C++ Jobs in the UK excluding London

C++
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 125 140 78
Rank change year-on-year +15 -62 +1
Permanent jobs citing C++ 1,596 1,520 2,816
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.28% 2.47% 3.98%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.10% 6.13% 8.60%
Number of salaries quoted 1,307 993 1,142
10th Percentile £38,750 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,500 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.83% +14.29% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% -3.70% +17.39%

All Programming Languages
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 22,486 24,802 32,728
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 32.08% 40.37% 46.28%
Number of salaries quoted 16,349 13,942 21,488
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,635 £55,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.48% +2.80% +7.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £71,250 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +13.64%

C++
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing C++ as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for C++ in the UK excluding London

C++
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing C++ in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for C++ in the UK excluding London

C++
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing C++ in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Salary histogram for C++ in the UK excluding London

C++
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing C++ within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 28 April 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
South East +15 547 £57,750 -5.33% 239
South West +18 283 £55,000 -9.84% 151
North of England +28 214 £57,500 - 88
Midlands -10 184 £50,000 -4.76% 92
Scotland -56 172 £60,000 +13.21% 56
East of England +14 145 £60,000 - 183
North West +51 115 £61,000 - 60
West Midlands -8 106 £57,500 +4.55% 50
East Midlands +14 78 £49,990 +11.09% 42
Yorkshire +34 75 £47,500 +11.76% 19
Wales +25 48 £50,000 +11.11% 6
North East +12 24 £55,000 +4.76% 10
Northern Ireland +6 5 - - 3
C++
UK

