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 20 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 143 136 220
Rank change year-on-year -7 +84 -81
Permanent jobs citing C++ 358 315 363
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.66% 2.59% 1.47%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.69% 6.22% 3.67%
Number of salaries quoted 253 169 266
10th Percentile £58,750 £62,500 £49,500
25th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £110,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +22.22% +6.51%
75th Percentile - £157,500 £115,000
90th Percentile £130,000 £175,000 £140,000
England median annual salary £69,305 £66,225 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.65% +10.38% -11.11%

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 5,348 5,065 9,884
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 24.79% 41.61% 39.98%
Number of salaries quoted 3,770 3,512 7,701
10th Percentile £50,000 £49,325 £47,500
25th Percentile £63,750 £61,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £83,000 £80,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.11% +0.63% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £118,750 £135,000 £130,000
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 20 June 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 20 June 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 83 £100,000 -23.08% 19
West London -14 2 £55,000 - 4
South London +16 1 - -
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 (1.40%) Apache
1 5 (1.40%) Apache Spark
1 5 (1.40%) Kinematics
2 4 (1.12%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (0.84%) Confluence
4 1 (0.28%) Ethereum
Applications
1 3 (0.84%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 45 (12.57%) AWS
2 21 (5.87%) GCP
3 20 (5.59%) Azure
4 16 (4.47%) GitHub
5 7 (1.96%) AWS CloudFormation
5 7 (1.96%) Entra ID
5 7 (1.96%) Google Workspace
5 7 (1.96%) Microsoft 365
5 7 (1.96%) OpenShift
6 4 (1.12%) Cloud Composer
6 4 (1.12%) Dagster
6 4 (1.12%) dbt
7 3 (0.84%) Serverless
8 2 (0.56%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (0.28%) Azure Machine Learning
9 1 (0.28%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 23 (6.42%) TCP/IP
2 17 (4.75%) Multicast
3 4 (1.12%) Broadband
4 3 (0.84%) Network Security
5 1 (0.28%) 4G
5 1 (0.28%) 5G
5 1 (0.28%) Diameter Protocol
5 1 (0.28%) Ethernet
5 1 (0.28%) Peer-to-Peer Networking
5 1 (0.28%) RTP
5 1 (0.28%) SS7
5 1 (0.28%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (1.96%) NoSQL
2 6 (1.68%) Geospatial Data
3 5 (1.40%) Metadata
3 5 (1.40%) NonStop SQL
4 4 (1.12%) BigQuery
4 4 (1.12%) Semantic Layer
5 3 (0.84%) Big Data
5 3 (0.84%) DynamoDB
5 3 (0.84%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.28%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.28%) Apache Arrow
6 1 (0.28%) Delta Lake
6 1 (0.28%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.28%) InterSystems Cache
6 1 (0.28%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.28%) Parquet
6 1 (0.28%) Pinecone
6 1 (0.28%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.28%) SQLPlus
6 1 (0.28%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 24 (6.70%) Git
2 20 (5.59%) JIRA
3 6 (1.68%) TeamCity
4 5 (1.40%) Gradle
5 3 (0.84%) Jenkins
5 3 (0.84%) Visual Studio
5 3 (0.84%) WinDbg
6 2 (0.56%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 2 (0.56%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.56%) CMake
6 2 (0.56%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.56%) Selenium
7 1 (0.28%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.28%) GitLab
7 1 (0.28%) IDA Disassembler
7 1 (0.28%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.28%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.28%) Valgrind
General
1 177 (49.44%) Finance
2 52 (14.53%) Banking
3 31 (8.66%) Front Office
4 29 (8.10%) Investment Banking
4 29 (8.10%) Social Skills
5 27 (7.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 23 (6.42%) Analytical Skills
7 8 (2.23%) Games
7 8 (2.23%) Law
8 7 (1.96%) Aerospace
9 5 (1.40%) Advertising
9 5 (1.40%) Automotive
10 4 (1.12%) Aeronautics
10 4 (1.12%) Financial Institution
11 3 (0.84%) Electronics
11 3 (0.84%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.56%) Aviation
12 2 (0.56%) Military
12 2 (0.56%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 134 (37.43%) Software Engineer
2 125 (34.92%) Senior
3 124 (34.64%) Developer
4 93 (25.98%) C++ Developer
