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 16 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 172 190 87
Rank change year-on-year +18 -103 +40
Permanent jobs citing C++ 108 41 240
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.69% 0.74% 2.60%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.67% 3.48% 10.79%
Number of salaries quoted 82 15 142
10th Percentile £30,500 £32,500 £31,500
25th Percentile £45,304 £49,375 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +22.73% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,875 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £79,250 £76,125
England median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +3.85% +4.00% -3.85%

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 1,905 1,177 2,224
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 12.10% 21.33% 24.07%
Number of salaries quoted 1,326 909 1,205
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £37,500 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +0.96% -5.45%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -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 16 October 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 16 October 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 +26 83 £67,500 +20.00% 20
West Midlands -43 23 £67,500 +22.73% 14
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 (0.93%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 3 (2.78%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 1 (0.93%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 9 (8.33%) Azure
2 8 (7.41%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (4.63%) AWS
4 4 (3.70%) GitHub
4 4 (3.70%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (1.85%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (1.85%) Amazon EMR
5 2 (1.85%) AWS IoT
5 2 (1.85%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (1.85%) GCP
5 2 (1.85%) Serverless
6 1 (0.93%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 16 (14.81%) Wi-Fi
1 16 (14.81%) Wireless
2 6 (5.56%) Ethernet
2 6 (5.56%) MQTT
2 6 (5.56%) TCP/IP
2 6 (5.56%) ZigBee
3 4 (3.70%) Bluetooth
4 2 (1.85%) J1939
4 2 (1.85%) LoRaWAN
5 1 (0.93%) Diameter Protocol
5 1 (0.93%) FTP
5 1 (0.93%) HTTP
5 1 (0.93%) RTP
5 1 (0.93%) RTSP
5 1 (0.93%) SCTP
5 1 (0.93%) Software-Defined Radio
5 1 (0.93%) SS7
5 1 (0.93%) VoIP
5 1 (0.93%) VoLTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.85%) Spark SQL
1 2 (1.85%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.93%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (0.93%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 27 (25.00%) Git
2 10 (9.26%) GitLab
2 10 (9.26%) Jenkins
3 9 (8.33%) JIRA
4 6 (5.56%) GDB
5 5 (4.63%) Visual Studio
6 4 (3.70%) Robot Framework
6 4 (3.70%) Zephyr
7 1 (0.93%) TeamCity
General
1 21 (19.44%) Social Skills
2 9 (8.33%) Electronics
3 6 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (5.56%) Manufacturing
4 4 (3.70%) Games
5 3 (2.78%) Finance
5 3 (2.78%) iGaming
5 3 (2.78%) Public Sector
6 2 (1.85%) Aerospace
6 2 (1.85%) Automotive
6 2 (1.85%) Legal
7 1 (0.93%) Advertising
7 1 (0.93%) Law
7 1 (0.93%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 48 (44.44%) Software Engineer
2 37 (34.26%) Senior
3 30 (27.78%) Embedded Engineer
4 23 (21.30%) C++ Software Engineer
4 23 (21.30%) Senior Software Engineer
5 21 (19.44%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
6 18 (16.67%) Embedded Software Engineer
7 16 (14.81%) Senior Embedded Engineer
8 13 (12.04%) Lead
9 12 (11.11%) Linux Engineer
10 11 (10.19%) Embedded Linux Engineer
11 10 (9.26%) Developer
11 10 (9.26%) Senior Linux Engineer
12 8 (7.41%) C++ Team Leader
12 8 (7.41%) Development Team Leader
12 8 (7.41%) Team Leader
13 7 (6.48%) Software Developer
14 6 (5.56%) Chief Technology Officer
14 6 (5.56%) Graduate
14 6 (5.56%) Software Development Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (15.74%) Yocto
2 5 (4.63%) React
3 4 (3.70%) .NET
3 4 (3.70%) pytest
3 4 (3.70%) STL
3 4 (3.70%) Unity DI Container
4 2 (1.85%) PySpark
4 2 (1.85%) Spring
4 2 (1.85%) Spring Boot
4 2 (1.85%) Unreal Engine
5 1 (0.93%) ASP.NET
5 1 (0.93%) ASP.NET Core
5 1 (0.93%) CSS
5 1 (0.93%) FFmpeg
5 1 (0.93%) GStreamer
5 1 (0.93%) HTML
5 1 (0.93%) jQuery
5 1 (0.93%) JSON
5 1 (0.93%) WebRTC
5 1 (0.93%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 24 (22.22%) Embedded Systems
2 18 (16.67%) IoT
3 16 (14.81%) Device Driver
4 11 (10.19%) Algorithms
5 7 (6.48%) ARM Cortex
6 4 (3.70%) Analogue Electronics
7 3 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.85%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (1.85%) CAN bus
8 2 (1.85%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.93%) Acoustics
9 1 (0.93%) ASIC
9 1 (0.93%) CUDA
9 1 (0.93%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (0.93%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (0.93%) Legacy Code
9 1 (0.93%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.93%) Smart Home
9 1 (0.93%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 25 (23.15%) Linux
2 15 (13.89%) Embedded Linux
3 2 (1.85%) Windows
4 1 (0.93%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (65.74%) Software Engineering
2 27 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 20 (18.52%) Continuous Improvement
4 15 (13.89%) Collaborative Culture
4 15 (13.89%) Computer Science
4 15 (13.89%) Problem-Solving
5 13 (12.04%) Agile
6 12 (11.11%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
6 12 (11.11%) Mathematics
6 12 (11.11%) Mentoring
7 11 (10.19%) Decision-Making
7 11 (10.19%) Validation
8 10 (9.26%) BDD
8 10 (9.26%) Collaborative Engineering
8 10 (9.26%) Device Driver Development
8 10 (9.26%) Test Automation
9 9 (8.33%) Software Architecture
10 8 (7.41%) DevOps
10 8 (7.41%) Software Delivery
10 8 (7.41%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 36 (33.33%) C
2 30 (27.78%) C#
3 17 (15.74%) SQL
4 14 (12.96%) Embedded C
4 14 (12.96%) Python
5 13 (12.04%) Java
6 8 (7.41%) JavaScript
7 4 (3.70%) Bash
7 4 (3.70%) Embedded C++
7 4 (3.70%) MATLAB
8 1 (0.93%) PHP
Qualifications
1 25 (23.15%) Degree
2 11 (10.19%) Computer Science Degree
2 11 (10.19%) Master's Degree
3 3 (2.78%) SC Cleared
3 3 (2.78%) Security Cleared
4 1 (0.93%) PhD
4 1 (0.93%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (9.26%) QA
2 6 (5.56%) JTAG
3 2 (1.85%) Automotive SPICE
3 2 (1.85%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.85%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 14 (12.96%) Firmware
2 7 (6.48%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 2 (1.85%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 2 (1.85%) EMC
1 2 (1.85%) Google
2 1 (0.93%) Cadence
2 1 (0.93%) Perforce
2 1 (0.93%) SAP
2 1 (0.93%) Siemens
2 1 (0.93%) Synopsys