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 5 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 164 152 172
Rank change year-on-year -12 +20 -50
Permanent jobs citing C++ 339 296 370
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.44% 2.42% 1.88%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.14% 5.82% 4.63%
Number of salaries quoted 236 160 273
10th Percentile £54,625 £62,500 £46,750
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% +2.86%
75th Percentile £102,375 £151,250 £115,000
90th Percentile £132,500 £175,000 £130,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -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 5,522 5,085 7,986
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 23.49% 41.56% 40.55%
Number of salaries quoted 3,831 3,492 5,871
10th Percentile £50,000 £48,750 £48,750
25th Percentile £65,000 £61,250 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £82,500 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.03% - +3.13%
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £107,500
90th Percentile £118,750 £135,000 £136,250
England median annual salary £65,000 £64,000 £60,375
% change year-on-year +1.56% +6.00% -7.12%

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 5 August 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 5 August 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 62 £100,000 -29.20% 58
South London +10 8 - - 4
West London -24 4 £55,500 - 8
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 (1.77%) Apache
2 5 (1.47%) Apache Spark
2 5 (1.47%) Confluence
3 4 (1.18%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.18%) Kinematics
4 1 (0.29%) Ethereum
Applications
1 3 (0.88%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.29%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
Cloud Services
1 42 (12.39%) AWS
2 20 (5.90%) GCP
3 19 (5.60%) Azure
4 10 (2.95%) GitHub
5 6 (1.77%) AWS CloudFormation
5 6 (1.77%) Entra ID
5 6 (1.77%) Google Workspace
5 6 (1.77%) Microsoft 365
5 6 (1.77%) OpenShift
6 4 (1.18%) Cloud Composer
6 4 (1.18%) Dagster
6 4 (1.18%) dbt
6 4 (1.18%) Serverless
7 3 (0.88%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (0.29%) Azure Machine Learning
8 1 (0.29%) Datadog
8 1 (0.29%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 16 (4.72%) Multicast
2 15 (4.42%) TCP/IP
3 7 (2.06%) 3GPP
3 7 (2.06%) GSM
3 7 (2.06%) LTE
3 7 (2.06%) Radio Access Network
3 7 (2.06%) RANAP
3 7 (2.06%) SS7
3 7 (2.06%) UMTS
3 7 (2.06%) Wireshark
4 4 (1.18%) Broadband
5 3 (0.88%) Network Security
6 1 (0.29%) Peer-to-Peer Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (1.77%) Geospatial Data
2 5 (1.47%) Metadata
2 5 (1.47%) NonStop SQL
3 4 (1.18%) Big Data
3 4 (1.18%) BigQuery
3 4 (1.18%) NoSQL
3 4 (1.18%) Semantic Layer
4 3 (0.88%) DynamoDB
4 3 (0.88%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (0.59%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.29%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (0.29%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.29%) Apache Arrow
6 1 (0.29%) Delta Lake
6 1 (0.29%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.29%) InterSystems Cache
6 1 (0.29%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.29%) Pinecone
6 1 (0.29%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.29%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 29 (8.55%) Git
2 19 (5.60%) JIRA
3 14 (4.13%) Jenkins
4 7 (2.06%) GCC
4 7 (2.06%) GDB
5 6 (1.77%) TeamCity
6 5 (1.47%) Gradle
7 3 (0.88%) Visual Studio
7 3 (0.88%) WinDbg
8 2 (0.59%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 2 (0.59%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.59%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.59%) Selenium
9 1 (0.29%) CMake
9 1 (0.29%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.29%) GitLab
9 1 (0.29%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.29%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.29%) Valgrind
General
1 177 (52.21%) Finance
2 57 (16.81%) Banking
3 44 (12.98%) Social Skills
4 35 (10.32%) Analytical Skills
5 32 (9.44%) Investment Banking
6 31 (9.14%) Front Office
7 26 (7.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 19 (5.60%) Law
9 8 (2.36%) Telecoms
10 7 (2.06%) Legal
11 6 (1.77%) Manufacturing
12 4 (1.18%) Electronics
12 4 (1.18%) Games
12 4 (1.18%) Tech for Good
13 2 (0.59%) Aerospace
13 2 (0.59%) Aviation
13 2 (0.59%) Military
14 1 (0.29%) Advertising
14 1 (0.29%) Automotive
14 1 (0.29%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 120 (35.40%) Software Engineer
