C++ Jobs in the North West

C++
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 36 168 225
Rank change year-on-year +132 +57 -69
Permanent jobs citing C++ 582 122 68
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 7.49% 1.19% 0.89%
As % of the Programming Languages category 24.96% 4.09% 2.25%
Number of salaries quoted 23 108 60
10th Percentile £38,250 £42,500 £40,875
25th Percentile £48,125 £52,500 £49,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £61,750
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +1.21% +12.27%
75th Percentile £71,250 £70,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £77,250 £84,964 -
England median annual salary £66,228 £60,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +10.38% -11.11% -

All Programming Languages
North West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 2,332 2,986 3,028
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 30.03% 29.21% 39.66%
Number of salaries quoted 1,105 2,407 1,763
10th Percentile £37,500 £34,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,683 £42,500 £43,800
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.99% - -
75th Percentile £67,500 £68,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £83,750
England median annual salary £61,182 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +1.97% -7.69% +4.00%

C++
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for C++ in the North West

C++
Salary Trend in the North West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing C++ in the North West.

Salary trend for C++ in the North West

C++
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing C++ in the North West over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for C++ in the North West

C++
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing C++ within the North West region over the 6 months to 28 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
Lancashire +57 377 - - 26
Manchester +91 130 £60,000 -4.00% 99
Cheshire +26 51 £52,500 -12.50% 13
Merseyside +61 23 - - 3
Cumbria - 1 - - 1
C++
England

C++
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (0.34%) CMS
1 2 (0.34%) WordPress
2 1 (0.17%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (0.17%) GNU Octave
1 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.17%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 178 (30.58%) Azure
2 174 (29.90%) AWS
2 174 (29.90%) GCP
3 2 (0.34%) Cloud Computing
3 2 (0.34%) Google Analytics
4 1 (0.17%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 382 (65.64%) DNS
2 379 (65.12%) VPN
3 6 (1.03%) Wireless
4 3 (0.52%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.17%) FTP
5 1 (0.17%) HTTP
5 1 (0.17%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.17%) SSH
5 1 (0.17%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (0.69%) MySQL
2 3 (0.52%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (0.34%) MongoDB
3 2 (0.34%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.17%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 7 (1.20%) Git
2 6 (1.03%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.34%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.17%) CMake
4 1 (0.17%) GitLab
4 1 (0.17%) Subversion
General
1 551 (94.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 386 (66.32%) Analytical Skills
2 386 (66.32%) Finance
3 8 (1.37%) Social Skills
4 7 (1.20%) Electronics
5 6 (1.03%) Aerospace
5 6 (1.03%) Telecoms
6 3 (0.52%) Law
6 3 (0.52%) Marketing
7 2 (0.34%) Manufacturing
7 2 (0.34%) Retail
Job Titles
1 384 (65.98%) Developer
2 380 (65.29%) Software Developer
3 186 (31.96%) Software Engineer
4 180 (30.93%) Senior
4 180 (30.93%) Senior Software Engineer
5 4 (0.69%) Embedded Engineer
5 4 (0.69%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 2 (0.34%) Graduate
6 2 (0.34%) Graduate Developer
6 2 (0.34%) IT Graduate
6 2 (0.34%) Lecturer
7 1 (0.17%) Agile C# Developer
7 1 (0.17%) Android Developer
7 1 (0.17%) Applications Engineer
7 1 (0.17%) Electronics Design Engineer
7 1 (0.17%) Electronics Engineer
7 1 (0.17%) Graduate C# Developer
7 1 (0.17%) PHP Developer
7 1 (0.17%) SQL Developer
7 1 (0.17%) Unix Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 176 (30.24%) .NET
2 174 (29.90%) Node.js
3 6 (1.03%) HTML
4 4 (0.69%) CSS
5 2 (0.34%) AngularJS
5 2 (0.34%) ASP.NET
5 2 (0.34%) Django
5 2 (0.34%) jQuery
5 2 (0.34%) Protocol Buffers
5 2 (0.34%) React
5 2 (0.34%) ZeroMQ
6 1 (0.17%) Android Jetpack
6 1 (0.17%) EDI
6 1 (0.17%) Jetpack Compose
6 1 (0.17%) Keras
6 1 (0.17%) Loki
6 1 (0.17%) PyTorch
6 1 (0.17%) SwiftUI
6 1 (0.17%) TensorFlow
6 1 (0.17%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 551 (94.67%) Cyberattack
2 173 (29.73%) Linux Command Line
3 172 (29.55%) Self-Motivation
4 6 (1.03%) Device Driver
5 5 (0.86%) Embedded Systems
6 4 (0.69%) EMV
7 2 (0.34%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.17%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.17%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.17%) FPGA
8 1 (0.17%) Life Science
8 1 (0.17%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.17%) Renewable Energy
8 1 (0.17%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 563 (96.74%) Linux
2 384 (65.98%) Android
3 3 (0.52%) Windows
4 1 (0.17%) AIX
4 1 (0.17%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.17%) CentOS
4 1 (0.17%) Oracle Linux
4 1 (0.17%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 554 (95.19%) Agile
2 382 (65.64%) OO
3 381 (65.46%) OOP
4 380 (65.29%) Android Development
4 380 (65.29%) Design Patterns
4 380 (65.29%) Mathematics
5 379 (65.12%) Line Management
6 189 (32.47%) Software Engineering
7 177 (30.41%) Machine Learning
8 174 (29.90%) Scrum
9 173 (29.73%) Microservices
10 172 (29.55%) Cloud Security
10 172 (29.55%) Data Engineering
10 172 (29.55%) Mentoring
10 172 (29.55%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 172 (29.55%) User Experience
11 10 (1.72%) Computer Science
12 6 (1.03%) Artificial Intelligence
12 6 (1.03%) High Availability
13 4 (0.69%) Embedded Software Development
Programming Languages
1 570 (97.94%) Python
2 563 (96.74%) Java
3 553 (95.02%) Go
4 178 (30.58%) JavaScript
5 177 (30.41%) Rust
6 17 (2.92%) C
7 9 (1.55%) C#
7 9 (1.55%) PHP
8 7 (1.20%) SQL
9 5 (0.86%) MATLAB
10 4 (0.69%) Dart
10 4 (0.69%) R
10 4 (0.69%) Ruby
10 4 (0.69%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.17%) AWK
11 1 (0.17%) Korn
11 1 (0.17%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.17%) Perl
11 1 (0.17%) Swift
11 1 (0.17%) XAML
Qualifications
1 559 (96.05%) Security Cleared
2 553 (95.02%) DV Cleared
3 172 (29.55%) AWS Certification
3 172 (29.55%) AWS Certified Developer
3 172 (29.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 10 (1.72%) Degree
5 8 (1.37%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (0.34%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.17%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 380 (65.29%) Docker
2 1 (0.17%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (0.17%) Firmware
2 1 (0.17%) KVM
2 1 (0.17%) Postfix
2 1 (0.17%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 380 (65.29%) Ansible
2 2 (0.34%) Grafana
3 1 (0.17%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.17%) Nagios
3 1 (0.17%) Nessus
3 1 (0.17%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (0.52%) Microsoft
2 2 (0.34%) Google
3 1 (0.17%) IBM
3 1 (0.17%) Oracle
3 1 (0.17%) Red Hat
3 1 (0.17%) SAP
3 1 (0.17%) Tenable