C++ Job Trends in England

C++
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring C++ skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 182 86 141
Rank change year-on-year -96 +55 +8
Permanent jobs citing C++ 889 1,330 1,679
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.15% 3.56% 2.04%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.47% 10.45% 6.21%
Number of salaries quoted 639 633 1,352
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £39,750
25th Percentile £51,250 £48,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £66,219 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.71% +10.37% -14.29%
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £76,250
90th Percentile - £122,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £66,200 £60,000
% change year-on-year +1.96% +10.33% -7.69%

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 13,746 12,725 27,017
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.74% 34.06% 32.77%
Number of salaries quoted 9,679 9,352 22,545
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,683 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%

C++
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing C++ relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

C++ job vacancy trend in England

C++
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing C++.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing C++

C++
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing C++ in England over the 6 months to 20 April 2026.

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 20 April 2026. 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
London -4 335 £100,000 -9.09% 151
South East -10 255 £65,000 +4.00% 162
East of England -59 108 £63,250 -4.46% 76
South West -24 90 £55,000 - 88
North of England -224 52 £55,000 - 71
Midlands -38 45 £52,500 +31.25% 50
North West -163 30 £57,500 +2.22% 41
East Midlands -41 24 £35,000 -37.78% 28
West Midlands -45 20 £56,250 +40.63% 22
Yorkshire -70 17 £45,000 -2.17% 24
North East -40 5 £56,500 +126.00% 6
C++
UK

