C++ Jobs in the South West

C++
England > South West

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

6 months to
13 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 117 81 102
Rank change year-on-year -36 +21 -46
Permanent jobs citing C++ 60 297 208
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 1.68% 3.20% 3.07%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.67% 9.80% 8.15%
Number of salaries quoted 32 210 140
10th Percentile £32,875 £43,750 £42,000
25th Percentile £38,438 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,250 £55,000 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% -9.84% +9.42%
75th Percentile £67,813 £66,313 £77,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £75,250 £88,750
England median annual salary £66,212 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +10.35% -14.29% -

All Programming Languages
South West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 1,059 3,030 2,553
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 29.62% 32.63% 37.65%
Number of salaries quoted 786 2,404 1,668
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £33,000
25th Percentile £45,250 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,600 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.36% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,938 £66,250 £71,250
90th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £82,500
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for C++ in the South West

C++
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary trend for C++ in the South West

C++
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing C++ in the South West over the 6 months to 13 May 2025.

Salary histogram for C++ in the South West

C++
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing C++ within the South West region over the 6 months to 13 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
Bristol -6 22 £55,000 - 90
Devon 0 12 - - 8
Gloucestershire +14 9 £57,500 -4.17% 72
Dorset -3 7 £48,750 -18.75% 9
Somerset -9 5 £52,500 +5.00% 12
Wiltshire +30 3 £65,000 +48.57% 3
C++
England

