C++ Jobs in the Thames Valley

C++
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 2 December 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Dec 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 50 108 56
Rank change year-on-year +58 -52 +28
Permanent jobs citing C++ 205 90 315
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 5.06% 2.54% 4.94%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.02% 6.03% 12.31%
Number of salaries quoted 117 75 229
10th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £33,250
25th Percentile £50,120 £42,649 £36,953
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £50,975
Median % change year-on-year - +17.70% -2.90%
75th Percentile £70,000 £81,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £112,500 £95,000 £80,000
South East median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% +10.00%

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 1,365 1,492 2,559
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 33.69% 42.08% 40.12%
Number of salaries quoted 796 955 1,605
10th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £45,600 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,525 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.15% -5.79% +9.09%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £88,125 £87,500 £85,600
South East median annual salary £59,750 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +8.64% -4.35% +9.52%

C++
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for C++ in the Thames Valley

C++
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing C++ in the Thames Valley.

Salary trend for C++ in the Thames Valley

C++
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing C++ in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 2 December 2024.

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 2 December 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
Oxfordshire +26 91 £60,000 -4.00% 27
Berkshire +26 76 £70,000 +16.67% 30
Buckinghamshire +21 38 £55,000 +21.69% 13
C++
South East

C++
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (1.46%) OpenStack
2 2 (0.98%) Kinematics
3 1 (0.49%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (1.95%) SOLIDWORKS
2 3 (1.46%) Fusion 360
2 3 (1.46%) Siemens NX
3 2 (0.98%) Zemax
4 1 (0.49%) SketchUp
Cloud Services
1 17 (8.29%) AWS
2 16 (7.80%) Azure
3 11 (5.37%) GCP
4 8 (3.90%) Cloud Computing
4 8 (3.90%) SaaS
5 6 (2.93%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (2.93%) GitHub
6 1 (0.49%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.95%) Ethernet
1 4 (1.95%) Wireless
2 2 (0.98%) Broadband
2 2 (0.98%) Internet
2 2 (0.98%) RFID
3 1 (0.49%) 5G
3 1 (0.49%) IPsec
3 1 (0.49%) Modbus
3 1 (0.49%) Profibus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (9.76%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (2.93%) SQL Server
3 5 (2.44%) QGIS
4 4 (1.95%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (1.46%) MongoDB
5 3 (1.46%) MySQL
5 3 (1.46%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.98%) Big Data
7 1 (0.49%) GIS
Development Applications
1 14 (6.83%) Git
2 13 (6.34%) JIRA
3 12 (5.85%) GitLab
4 11 (5.37%) Visual Studio
5 7 (3.41%) Bitbucket
6 6 (2.93%) TestRail
7 3 (1.46%) Cypress.io
7 3 (1.46%) Selenium
7 3 (1.46%) SoapUI
8 2 (0.98%) Jenkins
8 2 (0.98%) LabVIEW
9 1 (0.49%) CMake
General
1 30 (14.63%) Electronics
2 22 (10.73%) Social Skills
3 16 (7.80%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (7.32%) Automotive
5 12 (5.85%) Manufacturing
6 6 (2.93%) Telecoms
7 5 (2.44%) Games
7 5 (2.44%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (1.95%) Tech for Good
9 3 (1.46%) Advertising
10 2 (0.98%) Aerospace
10 2 (0.98%) Marketing
11 1 (0.49%) Finance
11 1 (0.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.49%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 105 (51.22%) Software Engineer
2 66 (32.20%) Senior
3 52 (25.37%) Senior Software Engineer
4 36 (17.56%) Embedded Engineer
5 29 (14.15%) Developer