C++
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 61 (3.82%) Apache
2 13 (0.81%) Confluence
3 10 (0.63%) nginx
4 3 (0.19%) Kinematics
5 2 (0.13%) CMS
5 2 (0.13%) SAS
6 1 (0.063%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.063%) IBM Notes
6 1 (0.063%) IIS
6 1 (0.063%) WebLogic
Applications
1 70 (4.39%) Simulink
2 9 (0.56%) GNU Octave
2 9 (0.56%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (0.38%) Microsoft Excel
4 5 (0.31%) OrCAD
5 2 (0.13%) CANalyzer
5 2 (0.13%) Doxygen
5 2 (0.13%) Fusion 360
6 1 (0.063%) CATIA
6 1 (0.063%) EViews
6 1 (0.063%) SOLIDWORKS
6 1 (0.063%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.063%) SPSS
6 1 (0.063%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 4 (0.25%) Visualfiles
2 2 (0.13%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.13%) Teamcenter
3 1 (0.063%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.063%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.063%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 105 (6.58%) Azure
2 73 (4.57%) AWS
3 46 (2.88%) SaaS
4 22 (1.38%) Azure DevOps
5 16 (1.00%) GCP
6 14 (0.88%) GitHub
7 11 (0.69%) OpenShift
8 9 (0.56%) AWS IoT
9 8 (0.50%) Serverless
10 6 (0.38%) Cloud Computing
11 5 (0.31%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (0.25%) TestFlight
13 3 (0.19%) Amazon EC2
13 3 (0.19%) Amazon S3
13 3 (0.19%) ChatGPT
13 3 (0.19%) Power Platform
14 2 (0.13%) Azure Service Bus
14 2 (0.13%) Dynamics 365
14 2 (0.13%) PowerApps
14 2 (0.13%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 46 (2.88%) TCP/IP
2 43 (2.69%) Wireless
3 28 (1.75%) MQTT
4 26 (1.63%) Network Security
5 24 (1.50%) Wi-Fi
6 22 (1.38%) Modbus
7 19 (1.19%) 4G
7 19 (1.19%) Ethernet
8 18 (1.13%) Bluetooth
9 17 (1.07%) 3G
9 17 (1.07%) 5G
9 17 (1.07%) RS-485
10 16 (1.00%) Internet
11 14 (0.88%) SD-WAN
11 14 (0.88%) WAN
12 11 (0.69%) DNS
12 11 (0.69%) Firewall
12 11 (0.69%) LoRaWAN
13 8 (0.50%) Wireshark
14 7 (0.44%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (3.82%) SQL Server
2 48 (3.01%) PostgreSQL
3 31 (1.94%) MongoDB
4 15 (0.94%) MySQL
5 14 (0.88%) NoSQL
6 11 (0.69%) Relational Database
7 10 (0.63%) Elasticsearch
8 7 (0.44%) SQLite
9 5 (0.31%) Big Data
10 4 (0.25%) RDBMS
11 3 (0.19%) Amazon RDS
12 2 (0.13%) GIS
12 2 (0.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 1 (0.063%) Crystal Reports
13 1 (0.063%) Data Warehouse
13 1 (0.063%) Hadoop
13 1 (0.063%) Oracle Database 11g
13 1 (0.063%) Oracle9i Database
13 1 (0.063%) OrientDB
13 1 (0.063%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 143 (8.96%) Git
2 107 (6.70%) Visual Studio
3 75 (4.70%) Subversion
4 66 (4.14%) JIRA
5 47 (2.94%) Jenkins
5 47 (2.94%) LabVIEW
6 35 (2.19%) GitLab
7 31 (1.94%) CMake
8 24 (1.50%) Ant
9 16 (1.00%) Rational Rhapsody
10 15 (0.94%) Eclipse
11 13 (0.81%) Selenium
11 13 (0.81%) Team Foundation Server
12 11 (0.69%) Cypress.io
13 10 (0.63%) Cucumber
13 10 (0.63%) GDB
13 10 (0.63%) GNU Toolchain
13 10 (0.63%) Vagrant
14 9 (0.56%) GCC
15 8 (0.50%) Bitbucket
General
1 280 (17.54%) Social Skills
2 216 (13.53%) Electronics
3 166 (10.40%) Analytical Skills
4 114 (7.14%) Manufacturing
5 101 (6.33%) Automotive
6 74 (4.64%) Finance
7 71 (4.45%) Marketing
8 59 (3.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 59 (3.70%) Telecoms
9 45 (2.82%) Public Sector
10 39 (2.44%) Games
10 39 (2.44%) Military
11 36 (2.26%) Aerospace
12 34 (2.13%) Aviation
13 25 (1.57%) Presentation Skills
14 22 (1.38%) Law
15 19 (1.19%) Legal
16 17 (1.07%) Organisational Skills
17 15 (0.94%) Influencing Skills
18 12 (0.75%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 769 (48.18%) Software Engineer
2 373 (23.37%) Developer
3 372 (23.31%) Senior
4 297 (18.61%) C++ Software Engineer
5 279 (17.48%) Embedded Engineer
6 250 (15.66%) Senior Software Engineer
7 231 (14.47%) C++ Developer
8 197 (12.34%) Embedded Software Engineer
9 147 (9.21%) Lead
10 118 (7.39%) Software Developer
11 96 (6.02%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
11 96 (6.02%) Senior Embedded Engineer
12 86 (5.39%) Embedded C++ Engineer
13 69 (4.32%) Embedded C++ Software Engineer
14 57 (3.57%) C++ Software Developer
15 54 (3.38%) C Software Engineer
15 54 (3.38%) C/C++ Software Engineer
15 54 (3.38%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
16 50 (3.13%) Electronics Engineer
17 49 (3.07%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 175 (10.96%) .NET
2 85 (5.33%) Qt
3 84 (5.26%) HTML
4 69 (4.32%) WPF
5 66 (4.14%) .NET Framework
6 65 (4.07%) STL
7 51 (3.20%) REST
