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 13 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 144 73 81
Rank change year-on-year -71 +8 -35
Permanent jobs citing C++ 196 635 468
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 2.04% 3.41% 3.53%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.88% 12.02% 8.82%
Number of salaries quoted 100 506 342
10th Percentile £37,300 £36,625 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% +14.29%
75th Percentile £68,750 £68,750 £76,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £66,225 £60,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +10.38% -11.11% -

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 2,486 5,285 5,306
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 25.87% 28.35% 40.00%
Number of salaries quoted 1,692 4,143 3,592
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.64% -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £68,000 £68,000 £74,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £87,500
England median annual salary £62,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.33% -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 13 June 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 13 June 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 -30 74 £52,000 -8.77% 237
Hampshire -11 62 £60,000 - 65
Berkshire -4 30 £50,000 - 188
Oxfordshire -9 29 £63,750 +10.87% 34
Surrey -40 24 £70,000 +16.67% 29
Kent +38 18 £60,000 +62.16% 15
Buckinghamshire +16 15 £60,000 -14.29% 18
East Sussex +16 9 - - 3
West Sussex +20 4 £57,500 -4.17% 10
Isle of Wight - 3 £46,250 - 2
Middlesex - 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 2 (1.02%) Apache
1 2 (1.02%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 5 (2.55%) Simulink
2 4 (2.04%) OrCAD
3 3 (1.53%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (1.02%) GNU Octave
5 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (2.04%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 22 (11.22%) Azure
2 21 (10.71%) AWS
3 18 (9.18%) Amazon EKS
3 18 (9.18%) AWS CloudFormation
4 4 (2.04%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (0.51%) Amazon SageMaker
5 1 (0.51%) GitHub
5 1 (0.51%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 21 (10.71%) Wireless
2 18 (9.18%) Software-Defined Radio
3 5 (2.55%) TCP/IP
4 4 (2.04%) HTTP
4 4 (2.04%) HTTPS
4 4 (2.04%) VPN
5 2 (1.02%) Network Security
6 1 (0.51%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (9.18%) Elasticsearch
2 11 (5.61%) SQL Server
3 4 (2.04%) Metabase
4 3 (1.53%) NoSQL
4 3 (1.53%) Pinecone
4 3 (1.53%) Weaviate
5 2 (1.02%) Geospatial Data
5 2 (1.02%) GIS
5 2 (1.02%) Hadoop
5 2 (1.02%) Metadata
5 2 (1.02%) MySQL
5 2 (1.02%) RDBMS
5 2 (1.02%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.51%) Big Data
6 1 (0.51%) Couchbase
6 1 (0.51%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.51%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.51%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.51%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 25 (12.76%) Git
2 9 (4.59%) Subversion
3 7 (3.57%) MagicDraw
4 6 (3.06%) JIRA
5 4 (2.04%) Rational DOORS
6 3 (1.53%) CMake
6 3 (1.53%) MLflow
7 2 (1.02%) Jenkins
7 2 (1.02%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.51%) Bugzilla
8 1 (0.51%) CruiseControl
8 1 (0.51%) Eclipse
8 1 (0.51%) GDB
8 1 (0.51%) Hudson
8 1 (0.51%) LabVIEW
8 1 (0.51%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.51%) Selenium
8 1 (0.51%) Spock
8 1 (0.51%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.51%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 34 (17.35%) Aerospace
2 30 (15.31%) Electronics
3 29 (14.80%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (12.76%) Finance
5 21 (10.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 20 (10.20%) Social Skills
7 11 (5.61%) Manufacturing
8 6 (3.06%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (2.55%) Aviation
10 4 (2.04%) Marketing
11 3 (1.53%) Military
12 2 (1.02%) Public Sector
12 2 (1.02%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.51%) Retail
