C++ Jobs in the South West

C++
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for C++ skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited C++ over the 6 months to 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 78 95 57
Rank change year-on-year +17 -38 -1
Permanent jobs citing C++ 297 206 427
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 3.20% 3.06% 5.30%
As % of the Programming Languages category 9.79% 8.13% 10.31%
Number of salaries quoted 210 138 177
10th Percentile £43,750 £42,000 £30,375
25th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,750 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.93% +12.27% +6.49%
75th Percentile £66,313 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £75,250 £88,750 £75,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £69,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -13.67% -0.71% +21.74%

All Programming Languages
South West

C++ is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 3,033 2,535 4,143
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 32.67% 37.63% 51.41%
Number of salaries quoted 2,405 1,656 2,791
10th Percentile £32,500 £33,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% +11.70%
75th Percentile £66,250 £71,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £81,250
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 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 11 May 2024.

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 11 May 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
Bristol +26 99 £55,000 -15.38% 50
Gloucestershire -32 66 £60,000 -12.73% 25
Dorset +16 57 £60,000 +36.36% 12
Devon +23 35 - - 10
Somerset +9 23 £50,000 -12.47% 9
Wiltshire -7 15 £43,750 -23.91% 12
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 11 (3.70%) Apache
2 3 (1.01%) Confluence
Applications
1 9 (3.03%) GNU Octave
2 8 (2.69%) Simulink
3 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.67%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 16 (5.39%) AWS
2 15 (5.05%) Azure
3 7 (2.36%) OpenShift
4 5 (1.68%) SaaS
5 4 (1.35%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (1.01%) WhatsApp
7 2 (0.67%) GCP
8 1 (0.34%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (0.34%) GitHub
8 1 (0.34%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 17 (5.72%) 5G
2 16 (5.39%) SD-WAN
2 16 (5.39%) WAN
3 10 (3.37%) TCP/IP
4 9 (3.03%) Internet
5 8 (2.69%) DNS
5 8 (2.69%) HTTP
5 8 (2.69%) SMTP
6 7 (2.36%) OFDM
7 6 (2.02%) Wireshark
8 5 (1.68%) Wireless
9 2 (0.67%) Ethernet
9 2 (0.67%) Link 16
10 1 (0.34%) 2G
10 1 (0.34%) 3G
10 1 (0.34%) 4G
10 1 (0.34%) Multicast
10 1 (0.34%) Software-Defined Radio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (3.03%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (2.69%) MongoDB
3 7 (2.36%) SQLite
4 6 (2.02%) Elasticsearch
4 6 (2.02%) SQL Server
5 2 (0.67%) Big Data
5 2 (0.67%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.34%) Crystal Reports
Development Applications
1 31 (10.44%) Visual Studio
2 21 (7.07%) Git
2 21 (7.07%) Jenkins
3 14 (4.71%) JIRA
4 13 (4.38%) Subversion
5 10 (3.37%) LabVIEW
5 10 (3.37%) Rational Rhapsody
6 7 (2.36%) Eclipse
7 6 (2.02%) Cucumber
7 6 (2.02%) Cypress.io
7 6 (2.02%) Selenium
8 5 (1.68%) NetBeans
8 5 (1.68%) Rational DOORS
9 4 (1.35%) IDA Disassembler
10 3 (1.01%) Bitbucket
10 3 (1.01%) GitLab
10 3 (1.01%) SonarQube
11 2 (0.67%) Android Studio
11 2 (0.67%) PetaLinux
12 1 (0.34%) GCC
General
1 54 (18.18%) Social Skills
2 43 (14.48%) Analytical Skills
3 36 (12.12%) Electronics
4 24 (8.08%) Aviation
4 24 (8.08%) Marketing
5 23 (7.74%) Automotive
6 18 (6.06%) Telecoms
7 17 (5.72%) Manufacturing
8 16 (5.39%) Presentation Skills
9 14 (4.71%) Finance
10 13 (4.38%) Public Sector
11 8 (2.69%) Aerospace
11 8 (2.69%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (1.35%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (1.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 2 (0.67%) Advertising
14 2 (0.67%) Avionics
14 2 (0.67%) Games
15 1 (0.34%) Military
Job Titles
1 182 (61.28%) Software Engineer
2 84 (28.28%) Senior
3 78 (26.26%) Senior Software Engineer
