C++ Jobs in England

C++
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in 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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 101 136 88
Rank change year-on-year +35 -48 +13
Permanent jobs citing C++ 1,947 1,811 5,432
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 2.48% 2.55% 3.69%
As % of the Programming Languages category 8.35% 6.32% 7.20%
Number of salaries quoted 1,497 1,272 2,161
10th Percentile £37,500 £39,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £48,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% - +13.04%
75th Percentile £76,250 £90,000 £88,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £135,000 £122,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% -3.85% +13.04%

All Programming Languages
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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 23,314 28,657 75,412
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 29.75% 40.31% 51.29%
Number of salaries quoted 17,627 21,657 38,997
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,500 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £82,500 £86,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £102,500 £110,000 £101,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +8.70%

C++
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for C++ in England

C++
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for C++ in England

C++
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing C++ in England over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for C++ in England

C++
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing C++ within the England region over the 6 months to 26 July 2024. 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
South East +30 600 £57,500 -4.17% 89
London -65 351 £90,000 +2.86% 70
South West +39 313 £59,000 -1.67% 70
Midlands +17 256 £50,000 -9.09% 65
North of England +95 255 £60,000 +6.67% 51
East of England +26 170 £65,000 - 42
North West +56 143 £62,500 +8.70% 31
West Midlands -12 130 £61,500 +6.96% 33
East Midlands +43 126 £45,000 -18.18% 30
Yorkshire +87 88 £47,500 +11.76% 14
North East +6 24 £60,000 -5.88% 6
C++
UK

