C++ Job Trends in the Midlands

C++
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring C++ skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 177 184 83
Rank change year-on-year +7 -101 +50
Permanent jobs citing C++ 93 46 276
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.62% 0.81% 2.69%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.80% 3.71% 11.86%
Number of salaries quoted 76 15 192
10th Percentile £29,125 - £35,000
25th Percentile £40,625 £25,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £71,250 £73,875 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £79,250 £72,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -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 1,937 1,240 2,327
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 13.01% 21.85% 22.66%
Number of salaries quoted 1,328 942 1,551
10th Percentile £32,675 £29,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £43,435 £38,869 £39,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £53,688 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% +7.38% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £76,250
England median annual salary £65,000 £64,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +1.56% +2.40% -3.85%

C++
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

C++ job vacancy trend in the Midlands

C++
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing C++.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing C++

C++
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing C++ in the Midlands over the 6 months to 4 September 2026.

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 4 September 2026. 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
East Midlands +13 68 £47,500 - 39
West Midlands -30 22 £65,000 +6.12% 43
C++
England

C++
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 1 (1.08%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 2 (2.15%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 12 (12.90%) Azure
2 8 (8.60%) AWS
2 8 (8.60%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (2.15%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (2.15%) Amazon EMR
3 2 (2.15%) AWS IoT
3 2 (2.15%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (2.15%) GCP
3 2 (2.15%) GitHub
3 2 (2.15%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (2.15%) Serverless
4 1 (1.08%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 13 (13.98%) Wi-Fi
1 13 (13.98%) Wireless
2 6 (6.45%) MQTT
2 6 (6.45%) ZigBee
3 5 (5.38%) Ethernet
4 4 (4.30%) Bluetooth
5 2 (2.15%) J1939
5 2 (2.15%) LoRaWAN
5 2 (2.15%) Modbus
5 2 (2.15%) TCP/IP
6 1 (1.08%) Diameter Protocol
6 1 (1.08%) FTP
6 1 (1.08%) HTTP
6 1 (1.08%) RTP
6 1 (1.08%) SCTP
6 1 (1.08%) Software-Defined Radio
6 1 (1.08%) SS7
6 1 (1.08%) VoIP
6 1 (1.08%) VoLTE
6 1 (1.08%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.38%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.15%) Spark SQL
3 1 (1.08%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (1.08%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 24 (25.81%) Git
2 8 (8.60%) GitLab
2 8 (8.60%) Jenkins
3 7 (7.53%) JIRA
4 6 (6.45%) GDB
4 6 (6.45%) Visual Studio
5 4 (4.30%) Robot Framework
6 2 (2.15%) TeamCity
6 2 (2.15%) Zephyr
General
1 20 (21.51%) Social Skills
2 10 (10.75%) Games
3 8 (8.60%) Electronics
4 7 (7.53%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (6.45%) Finance
5 6 (6.45%) iGaming
6 5 (5.38%) Manufacturing
7 4 (4.30%) Automotive
7 4 (4.30%) Law
8 3 (3.23%) Aerospace
8 3 (3.23%) Public Sector
9 1 (1.08%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 44 (47.31%) Software Engineer
2 23 (24.73%) Embedded Engineer
2 23 (24.73%) Senior
3 19 (20.43%) Developer
4 16 (17.20%) C++ Software Engineer
5 15 (16.13%) Embedded Software Engineer
5 15 (16.13%) Senior Software Engineer
6 11 (11.83%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
6 11 (11.83%) Senior Embedded Engineer
7 10 (10.75%) Graduate
7 10 (10.75%) Lead
7 10 (10.75%) Software Developer
8 7 (7.53%) C# Developer
8 7 (7.53%) C# Software Developer
8 7 (7.53%) C++ Developer
8 7 (7.53%) Embedded Linux Engineer
8 7 (7.53%) Linux Engineer
8 7 (7.53%) Senior Linux Engineer
9 6 (6.45%) Chief Technology Officer
9 6 (6.45%) Graduate Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (13.98%) Yocto
2 8 (8.60%) .NET
3 5 (5.38%) React
4 4 (4.30%) .NET Framework
4 4 (4.30%) CSS
4 4 (4.30%) jQuery
4 4 (4.30%) pytest
4 4 (4.30%) Unity DI Container
4 4 (4.30%) WPF
5 3 (3.23%) Avalonia
5 3 (3.23%) OpenCV
5 3 (3.23%) STL
5 3 (3.23%) Unreal Engine
6 2 (2.15%) PySpark
6 2 (2.15%) Spring
6 2 (2.15%) Spring Boot
7 1 (1.08%) ASP.NET
7 1 (1.08%) ASP.NET Core
7 1 (1.08%) HTML
7 1 (1.08%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 19 (20.43%) Embedded Systems
2 15 (16.13%) IoT
3 13 (13.98%) Device Driver
4 8 (8.60%) ARM Cortex
5 6 (6.45%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (5.38%) Algorithms
7 3 (3.23%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (3.23%) Photography
7 3 (3.23%) Product Ownership
7 3 (3.23%) Virtual Team
8 2 (2.15%) CAN bus
8 2 (2.15%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (1.08%) CUDA
9 1 (1.08%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (1.08%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (1.08%) Legacy Code
9 1 (1.08%) PKI
9 1 (1.08%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 19 (20.43%) Linux
2 9 (9.68%) Embedded Linux
3 3 (3.23%) Windows
4 2 (2.15%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (61.29%) Software Engineering
2 22 (23.66%) CI/CD
3 17 (18.28%) Agile
3 17 (18.28%) Computer Science
3 17 (18.28%) Continuous Improvement
4 12 (12.90%) Problem-Solving
5 11 (11.83%) Validation
6 10 (10.75%) Collaborative Culture
6 10 (10.75%) Collaborative Engineering
6 10 (10.75%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
6 10 (10.75%) Mentoring
6 10 (10.75%) OOP
6 10 (10.75%) Test Automation
7 9 (9.68%) Software Testing
8 8 (8.60%) BDD
8 8 (8.60%) DevOps
8 8 (8.60%) Software Architecture
8 8 (8.60%) Software Delivery
9 7 (7.53%) Device Driver Development
9 7 (7.53%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 35 (37.63%) C#
2 26 (27.96%) C
3 18 (19.35%) SQL
4 16 (17.20%) Python
5 11 (11.83%) Java
6 9 (9.68%) Embedded C
7 8 (8.60%) JavaScript
8 5 (5.38%) MATLAB
9 4 (4.30%) Bash
9 4 (4.30%) PHP
10 2 (2.15%) Embedded C++
11 1 (1.08%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 21 (22.58%) Degree
2 13 (13.98%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (8.60%) Master's Degree
4 2 (2.15%) SC Cleared
4 2 (2.15%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (8.60%) QA
2 6 (6.45%) JTAG
3 2 (2.15%) Automotive SPICE
3 2 (2.15%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.15%) IEC 61508
3 2 (2.15%) ISO 26262
3 2 (2.15%) MISRA
3 2 (2.15%) MISRA C
4 1 (1.08%) AUTOSAR
System Software
1 12 (12.90%) Firmware
2 4 (4.30%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 4 (4.30%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 4 (4.30%) Microsoft
2 2 (2.15%) Google
2 2 (2.15%) Perforce