C++ Jobs in South Wales

C++
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in South Wales 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 11 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 62 71 101
Rank change year-on-year +9 +30 -24
Permanent jobs citing C++ 8 36 11
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 0.75% 2.15% 0.93%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.20% 8.35% 2.64%
Number of salaries quoted 6 36 7
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £34,500
25th Percentile £44,688 £47,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -9.09% +29.41%
75th Percentile £65,000 £53,750 £57,500
90th Percentile £68,750 £65,000 £59,000
Wales median annual salary £65,000 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +30.00% +11.11% +5.88%

All Programming Languages
South Wales

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 South Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 129 431 417
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 12.07% 25.69% 35.10%
Number of salaries quoted 113 317 205
10th Percentile £40,250 £35,195 £33,733
25th Percentile £52,500 £42,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,000 £52,101 £51,500
Median % change year-on-year +19.00% +1.17% -1.90%
75th Percentile £68,000 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £73,000 £77,000
Wales median annual salary £60,000 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +20.00% +11.11% -10.00%

C++
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for C++ in South Wales

C++
Salary Trend in South Wales

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

Salary trend for C++ in South Wales

C++
Salary Histogram in South Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing C++ in South Wales over the 6 months to 11 June 2025.

Salary histogram for C++ in South Wales

C++
Job Locations in South Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing C++ within the South Wales region over the 6 months to 11 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
Cardiff +35 4 £65,000 - 13
Neath Port Talbot +5 3 £42,500 +13.33%
Glamorgan - 1 - - 7
C++
Wales

C++
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Wales 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:

Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 1 (12.50%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) SMS
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) GitLab
1 1 (12.50%) JIRA
1 1 (12.50%) Visual Studio
General
1 2 (25.00%) Electronics
1 2 (25.00%) Finance
1 2 (25.00%) Manufacturing
1 2 (25.00%) Marketing
1 2 (25.00%) Public Sector
1 2 (25.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (12.50%) Aviation
2 1 (12.50%) Avionics
2 1 (12.50%) Games
2 1 (12.50%) iGaming
2 1 (12.50%) Pharmaceutical
2 1 (12.50%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (75.00%) Software Engineer
2 4 (50.00%) Senior
3 3 (37.50%) Senior Software Engineer
4 2 (25.00%) Developer
4 2 (25.00%) Embedded Engineer
4 2 (25.00%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 2 (25.00%) Senior Embedded Engineer
4 2 (25.00%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
5 1 (12.50%) Backend Developer
5 1 (12.50%) Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (12.50%) Lead
5 1 (12.50%) Lead Developer
5 1 (12.50%) Senior Developer
5 1 (12.50%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (12.50%) Senior Software Developer
5 1 (12.50%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Algorithms
2 2 (25.00%) CUDA
3 1 (12.50%) Device Driver
3 1 (12.50%) Smart City
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Software Engineering
2 3 (37.50%) Computer Science
2 3 (37.50%) Mathematics
2 3 (37.50%) OO
3 2 (25.00%) Agile
3 2 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (25.00%) Design Patterns
3 2 (25.00%) Digital Marketing
3 2 (25.00%) Mentoring
3 2 (25.00%) OOP
3 2 (25.00%) Parallel Processing
3 2 (25.00%) Programme Management
4 1 (12.50%) Clean Code
4 1 (12.50%) Collaborative Culture
4 1 (12.50%) Data Pipeline
4 1 (12.50%) Decarbonisation
4 1 (12.50%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) C
2 3 (37.50%) C#
2 3 (37.50%) Java
3 1 (12.50%) Ada
3 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (62.50%) Degree
2 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
2 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (12.50%) DBS Check
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Docker
1 1 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) SAP
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft