C++ Jobs in Hertfordshire

C++
East of England > Hertfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Hertfordshire 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 16 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 54 68 94
Rank change year-on-year +14 +26 -16
Permanent jobs citing C++ 34 48 15
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 3.68% 2.24% 1.12%
As % of the Programming Languages category 12.10% 10.17% 3.85%
Number of salaries quoted 25 37 15
10th Percentile £48,750 £49,500 £51,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £50,000 £55,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% - +2.56%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile - £67,250 -
East of England median annual salary £66,200 £65,000 £61,250
% change year-on-year +1.85% +6.12% +11.36%

All Programming Languages
Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 281 472 390
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 30.41% 22.06% 29.10%
Number of salaries quoted 198 408 237
10th Percentile £28,750 £36,250 £42,300
25th Percentile £32,500 £45,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £68,438 £67,813 £70,000
90th Percentile £84,875 £76,000 £76,250
East of England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +9.52%

C++
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for C++ in Hertfordshire

C++
Salary Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Salary trend for C++ in Hertfordshire

C++
Salary Histogram in Hertfordshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing C++ in Hertfordshire over the 6 months to 16 July 2025.

Salary histogram for C++ in Hertfordshire

C++
Job Locations in Hertfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing C++ within the Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 16 July 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
Stevenage +33 15 £60,000 +9.09% 47
Hemel Hempstead - 6 £62,000 - 4
Letchworth +7 2 £50,000 -
Hatfield +2 2 - - 2
Watford - 2 £85,000 - 3
Hoddesdon - 1 - -
C++
East of England

C++
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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 9 (26.47%) Azure
2 7 (20.59%) Amazon EKS
2 7 (20.59%) AWS
2 7 (20.59%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 6 (17.65%) Firewall
1 6 (17.65%) FTP
1 6 (17.65%) HTTP
1 6 (17.65%) Internet
1 6 (17.65%) LAN
1 6 (17.65%) Network Security
1 6 (17.65%) SMTP
1 6 (17.65%) TCP/IP
1 6 (17.65%) VPN
1 6 (17.65%) WAN
2 1 (2.94%) 3GPP
2 1 (2.94%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (20.59%) Elasticsearch
2 6 (17.65%) Relational Database
3 2 (5.88%) Scylla
4 1 (2.94%) MySQL
4 1 (2.94%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (5.88%) CppUnit
1 2 (5.88%) Fiddler
1 2 (5.88%) IDA Disassembler
1 2 (5.88%) Rational DOORS
1 2 (5.88%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 17 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 9 (26.47%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (26.47%) Social Skills
3 5 (14.71%) Electronics
4 4 (11.76%) Manufacturing
5 2 (5.88%) Aerospace
5 2 (5.88%) Automotive
5 2 (5.88%) Military
Job Titles
1 12 (35.29%) Lead
2 8 (23.53%) Developer
3 7 (20.59%) Software Developer
4 6 (17.65%) Embedded Engineer
4 6 (17.65%) Project Leader
4 6 (17.65%) Software Project Leader
5 5 (14.71%) Software Engineer
6 3 (8.82%) Senior
6 3 (8.82%) Senior Software Engineer
7 2 (5.88%) Architect
7 2 (5.88%) Software Verification Engineer
7 2 (5.88%) Verification Engineer
8 1 (2.94%) C# Software Engineer
8 1 (2.94%) Graduate
8 1 (2.94%) Junior
8 1 (2.94%) Junior Embedded Engineer
8 1 (2.94%) Principal Engineer
8 1 (2.94%) Principal Software Engineer
8 1 (2.94%) Software Architect
8 1 (2.94%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (26.47%) .NET
2 7 (20.59%) Node.js
2 7 (20.59%) Pandas
3 6 (17.65%) LDAP
4 1 (2.94%) ASP.NET
4 1 (2.94%) COM
4 1 (2.94%) CSS
4 1 (2.94%) gRPC
4 1 (2.94%) jQuery
4 1 (2.94%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 7 (20.59%) Cyberattack
2 6 (17.65%) Client/Server
2 6 (17.65%) Security Operations Centre
3 2 (5.88%) e-Learning
3 2 (5.88%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (2.94%) FPGA
4 1 (2.94%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.94%) IoT
4 1 (2.94%) Private Cloud
4 1 (2.94%) Robotics
4 1 (2.94%) Verilog
4 1 (2.94%) VHDL
4 1 (2.94%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (23.53%) Linux
2 7 (20.59%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (67.65%) Software Engineering
2 18 (52.94%) Agile
3 13 (38.24%) Line Management
3 13 (38.24%) Validation
4 11 (32.35%) CI/CD
5 9 (26.47%) Collaborative Working
5 9 (26.47%) Verification and Validation
6 8 (23.53%) OO
6 8 (23.53%) OOP
6 8 (23.53%) Reverse Engineering
6 8 (23.53%) Scrum
6 8 (23.53%) UML
7 7 (20.59%) Android Development
7 7 (20.59%) Coaching
7 7 (20.59%) Kanban
7 7 (20.59%) Mathematics
7 7 (20.59%) Mentoring
7 7 (20.59%) OWASP
7 7 (20.59%) Secure Coding
7 7 (20.59%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 18 (52.94%) C
2 15 (44.12%) Python
3 9 (26.47%) Ada
3 9 (26.47%) Java
4 8 (23.53%) Go
5 7 (20.59%) JavaScript
5 7 (20.59%) Rust
6 6 (17.65%) Bash
6 6 (17.65%) Perl
6 6 (17.65%) PowerShell
7 3 (8.82%) C#
8 2 (5.88%) PHP
9 1 (2.94%) SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (38.24%) DV Cleared
1 13 (38.24%) Security Cleared
2 6 (17.65%) SC Cleared
3 3 (8.82%) Degree
4 1 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
System Software
1 8 (23.53%) Docker
2 6 (17.65%) Embedded Firmware
2 6 (17.65%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 8 (23.53%) Kubernetes
2 7 (20.59%) Ansible
2 7 (20.59%) Terraform
3 6 (17.65%) QRadar
Vendors
1 7 (20.59%) Microsoft
2 6 (17.65%) Splunk
3 2 (5.88%) IBM