C++ Jobs in the South East

C++
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for C++ skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited C++ over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 76 92 47
Rank change year-on-year +16 -45 +37
Permanent jobs citing C++ 547 504 1,116
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 3.29% 3.34% 5.66%
As % of the Programming Languages category 11.03% 8.32% 11.59%
Number of salaries quoted 454 372 457
10th Percentile £37,750 £30,265 £31,375
25th Percentile £44,063 £41,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,750 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.75% +14.29% +5.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £76,250 £68,750
90th Percentile £81,750 £82,500 £76,020
England median annual salary £60,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -14.29% - +21.74%

All Programming Languages
South East

C++ is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 4,960 6,058 9,627
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 29.87% 40.18% 48.85%
Number of salaries quoted 4,005 3,939 6,450
10th Percentile £34,000 £34,324 £33,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £44,525 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £68,750 £73,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +8.70%

C++
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for C++ in the South East

C++
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing C++ in the South East.

Salary trend for C++ in the South East

C++
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing C++ in the South East over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for C++ in the South East

C++
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing C++ within the South East region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
Hampshire +17 173 £65,000 +4.00% 63
Thames Valley -5 162 £57,500 +27.78% 87
Surrey +22 140 £60,000 -4.00% 41
Oxfordshire +13 78 £55,750 +31.18% 41
Berkshire +11 61 £58,000 -17.14% 31
West Sussex +34 24 £60,000 -2.04% 13
East Sussex +20 23 £47,500 -32.14% 5
Buckinghamshire -29 23 £70,000 +71.59% 15
Sussex -11 15 £50,000 -33.33%
Kent -5 14 £37,000 +8.82% 8
C++
England

