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

6 months to
19 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 171 149 114
Rank change year-on-year -22 -35 +25
Permanent jobs citing C++ 252 393 527
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.95% 2.28% 2.79%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.49% 5.41% 6.21%
Number of salaries quoted 142 235 430
10th Percentile £60,500 £50,500 £53,750
25th Percentile £87,813 £67,500 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £90,000 £102,500
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -12.20% +28.13%
75th Percentile £140,000 £115,000 £141,875
90th Percentile £169,875 £139,000 £170,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000

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 4,593 7,271 8,489
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 35.58% 42.09% 45.01%
Number of salaries quoted 3,012 4,782 7,385
10th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £61,250 £62,500 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,500 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.63% - +6.67%
75th Percentile £110,000 £108,750 £100,000
90th Percentile £135,000 £130,000 £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 19 November 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 19 November 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 +44 41 £125,000 +19.05% 159
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 3 (1.19%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.40%) Apache
2 1 (0.40%) Apache Pulsar
2 1 (0.40%) Jupyter
Applications
1 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 30 (11.90%) AWS
2 14 (5.56%) Azure
3 8 (3.17%) GCP
4 5 (1.98%) GitHub
5 3 (1.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 3 (1.19%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 2 (0.79%) OpenShift
7 1 (0.40%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (0.40%) Azure Machine Learning
7 1 (0.40%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (0.40%) Entra ID
7 1 (0.40%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (0.40%) Google Workspace
7 1 (0.40%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (0.40%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 24 (9.52%) TCP/IP
2 18 (7.14%) Multicast
3 3 (1.19%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (0.79%) Broadband
4 2 (0.79%) DHCP
4 2 (0.79%) DOCSIS
4 2 (0.79%) DSL
4 2 (0.79%) GPON
4 2 (0.79%) IPv4
4 2 (0.79%) IPv6
4 2 (0.79%) PPP
4 2 (0.79%) RTP
4 2 (0.79%) VoIP
4 2 (0.79%) WAN
5 1 (0.40%) Bluetooth
5 1 (0.40%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (6.35%) KDB
2 12 (4.76%) Kdb+
3 10 (3.97%) ClickHouse
4 6 (2.38%) NoSQL
5 5 (1.98%) Redis
6 3 (1.19%) Big Data
6 3 (1.19%) CockroachDB
7 2 (0.79%) Hadoop
7 2 (0.79%) Tick Data
8 1 (0.40%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.40%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.40%) Metadata
8 1 (0.40%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.40%) Neo4j
8 1 (0.40%) Parquet
8 1 (0.40%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.40%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 13 (5.16%) Git
2 11 (4.37%) JIRA
3 4 (1.59%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.19%) GitLab
4 3 (1.19%) JUnit
4 3 (1.19%) Mockito
4 3 (1.19%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (0.79%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.40%) CMake
6 1 (0.40%) GCC
6 1 (0.40%) GDB
6 1 (0.40%) MSBuild
6 1 (0.40%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.40%) Visual Studio
General
1 135 (53.57%) Finance
2 77 (30.56%) Banking
3 59 (23.41%) Front Office
4 36 (14.29%) Investment Banking
5 30 (11.90%) Law
6 29 (11.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 27 (10.71%) Social Skills
8 21 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
9 17 (6.75%) Public Sector
10 14 (5.56%) Telecoms
11 9 (3.57%) Electronics
11 9 (3.57%) Manufacturing
12 8 (3.17%) Marketing
13 7 (2.78%) Games
14 6 (2.38%) Back Office
15 5 (1.98%) Financial Institution
16 4 (1.59%) Publishing
17 3 (1.19%) Wholesale Banking
18 2 (0.79%) Military
19 1 (0.40%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 115 (45.63%) Developer
2 80 (31.75%) Senior
3 79 (31.35%) Software Engineer
4 77 (30.56%) C++ Developer
5 39 (15.48%) Lead
5 39 (15.48%) Low Latency C++ Developer
