 20 (5.49%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (14.29%) Boost C++ Libraries
2 32 (8.79%) RESTful
3 21 (5.77%) FIX Protocol
4 17 (4.67%) pytest
5 16 (4.40%) Kafka
6 9 (2.47%) Web Services
7 8 (2.20%) .NET
7 8 (2.20%) React
8 7 (1.92%) OpenGL
9 6 (1.65%) STL
10 5 (1.37%) Open3D
10 5 (1.37%) PyTorch
10 5 (1.37%) REST
10 5 (1.37%) Spring
10 5 (1.37%) Spring Boot
10 5 (1.37%) Vaadin
10 5 (1.37%) ZeroMQ
11 4 (1.10%) Apache NiFi
11 4 (1.10%) TensorFlow
12 3 (0.82%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 73 (20.05%) Algorithms
2 41 (11.26%) Equities
3 35 (9.62%) Data Structures
3 35 (9.62%) Distributed Systems
4 32 (8.79%) Derivative
5 26 (7.14%) Hedge funds
6 23 (6.32%) Management Information System
7 20 (5.49%) Fixed Income
7 20 (5.49%) FPGA
7 20 (5.49%) Robotics
8 9 (2.47%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 8 (2.20%) Embedded Systems
9 8 (2.20%) Sports Betting
10 7 (1.92%) Augmented Reality
10 7 (1.92%) Reinsurance
10 7 (1.92%) Virtual Reality
11 6 (1.65%) Distributed Architecture
11 6 (1.65%) PKI
12 5 (1.37%) Cloud Native
12 5 (1.37%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 127 (34.89%) Linux
2 24 (6.59%) Windows
3 5 (1.37%) Robot Operating System
4 4 (1.10%) Unix
5 3 (0.82%) Android
6 2 (0.55%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.27%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 168 (46.15%) Software Engineering
2 131 (35.99%) Low Latency
3 85 (23.35%) Computer Science
4 64 (17.58%) Agile
5 62 (17.03%) Fintech
6 42 (11.54%) CI/CD
7 40 (10.99%) SDLC
8 39 (10.71%) Mathematics
9 38 (10.44%) OOP
10 36 (9.89%) Microservices
11 35 (9.62%) Analytics
12 34 (9.34%) Problem-Solving
13 31 (8.52%) AI
13 31 (8.52%) Test Automation
14 30 (8.24%) Multithreading
15 29 (7.97%) OO
16 28 (7.69%) DevOps
17 24 (6.59%) Process Improvement
17 24 (6.59%) Workflow
18 22 (6.04%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 167 (45.88%) Python
2 85 (23.35%) Java
3 66 (18.13%) C
4 65 (17.86%) C#
5 56 (15.38%) Rust
6 51 (14.01%) SQL
7 28 (7.69%) Go
8 16 (4.40%) JavaScript
9 12 (3.30%) TypeScript
10 8 (2.20%) Bash
10 8 (2.20%) PowerShell
11 7 (1.92%) Julia
11 7 (1.92%) Kotlin
11 7 (1.92%) MATLAB
11 7 (1.92%) R
12 4 (1.10%) Google Apps Script
12 4 (1.10%) Scala
13 3 (0.82%) Objective-C
13 3 (0.82%) Perl
13 3 (0.82%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 44 (12.09%) Degree
2 20 (5.49%) Security Cleared
3 19 (5.22%) Master's Degree
4 15 (4.12%) DV Cleared
5 13 (3.57%) PhD
6 12 (3.30%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (1.92%) SC Cleared
8 6 (1.65%) AWS Certification
8 6 (1.65%) OSCP
9 4 (1.10%) AWS Certified Developer
9 4 (1.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (1.10%) CREST Certified
9 4 (1.10%) GPEN
9 4 (1.10%) GXPN
9 4 (1.10%) OSCE
10 3 (0.82%) CCSAM
11 2 (0.55%) Azure Certification
11 2 (0.55%) CEH
12 1 (0.27%) CCSAS
12 1 (0.27%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (7.69%) QA
2 6 (1.65%) GDPR
3 5 (1.37%) ISO 20022
4 3 (0.82%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (0.55%) EMIR
6 1 (0.27%) MiFID
6 1 (0.27%) NIST
System Software
1 11 (3.02%) Docker
2 5 (1.37%) Firmware
3 4 (1.10%) KVM
3 4 (1.10%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.55%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 12 (3.30%) Terraform
2 11 (3.02%) Kubernetes
3 9 (2.47%) Grafana
4 6 (1.65%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (1.10%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.27%) Ansible
6 1 (0.27%) Argo
6 1 (0.27%) Kibana
6 1 (0.27%) logstash
Vendors
1 8 (2.20%) Microsoft
1 8 (2.20%) Palantir
2 6 (1.65%) Google
3 4 (1.10%) Databricks
3 4 (1.10%) VMware
4 3 (0.82%) Blue Prism
4 3 (0.82%) EMC
4 3 (0.82%) Solace
5 2 (0.55%) Apple
5 2 (0.55%) HP
5 2 (0.55%) Oracle
5 2 (0.55%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.27%) Bloomberg
6 1 (0.27%) Ericsson
6 1 (0.27%) FXall
6 1 (0.27%) Mavenir
6 1 (0.27%) Nokia
6 1 (0.27%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.27%) SAP