C++
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 (5.00%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (1.67%) 3ds Max
1 1 (1.67%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 1 (1.67%) Ripple
1 1 (1.67%) Ripple XRP
Cloud Services
1 7 (11.67%) AWS
2 5 (8.33%) Azure
3 1 (1.67%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (1.67%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 5 (8.33%) 5G
1 5 (8.33%) SD-WAN
1 5 (8.33%) WAN
2 4 (6.67%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (3.33%) DNS
3 2 (3.33%) Ethernet
3 2 (3.33%) VPN
4 1 (1.67%) GSM
4 1 (1.67%) HTTP
4 1 (1.67%) Internet
4 1 (1.67%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.67%) Wideband
4 1 (1.67%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.67%) NoSQL
2 2 (3.33%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (3.33%) SQLite
3 1 (1.67%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.67%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (8.33%) Git
1 5 (8.33%) Jenkins
2 4 (6.67%) Visual Studio
3 2 (3.33%) GDB
3 2 (3.33%) GitLab
3 2 (3.33%) Subversion
4 1 (1.67%) CMake
4 1 (1.67%) GCC
4 1 (1.67%) gcov
4 1 (1.67%) JUnit
4 1 (1.67%) Rational Rhapsody
4 1 (1.67%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (1.67%) WiX
General
1 23 (38.33%) Social Skills
2 17 (28.33%) Analytical Skills
2 17 (28.33%) Electronics
3 6 (10.00%) Finance
4 5 (8.33%) Marketing
5 3 (5.00%) Aerospace
5 3 (5.00%) Games
5 3 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (5.00%) Legal
5 3 (5.00%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (3.33%) Automotive
6 2 (3.33%) Manufacturing
6 2 (3.33%) Military
6 2 (3.33%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.67%) Digital Economy
7 1 (1.67%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.67%) Law
7 1 (1.67%) Retail
7 1 (1.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 27 (45.00%) Software Engineer
2 18 (30.00%) Senior
3 12 (20.00%) Developer
3 12 (20.00%) Senior Software Engineer
4 9 (15.00%) Software Developer
5 7 (11.67%) C++ Software Engineer
5 7 (11.67%) Embedded Engineer
5 7 (11.67%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 6 (10.00%) FPGA Engineer
6 6 (10.00%) Lead
6 6 (10.00%) Senior FPGA Engineer
6 6 (10.00%) Senior VHDL Engineer
6 6 (10.00%) VHDL Engineer
7 5 (8.33%) Software Team Leader
7 5 (8.33%) Team Leader
8 4 (6.67%) C Software Engineer
8 4 (6.67%) Embedded C Engineer
8 4 (6.67%) Embedded C Software Engineer
8 4 (6.67%) Real Time Embedded Engineer
8 4 (6.67%) Real Time Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (10.00%) .NET
2 5 (8.33%) HTML
3 4 (6.67%) .NET Core
3 4 (6.67%) .NET Framework
3 4 (6.67%) ASP.NET
3 4 (6.67%) Entity Framework
3 4 (6.67%) React
3 4 (6.67%) REST
4 3 (5.00%) OpenCL
5 2 (3.33%) Unreal Engine
5 2 (3.33%) XML
6 1 (1.67%) AngularJS
6 1 (1.67%) DirectX
6 1 (1.67%) HTML5
6 1 (1.67%) jQuery
6 1 (1.67%) JSON
6 1 (1.67%) Node.js
6 1 (1.67%) OpenGL
6 1 (1.67%) Pandas
6 1 (1.67%) Unity (Game Engine)
Miscellaneous
1 10 (16.67%) GNSS
2 9 (15.00%) Algorithms
3 8 (13.33%) Data Structures
4 7 (11.67%) FPGA
5 6 (10.00%) MicroBlaze
5 6 (10.00%) Satnav
5 6 (10.00%) VHDL
6 5 (8.33%) Self-Driving Car
7 3 (5.00%) CUDA
7 3 (5.00%) Cyberattack
7 3 (5.00%) Data Centre
7 3 (5.00%) Device Driver
7 3 (5.00%) PCIe
7 3 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (3.33%) Augmented Reality
8 2 (3.33%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (3.33%) Embedded Systems
8 2 (3.33%) Onboarding
8 2 (3.33%) Virtual Reality
9 1 (1.67%) Mixed Reality
Operating Systems
1 21 (35.00%) Linux
2 18 (30.00%) Windows
3 9 (15.00%) Apple iOS
4 4 (6.67%) Android
5 1 (1.67%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (53.33%) Software Engineering
2 24 (40.00%) Computer Science
3 21 (35.00%) Problem-Solving
4 19 (31.67%) Test Automation
5 14 (23.33%) Agile
5 14 (23.33%) Mentoring
6 11 (18.33%) B2B
6 11 (18.33%) Mathematics
6 11 (18.33%) Requirements Analysis
7 10 (16.67%) Defect Tracking
8 8 (13.33%) Analytical Thinking
8 8 (13.33%) Complexity Analysis
8 8 (13.33%) Refactoring
8 8 (13.33%) Scrum
8 8 (13.33%) Signal Processing
8 8 (13.33%) Software Architecture
8 8 (13.33%) System Integration Testing
8 8 (13.33%) User Experience
8 8 (13.33%) UX Design
9 7 (11.67%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 28 (46.67%) Python
2 27 (45.00%) C
3 19 (31.67%) Java
4 10 (16.67%) C#
5 8 (13.33%) JavaScript
5 8 (13.33%) Rust
6 7 (11.67%) MATLAB
6 7 (11.67%) Tcl
7 6 (10.00%) Perl
7 6 (10.00%) SQL
7 6 (10.00%) VB
8 5 (8.33%) Go
8 5 (8.33%) TypeScript
9 2 (3.33%) Embedded C
9 2 (3.33%) Embedded C++
9 2 (3.33%) PHP
10 1 (1.67%) Ada
10 1 (1.67%) Bash
10 1 (1.67%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 22 (36.67%) Degree
2 12 (20.00%) Security Cleared
3 8 (13.33%) DV Cleared
4 5 (8.33%) PhD
5 3 (5.00%) SC Cleared
6 1 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.67%) PMO
1 4 (6.67%) QA
2 1 (1.67%) Def Stans
2 1 (1.67%) HL7
2 1 (1.67%) ISO 9001
2 1 (1.67%) MISRA
System Software
1 11 (18.33%) Firmware
2 6 (10.00%) Embedded Firmware
3 5 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (6.67%) Kubernetes
2 3 (5.00%) Ansible
3 1 (1.67%) Kibana
3 1 (1.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (11.67%) Xilinx
2 6 (10.00%) Altera
2 6 (10.00%) Green Hills
3 4 (6.67%) Intel
4 3 (5.00%) Graphcore
5 2 (3.33%) EMC
6 1 (1.67%) Adobe
6 1 (1.67%) IBM
6 1 (1.67%) InterSystems
6 1 (1.67%) Oracle
6 1 (1.67%) QNX
6 1 (1.67%) SAP