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

6 months to
25 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 175 141 123
Rank change year-on-year -34 -18 +22
Permanent jobs citing C++ 223 385 452
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.63% 2.41% 2.57%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.20% 5.72% 5.81%
Number of salaries quoted 140 210 371
10th Percentile £72,250 £52,064 £56,250
25th Percentile £94,688 £67,500 £76,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £90,000 £110,000
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -18.18% +37.50%
75th Percentile £140,000 £117,188 £142,500
90th Percentile £160,250 £140,000 £170,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -3.70%

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 4,290 6,728 7,775
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 31.35% 42.15% 44.18%
Number of salaries quoted 3,020 4,394 6,755
10th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £61,250 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.23%
75th Percentile £105,000 £107,500 £101,250
90th Percentile £132,500 £125,000 £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 25 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 25 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 +34 46 £100,000 -2.44% 84
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 2 (0.90%) Apache Pulsar
1 2 (0.90%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.45%) Kinematics
Applications
1 2 (0.90%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 23 (10.31%) AWS
2 16 (7.17%) Azure
3 12 (5.38%) GCP
4 7 (3.14%) GitHub
5 3 (1.35%) OpenShift
6 2 (0.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (0.90%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 2 (0.90%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (0.45%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (0.45%) Azure Machine Learning
7 1 (0.45%) Entra ID
7 1 (0.45%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (0.45%) Google Workspace
7 1 (0.45%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (0.45%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 26 (11.66%) Multicast
1 26 (11.66%) TCP/IP
2 3 (1.35%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (0.90%) Broadband
3 2 (0.90%) DHCP
3 2 (0.90%) DOCSIS
3 2 (0.90%) DSL
3 2 (0.90%) GPON
3 2 (0.90%) IPv4
3 2 (0.90%) IPv6
3 2 (0.90%) PPP
3 2 (0.90%) RTP
3 2 (0.90%) VoIP
3 2 (0.90%) WAN
4 1 (0.45%) Bluetooth
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.14%) ClickHouse
2 6 (2.69%) KDB
3 2 (0.90%) Kdb+
3 2 (0.90%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.45%) Big Data
4 1 (0.45%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.45%) Hadoop
4 1 (0.45%) Metadata
4 1 (0.45%) Neo4j
4 1 (0.45%) Power BI
4 1 (0.45%) Redis
4 1 (0.45%) Semantic Layer
4 1 (0.45%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 13 (5.83%) JIRA
2 7 (3.14%) Git
3 2 (0.90%) CircleCI
3 2 (0.90%) CMake
3 2 (0.90%) GitLab
3 2 (0.90%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.90%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (0.45%) GCC
4 1 (0.45%) GDB
4 1 (0.45%) MSBuild
4 1 (0.45%) TeamCity
4 1 (0.45%) Visual Studio
General
1 112 (50.22%) Finance
2 55 (24.66%) Front Office
3 46 (20.63%) Banking
4 30 (13.45%) Investment Banking
5 23 (10.31%) Telecoms
6 19 (8.52%) Social Skills
7 17 (7.62%) Analytical Skills
8 12 (5.38%) Manufacturing
9 10 (4.48%) Electronics
9 10 (4.48%) Public Sector
10 9 (4.04%) Marketing
11 6 (2.69%) Financial Institution
12 5 (2.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 2 (0.90%) Games
13 2 (0.90%) Law
13 2 (0.90%) Military
14 1 (0.45%) Advertising
14 1 (0.45%) Aerospace
14 1 (0.45%) Automotive
14 1 (0.45%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 117 (52.47%) Developer
2 85 (38.12%) C++ Developer
3 72 (32.29%) Senior
4 57 (25.56%) Software Engineer
5 37 (16.59%) Linux Developer
5 37 (16.59%) Low Latency C++ Developer
6 35 (15.70%) Quantitative Developer
7 29 (13.00%) Python Developer
8 26 (11.66%) Senior Developer
8 26 (11.66%) Senior Software Engineer
