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 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 121 142 76
Rank change year-on-year +21 -66 +6
Permanent jobs citing C++ 1,645 1,457 2,879
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.32% 2.42% 4.05%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.32% 6.06% 8.82%
Number of salaries quoted 1,336 972 1,153
10th Percentile £38,750 £33,750 £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 £86,125 £82,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% - +13.04%

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 22,474 24,042 32,629
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 31.65% 39.97% 45.90%
Number of salaries quoted 16,382 13,566 21,022
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £55,000 £52,779
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% +4.21% +5.56%
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 12 May 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 12 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
South East +19 562 £57,500 -8.00% 214
South West +21 297 £55,000 -9.84% 128
North of England +53 215 £57,500 - 69
Midlands +13 202 £50,000 -4.76% 85
Scotland -55 176 £60,000 +13.21% 43
East of England +18 145 £60,000 - 133
West Midlands +10 118 £57,500 +2.22% 36
North West +37 116 £61,750 +2.92% 46
East Midlands +20 84 £49,990 +11.09% 48
Yorkshire +34 75 £47,500 +11.76% 15
Wales +20 45 £50,000 +11.11% 10
North East +12 24 £55,000 +10.55% 9
Northern Ireland +5 5 - - 5
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 (3.71%) Apache
2 16 (0.97%) Confluence
3 11 (0.67%) nginx
4 6 (0.36%) Kinematics
5 2 (0.12%) CMS
5 2 (0.12%) SAS
6 1 (0.061%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.061%) IBM Notes
6 1 (0.061%) IIS
6 1 (0.061%) WebLogic
Applications
1 80 (4.86%) Simulink
2 11 (0.67%) GNU Octave
2 11 (0.67%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (0.49%) Microsoft Excel
4 6 (0.36%) OrCAD
5 2 (0.12%) CANalyzer
5 2 (0.12%) Doxygen
5 2 (0.12%) Fusion 360
6 1 (0.061%) CATIA
6 1 (0.061%) EViews
6 1 (0.061%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.061%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.061%) SOLIDWORKS
6 1 (0.061%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.061%) SPSS
6 1 (0.061%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 4 (0.24%) Visualfiles
2 2 (0.12%) Teamcenter
3 1 (0.061%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.061%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.061%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 108 (6.57%) Azure
2 79 (4.80%) AWS
3 49 (2.98%) SaaS
4 24 (1.46%) Azure DevOps
5 16 (0.97%) GCP
6 14 (0.85%) GitHub
7 11 (0.67%) OpenShift
8 8 (0.49%) AWS IoT
8 8 (0.49%) Serverless
9 7 (0.43%) Cloud Computing
10 6 (0.36%) Power Platform
11 5 (0.30%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (0.30%) PowerApps
12 4 (0.24%) Power Automate
12 4 (0.24%) TestFlight
13 3 (0.18%) Amazon EC2
13 3 (0.18%) Amazon S3
13 3 (0.18%) ChatGPT
13 3 (0.18%) WhatsApp
14 2 (0.12%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 49 (2.98%) TCP/IP
2 40 (2.43%) Wireless
3 28 (1.70%) Network Security
4 27 (1.64%) MQTT
5 24 (1.46%) Wi-Fi
6 23 (1.40%) Modbus
7 21 (1.28%) 4G
7 21 (1.28%) 5G
7 21 (1.28%) Ethernet
8 20 (1.22%) Internet
9 18 (1.09%) Bluetooth
9 18 (1.09%) RS-485
10 17 (1.03%) 3G
11 16 (0.97%) SD-WAN
11 16 (0.97%) WAN
12 12 (0.73%) DNS
13 11 (0.67%) Firewall
13 11 (0.67%) LoRaWAN
14 10 (0.61%) Wireshark
