C++ Jobs in England

C++
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England 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 1 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 142 153 87
Rank change year-on-year +11 -66 +2
Permanent jobs citing C++ 1,747 2,176 5,076
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 2.05% 2.35% 3.84%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.32% 5.42% 7.19%
Number of salaries quoted 1,384 1,521 2,093
10th Percentile £39,500 £36,250 £36,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% - +21.48%
75th Percentile £75,000 £90,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £122,500 £132,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% -3.70% +17.39%

All Programming Languages
England

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 England with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 27,633 40,127 70,623
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 32.42% 43.33% 53.49%
Number of salaries quoted 22,507 25,735 39,546
10th Percentile £35,250 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £108,750 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +13.64%

C++
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing C++ as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for C++ in England

C++
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing C++ in England.

Salary trend for C++ in England

C++
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing C++ in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

Salary histogram for C++ in England

C++
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing C++ within the England region over the 6 months to 1 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
South East +19 555 £57,500 -8.00% 241
London -58 344 £100,000 +17.65% 459
South West +19 291 £55,000 -9.84% 147
North of England +32 214 £57,500 - 87
Midlands +4 191 £50,000 -4.76% 103
East of England +10 144 £60,000 - 197
North West +42 115 £61,000 - 61
West Midlands 0 111 £57,500 +4.55% 53
East Midlands +18 80 £49,990 +11.09% 50
Yorkshire +24 75 £47,500 +11.76% 19
North East +14 24 £55,000 +4.76% 8
C++
UK

