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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 48 78 56
Rank change year-on-year +30 -22 +48
Permanent jobs citing C++ 600 429 1,241
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 3.98% 3.70% 5.62%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.06% 9.36% 12.55%
Number of salaries quoted 478 337 505
10th Percentile £37,500 £34,324 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,750 £40,853
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +14.29% +5.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £76,250 £68,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% - +13.04%

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 4,268 4,582 9,889
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 28.28% 39.54% 44.82%
Number of salaries quoted 3,238 3,284 6,128
10th Percentile £35,500 £35,018 £33,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £68,000 £74,250 £72,500
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 26 July 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 26 July 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
Thames Valley +50 219 £57,500 - 31
Hampshire +3 190 £57,500 -4.17% 18
Surrey +9 142 £60,000 -4.00% 10
Oxfordshire +31 104 £58,500 +17.00% 16
Berkshire +19 88 £50,000 -33.33% 6
Buckinghamshire 0 27 £70,000 +71.59% 9
Kent -9 22 £37,000 +8.82% 6
East Sussex +24 14 £55,000 -16.98% 3
West Sussex +18 11 £60,000 - 3
Sussex -25 2 £41,250 -45.00% 1
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 14 (2.33%) Apache
2 8 (1.33%) Kinematics
3 3 (0.50%) Confluence
3 3 (0.50%) OpenStack
Applications
1 95 (15.83%) Simulink
2 10 (1.67%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (1.17%) OrCAD
4 5 (0.83%) Microsoft Excel
4 5 (0.83%) SOLIDWORKS
5 3 (0.50%) Fusion 360
5 3 (0.50%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.50%) Siemens NX
6 1 (0.17%) GNU Octave
6 1 (0.17%) Revit
6 1 (0.17%) SketchUp
6 1 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.17%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 1 (0.17%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 54 (9.00%) Azure
2 51 (8.50%) AWS
3 22 (3.67%) SaaS
4 14 (2.33%) GCP
5 4 (0.67%) Cloud Computing
5 4 (0.67%) TestFlight
6 3 (0.50%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (0.17%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 13 (2.17%) Ethernet
2 12 (2.00%) TCP/IP
3 10 (1.67%) Wireless
4 9 (1.50%) Internet
5 7 (1.17%) RFID
5 7 (1.17%) RS-485
6 6 (1.00%) 4G
6 6 (1.00%) Bluetooth
6 6 (1.00%) LoRaWAN
6 6 (1.00%) Modbus
6 6 (1.00%) RS-232
7 4 (0.67%) 3G
7 4 (0.67%) GPRS
7 4 (0.67%) Software-Defined Radio
7 4 (0.67%) Wireshark
8 3 (0.50%) 5G
8 3 (0.50%) MQTT
9 2 (0.33%) Network Security
10 1 (0.17%) HTTP
10 1 (0.17%) RS-422
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (6.00%) NoSQL
2 12 (2.00%) SQL Server
3 7 (1.17%) Big Data
4 6 (1.00%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (0.67%) MongoDB
5 4 (0.67%) MySQL
6 1 (0.17%) GIS
6 1 (0.17%) QGIS
6 1 (0.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 87 (14.50%) Git
2 54 (9.00%) Visual Studio
3 32 (5.33%) Vagrant
4 30 (5.00%) Subversion
5 24 (4.00%) GitLab
6 22 (3.67%) JIRA
7 21 (3.50%) Jenkins
8 17 (2.83%) CMake
9 12 (2.00%) TestRail
10 9 (1.50%) Ant
10 9 (1.50%) Team Foundation Server
11 6 (1.00%) Eclipse
12 4 (0.67%) Android Studio
12 4 (0.67%) Xcode
13 3 (0.50%) Cypress.io
13 3 (0.50%) LabVIEW
13 3 (0.50%) Selenium
13 3 (0.50%) SoapUI
14 2 (0.33%) Bitbucket
14 2 (0.33%) GDB
General
1 121 (20.17%) Social Skills
2 87 (14.50%) Electronics
3 42 (7.00%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (5.33%) Military
5 27 (4.50%) Finance
6 26 (4.33%) Marketing
7 25 (4.17%) Manufacturing
8 16 (2.67%) Aerospace
9 14 (2.33%) Telecoms
10 13 (2.17%) Public Sector
11 11 (1.83%) Automotive
12 10 (1.67%) Games
13 9 (1.50%) Organisational Skills
14 8 (1.33%) Aviation
15 6 (1.00%) Presentation Skills
16 5 (0.83%) Advertising
16 5 (0.83%) Tech for Good
17 4 (0.67%) Aeronautics
17 4 (0.67%) Law
17 4 (0.67%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 321 (53.50%) Software Engineer
2 123 (20.50%) Senior
3 114 (19.00%) Developer
4 88 (14.67%) Embedded Engineer
5 83 (13.83%) Senior Software Engineer
6 71 (11.83%) Software Developer
7 65 (10.83%) C++ Software Engineer
8 64 (10.67%) Embedded Software Engineer
9 51 (8.50%) C++ Developer
10 47 (7.83%) Embedded Developer
11 36 (6.00%) Senior Embedded Engineer
12 35 (5.83%) Lead
13 34 (5.67%) Graduate
