C++ Job Trends in the West Midlands

C++
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the West Midlands citing C++ skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 November 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

	6 months to 9 Nov 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	192	141	100
Rank change year-on-year	-51	-41	+27
Permanent jobs citing C++	27	21	121
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands	0.30%	0.61%	2.23%
As % of the Programming Languages category	2.61%	3.03%	9.10%
Number of salaries quoted	23	12	76
10^th Percentile	£51,000	£27,250	£31,250
25^th Percentile	£60,000	£50,313	£53,750
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£67,500	£55,000	£65,000
Median % change year-on-year	+22.73%	-15.38%	+13.04%
75^th Percentile	£78,750	£75,313	£70,000
90^th Percentile	£82,500	£80,750	£83,125
England median annual salary	£67,500	£65,000	£64,750
% change year-on-year	+3.85%	+0.39%	-0.38%

All Programming Languages
West Midlands

C++ falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies citing coding skills in the West Midlands.

	6 months to 9 Nov 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Permanent vacancies citing coding skills	1,035	693	1,329
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands	11.32%	20.01%	24.49%
Number of salaries quoted	718	564	696
10^th Percentile	£38,997	£31,475	£32,500
25^th Percentile	£47,500	£41,250	£40,000
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£57,500	£55,000	£55,000
Median % change year-on-year	+4.55%	-	+4.76%
75^th Percentile	£70,170	£70,000	£69,563
90^th Percentile	£85,000	£78,750	£76,250
England median annual salary	£65,000	£62,500	£65,000
% change year-on-year	+4.00%	-3.85%	-

C++ Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing C++ relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

C++ Salary Trend in the West Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing C++.

C++ Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing C++ in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 9 November 2026.

Salary histogram for C++ in the West Midlands

C++ Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing C++ within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 9 November 2026. 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	Job Ads Past 6 Months	Median Salary Past 6 Months	Median Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Jobs
Warwickshire	-18	5	£54,000	-	23
Coventry	-16	4	£75,000	-	4
Birmingham	-38	4	£47,988	+91.95%	19
Solihull	-	4	£67,500	-
Staffordshire	-5	2	-	-	2
Worcestershire	-27	2	£62,500	+19.05%	7
C++ England

C++ Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands

For the 6 months to 9 November 2026, job vacancies citing C++ also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the West Midlands region citing C++.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	C	59.3%	16
1	Degree	59.3%	16
3	Software Engineering	55.6%	15
4	Java	51.9%	14
5	Mentoring	44.4%	12
6	Decision-Making	40.7%	11
6	Problem-Solving	40.7%	11
8	CI/CD	33.3%	9
8	Technical Leadership	33.3%	9
10	Continuous Improvement	29.6%	8
10	Firmware	29.6%	8
10	QA	29.6%	8
10	Sprint Planning	29.6%	8
10	SQL	29.6%	8
15	Embedded Firmware	25.9%	7
16	Hardware-in-the-Loop	22.2%	6
16	Master's Degree	22.2%	6
18	C#	18.5%	5
18	Collaborative Culture	18.5%	5
18	Computer Science	18.5%	5
18	Embedded C	18.5%	5
18	Embedded C++	18.5%	5
18	Functional Testing	18.5%	5
18	Git	18.5%	5
18	Project Delivery	18.5%	5
18	Software Architecture	18.5%	5
18	Software Deployment	18.5%	5
18	Software Testing	18.5%	5
18	Stakeholder Management	18.5%	5
30	Agile	14.8%	4

C++ Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Programming Languages

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	C	59.3%	16
2	Java	51.9%	14
3	SQL	29.6%	8
4	C#	18.5%	5
4	Embedded C	18.5%	5
4	Embedded C++	18.5%	5
7	MATLAB	14.8%	4
7	Python	14.8%	4
9	JavaScript	11.1%	3