C++
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 62 (3.55%) Apache
2 14 (0.80%) Confluence
3 11 (0.63%) nginx
4 9 (0.52%) Apache Spark
5 4 (0.23%) Kinematics
6 3 (0.17%) Ethereum
6 3 (0.17%) Hyperledger
7 2 (0.11%) CMS
7 2 (0.11%) WinCC
8 1 (0.057%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.057%) IBM Notes
8 1 (0.057%) IIS
8 1 (0.057%) WebLogic
Applications
1 69 (3.95%) Simulink
2 10 (0.57%) GNU Octave
3 9 (0.52%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (0.34%) OrCAD
5 2 (0.11%) CANalyzer
5 2 (0.11%) Doxygen
5 2 (0.11%) Fusion 360
6 1 (0.057%) CATIA
6 1 (0.057%) Microsoft Excel
6 1 (0.057%) SOLIDWORKS
6 1 (0.057%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.057%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 5 (0.29%) Teamcenter
2 4 (0.23%) Visualfiles
3 1 (0.057%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.057%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.057%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.057%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 128 (7.33%) Azure
2 126 (7.21%) AWS
3 34 (1.95%) SaaS
4 26 (1.49%) Azure DevOps
5 19 (1.09%) GCP
5 19 (1.09%) GitHub
6 14 (0.80%) Pulumi
7 13 (0.74%) OpenShift
8 11 (0.63%) Sentry
9 8 (0.46%) AWS IoT
9 8 (0.46%) Power Platform
9 8 (0.46%) WhatsApp
10 7 (0.40%) PowerApps
11 5 (0.29%) Serverless
12 4 (0.23%) AWS CloudFormation
12 4 (0.23%) Cloud Computing
12 4 (0.23%) PaaS
12 4 (0.23%) Power Automate
12 4 (0.23%) TestFlight
13 3 (0.17%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 61 (3.49%) TCP/IP
2 36 (2.06%) Wireless
3 28 (1.60%) MQTT
4 21 (1.20%) Internet
5 20 (1.14%) 4G
5 20 (1.14%) 5G
5 20 (1.14%) Wi-Fi
6 18 (1.03%) 3G
6 18 (1.03%) RS-485
7 17 (0.97%) DNS
8 16 (0.92%) SD-WAN
8 16 (0.92%) WAN
9 15 (0.86%) Ethernet
9 15 (0.86%) Network Security
10 14 (0.80%) Bluetooth
10 14 (0.80%) Firewall
11 12 (0.69%) HTTP
12 11 (0.63%) LoRaWAN
13 9 (0.52%) Modbus
14 8 (0.46%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (3.72%) SQL Server
2 57 (3.26%) PostgreSQL
3 34 (1.95%) MongoDB
4 28 (1.60%) NoSQL
5 23 (1.32%) MySQL
6 16 (0.92%) Redis
7 11 (0.63%) Elasticsearch
8 9 (0.52%) Big Data
8 9 (0.52%) Relational Database
9 7 (0.40%) KDB
9 7 (0.40%) Kdb+
9 7 (0.40%) SQLite
10 5 (0.29%) Hadoop
11 4 (0.23%) BusinessObjects
11 4 (0.23%) Power BI
12 3 (0.17%) Azure SQL Database
12 3 (0.17%) Data Lake
12 3 (0.17%) Data Mining
12 3 (0.17%) RDBMS
12 3 (0.17%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 152 (8.70%) Git
2 86 (4.92%) Visual Studio
3 74 (4.24%) Subversion
4 68 (3.89%) Jenkins
5 64 (3.66%) JIRA
6 32 (1.83%) CMake
7 30 (1.72%) GitLab
8 29 (1.66%) LabVIEW
9 25 (1.43%) Ant
10 16 (0.92%) Rational Rhapsody
11 15 (0.86%) Eclipse
12 14 (0.80%) Bitbucket
12 14 (0.80%) GDB
13 13 (0.74%) Selenium
14 12 (0.69%) Vagrant
15 11 (0.63%) Cucumber
15 11 (0.63%) Cypress.io
15 11 (0.63%) GCC
15 11 (0.63%) Team Foundation Server
16 10 (0.57%) GNU Toolchain
General
1 301 (17.23%) Social Skills
2 195 (11.16%) Electronics
3 184 (10.53%) Finance
4 173 (9.90%) Analytical Skills
5 95 (5.44%) Automotive
6 92 (5.27%) Manufacturing
7 71 (4.06%) Marketing
8 55 (3.15%) Telecoms
9 53 (3.03%) Front Office
10 47 (2.69%) Public Sector
11 42 (2.40%) Aerospace
12 41 (2.35%) Games
13 39 (2.23%) Military
14 34 (1.95%) Aviation
15 27 (1.55%) Presentation Skills
16 20 (1.14%) Organisational Skills
17 19 (1.09%) Law
18 16 (0.92%) Influencing Skills
19 15 (0.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
20 12 (0.69%) Banking
Job Titles
1 757 (43.33%) Software Engineer
2 473 (27.07%) Developer
3 369 (21.12%) Senior
4 289 (16.54%) C++ Developer
5 288 (16.49%) C++ Software Engineer
6 274 (15.68%) Embedded Engineer
7 229 (13.11%) Senior Software Engineer
8 197 (11.28%) Embedded Software Engineer
9 184 (10.53%) Lead
10 124 (7.10%) Software Developer
11 89 (5.09%) Senior Embedded Engineer
12 84 (4.81%) Embedded C++ Engineer
13 79 (4.52%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
14 70 (4.01%) Embedded C++ Software Engineer
15 61 (3.49%) C++ Software Developer
16 54 (3.09%) Junior
17 51 (2.92%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
18 48 (2.75%) Embedded Developer
19 46 (2.63%) Lead Developer
19 46 (2.63%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 159 (9.10%) .NET
2 91 (5.21%) Qt
3 68 (3.89%) STL
4 65 (3.72%) HTML
5 53 (3.03%) React
6 49 (2.80%) Yocto
7 46 (2.63%) .NET Framework
8 45 (2.58%) REST
8 45 (2.58%) WPF
9 38 (2.18%) XML
10 36 (2.06%) MFC
11 33 (1.89%) Apache NiFi
12 32 (1.83%) ASP.NET
13 28 (1.60%) Middleware
13 28 (1.60%) Web Services
14 27 (1.55%) Hibernate
15 26 (1.49%) AngularJS
15 26 (1.49%) CSS
16 25 (1.43%) OpenGL
