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 7 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 145 148 181
Rank change year-on-year +3 +33 -25
Permanent jobs citing C++ 284 358 375
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.71% 2.50% 1.72%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.03% 6.04% 4.13%
Number of salaries quoted 190 196 295
10th Percentile £65,000 £55,000 £56,250
25th Percentile £85,625 £76,875 £77,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £103,750 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.61% +3.75% +17.65%
75th Percentile £117,500 £127,500 £135,000
90th Percentile £147,750 £173,750 £163,750
England median annual salary £70,000 £66,219 £60,000
% change year-on-year +5.71% +10.37% -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 4,709 5,925 9,083
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 28.38% 41.40% 41.67%
Number of salaries quoted 3,306 4,038 7,823
10th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £48,750
25th Percentile £61,250 £61,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.23%
75th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £101,250
90th Percentile £126,250 £125,000 £125,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +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 7 March 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 7 March 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 +20 58 £100,000 -9.09% 46
South London +19 1 - - 2
West London -11 1 - - 4
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 (2.11%) Apache Spark
2 4 (1.41%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.06%) Kinematics
4 2 (0.70%) Apache Pulsar
4 2 (0.70%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 4 (1.41%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 32 (11.27%) AWS
2 20 (7.04%) GCP
3 18 (6.34%) Azure
4 12 (4.23%) GitHub
5 5 (1.76%) OpenShift
6 4 (1.41%) Cloud Composer
6 4 (1.41%) Dagster
6 4 (1.41%) dbt
7 3 (1.06%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (1.06%) Entra ID
7 3 (1.06%) Google Workspace
7 3 (1.06%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (0.70%) Azure Service Bus
9 1 (0.35%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (0.35%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 30 (10.56%) TCP/IP
2 26 (9.15%) Multicast
3 6 (2.11%) Broadband
4 3 (1.06%) RTP
4 3 (1.06%) VoIP
5 2 (0.70%) DHCP
5 2 (0.70%) DOCSIS
5 2 (0.70%) DSL
5 2 (0.70%) GPON
5 2 (0.70%) IPv4
5 2 (0.70%) IPv6
5 2 (0.70%) PPP
5 2 (0.70%) WAN
5 2 (0.70%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.35%) 4G
6 1 (0.35%) 5G
6 1 (0.35%) Diameter Protocol
6 1 (0.35%) Ethernet
6 1 (0.35%) SS7
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (3.17%) NoSQL
2 5 (1.76%) Metadata
3 4 (1.41%) BigQuery
4 2 (0.70%) Semantic Layer
5 1 (0.35%) Big Data
5 1 (0.35%) ClickHouse
5 1 (0.35%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.35%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.35%) KDB
5 1 (0.35%) Kdb+
5 1 (0.35%) Neo4j
5 1 (0.35%) NonStop SQL
5 1 (0.35%) Power BI
5 1 (0.35%) Redis
5 1 (0.35%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 16 (5.63%) Git
2 13 (4.58%) JIRA
3 3 (1.06%) TeamCity
3 3 (1.06%) Visual Studio
4 2 (0.70%) WinDbg
5 1 (0.35%) CMake
5 1 (0.35%) GCC
5 1 (0.35%) GDB
5 1 (0.35%) Gradle
5 1 (0.35%) IDA Disassembler
5 1 (0.35%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.35%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 145 (51.06%) Finance
2 54 (19.01%) Front Office
3 47 (16.55%) Banking
4 31 (10.92%) Investment Banking
5 22 (7.75%) Social Skills
5 22 (7.75%) Telecoms
6 18 (6.34%) Analytical Skills
7 11 (3.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 11 (3.87%) Manufacturing
8 9 (3.17%) Games
9 8 (2.82%) Electronics
9 8 (2.82%) Marketing
9 8 (2.82%) Public Sector
10 7 (2.46%) Financial Institution
11 6 (2.11%) Advertising
11 6 (2.11%) Aerospace
12 5 (1.76%) Law
13 4 (1.41%) Aeronautics
13 4 (1.41%) Automotive
14 2 (0.70%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 128 (45.07%) Developer
2 105 (36.97%) C++ Developer
3 103 (36.27%) Senior
4 95 (33.45%) Software Engineer
5 53 (18.66%) C++ Software Engineer
6 43 (15.14%) Senior Software Engineer
7 41 (14.44%) Low Latency C++ Developer
8 39 (13.73%) Linux Developer
9 34 (11.97%) Senior Developer
