C++ Job Trends in the Thames Valley

C++
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring C++ skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 156 44 95
Rank change year-on-year -112 +51 -35
Permanent jobs citing C++ 29 226 95
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.81% 5.26% 2.81%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.95% 17.08% 6.58%
Number of salaries quoted 16 131 80
10th Percentile £40,008 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,566 £50,000 £42,723
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,965 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.06% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £68,750 £67,322 £80,313
90th Percentile £76,875 £90,000 £95,000
South East median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% +4.55%

All Programming Languages
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 586 1,323 1,444
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 16.45% 30.77% 42.75%
Number of salaries quoted 402 742 993
10th Percentile £33,250 £37,600 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £87,500
South East median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -4.35%

C++
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing C++ relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

C++ job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

C++
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing C++.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing C++

C++
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing C++ in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 12 November 2025.

Salary histogram for C++ in the Thames Valley

C++
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing C++ within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 12 November 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
Buckinghamshire -24 13 £65,000 +33.33% 40
Oxfordshire -24 10 £65,000 +8.33% 27
Berkshire -70 6 £55,715 -20.41% 77
C++
South East

C++
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 7 (24.14%) AWS
2 4 (13.79%) Azure
3 3 (10.34%) Amazon Cognito
3 3 (10.34%) Amazon EC2
3 3 (10.34%) Amazon S3
3 3 (10.34%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (10.34%) Serverless
4 2 (6.90%) GitHub
4 2 (6.90%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (3.45%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.90%) SpaceWire
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.45%) MySQL
1 1 (3.45%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (13.79%) Git
2 3 (10.34%) Jenkins
2 3 (10.34%) MLflow
3 2 (6.90%) GitLab
General
1 5 (17.24%) Manufacturing
2 1 (3.45%) Automotive
2 1 (3.45%) Aviation
2 1 (3.45%) Finance
2 1 (3.45%) Social Skills
2 1 (3.45%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 14 (48.28%) Software Engineer
2 3 (10.34%) Machine Learning Engineer
2 3 (10.34%) Operations Engineer
2 3 (10.34%) Senior
2 3 (10.34%) Senior Software Engineer
3 2 (6.90%) Developer
3 2 (6.90%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
3 2 (6.90%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 2 (6.90%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
3 2 (6.90%) Lead
3 2 (6.90%) Lead Software Engineer
4 1 (3.45%) C++ Developer
4 1 (3.45%) C++ Software Developer
4 1 (3.45%) C++ Software Engineer
4 1 (3.45%) Graduate
4 1 (3.45%) Graduate Developer
4 1 (3.45%) IT Graduate
4 1 (3.45%) Junior
4 1 (3.45%) Junior Software Engineer
4 1 (3.45%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (31.03%) HTML
2 3 (10.34%) PyTorch
3 2 (6.90%) .NET
3 2 (6.90%) ASP.NET
3 2 (6.90%) Qt
4 1 (3.45%) ASP.NET Core
4 1 (3.45%) Blazor
4 1 (3.45%) CSS
4 1 (3.45%) Django
4 1 (3.45%) jQuery
4 1 (3.45%) React
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.24%) Algorithms
2 3 (10.34%) Animation
2 3 (10.34%) Life Science
3 2 (6.90%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (3.45%) AI Agents
4 1 (3.45%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 9 (31.03%) Linux
2 4 (13.79%) Unix
3 2 (6.90%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (62.07%) Computer Science
2 14 (48.28%) Machine Learning
2 14 (48.28%) Software Engineering
3 11 (37.93%) AI
4 9 (31.03%) Data Privacy
5 7 (24.14%) SDLC
6 6 (20.69%) Data Management
7 5 (17.24%) Agile
7 5 (17.24%) CI/CD
7 5 (17.24%) Mathematics
8 4 (13.79%) Infrastructure as Code
8 4 (13.79%) OO
8 4 (13.79%) OOP
8 4 (13.79%) Open Source
8 4 (13.79%) Parallel Programming
8 4 (13.79%) Performance Analysis
8 4 (13.79%) Physics
8 4 (13.79%) Software Testing
9 3 (10.34%) Data Acquisition
9 3 (10.34%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 22 (75.86%) Python
2 15 (51.72%) C
3 14 (48.28%) Java
4 12 (41.38%) C#
5 11 (37.93%) SQL
5 11 (37.93%) TypeScript
6 10 (34.48%) JavaScript
6 10 (34.48%) PHP
7 9 (31.03%) Dart
7 9 (31.03%) MATLAB
7 9 (31.03%) R
7 9 (31.03%) Ruby
7 9 (31.03%) Rust
8 4 (13.79%) Bash
8 4 (13.79%) Fortran
9 2 (6.90%) Embedded C++
9 2 (6.90%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 21 (72.41%) Degree
2 12 (41.38%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (24.14%) Master's Degree
4 4 (13.79%) PhD
5 2 (6.90%) DV Cleared
5 2 (6.90%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (13.79%) ECSS
2 1 (3.45%) QA
System Software
1 2 (6.90%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (17.24%) Kubernetes
2 3 (10.34%) Ansible
2 3 (10.34%) Kubeflow