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 19 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 127 93 78
Rank change year-on-year -34 -15 0
Permanent jobs citing C++ 4 3 48
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 0.11% 0.25% 2.08%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.90% 0.93% 7.64%
Number of salaries quoted 4 3 28
10th Percentile £31,365 - -
25th Percentile £40,913 - £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,988 £25,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +91.95% -44.44% -21.74%
75th Percentile £56,064 - £62,188
90th Percentile £67,416 - £66,125
West Midlands median annual salary £66,250 £68,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -2.57% +8.80% +8.70%

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 446 323 628
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 12.25% 27.03% 27.17%
Number of salaries quoted 304 281 358
10th Percentile £42,500 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £44,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% - -
75th Percentile £75,269 £72,500 £71,991
90th Percentile £88,148 £77,500 £80,000
West Midlands median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - +2.80%

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++
Salary Histogram in Birmingham

Salary distribution for jobs citing C++ in Birmingham over the 6 months to 19 September 2026.

Salary histogram for C++ in Birmingham

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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) SharePoint Server
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) AWS
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon EMR
2 2 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) Serverless
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Spark SQL
2 1 (25.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
General
1 3 (75.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Finance
3 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Developer
2 1 (25.00%) C# Developer
2 1 (25.00%) C# Software Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Graduate
2 1 (25.00%) Graduate C# Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Graduate C# Software Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Graduate Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Graduate PHP Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Graduate Software Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Graduate SQL Developer
2 1 (25.00%) PHP Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Software Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) .NET
2 2 (50.00%) PySpark
3 1 (25.00%) CSS
3 1 (25.00%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (25.00%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (25.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (25.00%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Mentoring
2 3 (75.00%) Agile
2 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) Coaching
2 3 (75.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 2 (50.00%) Analytics
3 2 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (50.00%) Community of Practice
3 2 (50.00%) Data Engineering
3 2 (50.00%) Data Science
3 2 (50.00%) Decision-Making
3 2 (50.00%) ETL
3 2 (50.00%) Event-Driven
4 1 (25.00%) Clean Code
4 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
4 1 (25.00%) OO
4 1 (25.00%) OOP
4 1 (25.00%) Problem Management
4 1 (25.00%) Refactoring
4 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) C#
1 4 (100.00%) Java
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
2 3 (75.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (25.00%) PHP
3 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft