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

6 months to
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 155 146 177
Rank change year-on-year -9 +31 -59
Permanent jobs citing C++ 339 294 378
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.43% 2.41% 1.93%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.10% 5.84% 4.77%
Number of salaries quoted 234 158 281
10th Percentile £54,475 £62,500 £48,750
25th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £110,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +22.22% -
75th Percentile £104,125 £150,938 £115,000
90th Percentile £132,500 £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 5,556 5,038 7,925
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 23.48% 41.26% 40.52%
Number of salaries quoted 3,830 3,453 5,828
10th Percentile £50,000 £48,750 £49,357
25th Percentile £65,000 £61,250 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £82,500 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.03% - +3.13%
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £107,500
90th Percentile £118,750 £135,000 £136,250
England median annual salary £65,000 £64,000 £61,206
% change year-on-year +1.56% +4.56% -5.84%

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 8 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 8 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 +3 62 £100,000 -29.20% 48
South London +8 8 - - 4
West London -27 4 £55,500 - 3
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 (1.77%) Apache
2 5 (1.47%) Confluence
3 4 (1.18%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.18%) Kinematics
4 3 (0.88%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.29%) Ethereum
Applications
1 3 (0.88%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.59%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
Cloud Services
1 43 (12.68%) AWS
2 19 (5.60%) Azure
2 19 (5.60%) GCP
3 10 (2.95%) GitHub
4 6 (1.77%) AWS CloudFormation
4 6 (1.77%) Entra ID
4 6 (1.77%) Google Workspace
4 6 (1.77%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (1.77%) OpenShift
5 4 (1.18%) Serverless
6 3 (0.88%) Cloud Composer
6 3 (0.88%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (0.88%) Dagster
6 3 (0.88%) dbt
7 2 (0.59%) Datadog
7 2 (0.59%) Snowflake
8 1 (0.29%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 16 (4.72%) Multicast
2 15 (4.42%) TCP/IP
3 7 (2.06%) 3GPP
3 7 (2.06%) GSM
3 7 (2.06%) LTE
3 7 (2.06%) Radio Access Network
3 7 (2.06%) RANAP
3 7 (2.06%) SS7
3 7 (2.06%) UMTS
3 7 (2.06%) Wireshark
4 3 (0.88%) Broadband
4 3 (0.88%) Network Security
5 1 (0.29%) Peer-to-Peer Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (1.77%) Geospatial Data
2 5 (1.47%) NonStop SQL
3 4 (1.18%) Big Data
3 4 (1.18%) Metadata
3 4 (1.18%) NoSQL
3 4 (1.18%) Semantic Layer
4 3 (0.88%) BigQuery
4 3 (0.88%) DynamoDB
4 3 (0.88%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (0.59%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (0.59%) Data Lake
5 2 (0.59%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.29%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.29%) Apache Arrow
6 1 (0.29%) Apache Iceberg
6 1 (0.29%) Delta Lake
6 1 (0.29%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.29%) Parquet
6 1 (0.29%) Pinecone
6 1 (0.29%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 29 (8.55%) Git
2 19 (5.60%) JIRA
3 15 (4.42%) Jenkins
4 7 (2.06%) GCC
4 7 (2.06%) GDB
5 6 (1.77%) TeamCity
6 5 (1.47%) Gradle
7 2 (0.59%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 2 (0.59%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.59%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.59%) Selenium
7 2 (0.59%) Visual Studio
7 2 (0.59%) WinDbg
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
1 176 (51.92%) Finance
2 59 (17.40%) Banking
3 45 (13.27%) Social Skills
4 36 (10.62%) Analytical Skills
5 32 (9.44%) Front Office
5 32 (9.44%) Investment Banking
6 28 (8.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 20 (5.90%) Law
8 8 (2.36%) Telecoms
9 7 (2.06%) Legal
10 6 (1.77%) Manufacturing
11 4 (1.18%) Electronics
11 4 (1.18%) Games
11 4 (1.18%) Tech for Good
12 2 (0.59%) Aerospace
12 2 (0.59%) Aviation
12 2 (0.59%) Military
13 1 (0.29%) Advertising
13 1 (0.29%) Automotive
13 1 (0.29%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 118 (34.81%) Software Engineer
2 104 (30.68%) Senior
3 102 (30.09%) Developer
4 73 (21.53%) C++ Software Engineer
