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

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 140 133 209
Rank change year-on-year -7 +76 -69
Permanent jobs citing C++ 359 320 354
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.67% 2.62% 1.44%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.74% 6.30% 3.61%
Number of salaries quoted 256 171 257
10th Percentile £58,750 £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 - £151,250 £115,000
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 5,327 5,082 9,812
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 24.85% 41.68% 39.93%
Number of salaries quoted 3,762 3,520 7,653
10th Percentile £50,000 £49,925 £47,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £61,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £80,975 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.88% +1.22% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £101,250
90th Percentile £118,750 £132,700 £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 17 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 17 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 +4 86 £100,000 -23.08% 24
West London -13 2 £55,000 - 4
South London +18 1 - -
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 (1.67%) Kinematics
2 5 (1.39%) Apache
2 5 (1.39%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.11%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.84%) Confluence
5 1 (0.28%) Ethereum
Applications
1 3 (0.84%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 43 (11.98%) AWS
2 21 (5.85%) GCP
3 19 (5.29%) Azure
4 16 (4.46%) GitHub
5 6 (1.67%) AWS CloudFormation
5 6 (1.67%) Entra ID
5 6 (1.67%) Google Workspace
5 6 (1.67%) Microsoft 365
5 6 (1.67%) OpenShift
6 4 (1.11%) Cloud Composer
6 4 (1.11%) Dagster
6 4 (1.11%) dbt
7 3 (0.84%) Serverless
8 1 (0.28%) Azure Machine Learning
8 1 (0.28%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (0.28%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 23 (6.41%) TCP/IP
2 17 (4.74%) Multicast
3 4 (1.11%) Broadband
4 3 (0.84%) Network Security
5 1 (0.28%) 4G
5 1 (0.28%) 5G
5 1 (0.28%) Diameter Protocol
5 1 (0.28%) Ethernet
5 1 (0.28%) Peer-to-Peer Networking
5 1 (0.28%) RTP
5 1 (0.28%) SS7
5 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
3 5 (1.39%) Semantic Layer
4 4 (1.11%) BigQuery
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 24 (6.69%) Git
2 20 (5.57%) JIRA
3 5 (1.39%) Gradle
3 5 (1.39%) TeamCity
4 3 (0.84%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.84%) Visual Studio
4 3 (0.84%) WinDbg
5 2 (0.56%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 2 (0.56%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.56%) CMake
5 2 (0.56%) Cypress.io
5 2 (0.56%) Selenium
6 1 (0.28%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.28%) GitLab
6 1 (0.28%) IDA Disassembler
6 1 (0.28%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.28%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.28%) Valgrind
General
1 177 (49.30%) Finance
2 52 (14.48%) Banking
3 30 (8.36%) Front Office
4 29 (8.08%) Investment Banking
5 28 (7.80%) Social Skills
6 27 (7.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 25 (6.96%) Analytical Skills
8 8 (2.23%) Games
8 8 (2.23%) Law
9 7 (1.95%) Aerospace
10 5 (1.39%) Advertising
10 5 (1.39%) Automotive
11 4 (1.11%) Aeronautics
11 4 (1.11%) Financial Institution
12 3 (0.84%) Electronics
12 3 (0.84%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.56%) Aviation
13 2 (0.56%) Military
13 2 (0.56%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 134 (37.33%) Software Engineer
2 127 (35.38%) Senior
3 126 (35.10%) Developer
4 95 (26.46%) C++ Developer
5 89 (24.79%) C++ Software Engineer
6 62 (17.27%) Senior Software Engineer
7 43 (11.98%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
8 41 (11.42%) Linux Developer
8 41 (11.42%) Low Latency C++ Developer
9 38 (10.58%) Senior Developer
10 35 (9.75%) Senior C++ Developer
11 32 (8.91%) Python Engineer
12 28 (7.80%) Python Software Engineer
