C++ Job Trends in West Yorkshire

C++
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire requiring C++ skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 92 104 138
Rank change year-on-year +12 +34 +26
Permanent jobs citing C++ 15 27 14
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 1.00% 1.19% 0.60%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.30% 4.25% 1.51%
Number of salaries quoted 3 20 10
10th Percentile £50,000 £41,750 £43,750
25th Percentile £59,375 £42,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +57.89% -9.52% +10.53%
75th Percentile £76,875 £57,500 £55,000
90th Percentile £78,000 - £57,500
Yorkshire median annual salary £46,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -3.16% -9.52% +10.53%

All Programming Languages
West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 349 635 925
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 23.17% 28.01% 39.68%
Number of salaries quoted 279 441 743
10th Percentile £35,000 £35,000 £37,776
25th Percentile £46,250 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,500 £55,000 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year +11.82% -7.60% +8.23%
75th Percentile £72,750 £70,000 £77,000
90th Percentile £82,950 £82,500 £88,750
Yorkshire median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - +4.76%

C++
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for C++ in West Yorkshire

C++
Salary Trend in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing C++.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing C++

C++
Salary Histogram in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing C++ in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 18 September 2025.

Salary histogram for C++ in West Yorkshire

C++
Job Locations in West Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing C++ within the West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 18 September 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
Bradford -8 3 - - 1
Leeds +26 2 £76,250 +60.53% 5
Sowerby Bridge - 1 - -
Todmorden - 1 - -
Batley - 1 - -
Bingley - 1 - -
Brighouse - 1 - -
Castleford - 1 - -
Cleckheaton - 1 - -
Dewsbury - 1 - -
Elland - 1 - -
C++
Yorkshire

C++
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (13.33%) HCL Notes
1 2 (13.33%) IIS
1 2 (13.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 2 (13.33%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 1 (6.67%) Amazon S3
1 1 (6.67%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (13.33%) DNS
1 2 (13.33%) VPN
2 1 (6.67%) Ethernet
2 1 (6.67%) Modbus
2 1 (6.67%) MQTT
2 1 (6.67%) Profibus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) SQL Server
1 2 (13.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
1 2 (13.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 2 (13.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (6.67%) ClickHouse
2 1 (6.67%) MongoDB
2 1 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (6.67%) Redis
General
1 4 (26.67%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (13.33%) Finance
2 2 (13.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (13.33%) Legal
2 2 (13.33%) Manufacturing
2 2 (13.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Law
Job Titles
1 6 (40.00%) Developer
2 5 (33.33%) Software Developer
3 3 (20.00%) Senior
3 3 (20.00%) Senior Developer
4 2 (13.33%) Senior Software Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Embedded Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Embedded Software Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) iOS Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Lead
5 1 (6.67%) Lead Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Lead Software Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Senior iOS Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (53.33%) HTML
2 2 (13.33%) .NET
2 2 (13.33%) ASP.NET
2 2 (13.33%) ASP.NET MVC
2 2 (13.33%) WCF
3 1 (6.67%) Kafka
3 1 (6.67%) Next.js
3 1 (6.67%) SwiftUI
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Cyberattack
1 2 (13.33%) Mobile App
2 1 (6.67%) Cloud Native
2 1 (6.67%) Data Structures
2 1 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (6.67%) iPad
2 1 (6.67%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 3 (20.00%) Android
2 2 (13.33%) Linux
3 1 (6.67%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (60.00%) Computer Science
2 8 (53.33%) Artificial Intelligence
2 8 (53.33%) Data Privacy
2 8 (53.33%) Machine Learning
3 3 (20.00%) Design Patterns
3 3 (20.00%) Software Engineering
4 2 (13.33%) Agile
4 2 (13.33%) Business Continuity
4 2 (13.33%) Business Strategy
4 2 (13.33%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 2 (13.33%) Enterprise Architecture
4 2 (13.33%) Mathematics
4 2 (13.33%) MVC
4 2 (13.33%) OO
4 2 (13.33%) OOP
4 2 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (13.33%) Quality Management
4 2 (13.33%) SOA
4 2 (13.33%) Technical Debt
4 2 (13.33%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 10 (66.67%) C#
1 10 (66.67%) Java
1 10 (66.67%) Python
1 10 (66.67%) SQL
2 9 (60.00%) C
3 8 (53.33%) Dart
3 8 (53.33%) JavaScript
3 8 (53.33%) MATLAB
3 8 (53.33%) PHP
3 8 (53.33%) R
3 8 (53.33%) Ruby
3 8 (53.33%) Rust
3 8 (53.33%) TypeScript
4 3 (20.00%) Go
5 2 (13.33%) T-SQL
6 1 (6.67%) Kotlin
6 1 (6.67%) Swift
Qualifications
1 8 (53.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 8 (53.33%) Degree
2 2 (13.33%) DV Cleared
2 2 (13.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) QA
2 1 (6.67%) IEC 61508
System Software
1 2 (13.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (13.33%) Ansible
2 1 (6.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (13.33%) Lotus
1 2 (13.33%) Microsoft
1 2 (13.33%) Oracle
2 1 (6.67%) Allen-Bradley
2 1 (6.67%) Siemens