C++ Job Trends in Manchester

C++
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring C++ skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 113 104 85
Rank change year-on-year -9 -19 +44
Permanent jobs citing C++ 18 56 63
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.65% 2.03% 2.77%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.40% 6.04% 6.45%
Number of salaries quoted 18 18 53
10th Percentile - £49,250 £32,092
25th Percentile £45,750 £52,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,500 £60,000 £56,500
Median % change year-on-year -22.50% +6.19% -5.83%
75th Percentile £61,250 £70,063 £68,750
90th Percentile £62,375 £72,375 £74,250
North West median annual salary £46,500 £57,698 £57,500
% change year-on-year -19.41% +0.34% -9.97%

All Programming Languages
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 530 927 976
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 19.26% 33.65% 42.88%
Number of salaries quoted 451 483 798
10th Percentile £33,125 £38,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £44,263
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year - +0.80% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £72,500 £72,433
90th Percentile £87,000 £86,250 £82,548
North West median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -

C++
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

C++ job vacancy trend in Manchester

C++
Salary Trend in Manchester

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing C++

C++
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing C++ in Manchester over the 6 months to 29 December 2025.

Salary histogram for C++ in Manchester

C++
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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 2 (11.11%) WinCC
Cloud Services
1 1 (5.56%) AWS
1 1 (5.56%) Azure
1 1 (5.56%) Azure Machine Learning
1 1 (5.56%) GCP
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 4 (22.22%) HTTP
1 4 (22.22%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 4 (22.22%) Visual Studio
2 1 (5.56%) MLflow
General
1 10 (55.56%) Electronics
2 1 (5.56%) Advertising
2 1 (5.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (55.56%) Electronics Engineer
1 10 (55.56%) Embedded Engineer
2 4 (22.22%) C++ Developer
2 4 (22.22%) Developer
3 3 (16.67%) Senior
3 3 (16.67%) Senior C++ Developer
3 3 (16.67%) Senior Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) C++ Software Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Linux Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) SCADA Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Siemens Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (27.78%) STL
2 4 (22.22%) Qt
3 3 (16.67%) QML
4 1 (5.56%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 4 (22.22%) Client/Server
2 1 (5.56%) Embedded Systems
2 1 (5.56%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 4 (22.22%) Windows
2 1 (5.56%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (55.56%) Embedded Software Development
2 4 (22.22%) Agile
2 4 (22.22%) Test Automation
3 3 (16.67%) DevOps
3 3 (16.67%) GitOps
3 3 (16.67%) Multithreading
4 2 (11.11%) Project Delivery
5 1 (5.56%) AI
5 1 (5.56%) Deep Learning
5 1 (5.56%) Machine Learning
5 1 (5.56%) MLOps
5 1 (5.56%) Natural Language Processing
5 1 (5.56%) Performance Optimisation
5 1 (5.56%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 11 (61.11%) Embedded C++
2 10 (55.56%) C
2 10 (55.56%) Embedded C
3 3 (16.67%) C#
4 2 (11.11%) VB
5 1 (5.56%) Java
5 1 (5.56%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (22.22%) QA
System Software
1 10 (55.56%) Embedded Firmware
1 10 (55.56%) Firmware
Vendors
1 10 (55.56%) EMC
2 2 (11.11%) Siemens
3 1 (5.56%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.56%) OpenAI