C++ Jobs in Kent

C++
South East > Kent

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

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 92 88 44
Rank change year-on-year -4 -44 +6
Permanent jobs citing C++ 15 18 74
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Kent 1.01% 1.57% 5.72%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.99% 5.88% 12.42%
Number of salaries quoted 14 15 27
10th Percentile £29,700 - -
25th Percentile £33,250 £26,000 £25,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,000 £34,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.82% -20.00% -2.86%
75th Percentile £42,906 £59,375 £48,125
90th Percentile £44,375 £70,250 £62,500
South East median annual salary £57,500 £62,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.00% +19.05% +5.00%

All Programming Languages
Kent

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 Kent with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 376 306 596
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Kent 25.22% 26.70% 46.06%
Number of salaries quoted 317 165 267
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £28,550
25th Percentile £38,750 £43,750 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +23.53% +6.25%
75th Percentile £65,000 £61,250 £55,375
90th Percentile £71,250 £73,250 £75,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +4.76%

C++
Job Vacancy Trend in Kent

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

Job vacancy trend for C++ in Kent

C++
Salary Trend in Kent

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

Salary trend for C++ in Kent

C++
Salary Histogram in Kent

Salary distribution for jobs citing C++ in Kent over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Salary histogram for C++ in Kent

C++
Job Locations in Kent

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing C++ within the Kent region over the 6 months to 2 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
Rochester +11 6 £37,000 +23.33% 4
Sevenoaks - 4 £41,250 - 2
Tunbridge Wells -11 1 £29,000 -14.71%
Whitstable - 1 £27,500 -
C++
South East

C++
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Kent 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:

Applications
1 1 (6.67%) OrCAD
1 1 (6.67%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (26.67%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 4 (26.67%) Azure
1 4 (26.67%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (26.67%) SQL Server
General
1 7 (46.67%) Electronics
2 5 (33.33%) Aerospace
2 5 (33.33%) Finance
3 4 (26.67%) Manufacturing
3 4 (26.67%) Social Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Avionics
4 1 (6.67%) Marketing
4 1 (6.67%) Military
4 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
4 1 (6.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (53.33%) Developer
2 6 (40.00%) Software Engineer
3 5 (33.33%) C++ Developer
4 4 (26.67%) Graduate
5 3 (20.00%) Embedded Engineer
5 3 (20.00%) Embedded Software Engineer
5 3 (20.00%) Graduate Software Engineer
5 3 (20.00%) IT Technician
5 3 (20.00%) Junior
5 3 (20.00%) Senior
5 3 (20.00%) Senior Developer
5 3 (20.00%) Senior IT Technician
5 3 (20.00%) Senior Technician
6 2 (13.33%) Graduate Embedded Software Engineer
6 2 (13.33%) Junior Software Engineer
7 1 (6.67%) Electronics Engineer
7 1 (6.67%) Graduate Electronics Engineer
7 1 (6.67%) Junior C++ Developer
7 1 (6.67%) Junior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (33.33%) .NET
1 5 (33.33%) LINQ
2 4 (26.67%) .NET Core
2 4 (26.67%) .NET Framework
2 4 (26.67%) Blazor
2 4 (26.67%) Entity Framework
2 4 (26.67%) WPF
3 1 (6.67%) ASP.NET
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (40.00%) Mathematics
1 6 (40.00%) Physics
1 6 (40.00%) Software Architecture
1 6 (40.00%) Software Engineering
1 6 (40.00%) Validation
1 6 (40.00%) Verification and Validation
2 4 (26.67%) Agile
2 4 (26.67%) CI/CD
2 4 (26.67%) Coaching
2 4 (26.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 4 (26.67%) DevOps
2 4 (26.67%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
2 4 (26.67%) Microservices
2 4 (26.67%) Migration
2 4 (26.67%) Scrum
2 4 (26.67%) Sprint Planning
2 4 (26.67%) Sprint Retrospective
2 4 (26.67%) Workflow
3 3 (20.00%) Data Analysis
3 3 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 11 (73.33%) C#
2 7 (46.67%) C
3 5 (33.33%) Ada
4 4 (26.67%) Python
5 3 (20.00%) Java
6 1 (6.67%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 7 (46.67%) Degree
2 4 (26.67%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) Embedded Firmware
1 1 (6.67%) Firmware
Vendors
1 3 (20.00%) Oracle
2 1 (6.67%) SAP