2 105 (30.97%) Senior
3 102 (30.09%) Developer
4 75 (22.12%) C++ Software Engineer
5 66 (19.47%) C++ Developer
6 52 (15.34%) Senior Software Engineer
7 37 (10.91%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
8 31 (9.14%) Linux Developer
9 29 (8.55%) Low Latency C++ Developer
10 28 (8.26%) Python Engineer
11 25 (7.37%) Lead
11 25 (7.37%) Senior Developer
12 22 (6.49%) Python Software Engineer
13 21 (6.19%) Senior C++ Developer
14 20 (5.90%) Quantitative Developer
15 17 (5.01%) Senior Quantitative Developer
16 16 (4.72%) Analyst
16 16 (4.72%) C++ Quantitative Developer
16 16 (4.72%) Software Developer
17 15 (4.42%) Rust Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (11.50%) Boost C++ Libraries
2 27 (7.96%) FIX Protocol
3 26 (7.67%) RESTful
4 15 (4.42%) Kafka
5 14 (4.13%) pytest
6 12 (3.54%) React
6 12 (3.54%) STL
7 11 (3.24%) .NET
8 9 (2.65%) Web Services
9 7 (2.06%) OpenGL
9 7 (2.06%) PyTorch
10 6 (1.77%) TensorFlow
11 5 (1.47%) Apache NiFi
11 5 (1.47%) Spring
11 5 (1.47%) Spring Boot
11 5 (1.47%) Vaadin
12 4 (1.18%) AngularJS
12 4 (1.18%) Open3D
13 3 (0.88%) Flask
13 3 (0.88%) ZeroMQ
Miscellaneous
1 66 (19.47%) Algorithms
2 37 (10.91%) Equities
3 31 (9.14%) Derivative
4 30 (8.85%) Hedge funds
5 29 (8.55%) Data Structures
5 29 (8.55%) Distributed Systems
6 26 (7.67%) Fixed Income
7 20 (5.90%) Robotics
8 17 (5.01%) Management Information System
9 15 (4.42%) FPGA
10 9 (2.65%) Reinsurance
11 8 (2.36%) Distributed Architecture
11 8 (2.36%) Embedded Systems
12 7 (2.06%) Augmented Reality
12 7 (2.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 7 (2.06%) Virtual Reality
13 6 (1.77%) PKI
14 5 (1.47%) Equity Derivative
14 5 (1.47%) Social Media
15 4 (1.18%) Lidar
Operating Systems
1 113 (33.33%) Linux
2 18 (5.31%) Windows
3 7 (2.06%) Unix
4 2 (0.59%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.59%) Embedded Linux
5 1 (0.29%) Robot Operating System
5 1 (0.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 162 (47.79%) Software Engineering
2 125 (36.87%) Low Latency
3 82 (24.19%) Computer Science
4 53 (15.63%) Agile
4 53 (15.63%) Fintech
5 43 (12.68%) Mathematics
6 42 (12.39%) Problem-Solving
7 41 (12.09%) CI/CD
8 40 (11.80%) AI
9 36 (10.62%) SDLC
10 33 (9.73%) Analytics
11 32 (9.44%) Microservices
11 32 (9.44%) Multithreading
12 30 (8.85%) Test Automation
13 29 (8.55%) OOP
14 24 (7.08%) Machine Learning
14 24 (7.08%) OO
15 22 (6.49%) Continuous Integration
16 21 (6.19%) Process Improvement
17 20 (5.90%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 168 (49.56%) Python
2 89 (26.25%) Java
3 58 (17.11%) C
3 58 (17.11%) C#
4 46 (13.57%) SQL
5 45 (13.27%) Rust
6 25 (7.37%) JavaScript
7 21 (6.19%) Go
8 15 (4.42%) TypeScript
9 12 (3.54%) R
10 8 (2.36%) Julia
10 8 (2.36%) MATLAB
11 7 (2.06%) Bash
11 7 (2.06%) Scala
12 6 (1.77%) Kotlin
13 5 (1.47%) Erlang
13 5 (1.47%) Google Apps Script
13 5 (1.47%) PowerShell
14 4 (1.18%) Embedded C
14 4 (1.18%) Embedded C++
Qualifications
1 49 (14.45%) Degree
2 24 (7.08%) Computer Science Degree
3 22 (6.49%) Security Cleared
4 14 (4.13%) DV Cleared
5 11 (3.24%) Master's Degree
6 10 (2.95%) SC Cleared
7 9 (2.65%) PhD
8 6 (1.77%) AWS Certification
8 6 (1.77%) OSCP
9 5 (1.47%) AWS Certified Developer
9 5 (1.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (0.88%) CCSAM
10 3 (0.88%) CEH
10 3 (0.88%) CREST Certified
10 3 (0.88%) GPEN
10 3 (0.88%) GXPN
10 3 (0.88%) OSCE
11 1 (0.29%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.29%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (10.32%) QA
2 7 (2.06%) GDPR
3 5 (1.47%) ISO 20022
4 3 (0.88%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (0.59%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.29%) EMIR
6 1 (0.29%) MiFID
System Software
1 16 (4.72%) Docker
2 5 (1.47%) KVM
2 5 (1.47%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.88%) Firmware
4 2 (0.59%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 17 (5.01%) Kubernetes
2 9 (2.65%) Terraform
3 6 (1.77%) Grafana
3 6 (1.77%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.29%) Ansible
4 1 (0.29%) Argo
4 1 (0.29%) ITRS Geneos
4 1 (0.29%) Kibana
4 1 (0.29%) logstash
Vendors
1 10 (2.95%) Palantir
2 9 (2.65%) FIS
2 9 (2.65%) Microsoft
2 9 (2.65%) SunGard
3 8 (2.36%) Google
4 5 (1.47%) Databricks
4 5 (1.47%) VMware
5 4 (1.18%) Solace
6 3 (0.88%) Blue Prism
6 3 (0.88%) EMC
7 2 (0.59%) HP
7 2 (0.59%) Oracle
8 1 (0.29%) Bloomberg
8 1 (0.29%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.29%) FactSet
8 1 (0.29%) OpenAI