13 1 (0.51%) Swedish Language
Job Titles
1 68 (34.69%) Software Engineer
2 53 (27.04%) Senior
3 39 (19.90%) Developer
4 35 (17.86%) Software Developer
5 29 (14.80%) Embedded Engineer
6 26 (13.27%) Embedded Software Engineer
7 18 (9.18%) Senior Software Engineer
8 15 (7.65%) Lead
9 14 (7.14%) C++ Software Engineer
10 10 (5.10%) Graduate
10 10 (5.10%) Senior Developer
10 10 (5.10%) Senior Software Developer
11 8 (4.08%) Graduate Software Engineer
12 6 (3.06%) Systems Engineer
13 5 (2.55%) C++ Developer
13 5 (2.55%) Junior
13 5 (2.55%) Junior Software Engineer
13 5 (2.55%) Test Engineer
14 4 (2.04%) Senior Security Engineer
14 4 (2.04%) Senior Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (17.35%) .NET
2 25 (12.76%) Node.js
3 23 (11.73%) HTML
4 20 (10.20%) Pandas
5 16 (8.16%) Qt
6 9 (4.59%) ASP.NET
7 8 (4.08%) XML
8 7 (3.57%) .NET Core
9 5 (2.55%) React
10 3 (1.53%) CSS
10 3 (1.53%) Kafka
10 3 (1.53%) PyTorch
10 3 (1.53%) scikit-learn
10 3 (1.53%) TensorFlow
10 3 (1.53%) WinForms
10 3 (1.53%) WPF
11 2 (1.02%) jQuery
11 2 (1.02%) NumPy
11 2 (1.02%) OpenGL
11 2 (1.02%) STL
Miscellaneous
1 39 (19.90%) Embedded Systems
2 29 (14.80%) Algorithms
3 18 (9.18%) Cyberattack
3 18 (9.18%) e-Learning
3 18 (9.18%) MicroBlaze
3 18 (9.18%) RISC-V
4 15 (7.65%) Self-Motivation
5 13 (6.63%) FPGA
6 6 (3.06%) Robotics
7 5 (2.55%) Linux Command Line
8 4 (2.04%) Acoustics
8 4 (2.04%) CPLD
8 4 (2.04%) Device Driver
8 4 (2.04%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (2.04%) Mobile App
8 4 (2.04%) VHDL
9 3 (1.53%) 3D Graphics
9 3 (1.53%) CCTV
10 2 (1.02%) CUDA
10 2 (1.02%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 81 (41.33%) Linux
2 25 (12.76%) Android
3 21 (10.71%) Embedded Linux
4 14 (7.14%) Unix
5 6 (3.06%) Windows
6 4 (2.04%) Apple iOS
7 2 (1.02%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.51%) Debian
8 1 (0.51%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 70 (35.71%) Mathematics
3 62 (31.63%) Computer Science
4 56 (28.57%) Agile
5 42 (21.43%) Software Testing
6 40 (20.41%) Physics
7 35 (17.86%) OO
8 34 (17.35%) Test Automation
9 31 (15.82%) Machine Learning
10 29 (14.80%) Artificial Intelligence
11 24 (12.24%) CI/CD
12 23 (11.73%) Signal Processing
12 23 (11.73%) Validation
13 21 (10.71%) Collaborative Working
13 21 (10.71%) Statistics
13 21 (10.71%) Verification and Validation
14 20 (10.20%) Digital Signal Processing
14 20 (10.20%) Line Management
14 20 (10.20%) OOP
15 19 (9.69%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 117 (59.69%) C
2 107 (54.59%) Python
3 62 (31.63%) Java
4 51 (26.02%) C#
5 43 (21.94%) JavaScript
6 39 (19.90%) Rust
7 34 (17.35%) MATLAB
7 34 (17.35%) SQL
8 22 (11.22%) R
9 21 (10.71%) Go
10 19 (9.69%) TypeScript
11 18 (9.18%) PHP
12 16 (8.16%) Dart
12 16 (8.16%) Ruby
13 13 (6.63%) Fortran
14 12 (6.12%) Bash
15 8 (4.08%) Embedded C
16 7 (3.57%) Embedded C++
17 6 (3.06%) Kotlin
18 5 (2.55%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 104 (53.06%) Degree
2 66 (33.67%) Security Cleared
3 41 (20.92%) SC Cleared
4 32 (16.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 30 (15.31%) DV Cleared
6 25 (12.76%) Master's Degree
7 24 (12.24%) PhD
8 7 (3.57%) BPSS Clearance
8 7 (3.57%) Numerate Degree
9 4 (2.04%) A+ Certification
9 4 (2.04%) Dell Certification
9 4 (2.04%) MCP
9 4 (2.04%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.51%) HNC
10 1 (0.51%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.02%) Def Stans
1 2 (1.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (1.02%) QA
2 1 (0.51%) ECSS
System Software
1 23 (11.73%) Docker
1 23 (11.73%) Firmware
2 20 (10.20%) Embedded Firmware
3 2 (1.02%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 23 (11.73%) Kubernetes
2 18 (9.18%) Ansible
2 18 (9.18%) Terraform
3 3 (1.53%) Kubeflow
4 1 (0.51%) Grafana
4 1 (0.51%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (3.06%) Microsoft
2 5 (2.55%) EMC
3 4 (2.04%) Agilent
3 4 (2.04%) Dell
3 4 (2.04%) Siemens
4 3 (1.53%) NVIDIA
4 3 (1.53%) Xilinx
5 2 (1.02%) SAP
6 1 (0.51%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.51%) Intel
6 1 (0.51%) Oracle
6 1 (0.51%) Red Hat