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

6 months to
30 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 154 144 193
Rank change year-on-year -10 +49 -72
Permanent jobs citing C++ 341 305 352
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.48% 2.49% 1.73%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.27% 5.94% 4.31%
Number of salaries quoted 239 167 268
10th Percentile £57,000 £64,000 £45,875
25th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £63,438
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 £133,000 £175,000 £130,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £66,100 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.66% +10.17% -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 5,442 5,135 8,173
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 23.61% 41.90% 40.17%
Number of salaries quoted 3,802 3,533 6,089
10th Percentile £50,000 £48,750 £48,750
25th Percentile £65,000 £61,250 £61,250
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 £105,000
90th Percentile £118,750 £135,000 £135,000
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 30 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 30 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 -4 62 £100,000 -29.20% 36
South London +8 8 - - 6
West London -18 4 £55,500 - 7
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 (1.76%) Apache
2 5 (1.47%) Apache Spark
2 5 (1.47%) Confluence
3 4 (1.17%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.17%) Kinematics
4 1 (0.29%) Ethereum
Applications
1 3 (0.88%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.29%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
Cloud Services
1 40 (11.73%) AWS
2 19 (5.57%) GCP
3 18 (5.28%) Azure
4 11 (3.23%) GitHub
5 6 (1.76%) AWS CloudFormation
5 6 (1.76%) Entra ID
5 6 (1.76%) Google Workspace
5 6 (1.76%) Microsoft 365
5 6 (1.76%) OpenShift
6 4 (1.17%) Cloud Composer
6 4 (1.17%) Dagster
6 4 (1.17%) dbt
6 4 (1.17%) Serverless
7 3 (0.88%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (0.29%) Azure Machine Learning
8 1 (0.29%) Datadog
8 1 (0.29%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 16 (4.69%) TCP/IP
2 15 (4.40%) Multicast
3 7 (2.05%) 3GPP
3 7 (2.05%) GSM
3 7 (2.05%) LTE
3 7 (2.05%) Radio Access Network
3 7 (2.05%) RANAP
3 7 (2.05%) SS7
3 7 (2.05%) UMTS
3 7 (2.05%) Wireshark
4 4 (1.17%) Broadband
5 3 (0.88%) Network Security
6 1 (0.29%) Peer-to-Peer Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (1.76%) Geospatial Data
2 5 (1.47%) Metadata
2 5 (1.47%) NonStop SQL
2 5 (1.47%) NoSQL
3 4 (1.17%) Big Data
3 4 (1.17%) BigQuery
3 4 (1.17%) Semantic Layer
4 3 (0.88%) DynamoDB
4 3 (0.88%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (0.59%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.29%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (0.29%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.29%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.29%) Delta Lake
6 1 (0.29%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.29%) InterSystems Cache
6 1 (0.29%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.29%) Parquet
6 1 (0.29%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.29%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 30 (8.80%) Git
2 20 (5.87%) JIRA
3 12 (3.52%) Jenkins
4 7 (2.05%) GCC
4 7 (2.05%) GDB
5 6 (1.76%) TeamCity
6 5 (1.47%) Gradle
7 3 (0.88%) Visual Studio
7 3 (0.88%) WinDbg
8 2 (0.59%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 2 (0.59%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.59%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.59%) Selenium
9 1 (0.29%) CMake
9 1 (0.29%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.29%) GitLab
9 1 (0.29%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.29%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.29%) Valgrind
General
1 182 (53.37%) Finance
2 58 (17.01%) Banking
3 43 (12.61%) Social Skills
4 34 (9.97%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (9.97%) Investment Banking
5 32 (9.38%) Front Office
6 25 (7.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 17 (4.99%) Law
8 8 (2.35%) Telecoms
9 7 (2.05%) Legal
10 6 (1.76%) Manufacturing
11 4 (1.17%) Electronics
11 4 (1.17%) Games
12 2 (0.59%) Advertising
12 2 (0.59%) Aerospace
12 2 (0.59%) Aviation
12 2 (0.59%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.59%) Military