C++
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 8 (0.90%) Apache Spark
1 8 (0.90%) Kinematics
2 7 (0.79%) Apache
3 6 (0.67%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.22%) Apache Pulsar
5 1 (0.11%) Confluence
5 1 (0.11%) Ethereum
Applications
1 7 (0.79%) Simulink
2 6 (0.67%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.22%) OrCAD
4 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 11 (1.24%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 116 (13.05%) AWS
2 76 (8.55%) Azure
3 47 (5.29%) GCP
4 23 (2.59%) GitHub
5 8 (0.90%) OpenShift
6 7 (0.79%) GitHub Actions
7 6 (0.67%) AWS CloudFormation
7 6 (0.67%) Cloud Composer
7 6 (0.67%) Dagster
7 6 (0.67%) dbt
7 6 (0.67%) Entra ID
7 6 (0.67%) Google Workspace
7 6 (0.67%) Microsoft 365
8 5 (0.56%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (0.56%) Serverless
9 3 (0.34%) Azure Data Factory
9 3 (0.34%) Snowflake
10 2 (0.22%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (0.22%) Azure Service Bus
10 2 (0.22%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 41 (4.61%) TCP/IP
2 28 (3.15%) Multicast
3 22 (2.47%) Wireless
4 13 (1.46%) HTTP
5 11 (1.24%) Ethernet
6 8 (0.90%) Broadband
6 8 (0.90%) Software-Defined Radio
7 7 (0.79%) Network Security
8 6 (0.67%) Bluetooth
8 6 (0.67%) Modbus
8 6 (0.67%) RTP
8 6 (0.67%) VoIP
9 5 (0.56%) DNS
9 5 (0.56%) SMTP
10 4 (0.45%) SpaceWire
11 3 (0.34%) 5G
11 3 (0.34%) ATM
11 3 (0.34%) RS-232
11 3 (0.34%) RS-485
11 3 (0.34%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (2.70%) SQL Server
2 19 (2.14%) MySQL
3 9 (1.01%) NoSQL
4 8 (0.90%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (0.79%) Metadata
6 6 (0.67%) BigQuery
6 6 (0.67%) Elasticsearch
7 5 (0.56%) MongoDB
7 5 (0.56%) Semantic Layer
8 4 (0.45%) Big Data
8 4 (0.45%) NonStop SQL
8 4 (0.45%) TimescaleDB
9 3 (0.34%) Redis
10 1 (0.11%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (0.11%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.11%) GIS
10 1 (0.11%) Hadoop
10 1 (0.11%) KDB
10 1 (0.11%) Kdb+
10 1 (0.11%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 66 (7.42%) Git
2 19 (2.14%) JIRA
3 18 (2.02%) GitLab
4 15 (1.69%) Visual Studio
5 12 (1.35%) Jenkins
5 12 (1.35%) Rational DOORS
5 12 (1.35%) Visual Studio Code
6 6 (0.67%) LabVIEW
6 6 (0.67%) SonarQube
6 6 (0.67%) TeamCity
7 5 (0.56%) Android Studio
7 5 (0.56%) Cucumber
7 5 (0.56%) Subversion
8 4 (0.45%) Gradle
8 4 (0.45%) WinDbg
9 3 (0.34%) CMake
9 3 (0.34%) GDB
9 3 (0.34%) IDA Disassembler
10 2 (0.22%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.22%) MLflow
General
1 229 (25.76%) Finance
2 84 (9.45%) Social Skills
3 69 (7.76%) Electronics
4 51 (5.74%) Banking
5 48 (5.40%) Front Office
6 47 (5.29%) Manufacturing
7 45 (5.06%) Aerospace
8 44 (4.95%) Analytical Skills
9 28 (3.15%) Investment Banking
9 28 (3.15%) Telecoms
10 22 (2.47%) Games
11 21 (2.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 19 (2.14%) Automotive
13 17 (1.91%) Law
14 16 (1.80%) Military
15 11 (1.24%) Pharmaceutical
16 8 (0.90%) Aeronautics
16 8 (0.90%) Retail
17 7 (0.79%) Advertising
17 7 (0.79%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 424 (47.69%) Software Engineer
2 252 (28.35%) C++ Software Engineer
3 238 (26.77%) Developer
4 189 (21.26%) Senior
5 153 (17.21%) C++ Developer
6 99 (11.14%) Senior Software Engineer
7 84 (9.45%) Software Developer
8 72 (8.10%) Embedded Engineer
9 63 (7.09%) Python Engineer
9 63 (7.09%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
10 62 (6.97%) Python Software Engineer
11 58 (6.52%) Graduate
12 52 (5.85%) Embedded Software Engineer
13 46 (5.17%) Lead
14 44 (4.95%) C++ Software Developer
15 41 (4.61%) Low Latency C++ Developer
16 40 (4.50%) Linux Developer
16 40 (4.50%) Senior Developer
17 39 (4.39%) Senior C++ Developer
18 30 (3.37%) Graduate Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (5.40%) .NET
2 44 (4.95%) Boost C++ Libraries
2 44 (4.95%) RESTful
3 33 (3.71%) Qt
4 31 (3.49%) FIX Protocol
5 22 (2.47%) CSS
5 22 (2.47%) jQuery
6 21 (2.36%) Kafka
7 17 (1.91%) pytest
8 15 (1.69%) HTML
8 15 (1.69%) Unreal Engine
9 13 (1.46%) REST
10 12 (1.35%) ZeroMQ
11 10 (1.12%) React
11 10 (1.12%) STL
12 9 (1.01%) Middleware
12 9 (1.01%) WebSockets
13 8 (0.90%) gRPC
