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 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 139 228 155
Rank change year-on-year +89 -73 -29
Permanent jobs citing C++ 305 328 813
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 2.44% 1.38% 2.45%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.01% 3.44% 4.96%
Number of salaries quoted 168 238 625
10th Percentile £64,250 £49,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £85,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £90,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% +5.88% -8.11%
75th Percentile £140,000 £122,500 £121,250
90th Percentile £175,000 £140,000 £165,000
England median annual salary £66,228 £60,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +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 5,071 9,523 16,376
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 40.53% 40.03% 49.43%
Number of salaries quoted 3,490 7,539 12,211
10th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £48,750
25th Percentile £61,500 £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 £132,500 £130,000 £122,500
England median annual salary £61,182 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +1.97% -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 28 May 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 28 May 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 72 £130,000 +30.00% 77
South London -1 5 £65,000 +16.59% 9
East London -12 5 - - 9
West London +24 2 - - 17
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 3 (0.98%) Kinematics
1 3 (0.98%) WinCC
2 1 (0.33%) Ethereum
2 1 (0.33%) Jupyter
2 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.33%) MTS
2 1 (0.33%) Oracle Workflow
2 1 (0.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (1.31%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.33%) Houdini
2 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (1.31%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (0.98%) Orchestrade
3 1 (0.33%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
Cloud Services
1 57 (18.69%) AWS
2 36 (11.80%) Azure
3 26 (8.52%) Amazon EKS
4 17 (5.57%) Amazon S3
4 17 (5.57%) AWS Lambda
4 17 (5.57%) Serverless
5 14 (4.59%) Amazon EC2
5 14 (4.59%) Datadog
6 12 (3.93%) AWS CloudFormation
7 8 (2.62%) GCP
8 5 (1.64%) GitHub
9 4 (1.31%) Amazon Bedrock
10 2 (0.66%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (0.66%) PaaS
11 1 (0.33%) Azure Service Bus
11 1 (0.33%) CloudAMQP
11 1 (0.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 1 (0.33%) Microsoft 365
11 1 (0.33%) Power Platform
11 1 (0.33%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 19 (6.23%) TCP/IP
2 11 (3.61%) Multicast
3 3 (0.98%) Bluetooth
4 2 (0.66%) DNS
4 2 (0.66%) VPN
4 2 (0.66%) Wireshark
5 1 (0.33%) Firewall
5 1 (0.33%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (4.26%) Elasticsearch
2 9 (2.95%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (1.97%) KDB
4 5 (1.64%) NoSQL
4 5 (1.64%) RDBMS
4 5 (1.64%) Relational Database
5 4 (1.31%) MongoDB
5 4 (1.31%) Tick Data
6 3 (0.98%) ClickHouse
6 3 (0.98%) Kdb+
7 2 (0.66%) Big Data
7 2 (0.66%) Redis
8 1 (0.33%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.33%) CockroachDB
8 1 (0.33%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.33%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.33%) HBase
8 1 (0.33%) Parquet
8 1 (0.33%) Power BI
8 1 (0.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 25 (8.20%) Git
2 20 (6.56%) Jenkins
3 16 (5.25%) GitLab
3 16 (5.25%) Maven
4 15 (4.92%) JUnit
4 15 (4.92%) Mockito
5 14 (4.59%) Cucumber
5 14 (4.59%) IntelliJ
6 10 (3.28%) JIRA
7 2 (0.66%) Postman
8 1 (0.33%) CMake
8 1 (0.33%) Qt Creator
8 1 (0.33%) Subversion
8 1 (0.33%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.33%) TestRail
General
1 132 (43.28%) Finance
2 57 (18.69%) Banking
3 46 (15.08%) Front Office
4 35 (11.48%) Investment Banking
5 28 (9.18%) Analytical Skills
6 26 (8.52%) Social Skills
7 25 (8.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 14 (4.59%) Publishing
9 12 (3.93%) Law
10 7 (2.30%) Legal
11 5 (1.64%) Games
11 5 (1.64%) Marketing
11 5 (1.64%) Public Sector
12 4 (1.31%) Back Office
13 3 (0.98%) French Language
14 2 (0.66%) Advertising
14 2 (0.66%) Financial Institution
14 2 (0.66%) Organisational Skills
15 1 (0.33%) Electronics
15 1 (0.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 157 (51.48%) Developer
2 105 (34.43%) Senior
3 92 (30.16%) C++ Developer
