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 19 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 140 133 214
Rank change year-on-year -7 +81 -62
Permanent jobs citing C++ 333 353 345
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.72% 2.73% 1.49%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.58% 6.58% 3.71%
Number of salaries quoted 221 191 256
10th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £52,500
25th Percentile £80,500 £85,000 £71,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £110,000 £130,000 £125,000
90th Percentile £140,000 £175,000 £150,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £66,219 £60,000
% change year-on-year +5.71% +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 5,064 5,361 9,310
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 26.17% 41.52% 40.16%
Number of salaries quoted 3,541 3,932 7,618
10th Percentile £47,617 £48,750 £47,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £60,344 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - +3.13% +2.38%
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £123,750 £130,000 £127,500
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 19 April 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 19 April 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 +7 75 £100,000 -13.04% 61
South London +5 1 - - 3
West London -26 1 - - 5
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 (1.80%) Apache Spark
1 6 (1.80%) Kinematics
2 4 (1.20%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (0.90%) Apache
4 2 (0.60%) Apache Pulsar
5 1 (0.30%) Ethereum
Applications
1 5 (1.50%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 46 (13.81%) AWS
2 28 (8.41%) GCP
3 25 (7.51%) Azure
4 14 (4.20%) GitHub
5 8 (2.40%) OpenShift
6 6 (1.80%) AWS CloudFormation
6 6 (1.80%) Entra ID
6 6 (1.80%) Google Workspace
6 6 (1.80%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (1.20%) Cloud Composer
7 4 (1.20%) Dagster
7 4 (1.20%) dbt
8 2 (0.60%) Azure Service Bus
9 1 (0.30%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (0.30%) Power Platform
9 1 (0.30%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 30 (9.01%) TCP/IP
2 27 (8.11%) Multicast
3 6 (1.80%) Broadband
4 3 (0.90%) Network Security
4 3 (0.90%) RTP
4 3 (0.90%) VoIP
5 2 (0.60%) DHCP
5 2 (0.60%) DOCSIS
5 2 (0.60%) DSL
5 2 (0.60%) GPON
5 2 (0.60%) IPv4
5 2 (0.60%) IPv6
5 2 (0.60%) PPP
5 2 (0.60%) WAN
5 2 (0.60%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.30%) 4G
6 1 (0.30%) Diameter Protocol
6 1 (0.30%) Ethernet
6 1 (0.30%) Peer-to-Peer Networking
6 1 (0.30%) SS7
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (2.10%) NoSQL
2 5 (1.50%) Metadata
2 5 (1.50%) Semantic Layer
3 4 (1.20%) BigQuery
3 4 (1.20%) NonStop SQL
4 2 (0.60%) Big Data
4 2 (0.60%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.30%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.30%) KDB
5 1 (0.30%) Kdb+
5 1 (0.30%) Neo4j
5 1 (0.30%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.30%) Power BI
5 1 (0.30%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 20 (6.01%) Git
2 16 (4.80%) JIRA
3 5 (1.50%) TeamCity
4 4 (1.20%) Gradle
5 3 (0.90%) Visual Studio
5 3 (0.90%) WinDbg
6 2 (0.60%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.30%) CMake
7 1 (0.30%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.30%) GCC
7 1 (0.30%) GDB
7 1 (0.30%) GitLab
7 1 (0.30%) IDA Disassembler
7 1 (0.30%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.30%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 173 (51.95%) Finance
2 51 (15.32%) Banking
3 48 (14.41%) Front Office
4 28 (8.41%) Investment Banking
5 23 (6.91%) Social Skills
6 22 (6.61%) Analytical Skills
7 20 (6.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 19 (5.71%) Telecoms
9 10 (3.00%) Games
10 8 (2.40%) Electronics
10 8 (2.40%) Manufacturing
11 7 (2.10%) Aerospace
11 7 (2.10%) Law
12 6 (1.80%) Advertising
12 6 (1.80%) Financial Institution
13 5 (1.50%) Marketing
13 5 (1.50%) Public Sector
14 4 (1.20%) Aeronautics
14 4 (1.20%) Automotive
15 2 (0.60%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 135 (40.54%) Developer
2 116 (34.83%) Senior
3 110 (33.03%) Software Engineer
4 103 (30.93%) C++ Developer
5 74 (22.22%) C++ Software Engineer
6 48 (14.41%) Senior Software Engineer
7 41 (12.31%) Low Latency C++ Developer
8 39 (11.71%) Linux Developer
