C++
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 16 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 103 123 140
Rank change year-on-year +20 +17 -43
Permanent jobs citing C++ 1,628 2,350 2,315
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.90% 2.12% 2.53%
As % of the Programming Languages category 9.78% 6.75% 6.00%
Number of salaries quoted 655 1,815 1,618
10th Percentile £35,800 £38,125 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £45,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,212 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.35% -7.69% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £72,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £121,500 £93,750 £121,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £57,500 £59,000
% change year-on-year +8.70% -2.54% +10.80%

All Programming Languages
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 16,649 34,839 38,570
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 29.66% 31.44% 42.09%
Number of salaries quoted 10,579 25,752 25,992
10th Percentile £37,303 £35,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,683 £45,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £80,250 £77,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £97,500 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £54,084 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.69% -1.67% +4.76%

C++
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing C++ as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for C++ in the UK

C++
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for C++ in the UK

C++
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing C++ over the 6 months to 16 June 2025.

Salary histogram for C++ in the UK

C++
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing C++ within the UK over the 6 months to 16 June 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
England +27 1,481 £66,225 +10.38% 8,141
UK excluding London +16 1,242 £62,500 +8.70% 6,406
Work from Home +76 719 £66,212 +10.35% 3,303
North of England +128 627 £47,500 -19.15% 1,146
North West +132 583 £55,000 -12.00% 554
London +70 322 £110,000 +22.22% 2,857
East of England +36 207 £66,206 +5.93% 1,150
South East -74 196 £60,000 +4.35% 1,755
Scotland +20 72 £62,500 +4.17% 480
South West -44 61 £60,000 +4.35% 724
Midlands -77 56 £45,000 -14.29% 890
Yorkshire +9 35 £46,000 -3.16% 465
West Midlands -34 28 £45,000 -25.00% 504
East Midlands -36 27 £47,500 +5.56% 382
Wales +16 23 £65,000 +30.00% 177
North East +32 9 £25,000 -55.36% 127
Northern Ireland +36 1 £50,000 - 124

