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 10 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 185 159 166
Rank change year-on-year -26 +7 -42
Permanent jobs citing C++ 300 265 395
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.22% 2.21% 2.06%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.44% 5.59% 4.99%
Number of salaries quoted 203 137 270
10th Percentile £55,500 £67,500 £48,500
25th Percentile £77,125 £85,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £110,000 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +25.71% -2.78%
75th Percentile £107,500 £157,500 £115,000
90th Percentile £134,500 £175,000 £130,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -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 5,517 4,741 7,910
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 22.35% 39.49% 41.34%
Number of salaries quoted 3,757 3,210 5,354
10th Percentile £50,000 £48,750 £50,000
25th Percentile £63,750 £61,313 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £83,000 £80,500 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.11% -2.42% +3.13%
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £110,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £135,000 £137,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £64,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +1.56% +2.40% -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 10 September 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 10 September 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 61 £100,000 -33.33% 29
South London +2 7 - - 4
West London -15 3 £55,500 - 22
East London -6 2 - - 3
North London - 2 £62,500 - 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 (2.00%) Apache
2 5 (1.67%) Confluence
3 3 (1.00%) Kinematics
4 1 (0.33%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.33%) Ethereum
Applications
1 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.67%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
Cloud Services
1 42 (14.00%) AWS
2 22 (7.33%) Azure
3 19 (6.33%) GCP
4 8 (2.67%) GitHub
4 8 (2.67%) Microsoft 365
5 7 (2.33%) AWS CloudFormation
6 6 (2.00%) Entra ID
6 6 (2.00%) Google Workspace
6 6 (2.00%) OpenShift
7 4 (1.33%) Serverless
8 3 (1.00%) Cloud Computing
8 3 (1.00%) Datadog
9 2 (0.67%) Microsoft Purview
9 2 (0.67%) Mimecast
9 2 (0.67%) Power Platform
9 2 (0.67%) Snowflake
10 1 (0.33%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 15 (5.00%) Multicast
2 11 (3.67%) TCP/IP
3 7 (2.33%) 3GPP
3 7 (2.33%) GSM
3 7 (2.33%) LTE
3 7 (2.33%) Radio Access Network
3 7 (2.33%) RANAP
3 7 (2.33%) SS7
3 7 (2.33%) UMTS
3 7 (2.33%) Wireshark
4 3 (1.00%) Network Security
5 1 (0.33%) BGP
5 1 (0.33%) DHCP
5 1 (0.33%) DNS
5 1 (0.33%) IPv4
5 1 (0.33%) IPv6
5 1 (0.33%) MPLS
5 1 (0.33%) Peer-to-Peer Networking
5 1 (0.33%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (2.00%) Geospatial Data
2 4 (1.33%) Big Data
2 4 (1.33%) NonStop SQL
3 3 (1.00%) Data Lake
3 3 (1.00%) DynamoDB
3 3 (1.00%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (1.00%) Relational Database
3 3 (1.00%) Semantic Layer
4 2 (0.67%) Amazon Athena
4 2 (0.67%) Power BI
4 2 (0.67%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.33%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.33%) Apache Arrow
5 1 (0.33%) Apache Iceberg
5 1 (0.33%) Delta Lake
5 1 (0.33%) InterSystems Cache
5 1 (0.33%) Metadata
5 1 (0.33%) Parquet
5 1 (0.33%) Pinecone
5 1 (0.33%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 27 (9.00%) Git
2 17 (5.67%) JIRA
3 16 (5.33%) Jenkins
4 7 (2.33%) GCC
4 7 (2.33%) GDB
5 5 (1.67%) TeamCity
6 4 (1.33%) Gradle
7 3 (1.00%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.67%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 2 (0.67%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.67%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.67%) GitLab
8 2 (0.67%) Selenium
9 1 (0.33%) CMake
9 1 (0.33%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.33%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.33%) Valgrind
9 1 (0.33%) WinDbg
General
1 148 (49.33%) Finance
2 48 (16.00%) Banking
3 46 (15.33%) Social Skills
4 34 (11.33%) Analytical Skills
5 27 (9.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 25 (8.33%) Investment Banking
7 24 (8.00%) Front Office
8 18 (6.00%) Law
9 9 (3.00%) Legal
10 8 (2.67%) Telecoms
11 6 (2.00%) Manufacturing
12 4 (1.33%) Electronics
12 4 (1.33%) Tech for Good
13 2 (0.67%) Aerospace
13 2 (0.67%) Aviation
13 2 (0.67%) Corporate Banking
13 2 (0.67%) Military
13 2 (0.67%) Public Speaking
13 2 (0.67%) Publishing
13 2 (0.67%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 106 (35.33%) Software Engineer
2 91 (30.33%) Senior
3 82 (27.33%) Developer
4 64 (21.33%) C++ Software Engineer
5 55 (18.33%) C++ Developer
6 45 (15.00%) Senior Software Engineer
7 31 (10.33%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
8 25 (8.33%) Lead
9 23 (7.67%) Linux Developer
9 23 (7.67%) Python Engineer
10 20 (6.67%) Low Latency C++ Developer
10 20 (6.67%) Senior Developer
11 16 (5.33%) Python Software Engineer
11 16 (5.33%) Quantitative Developer
11 16 (5.33%) Senior C++ Developer
12 14 (4.67%) Analyst
13 13 (4.33%) Senior Quantitative Developer
14 12 (4.00%) C++ Quantitative Developer
15 11 (3.67%) Java Engineer
16 10 (3.33%) Senior C++ Quantitative Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (10.67%) Boost C++ Libraries
2 25 (8.33%) FIX Protocol
3 22 (7.33%) RESTful
4 12 (4.00%) pytest
4 12 (4.00%) React
4 12 (4.00%) STL
4 12 (4.00%) Terraform
5 9 (3.00%) .NET
5 9 (3.00%) Web Services
6 7 (2.33%) OpenGL
6 7 (2.33%) PyTorch
7 6 (2.00%) TensorFlow
8 5 (1.67%) Apache NiFi
8 5 (1.67%) Kafka
8 5 (1.67%) REST
9 4 (1.33%) AngularJS
9 4 (1.33%) Spring
9 4 (1.33%) Spring Boot
9 4 (1.33%) Vaadin
10 3 (1.00%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 53 (17.67%) Algorithms
2 32 (10.67%) Equities
3 30 (10.00%) Derivative
4 28 (9.33%) Hedge funds
5 22 (7.33%) Fixed Income
6 20 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
7 17 (5.67%) Management Information System
8 15 (5.00%) Data Structures
9 14 (4.67%) Robotics
10 11 (3.67%) FPGA
11 10 (3.33%) Distributed Architecture
12 9 (3.00%) Reinsurance
13 8 (2.67%) Embedded Systems
14 7 (2.33%) Augmented Reality
14 7 (2.33%) Equity Derivative
14 7 (2.33%) PKI
14 7 (2.33%) Virtual Reality
15 4 (1.33%) Cyber Threat
15 4 (1.33%) Product Ownership
15 4 (1.33%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 101 (33.67%) Linux
2 16 (5.33%) Windows
3 5 (1.67%) Unix
4 2 (0.67%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.67%) Embedded Linux
5 1 (0.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 147 (49.00%) Software Engineering
2 107 (35.67%) Low Latency
3 75 (25.00%) Computer Science
4 49 (16.33%) Agile
4 49 (16.33%) Fintech
5 47 (15.67%) Problem-Solving
6 43 (14.33%) AI
7 41 (13.67%) Mathematics
8 38 (12.67%) CI/CD
9 34 (11.33%) SDLC
10 30 (10.00%) Microservices
11 27 (9.00%) Machine Learning
11 27 (9.00%) OOP
12 24 (8.00%) Test Automation
13 23 (7.67%) Decision-Making
14 21 (7.00%) Analytics
14 21 (7.00%) Multithreading
15 20 (6.67%) Continuous Integration
16 19 (6.33%) Collaborative Culture
16 19 (6.33%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 158 (52.67%) Python
2 81 (27.00%) Java
3 53 (17.67%) C
4 51 (17.00%) C#
5 40 (13.33%) SQL
6 30 (10.00%) Rust
7 26 (8.67%) JavaScript
8 19 (6.33%) Go
9 14 (4.67%) R
9 14 (4.67%) TypeScript
10 8 (2.67%) Julia
10 8 (2.67%) MATLAB
11 7 (2.33%) Bash
12 6 (2.00%) Kotlin
12 6 (2.00%) Perl
12 6 (2.00%) PowerShell
13 5 (1.67%) Google Apps Script
13 5 (1.67%) Ruby
14 4 (1.33%) Embedded C
14 4 (1.33%) Embedded C++
Qualifications
1 52 (17.33%) Degree
2 29 (9.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 24 (8.00%) Security Cleared
4 14 (4.67%) DV Cleared
5 12 (4.00%) Master's Degree
6 9 (3.00%) SC Cleared
7 8 (2.67%) OSCP
8 7 (2.33%) AWS Certification
9 6 (2.00%) AWS Certified Developer
9 6 (2.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 6 (2.00%) PhD
10 5 (1.67%) CEH
10 5 (1.67%) CREST Certified
11 3 (1.00%) CCSAM
11 3 (1.00%) GPEN
11 3 (1.00%) GXPN
11 3 (1.00%) OSCE
12 2 (0.67%) CHECK Team Leader
12 2 (0.67%) CHECK Team Member
12 2 (0.67%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (10.00%) QA
2 7 (2.33%) GDPR
3 5 (1.67%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.33%) ISO 20022
5 3 (1.00%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.33%) MiFID
System Software
1 19 (6.33%) Docker
2 6 (2.00%) KVM
2 6 (2.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.00%) Firmware
4 2 (0.67%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 21 (7.00%) Kubernetes
2 6 (2.00%) Grafana
2 6 (2.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (1.00%) Ansible
4 2 (0.67%) EnCase
4 2 (0.67%) FTK
4 2 (0.67%) ITRS Geneos
5 1 (0.33%) Argo
5 1 (0.33%) Kibana
5 1 (0.33%) logstash
5 1 (0.33%) Puppet
Vendors
1 10 (3.33%) Microsoft
2 9 (3.00%) FIS
2 9 (3.00%) Google
2 9 (3.00%) Palantir
2 9 (3.00%) SunGard
3 6 (2.00%) VMware
4 3 (1.00%) EMC
4 3 (1.00%) Solace
5 2 (0.67%) Bloomberg
5 2 (0.67%) Blue Prism
5 2 (0.67%) Cellebrite
5 2 (0.67%) Cisco
5 2 (0.67%) Databricks
5 2 (0.67%) Dynatrace
5 2 (0.67%) FactSet
5 2 (0.67%) Nuix
5 2 (0.67%) Oracle
5 2 (0.67%) Relativity
6 1 (0.33%) Juniper
6 1 (0.33%) Nokia