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 21 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 116 103 81
Rank change year-on-year -13 -22 +37
Permanent jobs citing C++ 17 69 75
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.71% 1.92% 3.19%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.88% 5.86% 7.01%
Number of salaries quoted 17 27 63
10th Percentile £43,950 £50,000 £40,400
25th Percentile £45,750 £52,500 £47,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -22.50% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £50,000 £65,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £62,750 £66,350 £70,750
North West median annual salary £46,500 £60,000 £59,000
% change year-on-year -22.50% +1.69% -4.45%

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 591 1,178 1,070
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 24.54% 32.75% 45.55%
Number of salaries quoted 493 612 882
10th Percentile £33,125 £38,775 £40,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £59,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.69% -1.67% +4.35%
75th Percentile £73,750 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £86,600 £81,250 £84,050
North West median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,043
% change year-on-year +4.55% -0.08% +0.08%

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 21 November 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 (11.76%) WinCC
Cloud Services
1 1 (5.88%) AWS
1 1 (5.88%) Azure
1 1 (5.88%) Azure Machine Learning
1 1 (5.88%) GCP
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.76%) HTTP
1 2 (11.76%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Visual Studio
2 1 (5.88%) MLflow
General
1 9 (52.94%) Electronics
2 1 (5.88%) Advertising
2 1 (5.88%) Games
2 1 (5.88%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (52.94%) Electronics Engineer
1 9 (52.94%) Embedded Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) C++ Developer
2 3 (17.65%) Developer
3 2 (11.76%) C++ Software Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Linux Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Senior
3 2 (11.76%) Senior C++ Developer
3 2 (11.76%) Senior Developer
3 2 (11.76%) Software Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) C++ Games Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Games Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Mathematician
4 1 (5.88%) SCADA Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Siemens Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (17.65%) STL
2 2 (11.76%) QML
2 2 (11.76%) Qt
3 1 (5.88%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) Client/Server
1 2 (11.76%) Embedded Systems
2 1 (5.88%) Algorithms
2 1 (5.88%) Online Games
2 1 (5.88%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.76%) Linux
1 2 (11.76%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (52.94%) Embedded Software Development
2 3 (17.65%) Software Engineering
3 2 (11.76%) Agile
3 2 (11.76%) DevOps
3 2 (11.76%) GitOps
3 2 (11.76%) Multithreading
3 2 (11.76%) Project Delivery
3 2 (11.76%) Test Automation
4 1 (5.88%) AI
4 1 (5.88%) Computer Science
4 1 (5.88%) Deep Learning
4 1 (5.88%) Game Development
4 1 (5.88%) Machine Learning
4 1 (5.88%) Mathematical Modelling
4 1 (5.88%) Mathematics
4 1 (5.88%) MLOps
4 1 (5.88%) Natural Language Processing
4 1 (5.88%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (5.88%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 11 (64.71%) Embedded C++
2 10 (58.82%) C
3 9 (52.94%) Embedded C
4 3 (17.65%) C#
5 2 (11.76%) VB
6 1 (5.88%) Java
6 1 (5.88%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (5.88%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (17.65%) QA
System Software
1 9 (52.94%) Embedded Firmware
1 9 (52.94%) Firmware
Vendors
1 9 (52.94%) EMC
2 2 (11.76%) Siemens
3 1 (5.88%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.88%) OpenAI