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 12 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 95 95 107
Rank change year-on-year 0 +12 -84
Permanent jobs citing C++ 85 169 170
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 2.51% 2.51% 2.85%
As % of the Programming Languages category 10.80% 8.85% 7.17%
Number of salaries quoted 55 152 126
10th Percentile £34,750 £39,000 £27,875
25th Percentile £40,240 £45,000 £34,324
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £56,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% +13.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £66,250 £65,625 £77,500
90th Percentile £112,500 £78,850 £82,500
South East median annual salary £62,500 £57,500 £62,000
% change year-on-year +8.70% -7.26% +18.10%

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 787 1,909 2,372
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 23.19% 28.40% 39.79%
Number of salaries quoted 510 1,562 1,398
10th Percentile £37,150 £36,250 £34,875
25th Percentile £47,000 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £76,000 £70,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £95,000
South East median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% +4.55%

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 12 May 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 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
Oxfordshire 0 40 £61,250 +11.36% 40
Berkshire +10 38 £50,000 -7.41% 41
Buckinghamshire +21 7 £60,000 -14.29% 25
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 2 (2.35%) Apache
1 2 (2.35%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (2.35%) Zemax
2 1 (1.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.18%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (4.71%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 6 (7.06%) AWS
2 5 (5.88%) Azure
3 4 (4.71%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (2.35%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (2.35%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (1.18%) Amazon SageMaker
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.71%) VPN
2 1 (1.18%) Ethernet
2 1 (1.18%) Modbus
2 1 (1.18%) Profibus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (7.06%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (4.71%) Metabase
3 3 (3.53%) Pinecone
3 3 (3.53%) Weaviate
4 2 (2.35%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (2.35%) Hadoop
4 2 (2.35%) Metadata
4 2 (2.35%) RDBMS
4 2 (2.35%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.18%) Big Data
5 1 (1.18%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.18%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.18%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.18%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 18 (21.18%) Git
2 4 (4.71%) JIRA
2 4 (4.71%) Subversion
3 3 (3.53%) MLflow
3 3 (3.53%) Visual Studio
4 1 (1.18%) CMake
4 1 (1.18%) Jenkins
General
1 26 (30.59%) Aerospace
2 19 (22.35%) Electronics
3 16 (18.82%) Social Skills
4 14 (16.47%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (11.76%) Manufacturing
6 6 (7.06%) Finance
7 4 (4.71%) Aviation
8 3 (3.53%) Marketing
8 3 (3.53%) Public Sector
8 3 (3.53%) Telecoms
9 2 (2.35%) Automotive
9 2 (2.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (2.35%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 34 (40.00%) Senior
2 27 (31.76%) Software Engineer
3 11 (12.94%) Senior Software Engineer
4 6 (7.06%) Principal Engineer
4 6 (7.06%) Principal Software Engineer
5 5 (5.88%) Developer
5 5 (5.88%) Electronics Engineer
5 5 (5.88%) Embedded Engineer
5 5 (5.88%) Graduate
5 5 (5.88%) Graduate Software Engineer
5 5 (5.88%) Junior
5 5 (5.88%) Junior Software Engineer
5 5 (5.88%) Senior Electronics Engineer
5 5 (5.88%) Systems Engineer
6 4 (4.71%) Senior Support Engineer
6 4 (4.71%) Software Developer
6 4 (4.71%) Support Engineer
6 4 (4.71%) Technical Engineer
6 4 (4.71%) Technical Support
6 4 (4.71%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (15.29%) Qt
2 10 (11.76%) Node.js
3 5 (5.88%) Flutter
4 4 (4.71%) .NET
4 4 (4.71%) Pandas
4 4 (4.71%) PyTorch
4 4 (4.71%) React
5 3 (3.53%) scikit-learn
5 3 (3.53%) TensorFlow
6 2 (2.35%) Kafka
6 2 (2.35%) NumPy
7 1 (1.18%) GStreamer
7 1 (1.18%) Laravel
7 1 (1.18%) OpenCV
7 1 (1.18%) OpenGL
Miscellaneous
1 18 (21.18%) Algorithms
1 18 (21.18%) Embedded Systems
2 9 (10.59%) FPGA
3 5 (5.88%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (4.71%) ASIC
4 4 (4.71%) CPLD
4 4 (4.71%) Linux Command Line
4 4 (4.71%) Verilog
4 4 (4.71%) VHDL
5 3 (3.53%) Robotics
6 2 (2.35%) Acoustics
6 2 (2.35%) Cyberattack
6 2 (2.35%) Data Centre
6 2 (2.35%) Data Structures
6 2 (2.35%) IoT
7 1 (1.18%) Cloud Native
7 1 (1.18%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.18%) Driving Licence
7 1 (1.18%) Lidar
7 1 (1.18%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 25 (29.41%) Linux
2 14 (16.47%) Unix
3 3 (3.53%) Windows
4 2 (2.35%) Android
4 2 (2.35%) Mac OS
5 1 (1.18%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (37.65%) Software Engineering
2 24 (28.24%) Computer Science
3 23 (27.06%) Software Testing
4 22 (25.88%) Mathematics
5 20 (23.53%) Validation
6 19 (22.35%) Physics
7 18 (21.18%) Test Automation
7 18 (21.18%) Verification and Validation
8 16 (18.82%) OO
9 14 (16.47%) OOD
9 14 (16.47%) Problem-Solving
10 13 (15.29%) Knowledge Transfer
10 13 (15.29%) Manual Testing
10 13 (15.29%) Regression Testing
10 13 (15.29%) SDLC
11 12 (14.12%) Collaborative Working
12 11 (12.94%) Technical Leadership
13 10 (11.76%) Mentoring
14 8 (9.41%) Project Delivery
14 8 (9.41%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 59 (69.41%) Python
2 58 (68.24%) C
3 13 (15.29%) C#
4 12 (14.12%) Java
4 12 (14.12%) SQL
5 11 (12.94%) Fortran
6 10 (11.76%) Bash
6 10 (11.76%) MATLAB
7 7 (8.24%) Go
7 7 (8.24%) Rust
8 5 (5.88%) Perl
8 5 (5.88%) Ruby
9 4 (4.71%) R
10 2 (2.35%) JavaScript
11 1 (1.18%) Embedded C
11 1 (1.18%) Shell Script
11 1 (1.18%) VB
Qualifications
1 37 (43.53%) Degree
2 14 (16.47%) Master's Degree
3 13 (15.29%) PhD
4 10 (11.76%) DV Cleared
4 10 (11.76%) Security Cleared
5 8 (9.41%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (9.41%) SC Cleared
6 4 (4.71%) A+ Certification
6 4 (4.71%) Dell Certification
6 4 (4.71%) MCP
6 4 (4.71%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (3.53%) Numerate Degree
8 1 (1.18%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.53%) ECSS
2 2 (2.35%) HAZOP
2 2 (2.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 11 (12.94%) Docker
2 3 (3.53%) Firmware
3 2 (2.35%) Embedded Firmware
3 2 (2.35%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 11 (12.94%) Kubernetes
2 7 (8.24%) Terraform
3 3 (3.53%) Kubeflow
4 2 (2.35%) Ansible
Vendors
1 5 (5.88%) Microsoft
2 4 (4.71%) Agilent
2 4 (4.71%) Dell
3 3 (3.53%) SAP
4 1 (1.18%) NVIDIA