4 72 (24.24%) C++ Software Engineer
4 72 (24.24%) Embedded Engineer
5 63 (21.21%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 46 (15.49%) Developer
7 39 (13.13%) Embedded C++ Engineer
8 38 (12.79%) Embedded C++ Software Engineer
9 29 (9.76%) Lead
10 26 (8.75%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
11 22 (7.41%) Senior Embedded Engineer
11 22 (7.41%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
12 19 (6.40%) C++ Developer
13 14 (4.71%) Software Developer
14 12 (4.04%) Systems Engineer
15 11 (3.70%) C Software Engineer
15 11 (3.70%) C/C++ Software Engineer
15 11 (3.70%) Lead Software Engineer
16 9 (3.03%) FPGA Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (6.06%) Qt
2 17 (5.72%) STL
3 14 (4.71%) .NET
3 14 (4.71%) HTML
4 10 (3.37%) MFC
5 7 (2.36%) Apache NiFi
5 7 (2.36%) WPF
6 6 (2.02%) ASP.NET
6 6 (2.02%) Yocto
7 5 (1.68%) .NET Core
7 5 (1.68%) .NET Framework
7 5 (1.68%) CSS
7 5 (1.68%) JavaFX
8 3 (1.01%) Entity Framework
8 3 (1.01%) LESS
8 3 (1.01%) Node.js
8 3 (1.01%) React
8 3 (1.01%) Spring
9 2 (0.67%) SOAP
9 2 (0.67%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 49 (16.50%) Self-Motivation
2 31 (10.44%) FPGA
3 27 (9.09%) Embedded Systems
3 27 (9.09%) GNSS
4 20 (6.73%) VHDL
5 15 (5.05%) Algorithms
6 12 (4.04%) Robotics
7 10 (3.37%) Hackathon
8 9 (3.03%) Renewable Energy
9 8 (2.69%) CUDA
9 8 (2.69%) MicroBlaze
9 8 (2.69%) Tandem
10 7 (2.36%) PMI
11 6 (2.02%) IoT
11 6 (2.02%) Product Ownership
12 4 (1.35%) Verilog
13 3 (1.01%) ARM Cortex
13 3 (1.01%) Device Driver
13 3 (1.01%) Virtual Team
14 2 (0.67%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 77 (25.93%) Linux
2 66 (22.22%) Windows
3 8 (2.69%) Unix
4 4 (1.35%) Android
4 4 (1.35%) Embedded Linux
4 4 (1.35%) Kali Linux
5 3 (1.01%) Windows Embedded Compact
6 2 (0.67%) AIX
6 2 (0.67%) FreeRTOS
7 1 (0.34%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 212 (71.38%) Software Engineering
2 73 (24.58%) Problem-Solving
3 41 (13.80%) Computer Science
4 36 (12.12%) Multithreading
5 35 (11.78%) B2B
6 34 (11.45%) Agile
7 33 (11.11%) Test Automation
8 32 (10.77%) Defect Tracking
9 31 (10.44%) Creative Thinking
9 31 (10.44%) Requirements Analysis
10 30 (10.10%) Signal Processing
11 29 (9.76%) SDLC
12 24 (8.08%) Validation
13 23 (7.74%) CI/CD
14 22 (7.41%) Innovative Thinking
15 21 (7.07%) UML
16 20 (6.73%) Mentoring
16 20 (6.73%) Software Architecture
17 19 (6.40%) Configuration Management
17 19 (6.40%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 126 (42.42%) C
2 88 (29.63%) Python
3 41 (13.80%) Java
4 38 (12.79%) C#
5 31 (10.44%) MATLAB
6 21 (7.07%) Bash
6 21 (7.07%) Perl
7 20 (6.73%) SQL
8 18 (6.06%) JavaScript
9 11 (3.70%) Tcl
10 10 (3.37%) Ada
10 10 (3.37%) VB
11 9 (3.03%) PHP
11 9 (3.03%) Rust
12 7 (2.36%) SystemVerilog
13 5 (1.68%) Embedded C++
13 5 (1.68%) Fortran
14 4 (1.35%) Embedded C
15 2 (0.67%) Scala
15 2 (0.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 65 (21.89%) Degree
2 55 (18.52%) Security Cleared
3 24 (8.08%) DV Cleared
4 22 (7.41%) SC Cleared
5 7 (2.36%) PMI Certification
6 4 (1.35%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (1.35%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.01%) HND
7 3 (1.01%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.34%) HNC
8 1 (0.34%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (6.40%) PMO
2 5 (1.68%) IEC 61508
2 5 (1.68%) ISO 9001
2 5 (1.68%) TickIT
3 4 (1.35%) Def Stans
4 2 (0.67%) DO-178B
5 1 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 12207
System Software
1 28 (9.43%) Firmware
2 25 (8.42%) Embedded Firmware
3 10 (3.37%) Docker
4 1 (0.34%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.34%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (2.69%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.67%) Ansible
2 2 (0.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (4.04%) Microsoft
2 11 (3.70%) SAP
2 11 (3.70%) Xilinx
3 8 (2.69%) Altera
3 8 (2.69%) Atlassian
3 8 (2.69%) Green Hills
3 8 (2.69%) Motorola
4 3 (1.01%) Coverity
4 3 (1.01%) Samsung
4 3 (1.01%) Xamarin
5 2 (0.67%) Google
5 2 (0.67%) Oracle
6 1 (0.34%) F5
6 1 (0.34%) IBM
6 1 (0.34%) VMware