C++ Job Trends in Hertfordshire

C++
East of England > Hertfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Hertfordshire requiring C++ skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 97 58 81
Rank change year-on-year -39 +23 +42
Permanent jobs citing C++ 9 30 35
As % of all permanent jobs in Hertfordshire 0.42% 3.36% 2.02%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.56% 11.58% 6.86%
Number of salaries quoted 5 25 27
10th Percentile £30,000 £48,750 £49,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £57,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £62,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -35.48% +3.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £42,500 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £50,000 - £66,250
East of England median annual salary £67,500 £66,212 £60,000
% change year-on-year +1.95% +10.35% -

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 162 259 510
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 7.64% 29.04% 29.45%
Number of salaries quoted 125 178 442
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,000 £49,250 £44,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,250 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.63% +13.18% -8.33%
75th Percentile £72,500 £76,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £81,500 £75,000
East of England median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -15.38% +18.18% -8.33%

C++
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

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

C++ job vacancy trend in Hertfordshire

C++
Salary Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing C++

C++
Salary Histogram in Hertfordshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing C++ in Hertfordshire over the 6 months to 18 March 2026.

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 18 March 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
Royston -5 3 - - 1
Stevenage -20 3 £40,000 -33.33% 4
Watford +8 1 - -
C++
East of England

C++
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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 1 (11.11%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (11.11%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 2 (22.22%) AWS
2 1 (11.11%) Azure
2 1 (11.11%) Cloud Composer
2 1 (11.11%) Dagster
2 1 (11.11%) dbt
2 1 (11.11%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) BigQuery
1 1 (11.11%) Metadata
1 1 (11.11%) MySQL
1 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
General
1 4 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 3 (33.33%) Documentation Skills
2 3 (33.33%) Electronics
2 3 (33.33%) Games
2 3 (33.33%) Manufacturing
2 3 (33.33%) Pharmaceutical
3 1 (11.11%) Finance
3 1 (11.11%) Law
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Systems Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Development Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Integration Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Systems Integration Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Developer
3 1 (11.11%) C# Developer
3 1 (11.11%) C# Software Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Data Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Graduate
3 1 (11.11%) Graduate C# Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Graduate C# Software Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Graduate Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Graduate PHP Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Graduate Software Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Graduate SQL Developer
3 1 (11.11%) PHP Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Real Time Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Software Developer
3 1 (11.11%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (33.33%) OpenGL
1 3 (33.33%) Vulkan
2 1 (11.11%) CSS
2 1 (11.11%) jQuery
2 1 (11.11%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) 3D Graphics
1 3 (33.33%) CUDA
2 1 (11.11%) Anti-Piracy
2 1 (11.11%) Data Structures
2 1 (11.11%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 3 (33.33%) Linux
1 3 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Physics
2 4 (44.44%) Agile
3 3 (33.33%) AI
3 3 (33.33%) Biotechnology
3 3 (33.33%) CAD
3 3 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
3 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (33.33%) Prototyping
3 3 (33.33%) Smart Manufacturing
3 3 (33.33%) Software Architecture
3 3 (33.33%) Software Engineering
3 3 (33.33%) Technical Analysis
3 3 (33.33%) Validation
4 1 (11.11%) Architectural Patterns
4 1 (11.11%) Data Engineering
4 1 (11.11%) Data Pipeline
4 1 (11.11%) Data Science
4 1 (11.11%) Data Security
4 1 (11.11%) MVC
4 1 (11.11%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 7 (77.78%) Python
2 5 (55.56%) C#
3 3 (33.33%) C
3 3 (33.33%) GLSL
4 2 (22.22%) Java
4 2 (22.22%) SQL
5 1 (11.11%) PHP
5 1 (11.11%) Scala
Qualifications
1 4 (44.44%) Degree
2 3 (33.33%) BPSS Clearance
2 3 (33.33%) Security Cleared
3 1 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree