C++ Jobs in Essex

C++
East of England > Essex

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Essex 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 14 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 73 74
Rank change year-on-year +42 +1 -31
Permanent jobs citing C++ 25 5 9
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Essex 5.33% 0.58% 1.06%
As % of the Programming Languages category 17.01% 2.16% 3.59%
Number of salaries quoted 16 5 7
10th Percentile £24,813 - £55,750
25th Percentile - £52,500 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £25,000 £55,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -54.55% -24.14% +93.33%
75th Percentile £65,000 £57,500 £85,000
90th Percentile - £63,500 -
East of England median annual salary £66,203 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +10.34% - +9.09%

All Programming Languages
Essex

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 Essex.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 147 232 251
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Essex 31.34% 26.70% 29.67%
Number of salaries quoted 95 204 155
10th Percentile £25,000 £31,250 £36,443
25th Percentile £31,250 £37,188 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -9.52% +16.67%
75th Percentile £76,000 £68,750 £70,625
90th Percentile £90,500 £75,000 £83,500
East of England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% +14.29%

C++
Job Vacancy Trend in Essex

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

Job vacancy trend for C++ in Essex

C++
Salary Trend in Essex

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

Salary trend for C++ in Essex

C++
Salary Histogram in Essex

Salary distribution for jobs citing C++ in Essex over the 6 months to 14 May 2025.

Salary histogram for C++ in Essex

C++
Job Locations in Essex

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing C++ within the Essex region over the 6 months to 14 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
Brentwood - 3 £65,000 - 2
Chelmsford +12 2 £63,750 +15.91% 10
Epping - 1 - -
Grays - 1 - -
Purfleet - 1 - -
Saffron Walden - 1 - - 5
Buckhurst Hill - 1 - -
C++
East of England

C++
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Essex 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:

Cloud Services
1 17 (68.00%) Azure
2 8 (32.00%) Amazon EKS
2 8 (32.00%) AWS
2 8 (32.00%) AWS CloudFormation
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (36.00%) SQL Server
2 8 (32.00%) Elasticsearch
2 8 (32.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (8.00%) Git
1 2 (8.00%) JIRA
1 2 (8.00%) Visual Studio
2 1 (4.00%) PetaLinux
General
1 9 (36.00%) Finance
2 8 (32.00%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (32.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 8 (32.00%) Social Skills
3 5 (20.00%) Manufacturing
4 2 (8.00%) Electronics
5 1 (4.00%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 17 (68.00%) Developer
2 9 (36.00%) Graduate
2 9 (36.00%) Graduate Developer
2 9 (36.00%) IT Graduate
3 8 (32.00%) Software Developer
4 5 (20.00%) Software Engineer
5 4 (16.00%) Senior
5 4 (16.00%) Senior Software Engineer
6 3 (12.00%) C++ Software Engineer
6 3 (12.00%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
7 2 (8.00%) Agile C# Developer
7 2 (8.00%) Agile Developer
7 2 (8.00%) C# Developer
7 2 (8.00%) Embedded Engineer
7 2 (8.00%) Embedded Software Engineer
7 2 (8.00%) Graduate C# Developer
7 2 (8.00%) Graduate PHP Developer
7 2 (8.00%) Graduate SQL Developer
7 2 (8.00%) PHP Developer
7 2 (8.00%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (68.00%) .NET
2 9 (36.00%) ASP.NET
2 9 (36.00%) CSS
2 9 (36.00%) jQuery
3 8 (32.00%) Node.js
3 8 (32.00%) Pandas
4 1 (4.00%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 8 (32.00%) Cyberattack
2 3 (12.00%) Algorithms
3 2 (8.00%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (4.00%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (4.00%) FPGA
4 1 (4.00%) Verilog
4 1 (4.00%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 11 (44.00%) Linux
2 8 (32.00%) Android
3 3 (12.00%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (68.00%) Agile
1 17 (68.00%) OO
2 13 (52.00%) OOP
2 13 (52.00%) Software Engineering
3 9 (36.00%) Collaborative Working
3 9 (36.00%) Computer Science
3 9 (36.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 9 (36.00%) MVC
4 8 (32.00%) Android Development
4 8 (32.00%) CI/CD
4 8 (32.00%) Containerisation
4 8 (32.00%) Design Patterns
4 8 (32.00%) Kanban
4 8 (32.00%) Line Management
4 8 (32.00%) Mathematics
4 8 (32.00%) OWASP
4 8 (32.00%) Secure Coding
4 8 (32.00%) Statistics
5 5 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (8.00%) Creative Thinking
Programming Languages
1 17 (68.00%) Java
2 10 (40.00%) Python
3 9 (36.00%) C#
3 9 (36.00%) PHP
3 9 (36.00%) Rust
4 8 (32.00%) Go
4 8 (32.00%) JavaScript
5 2 (8.00%) SQL
6 1 (4.00%) C
6 1 (4.00%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 11 (44.00%) Degree
2 9 (36.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (32.00%) DV Cleared
3 8 (32.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 8 (32.00%) Docker
2 2 (8.00%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 8 (32.00%) Ansible
1 8 (32.00%) Kubernetes
1 8 (32.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (4.00%) Xilinx