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 permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 109 95 114
Rank change year-on-year -14 +19 +67
Permanent jobs citing C++ 11 13 25
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 0.60% 0.89% 1.25%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.39% 3.06% 3.30%
Number of salaries quoted 9 3 21
10th Percentile - £34,350 £40,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £37,125 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £43,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -25.29% -13.00% -37.50%
75th Percentile £36,000 £53,250 £60,000
90th Percentile £43,800 £58,050 £61,250
Yorkshire median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% -9.09% -5.17%

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 461 425 757
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 25.15% 29.01% 37.96%
Number of salaries quoted 340 261 614
10th Percentile £30,125 £34,000 £37,827
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £72,500 £72,433
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £86,250
Yorkshire median annual salary £52,500 £52,750 £55,000
% change year-on-year -0.47% -4.09% -4.35%

C++
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing C++ relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire.

C++ job vacancy trend 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 7 January 2026.

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 7 January 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
Leeds -13 9 £32,500 -25.29% 5
Bradford -17 2 - - 2
C++
Yorkshire

C++
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 2 (18.18%) HCL Notes
1 2 (18.18%) IIS
1 2 (18.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 2 (18.18%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 1 (9.09%) Amazon S3
1 1 (9.09%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) SQL Server
1 2 (18.18%) SQL Server Analysis Services
1 2 (18.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 2 (18.18%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (9.09%) ClickHouse
2 1 (9.09%) MongoDB
2 1 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (9.09%) Redis
General
1 10 (90.91%) Manufacturing
1 10 (90.91%) Social Skills
2 8 (72.73%) Pharmaceutical
2 8 (72.73%) Retail
3 2 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (18.18%) Legal
Job Titles
1 8 (72.73%) Graduate
1 8 (72.73%) Graduate Software Engineer
1 8 (72.73%) Linux Engineer
1 8 (72.73%) Logistics Engineer
1 8 (72.73%) Software Engineer
1 8 (72.73%) Software Engineering Graduate
2 3 (27.27%) Customer Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Developer
2 3 (27.27%) Software Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Senior
3 2 (18.18%) Senior Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Senior Software Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Graduate Systems Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Lead
4 1 (9.09%) Lead Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Lead Software Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Linux Systems Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) .NET
1 2 (18.18%) ASP.NET
1 2 (18.18%) ASP.NET MVC
1 2 (18.18%) WCF
2 1 (9.09%) Kafka
2 1 (9.09%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 8 (72.73%) Driving Licence
2 2 (18.18%) Mobile App
3 1 (9.09%) Cloud Native
3 1 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 8 (72.73%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (81.82%) Software Engineering
2 8 (72.73%) Computer Science
2 8 (72.73%) E-Commerce
2 8 (72.73%) Logistics
3 6 (54.55%) Mathematics
4 2 (18.18%) Business Continuity
4 2 (18.18%) Business Strategy
4 2 (18.18%) Change Control
4 2 (18.18%) Coaching
4 2 (18.18%) Customer Service
4 2 (18.18%) Data Protection
4 2 (18.18%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 2 (18.18%) Enterprise Architecture
4 2 (18.18%) Mobile Application Development
4 2 (18.18%) MVC
4 2 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (18.18%) Quality Management
4 2 (18.18%) Release Management
4 2 (18.18%) SDLC
4 2 (18.18%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 10 (90.91%) SQL
2 8 (72.73%) C
2 8 (72.73%) Java
2 8 (72.73%) PL/SQL
3 3 (27.27%) Python
4 2 (18.18%) C#
4 2 (18.18%) T-SQL
5 1 (9.09%) Go
Qualifications
1 8 (72.73%) Computer Science Degree
1 8 (72.73%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Lotus
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
1 2 (18.18%) Oracle