C++ Jobs in the South East

C++
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 121 79 94
Rank change year-on-year -42 +15 -51
Permanent jobs citing C++ 220 559 475
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 2.31% 3.33% 3.32%
As % of the Programming Languages category 8.67% 11.27% 8.27%
Number of salaries quoted 124 460 355
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £31,200
25th Percentile £46,250 £43,438 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -8.00% +19.05%
75th Percentile £73,125 £70,000 £76,875
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £66,212 £60,000 £69,000
% change year-on-year +10.35% -13.04% -1.43%

All Programming Languages
South East

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 South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 2,537 4,959 5,747
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 26.60% 29.57% 40.17%
Number of salaries quoted 1,778 3,989 3,769
10th Percentile £35,000 £34,450 £35,000
25th Percentile £46,000 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £68,750 £68,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £88,750
England median annual salary £61,500 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +2.50% -7.69% +4.00%

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 16 May 2025.

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 16 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
Thames Valley -4 92 £55,000 - 107
Hampshire -13 59 £65,000 +8.33% 62
Berkshire +9 38 £50,000 - 40
Oxfordshire 0 38 £62,500 +13.64% 43
Surrey -35 26 £70,000 +16.67% 63
Kent +42 23 £60,000 +62.16% 17
Buckinghamshire +28 16 £60,000 -14.29% 31
East Sussex +13 9 - - 7
West Sussex +23 8 £55,000 -8.33% 3
Isle of Wight - 2 £45,000 - 3
Middlesex - 1 - - 2
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 3 (1.36%) Apache Spark
2 2 (0.91%) Apache
Applications
1 7 (3.18%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (2.73%) Simulink
3 3 (1.36%) OrCAD
4 2 (0.91%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.91%) Zemax
5 1 (0.45%) GNU Octave
5 1 (0.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (1.82%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 22 (10.00%) AWS
1 22 (10.00%) Azure
2 18 (8.18%) Amazon EKS
2 18 (8.18%) AWS CloudFormation
3 4 (1.82%) GitHub
3 4 (1.82%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (0.45%) Amazon SageMaker
4 1 (0.45%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (0.45%) Power Platform
4 1 (0.45%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 12 (5.45%) Wireless
2 9 (4.09%) Software-Defined Radio
3 5 (2.27%) TCP/IP
4 4 (1.82%) HTTP
4 4 (1.82%) HTTPS
4 4 (1.82%) VPN
5 2 (0.91%) Ethernet
6 1 (0.45%) Broadband
6 1 (0.45%) Modbus
6 1 (0.45%) Network Security
6 1 (0.45%) Profibus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (8.18%) Elasticsearch
2 11 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (4.09%) SQL Server
4 4 (1.82%) Metabase
4 4 (1.82%) NoSQL
5 3 (1.36%) Hadoop
5 3 (1.36%) Metadata
5 3 (1.36%) Pinecone
5 3 (1.36%) Weaviate
6 2 (0.91%) Big Data
6 2 (0.91%) RDBMS
6 2 (0.91%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.45%) Couchbase
7 1 (0.45%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.45%) Geospatial Data
7 1 (0.45%) GIS
7 1 (0.45%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.45%) Power BI
7 1 (0.45%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 27 (12.27%) Git
2 9 (4.09%) Subversion
3 8 (3.64%) Jenkins
3 8 (3.64%) JIRA
4 7 (3.18%) MagicDraw
5 5 (2.27%) GitLab
5 5 (2.27%) Robot Framework
6 4 (1.82%) CMake
6 4 (1.82%) Eclipse
6 4 (1.82%) Rational DOORS
7 3 (1.36%) MLflow
7 3 (1.36%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.45%) Bugzilla
8 1 (0.45%) GDB
8 1 (0.45%) Gemini Tracker
8 1 (0.45%) Hudson
8 1 (0.45%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.45%) Spock
8 1 (0.45%) TestRail
8 1 (0.45%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 34 (15.45%) Aerospace
1 34 (15.45%) Electronics
2 33 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
3 29 (13.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 27 (12.27%) Social Skills
5 16 (7.27%) Finance
5 16 (7.27%) Manufacturing
6 8 (3.64%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (1.82%) Aviation
7 4 (1.82%) Marketing
8 3 (1.36%) Military
8 3 (1.36%) Public Sector
8 3 (1.36%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.45%) Automotive
