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 1 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 173 146 119
Rank change year-on-year -27 -27 +20
Permanent jobs citing C++ 232 403 505
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.78% 2.35% 2.73%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.32% 5.58% 6.09%
Number of salaries quoted 132 239 423
10th Percentile £70,000 £48,250 £53,750
25th Percentile £93,750 £65,000 £71,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £90,000 £105,000
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -14.29% +31.25%
75th Percentile £140,000 £115,000 £142,500
90th Percentile £168,125 £138,000 £172,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -

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 4,358 7,225 8,299
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 33.44% 42.10% 44.79%
Number of salaries quoted 2,957 4,781 7,249
10th Percentile £46,000 £50,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £62,500 £61,250 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,500 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.63% - +6.67%
75th Percentile £107,500 £107,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £135,000 £127,500 £125,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -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 1 December 2025.

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 1 December 2025. 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 +35 40 £125,000 +21.95% 31
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 3 (1.29%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.43%) Apache
2 1 (0.43%) Apache Pulsar
Applications
1 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 26 (11.21%) AWS
2 15 (6.47%) Azure
3 9 (3.88%) GCP
4 5 (2.16%) GitHub
5 3 (1.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 3 (1.29%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 3 (1.29%) OpenShift
6 1 (0.43%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (0.43%) Azure Machine Learning
6 1 (0.43%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (0.43%) Entra ID
6 1 (0.43%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (0.43%) Google Workspace
6 1 (0.43%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (0.43%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 23 (9.91%) TCP/IP
2 22 (9.48%) Multicast
3 3 (1.29%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (0.86%) Broadband
4 2 (0.86%) DHCP
4 2 (0.86%) DOCSIS
4 2 (0.86%) DSL
4 2 (0.86%) GPON
4 2 (0.86%) IPv4
4 2 (0.86%) IPv6
4 2 (0.86%) PPP
4 2 (0.86%) RTP
4 2 (0.86%) VoIP
4 2 (0.86%) WAN
5 1 (0.43%) Bluetooth
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (4.74%) KDB
2 9 (3.88%) ClickHouse
3 7 (3.02%) Kdb+
4 4 (1.72%) NoSQL
5 3 (1.29%) Redis
6 2 (0.86%) CockroachDB
6 2 (0.86%) Hadoop
6 2 (0.86%) Tick Data
7 1 (0.43%) Big Data
7 1 (0.43%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.43%) Metadata
7 1 (0.43%) Neo4j
7 1 (0.43%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 11 (4.74%) JIRA
2 10 (4.31%) Git
3 3 (1.29%) GitLab
3 3 (1.29%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.29%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (0.86%) CircleCI
4 2 (0.86%) JUnit
4 2 (0.86%) Mockito
5 1 (0.43%) CMake
5 1 (0.43%) GCC
5 1 (0.43%) GDB
5 1 (0.43%) MSBuild
5 1 (0.43%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.43%) Visual Studio
General
1 123 (53.02%) Finance
2 60 (25.86%) Banking
3 56 (24.14%) Front Office
4 32 (13.79%) Investment Banking
5 22 (9.48%) Social Skills
6 17 (7.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 17 (7.33%) Law
6 17 (7.33%) Telecoms
7 16 (6.90%) Analytical Skills
8 14 (6.03%) Public Sector
9 11 (4.74%) Manufacturing
10 9 (3.88%) Electronics
11 8 (3.45%) Games
11 8 (3.45%) Marketing
12 5 (2.16%) Financial Institution
13 3 (1.29%) Back Office
13 3 (1.29%) Publishing
14 2 (0.86%) Military
14 2 (0.86%) Wholesale Banking
15 1 (0.43%) French Language
Job Titles
1 115 (49.57%) Developer
2 79 (34.05%) C++ Developer
3 73 (31.47%) Senior
4 68 (29.31%) Software Engineer
5 37 (15.95%) Low Latency C++ Developer
6 36 (15.52%) Linux Developer
6 36 (15.52%) Quantitative Developer