13 25 (6.96%) Lead
14 23 (6.41%) Software Developer
15 20 (5.57%) Quantitative Developer
15 20 (5.57%) Senior Quantitative Developer
16 19 (5.29%) Python Developer
16 19 (5.29%) Senior C++ Quantitative Developer
16 19 (5.29%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (14.21%) Boost C++ Libraries
2 28 (7.80%) RESTful
3 19 (5.29%) FIX Protocol
4 17 (4.74%) pytest
5 14 (3.90%) Kafka
6 10 (2.79%) React
7 9 (2.51%) Web Services
8 8 (2.23%) .NET
9 7 (1.95%) OpenGL
10 6 (1.67%) STL
11 5 (1.39%) Open3D
11 5 (1.39%) PyTorch
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%) TensorFlow
12 4 (1.11%) ZeroMQ
13 3 (0.84%) Flask
13 3 (0.84%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 71 (19.78%) Algorithms
2 40 (11.14%) Equities
3 34 (9.47%) Data Structures
4 33 (9.19%) Distributed Systems
5 31 (8.64%) Derivative
6 25 (6.96%) Hedge funds
7 23 (6.41%) Robotics
8 22 (6.13%) Management Information System
9 20 (5.57%) Fixed Income
10 19 (5.29%) FPGA
11 9 (2.51%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 8 (2.23%) Embedded Systems
12 8 (2.23%) Reinsurance
12 8 (2.23%) Sports Betting
13 7 (1.95%) Augmented Reality
13 7 (1.95%) Virtual Reality
14 6 (1.67%) Distributed Architecture
14 6 (1.67%) PKI
15 5 (1.39%) GNSS
15 5 (1.39%) Lidar
Operating Systems
1 123 (34.26%) Linux
2 23 (6.41%) Windows
3 5 (1.39%) Robot Operating System
4 4 (1.11%) Unix
5 2 (0.56%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.28%) Android
6 1 (0.28%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (0.28%) FreeRTOS
6 1 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 175 (48.75%) Software Engineering
2 129 (35.93%) Low Latency
3 80 (22.28%) Computer Science
4 63 (17.55%) Agile
5 62 (17.27%) Fintech
6 42 (11.70%) CI/CD
7 40 (11.14%) Mathematics
8 39 (10.86%) SDLC
9 37 (10.31%) OOP
10 36 (10.03%) Analytics
11 33 (9.19%) Microservices
11 33 (9.19%) Problem-Solving
12 30 (8.36%) Test Automation
13 28 (7.80%) AI
13 28 (7.80%) Multithreading
13 28 (7.80%) OO
14 27 (7.52%) DevOps
15 24 (6.69%) Process Improvement
16 23 (6.41%) Workflow
17 21 (5.85%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 165 (45.96%) Python
2 89 (24.79%) Java
3 64 (17.83%) C
3 64 (17.83%) C#
4 60 (16.71%) Rust
5 50 (13.93%) SQL
6 28 (7.80%) Go
7 17 (4.74%) JavaScript
8 13 (3.62%) TypeScript
9 8 (2.23%) Julia
9 8 (2.23%) MATLAB
9 8 (2.23%) R
10 7 (1.95%) Bash
10 7 (1.95%) PowerShell
11 6 (1.67%) Kotlin
11 6 (1.67%) Scala
12 4 (1.11%) Erlang
12 4 (1.11%) Google Apps Script
13 3 (0.84%) Objective-C
13 3 (0.84%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 41 (11.42%) Degree
2 20 (5.57%) Security Cleared
3 17 (4.74%) Master's Degree
4 14 (3.90%) DV Cleared
5 13 (3.62%) PhD
6 8 (2.23%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (1.95%) SC Cleared
8 6 (1.67%) AWS Certification
8 6 (1.67%) OSCP
9 4 (1.11%) AWS Certified Developer
9 4 (1.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (1.11%) CREST Certified
9 4 (1.11%) GPEN
9 4 (1.11%) GXPN
9 4 (1.11%) OSCE
10 3 (0.84%) CCSAM
11 2 (0.56%) Azure Certification
11 2 (0.56%) CEH
12 1 (0.28%) CCSAS
12 1 (0.28%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (7.52%) 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
System Software
1 9 (2.51%) Docker
2 5 (1.39%) Firmware
3 4 (1.11%) KVM
3 4 (1.11%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.28%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 12 (3.34%) Terraform
2 9 (2.51%) Grafana
2 9 (2.51%) Kubernetes
3 6 (1.67%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (1.11%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.28%) Ansible
5 1 (0.28%) Argo
5 1 (0.28%) Kibana
5 1 (0.28%) logstash
Vendors
1 9 (2.51%) Palantir
2 7 (1.95%) Microsoft
3 6 (1.67%) Google
4 4 (1.11%) Databricks
4 4 (1.11%) VMware
5 3 (0.84%) Blue Prism
5 3 (0.84%) EMC
5 3 (0.84%) Solace
6 2 (0.56%) Apple
6 2 (0.56%) HP
7 1 (0.28%) Bloomberg
7 1 (0.28%) FXall
7 1 (0.28%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.28%) Oracle
7 1 (0.28%) Red Hat