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 14 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 134 131 221
Rank change year-on-year -3 +90 -80
Permanent jobs citing C++ 360 322 349
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.69% 2.63% 1.42%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.77% 6.33% 3.56%
Number of salaries quoted 257 173 253
10th Percentile £58,750 £62,500 £49,500
25th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £110,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +22.22% +5.88%
75th Percentile - £151,250 £115,000
90th Percentile £130,000 £175,000 £140,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £66,225 £60,000
% change year-on-year +5.70% +10.38% -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 5,320 5,085 9,813
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 24.94% 41.58% 39.94%
Number of salaries quoted 3,747 3,515 7,663
10th Percentile £50,000 £49,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £61,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - +3.13% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £118,750 £133,700 £130,000
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 14 June 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 14 June 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 +11 87 £100,000 -23.08% 21
West London -15 2 £55,000 - 4
South London +18 1 - -
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 (1.67%) Kinematics
2 5 (1.39%) Apache
2 5 (1.39%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.11%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.83%) Confluence
5 1 (0.28%) Ethereum
Applications
1 3 (0.83%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 43 (11.94%) AWS
2 21 (5.83%) GCP
3 19 (5.28%) Azure
4 17 (4.72%) GitHub
5 6 (1.67%) AWS CloudFormation
5 6 (1.67%) Entra ID
5 6 (1.67%) Google Workspace
5 6 (1.67%) Microsoft 365
5 6 (1.67%) OpenShift
6 4 (1.11%) Cloud Composer
6 4 (1.11%) Dagster
6 4 (1.11%) dbt
7 3 (0.83%) Serverless
8 1 (0.28%) Azure Machine Learning
8 1 (0.28%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (0.28%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 24 (6.67%) TCP/IP
2 18 (5.00%) Multicast
3 4 (1.11%) Broadband
4 3 (0.83%) Network Security
5 1 (0.28%) 4G
5 1 (0.28%) 5G
5 1 (0.28%) Diameter Protocol
5 1 (0.28%) Ethernet
5 1 (0.28%) Peer-to-Peer Networking
5 1 (0.28%) RTP
5 1 (0.28%) SS7
5 1 (0.28%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (1.94%) NoSQL
2 6 (1.67%) Geospatial Data
3 5 (1.39%) Metadata
3 5 (1.39%) NonStop SQL
3 5 (1.39%) Semantic Layer
4 4 (1.11%) BigQuery
5 3 (0.83%) Big Data
5 3 (0.83%) DynamoDB
5 3 (0.83%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.28%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.28%) Apache Arrow
6 1 (0.28%) Delta Lake
6 1 (0.28%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.28%) InterSystems Cache
6 1 (0.28%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.28%) Parquet
6 1 (0.28%) Pinecone
6 1 (0.28%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.28%) SQLPlus
6 1 (0.28%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 25 (6.94%) Git
2 21 (5.83%) JIRA
3 5 (1.39%) Gradle
3 5 (1.39%) TeamCity
4 3 (0.83%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.83%) Visual Studio
4 3 (0.83%) WinDbg
5 2 (0.56%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 2 (0.56%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.56%) CMake
5 2 (0.56%) Cypress.io
5 2 (0.56%) Selenium
6 1 (0.28%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.28%) GitLab
6 1 (0.28%) IDA Disassembler
6 1 (0.28%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.28%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.28%) Valgrind
General
1 178 (49.44%) Finance
2 53 (14.72%) Banking
3 30 (8.33%) Front Office
4 29 (8.06%) Investment Banking
5 28 (7.78%) Social Skills
6 27 (7.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 25 (6.94%) Analytical Skills
8 8 (2.22%) Games
8 8 (2.22%) Law
9 7 (1.94%) Aerospace
10 5 (1.39%) Advertising
10 5 (1.39%) Automotive
11 4 (1.11%) Aeronautics
11 4 (1.11%) Financial Institution
12 3 (0.83%) Electronics
13 2 (0.56%) Aviation
13 2 (0.56%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.56%) Military
13 2 (0.56%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 134 (37.22%) Software Engineer
2 128 (35.56%) Developer
2 128 (35.56%) Senior
3 97 (26.94%) C++ Developer
4 90 (25.00%) C++ Software Engineer
