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 2 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 137 140 207
Rank change year-on-year +3 +67 -71
Permanent jobs citing C++ 359 312 372
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.64% 2.53% 1.54%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.69% 6.09% 3.82%
Number of salaries quoted 256 170 276
10th Percentile £58,750 £65,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £62,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £110,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +22.22% +5.88%
75th Percentile - £157,500 £115,000
90th Percentile £131,250 £175,000 £135,000
England median annual salary £67,500 £66,219 £60,000
% change year-on-year +1.93% +10.37% -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 5,366 5,123 9,746
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 24.46% 41.58% 40.36%
Number of salaries quoted 3,801 3,576 7,566
10th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.03% +3.13% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £118,750 £135,000 £131,250
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 2 July 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 2 July 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 +5 81 £100,000 -29.20% 65
South London +19 3 - - 1
West London -12 2 £55,000 - 9
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 5 (1.39%) Apache
1 5 (1.39%) Apache Spark
1 5 (1.39%) Kinematics
2 4 (1.11%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (0.84%) Confluence
4 1 (0.28%) Ethereum
Applications
1 3 (0.84%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 45 (12.53%) AWS
2 22 (6.13%) GCP
3 21 (5.85%) Azure
4 14 (3.90%) GitHub
5 7 (1.95%) AWS CloudFormation
5 7 (1.95%) Entra ID
5 7 (1.95%) Google Workspace
5 7 (1.95%) Microsoft 365
5 7 (1.95%) OpenShift
6 4 (1.11%) Cloud Composer
6 4 (1.11%) Dagster
6 4 (1.11%) dbt
7 3 (0.84%) Serverless
8 2 (0.56%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (0.28%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 21 (5.85%) TCP/IP
2 18 (5.01%) Multicast
3 4 (1.11%) Broadband
4 3 (0.84%) Network Security
4 3 (0.84%) SS7
5 2 (0.56%) 3GPP
5 2 (0.56%) GSM
5 2 (0.56%) LTE
5 2 (0.56%) Radio Access Network
5 2 (0.56%) RANAP
5 2 (0.56%) UMTS
5 2 (0.56%) Wireshark
6 1 (0.28%) 4G
6 1 (0.28%) 5G
6 1 (0.28%) Diameter Protocol
6 1 (0.28%) Ethernet
6 1 (0.28%) Peer-to-Peer Networking
6 1 (0.28%) RTP
6 1 (0.28%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (1.95%) NoSQL
2 6 (1.67%) Geospatial Data
3 5 (1.39%) Metadata
3 5 (1.39%) NonStop SQL
4 4 (1.11%) BigQuery
4 4 (1.11%) Semantic Layer
5 3 (0.84%) Big Data
5 3 (0.84%) DynamoDB
5 3 (0.84%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.28%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.28%) Apache Arrow
6 1 (0.28%) Apache Iceberg
6 1 (0.28%) Delta Lake
6 1 (0.28%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.28%) InterSystems Cache
6 1 (0.28%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.28%) Parquet
6 1 (0.28%) Pinecone
6 1 (0.28%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.28%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 25 (6.96%) Git
2 21 (5.85%) JIRA
3 6 (1.67%) TeamCity
4 5 (1.39%) Gradle
4 5 (1.39%) Jenkins
5 3 (0.84%) Visual Studio
5 3 (0.84%) WinDbg
6 2 (0.56%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 2 (0.56%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.56%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.56%) GCC
6 2 (0.56%) GDB
6 2 (0.56%) Selenium
7 1 (0.28%) CMake
7 1 (0.28%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.28%) GitLab
7 1 (0.28%) IDA Disassembler
7 1 (0.28%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.28%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.28%) Valgrind
General
1 176 (49.03%) Finance
2 53 (14.76%) Banking
3 31 (8.64%) Front Office
4 30 (8.36%) Social Skills
5 29 (8.08%) Investment Banking
6 27 (7.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 25 (6.96%) Analytical Skills
8 10 (2.79%) Law
9 8 (2.23%) Games
10 7 (1.95%) Aerospace
11 5 (1.39%) Advertising
11 5 (1.39%) Automotive
11 5 (1.39%) Manufacturing
12 4 (1.11%) Aeronautics
12 4 (1.11%) Financial Institution
12 4 (1.11%) Telecoms
13 3 (0.84%) Electronics
13 3 (0.84%) Legal
14 2 (0.56%) Military
14 2 (0.56%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 136 (37.88%) Software Engineer
2 125 (34.82%) Senior
3 117 (32.59%) Developer
4 89 (24.79%) C++ Software Engineer
5 87 (24.23%) C++ Developer
