C++ Jobs in the East of England

C++
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the East of England requiring C++ skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited C++ over the 6 months leading up to 18 February 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Feb 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 71 104
Rank change year-on-year +45 +33 -77
Permanent jobs citing C++ 250 135 164
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 6.78% 3.00% 2.99%
As % of the Programming Languages category 20.42% 9.01% 7.31%
Number of salaries quoted 166 60 62
10th Percentile £43,750 £44,875 £43,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £48,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,219 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.37% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £66,274 £69,063 £71,875
90th Percentile £66,350 £87,500 £78,750
England median annual salary £66,230 £62,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year +5.97% -7.41% +3.85%

All Programming Languages
East of England

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 the East of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 1,224 1,498 2,245
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 33.17% 33.24% 40.99%
Number of salaries quoted 635 1,223 1,058
10th Percentile £37,744 £32,100 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -8.33% +12.41%
75th Percentile £72,500 £70,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £83,750 £87,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% +4.00%

C++
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for C++ in the East of England

C++
Salary Trend in the East of England

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

Salary trend for C++ in the East of England

C++
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing C++ in the East of England over the 6 months to 18 February 2025.

Salary histogram for C++ in the East of England

C++
Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing C++ within the East of England region over the 6 months to 18 February 2025. 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
Suffolk +24 108 £66,240 - 4
Cambridgeshire +2 70 £55,000 -8.33% 110
Hertfordshire +20 30 £59,750 -0.42% 29
Bedfordshire -5 23 £47,500 - 11
Norfolk +7 14 £55,000 +15.79% 2
Essex +15 5 £25,000 -58.33% 19
C++
England