C++
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 55 (2.82%) Apache
2 15 (0.77%) Apache Spark
3 11 (0.56%) Confluence
4 8 (0.41%) Kinematics
5 6 (0.31%) CMS
5 6 (0.31%) WinCC
6 5 (0.26%) ThingWorx
7 4 (0.21%) Ethereum
7 4 (0.21%) nginx
8 3 (0.15%) Hyperledger
8 3 (0.15%) IIS
8 3 (0.15%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.10%) Microsoft Exchange
10 1 (0.051%) IBM Domino
10 1 (0.051%) IBM Notes
10 1 (0.051%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.051%) WebLogic
Applications
1 116 (5.96%) Simulink
2 14 (0.72%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (0.56%) GNU Octave
4 7 (0.36%) Microsoft Excel
4 7 (0.36%) OrCAD
5 5 (0.26%) Fusion 360
5 5 (0.26%) SOLIDWORKS
6 3 (0.15%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.15%) Siemens NX
7 2 (0.10%) Maya
7 2 (0.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 2 (0.10%) NUKE
7 2 (0.10%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.051%) CATIA
8 1 (0.051%) Revit
8 1 (0.051%) SketchUp
8 1 (0.051%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.051%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 4 (0.21%) C-CURE
2 3 (0.15%) Teamcenter
3 1 (0.051%) LabWindows
3 1 (0.051%) NEC Housing
3 1 (0.051%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.051%) R3 Corda
3 1 (0.051%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 137 (7.04%) AWS
1 137 (7.04%) Azure
2 34 (1.75%) GCP
2 34 (1.75%) SaaS
3 24 (1.23%) Azure DevOps
4 14 (0.72%) GitHub
5 12 (0.62%) Cloud Computing
6 7 (0.36%) Power Platform
7 6 (0.31%) PowerApps
8 5 (0.26%) AWS IoT
8 5 (0.26%) IaaS
8 5 (0.26%) PaaS
8 5 (0.26%) Power Automate
8 5 (0.26%) WhatsApp
9 4 (0.21%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (0.21%) TestFlight
10 3 (0.15%) Dynamics 365
10 3 (0.15%) Microsoft 365
10 3 (0.15%) OpenShift
11 2 (0.10%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 54 (2.77%) TCP/IP
2 34 (1.75%) Wireless
3 33 (1.69%) Internet
4 26 (1.34%) MQTT
5 24 (1.23%) RS-485
6 23 (1.18%) Network Security
7 22 (1.13%) 4G
7 22 (1.13%) 5G
8 21 (1.08%) Ethernet
9 20 (1.03%) Bluetooth
9 20 (1.03%) HTTP
10 19 (0.98%) Wi-Fi
11 18 (0.92%) 3G
12 16 (0.82%) SD-WAN
12 16 (0.82%) WAN
12 16 (0.82%) Wireshark
13 13 (0.67%) DNS
13 13 (0.67%) Firewall
14 12 (0.62%) DVB
15 10 (0.51%) RS-232
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (2.67%) SQL Server
2 50 (2.57%) NoSQL
3 41 (2.11%) PostgreSQL
4 29 (1.49%) MongoDB
5 23 (1.18%) MySQL
6 16 (0.82%) Big Data
7 7 (0.36%) KDB
8 6 (0.31%) Apache Cassandra
8 6 (0.31%) Kdb+
8 6 (0.31%) Power BI
9 5 (0.26%) Redis
9 5 (0.26%) Relational Database
10 4 (0.21%) BusinessObjects
10 4 (0.21%) Hadoop
10 4 (0.21%) SQLite
11 3 (0.15%) Azure SQL Database
11 3 (0.15%) Data Mining
11 3 (0.15%) TimescaleDB
12 2 (0.10%) Data Hub
12 2 (0.10%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 147 (7.55%) Git
2 106 (5.44%) Visual Studio
3 66 (3.39%) Jenkins
4 51 (2.62%) JIRA
5 42 (2.16%) GitLab
6 40 (2.05%) Subversion
7 32 (1.64%) Vagrant
8 28 (1.44%) LabVIEW
9 27 (1.39%) CMake
10 14 (0.72%) GDB
11 12 (0.62%) Rational Rhapsody
11 12 (0.62%) Team Foundation Server
11 12 (0.62%) TestRail
12 11 (0.56%) IDA Disassembler
13 10 (0.51%) Eclipse
13 10 (0.51%) GCC
14 9 (0.46%) Ant
14 9 (0.46%) Bitbucket
14 9 (0.46%) Selenium
15 7 (0.36%) Rational DOORS
General
1 346 (17.77%) Social Skills
2 230 (11.81%) Electronics
3 170 (8.73%) Finance
4 158 (8.12%) Analytical Skills
5 105 (5.39%) Manufacturing
6 95 (4.88%) Automotive
7 63 (3.24%) Marketing
8 49 (2.52%) Telecoms
9 47 (2.41%) Aerospace
10 43 (2.21%) Games
11 34 (1.75%) Military
12 32 (1.64%) Public Sector
13 28 (1.44%) Front Office
13 28 (1.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 27 (1.39%) Banking
14 27 (1.39%) Presentation Skills
15 26 (1.34%) Legal
16 23 (1.18%) Law
17 21 (1.08%) Aviation
18 20 (1.03%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 921 (47.30%) Software Engineer
2 408 (20.96%) Developer
3 399 (20.49%) Senior
4 318 (16.33%) Embedded Engineer
5 293 (15.05%) C++ Software Engineer
6 261 (13.41%) Senior Software Engineer
7 236 (12.12%) Embedded Software Engineer
8 216 (11.09%) C++ Developer
9 188 (9.66%) Lead
10 151 (7.76%) Software Developer
11 97 (4.98%) Senior Embedded Engineer
12 86 (4.42%) Embedded C++ Engineer
13 80 (4.11%) Architect
14 74 (3.80%) Embedded Developer
15 73 (3.75%) Embedded C++ Software Engineer
16 70 (3.60%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
17 68 (3.49%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
18 63 (3.24%) Software Architect
19 59 (3.03%) C++ Software Developer
20 58 (2.98%) C Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 164 (8.42%) .NET
2 92 (4.73%) Qt
3 83 (4.26%) HTML
4 58 (2.98%) WPF
5 53 (2.72%) STL
6 49 (2.52%) React
7 47 (2.41%) REST
8 46 (2.36%) .NET Framework
9 40 (2.05%) CSS
9 40 (2.05%) Middleware
10 33 (1.69%) MFC
10 33 (1.69%) OpenGL
