C++ Jobs in Manchester

C++
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 4 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 78 138 188
Rank change year-on-year +60 +50 -71
Permanent jobs citing C++ 68 80 55
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 3.16% 1.56% 1.11%
As % of the Programming Languages category 9.18% 4.64% 2.41%
Number of salaries quoted 27 68 50
10th Percentile £38,250 £42,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £49,750 £42,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +8.70% -4.17%
75th Percentile £71,250 £72,500 £85,625
90th Percentile £74,250 £76,500 £86,250
North West median annual salary £55,000 £61,000 £60,500
% change year-on-year -9.84% +0.83% +0.83%

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 741 1,724 2,279
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 34.39% 33.59% 45.88%
Number of salaries quoted 566 1,398 1,296
10th Percentile £38,750 £37,275 £38,750
25th Percentile £49,063 £43,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £57,000 £57,810
Median % change year-on-year +14.04% -1.40% +5.11%
75th Percentile £77,500 £71,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £93,778 £80,000 £83,903
North West median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -

C++
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for C++ in Manchester

C++
Salary Trend in Manchester

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

Salary trend for C++ in Manchester

C++
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing C++ in Manchester over the 6 months to 4 May 2025.

Salary histogram for C++ in Manchester

C++
Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing C++ within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 4 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
Oldham - 6 £55,000 -
Bolton - 4 £50,000 - 17
Bury - 4 - - 8
Wigan - 4 - -
Salford - 3 £39,500 - 2
Rochdale - 3 - - 3
Stockport +12 2 - - 13
Dukinfield - 2 - -
Heywood - 2 - -
Littleborough - 1 - -
Sale - 1 - -
Cheadle - 1 - -
Altrincham - 1 - - 4
Ashton-under-Lyne - 1 - - 4
Stalybridge - 1 - -
C++
North West

C++
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 (2.94%) CMS
1 2 (2.94%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (1.47%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.47%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 19 (27.94%) Azure
2 16 (23.53%) AWS
2 16 (23.53%) GCP
3 2 (2.94%) Cloud Computing
3 2 (2.94%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 28 (41.18%) DNS
2 26 (38.24%) VPN
3 6 (8.82%) Wireless
4 3 (4.41%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.41%) MySQL
1 3 (4.41%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (2.94%) MongoDB
2 2 (2.94%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (8.82%) Git
1 6 (8.82%) Jenkins
2 2 (2.94%) Visual Studio
3 1 (1.47%) GitLab
3 1 (1.47%) LabVIEW
3 1 (1.47%) Subversion
General
1 40 (58.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 35 (51.47%) Analytical Skills
3 34 (50.00%) Finance
4 9 (13.24%) Social Skills
5 8 (11.76%) Electronics
6 7 (10.29%) Aerospace
7 6 (8.82%) Telecoms
8 4 (5.88%) Manufacturing
9 3 (4.41%) Automotive
9 3 (4.41%) Marketing
10 2 (2.94%) Law
11 1 (1.47%) Retail
Job Titles
1 31 (45.59%) Developer
2 28 (41.18%) Software Engineer
3 27 (39.71%) Software Developer
4 24 (35.29%) Senior
5 23 (33.82%) Senior Software Engineer
6 4 (5.88%) Embedded Engineer
6 4 (5.88%) Embedded Software Engineer
7 2 (2.94%) Analyst
7 2 (2.94%) Development Analyst
7 2 (2.94%) Graduate
7 2 (2.94%) Graduate Developer
7 2 (2.94%) Information Analyst
7 2 (2.94%) Information Security Analyst
7 2 (2.94%) IT Graduate
7 2 (2.94%) Lecturer
7 2 (2.94%) Security Analyst
7 2 (2.94%) Software Analyst
7 2 (2.94%) Software Development Analyst
8 1 (1.47%) Agile C# Developer
8 1 (1.47%) Graduate C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (25.00%) .NET
2 16 (23.53%) Node.js
3 4 (5.88%) CSS
4 2 (2.94%) AngularJS
4 2 (2.94%) ASP.NET
4 2 (2.94%) Django
4 2 (2.94%) HTML
4 2 (2.94%) jQuery
4 2 (2.94%) Protocol Buffers
4 2 (2.94%) React
4 2 (2.94%) ZeroMQ
5 1 (1.47%) Android Jetpack
5 1 (1.47%) Jetpack Compose
5 1 (1.47%) OGRE
5 1 (1.47%) SwiftUI
5 1 (1.47%) WCF
5 1 (1.47%) WPF
5 1 (1.47%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 40 (58.82%) Cyberattack
2 15 (22.06%) Self-Motivation
3 14 (20.59%) Linux Command Line
4 6 (8.82%) Device Driver
5 5 (7.35%) Embedded Systems
6 4 (5.88%) EMV
7 3 (4.41%) Algorithms
8 2 (2.94%) IoT
8 2 (2.94%) Mobile App
9 1 (1.47%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (1.47%) Educational Technology
9 1 (1.47%) FPGA
9 1 (1.47%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 53 (77.94%) Linux
2 31 (45.59%) Android
3 1 (1.47%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.47%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (61.76%) Agile
2 30 (44.12%) Software Engineering
3 28 (41.18%) OO
3 28 (41.18%) OOP
4 27 (39.71%) Android Development
5 26 (38.24%) Design Patterns
5 26 (38.24%) Line Management
5 26 (38.24%) Mathematics
6 16 (23.53%) Scrum
7 15 (22.06%) Machine Learning
7 15 (22.06%) Mentoring
8 14 (20.59%) Cloud Security
8 14 (20.59%) Data Engineering
8 14 (20.59%) Microservices
8 14 (20.59%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 14 (20.59%) User Experience
9 10 (14.71%) Problem-Solving
10 7 (10.29%) Computer Science
11 6 (8.82%) High Availability
11 6 (8.82%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 59 (86.76%) Python
2 47 (69.12%) Java
3 43 (63.24%) Go
4 18 (26.47%) JavaScript
5 17 (25.00%) Rust
6 14 (20.59%) C
7 8 (11.76%) C#
8 4 (5.88%) PHP
9 2 (2.94%) SQL
10 1 (1.47%) Kotlin
10 1 (1.47%) Swift
10 1 (1.47%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 47 (69.12%) Security Cleared
2 41 (60.29%) DV Cleared
3 14 (20.59%) AWS Certification
3 14 (20.59%) AWS Certified Developer
3 14 (20.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 7 (10.29%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (10.29%) Degree
5 2 (2.94%) CISSP
5 2 (2.94%) CSSLP
5 2 (2.94%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (2.94%) NIST
System Software
1 27 (39.71%) Docker
2 1 (1.47%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (1.47%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 27 (39.71%) Ansible
2 1 (1.47%) Grafana
2 1 (1.47%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.47%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (2.94%) Google
2 1 (1.47%) Microsoft