C++ Jobs in the Midlands

C++
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 10 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 193 115 131
Rank change year-on-year -78 +16 +1
Permanent jobs citing C++ 56 270 185
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.80% 2.00% 2.31%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.55% 8.29% 6.78%
Number of salaries quoted 20 222 99
10th Percentile - £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile - £37,500 £39,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £25,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -50.00% -9.09% +5.77%
75th Percentile £54,063 £65,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £73,375 £72,375 £68,750
England median annual salary £66,212 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +10.35% -7.69% -

All Programming Languages
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 1,579 3,256 2,728
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 22.54% 24.16% 34.04%
Number of salaries quoted 1,047 2,562 1,802
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,894 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +7.58%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £75,000 £76,250
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% +4.00%

C++
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for C++ in the Midlands

C++
Salary Trend in the Midlands

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

Salary trend for C++ in the Midlands

C++
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing C++ in the Midlands over the 6 months to 10 July 2025.

Salary histogram for C++ in the Midlands

C++
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing C++ within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 10 July 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
West Midlands -39 28 £25,000 -58.33% 55
East Midlands -44 27 £47,500 +5.56% 36
C++
England

C++
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Applications
1 3 (5.36%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (5.36%) Simulink
2 1 (1.79%) CANalyzer
2 1 (1.79%) GNU Octave
Cloud Services
1 19 (33.93%) Azure
2 5 (8.93%) AWS
3 4 (7.14%) Power Platform
4 3 (5.36%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 2 (3.57%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (3.57%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (3.57%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (3.57%) GCP
6 1 (1.79%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Copilot
6 1 (1.79%) Power Automate
6 1 (1.79%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.36%) Internet
2 1 (1.79%) DNS
2 1 (1.79%) Ethernet
2 1 (1.79%) Modbus
2 1 (1.79%) Network Security
2 1 (1.79%) Profibus
2 1 (1.79%) tcpdump
2 1 (1.79%) VPN
2 1 (1.79%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (21.43%) MySQL
1 12 (21.43%) SQL Server
2 4 (7.14%) Relational Database
3 3 (5.36%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (5.36%) Power BI
4 1 (1.79%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (1.79%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (3.57%) webpack
2 1 (1.79%) Appium
2 1 (1.79%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (1.79%) Cucumber
2 1 (1.79%) FitNesse
2 1 (1.79%) GDB
2 1 (1.79%) GitLab
2 1 (1.79%) IDA Disassembler
2 1 (1.79%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.79%) Newman
2 1 (1.79%) Visual Studio
2 1 (1.79%) WinDbg
2 1 (1.79%) Xcode
General
1 13 (23.21%) Finance
1 13 (23.21%) Social Skills
2 8 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (10.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (7.14%) Automotive
5 3 (5.36%) Electronics
5 3 (5.36%) Manufacturing
5 3 (5.36%) Marketing
6 2 (3.57%) Law
7 1 (1.79%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.79%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.79%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 19 (33.93%) Developer
2 11 (19.64%) Graduate
2 11 (19.64%) Graduate Developer
2 11 (19.64%) IT Graduate
3 10 (17.86%) Software Engineer
4 8 (14.29%) Embedded Engineer
4 8 (14.29%) Embedded Software Engineer
5 5 (8.93%) Agile C# Developer
5 5 (8.93%) Agile Developer
5 5 (8.93%) C# Developer
5 5 (8.93%) Graduate C# Developer
5 5 (8.93%) Graduate PHP Developer
5 5 (8.93%) Graduate SQL Developer
5 5 (8.93%) PHP Developer
5 5 (8.93%) Software Developer
5 5 (8.93%) SQL Developer
6 3 (5.36%) Data Scientist
7 2 (3.57%) C++ Software Developer
7 2 (3.57%) Python Developer
7 2 (3.57%) Rust Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (33.93%) HTML
2 14 (25.00%) .NET
3 11 (19.64%) ASP.NET
3 11 (19.64%) CSS
3 11 (19.64%) jQuery
4 3 (5.36%) Yocto
5 2 (3.57%) Electron
5 2 (3.57%) Node.js
5 2 (3.57%) OpenMP
5 2 (3.57%) Pandas
5 2 (3.57%) React
6 1 (1.79%) .NET Framework
6 1 (1.79%) Entity Framework
6 1 (1.79%) libvirt
6 1 (1.79%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (1.79%) XML
6 1 (1.79%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 6 (10.71%) Virtual Team
2 5 (8.93%) Embedded Systems
3 3 (5.36%) Algorithms
3 3 (5.36%) Cyberattack
3 3 (5.36%) IoT
4 2 (3.57%) CUDA
4 2 (3.57%) SIMD
5 1 (1.79%) Acoustics
5 1 (1.79%) Augmented Reality
5 1 (1.79%) Clustering
5 1 (1.79%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (1.79%) Infotainment
5 1 (1.79%) Lidar
5 1 (1.79%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.79%) Operational Technology
5 1 (1.79%) Robotics
5 1 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 12 (21.43%) Linux
2 5 (8.93%) Android
2 5 (8.93%) Embedded Linux
3 1 (1.79%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.79%) FreeRTOS
3 1 (1.79%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (64.29%) Computer Science
2 24 (42.86%) Machine Learning
3 23 (41.07%) Agile
3 23 (41.07%) Artificial Intelligence
4 19 (33.93%) Data Privacy
5 15 (26.79%) Software Engineering
6 14 (25.00%) OO
7 12 (21.43%) Mathematics
8 11 (19.64%) MVC
9 10 (17.86%) OOP
9 10 (17.86%) Problem-Solving
10 8 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
11 6 (10.71%) Statistics
12 5 (8.93%) Data Science
12 5 (8.93%) Decision-Making
13 4 (7.14%) Android Development
13 4 (7.14%) CI/CD
13 4 (7.14%) Containerisation
13 4 (7.14%) Design Patterns
14 3 (5.36%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 42 (75.00%) Java
2 39 (69.64%) Python
3 38 (67.86%) C#
4 31 (55.36%) PHP
4 31 (55.36%) SQL
5 30 (53.57%) C
6 27 (48.21%) JavaScript
7 24 (42.86%) Rust
8 23 (41.07%) MATLAB
9 22 (39.29%) R
10 21 (37.50%) TypeScript
11 19 (33.93%) Dart
11 19 (33.93%) Ruby
12 3 (5.36%) Go
13 2 (3.57%) VB
14 1 (1.79%) Bash
14 1 (1.79%) Objective-C
14 1 (1.79%) Perl
14 1 (1.79%) PowerShell
14 1 (1.79%) Swift
Qualifications
1 38 (67.86%) Degree
2 31 (55.36%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (12.50%) Security Cleared
4 5 (8.93%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.79%) HND
5 1 (1.79%) Numerate Degree
5 1 (1.79%) Postgraduate
5 1 (1.79%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.79%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.79%) Accessibility
1 1 (1.79%) COBIT
1 1 (1.79%) IEC 61508
System Software
1 6 (10.71%) Docker
2 1 (1.79%) Xen
Systems Management
1 4 (7.14%) Kubernetes
2 3 (5.36%) Ansible
3 2 (3.57%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (7.14%) Microsoft
2 3 (5.36%) Atmel
3 1 (1.79%) Allen-Bradley
3 1 (1.79%) Apple
3 1 (1.79%) Blue Prism
3 1 (1.79%) Lauterbach
3 1 (1.79%) Oracle
3 1 (1.79%) QNX
3 1 (1.79%) Siemens