6 27 (13.17%) Embedded Software Engineer
7 19 (9.27%) Principal Engineer
8 17 (8.29%) Principal Software Engineer
9 15 (7.32%) C++ Software Engineer
10 10 (4.88%) Architect
11 9 (4.39%) C++ Developer
11 9 (4.39%) Electronics Engineer
11 9 (4.39%) FPGA Engineer
11 9 (4.39%) Senior Embedded Engineer
11 9 (4.39%) Software Architect
12 8 (3.90%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
12 8 (3.90%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
13 7 (3.41%) Software Developer
14 6 (2.93%) Development Manager
14 6 (2.93%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (10.73%) .NET
2 17 (8.29%) Flutter
3 16 (7.80%) WPF
4 10 (4.88%) Qt
5 9 (4.39%) WinForms
6 7 (3.41%) OpenMP
7 6 (2.93%) .NET Core
7 6 (2.93%) .NET Framework
7 6 (2.93%) ASP.NET
7 6 (2.93%) Entity Framework
7 6 (2.93%) Gherkin
8 5 (2.44%) STL
9 4 (1.95%) ASP.NET Core
9 4 (1.95%) Boost C++ Libraries
9 4 (1.95%) CSS3
9 4 (1.95%) EDI
9 4 (1.95%) HTML5
9 4 (1.95%) LESS
9 4 (1.95%) Sass
9 4 (1.95%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 34 (16.59%) Algorithms
2 23 (11.22%) Embedded Systems
3 11 (5.37%) CUDA
4 9 (4.39%) FPGA
4 9 (4.39%) Verilog
4 9 (4.39%) VHDL
5 8 (3.90%) ASIC
5 8 (3.90%) IoT
6 7 (3.41%) Robotics
7 5 (2.44%) Linux Command Line
8 4 (1.95%) Analytical Mindset
8 4 (1.95%) Driving Licence
8 4 (1.95%) GNSS
9 3 (1.46%) 3D Printing
9 3 (1.46%) Analogue Electronics
9 3 (1.46%) ARM Cortex
9 3 (1.46%) Cyber Threat
9 3 (1.46%) Fat Client
9 3 (1.46%) Molecular Biology
9 3 (1.46%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 61 (29.76%) Linux
2 20 (9.76%) Windows
3 17 (8.29%) Unix
4 9 (4.39%) FreeRTOS
5 7 (3.41%) Embedded Linux
6 4 (1.95%) Ubuntu
7 3 (1.46%) Debian
7 3 (1.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (1.46%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
7 3 (1.46%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (60.98%) Software Engineering
2 55 (26.83%) Computer Science
3 35 (17.07%) Physics
4 33 (16.10%) Agile
5 30 (14.63%) Mathematics
6 29 (14.15%) Multithreading
7 27 (13.17%) Roadmaps
8 24 (11.71%) Collaborative Working
8 24 (11.71%) Software Testing
9 20 (9.76%) Problem-Solving
10 18 (8.78%) Artificial Intelligence
10 18 (8.78%) DevOps
11 17 (8.29%) Microservices
12 16 (7.80%) Parallel Programming
13 14 (6.83%) Continuous Integration
13 14 (6.83%) Machine Learning
13 14 (6.83%) MVC
14 13 (6.34%) Multithreaded Programming
15 12 (5.85%) Computer Vision
15 12 (5.85%) Customer Requirements
Programming Languages
1 120 (58.54%) C
2 116 (56.59%) Python
3 54 (26.34%) C#
4 36 (17.56%) Java
5 34 (16.59%) Fortran
6 24 (11.71%) Embedded C
7 23 (11.22%) Rust
8 20 (9.76%) Embedded C++
9 18 (8.78%) Ruby
10 17 (8.29%) Go
10 17 (8.29%) Perl
10 17 (8.29%) SQL
11 14 (6.83%) Bash
12 9 (4.39%) JavaScript
12 9 (4.39%) MATLAB
13 8 (3.90%) T-SQL
14 6 (2.93%) C-shell
14 6 (2.93%) XAML
15 5 (2.44%) PHP
16 4 (1.95%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 85 (41.46%) Degree
2 38 (18.54%) Security Cleared
3 20 (9.76%) PhD
4 18 (8.78%) Master's Degree
5 14 (6.83%) SC Cleared
6 8 (3.90%) BPSS Clearance
6 8 (3.90%) DV Cleared
7 6 (2.93%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.46%) AWS Certification
8 3 (1.46%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.46%) CCNA
8 3 (1.46%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (1.46%) CompTIA Security+
9 2 (0.98%) Chartered Engineer
9 2 (0.98%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.98%) Postgraduate
10 1 (0.49%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.46%) QA
2 2 (0.98%) ECSS
2 2 (0.98%) HAZOP
2 2 (0.98%) JTAG
System Software
1 35 (17.07%) Docker
2 27 (13.17%) Firmware
3 6 (2.93%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 3 (1.46%) Ceph
4 3 (1.46%) GPFS
4 3 (1.46%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 31 (15.12%) Kubernetes
2 18 (8.78%) Terraform
3 3 (1.46%) Podman
Vendors
1 22 (10.73%) Microsoft
2 6 (2.93%) Xamarin
3 4 (1.95%) NVIDIA
4 3 (1.46%) IBM
5 2 (0.98%) Sun
6 1 (0.49%) EMC
6 1 (0.49%) Oracle
6 1 (0.49%) SAP
6 1 (0.49%) Xilinx