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 5 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 213 156 162
Rank change year-on-year -57 +6 -44
Permanent jobs citing C++ 263 259 396
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.02% 2.20% 2.12%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.78% 5.72% 5.04%
Number of salaries quoted 173 133 261
10th Percentile £55,100 £65,500 £48,750
25th Percentile £76,750 £85,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £110,000 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +25.71% -5.41%
75th Percentile £107,500 £151,250 £115,000
90th Percentile £135,000 £172,500 £130,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year - +5.69% -5.38%

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 5,499 4,527 7,851
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 21.24% 38.45% 42.01%
Number of salaries quoted 3,630 3,019 5,131
10th Percentile £49,000 £48,750 £50,000
25th Percentile £62,500 £62,375 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £80,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% -3.03% +3.13%
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £108,750
90th Percentile £115,000 £135,000 £135,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -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 5 October 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 5 October 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 0 42 £100,000 -32.20% 73
South London +5 7 - - 2
East London -5 6 - - 7
West London -14 3 £55,500 - 20
North London - 2 £62,500 - 2
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 5 (1.90%) Confluence
2 4 (1.52%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.76%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
Cloud Services
1 33 (12.55%) AWS
2 20 (7.60%) Azure
3 15 (5.70%) GCP
4 10 (3.80%) GitHub
4 10 (3.80%) Microsoft 365
5 6 (2.28%) Microsoft Purview
5 6 (2.28%) Mimecast
5 6 (2.28%) Power Platform
5 6 (2.28%) Serverless
6 5 (1.90%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (1.52%) Entra ID
7 4 (1.52%) Google Workspace
7 4 (1.52%) OpenShift
8 3 (1.14%) Cloud Computing
8 3 (1.14%) Datadog
9 2 (0.76%) Snowflake
10 1 (0.38%) Azure Machine Learning
10 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 17 (6.46%) Multicast
2 11 (4.18%) TCP/IP
3 7 (2.66%) 3GPP
3 7 (2.66%) GSM
3 7 (2.66%) LTE
3 7 (2.66%) Radio Access Network
3 7 (2.66%) RANAP
3 7 (2.66%) SS7
3 7 (2.66%) UMTS
3 7 (2.66%) Wireshark
4 1 (0.38%) BGP
4 1 (0.38%) DHCP
4 1 (0.38%) DNS
4 1 (0.38%) IPv4
4 1 (0.38%) IPv6
4 1 (0.38%) MPLS
4 1 (0.38%) SSH
4 1 (0.38%) Unicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (4.56%) Relational Database
2 6 (2.28%) Geospatial Data
2 6 (2.28%) Power BI
3 4 (1.52%) Big Data
4 3 (1.14%) Data Lake
4 3 (1.14%) DynamoDB
5 2 (0.76%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (0.76%) KDB
5 2 (0.76%) NonStop SQL
5 2 (0.76%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (0.76%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.38%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.38%) Apache Arrow
6 1 (0.38%) Delta Lake
6 1 (0.38%) InterSystems Cache
6 1 (0.38%) Metadata
6 1 (0.38%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.38%) Parquet
6 1 (0.38%) Pinecone
6 1 (0.38%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 29 (11.03%) Git
2 18 (6.84%) JIRA
3 15 (5.70%) Jenkins
4 7 (2.66%) GCC
4 7 (2.66%) GDB
5 4 (1.52%) TeamCity
6 2 (0.76%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 2 (0.76%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.76%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.76%) Gradle
6 2 (0.76%) Selenium
6 2 (0.76%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.38%) CMake
7 1 (0.38%) GitLab
7 1 (0.38%) Valgrind
General
1 129 (49.05%) Finance
2 52 (19.77%) Social Skills
3 48 (18.25%) Banking
4 36 (13.69%) Analytical Skills
5 26 (9.89%) Investment Banking
6 22 (8.37%) Front Office
7 21 (7.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 21 (7.98%) Law
8 13 (4.94%) Legal
9 8 (3.04%) Telecoms
10 6 (2.28%) Corporate Banking
10 6 (2.28%) Manufacturing
10 6 (2.28%) Retail Banking
11 4 (1.52%) Tech for Good
12 3 (1.14%) Military
12 3 (1.14%) Public Speaking
12 3 (1.14%) Publishing
13 2 (0.76%) Aviation
14 1 (0.38%) Aerospace
14 1 (0.38%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 95 (36.12%) Software Engineer
2 83 (31.56%) Senior
3 68 (25.86%) Developer
4 55 (20.91%) C++ Software Engineer