C++
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of 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 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 104 (41.60%) Chatbot
2 6 (2.40%) Simulink
3 1 (0.40%) TargetLink
Cloud Services
1 36 (14.40%) Azure
2 25 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
3 24 (9.60%) GitHub
4 21 (8.40%) SaaS
5 9 (3.60%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (6.40%) TCP/IP
2 12 (4.80%) RS-485
3 11 (4.40%) RS-232
4 10 (4.00%) Wireless
5 7 (2.80%) Bluetooth
5 7 (2.80%) Ethernet
5 7 (2.80%) Modbus
5 7 (2.80%) Network Security
5 7 (2.80%) Profibus
5 7 (2.80%) ZigBee
6 4 (1.60%) Firewall
6 4 (1.60%) ICMP
7 3 (1.20%) VPN
8 2 (0.80%) LTE
8 2 (0.80%) SSL
8 2 (0.80%) Wi-Fi
9 1 (0.40%) FTP
9 1 (0.40%) HTTP
9 1 (0.40%) Internet
9 1 (0.40%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (14.00%) SQL Server
2 21 (8.40%) Azure SQL Database
3 6 (2.40%) MySQL
4 5 (2.00%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.40%) KDB
5 1 (0.40%) Kdb+
5 1 (0.40%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 23 (9.20%) Git
2 22 (8.80%) JIRA
3 21 (8.40%) Bitbucket
4 4 (1.60%) Cypress.io
4 4 (1.60%) Selenium
5 1 (0.40%) Qt Creator
5 1 (0.40%) Rational Rhapsody
5 1 (0.40%) Subversion
General
1 44 (17.60%) Electronics
1 44 (17.60%) Social Skills
2 14 (5.60%) Manufacturing
3 13 (5.20%) Finance
4 9 (3.60%) Organisational Skills
5 8 (3.20%) Legal
6 5 (2.00%) Marketing
7 4 (1.60%) Games
8 3 (1.20%) Analytical Skills
9 2 (0.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (0.80%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.40%) Advertising
10 1 (0.40%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.40%) Automotive
10 1 (0.40%) Military
Job Titles
1 101 (40.40%) Trainer
2 92 (36.80%) Software Engineer
3 86 (34.40%) Developer
4 66 (26.40%) Senior
5 43 (17.20%) Embedded Engineer
6 31 (12.40%) Senior Software Engineer
7 30 (12.00%) Embedded Software Engineer
8 27 (10.80%) Cloud Engineer
9 25 (10.00%) Senior Developer
10 19 (7.60%) .NET Developer
11 18 (7.20%) Senior .NET Developer
12 17 (6.80%) Senior Embedded Engineer
13 16 (6.40%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
14 10 (4.00%) Cloud Software Engineer
14 10 (4.00%) Electronics Engineer
14 10 (4.00%) Graduate
15 8 (3.20%) FPGA Engineer
15 8 (3.20%) Systems Engineer
16 7 (2.80%) C++ Software Engineer
16 7 (2.80%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 125 (50.00%) HTML
2 30 (12.00%) .NET
3 27 (10.80%) ASP.NET
3 27 (10.80%) CSS
3 27 (10.80%) Entity Framework
4 21 (8.40%) .NET Framework
4 21 (8.40%) ASP.NET Core
4 21 (8.40%) CSS3
4 21 (8.40%) HTML5
4 21 (8.40%) LESS
4 21 (8.40%) Sass
5 7 (2.80%) Qt
6 6 (2.40%) jQuery
6 6 (2.40%) STL
6 6 (2.40%) WPF
7 4 (1.60%) WDF
8 2 (0.80%) Android SDK
8 2 (0.80%) COM
8 2 (0.80%) JNI
8 2 (0.80%) POSIX
Miscellaneous
1 37 (14.80%) Embedded Systems
2 25 (10.00%) FPGA
3 14 (5.60%) Verilog
4 13 (5.20%) Algorithms
5 12 (4.80%) VHDL
6 10 (4.00%) Device Driver
7 8 (3.20%) ASIC
8 7 (2.80%) Life Science
8 7 (2.80%) Video\Live Streaming
9 6 (2.40%) CAN bus
9 6 (2.40%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (2.00%) Cyber Threat
10 5 (2.00%) Cyberattack
10 5 (2.00%) Distributed Architecture
10 5 (2.00%) Distributed Systems
11 4 (1.60%) Acoustics
11 4 (1.60%) IoT
11 4 (1.60%) Linux Command Line
12 3 (1.20%) Mobile Games
13 2 (0.80%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 35 (14.00%) Linux
2 17 (6.80%) Windows
3 12 (4.80%) Android
4 11 (4.40%) Embedded Linux
5 10 (4.00%) Unix
6 7 (2.80%) FreeRTOS
7 2 (0.80%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.80%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.40%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.40%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.40%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.40%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (46.40%) Software Engineering
2 113 (45.20%) Artificial Intelligence
3 104 (41.60%) Conversational UI
4 93 (37.20%) Code Quality
5 57 (22.80%) Agile
6 44 (17.60%) Problem-Solving
7 37 (14.80%) DevOps
8 27 (10.80%) MVC
9 26 (10.40%) Computer Science
10 24 (9.60%) Software Testing
11 23 (9.20%) Prototyping
12 22 (8.80%) Project Management
13 21 (8.40%) Machine Learning
13 21 (8.40%) PRINCE2
13 21 (8.40%) SDLC
14 19 (7.60%) OO
15 17 (6.80%) Physics
16 16 (6.40%) Mathematics
17 14 (5.60%) Validation
18 13 (5.20%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 153 (61.20%) C#
2 150 (60.00%) Python
3 127 (50.80%) SQL
4 126 (50.40%) JavaScript
5 94 (37.60%) C
6 45 (18.00%) Java
7 32 (12.80%) PHP
8 27 (10.80%) Rust
9 21 (8.40%) Objective-C
9 21 (8.40%) T-SQL
10 18 (7.20%) Assembly Language
11 9 (3.60%) MATLAB
11 9 (3.60%) Tcl
12 8 (3.20%) Embedded C++
12 8 (3.20%) Shell Script
12 8 (3.20%) SystemVerilog
13 6 (2.40%) Embedded C
14 5 (2.00%) TypeScript
15 4 (1.60%) Bash
16 3 (1.20%) Perl
Qualifications
1 163 (65.20%) Degree
2 21 (8.40%) Microsoft Certification
3 11 (4.40%) Security Cleared
4 9 (3.60%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.20%) PhD
6 2 (0.80%) ISTQB
6 2 (0.80%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 2 (0.80%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.40%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.40%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.20%) Accessibility
2 4 (1.60%) IEC 62304
2 4 (1.60%) ISO 13485
2 4 (1.60%) JTAG
3 2 (0.80%) ISO 22301
3 2 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.40%) Automotive SPICE
4 1 (0.40%) AUTOSAR
4 1 (0.40%) ISO 26262
4 1 (0.40%) MISRA
4 1 (0.40%) MISRA C
System Software
1 23 (9.20%) Firmware
2 11 (4.40%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.40%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 5 (2.00%) Kubernetes
1 5 (2.00%) Terraform
2 2 (0.80%) Ansible
3 1 (0.40%) Functional Safety
3 1 (0.40%) QRadar
Vendors
1 104 (41.60%) PayPal
2 23 (9.20%) Xamarin
3 22 (8.80%) Microsoft
4 10 (4.00%) Intel
5 8 (3.20%) Xilinx
6 6 (2.40%) EMC
6 6 (2.40%) Motorola
7 1 (0.40%) IBM
7 1 (0.40%) SonicWALL
7 1 (0.40%) Splunk