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 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 201 119 132
Rank change year-on-year -82 +13 +16
Permanent jobs citing C++ 54 274 190
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.78% 1.98% 2.33%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.42% 8.13% 6.79%
Number of salaries quoted 19 226 102
10th Percentile - £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile - £37,500 £39,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £25,000 £51,250 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -51.22% -6.82% +4.76%
75th Percentile £56,875 £65,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £74,250 £72,500 £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 1,581 3,372 2,799
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 22.76% 24.40% 34.31%
Number of salaries quoted 1,033 2,672 1,789
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,456 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £75,000 £76,250
England median annual salary £62,250 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.75% -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 5 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 5 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
East Midlands -48 27 £47,500 +5.56% 64
West Midlands -44 26 £25,000 -58.33% 114
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 (5.56%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (5.56%) Simulink
2 1 (1.85%) CANalyzer
2 1 (1.85%) GNU Octave
Cloud Services
1 17 (31.48%) Azure
2 4 (7.41%) AWS
3 3 (5.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 3 (5.56%) Power Platform
4 2 (3.70%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (3.70%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (3.70%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (3.70%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.56%) Internet
2 1 (1.85%) DNS
2 1 (1.85%) Ethernet
2 1 (1.85%) Modbus
2 1 (1.85%) Network Security
2 1 (1.85%) Profibus
2 1 (1.85%) tcpdump
2 1 (1.85%) VPN
2 1 (1.85%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (18.52%) MySQL
1 10 (18.52%) SQL Server
2 3 (5.56%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (5.56%) Power BI
2 3 (5.56%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.85%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (3.70%) webpack
2 1 (1.85%) Appium
2 1 (1.85%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (1.85%) Cucumber
2 1 (1.85%) FitNesse
2 1 (1.85%) GDB
2 1 (1.85%) GitLab
2 1 (1.85%) IDA Disassembler
2 1 (1.85%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.85%) Newman
2 1 (1.85%) WinDbg
2 1 (1.85%) Xcode
General
1 13 (24.07%) Finance
2 12 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 7 (12.96%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (7.41%) Automotive
6 3 (5.56%) Electronics
6 3 (5.56%) Manufacturing
6 3 (5.56%) Marketing
7 2 (3.70%) Law
8 1 (1.85%) Aerospace
8 1 (1.85%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.85%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 17 (31.48%) Developer
2 10 (18.52%) Graduate
2 10 (18.52%) Graduate Developer
2 10 (18.52%) IT Graduate
2 10 (18.52%) Software Engineer
3 8 (14.81%) Embedded Engineer
3 8 (14.81%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 5 (9.26%) Agile C# Developer
4 5 (9.26%) Agile Developer
4 5 (9.26%) C# Developer
4 5 (9.26%) Graduate C# Developer
4 5 (9.26%) Graduate PHP Developer
4 5 (9.26%) Graduate SQL Developer
4 5 (9.26%) PHP Developer
4 5 (9.26%) Software Developer
4 5 (9.26%) SQL Developer
5 3 (5.56%) Data Scientist
6 2 (3.70%) Architect
6 2 (3.70%) Python Developer
6 2 (3.70%) Rust Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (35.19%) HTML
2 12 (22.22%) .NET
3 10 (18.52%) ASP.NET
3 10 (18.52%) CSS
3 10 (18.52%) jQuery
4 3 (5.56%) Yocto
5 2 (3.70%) Electron
5 2 (3.70%) Node.js
5 2 (3.70%) OpenMP
5 2 (3.70%) Pandas
5 2 (3.70%) React
6 1 (1.85%) libvirt
6 1 (1.85%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 5 (9.26%) Embedded Systems
1 5 (9.26%) Virtual Team
2 3 (5.56%) Algorithms
2 3 (5.56%) Cyberattack
2 3 (5.56%) IoT
3 2 (3.70%) CUDA
3 2 (3.70%) SIMD
4 1 (1.85%) Acoustics
4 1 (1.85%) Augmented Reality
4 1 (1.85%) Clustering
4 1 (1.85%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (1.85%) Infotainment
4 1 (1.85%) Lidar
4 1 (1.85%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.85%) Operational Technology
4 1 (1.85%) Robotics
4 1 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 12 (22.22%) Linux
2 5 (9.26%) Android
2 5 (9.26%) Embedded Linux
3 1 (1.85%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.85%) FreeRTOS
3 1 (1.85%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (64.81%) Computer Science
2 24 (44.44%) Machine Learning
3 23 (42.59%) Artificial Intelligence
4 21 (38.89%) Agile
5 19 (35.19%) Data Privacy
6 15 (27.78%) Software Engineering
7 13 (24.07%) OO
8 12 (22.22%) Mathematics
9 10 (18.52%) MVC
10 9 (16.67%) OOP
11 8 (14.81%) Problem-Solving
12 7 (12.96%) Continuous Improvement
13 6 (11.11%) Statistics
14 5 (9.26%) Data Science
15 4 (7.41%) Android Development
15 4 (7.41%) CI/CD
15 4 (7.41%) Containerisation
15 4 (7.41%) Decision-Making
15 4 (7.41%) Design Patterns
16 3 (5.56%) Deep Learning
Programming Languages
1 41 (75.93%) Java
2 39 (72.22%) Python
3 36 (66.67%) C#
4 30 (55.56%) C
4 30 (55.56%) PHP
4 30 (55.56%) SQL
5 27 (50.00%) JavaScript
6 24 (44.44%) Rust
7 23 (42.59%) MATLAB
8 22 (40.74%) R
9 21 (38.89%) TypeScript
10 19 (35.19%) Dart
10 19 (35.19%) Ruby
11 3 (5.56%) Go
12 1 (1.85%) Bash
12 1 (1.85%) CodeQL
12 1 (1.85%) Kotlin
12 1 (1.85%) Perl
12 1 (1.85%) PowerShell
12 1 (1.85%) Swift
Qualifications
1 36 (66.67%) Degree
2 30 (55.56%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (11.11%) Security Cleared
4 5 (9.26%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.85%) HND
5 1 (1.85%) Numerate Degree
5 1 (1.85%) Postgraduate
5 1 (1.85%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.85%) Accessibility
1 1 (1.85%) IEC 61508
System Software
1 6 (11.11%) Docker
2 1 (1.85%) Xen
Systems Management
1 4 (7.41%) Kubernetes
2 3 (5.56%) Ansible
3 2 (3.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (5.56%) Atmel
1 3 (5.56%) Microsoft
2 1 (1.85%) Allen-Bradley
2 1 (1.85%) Apple
2 1 (1.85%) Lauterbach
2 1 (1.85%) QNX
2 1 (1.85%) Siemens