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 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 219 141 129
Rank change year-on-year -78 -12 -18
Permanent jobs citing C++ 335 808 2,455
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 1.38% 2.52% 3.35%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.46% 5.17% 5.50%
Number of salaries quoted 243 617 895
10th Percentile £49,500 £45,000 £50,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £60,000 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £84,500 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.51% -11.05% +18.75%
75th Percentile £122,500 £122,500 £130,000
90th Percentile £140,000 £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 9,669 15,640 44,648
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 39.94% 48.79% 60.87%
Number of salaries quoted 7,595 11,964 18,827
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 2 June 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 2 June 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 +13 64 £106,250 +46.55% 21
West London -5 4 £50,000 +5.26% 19
South London -7 2 £55,750 +23.89% 3
East London +24 1 £120,000 +26.32% 1
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 (4.48%) Apache Spark
2 6 (1.79%) Apache
3 3 (0.90%) CMS
3 3 (0.90%) Ethereum
3 3 (0.90%) 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 (0.90%) Teamcenter
2 1 (0.30%) LabWindows
Cloud Services
1 58 (17.31%) AWS
2 32 (9.55%) Azure
3 9 (2.69%) Pulumi
4 7 (2.09%) GCP
5 6 (1.79%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (1.79%) SaaS
5 6 (1.79%) Sentry
5 6 (1.79%) WhatsApp
6 5 (1.49%) PaaS
7 4 (1.19%) Cloud Computing
8 3 (0.90%) Azure App Service
8 3 (0.90%) Azure Functions
8 3 (0.90%) GitHub
8 3 (0.90%) 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 (8.96%) TCP/IP
2 5 (1.49%) DNS
3 4 (1.19%) Network Security
4 3 (0.90%) Firewall
4 3 (0.90%) HTTP
4 3 (0.90%) 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%) PPP
6 1 (0.30%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (4.48%) NoSQL
2 14 (4.18%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (3.28%) Redis
4 9 (2.69%) SQL Server
5 7 (2.09%) KDB
5 7 (2.09%) Kdb+
5 7 (2.09%) Relational Database
6 6 (1.79%) Apache Cassandra
6 6 (1.79%) MongoDB
7 4 (1.19%) Big Data
7 4 (1.19%) Hadoop
8 3 (0.90%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (0.90%) Data Mining
8 3 (0.90%) MySQL
8 3 (0.90%) RDBMS
9 2 (0.60%) Amazon Aurora
9 2 (0.60%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (0.60%) Metadata
9 2 (0.60%) Tick Data
10 1 (0.30%) Flink
Development Applications
1 16 (4.78%) Git
1 16 (4.78%) Jenkins
2 13 (3.88%) GitLab
3 4 (1.19%) Bitbucket
3 4 (1.19%) 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%) JIRA
5 1 (0.30%) JUnit
5 1 (0.30%) LabVIEW
5 1 (0.30%) Selenium
5 1 (0.30%) TestComplete
5 1 (0.30%) Xcode
5 1 (0.30%) Zephyr
General
1 111 (33.13%) Finance
2 51 (15.22%) Social Skills
3 42 (12.54%) Front Office
4 32 (9.55%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (5.97%) Banking
6 11 (3.28%) Games
7 10 (2.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (2.39%) Electronics
9 5 (1.49%) Financial Institution
9 5 (1.49%) Investment Banking
10 4 (1.19%) Aerospace
10 4 (1.19%) Legal
10 4 (1.19%) Wearables
11 3 (0.90%) Advertising
11 3 (0.90%) Multimedia
11 3 (0.90%) Public Sector
12 2 (0.60%) Aeronautics
12 2 (0.60%) Health Technology
12 2 (0.60%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.60%) Retail
Job Titles
1 126 (37.61%) Developer
2 88 (26.27%) Software Engineer
3 73 (21.79%) Senior
4 66 (19.70%) C++ Developer
5 37 (11.04%) Lead
6 35 (10.45%) Quantitative Developer
6 35 (10.45%) Senior Software Engineer
7 27 (8.06%) Low Latency C++ Developer