C++
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 16 (0.98%) Kinematics
2 5 (0.31%) Apache
3 4 (0.25%) WinCC
4 3 (0.18%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.18%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.12%) CMS
5 2 (0.12%) WordPress
6 1 (0.061%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.061%) Ethereum
6 1 (0.061%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.061%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.061%) MTS
6 1 (0.061%) OpenEdge
6 1 (0.061%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.061%) SharePoint
Applications
1 108 (6.63%) Chatbot
2 10 (0.61%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (0.55%) Simulink
4 7 (0.43%) Blender
5 5 (0.31%) Microsoft Office
6 4 (0.25%) GNU Octave
6 4 (0.25%) OrCAD
7 2 (0.12%) CANalyzer
8 1 (0.061%) 3ds Max
8 1 (0.061%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.061%) Houdini
8 1 (0.061%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (0.25%) Dynamics NAV
1 4 (0.25%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (0.18%) Orchestrade
3 1 (0.061%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
Cloud Services
1 343 (21.07%) Azure
2 294 (18.06%) AWS
3 194 (11.92%) GCP
4 61 (3.75%) Amazon EKS
5 49 (3.01%) AWS CloudFormation
6 13 (0.80%) Datadog
7 12 (0.74%) Amazon EC2
7 12 (0.74%) Amazon S3
7 12 (0.74%) AWS Lambda
7 12 (0.74%) GitHub
7 12 (0.74%) Serverless
8 9 (0.55%) Microsoft 365
9 8 (0.49%) Azure DevOps
10 6 (0.37%) Power Platform
11 5 (0.31%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 5 (0.31%) Cloud Computing
11 5 (0.31%) SaaS
12 4 (0.25%) Amazon Bedrock
12 4 (0.25%) Azure Key Vault
12 4 (0.25%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 407 (25.00%) VPN
2 403 (24.75%) DNS
3 59 (3.62%) TCP/IP
4 36 (2.21%) Wireless
5 32 (1.97%) Modbus
5 32 (1.97%) WAN
6 28 (1.72%) 5G
7 26 (1.60%) SD-WAN
7 26 (1.60%) Software-Defined Radio
8 23 (1.41%) Network Security
9 17 (1.04%) Internet
10 16 (0.98%) HTTP
11 15 (0.92%) MQTT
12 13 (0.80%) Multicast
13 10 (0.61%) RS-485
13 10 (0.61%) SMTP
14 8 (0.49%) HTTPS
15 7 (0.43%) Ethernet
15 7 (0.43%) Firewall
16 6 (0.37%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (3.75%) SQL Server
2 52 (3.19%) Elasticsearch
3 47 (2.89%) MySQL
4 26 (1.60%) Relational Database
5 19 (1.17%) PostgreSQL
6 16 (0.98%) NoSQL
7 13 (0.80%) KDB
8 12 (0.74%) RDBMS
9 11 (0.68%) MongoDB
10 10 (0.61%) Kdb+
11 7 (0.43%) QGIS
12 6 (0.37%) Power BI
12 6 (0.37%) Redis
13 5 (0.31%) Big Data
13 5 (0.31%) CockroachDB
14 4 (0.25%) ClickHouse
14 4 (0.25%) Hadoop
14 4 (0.25%) Metabase
14 4 (0.25%) Tick Data
15 3 (0.18%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 78 (4.79%) Git
2 39 (2.40%) Visual Studio
3 28 (1.72%) Jenkins
4 23 (1.41%) GitLab
4 23 (1.41%) JIRA
5 19 (1.17%) Subversion
6 17 (1.04%) JUnit
7 16 (0.98%) Mockito
8 14 (0.86%) Maven
9 13 (0.80%) Cucumber
10 12 (0.74%) IntelliJ
11 7 (0.43%) MagicDraw
12 6 (0.37%) CMake
12 6 (0.37%) Rational DOORS
13 5 (0.31%) WiX
14 4 (0.25%) GDB
15 3 (0.18%) Eclipse
15 3 (0.18%) IDA Disassembler
15 3 (0.18%) MLflow
15 3 (0.18%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 688 (42.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 649 (39.86%) Finance
3 524 (32.19%) Analytical Skills
4 188 (11.55%) Social Skills
5 93 (5.71%) Electronics
6 82 (5.04%) Banking
7 51 (3.13%) Front Office
8 48 (2.95%) Aerospace
9 45 (2.76%) Manufacturing
10 40 (2.46%) Law
11 38 (2.33%) Investment Banking
12 33 (2.03%) Marketing
13 20 (1.23%) Presentation Skills
14 19 (1.17%) Telecoms
15 17 (1.04%) Public Sector
16 16 (0.98%) Publishing
17 15 (0.92%) Automotive
17 15 (0.92%) Military
18 11 (0.68%) Retail
19 10 (0.61%) Games
Job Titles
1 768 (47.17%) Developer
2 507 (31.14%) Software Developer
3 497 (30.53%) Software Engineer
4 441 (27.09%) Senior
5 298 (18.30%) Senior Software Engineer
6 134 (8.23%) Lead
7 112 (6.88%) C++ Developer
8 101 (6.20%) Embedded Engineer
8 101 (6.20%) Trainer
9 92 (5.65%) Senior Developer
10 72 (4.42%) Embedded Software Engineer
11 59 (3.62%) Graduate
12 58 (3.56%) C++ Software Engineer
13 52 (3.19%) Cloud Engineer
14 50 (3.07%) Low Latency C++ Developer
15 48 (2.95%) Graduate Developer
16 47 (2.89%) IT Graduate
16 47 (2.89%) Senior C++ Developer
17 43 (2.64%) Quantitative Developer
18 40 (2.46%) Cloud Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 328 (20.15%) .NET
2 239 (14.68%) Node.js
3 182 (11.18%) HTML
4 62 (3.81%) CSS
5 58 (3.56%) ASP.NET
6 53 (3.26%) Pandas
