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

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 147 145 200
Rank change year-on-year -2 +55 -75
Permanent jobs citing C++ 351 308 349
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.55% 2.50% 1.65%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.54% 5.97% 4.12%
Number of salaries quoted 247 167 264
10th Percentile £57,500 £65,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £62,188
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 £160,000 £115,000
90th Percentile £132,500 £175,000 £130,000
England median annual salary £67,500 £66,206 £60,000
% change year-on-year +1.95% +10.34% -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 5,371 5,155 8,481
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 23.74% 41.90% 40.05%
Number of salaries quoted 3,783 3,560 6,381
10th Percentile £50,000 £48,750 £47,500
25th Percentile £65,000 £61,250 £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 £118,750 £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 24 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 24 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 -2 69 £100,000 -32.20% 28
South London +10 8 - - 4
West London -11 4 £55,500 - 12
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 (1.71%) Apache
2 5 (1.42%) Apache Spark
2 5 (1.42%) Confluence
2 5 (1.42%) Kinematics
3 4 (1.14%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.28%) Ethereum
Applications
1 3 (0.85%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.28%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
Cloud Services
1 42 (11.97%) AWS
2 21 (5.98%) GCP
3 20 (5.70%) Azure
4 11 (3.13%) GitHub
5 6 (1.71%) AWS CloudFormation
5 6 (1.71%) Entra ID
5 6 (1.71%) Google Workspace
5 6 (1.71%) Microsoft 365
5 6 (1.71%) OpenShift
6 4 (1.14%) Cloud Composer
6 4 (1.14%) Dagster
6 4 (1.14%) dbt
6 4 (1.14%) Serverless
7 3 (0.85%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (0.28%) Azure Machine Learning
8 1 (0.28%) Datadog
8 1 (0.28%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 17 (4.84%) TCP/IP
2 15 (4.27%) Multicast
3 7 (1.99%) 3GPP
3 7 (1.99%) GSM
3 7 (1.99%) LTE
3 7 (1.99%) Radio Access Network
3 7 (1.99%) RANAP
3 7 (1.99%) SS7
3 7 (1.99%) UMTS
3 7 (1.99%) Wireshark
4 4 (1.14%) Broadband
5 3 (0.85%) Network Security
6 1 (0.28%) Ethernet
6 1 (0.28%) Peer-to-Peer Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (1.71%) Geospatial Data
1 6 (1.71%) NoSQL
2 5 (1.42%) Metadata
2 5 (1.42%) NonStop SQL
3 4 (1.14%) Big Data
3 4 (1.14%) BigQuery
3 4 (1.14%) Semantic Layer
4 3 (0.85%) DynamoDB
4 3 (0.85%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (0.57%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.28%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (0.28%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.28%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.28%) Delta Lake
6 1 (0.28%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.28%) InterSystems Cache
6 1 (0.28%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.28%) Parquet
6 1 (0.28%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.28%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 30 (8.55%) Git
2 20 (5.70%) JIRA
3 12 (3.42%) Jenkins
4 7 (1.99%) GCC
4 7 (1.99%) GDB
5 6 (1.71%) TeamCity
6 5 (1.42%) Gradle
7 3 (0.85%) Visual Studio
7 3 (0.85%) WinDbg
8 2 (0.57%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 2 (0.57%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.57%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.57%) Selenium
9 1 (0.28%) CMake
9 1 (0.28%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.28%) GitLab
9 1 (0.28%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.28%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.28%) Valgrind
General
1 186 (52.99%) Finance
2 58 (16.52%) Banking
3 41 (11.68%) Social Skills
4 34 (9.69%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (9.69%) Investment Banking
5 33 (9.40%) Front Office
6 26 (7.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 17 (4.84%) Law
8 8 (2.28%) Legal
8 8 (2.28%) Telecoms
9 6 (1.71%) Manufacturing
10 5 (1.42%) Advertising
11 4 (1.14%) Electronics
11 4 (1.14%) Games
12 3 (0.85%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.57%) Aerospace
13 2 (0.57%) Aviation
13 2 (0.57%) Military
14 1 (0.28%) Automotive
14 1 (0.28%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 129 (36.75%) Software Engineer
2 114 (32.48%) Senior
3 107 (30.48%) Developer
4 80 (22.79%) C++ Software Engineer
5 73 (20.80%) C++ Developer