17 24 (1.37%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 199 (11.39%) Algorithms
2 122 (6.98%) Embedded Systems
3 104 (5.95%) FPGA
4 99 (5.67%) IoT
5 79 (4.52%) Self-Motivation
6 54 (3.09%) Distributed Systems
7 53 (3.03%) Robotics
8 52 (2.98%) Hedge funds
9 50 (2.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 50 (2.86%) VHDL
10 40 (2.29%) CUDA
10 40 (2.29%) Greenfield Project
11 36 (2.06%) Equities
12 31 (1.77%) Device Driver
13 29 (1.66%) GNSS
14 28 (1.60%) Cloud Native
15 25 (1.43%) Verilog
16 24 (1.37%) Analogue Electronics
16 24 (1.37%) Data Structures
16 24 (1.37%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 607 (34.75%) Linux
2 281 (16.08%) Windows
3 99 (5.67%) Embedded Linux
4 72 (4.12%) Unix
5 56 (3.21%) Android
6 34 (1.95%) Ubuntu
7 27 (1.55%) Apple iOS
8 19 (1.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 18 (1.03%) AIX
10 16 (0.92%) CentOS
11 12 (0.69%) Windows 10
12 11 (0.63%) Debian
12 11 (0.63%) Windows Server
13 8 (0.46%) FreeRTOS
14 4 (0.23%) Mac OS
15 2 (0.11%) FreeBSD
15 2 (0.11%) Kali Linux
15 2 (0.11%) Mac OS X
15 2 (0.11%) Rocky
15 2 (0.11%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,000 (57.24%) Software Engineering
2 384 (21.98%) Problem-Solving
3 338 (19.35%) Computer Science
4 309 (17.69%) Agile
5 238 (13.62%) Mathematics
6 190 (10.88%) Multithreading
7 154 (8.82%) Mentoring
8 143 (8.19%) Physics
9 132 (7.56%) Test Automation
10 127 (7.27%) DevOps
11 125 (7.16%) OO
12 122 (6.98%) Machine Learning
13 121 (6.93%) Artificial Intelligence
14 108 (6.18%) SDLC
15 88 (5.04%) Signal Processing
16 85 (4.87%) Software Testing
17 80 (4.58%) CI/CD
18 78 (4.46%) Technical Leadership
19 77 (4.41%) Open Source
20 76 (4.35%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 792 (45.33%) C
2 634 (36.29%) Python
3 384 (21.98%) C#
4 354 (20.26%) Java
5 195 (11.16%) SQL
6 171 (9.79%) JavaScript
7 86 (4.92%) MATLAB
8 73 (4.18%) Bash
9 70 (4.01%) Embedded C
10 66 (3.78%) Fortran
11 62 (3.55%) Rust
12 55 (3.15%) Go
13 52 (2.98%) Embedded C++
14 50 (2.86%) VB
15 33 (1.89%) Perl
16 29 (1.66%) COBOL
16 29 (1.66%) Micro Focus COBOL
16 29 (1.66%) PowerShell
17 27 (1.55%) Ada
18 25 (1.43%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 523 (29.94%) Degree
2 282 (16.14%) Security Cleared
3 155 (8.87%) Computer Science Degree
4 149 (8.53%) SC Cleared
5 107 (6.12%) Master's Degree
6 103 (5.90%) PhD
7 52 (2.98%) DV Cleared
8 11 (0.63%) HND
9 10 (0.57%) BPSS Clearance
10 7 (0.40%) PMI Certification
11 5 (0.29%) Microsoft Certification
11 5 (0.29%) Postgraduate
12 4 (0.23%) AWS Certification
12 4 (0.23%) DBS Check
13 3 (0.17%) HNC
14 2 (0.11%) MCAD
15 1 (0.057%) CEH
15 1 (0.057%) CISSP
15 1 (0.057%) ISEB
15 1 (0.057%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (3.03%) QA
2 22 (1.26%) Software Quality Assurance
3 17 (0.97%) GDPR
3 17 (0.97%) PMO
4 12 (0.69%) MISRA
5 10 (0.57%) ISO 9001
6 8 (0.46%) MISRA C
7 7 (0.40%) AUTOSAR
7 7 (0.40%) ISO 9000
8 5 (0.29%) IEC 61508
8 5 (0.29%) ISO 13485
8 5 (0.29%) TickIT
9 4 (0.23%) Def Stans
9 4 (0.23%) IEC 61131
9 4 (0.23%) JTAG
10 3 (0.17%) ISO 26262
10 3 (0.17%) NIST
11 2 (0.11%) DO-178B
11 2 (0.11%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.11%) IEC 62304
System Software
1 152 (8.70%) Firmware
2 91 (5.21%) Embedded Firmware
3 80 (4.58%) Docker
4 3 (0.17%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.11%) Ceph
5 2 (0.11%) OpenSIPS
5 2 (0.11%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
5 2 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.057%) Active Directory
6 1 (0.057%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.057%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.057%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 85 (4.87%) Kubernetes
2 41 (2.35%) Terraform
3 28 (1.60%) Ansible
4 22 (1.26%) Grafana
5 5 (0.29%) Prometheus
5 5 (0.29%) Puppet
6 4 (0.23%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.11%) Functional Safety
7 2 (0.11%) Kibana
7 2 (0.11%) Knative
7 2 (0.11%) Packer
7 2 (0.11%) Podman
7 2 (0.11%) Wonderware InTouch
8 1 (0.057%) Consul
8 1 (0.057%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (0.057%) Istio
8 1 (0.057%) logstash
8 1 (0.057%) Nagios
8 1 (0.057%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 1 (0.057%) Salt
Vendors
1 127 (7.27%) Microsoft
2 44 (2.52%) SAP
3 39 (2.23%) Xilinx
4 32 (1.83%) Google
5 31 (1.77%) Oracle
6 29 (1.66%) Micro Focus
7 14 (0.80%) Atlassian
8 12 (0.69%) EMC
8 12 (0.69%) Red Hat
9 10 (0.57%) Cadence
9 10 (0.57%) Synopsys
10 8 (0.46%) Altera
10 8 (0.46%) Apple
10 8 (0.46%) Green Hills
10 8 (0.46%) Motorola
11 7 (0.40%) Cisco
12 6 (0.34%) BT
12 6 (0.34%) HP
12 6 (0.34%) NVIDIA
12 6 (0.34%) Remedy