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 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 105 87 103
Rank change year-on-year -18 +16 +15
Permanent jobs citing C++ 3 43 6
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 0.17% 2.38% 0.44%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.83% 7.61% 1.35%
Number of salaries quoted 3 23 6
10th Percentile £29,000 £28,250 -
25th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £24,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £40,000 £43,250
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -7.51% -17.62%
75th Percentile £72,500 £47,500 £90,938
90th Percentile £89,000 £67,250 £100,625
West Midlands median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - -12.00% +19.05%

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 361 565 446
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 20.75% 31.32% 32.89%
Number of salaries quoted 302 252 414
10th Percentile £28,250 £34,075 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,372 £41,000 £42,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -7.95%
75th Percentile £70,000 £69,063 £67,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £80,000
West Midlands median annual salary £55,000 £54,344 £52,500
% change year-on-year +1.21% +3.51% -4.55%

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 14 January 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Machine Learning
2 1 (33.33%) GCP
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Copilot
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) MySQL
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) MLflow
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Law
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Developer
1 1 (33.33%) C# Developer
1 1 (33.33%) C# Software Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Graduate
1 1 (33.33%) Graduate C# Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Graduate C# Software Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Graduate Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Graduate PHP Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Graduate Software Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Graduate SQL Developer
1 1 (33.33%) PHP Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Software Developer
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) CSS
1 1 (33.33%) jQuery
1 1 (33.33%) PyTorch
1 1 (33.33%) scikit-learn
1 1 (33.33%) TensorFlow
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Computer Science
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) AI
2 1 (33.33%) Computer Vision
2 1 (33.33%) Data Science
2 1 (33.33%) Deep Learning
2 1 (33.33%) Low Latency
2 1 (33.33%) Machine Learning
2 1 (33.33%) MLOps
2 1 (33.33%) MVC
2 1 (33.33%) Natural Language Processing
2 1 (33.33%) OOP
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) C#
2 1 (33.33%) PHP
2 1 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (66.67%) Degree
2 1 (33.33%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) OpenAI