9 24 (10.76%) C++ Software Engineer
10 21 (9.42%) Senior Python Developer
10 21 (9.42%) Senior Quantitative Developer
11 20 (8.97%) C++ Quantitative Developer
11 20 (8.97%) Investment Banking C++ Developer
11 20 (8.97%) Senior C++ Developer
12 19 (8.52%) Cloud Engineer
13 18 (8.07%) Cloud Native Engineer
13 18 (8.07%) Linux Scripter
13 18 (8.07%) Senior C++ Quantitative Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (15.25%) Boost C++ Libraries
2 31 (13.90%) FIX Protocol
3 20 (8.97%) RESTful
4 11 (4.93%) pytest
5 9 (4.04%) WebSockets
6 8 (3.59%) Kafka
7 7 (3.14%) gRPC
7 7 (3.14%) REST
8 6 (2.69%) PyXLL
9 4 (1.79%) .NET
9 4 (1.79%) Android NDK
9 4 (1.79%) AngularJS
9 4 (1.79%) React
10 3 (1.35%) Sass
10 3 (1.35%) XML
10 3 (1.35%) ZeroMQ
11 2 (0.90%) .NET Framework
11 2 (0.90%) Node.js
11 2 (0.90%) OAuth
11 2 (0.90%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 51 (22.87%) Algorithms
2 36 (16.14%) Derivative
3 34 (15.25%) Equities
4 31 (13.90%) Cloud Native
4 31 (13.90%) Distributed Systems
5 26 (11.66%) Data Structures
5 26 (11.66%) Hedge funds
6 20 (8.97%) Fixed Income
7 19 (8.52%) FPGA
7 19 (8.52%) Management Information System
8 18 (8.07%) Legacy Code
9 13 (5.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 8 (3.59%) Grid Computing
11 6 (2.69%) Greenfield Project
11 6 (2.69%) Market Risk
12 5 (2.24%) AI Agents
12 5 (2.24%) Analytical Mindset
12 5 (2.24%) Data Protection Act
12 5 (2.24%) Distributed Computing
13 4 (1.79%) Equity Derivative
Operating Systems
1 107 (47.98%) Linux
2 13 (5.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 9 (4.04%) Android
4 5 (2.24%) Windows
5 2 (0.90%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.90%) OpenWrt
6 1 (0.45%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (40.36%) Low Latency
2 78 (34.98%) Software Engineering
3 46 (20.63%) Agile
4 45 (20.18%) Computer Science
5 35 (15.70%) AI
6 31 (13.90%) Problem-Solving
7 30 (13.45%) OOP
8 28 (12.56%) SDLC
9 25 (11.21%) Test Automation
10 24 (10.76%) Machine Learning
11 22 (9.87%) Workflow
12 21 (9.42%) Analytics
13 20 (8.97%) Fintech
13 20 (8.97%) Microservices
13 20 (8.97%) OO
14 19 (8.52%) DevOps
14 19 (8.52%) Mathematics
14 19 (8.52%) Order Management
15 18 (8.07%) CI/CD
16 17 (7.62%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 109 (48.88%) Python
2 56 (25.11%) C
2 56 (25.11%) Java
3 40 (17.94%) C#
4 32 (14.35%) Rust
4 32 (14.35%) SQL
5 27 (12.11%) Go
6 15 (6.73%) TypeScript
7 6 (2.69%) JavaScript
7 6 (2.69%) Kotlin
8 4 (1.79%) Bash
9 3 (1.35%) Embedded C
9 3 (1.35%) PowerShell
10 2 (0.90%) Groovy
10 2 (0.90%) Ruby
10 2 (0.90%) VBA
10 2 (0.90%) VC++
11 1 (0.45%) Google Apps Script
11 1 (0.45%) R
11 1 (0.45%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 25 (11.21%) Degree
2 18 (8.07%) Security Cleared
3 15 (6.73%) Computer Science Degree
3 15 (6.73%) DV Cleared
3 15 (6.73%) SC Cleared
4 13 (5.83%) Master's Degree
5 3 (1.35%) PhD
6 1 (0.45%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.45%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (0.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.45%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (6.73%) QA
2 3 (1.35%) Data Quality
2 3 (1.35%) EMIR
3 1 (0.45%) MiFID
3 1 (0.45%) NIST
System Software
1 14 (6.28%) Virtual Machines
1 14 (6.28%) Virtual Servers
2 12 (5.38%) Docker
3 2 (0.90%) Embedded Firmware
3 2 (0.90%) Firmware
4 1 (0.45%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.45%) KVM
4 1 (0.45%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 35 (15.70%) Kubernetes
2 5 (2.24%) Grafana
3 4 (1.79%) Prometheus
3 4 (1.79%) Terraform
4 2 (0.90%) Ansible
5 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.45%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.45%) Puppet
5 1 (0.45%) systemd
Vendors
1 12 (5.38%) Palantir
1 12 (5.38%) Red Hat
2 9 (4.04%) SAP
3 3 (1.35%) Microsoft
4 2 (0.90%) Cribl.io
4 2 (0.90%) Ericsson
4 2 (0.90%) Foundry
4 2 (0.90%) Mavenir
4 2 (0.90%) Nokia
4 2 (0.90%) Oracle
4 2 (0.90%) Solarflare
4 2 (0.90%) Sonatype
5 1 (0.45%) Apple
5 1 (0.45%) Databricks
5 1 (0.45%) Google
5 1 (0.45%) ION Trading
5 1 (0.45%) UiPath
5 1 (0.45%) VMware