5 66 (19.47%) C++ Developer
6 52 (15.34%) Senior Software Engineer
7 37 (10.91%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
8 31 (9.14%) Linux Developer
9 29 (8.55%) Low Latency C++ Developer
10 28 (8.26%) Python Engineer
11 26 (7.67%) Lead
12 24 (7.08%) Senior Developer
13 22 (6.49%) Python Software Engineer
14 20 (5.90%) Quantitative Developer
14 20 (5.90%) Senior C++ Developer
15 17 (5.01%) Senior Quantitative Developer
16 16 (4.72%) Analyst
16 16 (4.72%) C++ Quantitative Developer
16 16 (4.72%) Software Developer
17 14 (4.13%) Investment Banking C++ Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (11.50%) Boost C++ Libraries
2 27 (7.96%) FIX Protocol
3 26 (7.67%) RESTful
4 14 (4.13%) pytest
5 13 (3.83%) Kafka
6 12 (3.54%) React
7 11 (3.24%) .NET
7 11 (3.24%) STL
8 9 (2.65%) Web Services
9 7 (2.06%) OpenGL
9 7 (2.06%) PyTorch
10 6 (1.77%) TensorFlow
11 5 (1.47%) Apache NiFi
11 5 (1.47%) Spring
11 5 (1.47%) Spring Boot
11 5 (1.47%) Vaadin
12 4 (1.18%) AngularJS
12 4 (1.18%) Open3D
13 3 (0.88%) Flask
13 3 (0.88%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 64 (18.88%) Algorithms
2 37 (10.91%) Equities
3 32 (9.44%) Derivative
4 30 (8.85%) Hedge funds
5 26 (7.67%) Data Structures
5 26 (7.67%) Distributed Systems
5 26 (7.67%) Fixed Income
6 20 (5.90%) Robotics
7 17 (5.01%) Management Information System
8 15 (4.42%) FPGA
9 9 (2.65%) Reinsurance
10 8 (2.36%) Distributed Architecture
10 8 (2.36%) Embedded Systems
11 7 (2.06%) Augmented Reality
11 7 (2.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 7 (2.06%) Virtual Reality
12 6 (1.77%) Equity Derivative
12 6 (1.77%) PKI
13 4 (1.18%) Reference Data
13 4 (1.18%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 113 (33.33%) Linux
2 17 (5.01%) Windows
3 7 (2.06%) Unix
4 2 (0.59%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.59%) Embedded Linux
5 1 (0.29%) Robot Operating System
5 1 (0.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 161 (47.49%) Software Engineering
2 123 (36.28%) Low Latency
3 80 (23.60%) Computer Science
4 55 (16.22%) Agile
5 53 (15.63%) Fintech
6 44 (12.98%) Mathematics
6 44 (12.98%) Problem-Solving
7 42 (12.39%) AI
8 40 (11.80%) CI/CD
9 36 (10.62%) SDLC
10 32 (9.44%) Microservices
11 30 (8.85%) Analytics
11 30 (8.85%) Test Automation
12 29 (8.55%) OOP
13 28 (8.26%) Multithreading
14 27 (7.96%) Machine Learning
15 24 (7.08%) OO
16 22 (6.49%) Continuous Integration
17 20 (5.90%) Decision-Making
17 20 (5.90%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 170 (50.15%) Python
2 90 (26.55%) Java
3 59 (17.40%) C
4 58 (17.11%) C#
5 46 (13.57%) SQL
6 43 (12.68%) Rust
7 26 (7.67%) JavaScript
8 21 (6.19%) Go
9 15 (4.42%) TypeScript
10 13 (3.83%) R
11 8 (2.36%) Julia
11 8 (2.36%) MATLAB
12 7 (2.06%) Bash
13 6 (1.77%) Kotlin
13 6 (1.77%) Scala
14 5 (1.47%) Erlang
14 5 (1.47%) Google Apps Script
14 5 (1.47%) PowerShell
15 4 (1.18%) Embedded C
15 4 (1.18%) Embedded C++
Qualifications
1 50 (14.75%) Degree
2 24 (7.08%) Computer Science Degree
3 23 (6.78%) Security Cleared
4 15 (4.42%) DV Cleared
5 12 (3.54%) Master's Degree
6 10 (2.95%) SC Cleared
7 9 (2.65%) PhD
8 6 (1.77%) AWS Certification
8 6 (1.77%) OSCP
9 5 (1.47%) AWS Certified Developer
9 5 (1.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (0.88%) CCSAM
10 3 (0.88%) CEH
10 3 (0.88%) CREST Certified
10 3 (0.88%) GPEN
10 3 (0.88%) GXPN
10 3 (0.88%) OSCE
11 1 (0.29%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.29%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (10.03%) QA
2 7 (2.06%) GDPR
3 5 (1.47%) ISO 20022
4 3 (0.88%) Actionable Recommendations
4 3 (0.88%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.29%) EMIR
6 1 (0.29%) MiFID
System Software
1 17 (5.01%) Docker
2 5 (1.47%) KVM
2 5 (1.47%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.88%) Firmware
4 2 (0.59%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 19 (5.60%) Kubernetes
2 10 (2.95%) Terraform
3 6 (1.77%) Grafana
3 6 (1.77%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.59%) ITRS Geneos
5 1 (0.29%) Ansible
5 1 (0.29%) Argo
5 1 (0.29%) Kibana
5 1 (0.29%) logstash
Vendors
1 10 (2.95%) Palantir
2 9 (2.65%) FIS
2 9 (2.65%) Microsoft
2 9 (2.65%) SunGard
3 8 (2.36%) Google
4 6 (1.77%) Databricks
5 5 (1.47%) VMware
6 4 (1.18%) Solace
7 3 (0.88%) Blue Prism
7 3 (0.88%) EMC
8 2 (0.59%) Bloomberg
8 2 (0.59%) Dynatrace
8 2 (0.59%) FactSet
8 2 (0.59%) HP
8 2 (0.59%) Oracle
9 1 (0.29%) OpenAI