15 8 (0.49%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (3.89%) SQL Server
2 48 (2.92%) PostgreSQL
3 31 (1.88%) MongoDB
4 19 (1.16%) MySQL
5 17 (1.03%) NoSQL
6 10 (0.61%) Elasticsearch
6 10 (0.61%) Relational Database
7 8 (0.49%) Big Data
8 7 (0.43%) SQLite
9 4 (0.24%) BusinessObjects
9 4 (0.24%) Power BI
10 3 (0.18%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (0.18%) RDBMS
11 2 (0.12%) GIS
11 2 (0.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 1 (0.061%) Crystal Reports
12 1 (0.061%) Hadoop
12 1 (0.061%) Oracle Database 11g
12 1 (0.061%) Oracle9i Database
12 1 (0.061%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 153 (9.30%) Git
2 118 (7.17%) Visual Studio
3 73 (4.44%) Subversion
4 69 (4.19%) JIRA
5 56 (3.40%) Jenkins
6 45 (2.74%) LabVIEW
7 38 (2.31%) GitLab
8 30 (1.82%) CMake
9 24 (1.46%) Ant
10 16 (0.97%) Rational Rhapsody
11 15 (0.91%) Eclipse
12 14 (0.85%) Vagrant
13 13 (0.79%) Team Foundation Server
14 12 (0.73%) Selenium
15 10 (0.61%) Bitbucket
15 10 (0.61%) Cucumber
15 10 (0.61%) Cypress.io
15 10 (0.61%) GCC
15 10 (0.61%) GDB
15 10 (0.61%) GNU Toolchain
General
1 291 (17.69%) Social Skills
2 224 (13.62%) Electronics
3 171 (10.40%) Analytical Skills
4 117 (7.11%) Manufacturing
5 105 (6.38%) Automotive
6 76 (4.62%) Finance
7 74 (4.50%) Marketing
8 61 (3.71%) Telecoms
9 59 (3.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 45 (2.74%) Public Sector
11 40 (2.43%) Games
12 39 (2.37%) Aerospace
13 38 (2.31%) Military
14 34 (2.07%) Aviation
15 28 (1.70%) Presentation Skills
16 21 (1.28%) Law
17 19 (1.16%) Legal
18 18 (1.09%) Organisational Skills
19 15 (0.91%) Influencing Skills
20 12 (0.73%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 786 (47.78%) Software Engineer
2 389 (23.65%) Developer
3 377 (22.92%) Senior
4 305 (18.54%) C++ Software Engineer
5 291 (17.69%) Embedded Engineer
6 255 (15.50%) Senior Software Engineer
7 239 (14.53%) C++ Developer
8 206 (12.52%) Embedded Software Engineer
9 147 (8.94%) Lead
10 128 (7.78%) Software Developer
11 99 (6.02%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
11 99 (6.02%) Senior Embedded Engineer
12 89 (5.41%) Embedded C++ Engineer
13 71 (4.32%) Embedded C++ Software Engineer
14 61 (3.71%) C++ Software Developer
15 58 (3.53%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
16 57 (3.47%) C Software Engineer
16 57 (3.47%) C/C++ Software Engineer
17 53 (3.22%) Electronics Engineer
17 53 (3.22%) Embedded Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 174 (10.58%) .NET
2 84 (5.11%) Qt
3 81 (4.92%) HTML
4 70 (4.26%) WPF
5 66 (4.01%) .NET Framework
6 65 (3.95%) STL
7 52 (3.16%) REST
8 47 (2.86%) CSS
9 46 (2.80%) Yocto
10 38 (2.31%) React
11 37 (2.25%) MFC
12 35 (2.13%) WinForms
13 33 (2.01%) Apache NiFi
14 32 (1.95%) XML
15 30 (1.82%) ASP.NET
16 29 (1.76%) Web Services
17 28 (1.70%) Hibernate
18 26 (1.58%) SOAP
19 25 (1.52%) Middleware
20 23 (1.40%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 187 (11.37%) Algorithms
2 126 (7.66%) Embedded Systems
3 92 (5.59%) IoT
4 73 (4.44%) FPGA
5 72 (4.38%) Self-Motivation
6 51 (3.10%) VHDL
7 47 (2.86%) Robotics
8 33 (2.01%) GNSS
9 32 (1.95%) CUDA
10 30 (1.82%) Device Driver
11 25 (1.52%) Analogue Electronics
11 25 (1.52%) Verilog
12 23 (1.40%) Distributed Systems
13 22 (1.34%) Enterprise Software
13 22 (1.34%) Greenfield Project
14 21 (1.28%) Analytical Mindset
14 21 (1.28%) Satnav
15 18 (1.09%) ARM Cortex
15 18 (1.09%) Data Structures
15 18 (1.09%) Raspberry Pi
Operating Systems
1 547 (33.25%) Linux
2 298 (18.12%) Windows
3 105 (6.38%) Embedded Linux
4 55 (3.34%) Unix
5 48 (2.92%) Android
6 30 (1.82%) Ubuntu
7 21 (1.28%) AIX
8 20 (1.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 18 (1.09%) CentOS
10 16 (0.97%) Apple iOS
11 11 (0.67%) Mac OS
11 11 (0.67%) Windows 10
12 8 (0.49%) FreeRTOS
13 6 (0.36%) Windows Server
14 5 (0.30%) Debian
15 4 (0.24%) Kali Linux
15 4 (0.24%) Windows Embedded Compact
16 3 (0.18%) VxWorks
17 2 (0.12%) FreeBSD
17 2 (0.12%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,011 (61.46%) Software Engineering
2 369 (22.43%) Problem-Solving
3 325 (19.76%) Computer Science
4 308 (18.72%) Agile
5 211 (12.83%) Mathematics
6 175 (10.64%) Multithreading
7 152 (9.24%) Mentoring
8 137 (8.33%) OO
9 123 (7.48%) Test Automation
10 118 (7.17%) Machine Learning
11 117 (7.11%) Artificial Intelligence
11 117 (7.11%) Physics
12 106 (6.44%) SDLC
13 101 (6.14%) DevOps
14 96 (5.84%) Signal Processing
15 79 (4.80%) Software Testing
16 73 (4.44%) Code Quality
17 69 (4.19%) Open Source
17 69 (4.19%) Technical Leadership
18 68 (4.13%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 822 (49.97%) C
2 494 (30.03%) Python
3 432 (26.26%) C#
4 302 (18.36%) Java
5 174 (10.58%) SQL
6 164 (9.97%) JavaScript
7 86 (5.23%) MATLAB
8 77 (4.68%) Embedded C
9 66 (4.01%) Fortran
10 64 (3.89%) Bash
11 58 (3.53%) Embedded C++
12 52 (3.16%) VB
13 33 (2.01%) Rust
14 32 (1.95%) Perl
15 31 (1.88%) Go
16 29 (1.76%) COBOL
16 29 (1.76%) Micro Focus COBOL
17 26 (1.58%) Ada
17 26 (1.58%) TypeScript
18 23 (1.40%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 492 (29.91%) Degree
2 283 (17.20%) Security Cleared
3 149 (9.06%) Computer Science Degree
4 143 (8.69%) SC Cleared
5 85 (5.17%) PhD
6 76 (4.62%) Master's Degree
7 53 (3.22%) DV Cleared
8 10 (0.61%) BPSS Clearance
9 9 (0.55%) HND
10 7 (0.43%) PMI Certification
11 4 (0.24%) DBS Check
11 4 (0.24%) Numerate Degree
12 3 (0.18%) Microsoft Certification
13 2 (0.12%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 1 (0.061%) HNC
14 1 (0.061%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (3.59%) QA
2 21 (1.28%) Software Quality Assurance
3 19 (1.16%) PMO
4 16 (0.97%) GDPR
5 13 (0.79%) MISRA
6 9 (0.55%) MISRA C
7 8 (0.49%) ISO 9001
8 7 (0.43%) AUTOSAR
8 7 (0.43%) ISO 13485
8 7 (0.43%) ISO 9000
9 5 (0.30%) IEC 61508
9 5 (0.30%) TickIT
10 4 (0.24%) 21 CFR Part 11
10 4 (0.24%) Def Stans
10 4 (0.24%) IEC 61131
10 4 (0.24%) JTAG
11 3 (0.18%) ISO 26262
12 2 (0.12%) Automotive SPICE
12 2 (0.12%) DO-178B
13 1 (0.061%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 164 (9.97%) Firmware
2 92 (5.59%) Embedded Firmware
3 56 (3.40%) Docker
4 3 (0.18%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.061%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.061%) QEMU
6 1 (0.061%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 33 (2.01%) Kubernetes
2 29 (1.76%) Terraform
3 25 (1.52%) Ansible
4 3 (0.18%) Grafana
5 2 (0.12%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.12%) Puppet
6 1 (0.061%) Docker Swarm
6 1 (0.061%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 1 (0.061%) Podman
Vendors
1 103 (6.26%) Microsoft
2 45 (2.74%) SAP
3 44 (2.67%) Xilinx
4 31 (1.88%) Oracle
5 29 (1.76%) Micro Focus
6 16 (0.97%) Google
7 13 (0.79%) Atlassian
8 12 (0.73%) EMC
9 10 (0.61%) Cadence
9 10 (0.61%) Synopsys
10 8 (0.49%) Altera
10 8 (0.49%) Green Hills
10 8 (0.49%) Motorola
11 7 (0.43%) Cisco
11 7 (0.43%) Red Hat
12 6 (0.36%) BT
12 6 (0.36%) HP
12 6 (0.36%) Remedy
13 4 (0.24%) Apple
13 4 (0.24%) Computacenter