9 1 (0.45%) Games
9 1 (0.45%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.45%) Retail
Job Titles
1 82 (37.27%) Software Engineer
2 67 (30.45%) Senior
3 37 (16.82%) Developer
4 33 (15.00%) Software Developer
5 26 (11.82%) Embedded Engineer
5 26 (11.82%) Senior Software Engineer
6 22 (10.00%) Embedded Software Engineer
7 18 (8.18%) C++ Software Engineer
8 13 (5.91%) Lead
8 13 (5.91%) Systems Engineer
9 11 (5.00%) Senior Developer
10 10 (4.55%) Senior Software Developer
11 9 (4.09%) Hardware Engineer
12 8 (3.64%) Graduate
12 8 (3.64%) Graduate Software Engineer
12 8 (3.64%) Security Engineer
13 7 (3.18%) Principal Engineer
13 7 (3.18%) Principal Software Engineer
14 6 (2.73%) C++ Developer
14 6 (2.73%) Junior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (16.36%) .NET
2 28 (12.73%) Node.js
3 22 (10.00%) HTML
4 20 (9.09%) Pandas
5 17 (7.73%) Qt
6 12 (5.45%) React
7 8 (3.64%) XML
8 7 (3.18%) .NET Core
8 7 (3.18%) ASP.NET
9 6 (2.73%) WinForms
9 6 (2.73%) WPF
10 5 (2.27%) Django
10 5 (2.27%) Flutter
10 5 (2.27%) OpenGL
11 4 (1.82%) Kafka
11 4 (1.82%) PyTorch
11 4 (1.82%) Vulkan
11 4 (1.82%) Yocto
12 3 (1.36%) scikit-learn
12 3 (1.36%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 36 (16.36%) Algorithms
2 34 (15.45%) Embedded Systems
3 18 (8.18%) Cyberattack
3 18 (8.18%) FPGA
4 13 (5.91%) Self-Motivation
5 11 (5.00%) VHDL
6 9 (4.09%) e-Learning
6 9 (4.09%) MicroBlaze
6 9 (4.09%) RISC-V
7 6 (2.73%) Robotics
8 5 (2.27%) 3D Graphics
8 5 (2.27%) Analogue Electronics
8 5 (2.27%) CCTV
8 5 (2.27%) CUDA
8 5 (2.27%) Linux Command Line
8 5 (2.27%) Verilog
9 4 (1.82%) Acoustics
9 4 (1.82%) ASIC
9 4 (1.82%) CPLD
9 4 (1.82%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 76 (34.55%) Linux
2 24 (10.91%) Android
3 14 (6.36%) Unix
4 11 (5.00%) Embedded Linux
5 9 (4.09%) Windows
6 5 (2.27%) Rocky
7 4 (1.82%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.91%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.45%) Debian
9 1 (0.45%) FreeRTOS
9 1 (0.45%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 76 (34.55%) Mathematics
3 63 (28.64%) Computer Science
4 47 (21.36%) Agile
5 43 (19.55%) Software Testing
6 42 (19.09%) Physics
7 38 (17.27%) Artificial Intelligence
8 36 (16.36%) OO
9 34 (15.45%) Machine Learning
9 34 (15.45%) Test Automation
10 28 (12.73%) Collaborative Working
11 27 (12.27%) Validation
12 26 (11.82%) CI/CD
13 22 (10.00%) Statistics
13 22 (10.00%) Verification and Validation
14 21 (9.55%) Problem-Solving
15 20 (9.09%) Line Management
16 19 (8.64%) Containerisation
16 19 (8.64%) OOP
16 19 (8.64%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 134 (60.91%) C
2 126 (57.27%) Python
3 66 (30.00%) Java
4 56 (25.45%) C#
5 46 (20.91%) JavaScript
6 44 (20.00%) Rust
7 38 (17.27%) MATLAB
7 38 (17.27%) SQL
8 24 (10.91%) Go
9 22 (10.00%) R
10 21 (9.55%) Ruby
11 18 (8.18%) TypeScript
12 16 (7.27%) Dart
12 16 (7.27%) Fortran
12 16 (7.27%) PHP
13 13 (5.91%) Bash
14 10 (4.55%) Embedded C++
15 8 (3.64%) Embedded C
16 6 (2.73%) Perl
17 5 (2.27%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 105 (47.73%) Degree
2 56 (25.45%) Security Cleared
3 32 (14.55%) DV Cleared
4 31 (14.09%) Computer Science Degree
5 29 (13.18%) SC Cleared
6 27 (12.27%) Master's Degree
7 22 (10.00%) PhD
8 9 (4.09%) Numerate Degree
9 7 (3.18%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (1.82%) A+ Certification
10 4 (1.82%) Dell Certification
10 4 (1.82%) MCP
10 4 (1.82%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.45%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.36%) Accessibility
1 3 (1.36%) ECSS
2 2 (0.91%) HAZOP
2 2 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (0.91%) QA
3 1 (0.45%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.45%) Def Stans
3 1 (0.45%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 28 (12.73%) Docker
2 21 (9.55%) Firmware
3 12 (5.45%) Embedded Firmware
4 2 (0.91%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 28 (12.73%) Kubernetes
2 23 (10.45%) Terraform
3 18 (8.18%) Ansible
4 3 (1.36%) Kubeflow
5 1 (0.45%) Grafana
5 1 (0.45%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 12 (5.45%) Microsoft
2 7 (3.18%) EMC
3 6 (2.73%) Red Hat
4 4 (1.82%) Agilent
4 4 (1.82%) Dell
4 4 (1.82%) SAP
4 4 (1.82%) Siemens
5 3 (1.36%) Cadence
5 3 (1.36%) NVIDIA
6 1 (0.45%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.45%) Intel
6 1 (0.45%) Oracle
6 1 (0.45%) Xilinx