4 75 (24.59%) Software Engineer
5 61 (20.00%) Senior Developer
6 56 (18.36%) Lead
7 51 (16.72%) Low Latency C++ Developer
8 44 (14.43%) Quantitative Developer
9 40 (13.11%) Senior Software Engineer
10 38 (12.46%) Senior C++ Developer
11 36 (11.80%) C++ Quantitative Developer
12 35 (11.48%) Cloud Engineer
12 35 (11.48%) Cloud Native Engineer
12 35 (11.48%) Cloud Software Engineer
13 33 (10.82%) Linux Developer
14 32 (10.49%) Senior C++ Quantitative Developer
14 32 (10.49%) Senior Quantitative Developer
15 25 (8.20%) Lead Software Engineer
15 25 (8.20%) Software Developer
16 20 (6.56%) Lead Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (8.52%) Boost C++ Libraries
2 19 (6.23%) .NET
2 19 (6.23%) FIX Protocol
3 16 (5.25%) Spring
3 16 (5.25%) Spring Boot
4 14 (4.59%) ActiveMQ
4 14 (4.59%) JMS
4 14 (4.59%) Node.js
5 12 (3.93%) Pandas
6 11 (3.61%) Middleware
7 9 (2.95%) HTML
7 9 (2.95%) pytest
8 8 (2.62%) Web Services
9 7 (2.30%) CSS
10 6 (1.97%) Kafka
10 6 (1.97%) WebSockets
11 4 (1.31%) gRPC
11 4 (1.31%) HTML5
11 4 (1.31%) LangChain
11 4 (1.31%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 52 (17.05%) Algorithms
2 51 (16.72%) Hedge funds
3 43 (14.10%) Distributed Systems
4 42 (13.77%) Cloud Native
4 42 (13.77%) Equities
5 35 (11.48%) Legacy Code
6 33 (10.82%) Management Information System
7 29 (9.51%) Derivative
8 28 (9.18%) Data Structures
9 26 (8.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 20 (6.56%) FPGA
11 17 (5.57%) Enterprise Software
11 17 (5.57%) Robotics
12 16 (5.25%) Fixed Income
13 14 (4.59%) Credit Derivative
13 14 (4.59%) Cyberattack
14 9 (2.95%) Embedded Systems
15 5 (1.64%) Greenfield Project
15 5 (1.64%) Public Cloud
16 4 (1.31%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 163 (53.44%) Linux
2 15 (4.92%) Android
3 10 (3.28%) Unix
4 6 (1.97%) Windows
5 3 (0.98%) Embedded Linux
5 3 (0.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.98%) Robot Operating System
5 3 (0.98%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.33%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (37.38%) Software Engineering
2 112 (36.72%) Low Latency
3 67 (21.97%) Agile
4 60 (19.67%) Mathematics
5 51 (16.72%) Computer Science
6 43 (14.10%) CI/CD
7 40 (13.11%) SDLC
8 39 (12.79%) OO
9 37 (12.13%) OOP
10 35 (11.48%) Analytics
11 34 (11.15%) Multithreading
11 34 (11.15%) Problem-Solving
12 31 (10.16%) Artificial Intelligence
12 31 (10.16%) DevOps
13 30 (9.84%) Machine Learning
13 30 (9.84%) Test Automation
14 28 (9.18%) Fintech
14 28 (9.18%) Statistics
15 26 (8.52%) Physics
16 22 (7.21%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 165 (54.10%) Python
2 107 (35.08%) Java
3 92 (30.16%) C
4 62 (20.33%) Go
4 62 (20.33%) Rust
5 47 (15.41%) C#
6 35 (11.48%) SQL
7 27 (8.85%) JavaScript
8 15 (4.92%) MATLAB
9 11 (3.61%) TypeScript
10 10 (3.28%) Kotlin
11 5 (1.64%) PHP
11 5 (1.64%) Shell Script
12 3 (0.98%) Bash
12 3 (0.98%) Embedded C++
12 3 (0.98%) F#
12 3 (0.98%) Ladder Logic
12 3 (0.98%) VB
13 2 (0.66%) Objective-C
13 2 (0.66%) R
Qualifications
1 52 (17.05%) Degree
2 30 (9.84%) PhD
3 21 (6.89%) Master's Degree
4 20 (6.56%) Security Cleared
5 17 (5.57%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (4.92%) DV Cleared
7 4 (1.31%) SC Cleared
8 2 (0.66%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.66%) Numerate Degree
9 1 (0.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (0.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.33%) CCSP
9 1 (0.33%) CISA
9 1 (0.33%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.33%) CISM
9 1 (0.33%) CISSP
9 1 (0.33%) CRISC
9 1 (0.33%) FFIEC
9 1 (0.33%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (5.25%) QA
2 1 (0.33%) COBIT
2 1 (0.33%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.33%) NIST
System Software
1 26 (8.52%) Docker
2 1 (0.33%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 64 (20.98%) Kubernetes
2 31 (10.16%) Ansible
3 30 (9.84%) Terraform
4 5 (1.64%) Grafana
4 5 (1.64%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.98%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 14 (4.59%) IBM
2 6 (1.97%) Google
2 6 (1.97%) Siemens
3 5 (1.64%) Oracle
4 4 (1.31%) Databricks
4 4 (1.31%) Foundry
4 4 (1.31%) OpenAI
4 4 (1.31%) Palantir
4 4 (1.31%) Remedy
4 4 (1.31%) ServiceNow
5 3 (0.98%) Alibaba
5 3 (0.98%) Barracuda Networks
5 3 (0.98%) Microsoft
5 3 (0.98%) Red Hat
6 2 (0.66%) Murex
7 1 (0.33%) DevExpress
7 1 (0.33%) ION Trading
7 1 (0.33%) Perforce
7 1 (0.33%) Reuters
7 1 (0.33%) Splunk