10 33 (1.69%) Web Services
10 33 (1.69%) Yocto
11 30 (1.54%) XML
12 28 (1.44%) ASP.NET
13 27 (1.39%) JSON
14 26 (1.34%) AngularJS
15 23 (1.18%) Apache NiFi
15 23 (1.18%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 215 (11.04%) Algorithms
2 126 (6.47%) Embedded Systems
3 101 (5.19%) FPGA
4 99 (5.08%) IoT
5 86 (4.42%) Distributed Systems
6 74 (3.80%) Self-Motivation
7 67 (3.44%) Robotics
8 65 (3.34%) VHDL
9 60 (3.08%) Cloud Native
10 41 (2.11%) Legacy Code
11 39 (2.00%) GNSS
12 36 (1.85%) CUDA
13 29 (1.49%) Analogue Electronics
14 28 (1.44%) Greenfield Project
15 27 (1.39%) Enterprise Software
16 25 (1.28%) Device Driver
16 25 (1.28%) Hedge funds
17 23 (1.18%) Equities
18 22 (1.13%) ARM Cortex
19 20 (1.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 687 (35.29%) Linux
2 259 (13.30%) Windows
3 164 (8.42%) Embedded Linux
4 100 (5.14%) Android
5 79 (4.06%) Unix
6 55 (2.82%) Ubuntu
7 41 (2.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 37 (1.90%) CentOS
9 20 (1.03%) FreeRTOS
10 18 (0.92%) AIX
11 16 (0.82%) Apple iOS
12 12 (0.62%) Windows 10
13 11 (0.56%) Kali Linux
14 7 (0.36%) Mac OS
14 7 (0.36%) Windows Server
15 6 (0.31%) VxWorks
16 5 (0.26%) Debian
16 5 (0.26%) Windows Embedded Compact
17 4 (0.21%) VMS
18 3 (0.15%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,173 (60.25%) Software Engineering
2 410 (21.06%) Computer Science
3 378 (19.41%) Problem-Solving
4 309 (15.87%) Agile
5 233 (11.97%) Mathematics
6 206 (10.58%) Artificial Intelligence
7 201 (10.32%) Machine Learning
8 164 (8.42%) Multithreading
9 157 (8.06%) SDLC
10 152 (7.81%) Physics
11 150 (7.70%) Signal Processing
12 148 (7.60%) DevOps
13 145 (7.45%) Software Testing
14 123 (6.32%) Test Automation
15 120 (6.16%) Mentoring
15 120 (6.16%) OO
16 107 (5.50%) Collaborative Working
17 90 (4.62%) Open Source
18 86 (4.42%) Code Quality
19 83 (4.26%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 939 (48.23%) C
2 717 (36.83%) Python
3 429 (22.03%) C#
4 423 (21.73%) Java
5 202 (10.37%) SQL
6 200 (10.27%) JavaScript
7 108 (5.55%) MATLAB
8 106 (5.44%) Rust
9 100 (5.14%) Go
10 99 (5.08%) Embedded C
11 92 (4.73%) Bash
12 83 (4.26%) Embedded C++
13 78 (4.01%) Fortran
14 53 (2.72%) VB
15 51 (2.62%) Perl
16 46 (2.36%) PowerShell
17 41 (2.11%) TypeScript
18 37 (1.90%) Kotlin
19 30 (1.54%) R
20 29 (1.49%) Micro Focus COBOL
Qualifications
1 635 (32.61%) Degree
2 357 (18.34%) Security Cleared
3 184 (9.45%) Computer Science Degree
4 156 (8.01%) SC Cleared
5 101 (5.19%) Master's Degree
6 98 (5.03%) PhD
7 89 (4.57%) DV Cleared
8 19 (0.98%) BPSS Clearance
9 13 (0.67%) HND
10 9 (0.46%) PMI Certification
11 5 (0.26%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (0.21%) HNC
12 4 (0.21%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 4 (0.21%) Postgraduate
13 3 (0.15%) CompTIA Security+
13 3 (0.15%) ISEB
13 3 (0.15%) ISTQB
14 2 (0.10%) Azure Certification
14 2 (0.10%) Cisco Certification
14 2 (0.10%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (2.72%) QA
2 20 (1.03%) PMO
3 17 (0.87%) GDPR
3 17 (0.87%) ISO 9001
4 14 (0.72%) Software Quality Assurance
5 11 (0.56%) MISRA
6 10 (0.51%) IEC 61131
7 8 (0.41%) MISRA C
8 7 (0.36%) AUTOSAR
8 7 (0.36%) ISO 9000
9 6 (0.31%) Def Stans
9 6 (0.31%) IEC 61508
9 6 (0.31%) JTAG
9 6 (0.31%) TickIT
10 5 (0.26%) ISO 13485
11 4 (0.21%) NIST
12 3 (0.15%) IEC 62304
13 2 (0.10%) HIPAA
14 1 (0.051%) ISO/IEC 27001
14 1 (0.051%) SLA
System Software
1 173 (8.89%) Firmware
2 94 (4.83%) Embedded Firmware
3 68 (3.49%) Docker
4 10 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
5 9 (0.46%) Ceph
6 7 (0.36%) Lustre
6 7 (0.36%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 5 (0.26%) VMware ESXi
7 5 (0.26%) VMware Infrastructure
8 4 (0.21%) Active Directory
9 3 (0.15%) GPFS
9 3 (0.15%) Hyper-V
9 3 (0.15%) KVM
9 3 (0.15%) Virtual Servers
9 3 (0.15%) VirtualBox
10 1 (0.051%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.051%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 99 (5.08%) Kubernetes
2 61 (3.13%) Terraform
3 57 (2.93%) Ansible
4 8 (0.41%) Puppet
5 7 (0.36%) Grafana
6 6 (0.31%) Knative
7 4 (0.21%) Podman
7 4 (0.21%) Prometheus
8 3 (0.15%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.10%) SELinux
10 1 (0.051%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (0.051%) Istio
10 1 (0.051%) Kibana
10 1 (0.051%) Nagios
10 1 (0.051%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 1 (0.051%) Packer
10 1 (0.051%) ZENworks
Vendors
1 143 (7.34%) Microsoft
2 88 (4.52%) Xilinx
3 36 (1.85%) Oracle
4 32 (1.64%) SAP
5 29 (1.49%) Micro Focus
6 24 (1.23%) Google
7 15 (0.77%) Atlassian
7 15 (0.77%) EMC
8 8 (0.41%) Altera
8 8 (0.41%) Cisco
8 8 (0.41%) Green Hills
8 8 (0.41%) Motorola
8 8 (0.41%) Siemens
9 7 (0.36%) ANSYS
9 7 (0.36%) Apple
9 7 (0.36%) NVIDIA
10 6 (0.31%) Red Hat
10 6 (0.31%) Remedy
11 5 (0.26%) AVEVA
11 5 (0.26%) VMware