C++ Jobs in Kent

C++
South East > Kent

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Kent 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 49 93 84
Rank change year-on-year +44 -9 -39
Permanent jobs citing C++ 23 15 18
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Kent 2.84% 1.00% 1.61%
As % of the Programming Languages category 12.92% 3.99% 6.14%
Number of salaries quoted 11 14 14
10th Percentile £35,500 £29,700 -
25th Percentile £40,875 £33,250 £26,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £37,000 £34,000
Median % change year-on-year +62.16% +8.82% -20.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £42,906 £54,563
90th Percentile £68,750 £44,375 £69,625
South East median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.35% -8.00% +19.05%

All Programming Languages
Kent

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 Kent.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 178 376 293
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Kent 21.95% 25.13% 26.14%
Number of salaries quoted 139 314 155
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £33,000 £39,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,683 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.30% +4.76% +23.53%
75th Percentile £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £71,175 £68,250
South East median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% +4.55%

C++
Job Vacancy Trend in Kent

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

Job vacancy trend for C++ in Kent

C++
Salary Trend in Kent

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

Salary trend for C++ in Kent

C++
Salary Histogram in Kent

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

Salary histogram for C++ in Kent

C++
Job Locations in Kent

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing C++ within the Kent 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
Rochester -27 8 £65,000 +75.68% 5
Dartford - 1 £52,500 - 2
C++
South East

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

Applications
1 5 (21.74%) Microsoft Office
1 5 (21.74%) Simulink
2 1 (4.35%) GNU Octave
2 1 (4.35%) OrCAD
Cloud Services
1 3 (13.04%) Amazon EKS
1 3 (13.04%) AWS
1 3 (13.04%) AWS CloudFormation
1 3 (13.04%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.35%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (13.04%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (4.35%) Geospatial Data
2 1 (4.35%) GIS
Development Applications
1 4 (17.39%) Rational DOORS
2 1 (4.35%) Git
2 1 (4.35%) Subversion
General
1 12 (52.17%) Electronics
2 7 (30.43%) Social Skills
3 5 (21.74%) Aerospace
4 4 (17.39%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (17.39%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (13.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (8.70%) Manufacturing
6 2 (8.70%) Military
7 1 (4.35%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 6 (26.09%) Senior
1 6 (26.09%) Software Engineer
2 4 (17.39%) Developer
2 4 (17.39%) Hardware Engineer
2 4 (17.39%) Lead
2 4 (17.39%) Senior Hardware Engineer
2 4 (17.39%) Software Developer
2 4 (17.39%) Systems Engineer
3 3 (13.04%) Embedded Engineer
3 3 (13.04%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Graduate
4 2 (8.70%) Graduate Embedded Software Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Graduate Software Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Product Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Senior Software Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Embedded Firmware Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Firmware Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Principal Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Software Tester
5 1 (4.35%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (34.78%) .NET
2 3 (13.04%) Node.js
2 3 (13.04%) Pandas
3 1 (4.35%) .NET Framework
3 1 (4.35%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (21.74%) Analogue Electronics
1 5 (21.74%) FPGA
1 5 (21.74%) VHDL
2 4 (17.39%) Life Science
3 3 (13.04%) Cyberattack
3 3 (13.04%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (4.35%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (4.35%) Verilog
Operating Systems
1 5 (21.74%) Linux
2 3 (13.04%) Android
3 1 (4.35%) Embedded Linux
3 1 (4.35%) FreeRTOS
3 1 (4.35%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (60.87%) Mathematics
1 14 (60.87%) Software Engineering
2 8 (34.78%) Physics
2 8 (34.78%) Systems Engineering
3 5 (21.74%) CAD
3 5 (21.74%) Validation
4 4 (17.39%) Agile
4 4 (17.39%) Architectural Design
4 4 (17.39%) CI/CD
4 4 (17.39%) Cybersecurity
4 4 (17.39%) Information Assurance
4 4 (17.39%) Prototyping
4 4 (17.39%) Requirements Management
4 4 (17.39%) Schematic Capture
4 4 (17.39%) Software Architecture
4 4 (17.39%) Statistics
4 4 (17.39%) Verification and Validation
5 3 (13.04%) Android Development
5 3 (13.04%) Line Management
5 3 (13.04%) OWASP
Programming Languages
1 17 (73.91%) C
2 15 (65.22%) Python
3 11 (47.83%) C#
4 9 (39.13%) Java
5 8 (34.78%) MATLAB
6 4 (17.39%) Rust
7 3 (13.04%) Go
7 3 (13.04%) JavaScript
8 2 (8.70%) Ada
8 2 (8.70%) Embedded C
9 1 (4.35%) Embedded C++
Qualifications
1 9 (39.13%) Degree
2 8 (34.78%) Security Cleared
3 5 (21.74%) SC Cleared
4 3 (13.04%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.35%) Def Stans
System Software
1 5 (21.74%) Firmware
2 3 (13.04%) Docker
3 1 (4.35%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 3 (13.04%) Ansible
1 3 (13.04%) Kubernetes
1 3 (13.04%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (30.43%) EMC
2 5 (21.74%) Microsoft
3 4 (17.39%) Siemens