12 2 (0.59%) Tech for Good
13 1 (0.29%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 125 (36.66%) Software Engineer
2 108 (31.67%) Senior
3 102 (29.91%) Developer
4 79 (23.17%) C++ Software Engineer
5 68 (19.94%) C++ Developer
6 54 (15.84%) Senior Software Engineer
7 39 (11.44%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
8 33 (9.68%) Linux Developer
9 31 (9.09%) Low Latency C++ Developer
10 30 (8.80%) Python Engineer
11 26 (7.62%) Senior Developer
12 25 (7.33%) Python Software Engineer
13 24 (7.04%) Lead
14 23 (6.74%) Senior C++ Developer
15 19 (5.57%) Quantitative Developer
16 17 (4.99%) Rust Engineer
16 17 (4.99%) Senior Quantitative Developer
16 17 (4.99%) Software Developer
17 16 (4.69%) Analyst
17 16 (4.69%) C++ Quantitative Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (12.02%) Boost C++ Libraries
2 27 (7.92%) RESTful
3 26 (7.62%) FIX Protocol
4 15 (4.40%) Kafka
4 15 (4.40%) pytest
5 12 (3.52%) React
5 12 (3.52%) STL
6 11 (3.23%) .NET
7 9 (2.64%) Web Services
8 7 (2.05%) OpenGL
8 7 (2.05%) PyTorch
9 6 (1.76%) TensorFlow
10 5 (1.47%) Apache NiFi
10 5 (1.47%) Spring
10 5 (1.47%) Spring Boot
10 5 (1.47%) Vaadin
11 4 (1.17%) AngularJS
11 4 (1.17%) Open3D
12 3 (0.88%) Flask
12 3 (0.88%) ZeroMQ
Miscellaneous
1 69 (20.23%) Algorithms
2 35 (10.26%) Equities
3 31 (9.09%) Data Structures
4 29 (8.50%) Derivative
5 28 (8.21%) Distributed Systems
5 28 (8.21%) Hedge funds
6 26 (7.62%) Fixed Income
7 22 (6.45%) Robotics
8 18 (5.28%) Management Information System
9 16 (4.69%) FPGA
10 9 (2.64%) Reinsurance
11 8 (2.35%) Distributed Architecture
11 8 (2.35%) Embedded Systems
12 7 (2.05%) Augmented Reality
12 7 (2.05%) Virtual Reality
13 6 (1.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 6 (1.76%) PKI
14 5 (1.47%) Social Media
15 4 (1.17%) Anti-Piracy
15 4 (1.17%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 116 (34.02%) Linux
2 18 (5.28%) Windows
3 6 (1.76%) Unix
4 2 (0.59%) Embedded Linux
4 2 (0.59%) Robot Operating System
5 1 (0.29%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 164 (48.09%) Software Engineering
2 128 (37.54%) Low Latency
3 82 (24.05%) Computer Science
4 56 (16.42%) Agile
5 55 (16.13%) Fintech
6 42 (12.32%) CI/CD
7 41 (12.02%) Problem-Solving
8 40 (11.73%) Mathematics
9 39 (11.44%) SDLC
10 38 (11.14%) AI
11 34 (9.97%) Multithreading
12 33 (9.68%) Microservices
13 32 (9.38%) Analytics
13 32 (9.38%) Test Automation
14 31 (9.09%) OOP
15 25 (7.33%) OO
16 23 (6.74%) Continuous Integration
16 23 (6.74%) Machine Learning
17 22 (6.45%) Process Improvement
18 21 (6.16%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 170 (49.85%) Python
2 91 (26.69%) Java
3 58 (17.01%) C
3 58 (17.01%) C#
4 47 (13.78%) Rust
4 47 (13.78%) SQL
5 25 (7.33%) JavaScript
6 21 (6.16%) Go
7 15 (4.40%) TypeScript
8 12 (3.52%) R
9 8 (2.35%) Julia
9 8 (2.35%) MATLAB
10 7 (2.05%) Scala
11 6 (1.76%) Bash
11 6 (1.76%) Kotlin
12 5 (1.47%) Erlang
12 5 (1.47%) Google Apps Script
12 5 (1.47%) PowerShell
13 4 (1.17%) Perl
14 3 (0.88%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 46 (13.49%) Degree
2 22 (6.45%) Security Cleared
3 20 (5.87%) Computer Science Degree
4 14 (4.11%) DV Cleared
5 12 (3.52%) Master's Degree
6 10 (2.93%) SC Cleared
7 9 (2.64%) PhD
8 6 (1.76%) AWS Certification
8 6 (1.76%) 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 36 (10.56%) QA
2 7 (2.05%) GDPR
3 5 (1.47%) ISO 20022
4 3 (0.88%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (0.59%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.29%) EMIR
6 1 (0.29%) MiFID
System Software
1 16 (4.69%) Docker
2 5 (1.47%) KVM
2 5 (1.47%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.88%) Firmware
4 1 (0.29%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 17 (4.99%) Kubernetes
2 9 (2.64%) Terraform
3 6 (1.76%) Grafana
3 6 (1.76%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.29%) Ansible
4 1 (0.29%) Argo
4 1 (0.29%) ITRS Geneos
4 1 (0.29%) Kibana
4 1 (0.29%) logstash
Vendors
1 10 (2.93%) Palantir
2 9 (2.64%) FIS
2 9 (2.64%) Microsoft
2 9 (2.64%) SunGard
3 8 (2.35%) Google
4 5 (1.47%) Databricks
4 5 (1.47%) VMware
5 4 (1.17%) Solace
6 3 (0.88%) Blue Prism
6 3 (0.88%) EMC
7 2 (0.59%) Bloomberg
7 2 (0.59%) HP
7 2 (0.59%) Oracle
8 1 (0.29%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.29%) FactSet
8 1 (0.29%) FXall
8 1 (0.29%) OpenAI