10 33 (11.62%) Senior C++ Developer
11 28 (9.86%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
12 25 (8.80%) Software Developer
13 24 (8.45%) C++ Software Developer
13 24 (8.45%) Quantitative Developer
14 22 (7.75%) Python Developer
15 20 (7.04%) C++ Quantitative Developer
16 19 (6.69%) Investment Banking C++ Developer
16 19 (6.69%) Python Software Engineer
16 19 (6.69%) Senior Python Developer
16 19 (6.69%) Senior Quantitative Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (13.03%) Boost C++ Libraries
2 30 (10.56%) FIX Protocol
3 27 (9.51%) RESTful
4 18 (6.34%) Kafka
5 11 (3.87%) pytest
6 9 (3.17%) WebSockets
7 8 (2.82%) gRPC
8 7 (2.46%) REST
9 6 (2.11%) ZeroMQ
10 5 (1.76%) STL
11 4 (1.41%) Android NDK
11 4 (1.41%) AngularJS
11 4 (1.41%) React
11 4 (1.41%) Sass
11 4 (1.41%) XML
12 3 (1.06%) .NET
12 3 (1.06%) Web Services
12 3 (1.06%) XSLT
13 2 (0.70%) OAuth
13 2 (0.70%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 53 (18.66%) Algorithms
2 45 (15.85%) Distributed Systems
3 34 (11.97%) Data Structures
3 34 (11.97%) Equities
4 30 (10.56%) Derivative
5 23 (8.10%) Hedge funds
6 21 (7.39%) Cloud Native
7 20 (7.04%) Management Information System
8 19 (6.69%) FPGA
9 18 (6.34%) Fixed Income
10 16 (5.63%) Robotics
11 12 (4.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 12 (4.23%) Legacy Code
12 7 (2.46%) Analytical Mindset
12 7 (2.46%) Sports Betting
13 5 (1.76%) AI Agents
13 5 (1.76%) Distributed Computing
13 5 (1.76%) Greenfield Project
13 5 (1.76%) Self-Motivation
14 4 (1.41%) Anti-Piracy
Operating Systems
1 122 (42.96%) Linux
2 13 (4.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 13 (4.58%) Windows
3 10 (3.52%) Android
4 5 (1.76%) Robot Operating System
5 4 (1.41%) Mac OS
5 4 (1.41%) Unix
6 2 (0.70%) OpenWrt
7 1 (0.35%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (44.01%) Software Engineering
2 103 (36.27%) Low Latency
3 69 (24.30%) Computer Science
4 50 (17.61%) Agile
5 43 (15.14%) AI
6 31 (10.92%) OOP
6 31 (10.92%) SDLC
7 30 (10.56%) Analytics
7 30 (10.56%) Fintech
7 30 (10.56%) Multithreading
8 27 (9.51%) DevOps
8 27 (9.51%) Problem-Solving
8 27 (9.51%) Test Automation
9 26 (9.15%) CI/CD
9 26 (9.15%) Workflow
10 25 (8.80%) Machine Learning
10 25 (8.80%) OO
11 24 (8.45%) Cybersecurity
11 24 (8.45%) Data Pipeline
11 24 (8.45%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 118 (41.55%) Python
2 64 (22.54%) Java
3 60 (21.13%) C
4 55 (19.37%) Rust
5 51 (17.96%) C#
5 51 (17.96%) SQL
6 31 (10.92%) Go
7 16 (5.63%) TypeScript
8 8 (2.82%) Kotlin
9 7 (2.46%) JavaScript
10 4 (1.41%) PowerShell
10 4 (1.41%) Scala
10 4 (1.41%) VBA
11 3 (1.06%) Bash
11 3 (1.06%) VC++
12 2 (0.70%) Erlang
12 2 (0.70%) Google Apps Script
12 2 (0.70%) Groovy
12 2 (0.70%) OCaml
13 1 (0.35%) R
Qualifications
1 39 (13.73%) Degree
2 22 (7.75%) Master's Degree
3 20 (7.04%) Security Cleared
4 17 (5.99%) Computer Science Degree
4 17 (5.99%) DV Cleared
5 15 (5.28%) SC Cleared
6 10 (3.52%) PhD
7 3 (1.06%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.70%) AWS Certified Developer
8 2 (0.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.35%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.35%) CCSAS
9 1 (0.35%) CREST Certified
9 1 (0.35%) GIAC
9 1 (0.35%) GPEN
9 1 (0.35%) GXPN
9 1 (0.35%) Numerate Degree
9 1 (0.35%) OSCE
9 1 (0.35%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (7.04%) QA
2 4 (1.41%) EMIR
3 3 (1.06%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.35%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.35%) MiFID
4 1 (0.35%) NIST
System Software
1 13 (4.58%) Docker
2 12 (4.23%) Virtual Machines
2 12 (4.23%) Virtual Servers
3 2 (0.70%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.70%) Firmware
3 2 (0.70%) KVM
3 2 (0.70%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 28 (9.86%) Kubernetes
2 7 (2.46%) Terraform
3 6 (2.11%) Grafana
4 4 (1.41%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.06%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 13 (4.58%) Palantir
1 13 (4.58%) Red Hat
2 8 (2.82%) SAP
3 6 (2.11%) Microsoft
4 5 (1.76%) Databricks
5 3 (1.06%) Apple
5 3 (1.06%) Google
5 3 (1.06%) Oracle
6 2 (0.70%) Ericsson
6 2 (0.70%) Foundry
6 2 (0.70%) Mavenir
6 2 (0.70%) Nokia
6 2 (0.70%) Solace
6 2 (0.70%) VMware
7 1 (0.35%) Bloomberg
7 1 (0.35%) Blue Prism
7 1 (0.35%) FXall
7 1 (0.35%) HP
7 1 (0.35%) ION Trading
7 1 (0.35%) UiPath