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 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 165 131 122
Rank change year-on-year -34 -9 +39
Permanent jobs citing C++ 28 147 139
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.69% 1.70% 2.40%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.99% 7.01% 6.80%
Number of salaries quoted 15 124 63
10th Percentile - £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £25,000 £43,750 £46,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +4.35% +8.49%
75th Percentile £47,500 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £76,250 £84,964 £94,150
England median annual salary £66,225 £60,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +10.38% -11.11% +3.85%

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 938 2,098 2,043
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 23.19% 24.20% 35.35%
Number of salaries quoted 605 1,720 1,183
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £35,000
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 £66,250 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,000 £77,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £62,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.33% -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 June 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 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
Birmingham +22 14 £25,000 -44.44% 117
Staffordshire +5 10 £77,500 +44.19% 96
Warwickshire +14 2 - - 57
Shropshire +14 1 £67,500 +28.57% 146
Coventry -10 1 - - 94
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 5 (17.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (7.14%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 15 (53.57%) Azure
2 5 (17.86%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 5 (17.86%) Power Platform
3 3 (10.71%) AWS
4 2 (7.14%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (7.14%) GCP
5 1 (3.57%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (3.57%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.57%) tcpdump
1 1 (3.57%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (28.57%) MySQL
2 7 (25.00%) SQL Server
3 5 (17.86%) Power BI
3 5 (17.86%) Relational Database
4 2 (7.14%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (3.57%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (7.14%) webpack
2 1 (3.57%) GDB
2 1 (3.57%) GitLab
2 1 (3.57%) IDA Disassembler
2 1 (3.57%) WinDbg
General
1 10 (35.71%) Finance
2 6 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (17.86%) Manufacturing
3 5 (17.86%) Marketing
3 5 (17.86%) Social Skills
4 3 (10.71%) Automotive
4 3 (10.71%) Electronics
5 2 (7.14%) Law
6 1 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (3.57%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (3.57%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (42.86%) Developer
2 7 (25.00%) Graduate
2 7 (25.00%) Graduate Developer
2 7 (25.00%) IT Graduate
3 5 (17.86%) Data Scientist
4 4 (14.29%) Agile C# Developer
4 4 (14.29%) Agile Developer
4 4 (14.29%) C# Developer
4 4 (14.29%) Graduate C# Developer
4 4 (14.29%) Graduate PHP Developer
4 4 (14.29%) Graduate SQL Developer
4 4 (14.29%) PHP Developer
4 4 (14.29%) SQL Developer
5 3 (10.71%) Software Developer
6 2 (7.14%) C++ Developer
6 2 (7.14%) C++ Software Developer
6 2 (7.14%) Python Developer
6 2 (7.14%) Rust Developer
7 1 (3.57%) Software Engineering Manager
7 1 (3.57%) Vulnerability Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (28.57%) .NET
2 7 (25.00%) ASP.NET
2 7 (25.00%) CSS
2 7 (25.00%) HTML
2 7 (25.00%) jQuery
3 2 (7.14%) Electron
3 2 (7.14%) OpenMP
3 2 (7.14%) React
4 1 (3.57%) libvirt
4 1 (3.57%) Node.js
4 1 (3.57%) Pandas
4 1 (3.57%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 4 (14.29%) Virtual Team
2 2 (7.14%) Algorithms
2 2 (7.14%) CUDA
2 2 (7.14%) SIMD
3 1 (3.57%) Acoustics
3 1 (3.57%) Augmented Reality
3 1 (3.57%) Clustering
3 1 (3.57%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (3.57%) Cyberattack
3 1 (3.57%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (3.57%) Infotainment
Operating Systems
1 5 (17.86%) Linux
2 2 (7.14%) Android
2 2 (7.14%) Embedded Linux
3 1 (3.57%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (67.86%) Computer Science
2 14 (50.00%) Machine Learning
3 13 (46.43%) Artificial Intelligence
4 9 (32.14%) Agile
5 8 (28.57%) OO
6 7 (25.00%) Data Privacy
6 7 (25.00%) Data Science
6 7 (25.00%) Mathematics
6 7 (25.00%) MVC
7 6 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (21.43%) Statistics
8 5 (17.86%) Actionable Insight
8 5 (17.86%) Bayesian Methods
8 5 (17.86%) Business Intelligence
8 5 (17.86%) Customer Experience
8 5 (17.86%) Customer-Centricity
8 5 (17.86%) Data Analysis
8 5 (17.86%) Decision-Making
8 5 (17.86%) Generative AI
8 5 (17.86%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 21 (75.00%) Java
2 18 (64.29%) Python
3 17 (60.71%) SQL
4 16 (57.14%) C#
5 15 (53.57%) PHP
6 12 (42.86%) R
7 11 (39.29%) JavaScript
8 10 (35.71%) C
8 10 (35.71%) Rust
9 9 (32.14%) MATLAB
9 9 (32.14%) TypeScript
10 7 (25.00%) Dart
10 7 (25.00%) Ruby
11 1 (3.57%) CodeQL
11 1 (3.57%) Go
11 1 (3.57%) Kotlin
11 1 (3.57%) VB
Qualifications
1 20 (71.43%) Degree
2 14 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (10.71%) Security Cleared
4 2 (7.14%) DV Cleared
5 1 (3.57%) Numerate Degree
5 1 (3.57%) Postgraduate
5 1 (3.57%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 4 (14.29%) Docker
2 1 (3.57%) Xen
Systems Management
1 3 (10.71%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.57%) Ansible
2 1 (3.57%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (17.86%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.57%) QNX