C++ Jobs in London

C++
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in London requiring C++ skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited C++ over the 6 months leading up to 26 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 129 220 155
Rank change year-on-year +91 -65 -34
Permanent jobs citing C++ 361 343 874
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 2.81% 1.46% 2.43%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.79% 3.64% 4.88%
Number of salaries quoted 195 253 675
10th Percentile £63,500 £52,500 £45,500
25th Percentile £85,000 £67,500 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £97,500 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.82% +14.71% -8.11%
75th Percentile £132,500 £125,000 £121,250
90th Percentile £175,000 £150,000 £150,000
England median annual salary £66,219 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +10.37% -14.29% -

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 5,319 9,428 17,901
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 41.36% 40.02% 49.69%
Number of salaries quoted 3,911 7,632 13,164
10th Percentile £48,750 £47,500 £48,750
25th Percentile £60,875 £60,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% - +6.67%
75th Percentile £110,000 £102,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £130,000 £127,500 £120,000
England median annual salary £62,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.33% -7.69% +4.00%

C++
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing C++ as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for C++ in London

C++
Salary Trend in London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing C++ in London.

Salary trend for C++ in London

C++
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing C++ in London over the 6 months to 26 April 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 26 April 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 +42 81 £115,000 +5.75% 29
South London +24 17 £65,000 +4.00% 5
East London - 11 - - 2
West London +52 5 - - 4
C++
England