14 32 (5.33%) Embedded Software Developer
14 32 (5.33%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
15 31 (5.17%) Graduate Software Engineer
16 23 (3.83%) Electronics Engineer
17 22 (3.67%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
18 21 (3.50%) Architect
19 20 (3.33%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (11.00%) .NET
2 53 (8.83%) Qt
3 34 (5.67%) WPF
4 32 (5.33%) Middleware
5 24 (4.00%) .NET Framework
6 22 (3.67%) React
7 21 (3.50%) STL
8 20 (3.33%) HTML
9 18 (3.00%) JSON
10 13 (2.17%) QML
11 12 (2.00%) AngularJS
11 12 (2.00%) Hibernate
11 12 (2.00%) HTML5
11 12 (2.00%) OpenGL
11 12 (2.00%) XML
11 12 (2.00%) Yocto
12 11 (1.83%) ASP.NET
12 11 (1.83%) OpenMP
12 11 (1.83%) VTK
12 11 (1.83%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 122 (20.33%) Algorithms
2 41 (6.83%) IoT
3 38 (6.33%) Embedded Systems
4 32 (5.33%) Robotics
5 25 (4.17%) Analogue Electronics
5 25 (4.17%) FPGA
6 24 (4.00%) VHDL
7 21 (3.50%) CUDA
8 13 (2.17%) Device Driver
8 13 (2.17%) Digital Media
9 12 (2.00%) Distributed Systems
10 11 (1.83%) Greenfield Project
10 11 (1.83%) Satnav
11 10 (1.67%) Enterprise Software
12 9 (1.50%) Analytical Mindset
12 9 (1.50%) CAN bus
12 9 (1.50%) GNSS
12 9 (1.50%) Self-Motivation
13 8 (1.33%) ARM Cortex
13 8 (1.33%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 252 (42.00%) Linux
2 129 (21.50%) Windows
3 56 (9.33%) Embedded Linux
4 51 (8.50%) Ubuntu
5 40 (6.67%) Android
6 38 (6.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 37 (6.17%) CentOS
8 36 (6.00%) Unix
9 12 (2.00%) Windows 10
10 9 (1.50%) FreeRTOS
11 4 (0.67%) AIX
11 4 (0.67%) VxWorks
12 3 (0.50%) Rocky
12 3 (0.50%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
13 2 (0.33%) VMS
14 1 (0.17%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 420 (70.00%) Software Engineering
2 188 (31.33%) Computer Science
3 155 (25.83%) Problem-Solving
4 143 (23.83%) Mathematics
5 142 (23.67%) Artificial Intelligence
6 128 (21.33%) Machine Learning
7 116 (19.33%) Agile
8 108 (18.00%) Signal Processing
9 107 (17.83%) Physics
10 86 (14.33%) Collaborative Working
11 70 (11.67%) DevOps
12 66 (11.00%) Multithreading
13 60 (10.00%) Code Quality
14 59 (9.83%) Software Testing
15 49 (8.17%) Continuous Integration
16 47 (7.83%) System Testing
17 42 (7.00%) Customer Requirements
18 40 (6.67%) SDLC
19 36 (6.00%) Embedded Software Development
19 36 (6.00%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 318 (53.00%) C
2 274 (45.67%) Python
3 174 (29.00%) Java
4 156 (26.00%) C#
5 81 (13.50%) JavaScript
5 81 (13.50%) SQL
6 71 (11.83%) Fortran
7 42 (7.00%) Bash
8 40 (6.67%) MATLAB
9 32 (5.33%) Kotlin
10 29 (4.83%) Embedded C++
11 22 (3.67%) XAML
12 16 (2.67%) Embedded C
12 16 (2.67%) PowerShell
13 15 (2.50%) Haskell
14 14 (2.33%) C-shell
14 14 (2.33%) TypeScript
15 11 (1.83%) VB
16 9 (1.50%) Go
17 7 (1.17%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 301 (50.17%) Degree
2 229 (38.17%) Security Cleared
3 131 (21.83%) Computer Science Degree
4 106 (17.67%) SC Cleared
5 55 (9.17%) PhD
6 47 (7.83%) DV Cleared
7 45 (7.50%) Master's Degree
8 9 (1.50%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (0.50%) HNC
9 3 (0.50%) HND
10 2 (0.33%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.33%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.33%) CCNA
10 2 (0.33%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.33%) CompTIA Security+
10 2 (0.33%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (5.17%) QA
2 11 (1.83%) Software Quality Assurance
3 5 (0.83%) JTAG
4 4 (0.67%) IEC 61131
5 3 (0.50%) ISO 13485
6 1 (0.17%) GDPR
6 1 (0.17%) NIST
System Software
1 56 (9.33%) Firmware
2 30 (5.00%) Docker
3 22 (3.67%) Embedded Firmware
4 4 (0.67%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.50%) Ceph
5 3 (0.50%) GPFS
5 3 (0.50%) Lustre
5 3 (0.50%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 3 (0.50%) VirtualBox
6 1 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 42 (7.00%) Ansible
2 41 (6.83%) Terraform
3 15 (2.50%) Kubernetes
4 4 (0.67%) Puppet
5 3 (0.50%) Podman
6 2 (0.33%) Grafana
6 2 (0.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 91 (15.17%) Microsoft
2 78 (13.00%) Xilinx
3 14 (2.33%) SAP
4 12 (2.00%) EMC
5 8 (1.33%) Oracle
6 6 (1.00%) Google
7 4 (0.67%) Apple
7 4 (0.67%) VMware
8 3 (0.50%) Atlassian
8 3 (0.50%) Red Hat
9 2 (0.33%) Atmel
9 2 (0.33%) Autodesk
9 2 (0.33%) Freescale
9 2 (0.33%) IBM
9 2 (0.33%) Renesas
9 2 (0.33%) Splunk
9 2 (0.33%) Sun
10 1 (0.17%) CA
10 1 (0.17%) NCR
10 1 (0.17%) TSYS