7 31 (13.36%) Senior Software Engineer
8 29 (12.50%) Python Developer
9 28 (12.07%) Lead
9 28 (12.07%) Senior Developer
10 26 (11.21%) C++ Software Engineer
11 23 (9.91%) Cloud Engineer
11 23 (9.91%) Investment Banking C++ Developer
12 22 (9.48%) Cloud Native Engineer
12 22 (9.48%) Cloud Software Engineer
13 21 (9.05%) C++ Quantitative Developer
13 21 (9.05%) Senior C++ Developer
13 21 (9.05%) Senior Python Developer
13 21 (9.05%) Senior Quantitative Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (12.93%) Boost C++ Libraries
2 28 (12.07%) FIX Protocol
3 12 (5.17%) RESTful
4 11 (4.74%) Kafka
5 9 (3.88%) pytest
6 7 (3.02%) React
7 6 (2.59%) gRPC
7 6 (2.59%) PyXLL
8 5 (2.16%) .NET
8 5 (2.16%) AngularJS
8 5 (2.16%) PyTorch
8 5 (2.16%) TensorFlow
8 5 (2.16%) WebSockets
9 4 (1.72%) REST
10 3 (1.29%) .NET Framework
10 3 (1.29%) Node.js
11 2 (0.86%) DPDK
11 2 (0.86%) Spring
11 2 (0.86%) STL
11 2 (0.86%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 50 (21.55%) Algorithms
2 38 (16.38%) Distributed Systems
3 36 (15.52%) Cloud Native
4 34 (14.66%) Equities
5 33 (14.22%) Derivative
6 29 (12.50%) Data Structures
7 28 (12.07%) Hedge funds
8 22 (9.48%) Legacy Code
9 19 (8.19%) FPGA
9 19 (8.19%) Management Information System
10 18 (7.76%) Fixed Income
11 17 (7.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 8 (3.45%) Grid Computing
12 8 (3.45%) Market Risk
13 7 (3.02%) Greenfield Project
14 6 (2.59%) Public Cloud
15 5 (2.16%) Data Protection Act
16 4 (1.72%) Distributed Computing
16 4 (1.72%) Equity Derivative
17 3 (1.29%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 102 (43.97%) Linux
2 11 (4.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (2.16%) Android
4 4 (1.72%) Windows
5 2 (0.86%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.86%) OpenWrt
5 2 (0.86%) Unix
6 1 (0.43%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (0.43%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (38.36%) Low Latency
2 85 (36.64%) Software Engineering
3 65 (28.02%) Agile
4 40 (17.24%) AI
5 39 (16.81%) Computer Science
6 37 (15.95%) Problem-Solving
6 37 (15.95%) SDLC
7 33 (14.22%) Test Automation
8 30 (12.93%) Machine Learning
9 28 (12.07%) OOP
10 26 (11.21%) Analytics
11 24 (10.34%) OO
12 23 (9.91%) Mathematics
12 23 (9.91%) Technical Leadership
13 22 (9.48%) CI/CD
13 22 (9.48%) Open Source
13 22 (9.48%) Order Management
14 21 (9.05%) DevOps
15 19 (8.19%) Workflow
16 17 (7.33%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 119 (51.29%) Python
2 81 (34.91%) Java
3 62 (26.72%) C
4 38 (16.38%) C#
5 35 (15.09%) Rust
6 32 (13.79%) SQL
7 29 (12.50%) Go
8 16 (6.90%) TypeScript
9 9 (3.88%) JavaScript
10 4 (1.72%) Bash
10 4 (1.72%) Embedded C
10 4 (1.72%) Kotlin
11 3 (1.29%) Groovy
11 3 (1.29%) PowerShell
11 3 (1.29%) Ruby
12 1 (0.43%) Google Apps Script
12 1 (0.43%) R
12 1 (0.43%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.43%) VBA
12 1 (0.43%) VC++
Qualifications
1 22 (9.48%) Degree
2 17 (7.33%) Security Cleared
3 14 (6.03%) DV Cleared
3 14 (6.03%) SC Cleared
4 13 (5.60%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (4.31%) Master's Degree
6 3 (1.29%) AWS Certification
6 3 (1.29%) PhD
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 11 (4.74%) QA
2 3 (1.29%) Data Quality
3 2 (0.86%) EMIR
4 1 (0.43%) MiFID
System Software
1 14 (6.03%) Virtual Machines
1 14 (6.03%) Virtual Servers
2 10 (4.31%) Docker
3 3 (1.29%) Firmware
4 2 (0.86%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (0.43%) KVM
5 1 (0.43%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 44 (18.97%) Kubernetes
2 8 (3.45%) Terraform
3 4 (1.72%) Grafana
4 3 (1.29%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.86%) Ansible
6 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.43%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.43%) Puppet
6 1 (0.43%) systemd
Vendors
1 16 (6.90%) Palantir
2 10 (4.31%) Red Hat
3 8 (3.45%) SAP
4 7 (3.02%) Foundry
5 5 (2.16%) Oracle
6 4 (1.72%) Confluent
6 4 (1.72%) Microsoft
7 3 (1.29%) Cribl.io
7 3 (1.29%) Google
7 3 (1.29%) Sonatype
8 2 (0.86%) Solarflare
9 1 (0.43%) Apple
9 1 (0.43%) Databricks
9 1 (0.43%) Ericsson
9 1 (0.43%) ION Trading
9 1 (0.43%) Mavenir
9 1 (0.43%) Nokia
9 1 (0.43%) UiPath
9 1 (0.43%) VMware