C++ Jobs in the West Midlands

C++
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 17 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 163 120 114
Rank change year-on-year -43 -6 +35
Permanent jobs citing C++ 27 137 138
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.65% 1.75% 2.61%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.93% 7.57% 7.69%
Number of salaries quoted 13 114 63
10th Percentile - £31,250 £31,400
25th Percentile - £46,875 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £25,000 £60,750 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -58.85% +5.65% +9.52%
75th Percentile £68,750 £67,500 £63,625
90th Percentile £79,550 £76,250 £68,750
England median annual salary £66,212 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +10.35% -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 923 1,810 1,795
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 22.23% 23.13% 33.96%
Number of salaries quoted 641 1,446 1,191
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £33,986
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £76,250 £77,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% +4.00%

C++
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing C++ as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for C++ in the West Midlands

C++
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for C++ in the West Midlands

C++
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing C++ in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 17 July 2025.

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 17 July 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
Birmingham +10 11 £25,000 -44.44% 13
Staffordshire 0 10 £77,500 +34.78% 11
Warwickshire +11 3 - - 18
Shropshire +10 1 £67,500 +28.57% 6
Herefordshire +5 1 £68,500 +11.38% 4
Coventry -2 1 - - 9
C++
England

C++
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Applications
1 2 (7.41%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (7.41%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 13 (48.15%) Azure
2 4 (14.81%) AWS
3 3 (11.11%) Power Platform
4 2 (7.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 2 (7.41%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (7.41%) GCP
5 1 (3.70%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (3.70%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Copilot
5 1 (3.70%) Power Automate
5 1 (3.70%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.70%) Bluetooth
1 1 (3.70%) tcpdump
1 1 (3.70%) UWB
1 1 (3.70%) Wideband
1 1 (3.70%) Wireless
1 1 (3.70%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (33.33%) MySQL
2 8 (29.63%) SQL Server
3 3 (11.11%) Relational Database
4 2 (7.41%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (7.41%) Power BI
5 1 (3.70%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (3.70%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (7.41%) webpack
2 1 (3.70%) GDB
2 1 (3.70%) Git
2 1 (3.70%) GitLab
2 1 (3.70%) IDA Disassembler
2 1 (3.70%) Visual Studio
2 1 (3.70%) WinDbg
General
1 6 (22.22%) Finance
1 6 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 4 (14.81%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (11.11%) Automotive
3 3 (11.11%) Electronics
4 2 (7.41%) Law
4 2 (7.41%) Manufacturing
4 2 (7.41%) Marketing
5 1 (3.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (3.70%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (3.70%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (48.15%) Developer
2 7 (25.93%) Graduate
2 7 (25.93%) Graduate Developer
2 7 (25.93%) IT Graduate
3 4 (14.81%) Agile C# Developer
3 4 (14.81%) Agile Developer
3 4 (14.81%) C# Developer
3 4 (14.81%) Graduate C# Developer
3 4 (14.81%) Graduate PHP Developer
3 4 (14.81%) Graduate SQL Developer
3 4 (14.81%) PHP Developer
3 4 (14.81%) SQL Developer
4 3 (11.11%) Software Developer
5 2 (7.41%) C++ Developer
5 2 (7.41%) C++ Software Developer
5 2 (7.41%) Data Scientist
5 2 (7.41%) Python Developer
5 2 (7.41%) Rust Developer
6 1 (3.70%) Software Engineering Manager
6 1 (3.70%) Software Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (33.33%) .NET
2 7 (25.93%) ASP.NET
2 7 (25.93%) CSS
2 7 (25.93%) HTML
2 7 (25.93%) jQuery
3 2 (7.41%) Electron
3 2 (7.41%) OpenMP
3 2 (7.41%) React
4 1 (3.70%) .NET Framework
4 1 (3.70%) Entity Framework
4 1 (3.70%) libvirt
4 1 (3.70%) Node.js
4 1 (3.70%) Pandas
4 1 (3.70%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (3.70%) XML
4 1 (3.70%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 5 (18.52%) Virtual Team
2 2 (7.41%) Algorithms
2 2 (7.41%) CUDA
2 2 (7.41%) Embedded Systems
2 2 (7.41%) SIMD
3 1 (3.70%) Acoustics
3 1 (3.70%) ARM Cortex
3 1 (3.70%) Augmented Reality
3 1 (3.70%) Clustering
3 1 (3.70%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (3.70%) Cyberattack
3 1 (3.70%) Device Driver
3 1 (3.70%) e-Learning
3 1 (3.70%) Infotainment
3 1 (3.70%) Raspberry Pi
Operating Systems
1 6 (22.22%) Linux
2 2 (7.41%) Android
2 2 (7.41%) Embedded Linux
3 1 (3.70%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (59.26%) Computer Science
2 12 (44.44%) Machine Learning
3 11 (40.74%) Artificial Intelligence
4 10 (37.04%) Agile
5 9 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
6 8 (29.63%) OO
7 7 (25.93%) Data Privacy
7 7 (25.93%) MVC
8 6 (22.22%) OOP
9 5 (18.52%) Software Engineering
10 4 (14.81%) Data Science
10 4 (14.81%) Mathematics
11 3 (11.11%) Containerisation
11 3 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
11 3 (11.11%) Decision-Making
11 3 (11.11%) Statistics
12 2 (7.41%) Customer Experience
12 2 (7.41%) Data Engineering
12 2 (7.41%) Exploratory Data Analysis
12 2 (7.41%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 18 (66.67%) Java
2 17 (62.96%) C#
3 16 (59.26%) Python
4 15 (55.56%) PHP
4 15 (55.56%) SQL
5 11 (40.74%) JavaScript
6 10 (37.04%) C
6 10 (37.04%) Rust
7 9 (33.33%) MATLAB
7 9 (33.33%) R
7 9 (33.33%) TypeScript
8 7 (25.93%) Dart
8 7 (25.93%) Ruby
9 2 (7.41%) VB
10 1 (3.70%) CodeQL
10 1 (3.70%) Go
10 1 (3.70%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 18 (66.67%) Degree
2 14 (51.85%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (18.52%) Security Cleared
4 3 (11.11%) DV Cleared
5 2 (7.41%) SC Cleared
6 1 (3.70%) Numerate Degree
6 1 (3.70%) Postgraduate
6 1 (3.70%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.70%) COBIT
System Software
1 4 (14.81%) Docker
2 1 (3.70%) Xen
Systems Management
1 3 (11.11%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.70%) Ansible
2 1 (3.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.70%) Blue Prism
2 1 (3.70%) Oracle
2 1 (3.70%) QNX