5 63 (17.50%) Senior Software Engineer
6 44 (12.22%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
7 41 (11.39%) Linux Developer
7 41 (11.39%) Low Latency C++ Developer
8 38 (10.56%) Senior Developer
9 35 (9.72%) Senior C++ Developer
10 33 (9.17%) Python Engineer
11 29 (8.06%) Python Software Engineer
12 24 (6.67%) Lead
12 24 (6.67%) Software Developer
13 20 (5.56%) Quantitative Developer
13 20 (5.56%) Senior Quantitative Developer
14 19 (5.28%) C++ Quantitative Developer
14 19 (5.28%) Python Developer
14 19 (5.28%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (14.44%) Boost C++ Libraries
2 28 (7.78%) RESTful
3 20 (5.56%) FIX Protocol
4 18 (5.00%) pytest
5 14 (3.89%) Kafka
6 9 (2.50%) React
6 9 (2.50%) Web Services
7 8 (2.22%) .NET
8 7 (1.94%) OpenGL
9 6 (1.67%) STL
10 5 (1.39%) Open3D
10 5 (1.39%) PyTorch
10 5 (1.39%) Spring
10 5 (1.39%) Spring Boot
10 5 (1.39%) Vaadin
11 4 (1.11%) Apache NiFi
11 4 (1.11%) TensorFlow
11 4 (1.11%) ZeroMQ
12 3 (0.83%) Flask
12 3 (0.83%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 72 (20.00%) Algorithms
2 41 (11.39%) Equities
3 34 (9.44%) Data Structures
4 33 (9.17%) Distributed Systems
5 32 (8.89%) Derivative
6 25 (6.94%) Hedge funds
7 22 (6.11%) Management Information System
7 22 (6.11%) Robotics
8 21 (5.83%) Fixed Income
9 19 (5.28%) FPGA
10 9 (2.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 8 (2.22%) Embedded Systems
11 8 (2.22%) Reinsurance
11 8 (2.22%) Sports Betting
12 7 (1.94%) Augmented Reality
12 7 (1.94%) Virtual Reality
13 6 (1.67%) Distributed Architecture
13 6 (1.67%) PKI
14 5 (1.39%) GNSS
14 5 (1.39%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 125 (34.72%) Linux
2 23 (6.39%) Windows
3 5 (1.39%) Robot Operating System
4 4 (1.11%) Unix
5 2 (0.56%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.28%) Android
6 1 (0.28%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (0.28%) FreeRTOS
6 1 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 175 (48.61%) Software Engineering
2 129 (35.83%) Low Latency
3 82 (22.78%) Computer Science
4 64 (17.78%) Agile
5 62 (17.22%) Fintech
6 42 (11.67%) CI/CD
7 41 (11.39%) Mathematics
8 40 (11.11%) SDLC
9 38 (10.56%) OOP
10 36 (10.00%) Analytics
11 33 (9.17%) Microservices
11 33 (9.17%) Problem-Solving
12 30 (8.33%) Test Automation
13 28 (7.78%) AI
13 28 (7.78%) Multithreading
13 28 (7.78%) OO
14 27 (7.50%) DevOps
15 25 (6.94%) Process Improvement
16 24 (6.67%) Workflow
17 22 (6.11%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 166 (46.11%) Python
2 87 (24.17%) Java
3 64 (17.78%) C#
4 63 (17.50%) C
5 58 (16.11%) Rust
6 50 (13.89%) SQL
7 27 (7.50%) Go
8 17 (4.72%) JavaScript
9 12 (3.33%) TypeScript
10 8 (2.22%) Julia
10 8 (2.22%) MATLAB
10 8 (2.22%) R
11 7 (1.94%) Bash
11 7 (1.94%) PowerShell
12 6 (1.67%) Kotlin
13 5 (1.39%) Scala
14 4 (1.11%) Google Apps Script
15 3 (0.83%) Erlang
15 3 (0.83%) Perl
15 3 (0.83%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 41 (11.39%) Degree
2 20 (5.56%) Security Cleared
3 17 (4.72%) Master's Degree
4 14 (3.89%) DV Cleared
5 13 (3.61%) PhD
6 8 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (1.94%) SC Cleared
8 6 (1.67%) AWS Certification
8 6 (1.67%) OSCP
9 4 (1.11%) AWS Certified Developer
9 4 (1.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (1.11%) CREST Certified
9 4 (1.11%) GPEN
9 4 (1.11%) GXPN
9 4 (1.11%) OSCE
10 3 (0.83%) CCSAM
11 2 (0.56%) Azure Certification
11 2 (0.56%) CEH
12 1 (0.28%) CCSAS
12 1 (0.28%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (7.78%) QA
2 7 (1.94%) GDPR
3 5 (1.39%) ISO 20022
4 3 (0.83%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.28%) EMIR
5 1 (0.28%) MiFID
System Software
1 9 (2.50%) Docker
2 5 (1.39%) Firmware
3 4 (1.11%) KVM
3 4 (1.11%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.28%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 12 (3.33%) Terraform
2 9 (2.50%) Grafana
2 9 (2.50%) Kubernetes
3 6 (1.67%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (1.11%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.28%) Ansible
5 1 (0.28%) Argo
5 1 (0.28%) Kibana
5 1 (0.28%) logstash
Vendors
1 8 (2.22%) Palantir
2 7 (1.94%) Microsoft
3 6 (1.67%) Google
4 4 (1.11%) Databricks
4 4 (1.11%) VMware
5 3 (0.83%) Blue Prism
5 3 (0.83%) EMC
5 3 (0.83%) Solace
6 2 (0.56%) Apple
6 2 (0.56%) HP
7 1 (0.28%) Bloomberg
7 1 (0.28%) FXall
7 1 (0.28%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.28%) Oracle
7 1 (0.28%) Red Hat