C++ Job Trends in the North of England

C++
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring C++ skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 128 186
Rank change year-on-year +96 +58 -48
Permanent jobs citing C++ 632 239 135
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 6.71% 1.69% 1.52%
As % of the Programming Languages category 25.06% 6.36% 4.05%
Number of salaries quoted 54 148 110
10th Percentile £25,000 £42,500 £39,975
25th Percentile £43,000 £45,938 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -22.50% +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £57,500 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £67,100 £72,500 £70,125
England median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% -

All Programming Languages
North of England

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 North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 2,522 3,757 3,331
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 26.79% 26.61% 37.55%
Number of salaries quoted 1,262 2,302 2,668
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -
75th Percentile £71,250 £67,500 £70,250
90th Percentile £81,150 £80,000 £82,623
England median annual salary £62,617 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +0.19% -3.85% +1.63%

C++
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for C++ in the North of England

C++
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing C++.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing C++

C++
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing C++ in the North of England over the 6 months to 19 September 2025.

Salary histogram for C++ in the North of England

C++
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing C++ within the North of England region over the 6 months to 19 September 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
North West +101 577 £51,250 -15.98% 45
Yorkshire -13 47 £46,000 -3.16% 28
North East -3 8 £25,000 -58.33% 6
C++
England

