C++ Jobs in London

C++
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for C++ skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited C++ over the 6 months to 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 216 148 125
Rank change year-on-year -68 -23 -13
Permanent jobs citing C++ 331 810 2,456
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 1.39% 2.46% 3.40%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.46% 4.98% 5.61%
Number of salaries quoted 240 623 918
10th Percentile £49,500 £45,000 £49,275
25th Percentile £62,500 £60,000 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £85,000 £92,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -8.11% +15.63%
75th Percentile £122,500 £121,875 £130,000
90th Percentile £140,250 £165,000 £185,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £67,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year -11.11% - +17.39%

All Programming Languages
London

C++ is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 9,559 16,252 43,776
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 40.04% 49.42% 60.67%
Number of salaries quoted 7,541 12,105 18,935
10th Percentile £47,500 £48,750 £46,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - +6.67% +7.14%
75th Percentile £102,500 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £130,000 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +8.70%

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 2024.

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 2024. 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 +7 64 £100,000 +37.93% 22
West London -7 4 £50,000 -4.76% 18
South London -2 2 £55,750 +23.89% 5
East London +27 1 £120,000 +26.32% 2
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 15 (4.53%) Apache Spark
2 6 (1.81%) Apache
3 3 (0.91%) CMS
3 3 (0.91%) Ethereum
3 3 (0.91%) Hyperledger
4 1 (0.30%) Confluence
4 1 (0.30%) IIS
4 1 (0.30%) nginx
4 1 (0.30%) WinCC
Business Applications
1 3 (0.91%) Teamcenter
2 1 (0.30%) LabWindows
Cloud Services
1 59 (17.82%) AWS
2 31 (9.37%) Azure
3 10 (3.02%) Pulumi
4 7 (2.11%) GCP
4 7 (2.11%) Sentry
5 6 (1.81%) SaaS
5 6 (1.81%) WhatsApp
6 5 (1.51%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (1.51%) PaaS
7 4 (1.21%) Cloud Computing
8 3 (0.91%) Azure App Service
8 3 (0.91%) Azure Functions
8 3 (0.91%) GitHub
8 3 (0.91%) Serverless
9 2 (0.60%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (0.60%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (0.60%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (0.60%) Azure AKS
9 2 (0.60%) OpenShift
9 2 (0.60%) Oracle CX
Communications & Networking
1 30 (9.06%) TCP/IP
2 5 (1.51%) DNS
3 4 (1.21%) Network Security
4 3 (0.91%) Firewall
4 3 (0.91%) HTTP
4 3 (0.91%) VoIP
5 2 (0.60%) Internet
5 2 (0.60%) Multicast
5 2 (0.60%) SSL
6 1 (0.30%) FTP
6 1 (0.30%) HTTPS
6 1 (0.30%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (4.53%) NoSQL
1 15 (4.53%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (3.63%) Redis
3 9 (2.72%) SQL Server
4 7 (2.11%) KDB
4 7 (2.11%) Kdb+
4 7 (2.11%) Relational Database
5 6 (1.81%) Apache Cassandra
5 6 (1.81%) MongoDB
6 4 (1.21%) Big Data
6 4 (1.21%) Hadoop
7 3 (0.91%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (0.91%) Data Mining
7 3 (0.91%) MySQL
