C++ Jobs in England

C++
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for C++ skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited C++ over the 6 months to 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 137 154 88
Rank change year-on-year +17 -66 +6
Permanent jobs citing C++ 1,816 2,028 5,450
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 2.04% 2.34% 3.89%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.48% 5.44% 7.28%
Number of salaries quoted 1,426 1,415 2,056
10th Percentile £37,625 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £48,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% - +17.39%
75th Percentile £73,750 £90,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £122,500 £132,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% - +13.04%

All Programming Languages
England

C++ is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 28,024 37,268 74,911
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 31.54% 43.05% 53.52%
Number of salaries quoted 22,545 24,192 38,932
10th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +13.64%

C++
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for C++ in England

C++
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing C++ in England.

Salary trend for C++ in England

C++
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing C++ in England over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for C++ in England

C++
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing C++ within the England region over the 6 months to 28 May 2024. 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
South East +18 584 £57,500 -4.17% 191
London -68 331 £90,000 +5.88% 357
South West +19 298 £55,750 -7.85% 128
Midlands +26 227 £50,000 -4.76% 92
North of England +71 225 £57,500 - 71
East of England +14 148 £60,000 - 124
West Midlands -1 126 £58,750 +4.44% 38
North West +57 122 £62,500 +1.21% 45
East Midlands +32 101 £45,000 - 53
Yorkshire +46 77 £47,500 +11.76% 20
North East +14 26 £55,500 +5.71% 6
C++
UK

