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 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 135 76 93
Rank change year-on-year -59 +17 -49
Permanent jobs citing C++ 203 575 474
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 2.15% 3.32% 3.35%
As % of the Programming Languages category 8.28% 11.45% 8.34%
Number of salaries quoted 109 472 350
10th Percentile £40,000 £36,325 £33,625
25th Percentile £46,250 £42,500 £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 £70,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £66,228 £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 2,453 5,022 5,682
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 25.92% 28.99% 40.15%
Number of salaries quoted 1,686 4,033 3,729
10th Percentile £34,000 £34,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £55,000 £59,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.82% -6.78% +7.27%
75th Percentile £68,000 £68,750 £74,250
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £87,600
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 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 28 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 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
Thames Valley -17 77 £52,000 -5.45% 70
Hampshire -10 64 £62,500 +4.17% 48
Berkshire 0 32 £50,000 - 26
Oxfordshire -4 30 £62,500 +13.64% 36
Surrey -39 24 £70,000 +16.67% 49
Kent +43 19 £60,000 +62.16% 14
Buckinghamshire +24 15 £60,000 -14.29% 15
East Sussex +12 9 - - 2
West Sussex +23 7 £55,000 -8.33% 10
Isle of Wight - 2 £45,000 - 1
Middlesex - 1 - - 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 3 (1.48%) Apache Spark
2 2 (0.99%) Apache
Applications
1 5 (2.46%) Microsoft Office
1 5 (2.46%) Simulink
2 4 (1.97%) OrCAD
3 2 (0.99%) GNU Octave
3 2 (0.99%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (1.97%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 21 (10.34%) Azure
2 20 (9.85%) AWS
3 18 (8.87%) Amazon EKS
3 18 (8.87%) AWS CloudFormation
4 4 (1.97%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (1.48%) GitHub
6 1 (0.49%) Amazon SageMaker
6 1 (0.49%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (0.49%) Power Platform
6 1 (0.49%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 19 (9.36%) Wireless
2 16 (7.88%) Software-Defined Radio
3 5 (2.46%) TCP/IP
4 4 (1.97%) HTTP
4 4 (1.97%) HTTPS
4 4 (1.97%) VPN
5 2 (0.99%) Network Security
6 1 (0.49%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (8.87%) Elasticsearch
2 10 (4.93%) SQL Server
3 5 (2.46%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (1.97%) Metabase
4 4 (1.97%) NoSQL
5 3 (1.48%) Hadoop
5 3 (1.48%) Metadata
5 3 (1.48%) Pinecone
5 3 (1.48%) Weaviate
6 2 (0.99%) Big Data
6 2 (0.99%) Geospatial Data
6 2 (0.99%) GIS
6 2 (0.99%) RDBMS
6 2 (0.99%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.49%) Couchbase
7 1 (0.49%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.49%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.49%) MySQL
7 1 (0.49%) Power BI
7 1 (0.49%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 25 (12.32%) Git
2 9 (4.43%) Subversion
3 7 (3.45%) MagicDraw
4 6 (2.96%) JIRA
5 4 (1.97%) Jenkins
5 4 (1.97%) Rational DOORS
6 3 (1.48%) CMake
6 3 (1.48%) Eclipse
6 3 (1.48%) MLflow
7 2 (0.99%) GitLab
7 2 (0.99%) Robot Framework
7 2 (0.99%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.49%) Bugzilla
8 1 (0.49%) CruiseControl
8 1 (0.49%) GDB
8 1 (0.49%) Gemini Tracker
8 1 (0.49%) Hudson
8 1 (0.49%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.49%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.49%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 34 (16.75%) Aerospace
2 31 (15.27%) Electronics
3 29 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (12.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 23 (11.33%) Finance
6 20 (9.85%) Social Skills
7 13 (6.40%) Manufacturing
8 7 (3.45%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (1.97%) Aviation
9 4 (1.97%) Marketing
10 3 (1.48%) Military
11 2 (0.99%) Public Sector
11 2 (0.99%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.49%) Retail
Job Titles
1 73 (35.96%) Software Engineer
