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 21 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 141 143 204
Rank change year-on-year +2 +61 -77
Permanent jobs citing C++ 347 311 349
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.54% 2.51% 1.61%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.50% 6.04% 4.01%
Number of salaries quoted 245 168 262
10th Percentile £57,500 £64,250 £46,575
25th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £110,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +22.22% +2.86%
75th Percentile £107,500 £157,500 £115,000
90th Percentile £132,500 £175,000 £130,000
England median annual salary £67,500 £66,212 £60,000
% change year-on-year +1.95% +10.35% -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 5,342 5,150 8,693
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 23.75% 41.65% 40.09%
Number of salaries quoted 3,777 3,563 6,574
10th Percentile £50,000 £48,750 £47,500
25th Percentile £65,000 £61,500 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.03% +3.13% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £105,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £135,000 £132,500
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 21 July 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 21 July 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 -1 69 £100,000 -25.93% 25
South London +15 6 - - 2
West London -12 4 £55,500 - 10
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 (1.73%) Apache
2 5 (1.44%) Apache Spark
2 5 (1.44%) Confluence
2 5 (1.44%) Kinematics
3 4 (1.15%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.29%) Ethereum
Applications
1 3 (0.86%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 43 (12.39%) AWS
2 21 (6.05%) GCP
3 20 (5.76%) Azure
4 12 (3.46%) GitHub
5 7 (2.02%) AWS CloudFormation
5 7 (2.02%) Entra ID
5 7 (2.02%) Google Workspace
5 7 (2.02%) Microsoft 365
5 7 (2.02%) OpenShift
6 4 (1.15%) Cloud Composer
6 4 (1.15%) Dagster
6 4 (1.15%) dbt
6 4 (1.15%) Serverless
7 3 (0.86%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (0.29%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 16 (4.61%) Multicast
1 16 (4.61%) TCP/IP
2 5 (1.44%) 3GPP
2 5 (1.44%) GSM
2 5 (1.44%) LTE
2 5 (1.44%) Radio Access Network
2 5 (1.44%) RANAP
2 5 (1.44%) SS7
2 5 (1.44%) UMTS
2 5 (1.44%) Wireshark
3 4 (1.15%) Broadband
4 3 (0.86%) Network Security
5 1 (0.29%) Ethernet
5 1 (0.29%) Peer-to-Peer Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (1.73%) Geospatial Data
1 6 (1.73%) NoSQL
2 5 (1.44%) Metadata
2 5 (1.44%) NonStop SQL
3 4 (1.15%) Big Data
3 4 (1.15%) BigQuery
3 4 (1.15%) Semantic Layer
4 3 (0.86%) DynamoDB
4 3 (0.86%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (0.58%) SQL Server
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%) Parquet
6 1 (0.29%) Pinecone
6 1 (0.29%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.29%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 29 (8.36%) Git
2 21 (6.05%) JIRA
3 10 (2.88%) Jenkins
4 6 (1.73%) TeamCity
5 5 (1.44%) GCC
5 5 (1.44%) GDB
5 5 (1.44%) Gradle
6 3 (0.86%) Visual Studio
6 3 (0.86%) WinDbg
7 2 (0.58%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 2 (0.58%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.58%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.58%) Selenium
8 1 (0.29%) CMake
8 1 (0.29%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.29%) GitLab
8 1 (0.29%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.29%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.29%) Valgrind
General
1 182 (52.45%) Finance
2 56 (16.14%) Banking
3 39 (11.24%) Social Skills
4 33 (9.51%) Investment Banking
5 32 (9.22%) Analytical Skills
5 32 (9.22%) Front Office
6 24 (6.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 13 (3.75%) Law
8 6 (1.73%) Games
8 6 (1.73%) Legal
8 6 (1.73%) Manufacturing
8 6 (1.73%) Telecoms
9 5 (1.44%) Advertising
10 4 (1.15%) Electronics
11 3 (0.86%) Aerospace
11 3 (0.86%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.58%) Aviation
12 2 (0.58%) Military
13 1 (0.29%) Automotive
13 1 (0.29%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 130 (37.46%) Software Engineer
2 114 (32.85%) Senior
3 105 (30.26%) Developer
4 81 (23.34%) C++ Software Engineer
5 72 (20.75%) C++ Developer
6 58 (16.71%) Senior Software Engineer
7 40 (11.53%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
8 35 (10.09%) Linux Developer
9 33 (9.51%) Low Latency C++ Developer
10 31 (8.93%) Python Engineer
11 28 (8.07%) Senior Developer
12 27 (7.78%) Python Software Engineer
13 25 (7.20%) Senior C++ Developer
14 23 (6.63%) Lead
15 19 (5.48%) Quantitative Developer
16 18 (5.19%) Senior Quantitative Developer
16 18 (5.19%) Software Developer
17 17 (4.90%) Rust Engineer
18 16 (4.61%) Investment Banking C++ Developer
18 16 (4.61%) Senior C++ Quantitative Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (12.39%) Boost C++ Libraries
2 28 (8.07%) RESTful
3 24 (6.92%) FIX Protocol
4 16 (4.61%) pytest
5 15 (4.32%) Kafka
6 12 (3.46%) .NET
6 12 (3.46%) React
7 10 (2.88%) STL
8 9 (2.59%) Web Services
9 7 (2.02%) OpenGL
9 7 (2.02%) PyTorch
10 6 (1.73%) TensorFlow
11 5 (1.44%) Apache NiFi
11 5 (1.44%) Spring
11 5 (1.44%) Spring Boot
11 5 (1.44%) Vaadin
12 4 (1.15%) AngularJS
12 4 (1.15%) Open3D
13 3 (0.86%) Flask
13 3 (0.86%) ZeroMQ
Miscellaneous
1 69 (19.88%) Algorithms
2 37 (10.66%) Equities
3 31 (8.93%) Data Structures
4 30 (8.65%) Derivative
5 29 (8.36%) Distributed Systems
6 27 (7.78%) Hedge funds
7 25 (7.20%) Fixed Income
7 25 (7.20%) Robotics
8 19 (5.48%) Management Information System
9 16 (4.61%) FPGA
10 9 (2.59%) Embedded Systems
10 9 (2.59%) Reinsurance
11 8 (2.31%) Distributed Architecture
12 7 (2.02%) Augmented Reality
12 7 (2.02%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 7 (2.02%) PKI
12 7 (2.02%) Virtual Reality
13 6 (1.73%) Sports Betting
14 5 (1.44%) Social Media
15 4 (1.15%) Lidar
Operating Systems
1 117 (33.72%) Linux
2 20 (5.76%) Windows
3 5 (1.44%) Robot Operating System
4 4 (1.15%) Unix
5 2 (0.58%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (0.29%) FreeRTOS
6 1 (0.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 171 (49.28%) Software Engineering
2 129 (37.18%) Low Latency
3 82 (23.63%) Computer Science
4 60 (17.29%) Agile
5 58 (16.71%) Fintech
6 44 (12.68%) CI/CD
7 40 (11.53%) Problem-Solving
7 40 (11.53%) SDLC
8 39 (11.24%) Mathematics
9 35 (10.09%) Microservices
10 34 (9.80%) AI
10 34 (9.80%) Analytics
11 33 (9.51%) OOP
12 31 (8.93%) Multithreading
12 31 (8.93%) Test Automation
13 25 (7.20%) OO
14 23 (6.63%) DevOps
14 23 (6.63%) Process Improvement
15 22 (6.34%) Continuous Integration
15 22 (6.34%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 169 (48.70%) Python
2 95 (27.38%) Java
3 64 (18.44%) C#
4 60 (17.29%) C
5 51 (14.70%) Rust
6 48 (13.83%) SQL
7 26 (7.49%) JavaScript
8 24 (6.92%) Go
9 15 (4.32%) TypeScript
10 10 (2.88%) R
11 8 (2.31%) Julia
11 8 (2.31%) MATLAB
12 7 (2.02%) Kotlin
12 7 (2.02%) Scala
13 6 (1.73%) Bash
13 6 (1.73%) PowerShell
14 5 (1.44%) Erlang
14 5 (1.44%) Google Apps Script
15 3 (0.86%) Objective-C
15 3 (0.86%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 43 (12.39%) Degree
2 23 (6.63%) Security Cleared
3 16 (4.61%) Computer Science Degree
4 15 (4.32%) DV Cleared
5 12 (3.46%) Master's Degree
6 11 (3.17%) PhD
7 10 (2.88%) SC Cleared
8 7 (2.02%) AWS Certification
8 7 (2.02%) OSCP
9 5 (1.44%) AWS Certified Developer
9 5 (1.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 4 (1.15%) CREST Certified
10 4 (1.15%) GPEN
10 4 (1.15%) GXPN
10 4 (1.15%) OSCE
11 3 (0.86%) CCSAM
11 3 (0.86%) CEH
12 2 (0.58%) Azure Certification
13 1 (0.29%) CCSAS
13 1 (0.29%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (9.51%) QA
2 7 (2.02%) GDPR
3 5 (1.44%) ISO 20022
4 3 (0.86%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (0.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.29%) EMIR
6 1 (0.29%) MiFID
System Software
1 15 (4.32%) Docker
2 5 (1.44%) KVM
2 5 (1.44%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.15%) Firmware
4 1 (0.29%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 15 (4.32%) Kubernetes
2 10 (2.88%) Terraform
3 7 (2.02%) Grafana
3 7 (2.02%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.29%) Ansible
4 1 (0.29%) Argo
4 1 (0.29%) Kibana
4 1 (0.29%) logstash
4 1 (0.29%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 10 (2.88%) Palantir
2 9 (2.59%) Google
2 9 (2.59%) Microsoft
3 7 (2.02%) FIS
3 7 (2.02%) SunGard
4 5 (1.44%) VMware
5 4 (1.15%) Databricks
6 3 (0.86%) Blue Prism
6 3 (0.86%) EMC
6 3 (0.86%) Solace
7 2 (0.58%) HP
7 2 (0.58%) Oracle
8 1 (0.29%) Bloomberg
8 1 (0.29%) FXall
8 1 (0.29%) OpenAI