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

6 months to
6 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 177 140 119
Rank change year-on-year -37 -21 +10
Permanent jobs citing C++ 227 410 499
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.71% 2.41% 2.72%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.21% 5.69% 6.07%
Number of salaries quoted 132 240 416
10th Percentile £71,000 £49,875 £53,750
25th Percentile £93,750 £65,000 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £90,000 £105,000
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -14.29% +31.25%
75th Percentile £140,000 £115,000 £142,500
90th Percentile £162,500 £140,000 £173,750
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -

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 4,357 7,200 8,226
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 32.87% 42.39% 44.77%
Number of salaries quoted 3,011 4,759 7,191
10th Percentile £46,000 £50,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £61,250 £61,250 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,500 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.63% - +6.67%
75th Percentile £107,500 £107,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £135,000 £127,500 £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 6 December 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 6 December 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 +35 40 £125,000 +21.95% 20
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 (1.32%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.44%) Apache
2 1 (0.44%) Apache Pulsar
Applications
1 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 24 (10.57%) AWS
2 15 (6.61%) Azure
3 10 (4.41%) GCP
4 6 (2.64%) GitHub
5 3 (1.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 3 (1.32%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 3 (1.32%) OpenShift
6 1 (0.44%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (0.44%) Azure Machine Learning
6 1 (0.44%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (0.44%) Entra ID
6 1 (0.44%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (0.44%) Google Workspace
6 1 (0.44%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (0.44%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 24 (10.57%) Multicast
1 24 (10.57%) TCP/IP
2 3 (1.32%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (0.88%) Broadband
3 2 (0.88%) DHCP
3 2 (0.88%) DOCSIS
3 2 (0.88%) DSL
3 2 (0.88%) GPON
3 2 (0.88%) IPv4
3 2 (0.88%) IPv6
3 2 (0.88%) PPP
3 2 (0.88%) RTP
3 2 (0.88%) VoIP
3 2 (0.88%) WAN
4 1 (0.44%) Bluetooth
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (3.96%) ClickHouse
2 8 (3.52%) KDB
3 4 (1.76%) Kdb+
4 3 (1.32%) NoSQL
5 2 (0.88%) Hadoop
5 2 (0.88%) Redis
5 2 (0.88%) Tick Data
6 1 (0.44%) Big Data
6 1 (0.44%) CockroachDB
6 1 (0.44%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.44%) Metadata
6 1 (0.44%) Neo4j
6 1 (0.44%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 12 (5.29%) JIRA
2 9 (3.96%) Git
3 3 (1.32%) GitLab
3 3 (1.32%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.32%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (0.88%) CircleCI
5 1 (0.44%) CMake
5 1 (0.44%) GCC
5 1 (0.44%) GDB
5 1 (0.44%) JUnit
5 1 (0.44%) Mockito
5 1 (0.44%) MSBuild
5 1 (0.44%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.44%) Visual Studio
General
1 119 (52.42%) Finance
2 56 (24.67%) Banking
2 56 (24.67%) Front Office
3 32 (14.10%) Investment Banking
4 20 (8.81%) Social Skills
5 19 (8.37%) Telecoms
6 14 (6.17%) Analytical Skills
7 12 (5.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 12 (5.29%) Law
8 11 (4.85%) Manufacturing
8 11 (4.85%) Public Sector
9 9 (3.96%) Electronics
10 8 (3.52%) Marketing
11 6 (2.64%) Games
12 5 (2.20%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.88%) Back Office
13 2 (0.88%) Military
13 2 (0.88%) Publishing
14 1 (0.44%) Aerospace
14 1 (0.44%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 115 (50.66%) Developer
2 80 (35.24%) C++ Developer
3 73 (32.16%) Senior
4 65 (28.63%) Software Engineer
5 37 (16.30%) Low Latency C++ Developer
6 36 (15.86%) Linux Developer
7 35 (15.42%) Quantitative Developer
8 30 (13.22%) Senior Software Engineer
9 29 (12.78%) Python Developer
