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 requiring C++ skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 170 143 147
Rank change year-on-year -27 +4 -2
Permanent jobs citing C++ 19 34 94
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.27% 1.01% 1.41%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.18% 4.40% 5.16%
Number of salaries quoted 19 26 83
10th Percentile £25,000 £25,000 £30,900
25th Percentile £48,750 £30,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £40,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +37.50% -33.33% +14.29%
75th Percentile £69,375 £47,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £62,500 £84,964
England median annual salary £70,000 £66,219 £60,000
% change year-on-year +5.71% +10.37% -14.29%

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 requiring coding skills in the West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 872 772 1,821
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 12.24% 22.97% 27.32%
Number of salaries quoted 678 576 1,601
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £68,750 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £75,772
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%

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++ job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

C++
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

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 1 April 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 1 April 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
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Birmingham -15 5 £25,000 -37.50% 3
Shropshire -27 4 £62,500 +25.00% 5
Staffordshire -13 3 £65,000 +160.00% 4
Coventry -20 3 £80,000 +33.33%
Worcestershire - 3 £52,500 - 5
C++
England

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

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 7 (36.84%) AWS
2 5 (26.32%) Azure
3 3 (15.79%) Serverless
4 2 (10.53%) GCP
5 1 (5.26%) Azure Machine Learning
5 1 (5.26%) GitHub
5 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.26%) Ethernet
1 1 (5.26%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.79%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (15.79%) Redis
1 3 (15.79%) SQL Server
1 3 (15.79%) TimescaleDB
2 2 (10.53%) MySQL
3 1 (5.26%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Git
2 1 (5.26%) GitLab
2 1 (5.26%) JIRA
2 1 (5.26%) MLflow
2 1 (5.26%) Rational DOORS
2 1 (5.26%) TeamCity
2 1 (5.26%) Visual Studio
General
1 5 (26.32%) Social Skills
2 4 (21.05%) Law
3 3 (15.79%) Finance
3 3 (15.79%) Games
4 2 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (10.53%) Electronics
4 2 (10.53%) Manufacturing
5 1 (5.26%) Advertising
5 1 (5.26%) Aerospace
5 1 (5.26%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 9 (47.37%) Developer
2 4 (21.05%) Software Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) Azure Developer
3 3 (15.79%) C# Developer
3 3 (15.79%) C# Software Developer
3 3 (15.79%) Full-Stack Developer
3 3 (15.79%) Graduate
3 3 (15.79%) Graduate C# Developer
3 3 (15.79%) Graduate C# Software Developer
3 3 (15.79%) Graduate Developer
3 3 (15.79%) Graduate PHP Developer
3 3 (15.79%) Graduate Software Developer
3 3 (15.79%) Graduate SQL Developer
3 3 (15.79%) Lead
3 3 (15.79%) Lead Developer
3 3 (15.79%) PHP Developer
3 3 (15.79%) Software Developer
3 3 (15.79%) SQL Developer
4 2 (10.53%) Embedded Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Robotics Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (26.32%) OpenCV
2 4 (21.05%) .NET
2 4 (21.05%) .NET Framework
3 3 (15.79%) Avalonia
3 3 (15.79%) CSS
3 3 (15.79%) GraphQL
3 3 (15.79%) jQuery
3 3 (15.79%) Node.js
3 3 (15.79%) PyTorch
3 3 (15.79%) React
3 3 (15.79%) TensorFlow
3 3 (15.79%) WPF
4 2 (10.53%) REST
5 1 (5.26%) RESTful
5 1 (5.26%) scikit-learn
5 1 (5.26%) Unreal Engine
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.79%) Legacy Systems
1 3 (15.79%) Photography
2 2 (10.53%) Algorithms
2 2 (10.53%) CUDA
2 2 (10.53%) Embedded Systems
2 2 (10.53%) Lidar
2 2 (10.53%) Robotics
2 2 (10.53%) Self-Driving Car
3 1 (5.26%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (5.26%) ARM Cortex
3 1 (5.26%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.53%) Robot Operating System
2 1 (5.26%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (36.84%) Software Engineering
2 6 (31.58%) Computer Science
2 6 (31.58%) Computer Vision
3 5 (26.32%) Image Processing
3 5 (26.32%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (21.05%) Agile
4 4 (21.05%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (21.05%) Software Architecture
4 4 (21.05%) Validation
5 3 (15.79%) AI
5 3 (15.79%) API Design
5 3 (15.79%) Deep Learning
5 3 (15.79%) DevOps
5 3 (15.79%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (15.79%) Machine Learning
5 3 (15.79%) Microservices
5 3 (15.79%) MVC
5 3 (15.79%) OOP
5 3 (15.79%) Video Processing
5 3 (15.79%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 9 (47.37%) Python
2 8 (42.11%) C#
3 7 (36.84%) Java
4 5 (26.32%) C
5 4 (21.05%) SQL
6 3 (15.79%) PHP
6 3 (15.79%) TypeScript
7 2 (10.53%) MATLAB
8 1 (5.26%) Embedded C
8 1 (5.26%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (36.84%) Degree
2 4 (21.05%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (21.05%) Master's Degree
3 2 (10.53%) PhD
4 1 (5.26%) SC Cleared
4 1 (5.26%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.26%) IEC 61508
1 1 (5.26%) MISRA
1 1 (5.26%) MISRA C
1 1 (5.26%) QA
System Software
1 4 (21.05%) Docker
1 4 (21.05%) Firmware
2 1 (5.26%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 4 (21.05%) Kubernetes
2 3 (15.79%) Nagios
2 3 (15.79%) Prometheus
3 1 (5.26%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 3 (15.79%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.26%) OpenAI
2 1 (5.26%) Perforce