6 56 (15.95%) Senior Software Engineer
7 40 (11.40%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
8 35 (9.97%) Linux Developer
9 33 (9.40%) Low Latency C++ Developer
10 30 (8.55%) Python Engineer
11 28 (7.98%) Senior Developer
12 26 (7.41%) Python Software Engineer
13 25 (7.12%) Lead
13 25 (7.12%) Senior C++ Developer
14 20 (5.70%) Quantitative Developer
15 18 (5.13%) Senior Quantitative Developer
15 18 (5.13%) Software Developer
16 17 (4.84%) C++ Quantitative Developer
16 17 (4.84%) Rust Engineer
17 16 (4.56%) Investment Banking C++ Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (11.97%) Boost C++ Libraries
2 28 (7.98%) RESTful
3 25 (7.12%) FIX Protocol
4 15 (4.27%) Kafka
4 15 (4.27%) pytest
5 12 (3.42%) .NET
5 12 (3.42%) React
5 12 (3.42%) STL
6 9 (2.56%) Web Services
7 7 (1.99%) OpenGL
7 7 (1.99%) PyTorch
8 6 (1.71%) TensorFlow
9 5 (1.42%) Apache NiFi
9 5 (1.42%) Spring
9 5 (1.42%) Spring Boot
9 5 (1.42%) Vaadin
10 4 (1.14%) AngularJS
10 4 (1.14%) Open3D
11 3 (0.85%) REST
11 3 (0.85%) ZeroMQ
Miscellaneous
1 71 (20.23%) Algorithms
2 36 (10.26%) Equities
3 32 (9.12%) Data Structures
4 29 (8.26%) Derivative
5 28 (7.98%) Distributed Systems
5 28 (7.98%) Hedge funds
6 26 (7.41%) Robotics
7 25 (7.12%) Fixed Income
8 19 (5.41%) Management Information System
9 17 (4.84%) FPGA
10 9 (2.56%) Embedded Systems
10 9 (2.56%) Reinsurance
11 8 (2.28%) Distributed Architecture
12 7 (1.99%) Augmented Reality
12 7 (1.99%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 7 (1.99%) Virtual Reality
13 6 (1.71%) PKI
14 5 (1.42%) Social Media
15 4 (1.14%) GNSS
15 4 (1.14%) Lidar
Operating Systems
1 118 (33.62%) Linux
2 19 (5.41%) Windows
3 6 (1.71%) Unix
4 5 (1.42%) Robot Operating System
5 2 (0.57%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (0.28%) FreeRTOS
6 1 (0.28%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 170 (48.43%) Software Engineering
2 131 (37.32%) Low Latency
3 83 (23.65%) Computer Science
4 60 (17.09%) Agile
5 58 (16.52%) Fintech
6 45 (12.82%) CI/CD
7 42 (11.97%) Problem-Solving
8 40 (11.40%) AI
8 40 (11.40%) SDLC
9 39 (11.11%) Mathematics
10 35 (9.97%) Microservices
10 35 (9.97%) Multithreading
11 34 (9.69%) Test Automation
12 32 (9.12%) Analytics
12 32 (9.12%) OOP
13 26 (7.41%) OO
14 23 (6.55%) Continuous Integration
14 23 (6.55%) Machine Learning
15 22 (6.27%) Process Improvement
16 21 (5.98%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 173 (49.29%) Python
2 93 (26.50%) Java
3 63 (17.95%) C
4 61 (17.38%) C#
5 50 (14.25%) Rust
6 49 (13.96%) SQL
7 25 (7.12%) JavaScript
8 22 (6.27%) Go
9 15 (4.27%) TypeScript
10 11 (3.13%) R
11 8 (2.28%) Julia
11 8 (2.28%) MATLAB
12 7 (1.99%) Scala
13 6 (1.71%) Bash
13 6 (1.71%) Kotlin
14 5 (1.42%) Erlang
14 5 (1.42%) Google Apps Script
14 5 (1.42%) PowerShell
15 4 (1.14%) Perl
16 3 (0.85%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 46 (13.11%) Degree
2 22 (6.27%) Security Cleared
3 20 (5.70%) Computer Science Degree
4 14 (3.99%) DV Cleared
5 11 (3.13%) Master's Degree
6 10 (2.85%) SC Cleared
7 9 (2.56%) PhD
8 7 (1.99%) OSCP
9 6 (1.71%) AWS Certification
10 5 (1.42%) AWS Certified Developer
10 5 (1.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 4 (1.14%) CREST Certified
11 4 (1.14%) GPEN
11 4 (1.14%) GXPN
11 4 (1.14%) OSCE
12 3 (0.85%) CCSAM
12 3 (0.85%) CEH
13 1 (0.28%) Azure Certification
13 1 (0.28%) CCSAS
13 1 (0.28%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (9.97%) QA
2 7 (1.99%) GDPR
3 5 (1.42%) ISO 20022
4 3 (0.85%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (0.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.28%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.28%) EMIR
6 1 (0.28%) MiFID
System Software
1 16 (4.56%) Docker
2 5 (1.42%) KVM
2 5 (1.42%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.14%) Firmware
4 1 (0.28%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.28%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 17 (4.84%) Kubernetes
2 10 (2.85%) Terraform
3 7 (1.99%) Grafana
4 6 (1.71%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.28%) Ansible
5 1 (0.28%) Argo
5 1 (0.28%) ITRS Geneos
5 1 (0.28%) Kibana
5 1 (0.28%) logstash
5 1 (0.28%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 10 (2.85%) Palantir
2 9 (2.56%) Microsoft
3 8 (2.28%) FIS
3 8 (2.28%) Google
3 8 (2.28%) SunGard
4 5 (1.42%) Databricks
4 5 (1.42%) VMware
5 4 (1.14%) Solace
6 3 (0.85%) Blue Prism
6 3 (0.85%) EMC
7 2 (0.57%) Bloomberg
7 2 (0.57%) HP
7 2 (0.57%) Oracle
8 1 (0.28%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.28%) FactSet
8 1 (0.28%) FXall
8 1 (0.28%) OpenAI