7 3 (0.91%) RDBMS
8 2 (0.60%) Amazon Aurora
8 2 (0.60%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (0.60%) Metadata
8 2 (0.60%) Tick Data
9 1 (0.30%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 16 (4.83%) Git
1 16 (4.83%) Jenkins
2 13 (3.93%) GitLab
3 4 (1.21%) Bitbucket
3 4 (1.21%) GDB
4 2 (0.60%) CMake
4 2 (0.60%) GCC
4 2 (0.60%) Gradle
4 2 (0.60%) Maven
4 2 (0.60%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.30%) Ant
5 1 (0.30%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.30%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (0.30%) git-flow
5 1 (0.30%) JIRA
5 1 (0.30%) JUnit
5 1 (0.30%) LabVIEW
5 1 (0.30%) Selenium
5 1 (0.30%) Xcode
5 1 (0.30%) Zephyr
General
1 112 (33.84%) Finance
2 50 (15.11%) Social Skills
3 41 (12.39%) Front Office
4 32 (9.67%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (6.04%) Banking
6 10 (3.02%) Games
7 9 (2.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (2.42%) Electronics
9 5 (1.51%) Financial Institution
9 5 (1.51%) Investment Banking
10 4 (1.21%) Aerospace
10 4 (1.21%) Wearables
11 3 (0.91%) Advertising
11 3 (0.91%) Legal
11 3 (0.91%) Multimedia
11 3 (0.91%) Public Sector
12 2 (0.60%) Aeronautics
12 2 (0.60%) Law
12 2 (0.60%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.60%) Retail
Job Titles
1 127 (38.37%) Developer
2 84 (25.38%) Software Engineer
3 72 (21.75%) Senior
4 67 (20.24%) C++ Developer
5 37 (11.18%) Lead
6 36 (10.88%) Quantitative Developer
7 32 (9.67%) Senior Software Engineer
8 28 (8.46%) Low Latency C++ Developer
9 25 (7.55%) C++ Software Engineer
10 24 (7.25%) Java Developer
11 23 (6.95%) Cloud Engineer
12 22 (6.65%) Cloud Native Engineer
12 22 (6.65%) Cloud Software Engineer
13 19 (5.74%) Analyst
14 18 (5.44%) Python Developer
14 18 (5.44%) Senior Developer
15 17 (5.14%) C++ Quantitative Developer
16 16 (4.83%) C++/Java Developer
16 16 (4.83%) Lead Software Engineer
17 13 (3.93%) Quantitative Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (10.57%) .NET
2 11 (3.32%) FIX Protocol
2 11 (3.32%) React
3 10 (3.02%) FastAPI
4 9 (2.72%) PyTorch
5 6 (1.81%) Django
5 6 (1.81%) HTML
5 6 (1.81%) OpenGL
6 5 (1.51%) .NET Framework
6 5 (1.51%) Qt
6 5 (1.51%) RESTful
6 5 (1.51%) Unreal Engine
6 5 (1.51%) Web Services
7 4 (1.21%) ASP.NET
7 4 (1.21%) ASP.NET Web API
7 4 (1.21%) DirectX
7 4 (1.21%) Entity Framework
7 4 (1.21%) Kafka
7 4 (1.21%) STL
7 4 (1.21%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 44 (13.29%) Distributed Systems
2 42 (12.69%) Hedge funds
3 35 (10.57%) Algorithms
3 35 (10.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 31 (9.37%) FPGA
5 30 (9.06%) Equities
6 29 (8.76%) Cloud Native
7 24 (7.25%) Legacy Code
8 14 (4.23%) Data Structures
9 12 (3.63%) Greenfield Project
10 11 (3.32%) IoT
11 10 (3.02%) Fixed Income
11 10 (3.02%) PKI
12 8 (2.42%) Self-Motivation
13 7 (2.11%) CUDA
13 7 (2.11%) Derivative
13 7 (2.11%) Robotics
14 6 (1.81%) Mobile App
14 6 (1.81%) Ray Tracing
14 6 (1.81%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 113 (34.14%) Linux
2 21 (6.34%) Windows
3 16 (4.83%) Unix
4 13 (3.93%) Android
5 11 (3.32%) Apple iOS
6 8 (2.42%) Ubuntu
7 6 (1.81%) Debian
8 5 (1.51%) Windows Server
9 2 (0.60%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.30%) AIX
10 1 (0.30%) Embedded Linux
10 1 (0.30%) FreeRTOS