2 55 (27.09%) Senior
3 37 (18.23%) Developer
4 34 (16.75%) Software Developer
5 29 (14.29%) Embedded Engineer
6 26 (12.81%) Embedded Software Engineer
7 19 (9.36%) Senior Software Engineer
8 17 (8.37%) C++ Software Engineer
9 15 (7.39%) Lead
10 10 (4.93%) Senior Developer
10 10 (4.93%) Senior Software Developer
11 9 (4.43%) Graduate
12 8 (3.94%) Graduate Software Engineer
12 8 (3.94%) Systems Engineer
13 6 (2.96%) Junior
13 6 (2.96%) Security Engineer
14 5 (2.46%) C++ Developer
14 5 (2.46%) Hardware Engineer
14 5 (2.46%) Junior Software Engineer
14 5 (2.46%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (16.75%) .NET
2 27 (13.30%) Node.js
3 22 (10.84%) HTML
4 20 (9.85%) Pandas
5 16 (7.88%) Qt
6 8 (3.94%) ASP.NET
6 8 (3.94%) React
6 8 (3.94%) XML
7 7 (3.45%) .NET Core
8 4 (1.97%) Kafka
8 4 (1.97%) Yocto
9 3 (1.48%) PyTorch
9 3 (1.48%) scikit-learn
9 3 (1.48%) TensorFlow
9 3 (1.48%) WinForms
9 3 (1.48%) WPF
10 2 (0.99%) Flutter
10 2 (0.99%) NumPy
10 2 (0.99%) OpenGL
10 2 (0.99%) STL
Miscellaneous
1 39 (19.21%) Embedded Systems
2 33 (16.26%) Algorithms
3 18 (8.87%) Cyberattack
4 16 (7.88%) e-Learning
4 16 (7.88%) MicroBlaze
4 16 (7.88%) RISC-V
5 15 (7.39%) FPGA
5 15 (7.39%) Self-Motivation
6 6 (2.96%) VHDL
7 5 (2.46%) CCTV
7 5 (2.46%) Linux Command Line
7 5 (2.46%) Robotics
8 4 (1.97%) Acoustics
8 4 (1.97%) CPLD
8 4 (1.97%) Device Driver
8 4 (1.97%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (1.97%) Mobile App
9 3 (1.48%) 3D Graphics
10 2 (0.99%) ASIC
10 2 (0.99%) Verilog
Operating Systems
1 82 (40.39%) Linux
2 25 (12.32%) Android
3 19 (9.36%) Embedded Linux
4 14 (6.90%) Unix
5 6 (2.96%) Windows
6 4 (1.97%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.99%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.99%) Rocky
8 1 (0.49%) Debian
8 1 (0.49%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (49.75%) Software Engineering
2 73 (35.96%) Mathematics
3 61 (30.05%) Computer Science
4 53 (26.11%) Agile
5 41 (20.20%) Physics
5 41 (20.20%) Software Testing
6 35 (17.24%) OO
7 33 (16.26%) Test Automation
8 32 (15.76%) Artificial Intelligence
8 32 (15.76%) Machine Learning
9 24 (11.82%) CI/CD
10 23 (11.33%) Collaborative Working
10 23 (11.33%) Validation
11 22 (10.84%) Signal Processing
12 21 (10.34%) Statistics
12 21 (10.34%) Verification and Validation
13 20 (9.85%) Line Management
14 19 (9.36%) Containerisation
14 19 (9.36%) OOP
14 19 (9.36%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 121 (59.61%) C
2 114 (56.16%) Python
3 63 (31.03%) Java
4 50 (24.63%) C#
5 44 (21.67%) JavaScript
6 41 (20.20%) Rust
7 36 (17.73%) SQL
8 34 (16.75%) MATLAB
9 23 (11.33%) Go
10 22 (10.84%) R
11 19 (9.36%) TypeScript
12 18 (8.87%) Ruby
13 17 (8.37%) PHP
14 16 (7.88%) Dart
15 13 (6.40%) Fortran
16 12 (5.91%) Bash
17 9 (4.43%) Embedded C++
18 8 (3.94%) Embedded C
19 6 (2.96%) Kotlin
20 5 (2.46%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 105 (51.72%) Degree
2 66 (32.51%) Security Cleared
3 39 (19.21%) SC Cleared
4 32 (15.76%) DV Cleared
5 31 (15.27%) Computer Science Degree
6 25 (12.32%) Master's Degree
7 24 (11.82%) PhD
8 8 (3.94%) Numerate Degree
9 7 (3.45%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (1.97%) A+ Certification
10 4 (1.97%) Dell Certification
10 4 (1.97%) MCP
10 4 (1.97%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.49%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (0.99%) Accessibility
1 2 (0.99%) Def Stans
1 2 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (0.99%) QA
2 1 (0.49%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.49%) ECSS
System Software
1 25 (12.32%) Docker
2 24 (11.82%) Firmware
3 18 (8.87%) Embedded Firmware
4 2 (0.99%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 25 (12.32%) Kubernetes
2 20 (9.85%) Terraform
3 18 (8.87%) Ansible
4 3 (1.48%) Kubeflow
5 1 (0.49%) Grafana
5 1 (0.49%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 8 (3.94%) Microsoft
2 5 (2.46%) EMC
3 4 (1.97%) Agilent
3 4 (1.97%) Dell
3 4 (1.97%) Siemens
4 3 (1.48%) NVIDIA
4 3 (1.48%) Red Hat
4 3 (1.48%) SAP
4 3 (1.48%) Xilinx
5 2 (0.99%) Cadence
6 1 (0.49%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.49%) Intel
6 1 (0.49%) Oracle