C++ Job Trends in Yorkshire

C++
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Yorkshire citing C++ skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

	6 months to 31 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	185	106	112
Rank change year-on-year	-79	+6	+26
Permanent jobs citing C++	11	46	56
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire	0.15%	1.31%	1.32%
As % of the Programming Languages category	1.17%	7.73%	5.63%
Number of salaries quoted	11	36	20
10^th Percentile	£31,250	£25,000	£39,700
25^th Percentile	£35,011	£40,063	£45,000
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£47,988	£46,000	£47,500
Median % change year-on-year	+4.32%	-3.16%	-13.64%
75^th Percentile	£55,879	£55,000	£57,500
90^th Percentile	£74,985	£58,750	£60,000
England median annual salary	£67,500	£65,000	£65,000
% change year-on-year	+3.85%	-	-

All Programming Languages
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 citing coding skills in Yorkshire.

	6 months to 31 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Permanent vacancies citing coding skills	941	595	994
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire	12.54%	16.93%	23.38%
Number of salaries quoted	747	472	508
10^th Percentile	£36,250	£28,750	£33,750
25^th Percentile	£43,250	£38,750	£42,500
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£60,000	£55,000	£55,000
Median % change year-on-year	+9.09%	-	-
75^th Percentile	£72,500	£72,500	£69,500
90^th Percentile	£83,750	£80,000	£81,250
England median annual salary	£65,000	£62,500	£65,000
% change year-on-year	+4.00%	-3.85%	-

C++ Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

C++ Salary Trend in Yorkshire

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

C++ Salary Histogram in Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing C++ in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 31 October 2026.

C++ Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing C++ within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 31 October 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	Job Ads Past 6 Months	Median Salary Past 6 Months	Median Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Jobs
West Yorkshire	-40	7	£38,772	-3.07%	5
South Yorkshire	-41	4	£50,994	+10.86%	2
C++ England

C++ Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire

For the 6 months to 31 October 2026, job vacancies citing C++ also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Yorkshire region citing C++.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Java	90.9%	10
1	SQL	90.9%	10
3	.NET	63.6%	7
3	C#	63.6%	7
3	CI/CD	63.6%	7
3	Coaching	63.6%	7
3	Full-Stack Development	63.6%	7
3	JavaScript	63.6%	7
3	Mentoring	63.6%	7
10	Software Engineering	54.5%	6
11	Agile	45.5%	5
11	Amazon EC2	45.5%	5
11	Analytics	45.5%	5
11	AWS	45.5%	5
11	AWS Lambda	45.5%	5
11	Business Intelligence	45.5%	5
11	Data Engineering	45.5%	5
11	Data Quality	45.5%	5
11	Decision-Making	45.5%	5
11	ETL	45.5%	5
11	Event-Driven	45.5%	5
11	PySpark	45.5%	5
11	Serverless	45.5%	5
11	Spark SQL	45.5%	5
25	Amazon EMR	36.4%	4
25	C	36.4%	4
25	Community of Practice	36.4%	4
25	Data Science	36.4%	4
29	Computer Science	27.3%	3
29	Degree	27.3%	3

C++ Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Programming Languages

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Java	90.9%	10
1	SQL	90.9%	10
3	C#	63.6%	7
3	JavaScript	63.6%	7
5	C	36.4%	4
6	PL/SQL	27.3%	3