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 10 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 180 152 94
Rank change year-on-year -28 -58 +30
Permanent jobs citing C++ 25 24 150
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.28% 0.72% 2.48%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.38% 3.28% 10.93%
Number of salaries quoted 25 12 101
10th Percentile £46,230 - £31,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £25,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £61,250 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.12% -0.41% +6.96%
75th Percentile £70,000 £75,313 £70,000
90th Percentile £73,491 £80,750 £76,250
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%

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 1,052 732 1,372
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 11.97% 21.92% 22.67%
Number of salaries quoted 758 572 888
10th Percentile £36,250 £32,125 £32,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £54,892
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +0.20% +1.65%
75th Percentile £71,246 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £76,250
England median annual salary £65,000 £64,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +1.56% +2.40% -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++ 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 10 September 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 10 September 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
Worcestershire - 5 £52,500 - 1
Birmingham -44 4 £47,988 +91.95% 5
Solihull - 4 £67,500 - 3
Staffordshire -4 3 £67,500 -12.90% 1
Warwickshire -16 3 £65,000 - 5
Coventry -23 2 £70,000 - 4
Shropshire -25 2 £70,000 +3.70%
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (4.00%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 2 (8.00%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 3 (12.00%) AWS
2 2 (8.00%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (8.00%) Amazon EMR
2 2 (8.00%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (8.00%) Azure
2 2 (8.00%) GitHub
2 2 (8.00%) GitHub Actions
2 2 (8.00%) Serverless
3 1 (4.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 1 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.00%) Ethernet
1 2 (8.00%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.00%) Spark SQL
2 1 (4.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (4.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (20.00%) Git
2 2 (8.00%) GitLab
2 2 (8.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (8.00%) JIRA
2 2 (8.00%) Zephyr
3 1 (4.00%) TeamCity
3 1 (4.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 4 (16.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (12.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (12.00%) Electronics
2 3 (12.00%) Games
2 3 (12.00%) Law
2 3 (12.00%) Public Sector
3 2 (8.00%) Automotive
4 1 (4.00%) Advertising
4 1 (4.00%) Finance
4 1 (4.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 9 (36.00%) Software Engineer
2 8 (32.00%) Lead
3 4 (16.00%) Developer
3 4 (16.00%) Embedded Engineer
3 4 (16.00%) Embedded Software Engineer
3 4 (16.00%) Senior
3 4 (16.00%) Senior Software Engineer
4 3 (12.00%) Lead Developer
5 2 (8.00%) C++ Software Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Data Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Electronics Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) QA Manager
5 2 (8.00%) Senior Embedded Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Graduate Developer
6 1 (4.00%) Graduate Software Developer
6 1 (4.00%) IT Project Manager
6 1 (4.00%) Lead Software Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Reliability Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (28.00%) .NET
2 4 (16.00%) .NET Framework
2 4 (16.00%) STL
3 3 (12.00%) Avalonia
3 3 (12.00%) OpenCV
3 3 (12.00%) WPF
4 2 (8.00%) PySpark
4 2 (8.00%) Spring
4 2 (8.00%) Spring Boot
5 1 (4.00%) CSS
5 1 (4.00%) jQuery
5 1 (4.00%) Unreal Engine
Miscellaneous
1 6 (24.00%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (16.00%) Algorithms
3 3 (12.00%) Photography
4 2 (8.00%) ARM Cortex
4 2 (8.00%) CAN bus
4 2 (8.00%) Embedded Systems
4 2 (8.00%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (4.00%) Analogue Electronics
5 1 (4.00%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (4.00%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (4.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.00%) FreeRTOS
1 2 (8.00%) Linux
1 2 (8.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (52.00%) Software Engineering
2 9 (36.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 8 (32.00%) Mentoring
4 7 (28.00%) CI/CD
5 6 (24.00%) Decision-Making
5 6 (24.00%) Sprint Planning
6 5 (20.00%) Agile
6 5 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (16.00%) AI
7 4 (16.00%) Customer Requirements
7 4 (16.00%) Database Optimisation
7 4 (16.00%) Embedded Software Development
7 4 (16.00%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
7 4 (16.00%) Machine Learning
7 4 (16.00%) Observability
7 4 (16.00%) SDLC
7 4 (16.00%) Technical Leadership
7 4 (16.00%) Test Automation
7 4 (16.00%) Validation
7 4 (16.00%) WFM
Programming Languages
1 11 (44.00%) C#
2 8 (32.00%) C
2 8 (32.00%) Java
3 5 (20.00%) Python
3 5 (20.00%) SQL
4 4 (16.00%) MATLAB
5 3 (12.00%) Embedded C
5 3 (12.00%) Embedded C++
5 3 (12.00%) JavaScript
6 1 (4.00%) PHP
6 1 (4.00%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (20.00%) Degree
2 3 (12.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (8.00%) Master's Degree
3 2 (8.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (8.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (28.00%) QA
2 2 (8.00%) Automotive SPICE
2 2 (8.00%) Data Quality
2 2 (8.00%) IEC 61508
2 2 (8.00%) ISO 26262
2 2 (8.00%) MISRA
2 2 (8.00%) MISRA C
System Software
1 8 (32.00%) Firmware
2 5 (20.00%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 4 (16.00%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 2 (8.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.00%) Perforce