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 21 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 47 96 114
Rank change year-on-year +49 +18 -86
Permanent jobs citing C++ 216 147 123
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 6.40% 2.38% 2.38%
As % of the Programming Languages category 22.83% 8.40% 6.55%
Number of salaries quoted 189 105 40
10th Percentile £37,250 £45,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £57,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,206 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.34% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £66,254 £72,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £66,350 £85,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £66,212 £60,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +10.35% -11.11% -

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 946 1,750 1,877
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 28.03% 28.33% 36.30%
Number of salaries quoted 686 1,455 919
10th Percentile £31,875 £31,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £66,254 £68,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -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 21 May 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 21 May 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 +27 104 £66,240 - 2
Cambridgeshire +11 44 £50,000 -20.00% 239
Hertfordshire +20 34 £62,000 +12.73% 57
Essex +37 26 £25,000 -54.55% 38
Bedfordshire -8 5 £52,500 +5.00% 17
Norfolk +19 3 £64,000 +16.36% 11
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 10 (4.63%) Kinematics
2 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 104 (48.15%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 31 (14.35%) Azure
2 16 (7.41%) AWS
3 15 (6.94%) Amazon EKS
3 15 (6.94%) AWS CloudFormation
4 5 (2.31%) GitHub
5 2 (0.93%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (0.93%) SaaS
6 1 (0.46%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 10 (4.63%) RS-485
2 8 (3.70%) Network Security
3 7 (3.24%) Firewall
4 6 (2.78%) Bluetooth
4 6 (2.78%) FTP
4 6 (2.78%) HTTP
4 6 (2.78%) Internet
4 6 (2.78%) LAN
4 6 (2.78%) Modbus
4 6 (2.78%) Profibus
4 6 (2.78%) RS-232
4 6 (2.78%) SMTP
4 6 (2.78%) TCP/IP
4 6 (2.78%) VPN
4 6 (2.78%) WAN
4 6 (2.78%) Wireless
4 6 (2.78%) ZigBee
5 2 (0.93%) LTE
6 1 (0.46%) Radio Access Network
6 1 (0.46%) Software-Defined Radio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (7.87%) SQL Server
2 15 (6.94%) Elasticsearch
3 11 (5.09%) MySQL
4 6 (2.78%) Relational Database
5 2 (0.93%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (0.93%) Scylla
Development Applications
1 6 (2.78%) Git
2 5 (2.31%) JIRA
3 2 (0.93%) Bitbucket
3 2 (0.93%) CppUnit
3 2 (0.93%) Fiddler
3 2 (0.93%) IDA Disassembler
3 2 (0.93%) Rational DOORS
3 2 (0.93%) Rational Rhapsody
3 2 (0.93%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.46%) PetaLinux
4 1 (0.46%) Qt Creator
General
1 33 (15.28%) Social Skills
2 30 (13.89%) Electronics
3 25 (11.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 21 (9.72%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (7.87%) Manufacturing
6 14 (6.48%) Finance
7 6 (2.78%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (1.85%) Aerospace
9 3 (1.39%) Military
10 2 (0.93%) Automotive
10 2 (0.93%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.46%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.46%) Law
11 1 (0.46%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.46%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 101 (46.76%) Trainer
2 85 (39.35%) Developer
3 58 (26.85%) Software Engineer
4 27 (12.50%) Senior
4 27 (12.50%) Software Developer
