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 11 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 213 167 159
Rank change year-on-year -46 -8 -39
Permanent jobs citing C++ 255 252 387
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.98% 2.15% 2.11%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.63% 5.61% 4.98%
Number of salaries quoted 167 134 258
10th Percentile £56,700 £65,750 £49,625
25th Percentile £78,750 £85,000 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £110,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +22.22% -5.26%
75th Percentile £107,500 £150,000 £115,000
90th Percentile £135,500 £172,500 £130,000
England median annual salary £66,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +1.54% +4.00% -3.85%

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 5,505 4,490 7,773
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 21.24% 38.26% 42.31%
Number of salaries quoted 3,610 3,004 5,098
10th Percentile £48,750 £48,150 £50,000
25th Percentile £62,500 £61,250 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £80,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% -3.03% +3.13%
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £108,750
90th Percentile £115,000 £135,000 £132,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -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 11 October 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 11 October 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 +8 41 £100,000 -28.57% 66
South London +4 7 - - 5
East London -4 7 - - 9
West London -17 4 £55,500 - 17
North London - 2 £62,500 - 2
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 5 (1.96%) Confluence
2 3 (1.18%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.78%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
Cloud Services
1 32 (12.55%) AWS
2 19 (7.45%) Azure
3 14 (5.49%) GCP
4 11 (4.31%) Microsoft 365
5 10 (3.92%) GitHub
6 7 (2.75%) Microsoft Purview
6 7 (2.75%) Mimecast
6 7 (2.75%) Power Platform
7 5 (1.96%) AWS CloudFormation
7 5 (1.96%) Serverless
8 4 (1.57%) Entra ID
8 4 (1.57%) Google Workspace
8 4 (1.57%) OpenShift
9 3 (1.18%) Cloud Computing
9 3 (1.18%) Datadog
10 2 (0.78%) Snowflake
11 1 (0.39%) Azure Machine Learning
11 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 17 (6.67%) Multicast
2 11 (4.31%) TCP/IP
3 7 (2.75%) 3GPP
3 7 (2.75%) GSM
3 7 (2.75%) LTE
3 7 (2.75%) Radio Access Network
3 7 (2.75%) RANAP
3 7 (2.75%) SS7
3 7 (2.75%) UMTS
3 7 (2.75%) Wireshark
4 1 (0.39%) BGP
4 1 (0.39%) DHCP
4 1 (0.39%) DNS
4 1 (0.39%) IPv4
4 1 (0.39%) IPv6
4 1 (0.39%) MPLS
4 1 (0.39%) SSH
4 1 (0.39%) Unicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (5.10%) Relational Database
2 7 (2.75%) Power BI
3 6 (2.35%) Geospatial Data
4 4 (1.57%) KDB
5 3 (1.18%) Big Data
5 3 (1.18%) Data Lake
5 3 (1.18%) DynamoDB
6 2 (0.78%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (0.78%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (0.78%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.39%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.39%) Apache Arrow
7 1 (0.39%) Apache Iceberg
7 1 (0.39%) Delta Lake
7 1 (0.39%) InterSystems Cache
7 1 (0.39%) Kdb+
7 1 (0.39%) Metadata
7 1 (0.39%) NonStop SQL
7 1 (0.39%) Pinecone
7 1 (0.39%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 29 (11.37%) Git
2 18 (7.06%) JIRA
3 15 (5.88%) Jenkins
4 7 (2.75%) GCC
4 7 (2.75%) GDB
5 4 (1.57%) TeamCity
6 2 (0.78%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 2 (0.78%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.78%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.78%) Selenium
6 2 (0.78%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.39%) CMake
7 1 (0.39%) GitLab
7 1 (0.39%) Gradle
7 1 (0.39%) Valgrind
General
1 127 (49.80%) Finance
2 52 (20.39%) Social Skills
3 48 (18.82%) Banking
4 36 (14.12%) Analytical Skills
5 26 (10.20%) Investment Banking
6 22 (8.63%) Front Office
6 22 (8.63%) Law
7 20 (7.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 14 (5.49%) Legal
9 8 (3.14%) Telecoms
10 7 (2.75%) Corporate Banking
10 7 (2.75%) Retail Banking
11 6 (2.35%) Manufacturing
12 4 (1.57%) Military
12 4 (1.57%) Public Speaking
12 4 (1.57%) Publishing
12 4 (1.57%) Tech for Good
13 3 (1.18%) Aviation
14 1 (0.39%) Electronics
14 1 (0.39%) Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 91 (35.69%) Software Engineer
2 81 (31.76%) Senior
3 68 (26.67%) Developer
4 53 (20.78%) C++ Software Engineer
