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 30 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 188 142 142
Rank change year-on-year -46 0 -16
Permanent jobs citing C++ 72 192 152
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.77% 1.63% 2.09%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.29% 5.87% 5.42%
Number of salaries quoted 69 91 130
10th Percentile £25,000 £41,750 £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 £57,500 £65,000 £67,500
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 1,677 3,271 2,807
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 17.83% 27.69% 38.65%
Number of salaries quoted 1,336 1,791 2,264
10th Percentile £28,250 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £38,500 £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 £82,797
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 30 November 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 30 November 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 -1 41 £45,000 -14.29% 13
North West -40 21 £46,500 -19.21% 21
North East -4 10 £56,500 -29.38% 9
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 (2.78%) HCL Notes
1 2 (2.78%) IIS
1 2 (2.78%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 2 (2.78%) SharePoint
1 2 (2.78%) WinCC
Applications
1 1 (1.39%) CANalyzer
1 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (2.78%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 11 (15.28%) Azure
2 2 (2.78%) AWS
3 1 (1.39%) Amazon S3
3 1 (1.39%) Azure Machine Learning
3 1 (1.39%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (1.39%) GCP
3 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 6 (8.33%) Modbus
1 6 (8.33%) RS-485
2 2 (2.78%) HTTP
2 2 (2.78%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.39%) Ethernet
3 1 (1.39%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (15.28%) SQL Server
2 9 (12.50%) MySQL
3 2 (2.78%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 2 (2.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (2.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (1.39%) ClickHouse
4 1 (1.39%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.39%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.39%) Redis
Development Applications
1 12 (16.67%) Visual Studio
2 1 (1.39%) CANoe
2 1 (1.39%) Git
2 1 (1.39%) JIRA
2 1 (1.39%) MLflow
General
1 35 (48.61%) Social Skills
2 27 (37.50%) Electronics
3 13 (18.06%) Manufacturing
4 11 (15.28%) Finance
5 7 (9.72%) Pharmaceutical
5 7 (9.72%) Retail
6 2 (2.78%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (2.78%) Legal
7 1 (1.39%) Advertising
7 1 (1.39%) Automotive
7 1 (1.39%) Games
7 1 (1.39%) Law
Job Titles
1 32 (44.44%) Software Engineer
2 30 (41.67%) Embedded Engineer
3 16 (22.22%) Developer
3 16 (22.22%) Graduate
4 13 (18.06%) Electronics Engineer
5 12 (16.67%) C++ Software Engineer
6 11 (15.28%) Embedded Software Engineer
7 10 (13.89%) C# Software Engineer
7 10 (13.89%) Senior
8 9 (12.50%) Graduate Developer
8 9 (12.50%) IT Graduate
8 9 (12.50%) Linux Engineer
9 7 (9.72%) Graduate Software Engineer
9 7 (9.72%) Logistics Engineer
9 7 (9.72%) Software Engineering Graduate
10 6 (8.33%) Embedded Firmware Engineer
10 6 (8.33%) Firmware Engineer
11 5 (6.94%) Senior Developer
12 4 (5.56%) Senior Software Engineer
13 3 (4.17%) PHP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (15.28%) .NET
1 11 (15.28%) ASP.NET
2 9 (12.50%) CSS
2 9 (12.50%) jQuery
3 3 (4.17%) STL
4 2 (2.78%) ASP.NET MVC
4 2 (2.78%) PyTorch
4 2 (2.78%) QML
4 2 (2.78%) Qt
4 2 (2.78%) WCF
5 1 (1.39%) Flash
5 1 (1.39%) Kafka
5 1 (1.39%) Keras
5 1 (1.39%) Middleware
5 1 (1.39%) Next.js
5 1 (1.39%) SwiftUI
5 1 (1.39%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 19 (26.39%) Embedded Systems
2 9 (12.50%) Analogue Electronics
3 8 (11.11%) Driving Licence
4 6 (8.33%) CAN bus
5 2 (2.78%) Client/Server
5 2 (2.78%) Mobile App
5 2 (2.78%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.39%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.39%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.39%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.39%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.39%) iPad
6 1 (1.39%) iPhone
6 1 (1.39%) Robotics
6 1 (1.39%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 17 (23.61%) Linux
2 12 (16.67%) Windows
3 6 (8.33%) Embedded Linux
4 1 (1.39%) Android
4 1 (1.39%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (47.22%) Software Engineering
2 23 (31.94%) Mentoring
3 18 (25.00%) Computer Science
4 14 (19.44%) Agile
5 13 (18.06%) Problem-Solving
6 12 (16.67%) Multithreading
7 11 (15.28%) MVC
8 10 (13.89%) Embedded Software Development
9 9 (12.50%) OO
9 9 (12.50%) OOP
10 8 (11.11%) Software Testing
11 7 (9.72%) Continuous Improvement
11 7 (9.72%) E-Commerce
11 7 (9.72%) Logistics
12 6 (8.33%) Collaborative Culture
12 6 (8.33%) Mathematics
13 3 (4.17%) Technical Leadership
14 2 (2.78%) GitOps
14 2 (2.78%) Project Delivery
14 2 (2.78%) Technical Debt
Programming Languages
1 38 (52.78%) C
2 23 (31.94%) C#
3 18 (25.00%) Java
4 15 (20.83%) Embedded C++
5 14 (19.44%) SQL
6 13 (18.06%) Embedded C
7 9 (12.50%) PHP
8 7 (9.72%) PL/SQL
9 6 (8.33%) Python
10 2 (2.78%) T-SQL
10 2 (2.78%) VB
11 1 (1.39%) Go
11 1 (1.39%) Kotlin
11 1 (1.39%) MATLAB
11 1 (1.39%) Swift
Qualifications
1 18 (25.00%) Degree
2 16 (22.22%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.39%) Master's Degree
3 1 (1.39%) PhD
3 1 (1.39%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.39%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.56%) QA
2 1 (1.39%) AUTOSAR
System Software
1 36 (50.00%) Embedded Firmware
1 36 (50.00%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (1.39%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 10 (13.89%) EMC
2 4 (5.56%) Microsoft
3 2 (2.78%) Lotus
3 2 (2.78%) Oracle
3 2 (2.78%) Siemens
4 1 (1.39%) OpenAI
4 1 (1.39%) YouTube