5 22 (10.19%) Lead
6 18 (8.33%) Cloud Engineer
6 18 (8.33%) Embedded Engineer
6 18 (8.33%) Senior Software Engineer
7 14 (6.48%) Graduate
8 13 (6.02%) Graduate Developer
8 13 (6.02%) IT Graduate
9 11 (5.09%) Embedded Software Engineer
10 10 (4.63%) Robotics Engineer
11 9 (4.17%) Senior Embedded Engineer
12 8 (3.70%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
13 7 (3.24%) Android Developer
13 7 (3.24%) Data Engineer
14 6 (2.78%) Backend Developer
14 6 (2.78%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 106 (49.07%) HTML
2 32 (14.81%) .NET
3 15 (6.94%) ASP.NET
3 15 (6.94%) CSS
3 15 (6.94%) Node.js
3 15 (6.94%) Pandas
4 13 (6.02%) jQuery
5 10 (4.63%) Middleware
6 6 (2.78%) LDAP
7 2 (0.93%) .NET Framework
7 2 (0.93%) Android SDK
7 2 (0.93%) COM
7 2 (0.93%) CSS3
7 2 (0.93%) Entity Framework
7 2 (0.93%) HTML5
7 2 (0.93%) JNI
7 2 (0.93%) LESS
7 2 (0.93%) Sass
7 2 (0.93%) STL
7 2 (0.93%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 20 (9.26%) Algorithms
2 16 (7.41%) Cyberattack
3 12 (5.56%) Robotics
4 11 (5.09%) Embedded Systems
5 8 (3.70%) FPGA
6 6 (2.78%) Client/Server
6 6 (2.78%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (2.78%) Security Operations Centre
6 6 (2.78%) Verilog
7 4 (1.85%) Life Science
8 3 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (0.93%) Blockchain
9 2 (0.93%) Device Driver
9 2 (0.93%) e-Learning
9 2 (0.93%) VHDL
10 1 (0.46%) Data Structures
10 1 (0.46%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.46%) Linux Command Line
10 1 (0.46%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 26 (12.04%) Android
1 26 (12.04%) Linux
2 6 (2.78%) FreeRTOS
3 5 (2.31%) Embedded Linux
4 2 (0.93%) Windows
5 1 (0.46%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.46%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.46%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.46%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (49.54%) Artificial Intelligence
2 104 (48.15%) Conversational UI
3 97 (44.91%) Software Engineering
4 95 (43.98%) Code Quality
5 43 (19.91%) Agile
6 39 (18.06%) OO
7 23 (10.65%) OOP
8 22 (10.19%) Android Development
9 21 (9.72%) Computer Science
9 21 (9.72%) Line Management
10 20 (9.26%) CI/CD
11 19 (8.80%) Mathematics
12 18 (8.33%) Collaborative Working
12 18 (8.33%) Project Management
13 17 (7.87%) Problem-Solving
14 16 (7.41%) Design Patterns
15 15 (6.94%) Containerisation
15 15 (6.94%) MVC
15 15 (6.94%) Statistics
15 15 (6.94%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 139 (64.35%) Python
2 133 (61.57%) C#
3 122 (56.48%) JavaScript
4 110 (50.93%) SQL
5 49 (22.69%) C
6 43 (19.91%) Java
7 23 (10.65%) Rust
8 18 (8.33%) Go
9 15 (6.94%) PHP
10 9 (4.17%) Ada
11 7 (3.24%) Bash
11 7 (3.24%) PowerShell
12 6 (2.78%) Perl
13 2 (0.93%) Objective-C
13 2 (0.93%) Solidity
13 2 (0.93%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.46%) SystemVerilog
14 1 (0.46%) TypeScript
14 1 (0.46%) VB.NET
14 1 (0.46%) VC++
Qualifications
1 138 (63.89%) Degree
2 23 (10.65%) Security Cleared
3 21 (9.72%) DV Cleared
4 15 (6.94%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (3.24%) SC Cleared
6 3 (1.39%) PhD
7 2 (0.93%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.46%) Postgraduate
System Software
1 16 (7.41%) Docker
2 14 (6.48%) Firmware
3 12 (5.56%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (0.46%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 16 (7.41%) Kubernetes
2 15 (6.94%) Ansible
2 15 (6.94%) Terraform
3 6 (2.78%) QRadar
Vendors
1 104 (48.15%) PayPal
2 9 (4.17%) Microsoft
3 6 (2.78%) Splunk
4 4 (1.85%) EMC
5 2 (0.93%) IBM
5 2 (0.93%) Xamarin
6 1 (0.46%) SonicWALL
6 1 (0.46%) Xilinx