6 63 (17.55%) Senior Software Engineer
7 44 (12.26%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
8 37 (10.31%) Linux Developer
8 37 (10.31%) Low Latency C++ Developer
9 35 (9.75%) Senior Developer
10 33 (9.19%) Python Engineer
10 33 (9.19%) Senior C++ Developer
11 29 (8.08%) Python Software Engineer
12 26 (7.24%) Lead
13 20 (5.57%) Software Developer
14 18 (5.01%) Quantitative Developer
14 18 (5.01%) Rust Engineer
14 18 (5.01%) Senior Quantitative Developer
15 17 (4.74%) C++ Quantitative Developer
15 17 (4.74%) Senior C++ Quantitative Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (13.09%) Boost C++ Libraries
2 27 (7.52%) RESTful
3 22 (6.13%) FIX Protocol
4 18 (5.01%) pytest
5 14 (3.90%) Kafka
6 11 (3.06%) React
7 9 (2.51%) Web Services
8 8 (2.23%) .NET
8 8 (2.23%) STL
9 7 (1.95%) OpenGL
9 7 (1.95%) PyTorch
10 6 (1.67%) TensorFlow
11 5 (1.39%) Spring
11 5 (1.39%) Spring Boot
11 5 (1.39%) Vaadin
12 4 (1.11%) Apache NiFi
12 4 (1.11%) Open3D
12 4 (1.11%) ZeroMQ
13 3 (0.84%) AngularJS
13 3 (0.84%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 71 (19.78%) Algorithms
2 39 (10.86%) Equities
3 32 (8.91%) Data Structures
3 32 (8.91%) Derivative
3 32 (8.91%) Distributed Systems
4 24 (6.69%) Hedge funds
5 23 (6.41%) Fixed Income
5 23 (6.41%) Robotics
6 20 (5.57%) Management Information System
7 17 (4.74%) FPGA
8 9 (2.51%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 8 (2.23%) Embedded Systems
9 8 (2.23%) Reinsurance
9 8 (2.23%) Sports Betting
10 7 (1.95%) Augmented Reality
10 7 (1.95%) Distributed Architecture
10 7 (1.95%) PKI
10 7 (1.95%) Virtual Reality
11 5 (1.39%) Social Media
12 4 (1.11%) GNSS
Operating Systems
1 123 (34.26%) Linux
2 24 (6.69%) Windows
3 5 (1.39%) Robot Operating System
4 4 (1.11%) Unix
5 2 (0.56%) Embedded Linux
5 2 (0.56%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.28%) Android
6 1 (0.28%) FreeRTOS
6 1 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 179 (49.86%) Software Engineering
2 129 (35.93%) Low Latency
3 83 (23.12%) Computer Science
4 64 (17.83%) Agile
5 60 (16.71%) Fintech
6 44 (12.26%) CI/CD
7 41 (11.42%) Mathematics
8 39 (10.86%) SDLC
9 36 (10.03%) Analytics
9 36 (10.03%) OOP
10 33 (9.19%) Microservices
10 33 (9.19%) Problem-Solving
11 32 (8.91%) AI
12 30 (8.36%) Multithreading
12 30 (8.36%) Test Automation
13 26 (7.24%) DevOps
13 26 (7.24%) OO
14 25 (6.96%) Process Improvement
15 24 (6.69%) Workflow
16 22 (6.13%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 167 (46.52%) Python
2 94 (26.18%) Java
3 66 (18.38%) C#
4 62 (17.27%) C
5 58 (16.16%) Rust
6 50 (13.93%) SQL
7 27 (7.52%) Go
8 21 (5.85%) JavaScript
9 15 (4.18%) TypeScript
10 8 (2.23%) Julia
10 8 (2.23%) MATLAB
10 8 (2.23%) R
11 7 (1.95%) Bash
11 7 (1.95%) Kotlin
11 7 (1.95%) PowerShell
11 7 (1.95%) Scala
12 5 (1.39%) Erlang
12 5 (1.39%) Google Apps Script
13 3 (0.84%) Clojure
13 3 (0.84%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 42 (11.70%) Degree
2 22 (6.13%) Security Cleared
3 16 (4.46%) Master's Degree
4 14 (3.90%) DV Cleared
5 12 (3.34%) PhD
6 11 (3.06%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (2.23%) SC Cleared
8 7 (1.95%) AWS Certification
9 6 (1.67%) OSCP
10 5 (1.39%) AWS Certified Developer
10 5 (1.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 4 (1.11%) CREST Certified
11 4 (1.11%) GPEN
11 4 (1.11%) GXPN
11 4 (1.11%) OSCE
12 3 (0.84%) CCSAM
13 2 (0.56%) Azure Certification
13 2 (0.56%) CEH
14 1 (0.28%) CCSAS
14 1 (0.28%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (8.36%) QA
2 7 (1.95%) GDPR
3 5 (1.39%) ISO 20022
4 3 (0.84%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.28%) EMIR
5 1 (0.28%) MiFID
5 1 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 13 (3.62%) Docker
2 5 (1.39%) Firmware
2 5 (1.39%) KVM
2 5 (1.39%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.28%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 13 (3.62%) Kubernetes
2 11 (3.06%) Terraform
3 8 (2.23%) Grafana
4 7 (1.95%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.56%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.28%) Ansible
6 1 (0.28%) Argo
6 1 (0.28%) Kibana
6 1 (0.28%) logstash
Vendors
1 10 (2.79%) Palantir
2 9 (2.51%) Google
3 8 (2.23%) Microsoft
4 5 (1.39%) VMware
5 4 (1.11%) Databricks
6 3 (0.84%) Blue Prism
6 3 (0.84%) EMC
6 3 (0.84%) Solace
7 2 (0.56%) Apple
7 2 (0.56%) FIS
7 2 (0.56%) HP
7 2 (0.56%) SunGard
8 1 (0.28%) Bloomberg
8 1 (0.28%) FXall
8 1 (0.28%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.28%) Oracle
8 1 (0.28%) Red Hat