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

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 175 153 170
Rank change year-on-year -22 +17 -44
Permanent jobs citing C++ 310 278 397
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.29% 2.31% 2.03%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.60% 5.71% 4.98%
Number of salaries quoted 212 145 287
10th Percentile £55,250 £62,500 £45,750
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% -
75th Percentile £107,500 £151,250 £115,000
90th Percentile £135,000 £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 5,535 4,865 7,968
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 23.00% 40.39% 40.79%
Number of salaries quoted 3,791 3,316 5,669
10th Percentile £50,000 £48,250 £49,500
25th Percentile £64,125 £61,250 £62,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £80,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -3.03% +3.13%
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £107,500
90th Percentile £117,500 £135,000 £136,250
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £61,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +2.46% -6.15%

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 26 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 26 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 +13 61 £100,000 -33.33% 18
South London +7 7 - - 3
West London -23 3 £55,500 - 24
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 (1.94%) Apache
2 5 (1.61%) Confluence
3 4 (1.29%) Kinematics
4 1 (0.32%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.32%) Ethereum
Applications
1 2 (0.65%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.65%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
Cloud Services
1 39 (12.58%) AWS
2 20 (6.45%) Azure
3 17 (5.48%) GCP
4 8 (2.58%) GitHub
5 6 (1.94%) AWS CloudFormation
5 6 (1.94%) Entra ID
5 6 (1.94%) Google Workspace
5 6 (1.94%) Microsoft 365
5 6 (1.94%) OpenShift
6 4 (1.29%) Serverless
7 3 (0.97%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (0.65%) Datadog
8 2 (0.65%) Snowflake
9 1 (0.32%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 14 (4.52%) Multicast
2 13 (4.19%) TCP/IP
3 7 (2.26%) 3GPP
3 7 (2.26%) GSM
3 7 (2.26%) LTE
3 7 (2.26%) Radio Access Network
3 7 (2.26%) RANAP
3 7 (2.26%) SS7
3 7 (2.26%) UMTS
3 7 (2.26%) Wireshark
4 3 (0.97%) Network Security
5 1 (0.32%) Peer-to-Peer Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (1.94%) Geospatial Data
2 4 (1.29%) Big Data
2 4 (1.29%) NonStop SQL
2 4 (1.29%) Semantic Layer
3 3 (0.97%) DynamoDB
3 3 (0.97%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (0.65%) Amazon Athena
4 2 (0.65%) Data Lake
4 2 (0.65%) NoSQL
4 2 (0.65%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.32%) Apache Arrow
5 1 (0.32%) Apache Iceberg
5 1 (0.32%) Delta Lake
5 1 (0.32%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.32%) InterSystems Cache
5 1 (0.32%) Metadata
5 1 (0.32%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.32%) Parquet
5 1 (0.32%) Pinecone
5 1 (0.32%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 27 (8.71%) Git
2 17 (5.48%) JIRA
3 16 (5.16%) Jenkins
4 7 (2.26%) GCC
4 7 (2.26%) GDB
5 6 (1.94%) TeamCity
6 4 (1.29%) Gradle
7 2 (0.65%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 2 (0.65%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.65%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.65%) Selenium
8 1 (0.32%) CMake
8 1 (0.32%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.32%) GitLab
8 1 (0.32%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.32%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.32%) Valgrind
8 1 (0.32%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.32%) WinDbg
General
1 158 (50.97%) Finance
2 53 (17.10%) Banking
3 42 (13.55%) Social Skills
4 35 (11.29%) Analytical Skills
5 29 (9.35%) Front Office
5 29 (9.35%) Investment Banking
6 27 (8.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 16 (5.16%) Law
8 8 (2.58%) Telecoms
9 7 (2.26%) Legal
10 6 (1.94%) Manufacturing
11 4 (1.29%) Electronics
11 4 (1.29%) Tech for Good
12 2 (0.65%) Aerospace
12 2 (0.65%) Aviation
12 2 (0.65%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.65%) Games
12 2 (0.65%) Military
12 2 (0.65%) Public Speaking
12 2 (0.65%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 109 (35.16%) Software Engineer
2 90 (29.03%) Senior
3 88 (28.39%) Developer
4 67 (21.61%) C++ Software Engineer
