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 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 114 101 74
Rank change year-on-year -13 -27 +53
Permanent jobs citing C++ 20 58 72
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.76% 2.03% 3.40%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.73% 5.82% 7.52%
Number of salaries quoted 20 20 62
10th Percentile - £49,750 £40,075
25th Percentile £45,750 £50,938 £45,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -22.50% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £61,250 £66,313 £68,750
90th Percentile £61,625 £71,625 £81,375
North West median annual salary £46,500 £57,004 £60,000
% change year-on-year -18.43% -4.99% -4.00%

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 536 996 958
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 20.32% 34.78% 45.25%
Number of salaries quoted 460 520 783
10th Percentile £34,363 £38,750 £39,350
25th Percentile £46,250 £46,597 £44,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +0.80%
75th Percentile £73,829 £72,500 £72,433
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,125 £83,159
North West median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £56,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -1.79% +1.82%

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 17 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 (10.00%) WinCC
Cloud Services
1 1 (5.00%) AWS
1 1 (5.00%) Azure
1 1 (5.00%) Azure Machine Learning
1 1 (5.00%) GCP
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 4 (20.00%) HTTP
1 4 (20.00%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 4 (20.00%) Visual Studio
2 1 (5.00%) MLflow
General
1 11 (55.00%) Electronics
2 1 (5.00%) Advertising
2 1 (5.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 11 (55.00%) Electronics Engineer
1 11 (55.00%) Embedded Engineer
2 4 (20.00%) C++ Developer
2 4 (20.00%) Developer
3 3 (15.00%) Senior
3 3 (15.00%) Senior C++ Developer
3 3 (15.00%) Senior Developer
4 2 (10.00%) C++ Software Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Linux Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Software Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) SCADA Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Siemens Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (25.00%) STL
2 4 (20.00%) Qt
3 3 (15.00%) QML
4 1 (5.00%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 4 (20.00%) Client/Server
2 2 (10.00%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (5.00%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 4 (20.00%) Windows
2 2 (10.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (55.00%) Embedded Software Development
2 4 (20.00%) Agile
2 4 (20.00%) Test Automation
3 3 (15.00%) DevOps
3 3 (15.00%) GitOps
3 3 (15.00%) Multithreading
4 2 (10.00%) Project Delivery
4 2 (10.00%) Software Engineering
5 1 (5.00%) AI
5 1 (5.00%) Deep Learning
5 1 (5.00%) Machine Learning
5 1 (5.00%) MLOps
5 1 (5.00%) Natural Language Processing
5 1 (5.00%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 13 (65.00%) Embedded C++
2 11 (55.00%) C
2 11 (55.00%) Embedded C
3 3 (15.00%) C#
4 2 (10.00%) VB
5 1 (5.00%) Java
5 1 (5.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 11 (55.00%) Embedded Firmware
1 11 (55.00%) Firmware
Vendors
1 11 (55.00%) EMC
2 2 (10.00%) Siemens
3 1 (5.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.00%) OpenAI