7 47 (2.89%) jQuery
8 34 (2.09%) Middleware
9 28 (1.72%) Boost C++ Libraries
10 24 (1.47%) .NET Framework
11 22 (1.35%) FIX Protocol
12 20 (1.23%) React
12 20 (1.23%) REST
13 19 (1.17%) Qt
14 18 (1.11%) Spring
14 18 (1.11%) Spring Boot
15 13 (0.80%) ActiveMQ
15 13 (0.80%) Kafka
16 12 (0.74%) .NET Core
16 12 (0.74%) JMS
Miscellaneous
1 624 (38.33%) Cyberattack
2 218 (13.39%) Self-Motivation
3 184 (11.30%) Linux Command Line
4 142 (8.72%) Algorithms
5 89 (5.47%) Embedded Systems
6 54 (3.32%) Distributed Systems
7 49 (3.01%) Hedge funds
8 47 (2.89%) Data Structures
9 46 (2.83%) Cloud Native
9 46 (2.83%) Robotics
10 45 (2.76%) Equities
10 45 (2.76%) FPGA
11 34 (2.09%) Device Driver
12 33 (2.03%) Legacy Code
13 31 (1.90%) Derivative
13 31 (1.90%) Management Information System
14 28 (1.72%) Self-Driving Car
15 27 (1.66%) e-Learning
15 27 (1.66%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 27 (1.66%) MicroBlaze
Operating Systems
1 933 (57.31%) Linux
2 473 (29.05%) Android
3 70 (4.30%) Windows
4 53 (3.26%) Embedded Linux
5 45 (2.76%) Unix
6 21 (1.29%) Apple iOS
7 10 (0.61%) Robot Operating System
8 9 (0.55%) Mac OS
9 7 (0.43%) FreeRTOS
10 4 (0.25%) Windows 10
11 3 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 2 (0.12%) Debian
12 2 (0.12%) Ubuntu
12 2 (0.12%) VxWorks
13 1 (0.061%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 864 (53.07%) Agile
2 646 (39.68%) Software Engineering
3 603 (37.04%) Mathematics
4 578 (35.50%) OO
5 516 (31.70%) OOP
6 460 (28.26%) Design Patterns
7 456 (28.01%) Android Development
7 456 (28.01%) Line Management
8 303 (18.61%) Machine Learning
9 273 (16.77%) Mentoring
10 270 (16.58%) Computer Science
11 226 (13.88%) Artificial Intelligence
12 212 (13.02%) Scrum
13 199 (12.22%) Microservices
14 195 (11.98%) Data Engineering
15 194 (11.92%) User Experience
16 187 (11.49%) Problem-Solving
17 179 (11.00%) Cloud Security
17 179 (11.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 134 (8.23%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 1,145 (70.33%) Python
2 951 (58.42%) Java
3 687 (42.20%) Go
4 426 (26.17%) JavaScript
5 421 (25.86%) C
6 360 (22.11%) Rust
7 356 (21.87%) C#
8 263 (16.15%) SQL
9 105 (6.45%) MATLAB
9 105 (6.45%) PHP
10 70 (4.30%) TypeScript
11 62 (3.81%) R
12 49 (3.01%) Dart
12 49 (3.01%) Ruby
13 35 (2.15%) Bash
14 18 (1.11%) Kotlin
15 15 (0.92%) Ada
15 15 (0.92%) Embedded C++
15 15 (0.92%) Objective-C
16 14 (0.86%) Fortran
Qualifications
1 722 (44.35%) Security Cleared
2 654 (40.17%) DV Cleared
3 443 (27.21%) Degree
4 183 (11.24%) AWS Certification
5 179 (11.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 178 (10.93%) AWS Certified Developer
7 142 (8.72%) Computer Science Degree
8 68 (4.18%) SC Cleared
9 64 (3.93%) PhD
10 57 (3.50%) Master's Degree
11 13 (0.80%) Numerate Degree
12 10 (0.61%) BPSS Clearance
13 4 (0.25%) A+ Certification
13 4 (0.25%) Azure Certification
13 4 (0.25%) Dell Certification
13 4 (0.25%) MCP
13 4 (0.25%) Microsoft Certification
13 4 (0.25%) Postgraduate
14 1 (0.061%) FFIEC
14 1 (0.061%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (1.72%) QA
2 8 (0.49%) PMO
3 4 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (0.18%) Def Stans
4 3 (0.18%) ISO 9001
4 3 (0.18%) JTAG
5 2 (0.12%) AUTOSAR
5 2 (0.12%) IEC 61508
5 2 (0.12%) ISO 13485
6 1 (0.061%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.061%) Automotive SPICE
6 1 (0.061%) COBIT
6 1 (0.061%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.061%) ECSS
6 1 (0.061%) GDPR
6 1 (0.061%) HL7
6 1 (0.061%) MISRA
6 1 (0.061%) NIST
6 1 (0.061%) SLA
System Software
1 477 (29.30%) Docker
2 85 (5.22%) Firmware
3 56 (3.44%) Embedded Firmware
4 4 (0.25%) Active Directory
5 3 (0.18%) HDFS
6 1 (0.061%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.061%) Xen
Systems Management
1 462 (28.38%) Ansible
2 125 (7.68%) Kubernetes
3 73 (4.48%) Terraform
4 8 (0.49%) Grafana
5 7 (0.43%) Prometheus
6 6 (0.37%) QRadar
7 4 (0.25%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (0.18%) Functional Safety
8 3 (0.18%) Kubeflow
9 1 (0.061%) Kibana
Vendors
1 104 (6.39%) PayPal
2 29 (1.78%) Microsoft
3 15 (0.92%) IBM
4 13 (0.80%) Google
5 9 (0.55%) EMC
5 9 (0.55%) Oracle
5 9 (0.55%) Siemens
6 8 (0.49%) Foundry
6 8 (0.49%) Palantir
6 8 (0.49%) SAP
6 8 (0.49%) Splunk
7 5 (0.31%) Intel
7 5 (0.31%) NVIDIA
7 5 (0.31%) Red Hat
7 5 (0.31%) Xilinx
8 4 (0.25%) Agilent
8 4 (0.25%) Dell
8 4 (0.25%) OpenAI
8 4 (0.25%) Remedy
8 4 (0.25%) ServiceNow