13 8 (0.90%) Vue
13 8 (0.90%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 119 (13.39%) Algorithms
2 59 (6.64%) Distributed Systems
3 49 (5.51%) Embedded Systems
4 43 (4.84%) Data Structures
4 43 (4.84%) FPGA
5 37 (4.16%) Equities
5 37 (4.16%) Robotics
6 32 (3.60%) Derivative
7 25 (2.81%) Management Information System
8 24 (2.70%) Hedge funds
9 21 (2.36%) Client/Server
9 21 (2.36%) Fixed Income
10 16 (1.80%) Self-Motivation
11 15 (1.69%) PCIe
11 15 (1.69%) VHDL
12 13 (1.46%) Cloud Native
12 13 (1.46%) Distributed Computing
12 13 (1.46%) Driving Licence
13 11 (1.24%) NVMe
14 10 (1.12%) GNSS
Operating Systems
1 234 (26.32%) Linux
2 52 (5.85%) Windows
3 18 (2.02%) Android
4 12 (1.35%) Embedded Linux
5 11 (1.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 9 (1.01%) FreeRTOS
7 8 (0.90%) Robot Operating System
8 5 (0.56%) Mac OS
8 5 (0.56%) Unix
9 4 (0.45%) VxWorks
10 3 (0.34%) Ubuntu
11 2 (0.22%) OpenWrt
11 2 (0.22%) SafeRTOS
12 1 (0.11%) Apple iOS
12 1 (0.11%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 487 (54.78%) Software Engineering
2 177 (19.91%) Computer Science
3 142 (15.97%) Agile
4 134 (15.07%) Low Latency
5 94 (10.57%) Problem-Solving
6 83 (9.34%) CI/CD
7 82 (9.22%) DevOps
8 79 (8.89%) AI
9 78 (8.77%) SDLC
10 72 (8.10%) Fintech
11 70 (7.87%) OOP
12 67 (7.54%) Test Automation
13 54 (6.07%) Mathematics
14 53 (5.96%) OO
15 51 (5.74%) Multithreading
16 47 (5.29%) Continuous Improvement
17 45 (5.06%) Machine Learning
17 45 (5.06%) Mentoring
18 43 (4.84%) Microservices
19 38 (4.27%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 313 (35.21%) Python
2 241 (27.11%) C
3 189 (21.26%) C#
4 145 (16.31%) Java
5 107 (12.04%) SQL
6 94 (10.57%) Rust
7 37 (4.16%) Go
8 36 (4.05%) Embedded C++
9 34 (3.82%) JavaScript
10 32 (3.60%) TypeScript
11 30 (3.37%) Embedded C
12 22 (2.47%) PHP
13 21 (2.36%) Bash
14 14 (1.57%) MATLAB
15 11 (1.24%) Assembly Language
15 11 (1.24%) Kotlin
16 10 (1.12%) PowerShell
17 7 (0.79%) PL/SQL
18 6 (0.67%) Shell Script
18 6 (0.67%) VBA
Qualifications
1 219 (24.63%) Degree
2 101 (11.36%) Security Cleared
3 99 (11.14%) Computer Science Degree
4 61 (6.86%) SC Cleared
5 60 (6.75%) Master's Degree
6 42 (4.72%) DV Cleared
7 39 (4.39%) PhD
8 6 (0.67%) AWS Certification
8 6 (0.67%) OSCP
9 5 (0.56%) CREST Certified
10 4 (0.45%) AWS Certified Developer
10 4 (0.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 4 (0.45%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (0.45%) GPEN
10 4 (0.45%) GXPN
10 4 (0.45%) OSCE
11 3 (0.34%) CCSAM
11 3 (0.34%) CEH
11 3 (0.34%) HND
12 2 (0.22%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (5.06%) QA
2 9 (1.01%) ISO 9001
3 6 (0.67%) ECSS
4 4 (0.45%) ISO 20022
5 3 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
5 3 (0.34%) EMIR
5 3 (0.34%) IEC 61508
5 3 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.34%) MISRA
5 3 (0.34%) NIST
5 3 (0.34%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.22%) MISRA C
7 1 (0.11%) AUTOSAR
7 1 (0.11%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.11%) Def Stans
7 1 (0.11%) DO-254
7 1 (0.11%) HAZOP
7 1 (0.11%) IEC 62304
7 1 (0.11%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 70 (7.87%) Firmware
2 43 (4.84%) Docker
3 40 (4.50%) Embedded Firmware
4 17 (1.91%) KVM
4 17 (1.91%) VMware Infrastructure
5 13 (1.46%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.45%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.45%) Virtual Servers
7 3 (0.34%) Kamailio
8 2 (0.22%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 41 (4.61%) Kubernetes
2 21 (2.36%) Terraform
3 13 (1.46%) Grafana
4 7 (0.79%) Ansible
4 7 (0.79%) Prometheus
5 6 (0.67%) Microsoft Intune
6 5 (0.56%) Kibana
6 5 (0.56%) logstash
7 4 (0.45%) Argo
8 3 (0.34%) Nagios
9 2 (0.22%) Functional Safety
10 1 (0.11%) Kubeflow
10 1 (0.11%) Podman
10 1 (0.11%) QRadar
Vendors
1 29 (3.26%) Microsoft
2 17 (1.91%) VMware
3 15 (1.69%) Altera
4 12 (1.35%) Xilinx
5 11 (1.24%) Red Hat
6 8 (0.90%) EMC
6 8 (0.90%) Google
7 7 (0.79%) Palantir
8 6 (0.67%) SAP
9 5 (0.56%) Databricks
10 4 (0.45%) Apple
10 4 (0.45%) Blue Prism
10 4 (0.45%) Oracle
11 3 (0.34%) BT
11 3 (0.34%) Fortinet
11 3 (0.34%) Mitel
11 3 (0.34%) Solace
12 2 (0.22%) Mavenir
12 2 (0.22%) Nokia
12 2 (0.22%) NVIDIA