8 48 (3.01%) CSS
9 46 (2.88%) Yocto
10 39 (2.44%) React
11 37 (2.32%) MFC
12 36 (2.26%) WinForms
13 33 (2.07%) Apache NiFi
14 31 (1.94%) XML
15 29 (1.82%) ASP.NET
16 28 (1.75%) Web Services
17 27 (1.69%) Hibernate
18 24 (1.50%) SOAP
19 23 (1.44%) AngularJS
20 22 (1.38%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 187 (11.72%) Algorithms
2 124 (7.77%) Embedded Systems
3 90 (5.64%) IoT
4 70 (4.39%) FPGA
5 67 (4.20%) Self-Motivation
6 49 (3.07%) VHDL
7 45 (2.82%) Robotics
8 32 (2.01%) CUDA
9 31 (1.94%) Device Driver
10 26 (1.63%) Analogue Electronics
10 26 (1.63%) GNSS
11 25 (1.57%) Verilog
12 23 (1.44%) Analytical Mindset
12 23 (1.44%) Distributed Systems
12 23 (1.44%) Greenfield Project
13 21 (1.32%) Enterprise Software
13 21 (1.32%) Satnav
14 18 (1.13%) ARM Cortex
15 17 (1.07%) Mobile App
16 16 (1.00%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 519 (32.52%) Linux
2 290 (18.17%) Windows
3 97 (6.08%) Embedded Linux
4 55 (3.45%) Unix
5 45 (2.82%) Android
6 26 (1.63%) Ubuntu
7 21 (1.32%) AIX
8 18 (1.13%) Apple iOS
9 15 (0.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 14 (0.88%) CentOS
11 11 (0.69%) Mac OS
11 11 (0.69%) Windows 10
12 8 (0.50%) FreeRTOS
13 6 (0.38%) Windows Server
14 5 (0.31%) Debian
15 2 (0.13%) FreeBSD
15 2 (0.13%) Kali Linux
15 2 (0.13%) Mac OS X
15 2 (0.13%) Rocky
15 2 (0.13%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 989 (61.97%) Software Engineering
2 349 (21.87%) Problem-Solving
3 302 (18.92%) Computer Science
4 296 (18.55%) Agile
5 212 (13.28%) Mathematics
6 172 (10.78%) Multithreading
7 148 (9.27%) Mentoring
8 133 (8.33%) OO
9 116 (7.27%) Physics
10 112 (7.02%) Test Automation
11 102 (6.39%) Machine Learning
11 102 (6.39%) SDLC
12 100 (6.27%) Artificial Intelligence
13 93 (5.83%) DevOps
14 84 (5.26%) Signal Processing
15 76 (4.76%) Software Testing
16 71 (4.45%) Technical Leadership
17 69 (4.32%) Code Quality
17 69 (4.32%) Open Source
18 67 (4.20%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 798 (50.00%) C
2 478 (29.95%) Python
3 425 (26.63%) C#
4 288 (18.05%) Java
5 166 (10.40%) SQL
6 165 (10.34%) JavaScript
7 82 (5.14%) MATLAB
8 71 (4.45%) Embedded C
9 65 (4.07%) Fortran
10 59 (3.70%) Bash
11 53 (3.32%) Embedded C++
12 45 (2.82%) VB
13 33 (2.07%) Rust
14 31 (1.94%) Go
15 29 (1.82%) COBOL
15 29 (1.82%) Micro Focus COBOL
15 29 (1.82%) TypeScript
16 28 (1.75%) Perl
17 26 (1.63%) Ada
18 23 (1.44%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 462 (28.95%) Degree
2 262 (16.42%) Security Cleared
3 136 (8.52%) Computer Science Degree
3 136 (8.52%) SC Cleared
4 89 (5.58%) PhD
5 74 (4.64%) Master's Degree
6 46 (2.88%) DV Cleared
7 10 (0.63%) BPSS Clearance
8 9 (0.56%) HND
9 7 (0.44%) PMI Certification
10 4 (0.25%) DBS Check
10 4 (0.25%) Numerate Degree
11 3 (0.19%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.063%) HNC
12 1 (0.063%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 1 (0.063%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (3.45%) QA
2 21 (1.32%) Software Quality Assurance
3 16 (1.00%) GDPR
3 16 (1.00%) PMO
4 12 (0.75%) MISRA
5 8 (0.50%) ISO 9001
5 8 (0.50%) MISRA C
6 7 (0.44%) AUTOSAR
6 7 (0.44%) ISO 13485
6 7 (0.44%) ISO 9000
7 5 (0.31%) IEC 61508
7 5 (0.31%) TickIT
8 4 (0.25%) 21 CFR Part 11
8 4 (0.25%) Def Stans
8 4 (0.25%) IEC 61131
8 4 (0.25%) JTAG
9 3 (0.19%) ISO 26262
10 2 (0.13%) Automotive SPICE
10 2 (0.13%) DO-178B
11 1 (0.063%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 157 (9.84%) Firmware
2 91 (5.70%) Embedded Firmware
3 55 (3.45%) Docker
4 2 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (0.13%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.063%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.063%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (0.063%) QEMU
5 1 (0.063%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 33 (2.07%) Kubernetes
2 25 (1.57%) Terraform
3 20 (1.25%) Ansible
4 3 (0.19%) Grafana
5 2 (0.13%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.063%) Docker Swarm
6 1 (0.063%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 1 (0.063%) Podman
6 1 (0.063%) Puppet
Vendors
1 97 (6.08%) Microsoft
2 45 (2.82%) SAP
3 34 (2.13%) Xilinx
4 29 (1.82%) Micro Focus
5 26 (1.63%) Oracle
6 16 (1.00%) Google
7 12 (0.75%) EMC
8 11 (0.69%) Atlassian
9 10 (0.63%) Cadence
9 10 (0.63%) Synopsys
10 7 (0.44%) Altera
10 7 (0.44%) Cisco
10 7 (0.44%) Green Hills
10 7 (0.44%) Motorola
10 7 (0.44%) Red Hat
11 6 (0.38%) BT
11 6 (0.38%) HP
11 6 (0.38%) Remedy
12 4 (0.25%) Apple
12 4 (0.25%) Computacenter