C++
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (0.32%) HCL Notes
1 2 (0.32%) IIS
1 2 (0.32%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 2 (0.32%) SharePoint
1 2 (0.32%) WinCC
2 1 (0.16%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 1 (0.16%) CANalyzer
1 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.32%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 185 (29.27%) Azure
2 174 (27.53%) AWS
3 173 (27.37%) GCP
4 1 (0.16%) Amazon S3
4 1 (0.16%) Azure Machine Learning
4 1 (0.16%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 388 (61.39%) DNS
1 388 (61.39%) VPN
2 10 (1.58%) Modbus
3 9 (1.42%) RS-485
4 2 (0.32%) Ethernet
5 1 (0.16%) MQTT
5 1 (0.16%) Profibus
5 1 (0.16%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (2.22%) SQL Server
2 11 (1.74%) MySQL
3 2 (0.32%) MongoDB
3 2 (0.32%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (0.32%) Relational Database
3 2 (0.32%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 2 (0.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (0.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (0.16%) ClickHouse
4 1 (0.16%) Neo4j
4 1 (0.16%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.16%) Redis
4 1 (0.16%) TigerGraph
Development Applications
1 6 (0.95%) Visual Studio
2 1 (0.16%) CANoe
2 1 (0.16%) CMake
2 1 (0.16%) Git
2 1 (0.16%) JIRA
2 1 (0.16%) MLflow
2 1 (0.16%) Subversion
General
1 560 (88.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 400 (63.29%) Finance
3 390 (61.71%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (4.91%) Social Skills
5 17 (2.69%) Electronics
6 4 (0.63%) Law
6 4 (0.63%) Manufacturing
7 3 (0.47%) Legal
8 2 (0.32%) Advertising
9 1 (0.16%) Automotive
9 1 (0.16%) Games
9 1 (0.16%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 408 (64.56%) Developer
2 393 (62.18%) Software Developer
3 187 (29.59%) Software Engineer
4 181 (28.64%) Senior
5 177 (28.01%) Senior Software Engineer
6 19 (3.01%) Embedded Engineer
7 11 (1.74%) Graduate
7 11 (1.74%) Graduate Developer
7 11 (1.74%) IT Graduate
8 9 (1.42%) Embedded Firmware Engineer
8 9 (1.42%) Firmware Engineer
9 7 (1.11%) C++ Software Engineer
10 6 (0.95%) Electronics Engineer
11 5 (0.79%) C# Software Engineer
11 5 (0.79%) Embedded Software Engineer
12 4 (0.63%) C# Developer
12 4 (0.63%) Graduate C# Developer
12 4 (0.63%) Graduate SQL Developer
12 4 (0.63%) PHP Developer
12 4 (0.63%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 186 (29.43%) .NET
2 172 (27.22%) Node.js
3 13 (2.06%) ASP.NET
3 13 (2.06%) HTML
4 11 (1.74%) CSS
4 11 (1.74%) jQuery
5 3 (0.47%) PyTorch
6 2 (0.32%) ASP.NET MVC
6 2 (0.32%) Keras
6 2 (0.32%) Protocol Buffers
6 2 (0.32%) SwiftUI
6 2 (0.32%) TensorFlow
6 2 (0.32%) WCF
6 2 (0.32%) ZeroMQ
7 1 (0.16%) Next.js
7 1 (0.16%) Pandas
7 1 (0.16%) scikit-learn
7 1 (0.16%) Seaborn
7 1 (0.16%) SpaCy
7 1 (0.16%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 560 (88.61%) Cyberattack
2 172 (27.22%) Linux Command Line
2 172 (27.22%) Self-Motivation
3 14 (2.22%) Embedded Systems
4 9 (1.42%) Analogue Electronics
4 9 (1.42%) CAN bus
5 2 (0.32%) Algorithms
5 2 (0.32%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (0.32%) Mobile App
5 2 (0.32%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.16%) Blog
6 1 (0.16%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.16%) Derivative
6 1 (0.16%) Driving Licence
6 1 (0.16%) Equities
6 1 (0.16%) FPGA
6 1 (0.16%) iPhone
6 1 (0.16%) Online Games
6 1 (0.16%) Robotics
6 1 (0.16%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 574 (90.82%) Linux
2 390 (61.71%) Android
3 9 (1.42%) Embedded Linux
4 6 (0.95%) Windows
5 2 (0.32%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 572 (90.51%) Agile
2 400 (63.29%) OO
2 400 (63.29%) OOP
3 391 (61.87%) Mathematics
4 390 (61.71%) Design Patterns
5 389 (61.55%) Android Development
6 388 (61.39%) Line Management
7 194 (30.70%) Software Engineering
8 189 (29.91%) Machine Learning
9 187 (29.59%) Mentoring
10 173 (27.37%) Microservices
10 173 (27.37%) Scrum
11 172 (27.22%) Cloud Security
11 172 (27.22%) Data Engineering
11 172 (27.22%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 172 (27.22%) User Experience
12 27 (4.27%) Computer Science
13 19 (3.01%) Problem-Solving
14 16 (2.53%) Artificial Intelligence
15 13 (2.06%) Data Privacy
Programming Languages
1 590 (93.35%) Java
2 582 (92.09%) Python
3 562 (88.92%) Go
4 186 (29.43%) JavaScript
5 185 (29.27%) Rust
6 35 (5.54%) C
7 34 (5.38%) C#
8 25 (3.96%) SQL
9 24 (3.80%) PHP
10 14 (2.22%) MATLAB
10 14 (2.22%) R
11 13 (2.06%) Dart
11 13 (2.06%) Ruby
11 13 (2.06%) TypeScript
12 7 (1.11%) Embedded C++
13 5 (0.79%) Embedded C
14 2 (0.32%) Kotlin
14 2 (0.32%) Swift
14 2 (0.32%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.32%) VB
Qualifications
1 561 (88.77%) Security Cleared
2 560 (88.61%) DV Cleared
3 172 (27.22%) AWS Certification
3 172 (27.22%) AWS Certified Developer
3 172 (27.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 29 (4.59%) Degree
5 25 (3.96%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (0.32%) Master's Degree
6 2 (0.32%) PhD
7 1 (0.16%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (0.47%) QA
2 1 (0.16%) AUTOSAR
2 1 (0.16%) GDPR
2 1 (0.16%) IEC 61508
System Software
1 389 (61.55%) Docker
2 21 (3.32%) Embedded Firmware
2 21 (3.32%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 388 (61.39%) Ansible
2 1 (0.16%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (0.79%) EMC
1 5 (0.79%) Microsoft
2 3 (0.47%) Siemens
3 2 (0.32%) Lotus
3 2 (0.32%) Oracle
4 1 (0.16%) Allen-Bradley
4 1 (0.16%) Capita
4 1 (0.16%) OpenAI
4 1 (0.16%) YouTube