5 46 (17.49%) C++ Developer
6 38 (14.45%) Senior Software Engineer
7 26 (9.89%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
8 25 (9.51%) Python Engineer
9 19 (7.22%) Lead
10 18 (6.84%) Python Software Engineer
11 17 (6.46%) Linux Developer
11 17 (6.46%) Senior Developer
12 14 (5.32%) Analyst
12 14 (5.32%) Low Latency C++ Developer
13 13 (4.94%) Quantitative Developer
13 13 (4.94%) Senior C++ Developer
14 11 (4.18%) Java Engineer
15 10 (3.80%) Senior Quantitative Developer
16 9 (3.42%) Business Support Analyst
16 9 (3.42%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (10.27%) FIX Protocol
2 26 (9.89%) Boost C++ Libraries
3 13 (4.94%) pytest
4 12 (4.56%) React
5 10 (3.80%) RESTful
5 10 (3.80%) STL
6 9 (3.42%) .NET
6 9 (3.42%) Terraform
7 7 (2.66%) OpenGL
7 7 (2.66%) PyTorch
8 6 (2.28%) TensorFlow
8 6 (2.28%) Web Services
9 4 (1.52%) AngularJS
9 4 (1.52%) Apache NiFi
9 4 (1.52%) Kafka
9 4 (1.52%) REST
10 2 (0.76%) Flask
10 2 (0.76%) Spring Boot
10 2 (0.76%) Vaadin
10 2 (0.76%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 46 (17.49%) Algorithms
2 31 (11.79%) Derivative
3 30 (11.41%) Equities
4 24 (9.13%) Hedge funds
5 23 (8.75%) Fixed Income
6 15 (5.70%) Distributed Systems
6 15 (5.70%) Management Information System
7 12 (4.56%) Data Structures
8 9 (3.42%) Distributed Architecture
8 9 (3.42%) Reinsurance
9 8 (3.04%) FPGA
9 8 (3.04%) Robotics
10 7 (2.66%) Augmented Reality
10 7 (2.66%) Embedded Systems
10 7 (2.66%) Equity Derivative
10 7 (2.66%) Virtual Reality
11 5 (1.90%) PKI
12 4 (1.52%) Cloud Native
12 4 (1.52%) Product Ownership
12 4 (1.52%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 86 (32.70%) Linux
2 9 (3.42%) Windows
3 5 (1.90%) Unix
4 2 (0.76%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.76%) Embedded Linux
5 1 (0.38%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 140 (53.23%) Software Engineering
2 97 (36.88%) Low Latency
3 66 (25.10%) Computer Science
4 49 (18.63%) AI
5 48 (18.25%) Problem-Solving
6 44 (16.73%) Agile
7 37 (14.07%) Mathematics
8 34 (12.93%) CI/CD
9 32 (12.17%) Machine Learning
10 29 (11.03%) Fintech
10 29 (11.03%) OOP
10 29 (11.03%) SDLC
11 24 (9.13%) Decision-Making
12 23 (8.75%) Microservices
13 22 (8.37%) Analytics
14 21 (7.98%) Continuous Integration
14 21 (7.98%) Test Automation
15 20 (7.60%) Collaborative Culture
16 19 (7.22%) Multithreading
17 18 (6.84%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 146 (55.51%) Python
2 82 (31.18%) Java
3 45 (17.11%) C#
4 38 (14.45%) C
4 38 (14.45%) SQL
5 26 (9.89%) JavaScript
6 24 (9.13%) Rust
7 19 (7.22%) Go
8 14 (5.32%) R
9 13 (4.94%) TypeScript
10 8 (3.04%) Julia
10 8 (3.04%) MATLAB
11 4 (1.52%) Embedded C
11 4 (1.52%) Embedded C++
11 4 (1.52%) Google Apps Script
11 4 (1.52%) Kotlin
11 4 (1.52%) Perl
12 3 (1.14%) Clojure
12 3 (1.14%) Ruby
12 3 (1.14%) Scala
Qualifications
1 43 (16.35%) Degree
2 28 (10.65%) Computer Science Degree
3 23 (8.75%) Security Cleared
4 13 (4.94%) DV Cleared
5 10 (3.80%) SC Cleared
6 8 (3.04%) Master's Degree
6 8 (3.04%) OSCP
7 6 (2.28%) CEH
8 5 (1.90%) AWS Certification
8 5 (1.90%) AWS Certified Developer
8 5 (1.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (1.14%) CHECK Team Leader
9 3 (1.14%) CHECK Team Member
9 3 (1.14%) CISA
9 3 (1.14%) CISSP
9 3 (1.14%) CREST Certified
10 2 (0.76%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.76%) CSSLP
10 2 (0.76%) GWAPT
10 2 (0.76%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (11.41%) QA
2 7 (2.66%) GDPR
3 5 (1.90%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.76%) ISO 20022
4 2 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.76%) NIST
4 2 (0.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.38%) MiFID
System Software
1 17 (6.46%) Docker
2 5 (1.90%) KVM
2 5 (1.90%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.76%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 19 (7.22%) Kubernetes
2 6 (2.28%) EnCase
2 6 (2.28%) FTK
3 4 (1.52%) Grafana
3 4 (1.52%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.76%) Ansible
4 2 (0.76%) ITRS Geneos
5 1 (0.38%) Argo
5 1 (0.38%) Puppet
Vendors
1 15 (5.70%) Microsoft
2 9 (3.42%) FIS
2 9 (3.42%) Google
2 9 (3.42%) Palantir
2 9 (3.42%) SunGard
3 6 (2.28%) Cellebrite
3 6 (2.28%) Nuix
3 6 (2.28%) Relativity
4 5 (1.90%) VMware
5 2 (0.76%) Bloomberg
5 2 (0.76%) Cisco
5 2 (0.76%) Databricks
5 2 (0.76%) Dynatrace
5 2 (0.76%) FactSet
5 2 (0.76%) Oracle
5 2 (0.76%) Solace
5 2 (0.76%) Solarflare
6 1 (0.38%) Arista
6 1 (0.38%) Blue Prism
6 1 (0.38%) Ciena