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 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 176 140 117
Rank change year-on-year -36 -23 +26
Permanent jobs citing C++ 220 390 466
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.64% 2.42% 2.62%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.20% 5.73% 5.89%
Number of salaries quoted 137 219 387
10th Percentile £70,000 £49,750 £56,250
25th Percentile £93,750 £66,250 £76,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £90,000 £107,500
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -16.28% +34.38%
75th Percentile £140,000 £118,750 £141,250
90th Percentile £157,000 £140,000 £170,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -3.70%

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 4,232 6,812 7,915
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 31.60% 42.23% 44.46%
Number of salaries quoted 2,990 4,463 6,894
10th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £60,375 £61,250 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.23%
75th Percentile £105,000 £107,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £135,000 £125,000 £125,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -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 18 December 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 18 December 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 +29 44 £100,000 -2.44% 30
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 2 (0.91%) Apache Pulsar
1 2 (0.91%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.45%) Kinematics
Applications
1 2 (0.91%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 21 (9.55%) AWS
2 15 (6.82%) Azure
3 10 (4.55%) GCP
4 6 (2.73%) GitHub
5 3 (1.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 3 (1.36%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 3 (1.36%) OpenShift
6 2 (0.91%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (0.45%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (0.45%) Azure Machine Learning
7 1 (0.45%) Entra ID
7 1 (0.45%) Google Workspace
7 1 (0.45%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (0.45%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 26 (11.82%) Multicast
1 26 (11.82%) TCP/IP
2 3 (1.36%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (0.91%) Broadband
3 2 (0.91%) DHCP
3 2 (0.91%) DOCSIS
3 2 (0.91%) DSL
3 2 (0.91%) GPON
3 2 (0.91%) IPv4
3 2 (0.91%) IPv6
3 2 (0.91%) PPP
3 2 (0.91%) RTP
3 2 (0.91%) VoIP
3 2 (0.91%) WAN
4 1 (0.45%) Bluetooth
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.18%) ClickHouse
2 6 (2.73%) KDB
3 2 (0.91%) Kdb+
3 2 (0.91%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.45%) Big Data
4 1 (0.45%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.45%) Hadoop
4 1 (0.45%) Metadata
4 1 (0.45%) Neo4j
4 1 (0.45%) Power BI
4 1 (0.45%) Redis
4 1 (0.45%) Semantic Layer
4 1 (0.45%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 13 (5.91%) JIRA
2 7 (3.18%) Git
3 3 (1.36%) GitLab
3 3 (1.36%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.36%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (0.91%) CircleCI
5 1 (0.45%) CMake
5 1 (0.45%) GCC
5 1 (0.45%) GDB
5 1 (0.45%) MSBuild
5 1 (0.45%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.45%) Visual Studio
General
1 110 (50.00%) Finance
2 55 (25.00%) Front Office
3 46 (20.91%) Banking
4 30 (13.64%) Investment Banking
5 23 (10.45%) Telecoms
6 19 (8.64%) Social Skills
7 15 (6.82%) Analytical Skills
8 12 (5.45%) Manufacturing
9 11 (5.00%) Public Sector
10 10 (4.55%) Electronics
11 9 (4.09%) Marketing
12 6 (2.73%) Financial Institution
13 4 (1.82%) Games
13 4 (1.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 3 (1.36%) Law
15 2 (0.91%) Military
16 1 (0.45%) Advertising
16 1 (0.45%) Aerospace
16 1 (0.45%) Automotive
16 1 (0.45%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 112 (50.91%) Developer
2 80 (36.36%) C++ Developer
3 69 (31.36%) Senior
4 58 (26.36%) Software Engineer
5 37 (16.82%) Low Latency C++ Developer
6 36 (16.36%) Linux Developer
7 35 (15.91%) Quantitative Developer
8 29 (13.18%) Python Developer
9 26 (11.82%) Senior Software Engineer
10 24 (10.91%) Senior Developer
11 23 (10.45%) C++ Software Engineer