5 45 (17.65%) C++ Developer
6 37 (14.51%) Senior Software Engineer
7 26 (10.20%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
8 25 (9.80%) Python Engineer
9 19 (7.45%) Lead
10 18 (7.06%) Python Software Engineer
11 17 (6.67%) Senior Developer
12 15 (5.88%) Linux Developer
13 14 (5.49%) Analyst
14 13 (5.10%) Quantitative Developer
15 12 (4.71%) Low Latency C++ Developer
15 12 (4.71%) Senior C++ Developer
16 11 (4.31%) Java Engineer
17 9 (3.53%) Business Support Analyst
17 9 (3.53%) Senior Quantitative Developer
17 9 (3.53%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (10.59%) FIX Protocol
2 24 (9.41%) Boost C++ Libraries
3 13 (5.10%) pytest
4 10 (3.92%) React
4 10 (3.92%) STL
5 8 (3.14%) .NET
5 8 (3.14%) RESTful
5 8 (3.14%) Terraform
6 7 (2.75%) OpenGL
6 7 (2.75%) PyTorch
7 6 (2.35%) TensorFlow
8 5 (1.96%) Web Services
9 4 (1.57%) AngularJS
9 4 (1.57%) REST
10 3 (1.18%) Apache NiFi
10 3 (1.18%) Kafka
11 2 (0.78%) GraphQL
11 2 (0.78%) Hugging Face
11 2 (0.78%) Playwright
11 2 (0.78%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 43 (16.86%) Algorithms
2 29 (11.37%) Equities
3 28 (10.98%) Derivative
4 23 (9.02%) Fixed Income
4 23 (9.02%) Hedge funds
5 15 (5.88%) Distributed Systems
5 15 (5.88%) Management Information System
6 11 (4.31%) Data Structures
7 9 (3.53%) Reinsurance
8 8 (3.14%) Distributed Architecture
8 8 (3.14%) Robotics
9 7 (2.75%) Augmented Reality
9 7 (2.75%) Equity Derivative
9 7 (2.75%) FPGA
9 7 (2.75%) Virtual Reality
10 6 (2.35%) Embedded Systems
10 6 (2.35%) PKI
11 4 (1.57%) Mobile App
11 4 (1.57%) Product Ownership
11 4 (1.57%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 85 (33.33%) Linux
2 9 (3.53%) Windows
3 5 (1.96%) Unix
4 2 (0.78%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.78%) Embedded Linux
5 1 (0.39%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 138 (54.12%) Software Engineering
2 94 (36.86%) Low Latency
3 66 (25.88%) Computer Science
4 49 (19.22%) Problem-Solving
5 48 (18.82%) AI
6 42 (16.47%) Agile
7 38 (14.90%) Mathematics
8 32 (12.55%) CI/CD
8 32 (12.55%) Machine Learning
9 29 (11.37%) Fintech
9 29 (11.37%) OOP
10 28 (10.98%) SDLC
11 24 (9.41%) Decision-Making
12 23 (9.02%) Analytics
13 21 (8.24%) Collaborative Culture
13 21 (8.24%) Continuous Integration
14 20 (7.84%) Test Automation
15 19 (7.45%) Full-Stack Development
15 19 (7.45%) Microservices
16 18 (7.06%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 143 (56.08%) Python
2 80 (31.37%) Java
3 45 (17.65%) C#
4 39 (15.29%) SQL
5 37 (14.51%) C
6 24 (9.41%) JavaScript
7 22 (8.63%) Rust
8 17 (6.67%) Go
9 14 (5.49%) R
10 11 (4.31%) TypeScript
11 8 (3.14%) Julia
11 8 (3.14%) MATLAB
12 5 (1.96%) Perl
13 4 (1.57%) Embedded C
13 4 (1.57%) Embedded C++
13 4 (1.57%) Google Apps Script
13 4 (1.57%) Kotlin
13 4 (1.57%) Ruby
14 3 (1.18%) Clojure
14 3 (1.18%) Erlang
Qualifications
1 43 (16.86%) Degree
2 28 (10.98%) Computer Science Degree
3 21 (8.24%) Security Cleared
4 10 (3.92%) DV Cleared
5 8 (3.14%) Master's Degree
5 8 (3.14%) OSCP
5 8 (3.14%) SC Cleared
6 6 (2.35%) CEH
7 5 (1.96%) AWS Certification
7 5 (1.96%) AWS Certified Developer
7 5 (1.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 4 (1.57%) CHECK Team Leader
8 4 (1.57%) CHECK Team Member
8 4 (1.57%) CISA
8 4 (1.57%) CISSP
8 4 (1.57%) CREST Certified
9 2 (0.78%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.78%) CSSLP
9 2 (0.78%) GWAPT
9 2 (0.78%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (11.76%) QA
2 7 (2.75%) GDPR
3 5 (1.96%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.78%) NIST
4 2 (0.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.39%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.39%) MiFID
System Software
1 17 (6.67%) Docker
2 5 (1.96%) KVM
2 5 (1.96%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.78%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 18 (7.06%) Kubernetes
2 7 (2.75%) EnCase
2 7 (2.75%) FTK
3 4 (1.57%) Grafana
3 4 (1.57%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.78%) Ansible
4 2 (0.78%) ITRS Geneos
5 1 (0.39%) Puppet
Vendors
1 16 (6.27%) Microsoft
2 9 (3.53%) FIS
2 9 (3.53%) Google
2 9 (3.53%) Palantir
2 9 (3.53%) SunGard
3 7 (2.75%) Cellebrite
3 7 (2.75%) Nuix
3 7 (2.75%) Relativity
4 5 (1.96%) VMware
5 3 (1.18%) Solarflare
6 2 (0.78%) Bloomberg
6 2 (0.78%) Cisco
6 2 (0.78%) Databricks
6 2 (0.78%) Dynatrace
6 2 (0.78%) FactSet
6 2 (0.78%) Oracle
6 2 (0.78%) Solace
7 1 (0.39%) Blue Prism
7 1 (0.39%) Ciena
7 1 (0.39%) Juniper