C++ Jobs in London

C++
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in London requiring C++ skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited C++ over the 6 months leading up to 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 153 202 138
Rank change year-on-year +49 -64 -4
Permanent jobs citing C++ 317 371 783
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 2.42% 1.53% 2.59%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.83% 3.81% 5.43%
Number of salaries quoted 172 277 599
10th Percentile £65,000 £45,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £85,000 £61,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £90,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% +5.88% -5.56%
75th Percentile £158,750 £115,000 £123,750
90th Percentile £175,000 £135,000 £167,500
England median annual salary £66,212 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +10.35% -7.69% -

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 5,434 9,743 14,416
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 41.43% 40.29% 47.66%
Number of salaries quoted 3,617 7,516 11,443
10th Percentile £49,250 £47,500 £48,750
25th Percentile £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% - +6.67%
75th Percentile £110,000 £102,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £135,000 £132,500 £122,500
England median annual salary £62,250 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.75% -7.69% +4.00%

C++
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing C++ as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for C++ in London

C++
Salary Trend in London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing C++ in London.

Salary trend for C++ in London

C++
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing C++ in London over the 6 months to 5 July 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 5 July 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 +48 70 £135,000 +31.71% 236
South London - 4 £65,000 - 1
West London +14 2 - - 35
East London -16 2 - - 6
C++
England