12 21 (9.55%) Cloud Engineer
12 21 (9.55%) Senior Python Developer
12 21 (9.55%) Senior Quantitative Developer
13 20 (9.09%) C++ Quantitative Developer
13 20 (9.09%) Cloud Native Engineer
13 20 (9.09%) Cloud Software Engineer
13 20 (9.09%) Investment Banking C++ Developer
14 19 (8.64%) Senior C++ Developer
15 18 (8.18%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (15.00%) Boost C++ Libraries
2 31 (14.09%) FIX Protocol
3 19 (8.64%) RESTful
4 11 (5.00%) pytest
5 9 (4.09%) Kafka
5 9 (4.09%) WebSockets
6 7 (3.18%) gRPC
6 7 (3.18%) REST
7 6 (2.73%) PyXLL
8 5 (2.27%) .NET
9 4 (1.82%) Android NDK
9 4 (1.82%) AngularJS
9 4 (1.82%) React
10 3 (1.36%) .NET Framework
10 3 (1.36%) Node.js
10 3 (1.36%) Sass
10 3 (1.36%) XML
10 3 (1.36%) ZeroMQ
11 2 (0.91%) STL
11 2 (0.91%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 50 (22.73%) Algorithms
2 36 (16.36%) Derivative
3 34 (15.45%) Equities
4 33 (15.00%) Distributed Systems
5 32 (14.55%) Cloud Native
6 26 (11.82%) Data Structures
6 26 (11.82%) Hedge funds
7 20 (9.09%) Fixed Income
7 20 (9.09%) Legacy Code
8 19 (8.64%) FPGA
8 19 (8.64%) Management Information System
9 13 (5.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 8 (3.64%) Grid Computing
11 6 (2.73%) Greenfield Project
11 6 (2.73%) Market Risk
12 5 (2.27%) AI Agents
12 5 (2.27%) Analytical Mindset
12 5 (2.27%) Data Protection Act
12 5 (2.27%) Distributed Computing
13 4 (1.82%) Equity Derivative
Operating Systems
1 104 (47.27%) Linux
2 13 (5.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 9 (4.09%) Android
4 5 (2.27%) Windows
5 2 (0.91%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.91%) OpenWrt
6 1 (0.45%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (39.55%) Low Latency
2 75 (34.09%) Software Engineering
3 47 (21.36%) Agile
4 44 (20.00%) Computer Science
5 36 (16.36%) AI
6 30 (13.64%) OOP
7 29 (13.18%) SDLC
8 28 (12.73%) Problem-Solving
9 26 (11.82%) Machine Learning
9 26 (11.82%) Test Automation
10 22 (10.00%) Workflow
11 21 (9.55%) Analytics
12 20 (9.09%) OO
13 19 (8.64%) DevOps
13 19 (8.64%) Mathematics
13 19 (8.64%) Microservices
13 19 (8.64%) Order Management
14 18 (8.18%) Open Source
15 17 (7.73%) CI/CD
15 17 (7.73%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 107 (48.64%) Python
2 60 (27.27%) Java
3 57 (25.91%) C
4 41 (18.64%) C#
5 31 (14.09%) Rust
5 31 (14.09%) SQL
6 27 (12.27%) Go
7 15 (6.82%) TypeScript
8 7 (3.18%) JavaScript
9 6 (2.73%) Kotlin
10 5 (2.27%) Bash
11 4 (1.82%) Embedded C
11 4 (1.82%) PowerShell
12 3 (1.36%) Groovy
12 3 (1.36%) Ruby
13 2 (0.91%) VBA
13 2 (0.91%) VC++
14 1 (0.45%) Google Apps Script
14 1 (0.45%) R
14 1 (0.45%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 23 (10.45%) Degree
2 18 (8.18%) Security Cleared
3 15 (6.82%) Computer Science Degree
3 15 (6.82%) DV Cleared
3 15 (6.82%) SC Cleared
4 13 (5.91%) Master's Degree
5 3 (1.36%) PhD
6 1 (0.45%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.45%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (0.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.45%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (6.82%) QA
2 3 (1.36%) Data Quality
2 3 (1.36%) EMIR
3 1 (0.45%) MiFID
3 1 (0.45%) NIST
System Software
1 14 (6.36%) Virtual Machines
1 14 (6.36%) Virtual Servers
2 12 (5.45%) Docker
3 3 (1.36%) Firmware
4 2 (0.91%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (0.45%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.45%) KVM
5 1 (0.45%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 38 (17.27%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.82%) Grafana
3 3 (1.36%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.91%) Ansible
4 2 (0.91%) Terraform
5 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.45%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.45%) Puppet
5 1 (0.45%) systemd
Vendors
1 13 (5.91%) Palantir
2 12 (5.45%) Red Hat
3 9 (4.09%) SAP
4 4 (1.82%) Microsoft
5 3 (1.36%) Cribl.io
5 3 (1.36%) Foundry
5 3 (1.36%) Oracle
5 3 (1.36%) Sonatype
6 2 (0.91%) Ericsson
6 2 (0.91%) Mavenir
6 2 (0.91%) Nokia
6 2 (0.91%) Solarflare
7 1 (0.45%) Apple
7 1 (0.45%) Confluent
7 1 (0.45%) Databricks
7 1 (0.45%) Google
7 1 (0.45%) ION Trading
7 1 (0.45%) UiPath
7 1 (0.45%) VMware