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 22 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 204 136 151
Rank change year-on-year -68 +15 -1
Permanent jobs citing C++ 57 209 183
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.83% 1.72% 2.03%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.78% 6.70% 5.54%
Number of salaries quoted 24 187 95
10th Percentile - £34,000 £30,500
25th Percentile £25,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -4.76% +0.96%
75th Percentile £49,375 £63,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £67,625 £71,250 £81,500
England median annual salary £66,225 £60,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +10.38% -11.11% -

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 1,509 3,119 3,301
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 21.89% 25.72% 36.64%
Number of salaries quoted 949 2,594 1,756
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £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 £62,500 £63,688 £67,500
90th Percentile £73,750 £75,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £61,419 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +2.37% -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 22 May 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 22 May 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 -15 32 £40,000 -30.43% 76
East Midlands -36 24 £55,000 +15.79% 47
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 7 (12.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (3.51%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (3.51%) Simulink
3 1 (1.75%) CANalyzer
3 1 (1.75%) GNU Octave
Cloud Services
1 22 (38.60%) Azure
2 7 (12.28%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 7 (12.28%) Power Platform
3 6 (10.53%) AWS
4 2 (3.51%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (3.51%) Asana
4 2 (3.51%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (3.51%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (3.51%) GCP
5 1 (1.75%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.75%) DNS
1 1 (1.75%) Internet
1 1 (1.75%) Network Security
1 1 (1.75%) tcpdump
1 1 (1.75%) VPN
1 1 (1.75%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (15.79%) MySQL
1 9 (15.79%) SQL Server
2 7 (12.28%) Power BI
2 7 (12.28%) Relational Database
3 3 (5.26%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.75%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (3.51%) JIRA
2 1 (1.75%) Appium
2 1 (1.75%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (1.75%) Cucumber
2 1 (1.75%) FitNesse
2 1 (1.75%) GDB
2 1 (1.75%) IDA Disassembler
2 1 (1.75%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.75%) Newman
2 1 (1.75%) webpack
2 1 (1.75%) WinDbg
2 1 (1.75%) Xcode
General
1 17 (29.82%) Finance
2 12 (21.05%) Social Skills
3 11 (19.30%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (14.04%) Manufacturing
5 7 (12.28%) Marketing
6 4 (7.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (5.26%) Automotive
8 2 (3.51%) Electronics
8 2 (3.51%) Law
8 2 (3.51%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.75%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.75%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 16 (28.07%) Developer
2 9 (15.79%) Graduate
2 9 (15.79%) Graduate Developer
2 9 (15.79%) IT Graduate
3 8 (14.04%) Software Engineer
4 7 (12.28%) Data Scientist
5 6 (10.53%) Embedded Engineer
5 6 (10.53%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 5 (8.77%) Agile C# Developer
6 5 (8.77%) Agile Developer
6 5 (8.77%) C# Developer
6 5 (8.77%) Graduate C# Developer
6 5 (8.77%) Graduate PHP Developer
6 5 (8.77%) Graduate SQL Developer
6 5 (8.77%) PHP Developer
6 5 (8.77%) Software Developer
6 5 (8.77%) SQL Developer
7 2 (3.51%) C++ Software Developer
7 2 (3.51%) Project Manager
7 2 (3.51%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (33.33%) HTML
2 11 (19.30%) .NET
3 9 (15.79%) ASP.NET
3 9 (15.79%) CSS
3 9 (15.79%) jQuery
4 2 (3.51%) Node.js
4 2 (3.51%) OpenMP
4 2 (3.51%) Pandas
5 1 (1.75%) EDI
5 1 (1.75%) Electron
5 1 (1.75%) libvirt
5 1 (1.75%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (1.75%) React
5 1 (1.75%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.77%) Algorithms
2 4 (7.02%) Virtual Team
3 3 (5.26%) Cyberattack
3 3 (5.26%) Embedded Systems
4 2 (3.51%) CUDA
4 2 (3.51%) Management Information System
4 2 (3.51%) PKI
4 2 (3.51%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (3.51%) SIMD
5 1 (1.75%) Acoustics
5 1 (1.75%) Clustering
5 1 (1.75%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (1.75%) IoT
5 1 (1.75%) Lidar
5 1 (1.75%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.75%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 10 (17.54%) Linux
2 4 (7.02%) Android
3 2 (3.51%) Embedded Linux
4 1 (1.75%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.75%) FreeRTOS
4 1 (1.75%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (70.18%) Computer Science
2 28 (49.12%) Machine Learning
3 27 (47.37%) Artificial Intelligence
4 19 (33.33%) Agile
4 19 (33.33%) Data Privacy
5 14 (24.56%) Mathematics
6 12 (21.05%) OO
6 12 (21.05%) Software Engineering
7 10 (17.54%) Decision-Making
7 10 (17.54%) Statistics
8 9 (15.79%) Data Science
8 9 (15.79%) MVC
9 8 (14.04%) OOP
10 7 (12.28%) Actionable Insight
10 7 (12.28%) Business Intelligence
10 7 (12.28%) Customer Experience
10 7 (12.28%) Customer-Centricity
10 7 (12.28%) Data Analysis
10 7 (12.28%) Generative AI
10 7 (12.28%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 44 (77.19%) Python
2 43 (75.44%) Java
3 35 (61.40%) C#
4 33 (57.89%) SQL
5 29 (50.88%) PHP
6 27 (47.37%) C
7 26 (45.61%) R
8 24 (42.11%) JavaScript
9 23 (40.35%) Rust
10 22 (38.60%) MATLAB
11 20 (35.09%) TypeScript
12 19 (33.33%) Dart
12 19 (33.33%) Ruby
13 3 (5.26%) Go
14 1 (1.75%) Bash
14 1 (1.75%) CodeQL
14 1 (1.75%) Objective-C
14 1 (1.75%) PowerShell
14 1 (1.75%) Swift
14 1 (1.75%) X++
Qualifications
1 43 (75.44%) Degree
2 31 (54.39%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (12.28%) Security Cleared
4 6 (10.53%) DV Cleared
5 2 (3.51%) CISSP
5 2 (3.51%) Master's Degree
5 2 (3.51%) PhD
5 2 (3.51%) PMI Certification
5 2 (3.51%) PMP
6 1 (1.75%) Numerate Degree
6 1 (1.75%) Postgraduate
6 1 (1.75%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.51%) GDPR
1 2 (3.51%) HIPAA
1 2 (3.51%) NIST
2 1 (1.75%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.75%) MISRA
2 1 (1.75%) MISRA C
System Software
1 6 (10.53%) Docker
2 1 (1.75%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (1.75%) Firmware
2 1 (1.75%) Xen
Systems Management
1 4 (7.02%) Kubernetes
2 3 (5.26%) Ansible
3 2 (3.51%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (12.28%) Microsoft
2 1 (1.75%) Apple
2 1 (1.75%) Atmel
2 1 (1.75%) Lauterbach