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 19 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 149 140 194
Rank change year-on-year -9 +54 -48
Permanent jobs citing C++ 298 338 352
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.74% 2.55% 1.61%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.29% 6.13% 3.93%
Number of salaries quoted 197 191 271
10th Percentile £65,000 £58,750 £55,000
25th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £77,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £105,000 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +23.46%
75th Percentile £111,250 £127,500 £131,250
90th Percentile £140,000 £175,000 £163,750
England median annual salary £70,000 £66,219 £60,000
% change year-on-year +5.71% +10.37% -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 4,741 5,511 8,960
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 27.69% 41.59% 40.99%
Number of salaries quoted 3,324 3,930 7,641
10th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £61,250 £61,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.03% +3.13% +3.23%
75th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £101,250
90th Percentile £126,250 £125,000 £125,000
England median annual salary £63,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.08% +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 19 March 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 19 March 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 +4 64 £100,000 -9.09% 61
South London +19 1 - - 1
West London -18 1 - - 4
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 (2.01%) Apache Spark
2 4 (1.34%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (1.34%) Kinematics
3 2 (0.67%) Apache Pulsar
3 2 (0.67%) Palantir Foundry
4 1 (0.34%) Ethereum
Applications
1 5 (1.68%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 37 (12.42%) AWS
2 22 (7.38%) GCP
3 20 (6.71%) Azure
4 13 (4.36%) GitHub
5 6 (2.01%) OpenShift
6 4 (1.34%) AWS CloudFormation
6 4 (1.34%) Cloud Composer
6 4 (1.34%) Dagster
6 4 (1.34%) dbt
6 4 (1.34%) Entra ID
6 4 (1.34%) Google Workspace
6 4 (1.34%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (0.67%) Azure Service Bus
8 1 (0.34%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (0.34%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 30 (10.07%) TCP/IP
2 28 (9.40%) Multicast
3 6 (2.01%) Broadband
4 3 (1.01%) RTP
4 3 (1.01%) VoIP
5 2 (0.67%) DHCP
5 2 (0.67%) DOCSIS
5 2 (0.67%) DSL
5 2 (0.67%) GPON
5 2 (0.67%) IPv4
5 2 (0.67%) IPv6
5 2 (0.67%) PPP
5 2 (0.67%) WAN
5 2 (0.67%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.34%) 4G
6 1 (0.34%) 5G
6 1 (0.34%) Diameter Protocol
6 1 (0.34%) Ethernet
6 1 (0.34%) Network Security
6 1 (0.34%) SS7
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (3.02%) NoSQL
2 5 (1.68%) Metadata
3 4 (1.34%) BigQuery
4 3 (1.01%) Semantic Layer
5 1 (0.34%) Big Data
5 1 (0.34%) ClickHouse
5 1 (0.34%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.34%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.34%) KDB
5 1 (0.34%) Kdb+
5 1 (0.34%) Neo4j
5 1 (0.34%) NonStop SQL
5 1 (0.34%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.34%) Power BI
5 1 (0.34%) Redis
5 1 (0.34%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 17 (5.70%) Git
2 15 (5.03%) JIRA
3 4 (1.34%) TeamCity
4 2 (0.67%) Visual Studio
4 2 (0.67%) WinDbg
5 1 (0.34%) CMake
5 1 (0.34%) GCC
5 1 (0.34%) GDB
5 1 (0.34%) Gradle
5 1 (0.34%) IDA Disassembler
5 1 (0.34%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.34%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 153 (51.34%) Finance
2 52 (17.45%) Front Office
3 49 (16.44%) Banking
4 29 (9.73%) Investment Banking
5 23 (7.72%) Social Skills
6 22 (7.38%) Telecoms
7 19 (6.38%) Analytical Skills
8 12 (4.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 11 (3.69%) Electronics
9 11 (3.69%) Manufacturing
10 10 (3.36%) Games
11 8 (2.68%) Marketing
11 8 (2.68%) Public Sector
12 7 (2.35%) Financial Institution
13 6 (2.01%) Advertising
13 6 (2.01%) Aerospace
14 5 (1.68%) Law
15 4 (1.34%) Aeronautics
15 4 (1.34%) Automotive
16 2 (0.67%) Military
Job Titles
1 128 (42.95%) Developer
2 107 (35.91%) Senior
3 102 (34.23%) C++ Developer
4 100 (33.56%) Software Engineer
5 58 (19.46%) C++ Software Engineer
6 46 (15.44%) Senior Software Engineer
7 41 (13.76%) Low Latency C++ Developer