10 28 (12.33%) Senior Developer
11 26 (11.45%) C++ Software Engineer
12 24 (10.57%) Lead
13 23 (10.13%) Cloud Engineer
13 23 (10.13%) Investment Banking C++ Developer
14 22 (9.69%) Cloud Native Engineer
14 22 (9.69%) Cloud Software Engineer
15 21 (9.25%) Senior C++ Developer
15 21 (9.25%) Senior Python Developer
15 21 (9.25%) Senior Quantitative Developer
16 20 (8.81%) C++ Quantitative Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (13.66%) Boost C++ Libraries
2 29 (12.78%) FIX Protocol
3 15 (6.61%) RESTful
4 10 (4.41%) Kafka
4 10 (4.41%) pytest
5 7 (3.08%) WebSockets
6 6 (2.64%) gRPC
6 6 (2.64%) PyXLL
6 6 (2.64%) React
7 5 (2.20%) .NET
7 5 (2.20%) AngularJS
7 5 (2.20%) REST
8 4 (1.76%) PyTorch
8 4 (1.76%) TensorFlow
9 3 (1.32%) .NET Framework
9 3 (1.32%) Android NDK
9 3 (1.32%) Node.js
10 2 (0.88%) STL
10 2 (0.88%) XML
10 2 (0.88%) ZeroMQ
Miscellaneous
1 50 (22.03%) Algorithms
2 38 (16.74%) Distributed Systems
3 37 (16.30%) Cloud Native
4 35 (15.42%) Derivative
5 34 (14.98%) Equities
6 28 (12.33%) Data Structures
6 28 (12.33%) Hedge funds
7 22 (9.69%) Legacy Code
8 19 (8.37%) Fixed Income
8 19 (8.37%) FPGA
8 19 (8.37%) Management Information System
9 17 (7.49%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 8 (3.52%) Grid Computing
10 8 (3.52%) Market Risk
11 6 (2.64%) Greenfield Project
12 5 (2.20%) Data Protection Act
13 4 (1.76%) AI Agents
13 4 (1.76%) Distributed Computing
13 4 (1.76%) Equity Derivative
14 3 (1.32%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 103 (45.37%) Linux
2 12 (5.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (3.08%) Android
4 4 (1.76%) Windows
5 2 (0.88%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.88%) OpenWrt
6 1 (0.44%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (0.44%) Robot Operating System
6 1 (0.44%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (39.21%) Low Latency
2 82 (36.12%) Software Engineering
3 58 (25.55%) Agile
4 41 (18.06%) Computer Science
5 38 (16.74%) AI
6 35 (15.42%) SDLC
7 34 (14.98%) Problem-Solving
8 30 (13.22%) Machine Learning
8 30 (13.22%) Test Automation
9 29 (12.78%) OOP
10 24 (10.57%) Analytics
11 22 (9.69%) Mathematics
11 22 (9.69%) OO
11 22 (9.69%) Order Management
12 21 (9.25%) CI/CD
12 21 (9.25%) DevOps
12 21 (9.25%) Open Source
13 20 (8.81%) Technical Leadership
13 20 (8.81%) Workflow
14 18 (7.93%) Concurrent Programming
Programming Languages
1 114 (50.22%) Python
2 73 (32.16%) Java
3 60 (26.43%) C
4 38 (16.74%) C#
5 34 (14.98%) Rust
6 30 (13.22%) SQL
7 29 (12.78%) Go
8 14 (6.17%) TypeScript
9 7 (3.08%) JavaScript
10 5 (2.20%) Kotlin
11 4 (1.76%) Bash
11 4 (1.76%) Embedded C
12 3 (1.32%) Groovy
12 3 (1.32%) PowerShell
12 3 (1.32%) Ruby
13 1 (0.44%) Google Apps Script
13 1 (0.44%) R
13 1 (0.44%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.44%) VBA
13 1 (0.44%) VC++
Qualifications
1 22 (9.69%) Degree
2 17 (7.49%) Security Cleared
3 14 (6.17%) DV Cleared
3 14 (6.17%) SC Cleared
4 13 (5.73%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (4.85%) Master's Degree
6 3 (1.32%) PhD
7 2 (0.88%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.44%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.44%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (5.73%) QA
2 3 (1.32%) Data Quality
3 2 (0.88%) EMIR
4 1 (0.44%) MiFID
System Software
1 14 (6.17%) Virtual Machines
1 14 (6.17%) Virtual Servers
2 11 (4.85%) Docker
3 3 (1.32%) Firmware
4 2 (0.88%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (0.44%) KVM
5 1 (0.44%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 42 (18.50%) Kubernetes
2 5 (2.20%) Terraform
3 4 (1.76%) Grafana
4 3 (1.32%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.88%) Ansible
6 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.44%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.44%) Puppet
6 1 (0.44%) systemd
Vendors
1 13 (5.73%) Palantir
2 11 (4.85%) Red Hat
3 8 (3.52%) SAP
4 4 (1.76%) Foundry
4 4 (1.76%) Oracle
5 3 (1.32%) Confluent
5 3 (1.32%) Cribl.io
5 3 (1.32%) Microsoft
5 3 (1.32%) Sonatype
6 2 (0.88%) Google
6 2 (0.88%) Solarflare
7 1 (0.44%) Apple
7 1 (0.44%) Databricks
7 1 (0.44%) Ericsson
7 1 (0.44%) ION Trading
7 1 (0.44%) Mavenir
7 1 (0.44%) Nokia
7 1 (0.44%) UiPath
7 1 (0.44%) VMware