10 1 (0.30%) VMS
10 1 (0.30%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.30%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.30%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.30%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 137 (41.39%) Software Engineering
2 78 (23.56%) Computer Science
3 65 (19.64%) Low Latency
4 59 (17.82%) Problem-Solving
5 44 (13.29%) Agile
6 43 (12.99%) Mathematics
7 40 (12.08%) DevOps
8 39 (11.78%) Multithreading
9 37 (11.18%) CI/CD
10 27 (8.16%) Analytics
10 27 (8.16%) Machine Learning
10 27 (8.16%) Physics
11 26 (7.85%) Data Science
12 25 (7.55%) Artificial Intelligence
12 25 (7.55%) SDLC
13 24 (7.25%) Infrastructure as Code
14 22 (6.65%) Algorithmic Trading
14 22 (6.65%) Fintech
15 21 (6.34%) OO
16 20 (6.04%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 182 (54.98%) Python
2 109 (32.93%) Java
3 100 (30.21%) C
4 71 (21.45%) C#
5 51 (15.41%) SQL
6 50 (15.11%) Rust
7 43 (12.99%) Go
8 19 (5.74%) JavaScript
9 16 (4.83%) Bash
10 11 (3.32%) MATLAB
11 10 (3.02%) R
12 9 (2.72%) PowerShell
13 7 (2.11%) TypeScript
14 6 (1.81%) Ruby
15 5 (1.51%) Shell Script
16 4 (1.21%) Objective-C
16 4 (1.21%) Perl
16 4 (1.21%) Scala
17 3 (0.91%) Solidity
18 2 (0.60%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 104 (31.42%) Degree
2 46 (13.90%) Master's Degree
3 32 (9.67%) PhD
4 25 (7.55%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (4.23%) Security Cleared
6 9 (2.72%) SC Cleared
7 4 (1.21%) AWS Certification
7 4 (1.21%) Postgraduate
8 3 (0.91%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.60%) ISEB
9 2 (0.60%) ISTQB
9 2 (0.60%) MCAD
9 2 (0.60%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.30%) CEH
10 1 (0.30%) CISSP
10 1 (0.30%) HNC
10 1 (0.30%) HND
10 1 (0.30%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (0.91%) QA
2 2 (0.60%) GDPR
2 2 (0.60%) HIPAA
2 2 (0.60%) IEC 62304
2 2 (0.60%) ISO 13485
2 2 (0.60%) ISO 9001
2 2 (0.60%) NIST
2 2 (0.60%) Software Quality Assurance
3 1 (0.30%) JTAG
System Software
1 28 (8.46%) Docker
2 7 (2.11%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (1.81%) Ceph
3 6 (1.81%) Firmware
4 4 (1.21%) Embedded Firmware
5 3 (0.91%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.30%) Active Directory
6 1 (0.30%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.30%) KVM
6 1 (0.30%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.30%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 57 (17.22%) Kubernetes
2 18 (5.44%) Terraform
3 16 (4.83%) Grafana
4 10 (3.02%) Ansible
5 6 (1.81%) Knative
6 4 (1.21%) Progress Chef
6 4 (1.21%) Puppet
7 3 (0.91%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.60%) Kibana
9 1 (0.30%) Functional Safety
9 1 (0.30%) Istio
9 1 (0.30%) logstash
9 1 (0.30%) Nagios
9 1 (0.30%) Packer
9 1 (0.30%) Podman
9 1 (0.30%) Salt
9 1 (0.30%) Wonderware InTouch
Vendors
1 27 (8.16%) Microsoft
2 15 (4.53%) Google
3 6 (1.81%) NVIDIA
3 6 (1.81%) Oracle
4 5 (1.51%) Red Hat
5 4 (1.21%) Apple
6 3 (0.91%) Facebook
7 2 (0.60%) Siemens
7 2 (0.60%) Splunk
8 1 (0.30%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.30%) AVEVA
8 1 (0.30%) Databricks
8 1 (0.30%) F5
8 1 (0.30%) Imperva
8 1 (0.30%) Meraki
8 1 (0.30%) New Relic
8 1 (0.30%) TIBCO
8 1 (0.30%) Vertica
8 1 (0.30%) VMware
8 1 (0.30%) Wonderware