C++ Job Trends in Birmingham

C++
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring C++ skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 92 82 84
Rank change year-on-year -10 +2 +64
Permanent jobs citing C++ 2 44 22
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 0.17% 2.01% 1.73%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.65% 6.68% 4.67%
Number of salaries quoted 2 24 11
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £31,250 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £25,000 £32,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% -43.48% +4.55%
75th Percentile - £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile - £67,625 £82,500
West Midlands median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -15.38% +13.04% +9.52%

All Programming Languages
Birmingham

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 Birmingham.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 308 659 471
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 25.93% 30.09% 37.09%
Number of salaries quoted 263 312 392
10th Percentile £35,250 £31,250 £39,025
25th Percentile £47,500 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,750 £55,750
Median % change year-on-year +7.62% - -7.08%
75th Percentile £73,750 £70,563 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £79,600 £80,000
West Midlands median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -

C++
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing C++ relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

C++ job vacancy trend in Birmingham

C++
Salary Trend in Birmingham

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing C++.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing C++

C++
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) MySQL
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Graduate
1 2 (100.00%) Graduate Developer
1 2 (100.00%) IT Graduate
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 2 (100.00%) CSS
1 2 (100.00%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 2 (100.00%) MVC
1 2 (100.00%) OO
1 2 (100.00%) OOP
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) PHP
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (100.00%) Degree