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 15 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 162 143 168
Rank change year-on-year -19 +25 -8
Permanent jobs citing C++ 268 355 396
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.73% 2.37% 1.86%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.93% 5.82% 4.37%
Number of salaries quoted 182 179 310
10th Percentile £70,000 £54,500 £56,250
25th Percentile £90,000 £73,750 £76,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £102,500 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% +25.00%
75th Percentile £125,000 £122,500 £136,875
90th Percentile £152,500 £171,000 £163,875
England median annual salary £70,000 £66,230 £62,500
% change year-on-year +5.69% +5.97% -7.41%

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 4,521 6,101 9,058
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 29.22% 40.66% 42.51%
Number of salaries quoted 3,180 3,946 7,850
10th Percentile £45,000 £51,250 £48,750
25th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.23%
75th Percentile £100,000 £108,750 £100,000
90th Percentile £130,000 £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 15 February 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 15 February 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 +26 64 £100,000 -4.76% 23
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 (1.12%) Apache Spark
2 2 (0.75%) Apache Pulsar
2 2 (0.75%) Kinematics
2 2 (0.75%) Palantir Foundry
3 1 (0.37%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 2 (0.75%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 29 (10.82%) AWS
2 19 (7.09%) Azure
3 17 (6.34%) GCP
4 12 (4.48%) GitHub
5 5 (1.87%) OpenShift
6 3 (1.12%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (1.12%) Entra ID
6 3 (1.12%) Google Workspace
6 3 (1.12%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (0.75%) Azure Service Bus
8 1 (0.37%) Cloud Composer
8 1 (0.37%) Dagster
8 1 (0.37%) dbt
8 1 (0.37%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (0.37%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 30 (11.19%) TCP/IP
2 27 (10.07%) Multicast
3 3 (1.12%) Broadband
3 3 (1.12%) RTP
3 3 (1.12%) VoIP
4 2 (0.75%) DHCP
4 2 (0.75%) DOCSIS
4 2 (0.75%) DSL
4 2 (0.75%) GPON
4 2 (0.75%) IPv4
4 2 (0.75%) IPv6
4 2 (0.75%) PPP
4 2 (0.75%) WAN
4 2 (0.75%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.37%) 4G
5 1 (0.37%) 5G
5 1 (0.37%) Diameter Protocol
5 1 (0.37%) Ethernet
5 1 (0.37%) SS7
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (2.24%) NoSQL
2 5 (1.87%) ClickHouse
3 3 (1.12%) KDB
4 2 (0.75%) Kdb+
4 2 (0.75%) Metadata
5 1 (0.37%) Big Data
5 1 (0.37%) BigQuery
5 1 (0.37%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.37%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.37%) Neo4j
5 1 (0.37%) Power BI
5 1 (0.37%) Redis
5 1 (0.37%) Semantic Layer
5 1 (0.37%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 14 (5.22%) JIRA
2 13 (4.85%) Git
3 2 (0.75%) TeamCity
3 2 (0.75%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.37%) CircleCI
4 1 (0.37%) CMake
4 1 (0.37%) GCC
4 1 (0.37%) GDB
4 1 (0.37%) IDA Disassembler
4 1 (0.37%) WinDbg
General
1 133 (49.63%) Finance
2 54 (20.15%) Front Office
3 45 (16.79%) Banking
4 28 (10.45%) Investment Banking
5 22 (8.21%) Telecoms
6 17 (6.34%) Social Skills
7 16 (5.97%) Analytical Skills
8 11 (4.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 11 (4.10%) Manufacturing
9 9 (3.36%) Financial Institution
10 8 (2.99%) Electronics
10 8 (2.99%) Marketing
10 8 (2.99%) Public Sector
11 7 (2.61%) Games
12 6 (2.24%) Advertising
12 6 (2.24%) Aerospace
13 4 (1.49%) Aeronautics
13 4 (1.49%) Automotive
14 2 (0.75%) Military
14 2 (0.75%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 129 (48.13%) Developer
2 102 (38.06%) C++ Developer
3 94 (35.07%) Senior
4 87 (32.46%) Software Engineer
5 46 (17.16%) C++ Software Engineer
6 39 (14.55%) Senior Software Engineer
7 38 (14.18%) Low Latency C++ Developer
8 37 (13.81%) Linux Developer
9 34 (12.69%) Senior Developer
10 31 (11.57%) Senior C++ Developer
11 29 (10.82%) Quantitative Developer
12 25 (9.33%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
13 23 (8.58%) Python Developer