5 57 (18.39%) C++ Developer
6 45 (14.52%) Senior Software Engineer
7 32 (10.32%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
8 27 (8.71%) Linux Developer
9 26 (8.39%) Lead
10 24 (7.74%) Low Latency C++ Developer
11 23 (7.42%) Python Engineer
12 21 (6.77%) Senior Developer
13 18 (5.81%) Quantitative Developer
14 17 (5.48%) Python Software Engineer
14 17 (5.48%) Senior C++ Developer
15 16 (5.16%) Analyst
16 15 (4.84%) Senior Quantitative Developer
17 14 (4.52%) C++ Quantitative Developer
18 12 (3.87%) Investment Banking C++ Developer
18 12 (3.87%) Senior C++ Quantitative Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (11.29%) Boost C++ Libraries
2 25 (8.06%) FIX Protocol
3 23 (7.42%) RESTful
4 12 (3.87%) pytest
4 12 (3.87%) React
5 11 (3.55%) .NET
5 11 (3.55%) STL
6 10 (3.23%) Terraform
7 8 (2.58%) Web Services
8 7 (2.26%) Kafka
8 7 (2.26%) OpenGL
8 7 (2.26%) PyTorch
9 6 (1.94%) TensorFlow
10 5 (1.61%) Apache NiFi
11 4 (1.29%) AngularJS
11 4 (1.29%) Open3D
11 4 (1.29%) REST
11 4 (1.29%) Spring
11 4 (1.29%) Spring Boot
11 4 (1.29%) Vaadin
Miscellaneous
1 57 (18.39%) Algorithms
2 34 (10.97%) Equities
3 31 (10.00%) Derivative
4 28 (9.03%) Hedge funds
5 24 (7.74%) Fixed Income
6 22 (7.10%) Distributed Systems
7 18 (5.81%) Data Structures
8 16 (5.16%) Management Information System
8 16 (5.16%) Robotics
9 13 (4.19%) FPGA
10 10 (3.23%) Distributed Architecture
11 9 (2.90%) Reinsurance
12 8 (2.58%) Embedded Systems
13 7 (2.26%) Augmented Reality
13 7 (2.26%) Equity Derivative
13 7 (2.26%) Virtual Reality
14 6 (1.94%) PKI
15 5 (1.61%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 4 (1.29%) Distributed Computing
16 4 (1.29%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 104 (33.55%) Linux
2 16 (5.16%) Windows
3 6 (1.94%) Unix
4 2 (0.65%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.65%) Embedded Linux
5 1 (0.32%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 147 (47.42%) Software Engineering
2 113 (36.45%) Low Latency
3 73 (23.55%) Computer Science
4 51 (16.45%) Agile
4 51 (16.45%) Fintech
5 45 (14.52%) Problem-Solving
6 42 (13.55%) Mathematics
7 39 (12.58%) AI
8 37 (11.94%) CI/CD
9 33 (10.65%) SDLC
10 31 (10.00%) Microservices
11 27 (8.71%) Machine Learning
11 27 (8.71%) Test Automation
12 26 (8.39%) OOP
13 23 (7.42%) Multithreading
14 22 (7.10%) Analytics
15 21 (6.77%) Decision-Making
16 20 (6.45%) Continuous Integration
17 19 (6.13%) OO
18 18 (5.81%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 159 (51.29%) Python
2 82 (26.45%) Java
3 56 (18.06%) C
4 54 (17.42%) C#
5 40 (12.90%) SQL
6 35 (11.29%) Rust
7 26 (8.39%) JavaScript
8 19 (6.13%) Go
9 14 (4.52%) R
9 14 (4.52%) TypeScript
10 8 (2.58%) Julia
10 8 (2.58%) MATLAB
11 7 (2.26%) Bash
12 6 (1.94%) Kotlin
12 6 (1.94%) Perl
13 5 (1.61%) Erlang
13 5 (1.61%) Google Apps Script
13 5 (1.61%) PowerShell
13 5 (1.61%) Ruby
14 4 (1.29%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 51 (16.45%) Degree
2 27 (8.71%) Computer Science Degree
3 24 (7.74%) Security Cleared
4 14 (4.52%) DV Cleared
5 13 (4.19%) Master's Degree
6 9 (2.90%) SC Cleared
7 8 (2.58%) OSCP
7 8 (2.58%) PhD
8 6 (1.94%) AWS Certification
9 5 (1.61%) AWS Certified Developer
9 5 (1.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 5 (1.61%) CEH
9 5 (1.61%) CREST Certified
10 3 (0.97%) CCSAM
10 3 (0.97%) GPEN
10 3 (0.97%) GXPN
10 3 (0.97%) OSCE
11 2 (0.65%) CHECK Team Leader
11 2 (0.65%) CHECK Team Member
11 2 (0.65%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (10.00%) QA
2 7 (2.26%) GDPR
3 4 (1.29%) Data Quality
3 4 (1.29%) ISO 20022
4 3 (0.97%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (0.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.32%) EMIR
6 1 (0.32%) MiFID
System Software
1 18 (5.81%) Docker
2 5 (1.61%) KVM
2 5 (1.61%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.97%) Firmware
4 2 (0.65%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 20 (6.45%) Kubernetes
2 6 (1.94%) Grafana
2 6 (1.94%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (0.65%) ITRS Geneos
4 1 (0.32%) Ansible
4 1 (0.32%) Argo
4 1 (0.32%) Kibana
4 1 (0.32%) logstash
Vendors
1 9 (2.90%) FIS
1 9 (2.90%) Palantir
1 9 (2.90%) SunGard
2 8 (2.58%) Google
2 8 (2.58%) Microsoft
3 5 (1.61%) VMware
4 4 (1.29%) Databricks
5 3 (0.97%) EMC
5 3 (0.97%) Solace
6 2 (0.65%) Bloomberg
6 2 (0.65%) Blue Prism
6 2 (0.65%) Dynatrace
6 2 (0.65%) FactSet
6 2 (0.65%) Oracle
7 1 (0.32%) HP
7 1 (0.32%) OpenAI