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 permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 193 133 135
Rank change year-on-year -60 +2 -1
Permanent jobs citing C++ 69 181 152
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.69% 1.66% 2.13%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.08% 5.81% 5.50%
Number of salaries quoted 66 83 130
10th Percentile £31,250 £40,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £43,000 £47,625 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,500 £56,509 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.71% +2.74% -9.84%
75th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £66,500
90th Percentile £61,250 £95,000 £72,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -

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 1,691 3,118 2,765
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 16.89% 28.66% 38.82%
Number of salaries quoted 1,330 1,712 2,227
10th Percentile £28,250 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £42,500 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £71,250 £68,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £82,548
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% - -

C++
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

C++ job vacancy trend 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 7 December 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 7 December 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
Yorkshire -18 38 £45,000 -14.29% 107
North West -38 23 £46,500 -19.13% 113
North East -7 8 £56,500 -29.38% 15
C++
England

C++
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 2 (2.90%) HCL Notes
1 2 (2.90%) IIS
1 2 (2.90%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 2 (2.90%) SharePoint
1 2 (2.90%) WinCC
Applications
1 1 (1.45%) CANalyzer
1 1 (1.45%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (2.90%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 7 (10.14%) Azure
2 2 (2.90%) AWS
3 1 (1.45%) Amazon S3
3 1 (1.45%) Azure Machine Learning
3 1 (1.45%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (1.45%) GCP
3 1 (1.45%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 5 (7.25%) Modbus
1 5 (7.25%) RS-485
2 3 (4.35%) HTTP
2 3 (4.35%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.45%) Ethernet
3 1 (1.45%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (10.14%) SQL Server
2 5 (7.25%) MySQL
3 2 (2.90%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 2 (2.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (2.90%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (1.45%) ClickHouse
4 1 (1.45%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.45%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.45%) Redis
Development Applications
1 13 (18.84%) Visual Studio
2 1 (1.45%) CANoe
2 1 (1.45%) Git
2 1 (1.45%) JIRA
2 1 (1.45%) MLflow
General
1 30 (43.48%) Social Skills
2 28 (40.58%) Electronics
3 14 (20.29%) Manufacturing
4 8 (11.59%) Finance
5 7 (10.14%) Pharmaceutical
5 7 (10.14%) Retail
6 2 (2.90%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (2.90%) Legal
7 1 (1.45%) Advertising
7 1 (1.45%) Automotive
7 1 (1.45%) Games
7 1 (1.45%) Law
Job Titles
1 31 (44.93%) Software Engineer
2 30 (43.48%) Embedded Engineer
3 15 (21.74%) Electronics Engineer
4 13 (18.84%) Developer
5 12 (17.39%) C++ Software Engineer
5 12 (17.39%) Graduate
6 11 (15.94%) Senior
7 10 (14.49%) C# Software Engineer
7 10 (14.49%) Embedded Software Engineer
8 9 (13.04%) Linux Engineer
9 7 (10.14%) Graduate Software Engineer
9 7 (10.14%) Logistics Engineer
9 7 (10.14%) Software Engineering Graduate
10 6 (8.70%) Senior Developer
11 5 (7.25%) Embedded Firmware Engineer
11 5 (7.25%) Firmware Engineer
11 5 (7.25%) Graduate Developer
11 5 (7.25%) IT Graduate
12 4 (5.80%) Electronics Design Engineer
12 4 (5.80%) Embedded Software Design Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (10.14%) .NET
1 7 (10.14%) ASP.NET
2 5 (7.25%) CSS
2 5 (7.25%) jQuery
3 4 (5.80%) STL
4 3 (4.35%) QML
4 3 (4.35%) Qt
5 2 (2.90%) ASP.NET MVC
5 2 (2.90%) PyTorch
5 2 (2.90%) WCF
6 1 (1.45%) Flash
6 1 (1.45%) Kafka
6 1 (1.45%) Keras
6 1 (1.45%) Middleware
6 1 (1.45%) Next.js
6 1 (1.45%) SwiftUI
6 1 (1.45%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 19 (27.54%) Embedded Systems
2 9 (13.04%) Analogue Electronics
3 8 (11.59%) Driving Licence
4 5 (7.25%) CAN bus
5 3 (4.35%) Client/Server
6 2 (2.90%) Mobile App
6 2 (2.90%) Virtual Team
7 1 (1.45%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.45%) Cloud Native
7 1 (1.45%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.45%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.45%) iPad
7 1 (1.45%) iPhone
7 1 (1.45%) Robotics
7 1 (1.45%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 16 (23.19%) Linux
2 13 (18.84%) Windows
3 5 (7.25%) Embedded Linux
4 1 (1.45%) Android
4 1 (1.45%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (47.83%) Software Engineering
2 22 (31.88%) Mentoring
3 14 (20.29%) Computer Science
4 13 (18.84%) Multithreading
5 12 (17.39%) Agile
6 11 (15.94%) Embedded Software Development
7 9 (13.04%) Problem-Solving
8 8 (11.59%) Software Testing
9 7 (10.14%) E-Commerce
9 7 (10.14%) Logistics
9 7 (10.14%) MVC
10 6 (8.70%) Mathematics
11 5 (7.25%) Collaborative Culture
11 5 (7.25%) OO
11 5 (7.25%) OOP
12 3 (4.35%) Continuous Improvement
12 3 (4.35%) DevOps
12 3 (4.35%) GitOps
12 3 (4.35%) Technical Leadership
12 3 (4.35%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 38 (55.07%) C
2 20 (28.99%) C#
3 17 (24.64%) Embedded C++
4 15 (21.74%) Embedded C
5 14 (20.29%) Java
6 12 (17.39%) SQL
7 7 (10.14%) PL/SQL
8 6 (8.70%) Python
9 5 (7.25%) PHP
10 2 (2.90%) T-SQL
10 2 (2.90%) VB
11 1 (1.45%) Go
11 1 (1.45%) Kotlin
11 1 (1.45%) MATLAB
11 1 (1.45%) Swift
Qualifications
1 14 (20.29%) Degree
2 12 (17.39%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.45%) Master's Degree
3 1 (1.45%) PhD
3 1 (1.45%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.45%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.25%) QA
2 1 (1.45%) AUTOSAR
System Software
1 37 (53.62%) Embedded Firmware
1 37 (53.62%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (1.45%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 11 (15.94%) EMC
2 4 (5.80%) Microsoft
3 2 (2.90%) Lotus
3 2 (2.90%) Oracle
3 2 (2.90%) Siemens
4 1 (1.45%) OpenAI
4 1 (1.45%) YouTube