14 22 (8.21%) Software Developer
15 21 (7.84%) C++ Software Developer
16 20 (7.46%) C++ Quantitative Developer
17 19 (7.09%) Investment Banking C++ Developer
18 18 (6.72%) Linux Scripter
18 18 (6.72%) Python Engineer
18 18 (6.72%) Senior C++ Quantitative Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (13.43%) Boost C++ Libraries
2 32 (11.94%) FIX Protocol
3 23 (8.58%) RESTful
4 12 (4.48%) pytest
5 11 (4.10%) Kafka
6 9 (3.36%) WebSockets
7 7 (2.61%) gRPC
7 7 (2.61%) REST
8 5 (1.87%) ZeroMQ
9 4 (1.49%) Android NDK
9 4 (1.49%) AngularJS
9 4 (1.49%) React
9 4 (1.49%) Sass
9 4 (1.49%) STL
10 3 (1.12%) .NET
10 3 (1.12%) XML
11 2 (0.75%) OAuth
11 2 (0.75%) OAuth2
11 2 (0.75%) PyXLL
11 2 (0.75%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 52 (19.40%) Algorithms
2 40 (14.93%) Distributed Systems
3 36 (13.43%) Equities
4 35 (13.06%) Derivative
5 28 (10.45%) Data Structures
6 27 (10.07%) Cloud Native
7 24 (8.96%) Hedge funds
8 20 (7.46%) Fixed Income
9 19 (7.09%) FPGA
9 19 (7.09%) Management Information System
10 14 (5.22%) Legacy Code
11 12 (4.48%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 12 (4.48%) Robotics
12 6 (2.24%) Analytical Mindset
12 6 (2.24%) Greenfield Project
12 6 (2.24%) Grid Computing
13 5 (1.87%) AI Agents
13 5 (1.87%) Distributed Computing
13 5 (1.87%) Sports Betting
14 4 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 120 (44.78%) Linux
2 14 (5.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 13 (4.85%) Windows
4 10 (3.73%) Android
5 5 (1.87%) Robot Operating System
6 4 (1.49%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.75%) OpenWrt
8 1 (0.37%) FreeRTOS
8 1 (0.37%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (43.28%) Software Engineering
2 98 (36.57%) Low Latency
3 63 (23.51%) Computer Science
4 50 (18.66%) Agile
5 41 (15.30%) AI
6 32 (11.94%) Problem-Solving
7 31 (11.57%) OOP
8 29 (10.82%) SDLC
9 28 (10.45%) Fintech
10 24 (8.96%) Analytics
10 24 (8.96%) CI/CD
10 24 (8.96%) Test Automation
10 24 (8.96%) Workflow
11 23 (8.58%) Machine Learning
11 23 (8.58%) Microservices
11 23 (8.58%) Multithreading
12 22 (8.21%) Cybersecurity
12 22 (8.21%) Mathematics
13 21 (7.84%) DevOps
13 21 (7.84%) OO
Programming Languages
1 113 (42.16%) Python
2 61 (22.76%) Java
3 60 (22.39%) C
4 48 (17.91%) C#
5 47 (17.54%) Rust
6 43 (16.04%) SQL
7 31 (11.57%) Go
8 16 (5.97%) TypeScript
9 8 (2.99%) Kotlin
10 6 (2.24%) JavaScript
11 3 (1.12%) Bash
11 3 (1.12%) PowerShell
11 3 (1.12%) VBA
12 2 (0.75%) Google Apps Script
12 2 (0.75%) VC++
13 1 (0.37%) Groovy
13 1 (0.37%) R
13 1 (0.37%) Scala
Qualifications
1 36 (13.43%) Degree
2 20 (7.46%) Master's Degree
2 20 (7.46%) Security Cleared
3 17 (6.34%) Computer Science Degree
3 17 (6.34%) DV Cleared
4 15 (5.60%) SC Cleared
5 7 (2.61%) PhD
6 3 (1.12%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.75%) AWS Certified Developer
7 2 (0.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.37%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.37%) CCSAS
8 1 (0.37%) CREST Certified
8 1 (0.37%) GIAC
8 1 (0.37%) GPEN
8 1 (0.37%) GXPN
8 1 (0.37%) Numerate Degree
8 1 (0.37%) OSCE
8 1 (0.37%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (6.72%) QA
2 3 (1.12%) Data Quality
2 3 (1.12%) EMIR
3 1 (0.37%) MiFID
3 1 (0.37%) NIST
System Software
1 14 (5.22%) Docker
1 14 (5.22%) Virtual Machines
1 14 (5.22%) Virtual Servers
2 2 (0.75%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.75%) Firmware
2 2 (0.75%) KVM
2 2 (0.75%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 31 (11.57%) Kubernetes
2 7 (2.61%) Terraform
3 6 (2.24%) Grafana
4 4 (1.49%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.12%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.37%) Ansible
6 1 (0.37%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.37%) Puppet
Vendors
1 13 (4.85%) Palantir
1 13 (4.85%) Red Hat
2 8 (2.99%) SAP
3 4 (1.49%) Microsoft
4 3 (1.12%) Apple
4 3 (1.12%) Google
5 2 (0.75%) Databricks
5 2 (0.75%) Ericsson
5 2 (0.75%) Foundry
5 2 (0.75%) Mavenir
5 2 (0.75%) Nokia
5 2 (0.75%) Oracle
5 2 (0.75%) VMware
6 1 (0.37%) Bloomberg
6 1 (0.37%) FXall
6 1 (0.37%) ION Trading
6 1 (0.37%) Solace
6 1 (0.37%) Solarflare
6 1 (0.37%) UiPath