8 25 (7.46%) C++ Software Engineer
8 25 (7.46%) Cloud Engineer
9 24 (7.16%) Cloud Native Engineer
9 24 (7.16%) Cloud Software Engineer
9 24 (7.16%) Java Developer
10 19 (5.67%) Analyst
11 18 (5.37%) Python Developer
12 17 (5.07%) Lead Software Engineer
12 17 (5.07%) Senior Developer
13 16 (4.78%) C++ Quantitative Developer
13 16 (4.78%) C++/Java Developer
14 13 (3.88%) Qualitative Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (10.45%) .NET
2 11 (3.28%) FIX Protocol
2 11 (3.28%) React
3 9 (2.69%) FastAPI
3 9 (2.69%) PyTorch
4 6 (1.79%) Django
4 6 (1.79%) HTML
4 6 (1.79%) OpenGL
4 6 (1.79%) Unreal Engine
5 5 (1.49%) .NET Framework
5 5 (1.49%) Qt
5 5 (1.49%) RESTful
5 5 (1.49%) Web Services
6 4 (1.19%) ASP.NET
6 4 (1.19%) ASP.NET Web API
6 4 (1.19%) DirectX
6 4 (1.19%) Entity Framework
6 4 (1.19%) Kafka
6 4 (1.19%) Middleware
6 4 (1.19%) STL
Miscellaneous
1 45 (13.43%) Distributed Systems
2 41 (12.24%) Hedge funds
3 35 (10.45%) Algorithms
4 34 (10.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 32 (9.55%) Cloud Native
6 30 (8.96%) Equities
6 30 (8.96%) FPGA
7 26 (7.76%) Legacy Code
8 13 (3.88%) Data Structures
9 12 (3.58%) Greenfield Project
10 11 (3.28%) IoT
11 10 (2.99%) PKI
12 9 (2.69%) Fixed Income
12 9 (2.69%) Self-Motivation
13 7 (2.09%) CUDA
13 7 (2.09%) Robotics
14 6 (1.79%) Derivative
14 6 (1.79%) Mobile App
14 6 (1.79%) Ray Tracing
14 6 (1.79%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 115 (34.33%) Linux
2 21 (6.27%) Windows
3 16 (4.78%) Unix
4 13 (3.88%) Android
5 11 (3.28%) Apple iOS
6 8 (2.39%) Ubuntu
7 6 (1.79%) Debian
8 5 (1.49%) 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
1 141 (42.09%) Software Engineering
2 78 (23.28%) Computer Science
3 64 (19.10%) Low Latency
4 58 (17.31%) Problem-Solving
5 45 (13.43%) Agile
6 43 (12.84%) Mathematics
7 41 (12.24%) DevOps
8 40 (11.94%) Multithreading
9 38 (11.34%) CI/CD
10 28 (8.36%) Machine Learning
11 27 (8.06%) Physics
11 27 (8.06%) SDLC
12 26 (7.76%) Analytics
12 26 (7.76%) Artificial Intelligence
12 26 (7.76%) Data Science
13 24 (7.16%) Infrastructure as Code
14 22 (6.57%) Algorithmic Trading
14 22 (6.57%) Fintech
15 20 (5.97%) OO
15 20 (5.97%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 183 (54.63%) Python
2 108 (32.24%) Java
3 101 (30.15%) C
4 72 (21.49%) C#
5 52 (15.52%) Rust
6 51 (15.22%) SQL
7 46 (13.73%) Go
8 20 (5.97%) JavaScript
9 16 (4.78%) Bash
10 13 (3.88%) MATLAB
11 11 (3.28%) R
12 10 (2.99%) PowerShell
13 7 (2.09%) Ruby
13 7 (2.09%) TypeScript
14 5 (1.49%) Shell Script
15 4 (1.19%) Objective-C
15 4 (1.19%) Perl
15 4 (1.19%) Scala
16 3 (0.90%) Solidity
17 2 (0.60%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 104 (31.04%) Degree
2 46 (13.73%) Master's Degree
3 32 (9.55%) PhD
4 25 (7.46%) Computer Science Degree
5 15 (4.48%) Security Cleared
6 10 (2.99%) SC Cleared
7 4 (1.19%) AWS Certification
7 4 (1.19%) Postgraduate
8 3 (0.90%) 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 (0.90%) 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 27 (8.06%) Docker
2 7 (2.09%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (1.79%) Ceph
3 6 (1.79%) Firmware
4 4 (1.19%) Embedded Firmware
5 3 (0.90%) 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 59 (17.61%) Kubernetes
2 18 (5.37%) Terraform
3 15 (4.48%) Grafana
4 10 (2.99%) Ansible
5 6 (1.79%) Knative
6 4 (1.19%) Progress Chef
6 4 (1.19%) Puppet
7 3 (0.90%) 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 (8.06%) Microsoft
2 15 (4.48%) Google
3 6 (1.79%) NVIDIA
3 6 (1.79%) Oracle
4 5 (1.49%) Red Hat
5 4 (1.19%) Apple
6 3 (0.90%) 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%) Imperva
8 1 (0.30%) Meraki
8 1 (0.30%) New Relic
8 1 (0.30%) Rockwell
8 1 (0.30%) TIBCO
8 1 (0.30%) Vertica
8 1 (0.30%) VMware
8 1 (0.30%) Wonderware