8 39 (13.09%) Linux Developer
9 34 (11.41%) Senior Developer
10 33 (11.07%) Senior C++ Developer
11 30 (10.07%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
11 30 (10.07%) Software Developer
12 25 (8.39%) C++ Software Developer
13 22 (7.38%) Quantitative Developer
14 21 (7.05%) Python Engineer
14 21 (7.05%) Python Software Engineer
15 20 (6.71%) Python Developer
16 19 (6.38%) Senior C++ Quantitative Developer
16 19 (6.38%) Senior Python Developer
16 19 (6.38%) Senior Quantitative Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (13.42%) Boost C++ Libraries
2 32 (10.74%) FIX Protocol
3 30 (10.07%) RESTful
4 18 (6.04%) Kafka
5 13 (4.36%) pytest
6 9 (3.02%) WebSockets
7 8 (2.68%) gRPC
8 7 (2.35%) REST
9 6 (2.01%) STL
9 6 (2.01%) ZeroMQ
10 4 (1.34%) .NET
10 4 (1.34%) Android NDK
10 4 (1.34%) AngularJS
10 4 (1.34%) React
10 4 (1.34%) Sass
10 4 (1.34%) XML
11 3 (1.01%) Open3D
11 3 (1.01%) Web Services
11 3 (1.01%) XSLT
12 2 (0.67%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 56 (18.79%) Algorithms
2 46 (15.44%) Distributed Systems
3 36 (12.08%) Equities
4 34 (11.41%) Data Structures
5 31 (10.40%) Derivative
6 21 (7.05%) Hedge funds
6 21 (7.05%) Management Information System
7 20 (6.71%) Fixed Income
7 20 (6.71%) Robotics
8 19 (6.38%) Cloud Native
8 19 (6.38%) FPGA
9 12 (4.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 10 (3.36%) Legacy Code
11 8 (2.68%) Analytical Mindset
11 8 (2.68%) Sports Betting
12 6 (2.01%) Greenfield Project
13 5 (1.68%) AI Agents
13 5 (1.68%) Distributed Computing
13 5 (1.68%) Self-Motivation
14 4 (1.34%) Anti-Piracy
Operating Systems
1 125 (41.95%) Linux
2 15 (5.03%) Windows
3 13 (4.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 10 (3.36%) Android
5 5 (1.68%) Robot Operating System
6 4 (1.34%) Mac OS
6 4 (1.34%) Unix
7 2 (0.67%) OpenWrt
8 1 (0.34%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 129 (43.29%) Software Engineering
2 105 (35.23%) Low Latency
3 78 (26.17%) Computer Science
4 53 (17.79%) Agile
5 44 (14.77%) AI
6 36 (12.08%) SDLC
7 35 (11.74%) Fintech
8 33 (11.07%) OOP
9 31 (10.40%) Multithreading
10 29 (9.73%) Analytics
11 28 (9.40%) CI/CD
11 28 (9.40%) DevOps
11 28 (9.40%) Problem-Solving
11 28 (9.40%) Workflow
12 27 (9.06%) Microservices
12 27 (9.06%) Test Automation
13 26 (8.72%) Machine Learning
14 25 (8.39%) Mathematics
14 25 (8.39%) OO
15 24 (8.05%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 124 (41.61%) Python
2 66 (22.15%) Java
3 65 (21.81%) C
4 57 (19.13%) C#
5 56 (18.79%) Rust
6 52 (17.45%) SQL
7 31 (10.40%) Go
8 17 (5.70%) TypeScript
9 9 (3.02%) Kotlin
10 8 (2.68%) JavaScript
11 5 (1.68%) PowerShell
12 4 (1.34%) Bash
12 4 (1.34%) Scala
12 4 (1.34%) VBA
13 3 (1.01%) Google Apps Script
13 3 (1.01%) VC++
14 2 (0.67%) COBOL
14 2 (0.67%) Erlang
14 2 (0.67%) Groovy
14 2 (0.67%) OCaml
Qualifications
1 43 (14.43%) Degree
2 23 (7.72%) Master's Degree
3 21 (7.05%) Security Cleared
4 17 (5.70%) Computer Science Degree
4 17 (5.70%) DV Cleared
5 15 (5.03%) SC Cleared
6 12 (4.03%) PhD
7 4 (1.34%) AWS Certification
8 3 (1.01%) AWS Certified Developer
8 3 (1.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.67%) CREST Certified
9 2 (0.67%) GPEN
9 2 (0.67%) GXPN
9 2 (0.67%) OSCE
9 2 (0.67%) OSCP
10 1 (0.34%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.34%) CCSAM
10 1 (0.34%) CCSAS
10 1 (0.34%) GIAC
10 1 (0.34%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (7.38%) QA
2 4 (1.34%) EMIR
3 3 (1.01%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.34%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.34%) MiFID
4 1 (0.34%) NIST
System Software
1 15 (5.03%) Docker
2 10 (3.36%) Virtual Machines
2 10 (3.36%) Virtual Servers
3 5 (1.68%) Firmware
4 3 (1.01%) KVM
4 3 (1.01%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 25 (8.39%) Kubernetes
2 8 (2.68%) Terraform
3 7 (2.35%) Grafana
4 4 (1.34%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (1.34%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 13 (4.36%) Palantir
1 13 (4.36%) Red Hat
2 8 (2.68%) Microsoft
2 8 (2.68%) SAP
3 5 (1.68%) Databricks
4 4 (1.34%) Google
5 3 (1.01%) Apple
5 3 (1.01%) EMC
5 3 (1.01%) Oracle
5 3 (1.01%) VMware
6 2 (0.67%) Ericsson
6 2 (0.67%) Foundry
6 2 (0.67%) HP
6 2 (0.67%) Mavenir
6 2 (0.67%) Nokia
6 2 (0.67%) Solace
7 1 (0.34%) Blue Prism
7 1 (0.34%) FXall
7 1 (0.34%) ION Trading
7 1 (0.34%) UiPath