5 89 (24.86%) C++ Software Engineer
6 62 (17.32%) Senior Software Engineer
7 43 (12.01%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
8 41 (11.45%) Low Latency C++ Developer
9 40 (11.17%) Linux Developer
10 37 (10.34%) Senior Developer
11 35 (9.78%) Senior C++ Developer
12 32 (8.94%) Python Engineer
13 28 (7.82%) Python Software Engineer
14 25 (6.98%) Lead
15 22 (6.15%) Software Developer
16 20 (5.59%) Quantitative Developer
16 20 (5.59%) Senior Quantitative Developer
17 19 (5.31%) Python Developer
17 19 (5.31%) Senior C++ Quantitative Developer
17 19 (5.31%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (13.97%) Boost C++ Libraries
2 28 (7.82%) RESTful
3 19 (5.31%) FIX Protocol
4 17 (4.75%) pytest
5 14 (3.91%) Kafka
6 10 (2.79%) React
7 9 (2.51%) Web Services
8 8 (2.23%) .NET
9 7 (1.96%) OpenGL
10 6 (1.68%) PyTorch
10 6 (1.68%) STL
11 5 (1.40%) Spring
11 5 (1.40%) Spring Boot
11 5 (1.40%) TensorFlow
11 5 (1.40%) Vaadin
12 4 (1.12%) Apache NiFi
12 4 (1.12%) Open3D
12 4 (1.12%) ZeroMQ
13 3 (0.84%) Flask
13 3 (0.84%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 71 (19.83%) Algorithms
2 40 (11.17%) Equities
3 34 (9.50%) Data Structures
4 32 (8.94%) Distributed Systems
5 31 (8.66%) Derivative
6 25 (6.98%) Hedge funds
7 22 (6.15%) Management Information System
7 22 (6.15%) Robotics
8 20 (5.59%) Fixed Income
9 19 (5.31%) FPGA
10 9 (2.51%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 8 (2.23%) Embedded Systems
11 8 (2.23%) Reinsurance
11 8 (2.23%) Sports Betting
12 7 (1.96%) Augmented Reality
12 7 (1.96%) Distributed Architecture
12 7 (1.96%) PKI
12 7 (1.96%) Virtual Reality
13 5 (1.40%) Social Media
14 4 (1.12%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 123 (34.36%) Linux
2 24 (6.70%) Windows
3 5 (1.40%) Robot Operating System
4 4 (1.12%) Unix
5 2 (0.56%) Embedded Linux
5 2 (0.56%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.28%) Android
6 1 (0.28%) FreeRTOS
6 1 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 173 (48.32%) Software Engineering
2 129 (36.03%) Low Latency
3 80 (22.35%) Computer Science
4 65 (18.16%) Agile
5 61 (17.04%) Fintech
6 42 (11.73%) CI/CD
7 40 (11.17%) Mathematics
8 39 (10.89%) SDLC
9 37 (10.34%) OOP
10 36 (10.06%) Analytics
11 34 (9.50%) Microservices
12 32 (8.94%) Problem-Solving
13 30 (8.38%) Test Automation
14 29 (8.10%) AI
15 28 (7.82%) Multithreading
15 28 (7.82%) OO
16 26 (7.26%) DevOps
17 24 (6.70%) Process Improvement
18 23 (6.42%) Workflow
19 21 (5.87%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 167 (46.65%) Python
2 92 (25.70%) Java
3 66 (18.44%) C#
4 64 (17.88%) C
5 58 (16.20%) Rust
6 49 (13.69%) SQL
7 26 (7.26%) Go
8 20 (5.59%) JavaScript
9 14 (3.91%) TypeScript
10 8 (2.23%) Julia
10 8 (2.23%) MATLAB
10 8 (2.23%) R
11 7 (1.96%) Bash
11 7 (1.96%) Kotlin
11 7 (1.96%) PowerShell
12 6 (1.68%) Scala
13 5 (1.40%) Google Apps Script
14 4 (1.12%) Erlang
15 3 (0.84%) Perl
15 3 (0.84%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 39 (10.89%) Degree
2 22 (6.15%) Security Cleared
3 16 (4.47%) Master's Degree
4 14 (3.91%) DV Cleared
5 12 (3.35%) PhD
6 8 (2.23%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (2.23%) SC Cleared
7 7 (1.96%) AWS Certification
8 6 (1.68%) OSCP
9 5 (1.40%) AWS Certified Developer
9 5 (1.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 4 (1.12%) CREST Certified
10 4 (1.12%) GPEN
10 4 (1.12%) GXPN
10 4 (1.12%) OSCE
11 3 (0.84%) CCSAM
12 2 (0.56%) Azure Certification
12 2 (0.56%) CEH
13 1 (0.28%) CCSAS
13 1 (0.28%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (7.54%) QA
2 7 (1.96%) GDPR
3 5 (1.40%) ISO 20022
4 3 (0.84%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.28%) EMIR
5 1 (0.28%) MiFID
System Software
1 11 (3.07%) Docker
2 5 (1.40%) Firmware
2 5 (1.40%) KVM
2 5 (1.40%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.28%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 11 (3.07%) Kubernetes
1 11 (3.07%) Terraform
2 8 (2.23%) Grafana
3 7 (1.96%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.56%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.28%) Ansible
5 1 (0.28%) Argo
5 1 (0.28%) Kibana
5 1 (0.28%) logstash
Vendors
1 9 (2.51%) Palantir
2 8 (2.23%) Google
2 8 (2.23%) Microsoft
3 5 (1.40%) VMware
4 4 (1.12%) Databricks
5 3 (0.84%) Blue Prism
5 3 (0.84%) EMC
5 3 (0.84%) Solace
6 2 (0.56%) Apple
6 2 (0.56%) HP
7 1 (0.28%) Bloomberg
7 1 (0.28%) FXall
7 1 (0.28%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.28%) Oracle
7 1 (0.28%) Red Hat