6 38 (15.08%) Linux Developer
6 38 (15.08%) Quantitative Developer
7 37 (14.68%) Senior Software Engineer
8 30 (11.90%) Python Developer
8 30 (11.90%) Senior Developer
9 27 (10.71%) Cloud Engineer
10 26 (10.32%) C++ Software Engineer
10 26 (10.32%) Cloud Native Engineer
10 26 (10.32%) Cloud Software Engineer
10 26 (10.32%) Investment Banking C++ Developer
11 24 (9.52%) Lead Software Engineer
12 23 (9.13%) Senior C++ Developer
13 22 (8.73%) Senior Python Developer
13 22 (8.73%) Senior Quantitative Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (12.30%) Boost C++ Libraries
2 26 (10.32%) FIX Protocol
3 12 (4.76%) Kafka
4 9 (3.57%) pytest
4 9 (3.57%) RESTful
5 8 (3.17%) React
6 7 (2.78%) gRPC
7 6 (2.38%) PyXLL
8 5 (1.98%) .NET
8 5 (1.98%) AngularJS
8 5 (1.98%) PyTorch
8 5 (1.98%) TensorFlow
9 4 (1.59%) Protocol Buffers
9 4 (1.59%) Spring
9 4 (1.59%) Spring Boot
10 3 (1.19%) .NET Framework
10 3 (1.19%) Node.js
10 3 (1.19%) REST
10 3 (1.19%) WebSockets
11 2 (0.79%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 54 (21.43%) Algorithms
2 43 (17.06%) Distributed Systems
3 40 (15.87%) Cloud Native
4 36 (14.29%) Equities
5 31 (12.30%) Data Structures
5 31 (12.30%) Hedge funds
6 30 (11.90%) Derivative
7 26 (10.32%) Legacy Code
8 20 (7.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 20 (7.94%) FPGA
8 20 (7.94%) Management Information System
9 17 (6.75%) Fixed Income
10 12 (4.76%) Public Cloud
11 9 (3.57%) Greenfield Project
12 8 (3.17%) Grid Computing
12 8 (3.17%) Market Risk
13 5 (1.98%) Data Protection Act
14 4 (1.59%) Equity Derivative
15 3 (1.19%) Analytical Mindset
15 3 (1.19%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 107 (42.46%) Linux
2 8 (3.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (1.98%) Unix
3 5 (1.98%) Windows
4 3 (1.19%) Android
5 2 (0.79%) OpenWrt
6 1 (0.40%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (0.40%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.40%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (38.89%) Software Engineering
2 89 (35.32%) Low Latency
3 80 (31.75%) Agile
4 47 (18.65%) Computer Science
5 45 (17.86%) Problem-Solving
5 45 (17.86%) SDLC
6 43 (17.06%) AI
7 38 (15.08%) Test Automation
8 33 (13.10%) Machine Learning
9 31 (12.30%) Analytics
9 31 (12.30%) Mathematics
10 30 (11.90%) OOP
11 29 (11.51%) OO
12 28 (11.11%) CI/CD
13 27 (10.71%) Operational Stability
14 26 (10.32%) Technical Leadership
15 25 (9.92%) Order Management
16 23 (9.13%) Open Source
17 21 (8.33%) DevOps
17 21 (8.33%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 136 (53.97%) Python
2 99 (39.29%) Java
3 73 (28.97%) C
4 45 (17.86%) C#
5 38 (15.08%) Rust
6 34 (13.49%) Go
7 33 (13.10%) SQL
8 18 (7.14%) TypeScript
9 11 (4.37%) JavaScript
10 4 (1.59%) Bash
10 4 (1.59%) Embedded C
11 3 (1.19%) Groovy
11 3 (1.19%) Kotlin
11 3 (1.19%) MATLAB
11 3 (1.19%) PowerShell
11 3 (1.19%) Ruby
12 1 (0.40%) Google Apps Script
12 1 (0.40%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.40%) Solidity
12 1 (0.40%) VBA
Qualifications
1 28 (11.11%) Degree
2 18 (7.14%) Security Cleared
3 15 (5.95%) DV Cleared
4 14 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
4 14 (5.56%) Master's Degree
4 14 (5.56%) SC Cleared
5 4 (1.59%) AWS Certification
6 3 (1.19%) PhD
7 1 (0.40%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.40%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.97%) QA
2 3 (1.19%) Data Quality
3 2 (0.79%) EMIR
4 1 (0.40%) MiFID
System Software
1 14 (5.56%) Virtual Machines
1 14 (5.56%) Virtual Servers
2 10 (3.97%) Docker
3 3 (1.19%) Firmware
4 2 (0.79%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (0.40%) KVM
5 1 (0.40%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 53 (21.03%) Kubernetes
2 13 (5.16%) Terraform
3 5 (1.98%) Grafana
4 4 (1.59%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.19%) Ansible
6 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.40%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.40%) Puppet
6 1 (0.40%) systemd
Vendors
1 19 (7.54%) Palantir
2 10 (3.97%) Foundry
3 8 (3.17%) SAP
4 7 (2.78%) Red Hat
5 6 (2.38%) Oracle
6 5 (1.98%) Google
7 4 (1.59%) Confluent
7 4 (1.59%) Microsoft
8 3 (1.19%) Cribl.io
8 3 (1.19%) Sonatype
9 2 (0.79%) Solarflare
10 1 (0.40%) Apple
10 1 (0.40%) Databricks
10 1 (0.40%) Ericsson
10 1 (0.40%) ION Trading
10 1 (0.40%) Mavenir
10 1 (0.40%) Nokia
10 1 (0.40%) UiPath
10 1 (0.40%) VMware