C++ Jobs in Lancashire

C++
North West > Lancashire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Lancashire 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 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 79 72
Rank change year-on-year +52 -7 +50
Permanent jobs citing C++ 379 8 2
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Lancashire 16.32% 0.61% 0.29%
As % of the Programming Languages category 35.06% 2.52% 0.92%
Number of salaries quoted 2 8 2
10th Percentile £52,868 £33,500 -
25th Percentile £53,419 £64,550 £82,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,280 £79,932 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -29.59% -5.96% -
75th Percentile £58,582 £84,964 £87,500
90th Percentile £58,798 - -
North West median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

All Programming Languages
Lancashire

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 Lancashire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 1,081 318 218
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Lancashire 46.55% 24.18% 31.28%
Number of salaries quoted 433 254 119
10th Percentile £42,415 £31,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £47,683 £39,439 £38,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £51,240 £65,000 £55,000
90th Percentile £58,943 £80,000 £60,250
North West median annual salary £50,890 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -7.47% - -

C++
Job Vacancy Trend in Lancashire

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

Job vacancy trend for C++ in Lancashire

C++
Salary Trend in Lancashire

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

Salary trend for C++ in Lancashire

C++
Job Locations in Lancashire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing C++ within the Lancashire region over the 6 months to 17 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
Preston -17 7 - - 1
Blackburn - 5 - -
Chorley - 5 - -
Darwen - 5 - -
Accrington - 4 - -
Blackpool -31 3 - -
Burnley - 3 - - 1
Colne - 3 - -
Ormskirk - 3 - -
Nelson - 3 - -
Skelmersdale - 3 - -
Rossendale - 3 - -
Bacup - 2 - -
Newton-le-Willows - 2 - - 1
Clitheroe - 2 - -
Poulton-le-Fylde - 2 - -
Fleetwood - 1 - -
Morecambe - 1 - -
Barnoldswick - 1 - -
C++
North West

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

Application Platforms
1 2 (0.53%) Apache
Business Applications
1 2 (0.53%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 72 (19.00%) Azure
2 70 (18.47%) AWS
2 70 (18.47%) GCP
3 2 (0.53%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 307 (81.00%) DNS
2 305 (80.47%) VPN
3 2 (0.53%) FTP
3 2 (0.53%) HTTP
3 2 (0.53%) HTTPS
3 2 (0.53%) SSH
3 2 (0.53%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (0.53%) MySQL
1 2 (0.53%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 1 (0.26%) JIRA
1 1 (0.26%) Rational DOORS
General
1 375 (98.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 307 (81.00%) Analytical Skills
3 305 (80.47%) Finance
4 3 (0.79%) Social Skills
5 2 (0.53%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 305 (80.47%) Developer
1 305 (80.47%) Software Developer
2 71 (18.73%) Senior
2 71 (18.73%) Senior Software Engineer
2 71 (18.73%) Software Engineer
3 1 (0.26%) Administrator
3 1 (0.26%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (0.26%) Lead
3 1 (0.26%) Linux DevOps Engineer
3 1 (0.26%) Linux Engineer
3 1 (0.26%) Linux/Unix DevOps
3 1 (0.26%) Software Team Leader
3 1 (0.26%) Systems Administrator
3 1 (0.26%) Team Leader
3 1 (0.26%) Unix Administrator
3 1 (0.26%) Unix Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (18.47%) .NET
1 70 (18.47%) Node.js
2 2 (0.53%) EDI
2 2 (0.53%) LAMP
2 2 (0.53%) Loki
2 2 (0.53%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 375 (98.94%) Cyberattack
2 72 (19.00%) Linux Command Line
3 71 (18.73%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (0.53%) Life Science
4 2 (0.53%) Management Information System
4 2 (0.53%) Renewable Energy
4 2 (0.53%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 377 (99.47%) Linux
2 305 (80.47%) Android
3 2 (0.53%) AIX
3 2 (0.53%) CentOS
3 2 (0.53%) Oracle Linux
3 2 (0.53%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 376 (99.21%) Agile
2 306 (80.74%) Mathematics
3 305 (80.47%) Android Development
3 305 (80.47%) Design Patterns
3 305 (80.47%) Line Management
3 305 (80.47%) OO
3 305 (80.47%) OOP
4 72 (19.00%) Software Engineering
5 70 (18.47%) Cloud Security
5 70 (18.47%) Data Engineering
5 70 (18.47%) Machine Learning
5 70 (18.47%) Mentoring
5 70 (18.47%) Microservices
5 70 (18.47%) Scrum
5 70 (18.47%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 70 (18.47%) User Experience
6 2 (0.53%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (0.53%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (0.53%) Roadmaps
6 2 (0.53%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 378 (99.74%) Python
2 377 (99.47%) Java
3 375 (98.94%) Go
4 71 (18.73%) Rust
5 70 (18.47%) JavaScript
6 3 (0.79%) C
7 2 (0.53%) AWK
7 2 (0.53%) Korn
7 2 (0.53%) Perl
7 2 (0.53%) PHP
8 1 (0.26%) Ada
8 1 (0.26%) C#
8 1 (0.26%) VB
Qualifications
1 375 (98.94%) DV Cleared
1 375 (98.94%) Security Cleared
2 70 (18.47%) AWS Certification
2 70 (18.47%) AWS Certified Developer
2 70 (18.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (0.53%) Degree
4 1 (0.26%) HNC
4 1 (0.26%) HND
System Software
1 305 (80.47%) Docker
2 2 (0.53%) KVM
2 2 (0.53%) Postfix
2 2 (0.53%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 305 (80.47%) Ansible
2 2 (0.53%) Grafana
2 2 (0.53%) Nagios
2 2 (0.53%) Nessus
Vendors
1 2 (0.53%) IBM
1 2 (0.53%) Microsoft
1 2 (0.53%) Oracle
1 2 (0.53%) Red Hat
1 2 (0.53%) SAP
1 2 (0.53%) Tenable