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

6 months to
15 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 140 138 206
Rank change year-on-year -2 +68 -53
Permanent jobs citing C++ 329 338 339
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.73% 2.62% 1.48%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.55% 6.32% 3.70%
Number of salaries quoted 215 189 253
10th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £52,500
25th Percentile £81,500 £85,000 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £105,000 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £110,000 £130,000 £125,000
90th Percentile £140,000 £175,000 £160,000
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 5,022 5,349 9,168
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 26.36% 41.44% 40.04%
Number of salaries quoted 3,508 3,934 7,569
10th Percentile £47,500 £49,173 £47,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £60,281 £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 £125,000 £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 15 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 15 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 +1 75 £100,000 -13.04% 53
South London +5 1 - - 1
West London -18 1 - - 8
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 (1.82%) Apache Spark
1 6 (1.82%) Kinematics
2 4 (1.22%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (0.91%) Apache
4 2 (0.61%) Apache Pulsar
5 1 (0.30%) Ethereum
Applications
1 5 (1.52%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 46 (13.98%) AWS
2 28 (8.51%) GCP
3 25 (7.60%) Azure
4 14 (4.26%) GitHub
5 8 (2.43%) OpenShift
6 6 (1.82%) AWS CloudFormation
6 6 (1.82%) Entra ID
6 6 (1.82%) Google Workspace
6 6 (1.82%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (1.22%) Cloud Composer
7 4 (1.22%) Dagster
7 4 (1.22%) dbt
8 2 (0.61%) Azure Service Bus
9 1 (0.30%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (0.30%) Power Platform
9 1 (0.30%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 30 (9.12%) TCP/IP
2 27 (8.21%) Multicast
3 6 (1.82%) Broadband
4 3 (0.91%) Network Security
4 3 (0.91%) RTP
4 3 (0.91%) VoIP
5 2 (0.61%) DHCP
5 2 (0.61%) DOCSIS
5 2 (0.61%) DSL
5 2 (0.61%) GPON
5 2 (0.61%) IPv4
5 2 (0.61%) IPv6
5 2 (0.61%) PPP
5 2 (0.61%) WAN
5 2 (0.61%) 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 (2.13%) NoSQL
2 5 (1.52%) Metadata
2 5 (1.52%) Semantic Layer
3 4 (1.22%) BigQuery
3 4 (1.22%) NonStop SQL
4 2 (0.61%) Big Data
4 2 (0.61%) 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 (6.08%) Git
2 16 (4.86%) JIRA
3 5 (1.52%) TeamCity
4 4 (1.22%) Gradle
5 3 (0.91%) Visual Studio
5 3 (0.91%) WinDbg
6 2 (0.61%) 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
1 172 (52.28%) Finance
2 51 (15.50%) Banking
3 48 (14.59%) Front Office
4 28 (8.51%) Investment Banking
5 22 (6.69%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (6.69%) Social Skills
6 21 (6.38%) Telecoms
7 19 (5.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 10 (3.04%) Electronics
8 10 (3.04%) Games
8 10 (3.04%) Manufacturing
9 7 (2.13%) Aerospace
9 7 (2.13%) Marketing
9 7 (2.13%) Public Sector
10 6 (1.82%) Advertising
10 6 (1.82%) Financial Institution
10 6 (1.82%) Law
11 4 (1.22%) Aeronautics
11 4 (1.22%) Automotive
12 2 (0.61%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 133 (40.43%) Developer
2 116 (35.26%) Senior
3 109 (33.13%) Software Engineer
4 102 (31.00%) C++ Developer
5 72 (21.88%) C++ Software Engineer
6 48 (14.59%) Senior Software Engineer
7 41 (12.46%) Low Latency C++ Developer
8 39 (11.85%) Linux Developer
9 35 (10.64%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
10 34 (10.33%) Senior Developer
10 34 (10.33%) Software Developer
11 33 (10.03%) Senior C++ Developer
12 23 (6.99%) C++ Software Developer
13 22 (6.69%) Python Engineer
13 22 (6.69%) Python Software Engineer
14 20 (6.08%) Quantitative Developer
15 19 (5.78%) Python Developer
15 19 (5.78%) Senior C++ Quantitative Developer