C++
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (0.63%) Kinematics
1 2 (0.63%) WinCC
2 1 (0.32%) Apache
2 1 (0.32%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.32%) Ethereum
2 1 (0.32%) Jupyter
2 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.32%) MTS
2 1 (0.32%) Oracle Workflow
2 1 (0.32%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (1.26%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.32%) Houdini
2 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (1.26%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (0.95%) Orchestrade
3 1 (0.32%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
Cloud Services
1 60 (18.93%) AWS
2 32 (10.09%) Azure
3 22 (6.94%) Amazon EKS
4 12 (3.79%) AWS CloudFormation
5 10 (3.15%) Amazon EC2
5 10 (3.15%) Amazon S3
5 10 (3.15%) AWS Lambda
5 10 (3.15%) Datadog
5 10 (3.15%) Serverless
6 8 (2.52%) GCP
7 4 (1.26%) Amazon Bedrock
8 2 (0.63%) GitHub
9 1 (0.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (0.32%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (0.32%) Azure Machine Learning
9 1 (0.32%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (0.32%) CloudAMQP
9 1 (0.32%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (0.32%) PaaS
9 1 (0.32%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 18 (5.68%) TCP/IP
2 11 (3.47%) Multicast
3 2 (0.63%) DNS
3 2 (0.63%) VPN
3 2 (0.63%) Wireshark
4 1 (0.32%) Bluetooth
4 1 (0.32%) Firewall
4 1 (0.32%) Network Security
4 1 (0.32%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (4.42%) KDB
2 12 (3.79%) Elasticsearch
3 10 (3.15%) Kdb+
4 7 (2.21%) NoSQL
5 6 (1.89%) ClickHouse
5 6 (1.89%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (1.58%) RDBMS
6 5 (1.58%) Relational Database
7 4 (1.26%) MongoDB
7 4 (1.26%) Redis
7 4 (1.26%) Tick Data
8 3 (0.95%) CockroachDB
9 2 (0.63%) Big Data
9 2 (0.63%) Hadoop
10 1 (0.32%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (0.32%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.32%) HBase
10 1 (0.32%) Parquet
10 1 (0.32%) Power BI
10 1 (0.32%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 24 (7.57%) Git
2 17 (5.36%) Jenkins
3 13 (4.10%) GitLab
3 13 (4.10%) JUnit
3 13 (4.10%) Mockito
4 12 (3.79%) Maven
5 10 (3.15%) Cucumber
5 10 (3.15%) IntelliJ
5 10 (3.15%) JIRA
6 2 (0.63%) CMake
6 2 (0.63%) Postman
7 1 (0.32%) MSBuild
7 1 (0.32%) Qt Creator
7 1 (0.32%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.32%) Subversion
7 1 (0.32%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.32%) TestRail
General
1 149 (47.00%) Finance
2 79 (24.92%) Banking
3 50 (15.77%) Front Office
4 45 (14.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 37 (11.67%) Investment Banking
6 33 (10.41%) Analytical Skills
6 33 (10.41%) Law
7 28 (8.83%) Social Skills
8 17 (5.36%) Publishing
9 11 (3.47%) Public Sector
10 8 (2.52%) Games
11 7 (2.21%) Back Office
12 5 (1.58%) Marketing
13 4 (1.26%) Legal
14 3 (0.95%) Electronics
14 3 (0.95%) French Language
14 3 (0.95%) Wholesale Banking
15 2 (0.63%) Financial Institution
15 2 (0.63%) Manufacturing
15 2 (0.63%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 150 (47.32%) Developer
2 107 (33.75%) Senior
3 91 (28.71%) Software Engineer
4 88 (27.76%) C++ Developer
5 71 (22.40%) Lead
6 57 (17.98%) Senior Developer
7 47 (14.83%) Low Latency C++ Developer
8 44 (13.88%) Senior Software Engineer
9 43 (13.56%) Quantitative Developer
10 38 (11.99%) Senior C++ Developer
11 33 (10.41%) C++ Quantitative Developer
11 33 (10.41%) Cloud Engineer
11 33 (10.41%) Cloud Native Engineer
11 33 (10.41%) Cloud Software Engineer
11 33 (10.41%) Lead Software Engineer
12 32 (10.09%) Linux Developer
13 29 (9.15%) Senior C++ Quantitative Developer
13 29 (9.15%) Senior Quantitative Developer
14 23 (7.26%) Software Developer
15 22 (6.94%) C++ Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (8.20%) Boost C++ Libraries
2 21 (6.62%) FIX Protocol
3 17 (5.36%) .NET
4 15 (4.73%) Node.js
5 14 (4.42%) Spring
5 14 (4.42%) Spring Boot
6 12 (3.79%) Pandas
7 10 (3.15%) ActiveMQ
7 10 (3.15%) JMS
8 9 (2.84%) pytest
9 8 (2.52%) Kafka
10 7 (2.21%) Middleware
11 6 (1.89%) gRPC
11 6 (1.89%) HTML
11 6 (1.89%) React
11 6 (1.89%) Web Services
12 4 (1.26%) HTML5
12 4 (1.26%) Protocol Buffers
12 4 (1.26%) REST
12 4 (1.26%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 56 (17.67%) Algorithms
2 50 (15.77%) Distributed Systems
3 48 (15.14%) Hedge funds
4 45 (14.20%) Cloud Native
5 42 (13.25%) Equities
6 33 (10.41%) Legacy Code
7 31 (9.78%) Data Structures
8 30 (9.46%) Derivative
9 29 (9.15%) Management Information System
10 26 (8.20%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 18 (5.68%) FPGA
12 17 (5.36%) Robotics
13 16 (5.05%) Fixed Income
14 15 (4.73%) Enterprise Software
15 14 (4.42%) Cyberattack
16 12 (3.79%) Public Cloud
17 11 (3.47%) Greenfield Project
18 10 (3.15%) Credit Derivative
19 5 (1.58%) Equity Derivative
19 5 (1.58%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 152 (47.95%) Linux
2 15 (4.73%) Android
3 12 (3.79%) Unix
4 7 (2.21%) Windows
5 3 (0.95%) Robot Operating System
6 2 (0.63%) Embedded Linux
6 2 (0.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.32%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 126 (39.75%) Software Engineering
2 110 (34.70%) Low Latency
3 94 (29.65%) Agile
4 65 (20.50%) Mathematics
5 56 (17.67%) Computer Science
6 52 (16.40%) SDLC
7 49 (15.46%) CI/CD
7 49 (15.46%) Problem-Solving
8 44 (13.88%) Artificial Intelligence
9 42 (13.25%) OO
10 41 (12.93%) Machine Learning
11 39 (12.30%) OOP
12 37 (11.67%) Multithreading
13 34 (10.73%) Test Automation
14 32 (10.09%) Analytics
15 31 (9.78%) DevOps
16 30 (9.46%) Technical Leadership
17 28 (8.83%) Statistics
18 27 (8.52%) Operational Stability
18 27 (8.52%) Physics
Programming Languages
1 176 (55.52%) Python
2 133 (41.96%) Java
3 92 (29.02%) C
4 62 (19.56%) Go
4 62 (19.56%) Rust
5 43 (13.56%) C#
6 34 (10.73%) SQL
7 26 (8.20%) JavaScript
8 18 (5.68%) MATLAB
9 10 (3.15%) TypeScript
10 6 (1.89%) Kotlin
10 6 (1.89%) Shell Script
11 5 (1.58%) Bash
12 4 (1.26%) PHP
13 3 (0.95%) F#
14 2 (0.63%) Embedded C
14 2 (0.63%) PowerShell
14 2 (0.63%) Ruby
14 2 (0.63%) VB
14 2 (0.63%) VBA
Qualifications
1 50 (15.77%) Degree
2 27 (8.52%) PhD
3 21 (6.62%) Security Cleared
4 20 (6.31%) Master's Degree
5 17 (5.36%) Computer Science Degree
6 16 (5.05%) DV Cleared
7 4 (1.26%) AWS Certification
7 4 (1.26%) SC Cleared
8 2 (0.63%) Numerate Degree
9 1 (0.32%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (0.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.32%) CCSP
9 1 (0.32%) CISA
9 1 (0.32%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.32%) CISM
9 1 (0.32%) CISSP
9 1 (0.32%) CRISC
9 1 (0.32%) FFIEC
9 1 (0.32%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (4.10%) QA
2 1 (0.32%) COBIT
2 1 (0.32%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.32%) NIST
System Software
1 25 (7.89%) Docker
2 1 (0.32%) Firmware
2 1 (0.32%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 70 (22.08%) Kubernetes
2 34 (10.73%) Terraform
3 28 (8.83%) Ansible
4 6 (1.89%) Grafana
4 6 (1.89%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.63%) Functional Safety
6 1 (0.32%) systemd
Vendors
1 10 (3.15%) IBM
2 9 (2.84%) Foundry
2 9 (2.84%) Palantir
3 8 (2.52%) Google
3 8 (2.52%) Oracle
4 4 (1.26%) Confluent
4 4 (1.26%) Microsoft
4 4 (1.26%) OpenAI
4 4 (1.26%) Remedy
4 4 (1.26%) ServiceNow
5 3 (0.95%) Alibaba
5 3 (0.95%) Barracuda Networks
6 2 (0.63%) Murex
6 2 (0.63%) Red Hat
6 2 (0.63%) Siemens
7 1 (0.32%) Bloomberg
7 1 (0.32%) Perforce
7 1 (0.32%) Reuters
7 1 (0.32%) SAP
7 1 (0.32%) Sybase