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

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 148 139 213
Rank change year-on-year -9 +74 -64
Permanent jobs citing C++ 329 330 339
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.76% 2.56% 1.49%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.56% 6.17% 3.70%
Number of salaries quoted 214 189 258
10th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £52,500
25th Percentile £84,063 £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 £127,500 £125,000
90th Percentile £140,000 £175,000 £153,750
England median annual salary £70,000 £66,212 £60,000
% change year-on-year +5.72% +10.35% -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 5,012 5,351 9,170
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 26.82% 41.59% 40.38%
Number of salaries quoted 3,507 3,931 7,630
10th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £61,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - +3.13% +3.23%
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £101,250
90th Percentile £125,000 £127,500 £126,250
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 9 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 9 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 +4 74 £100,000 -13.04% 63
South London +12 1 - -
West London -21 1 - - 7
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 45 (13.68%) AWS
2 27 (8.21%) GCP
3 24 (7.29%) 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 31 (9.42%) TCP/IP
2 28 (8.51%) 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 52 (15.81%) Banking
3 51 (15.50%) Front Office
4 29 (8.81%) Investment Banking
5 22 (6.69%) Social Skills
6 21 (6.38%) Analytical Skills
6 21 (6.38%) Telecoms
7 17 (5.17%) 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
1 140 (42.55%) Developer
2 114 (34.65%) Senior
3 107 (32.52%) C++ Developer
4 106 (32.22%) Software Engineer
5 68 (20.67%) C++ Software Engineer
6 47 (14.29%) Senior Software Engineer
7 43 (13.07%) Low Latency C++ Developer
8 41 (12.46%) Linux Developer
9 36 (10.94%) Software Developer
10 35 (10.64%) Senior Developer
11 34 (10.33%) Senior C++ Developer
12 33 (10.03%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
13 25 (7.60%) C++ Software Developer
14 21 (6.38%) Python Engineer
14 21 (6.38%) Python Software Engineer
14 21 (6.38%) Quantitative Developer
15 20 (6.08%) C++ Quantitative Developer
15 20 (6.08%) Investment Banking C++ Developer
15 20 (6.08%) Linux Scripter
15 20 (6.08%) Senior C++ Quantitative Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (13.98%) Boost C++ Libraries
2 42 (12.77%) RESTful
3 32 (9.73%) 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%) STL
8 7 (2.13%) Web Services
8 7 (2.13%) ZeroMQ
9 5 (1.52%) Open3D
10 4 (1.22%) .NET
10 4 (1.22%) Android NDK
10 4 (1.22%) Sass
10 4 (1.22%) Spring
10 4 (1.22%) Spring Boot
10 4 (1.22%) Vaadin
10 4 (1.22%) XML
11 3 (0.91%) React
Miscellaneous
1 61 (18.54%) Algorithms
2 42 (12.77%) Distributed Systems
3 38 (11.55%) Equities
4 34 (10.33%) Data Structures
5 32 (9.73%) Derivative
6 23 (6.99%) Hedge funds
6 23 (6.99%) Management Information System
7 21 (6.38%) Fixed Income
8 20 (6.08%) FPGA
8 20 (6.08%) Robotics
9 14 (4.26%) Cloud Native
10 12 (3.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 8 (2.43%) Analytical Mindset
11 8 (2.43%) Sports Betting
12 6 (1.82%) Greenfield Project
12 6 (1.82%) Legacy Code
12 6 (1.82%) PKI
13 5 (1.52%) GNSS
13 5 (1.52%) Lidar
13 5 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 134 (40.73%) Linux
2 21 (6.38%) Windows
3 12 (3.65%) 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
1 134 (40.73%) Software Engineering
2 119 (36.17%) Low Latency
3 89 (27.05%) Computer Science
4 60 (18.24%) Agile
5 51 (15.50%) Fintech
6 44 (13.37%) SDLC
7 37 (11.25%) Microservices
8 36 (10.94%) AI
8 36 (10.94%) CI/CD
9 34 (10.33%) OOP
10 32 (9.73%) Multithreading
11 31 (9.42%) Problem-Solving
12 30 (9.12%) Analytics
12 30 (9.12%) DevOps
13 29 (8.81%) Mathematics
13 29 (8.81%) Test Automation
14 28 (8.51%) OO
15 27 (8.21%) Workflow
16 25 (7.60%) Cybersecurity
17 23 (6.99%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 137 (41.64%) Python
2 73 (22.19%) Java
3 71 (21.58%) C
4 61 (18.54%) C#
5 56 (17.02%) Rust
6 48 (14.59%) SQL
7 30 (9.12%) Go
8 12 (3.65%) TypeScript
9 11 (3.34%) 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%) Erlang
Qualifications
1 50 (15.20%) Degree
2 25 (7.60%) Master's Degree
3 19 (5.78%) Computer Science Degree
4 18 (5.47%) Security Cleared
5 14 (4.26%) DV Cleared
5 14 (4.26%) PhD
6 9 (2.74%) SC Cleared
7 6 (1.82%) AWS Certification
8 4 (1.22%) AWS Certified Developer
8 4 (1.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 4 (1.22%) CREST Certified
8 4 (1.22%) GPEN
8 4 (1.22%) GXPN
8 4 (1.22%) OSCE
8 4 (1.22%) OSCP
9 3 (0.91%) CCSAM
10 2 (0.61%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.30%) CCSAS
11 1 (0.30%) GIAC
11 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 6 (1.82%) Virtual Machines
2 6 (1.82%) Virtual Servers
3 5 (1.52%) Firmware
4 4 (1.22%) KVM
4 4 (1.22%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.61%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 22 (6.69%) 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 12 (3.65%) 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