15 19 (5.78%) Senior Python Developer
15 19 (5.78%) Senior Quantitative Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (13.37%) Boost C++ Libraries
2 41 (12.46%) RESTful
3 30 (9.12%) FIX Protocol
4 19 (5.78%) Kafka
5 14 (4.26%) pytest
6 9 (2.74%) WebSockets
7 8 (2.43%) gRPC
7 8 (2.43%) REST
8 7 (2.13%) ZeroMQ
9 6 (1.82%) STL
9 6 (1.82%) Web Services
10 5 (1.52%) Open3D
11 4 (1.22%) .NET
11 4 (1.22%) Android NDK
11 4 (1.22%) Sass
11 4 (1.22%) Spring
11 4 (1.22%) Spring Boot
11 4 (1.22%) Vaadin
11 4 (1.22%) XML
12 3 (0.91%) React
Miscellaneous
1 62 (18.84%) Algorithms
2 41 (12.46%) Distributed Systems
3 37 (11.25%) Equities
4 34 (10.33%) Data Structures
5 32 (9.73%) Derivative
6 22 (6.69%) Hedge funds
6 22 (6.69%) Management Information System
7 21 (6.38%) Fixed Income
8 20 (6.08%) Robotics
9 19 (5.78%) FPGA
10 12 (3.65%) Cloud Native
11 10 (3.04%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 8 (2.43%) Analytical Mindset
12 8 (2.43%) Sports Betting
13 6 (1.82%) Greenfield Project
13 6 (1.82%) PKI
14 5 (1.52%) Distributed Computing
14 5 (1.52%) GNSS
14 5 (1.52%) Lidar
14 5 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 130 (39.51%) Linux
2 21 (6.38%) Windows
3 11 (3.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 10 (3.04%) Android
5 5 (1.52%) Robot Operating System
6 4 (1.22%) Mac OS
6 4 (1.22%) Unix
7 2 (0.61%) OpenWrt
8 1 (0.30%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 138 (41.95%) Software Engineering
2 117 (35.56%) Low Latency
3 89 (27.05%) Computer Science
4 59 (17.93%) Agile
5 52 (15.81%) Fintech
6 42 (12.77%) SDLC
7 39 (11.85%) Microservices
8 37 (11.25%) AI
8 37 (11.25%) CI/CD
9 33 (10.03%) OOP
10 31 (9.42%) DevOps
10 31 (9.42%) Multithreading
10 31 (9.42%) Problem-Solving
11 29 (8.81%) Analytics
12 28 (8.51%) Mathematics
12 28 (8.51%) Test Automation
13 27 (8.21%) OO
13 27 (8.21%) Workflow
14 26 (7.90%) Cybersecurity
15 23 (6.99%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 139 (42.25%) Python
2 70 (21.28%) Java
3 67 (20.36%) C
4 61 (18.54%) C#
5 56 (17.02%) Rust
6 49 (14.89%) SQL
7 29 (8.81%) Go
8 13 (3.95%) TypeScript
9 12 (3.65%) JavaScript
10 10 (3.04%) Kotlin
11 8 (2.43%) Bash
11 8 (2.43%) PowerShell
12 4 (1.22%) Google Apps Script
12 4 (1.22%) Scala
12 4 (1.22%) VBA
13 3 (0.91%) Objective-C
13 3 (0.91%) Perl
13 3 (0.91%) Ruby
13 3 (0.91%) VC++
14 2 (0.61%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 51 (15.50%) Degree
2 25 (7.60%) Master's Degree
3 20 (6.08%) Computer Science Degree
3 20 (6.08%) Security Cleared
4 16 (4.86%) DV Cleared
5 14 (4.26%) PhD
6 10 (3.04%) SC Cleared
7 6 (1.82%) AWS Certification
8 5 (1.52%) OSCP
9 4 (1.22%) AWS Certified Developer
9 4 (1.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (1.22%) CREST Certified
9 4 (1.22%) GPEN
9 4 (1.22%) GXPN
9 4 (1.22%) OSCE
10 3 (0.91%) CCSAM
11 2 (0.61%) Azure Certification
12 1 (0.30%) CCSAS
12 1 (0.30%) CEH
12 1 (0.30%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (7.29%) QA
2 4 (1.22%) ISO 20022
3 3 (0.91%) Actionable Recommendations
3 3 (0.91%) EMIR
4 1 (0.30%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.30%) NIST
System Software
1 16 (4.86%) Docker
2 5 (1.52%) Firmware
3 4 (1.22%) KVM
3 4 (1.22%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (1.22%) Virtual Servers
3 4 (1.22%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.61%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 20 (6.08%) Kubernetes
2 12 (3.65%) Terraform
3 9 (2.74%) Grafana
4 6 (1.82%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (1.22%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.30%) Ansible
6 1 (0.30%) Argo
6 1 (0.30%) Kibana
6 1 (0.30%) logstash
Vendors
1 11 (3.34%) Red Hat
2 9 (2.74%) Microsoft
3 8 (2.43%) Palantir
4 7 (2.13%) SAP
5 6 (1.82%) Google
6 5 (1.52%) Databricks
7 4 (1.22%) VMware
8 3 (0.91%) Apple
8 3 (0.91%) EMC
8 3 (0.91%) Oracle
8 3 (0.91%) Solace
9 2 (0.61%) Blue Prism
9 2 (0.61%) Ericsson
9 2 (0.61%) HP
9 2 (0.61%) Mavenir
9 2 (0.61%) Nokia
10 1 (0.30%) Bloomberg
10 1 (0.30%) FXall