C++
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (1.11%) Kinematics
2 3 (0.83%) WinCC
3 1 (0.28%) Ethereum
3 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.28%) MTS
3 1 (0.28%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (0.28%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (1.11%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.28%) 3ds Max
2 1 (0.28%) Blender
2 1 (0.28%) Houdini
2 1 (0.28%) Maya
2 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 21 (5.82%) Ripple
1 21 (5.82%) Ripple XRP
2 4 (1.11%) Remedy ITSM
3 3 (0.83%) Orchestrade
4 1 (0.28%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
Cloud Services
1 54 (14.96%) AWS
2 40 (11.08%) Azure
3 26 (7.20%) Amazon EKS
4 20 (5.54%) Amazon S3
4 20 (5.54%) AWS Lambda
4 20 (5.54%) Serverless
5 14 (3.88%) Amazon EC2
5 14 (3.88%) Datadog
6 12 (3.32%) AWS CloudFormation
7 9 (2.49%) GitHub
8 6 (1.66%) GCP
9 4 (1.11%) Amazon Bedrock
10 2 (0.55%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (0.55%) PaaS
10 2 (0.55%) Power Platform
11 1 (0.28%) Azure Service Bus
11 1 (0.28%) Cloud Computing
11 1 (0.28%) IaaS
11 1 (0.28%) Microsoft 365
11 1 (0.28%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 23 (6.37%) TCP/IP
2 12 (3.32%) Multicast
3 6 (1.66%) Bluetooth
4 2 (0.55%) DNS
4 2 (0.55%) HTTP
4 2 (0.55%) VPN
4 2 (0.55%) Wireshark
5 1 (0.28%) MQTT
5 1 (0.28%) Network Security
5 1 (0.28%) RS-232
5 1 (0.28%) Wireless
5 1 (0.28%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (3.60%) Elasticsearch
2 11 (3.05%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (1.39%) RDBMS
3 5 (1.39%) Relational Database
3 5 (1.39%) SQL Server
3 5 (1.39%) Tick Data
4 4 (1.11%) KDB
5 3 (0.83%) MongoDB
5 3 (0.83%) MySQL
5 3 (0.83%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.55%) ClickHouse
6 2 (0.55%) Power BI
6 2 (0.55%) Tableau
7 1 (0.28%) Big Data
7 1 (0.28%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.28%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.28%) HBase
7 1 (0.28%) Kdb+
7 1 (0.28%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 30 (8.31%) Git
2 19 (5.26%) Jenkins
3 16 (4.43%) GitLab
3 16 (4.43%) Maven
4 14 (3.88%) Cucumber
4 14 (3.88%) IntelliJ
4 14 (3.88%) JUnit
4 14 (3.88%) Mockito
5 9 (2.49%) JIRA
6 2 (0.55%) Postman
7 1 (0.28%) Qt Creator
7 1 (0.28%) Subversion
General
1 163 (45.15%) Finance
2 57 (15.79%) Social Skills
3 50 (13.85%) Banking
4 44 (12.19%) Front Office
5 36 (9.97%) Investment Banking
6 25 (6.93%) Analytical Skills
6 25 (6.93%) Law
7 23 (6.37%) Financial Institution
8 21 (5.82%) Digital Economy
9 17 (4.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 12 (3.32%) Publishing
11 10 (2.77%) Legal
12 8 (2.22%) Games
13 7 (1.94%) Marketing
14 5 (1.39%) Advertising
14 5 (1.39%) Electronics
15 4 (1.11%) Manufacturing
16 3 (0.83%) French Language
16 3 (0.83%) Telecoms
17 2 (0.55%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 180 (49.86%) Developer
2 119 (32.96%) Senior
3 113 (31.30%) C++ Developer
4 81 (22.44%) Software Engineer
5 69 (19.11%) Senior Developer
6 59 (16.34%) Low Latency C++ Developer
7 54 (14.96%) Quantitative Developer
8 52 (14.40%) Lead
9 48 (13.30%) C++ Quantitative Developer
10 45 (12.47%) Senior C++ Developer
11 41 (11.36%) Senior Software Engineer
12 40 (11.08%) Cloud Engineer
12 40 (11.08%) Cloud Native Engineer
12 40 (11.08%) Cloud Software Engineer
13 38 (10.53%) Senior C++ Quantitative Developer
13 38 (10.53%) Senior Quantitative Developer
14 36 (9.97%) Linux Developer
15 27 (7.48%) Lead Software Engineer
16 25 (6.93%) Software Developer
17 24 (6.65%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (7.48%) Boost C++ Libraries
2 21 (5.82%) .NET
3 19 (5.26%) FIX Protocol
4 14 (3.88%) ActiveMQ
4 14 (3.88%) JMS
4 14 (3.88%) Node.js
4 14 (3.88%) Spring
4 14 (3.88%) Spring Boot
5 12 (3.32%) CSS
5 12 (3.32%) Pandas
6 11 (3.05%) Middleware
6 11 (3.05%) pytest
7 10 (2.77%) HTML
8 9 (2.49%) WebSockets
9 8 (2.22%) Web Services
10 6 (1.66%) Django
11 5 (1.39%) Kafka
12 4 (1.11%) .NET Framework
12 4 (1.11%) ASP.NET
12 4 (1.11%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 82 (22.71%) Algorithms
2 71 (19.67%) Distributed Systems
3 55 (15.24%) Hedge funds
4 47 (13.02%) Cloud Native
4 47 (13.02%) Equities
5 40 (11.08%) Legacy Code
6 34 (9.42%) Management Information System
7 29 (8.03%) Derivative
8 28 (7.76%) Data Structures
8 28 (7.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 24 (6.65%) FPGA
10 22 (6.09%) Blockchain
11 17 (4.71%) Robotics
12 16 (4.43%) Embedded Systems
12 16 (4.43%) Enterprise Software
13 14 (3.88%) Credit Derivative
13 14 (3.88%) Cyberattack
13 14 (3.88%) Fixed Income
14 7 (1.94%) Client/Server
14 7 (1.94%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 186 (51.52%) Linux
2 16 (4.43%) Android
3 8 (2.22%) Unix
4 6 (1.66%) Ubuntu
4 6 (1.66%) Windows
5 4 (1.11%) Robot Operating System
6 3 (0.83%) Embedded Linux
6 3 (0.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.28%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (33.52%) Low Latency
1 121 (33.52%) Software Engineering
2 66 (18.28%) Mathematics
3 65 (18.01%) Agile
4 64 (17.73%) Computer Science
5 45 (12.47%) CI/CD
6 43 (11.91%) OOP
7 39 (10.80%) OO
8 37 (10.25%) Analytics
8 37 (10.25%) Multithreading
9 36 (9.97%) SDLC
10 35 (9.70%) Fintech
11 33 (9.14%) Physics
11 33 (9.14%) Problem-Solving
11 33 (9.14%) Test Automation
12 32 (8.86%) Mentoring
12 32 (8.86%) Statistics
13 30 (8.31%) Decision-Making
13 30 (8.31%) Roadmaps
14 29 (8.03%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 182 (50.42%) Python
2 110 (30.47%) C
3 103 (28.53%) Java
4 67 (18.56%) Go
4 67 (18.56%) Rust
5 57 (15.79%) C#
6 36 (9.97%) SQL
7 29 (8.03%) JavaScript
8 13 (3.60%) MATLAB
9 12 (3.32%) Kotlin
10 11 (3.05%) TypeScript
11 6 (1.66%) Ladder Logic
11 6 (1.66%) PHP
12 5 (1.39%) Shell Script
13 4 (1.11%) Embedded C++
14 3 (0.83%) Bash
14 3 (0.83%) F#
14 3 (0.83%) Objective-C
14 3 (0.83%) Scala
14 3 (0.83%) VB
Qualifications
1 67 (18.56%) Degree
2 32 (8.86%) PhD
3 27 (7.48%) Master's Degree
4 23 (6.37%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (5.54%) Security Cleared
6 16 (4.43%) DV Cleared
7 3 (0.83%) SC Cleared
8 2 (0.55%) Numerate Degree
9 1 (0.28%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (0.28%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.28%) CCSP
9 1 (0.28%) CISA
9 1 (0.28%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.28%) CISM
9 1 (0.28%) CISSP
9 1 (0.28%) CRISC
9 1 (0.28%) FFIEC
9 1 (0.28%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (4.71%) QA
2 1 (0.28%) COBIT
2 1 (0.28%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.28%) NIST
System Software
1 27 (7.48%) Docker
2 2 (0.55%) Embedded Firmware
2 2 (0.55%) Firmware
3 1 (0.28%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 67 (18.56%) Kubernetes
2 30 (8.31%) Ansible
3 28 (7.76%) Terraform
4 4 (1.11%) Grafana
4 4 (1.11%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.83%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 14 (3.88%) IBM
2 9 (2.49%) Siemens
3 4 (1.11%) Databricks
3 4 (1.11%) Google
3 4 (1.11%) OpenAI
3 4 (1.11%) Oracle
3 4 (1.11%) Remedy
3 4 (1.11%) ServiceNow
4 3 (0.83%) Alibaba
4 3 (0.83%) Barracuda Networks
4 3 (0.83%) Microsoft
4 3 (0.83%) Red Hat
5 2 (0.55%) Perforce
5 2 (0.55%) SAP
6 1 (0.28%) Bloomberg
6 1 (0.28%) DevExpress
6 1 (0.28%) ION Trading
6 1 (0.28%) Murex
6 1 (0.28%) Reuters
6 1 (0.28%) Sybase