C++
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 18 (3.29%) Apache
2 8 (1.46%) Confluence
3 3 (0.55%) Kinematics
Applications
1 42 (7.68%) Simulink
2 8 (1.46%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.91%) OrCAD
4 2 (0.37%) Doxygen
5 1 (0.18%) GNU Octave
5 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.18%) SOLIDWORKS
5 1 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.18%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 4 (0.73%) Visualfiles
2 2 (0.37%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.18%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.18%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 42 (7.68%) Azure
2 27 (4.94%) AWS
3 23 (4.20%) SaaS
4 11 (2.01%) GCP
5 5 (0.91%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (0.91%) GitHub
6 4 (0.73%) TestFlight
7 2 (0.37%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (0.37%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (0.37%) Power Platform
7 2 (0.37%) PowerApps
8 1 (0.18%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 12 (2.19%) TCP/IP
2 9 (1.65%) Wireless
3 5 (0.91%) 4G
3 5 (0.91%) RS-485
4 4 (0.73%) 3G
4 4 (0.73%) Bluetooth
4 4 (0.73%) Ethernet
4 4 (0.73%) GPRS
4 4 (0.73%) LoRaWAN
4 4 (0.73%) Modbus
4 4 (0.73%) Network Security
4 4 (0.73%) RS-232
4 4 (0.73%) Wireshark
5 3 (0.55%) DHCP
5 3 (0.55%) DNS
5 3 (0.55%) Internet
6 2 (0.37%) CTI
6 2 (0.37%) RFID
6 2 (0.37%) Software-Defined Radio
6 2 (0.37%) VSAT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (4.57%) SQL Server
2 11 (2.01%) NoSQL
3 5 (0.91%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (0.73%) MongoDB
4 4 (0.73%) MySQL
5 2 (0.37%) Big Data
5 2 (0.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 76 (13.89%) Git
2 46 (8.41%) Subversion
3 38 (6.95%) Visual Studio
4 24 (4.39%) Ant
4 24 (4.39%) CMake
4 24 (4.39%) JIRA
5 13 (2.38%) Jenkins
6 12 (2.19%) GitLab
7 10 (1.83%) Vagrant
8 9 (1.65%) Team Foundation Server
9 7 (1.28%) TestRail
10 5 (0.91%) Bitbucket
10 5 (0.91%) Eclipse
11 4 (0.73%) Android Studio
11 4 (0.73%) Xcode
12 3 (0.55%) GDB
13 2 (0.37%) GCC
13 2 (0.37%) Gradle
13 2 (0.37%) TeamCity
14 1 (0.18%) Cypress.io
General
1 101 (18.46%) Social Skills
2 77 (14.08%) Electronics
3 50 (9.14%) Analytical Skills
4 38 (6.95%) Military
5 37 (6.76%) Finance
6 35 (6.40%) Manufacturing
7 25 (4.57%) Marketing
8 16 (2.93%) Public Sector
8 16 (2.93%) Telecoms
9 12 (2.19%) Games
10 10 (1.83%) Aerospace
11 9 (1.65%) Organisational Skills
12 8 (1.46%) Automotive
12 8 (1.46%) Aviation
13 4 (0.73%) Aeronautics
13 4 (0.73%) Retail
14 3 (0.55%) Police
15 2 (0.37%) Law
16 1 (0.18%) Avionics
16 1 (0.18%) Legal
Job Titles
1 259 (47.35%) Software Engineer
2 129 (23.58%) Developer
3 111 (20.29%) C++ Software Engineer
4 110 (20.11%) Senior
5 82 (14.99%) C++ Developer
6 60 (10.97%) Senior Software Engineer
7 59 (10.79%) Embedded Engineer
8 49 (8.96%) Software Developer
9 42 (7.68%) Lead
10 38 (6.95%) Embedded Software Engineer
11 29 (5.30%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
12 26 (4.75%) Senior Embedded Engineer
13 24 (4.39%) Electronics Engineer
13 24 (4.39%) Junior
14 22 (4.02%) Python Engineer
15 21 (3.84%) Embedded C++ Engineer
16 20 (3.66%) Graduate
17 19 (3.47%) C++ Software Developer
17 19 (3.47%) Development Engineer
18 17 (3.11%) Embedded Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (12.98%) .NET
2 59 (10.79%) Qt
3 30 (5.48%) STL
4 26 (4.75%) HTML
5 25 (4.57%) Hibernate
5 25 (4.57%) WPF
5 25 (4.57%) XML
6 24 (4.39%) .NET Framework
6 24 (4.39%) React
7 18 (3.29%) MFC
8 17 (3.11%) JSON
9 15 (2.74%) AngularJS
9 15 (2.74%) HTML5
9 15 (2.74%) OpenMP
10 12 (2.19%) ASP.NET
10 12 (2.19%) Unreal Engine
11 11 (2.01%) QML
12 10 (1.83%) Apache NiFi
12 10 (1.83%) Middleware
12 10 (1.83%) Unity (Game Engine)
Miscellaneous
1 134 (24.50%) Algorithms
2 35 (6.40%) Embedded Systems
3 30 (5.48%) IoT
4 29 (5.30%) FPGA
5 23 (4.20%) VHDL
6 22 (4.02%) Analogue Electronics
6 22 (4.02%) CUDA
6 22 (4.02%) Robotics
7 21 (3.84%) Device Driver
7 21 (3.84%) Satnav
8 19 (3.47%) Analytical Mindset
9 13 (2.38%) Digital Media
10 12 (2.19%) Greenfield Project
11 10 (1.83%) Data Structures
11 10 (1.83%) Distributed Systems
11 10 (1.83%) Mobile App
12 8 (1.46%) Raspberry Pi
13 7 (1.28%) Augmented Reality
13 7 (1.28%) CAN bus
13 7 (1.28%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 219 (40.04%) Linux
2 157 (28.70%) Windows
3 27 (4.94%) Embedded Linux
4 26 (4.75%) Unix
5 23 (4.20%) Ubuntu
6 17 (3.11%) Android
7 14 (2.56%) CentOS
8 13 (2.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 10 (1.83%) Windows 10
10 4 (0.73%) AIX
11 3 (0.55%) Apple iOS
11 3 (0.55%) FreeRTOS
12 2 (0.37%) Rocky
13 1 (0.18%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 328 (59.96%) Software Engineering
2 176 (32.18%) Problem-Solving
3 160 (29.25%) Computer Science
4 149 (27.24%) Mathematics
5 123 (22.49%) Agile
6 96 (17.55%) Physics
7 83 (15.17%) Multithreading
8 73 (13.35%) Machine Learning
9 71 (12.98%) Artificial Intelligence
10 59 (10.79%) Mentoring
11 57 (10.42%) Signal Processing
12 51 (9.32%) Actionable Insight
13 50 (9.14%) Test Automation
14 49 (8.96%) OO
15 48 (8.78%) Code Quality
15 48 (8.78%) DevOps
16 40 (7.31%) Technical Leadership
17 38 (6.95%) Software Testing
18 37 (6.76%) Software Architecture
19 35 (6.40%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 262 (47.90%) C
2 211 (38.57%) Python
3 130 (23.77%) C#
4 125 (22.85%) Java
5 66 (12.07%) JavaScript
5 66 (12.07%) SQL
6 58 (10.60%) Fortran
7 25 (4.57%) Bash
8 24 (4.39%) MATLAB
9 15 (2.74%) Embedded C
9 15 (2.74%) Haskell
10 13 (2.38%) Embedded C++
10 13 (2.38%) Kotlin
11 12 (2.19%) XAML
12 10 (1.83%) TypeScript
13 9 (1.65%) Go
14 8 (1.46%) PowerShell
14 8 (1.46%) VB
15 7 (1.28%) C-shell
15 7 (1.28%) Perl
Qualifications
1 247 (45.16%) Degree
2 176 (32.18%) Security Cleared
3 105 (19.20%) SC Cleared
4 103 (18.83%) Computer Science Degree
5 66 (12.07%) PhD
6 56 (10.24%) Master's Degree
7 20 (3.66%) DV Cleared
8 4 (0.73%) DBS Check
9 3 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.37%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.18%) HND
11 1 (0.18%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (7.31%) QA
2 21 (3.84%) Software Quality Assurance
3 4 (0.73%) IEC 61131
3 4 (0.73%) JTAG
4 3 (0.55%) GDPR
4 3 (0.55%) ISO 13485
5 1 (0.18%) MISRA
5 1 (0.18%) NIST
System Software
1 40 (7.31%) Firmware
2 19 (3.47%) Docker
3 16 (2.93%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (0.18%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.18%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.18%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 20 (3.66%) Terraform
2 13 (2.38%) Ansible
3 5 (0.91%) Kubernetes
4 2 (0.37%) Grafana
4 2 (0.37%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 69 (12.61%) Microsoft
2 24 (4.39%) Xilinx
3 17 (3.11%) SAP
4 9 (1.65%) EMC
5 7 (1.28%) Oracle
6 6 (1.10%) Google
7 4 (0.73%) Apple
8 3 (0.55%) Atlassian
9 2 (0.37%) Red Hat
9 2 (0.37%) Splunk
10 1 (0.18%) Autodesk
10 1 (0.18%) Axosoft
10 1 (0.18%) CA
10 1 (0.18%) NCR
10 1 (0.18%) Parasoft
10 1 (0.18%) Renesas
10 1 (0.18%) VMware