9 35 (10.51%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
10 34 (10.21%) Senior Developer
10 34 (10.21%) Software Developer
11 33 (9.91%) Senior C++ Developer
12 23 (6.91%) C++ Software Developer
13 22 (6.61%) Python Engineer
13 22 (6.61%) Python Software Engineer
14 20 (6.01%) Quantitative Developer
15 19 (5.71%) Investment Banking C++ Developer
15 19 (5.71%) Python Developer
15 19 (5.71%) Senior Python Developer
15 19 (5.71%) Senior Quantitative Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (13.21%) Boost C++ Libraries
2 42 (12.61%) RESTful
3 31 (9.31%) FIX Protocol
4 19 (5.71%) Kafka
5 14 (4.20%) pytest
6 9 (2.70%) WebSockets
7 8 (2.40%) gRPC
7 8 (2.40%) REST
8 7 (2.10%) Web Services
8 7 (2.10%) ZeroMQ
9 6 (1.80%) STL
10 5 (1.50%) Open3D
11 4 (1.20%) .NET
11 4 (1.20%) Android NDK
11 4 (1.20%) Sass
11 4 (1.20%) Spring
11 4 (1.20%) Spring Boot
11 4 (1.20%) Vaadin
11 4 (1.20%) XML
12 3 (0.90%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 63 (18.92%) Algorithms
2 42 (12.61%) Distributed Systems
3 37 (11.11%) Equities
4 34 (10.21%) Data Structures
5 32 (9.61%) Derivative
6 23 (6.91%) Hedge funds
7 22 (6.61%) Management Information System
8 21 (6.31%) Fixed Income
9 20 (6.01%) Robotics
10 19 (5.71%) FPGA
11 12 (3.60%) Cloud Native
12 10 (3.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 8 (2.40%) Analytical Mindset
13 8 (2.40%) Sports Betting
14 6 (1.80%) Greenfield Project
14 6 (1.80%) PKI
15 5 (1.50%) Distributed Architecture
15 5 (1.50%) GNSS
15 5 (1.50%) Lidar
15 5 (1.50%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 131 (39.34%) Linux
2 21 (6.31%) Windows
3 11 (3.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 10 (3.00%) Android
5 5 (1.50%) Robot Operating System
6 4 (1.20%) Mac OS
6 4 (1.20%) Unix
7 2 (0.60%) OpenWrt
8 1 (0.30%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 140 (42.04%) Software Engineering
2 118 (35.44%) Low Latency
3 89 (26.73%) Computer Science
4 59 (17.72%) Agile
5 54 (16.22%) Fintech
6 42 (12.61%) SDLC
7 40 (12.01%) Microservices
8 37 (11.11%) CI/CD
9 36 (10.81%) AI
10 33 (9.91%) OOP
11 31 (9.31%) DevOps
11 31 (9.31%) Multithreading
11 31 (9.31%) Problem-Solving
12 29 (8.71%) Analytics
13 28 (8.41%) Mathematics
13 28 (8.41%) Test Automation
14 27 (8.11%) OO
15 26 (7.81%) Cybersecurity
16 25 (7.51%) Workflow
17 23 (6.91%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 139 (41.74%) Python
2 71 (21.32%) Java
3 68 (20.42%) C
4 60 (18.02%) C#
5 57 (17.12%) Rust
6 47 (14.11%) SQL
7 29 (8.71%) Go
8 12 (3.60%) JavaScript
9 11 (3.30%) TypeScript
10 10 (3.00%) Kotlin
11 8 (2.40%) Bash
11 8 (2.40%) PowerShell
12 4 (1.20%) Google Apps Script
12 4 (1.20%) Scala
12 4 (1.20%) VBA
13 3 (0.90%) Objective-C
13 3 (0.90%) Perl
13 3 (0.90%) Ruby
13 3 (0.90%) VC++
14 2 (0.60%) Erlang
Qualifications
1 52 (15.62%) Degree
2 26 (7.81%) Master's Degree
3 20 (6.01%) Computer Science Degree
4 19 (5.71%) Security Cleared
5 15 (4.50%) DV Cleared
6 14 (4.20%) PhD
7 8 (2.40%) SC Cleared
8 6 (1.80%) AWS Certification
9 5 (1.50%) OSCP
10 4 (1.20%) AWS Certified Developer
10 4 (1.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 4 (1.20%) CREST Certified
10 4 (1.20%) GPEN
10 4 (1.20%) GXPN
10 4 (1.20%) OSCE
11 3 (0.90%) CCSAM
12 2 (0.60%) Azure Certification
13 1 (0.30%) CCSAS
13 1 (0.30%) GIAC
13 1 (0.30%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (7.21%) QA
2 4 (1.20%) ISO 20022
3 3 (0.90%) Actionable Recommendations
3 3 (0.90%) EMIR
4 1 (0.30%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.30%) NIST
System Software
1 16 (4.80%) Docker
2 5 (1.50%) Firmware
3 4 (1.20%) KVM
3 4 (1.20%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (1.20%) Virtual Servers
3 4 (1.20%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.60%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 20 (6.01%) Kubernetes
2 12 (3.60%) Terraform
3 9 (2.70%) Grafana
4 6 (1.80%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (1.20%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.30%) Ansible
6 1 (0.30%) Argo
6 1 (0.30%) Kibana
6 1 (0.30%) logstash
Vendors
1 11 (3.30%) Red Hat
2 9 (2.70%) Microsoft
3 6 (1.80%) Google
3 6 (1.80%) Palantir
4 5 (1.50%) Databricks
4 5 (1.50%) SAP
5 4 (1.20%) VMware
6 3 (0.90%) Apple
6 3 (0.90%) Blue Prism
6 3 (0.90%) EMC
6 3 (0.90%) Oracle
6 3 (0.90%) Solace
7 2 (0.60%) Ericsson
7 2 (0.60%) HP
7 2 (0.60%) Mavenir
7 2 (0.60%) Nokia
8 1 (0.30%) Bloomberg
8 1 (0.30%) FXall