C++
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 62 (3.41%) Apache
2 17 (0.94%) Confluence
3 15 (0.83%) Apache Spark
4 12 (0.66%) nginx
5 6 (0.33%) Kinematics
6 5 (0.28%) CMS
7 3 (0.17%) Ethereum
7 3 (0.17%) Hyperledger
8 2 (0.11%) IIS
9 1 (0.055%) IBM Domino
9 1 (0.055%) IBM Notes
9 1 (0.055%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.055%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.055%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.055%) WinCC
Applications
1 84 (4.63%) Simulink
2 12 (0.66%) GNU Octave
2 12 (0.66%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (0.33%) OrCAD
4 5 (0.28%) Microsoft Excel
5 3 (0.17%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.11%) CANalyzer
6 2 (0.11%) Doxygen
6 2 (0.11%) Fusion 360
7 1 (0.055%) CATIA
7 1 (0.055%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.055%) SOLIDWORKS
7 1 (0.055%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.055%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 4 (0.22%) Teamcenter
1 4 (0.22%) Visualfiles
2 2 (0.11%) C-CURE
3 1 (0.055%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.055%) LabWindows
3 1 (0.055%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.055%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 123 (6.77%) Azure
2 116 (6.39%) AWS
3 37 (2.04%) SaaS
4 26 (1.43%) Azure DevOps
5 17 (0.94%) GCP
6 16 (0.88%) GitHub
7 10 (0.55%) Pulumi
8 9 (0.50%) WhatsApp
9 7 (0.39%) AWS IoT
9 7 (0.39%) Cloud Computing
9 7 (0.39%) OpenShift
9 7 (0.39%) Sentry
10 6 (0.33%) Power Platform
11 5 (0.28%) PaaS
11 5 (0.28%) PowerApps
12 4 (0.22%) AWS CloudFormation
12 4 (0.22%) Power Automate
12 4 (0.22%) TestFlight
13 3 (0.17%) Azure App Service
13 3 (0.17%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 60 (3.30%) TCP/IP
2 32 (1.76%) Wireless
3 26 (1.43%) MQTT
4 21 (1.16%) 4G
4 21 (1.16%) 5G
4 21 (1.16%) Internet
5 20 (1.10%) Ethernet
5 20 (1.10%) Wi-Fi
6 18 (0.99%) RS-485
7 17 (0.94%) 3G
7 17 (0.94%) Network Security
8 16 (0.88%) SD-WAN
8 16 (0.88%) WAN
9 15 (0.83%) DNS
9 15 (0.83%) Firewall
10 13 (0.72%) Bluetooth
10 13 (0.72%) HTTP
11 12 (0.66%) Wireshark
12 10 (0.55%) LoRaWAN
13 8 (0.44%) OFDM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (3.91%) SQL Server
2 54 (2.97%) PostgreSQL
3 34 (1.87%) NoSQL
4 27 (1.49%) MongoDB
5 21 (1.16%) MySQL
6 12 (0.66%) Redis
7 11 (0.61%) Big Data
8 8 (0.44%) Relational Database
9 7 (0.39%) KDB
9 7 (0.39%) Kdb+
9 7 (0.39%) SQLite
10 6 (0.33%) Apache Cassandra
11 5 (0.28%) Elasticsearch
12 4 (0.22%) BusinessObjects
12 4 (0.22%) Hadoop
12 4 (0.22%) Power BI
13 3 (0.17%) Azure SQL Database
13 3 (0.17%) Data Mining
13 3 (0.17%) RDBMS
14 2 (0.11%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 158 (8.70%) Git
2 100 (5.51%) Visual Studio
3 68 (3.74%) Jenkins
3 68 (3.74%) Subversion
4 57 (3.14%) JIRA
5 38 (2.09%) GitLab
6 31 (1.71%) CMake
7 26 (1.43%) LabVIEW
8 24 (1.32%) Ant
9 18 (0.99%) Vagrant
10 15 (0.83%) Bitbucket
10 15 (0.83%) Eclipse
10 15 (0.83%) Rational Rhapsody
11 13 (0.72%) GDB
12 12 (0.66%) Team Foundation Server
13 11 (0.61%) GCC
14 10 (0.55%) GNU Toolchain
15 9 (0.50%) Xcode
16 8 (0.44%) TestRail
17 7 (0.39%) Rational DOORS
General
1 311 (17.13%) Social Skills
2 203 (11.18%) Electronics
3 186 (10.24%) Finance
4 172 (9.47%) Analytical Skills
5 98 (5.40%) Manufacturing
6 97 (5.34%) Automotive
7 75 (4.13%) Marketing
8 53 (2.92%) Telecoms
9 44 (2.42%) Public Sector
10 42 (2.31%) Aerospace
11 41 (2.26%) Front Office
12 40 (2.20%) Games
13 38 (2.09%) Military
14 31 (1.71%) Aviation
15 28 (1.54%) Presentation Skills
16 21 (1.16%) Banking
16 21 (1.16%) Organisational Skills
17 20 (1.10%) Law
18 15 (0.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 14 (0.77%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 814 (44.82%) Software Engineer
2 469 (25.83%) Developer
3 378 (20.81%) Senior
4 323 (17.79%) C++ Software Engineer
5 295 (16.24%) C++ Developer
6 288 (15.86%) Embedded Engineer
7 241 (13.27%) Senior Software Engineer
8 211 (11.62%) Embedded Software Engineer
9 172 (9.47%) Lead
10 130 (7.16%) Software Developer
11 91 (5.01%) Senior Embedded Engineer
12 89 (4.90%) Embedded C++ Engineer
13 83 (4.57%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
14 76 (4.19%) Embedded C++ Software Engineer
15 65 (3.58%) C++ Software Developer
16 58 (3.19%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
17 54 (2.97%) Junior
18 50 (2.75%) Architect
18 50 (2.75%) Embedded Developer
19 47 (2.59%) C/C++ Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 170 (9.36%) .NET
2 92 (5.07%) Qt
3 67 (3.69%) STL
4 64 (3.52%) HTML
5 46 (2.53%) React
5 46 (2.53%) WPF
6 44 (2.42%) .NET Framework
6 44 (2.42%) REST
6 44 (2.42%) Yocto
7 36 (1.98%) MFC
8 34 (1.87%) ASP.NET
8 34 (1.87%) XML
9 33 (1.82%) Apache NiFi
9 33 (1.82%) Middleware
10 28 (1.54%) CSS
10 28 (1.54%) Web Services
11 27 (1.49%) OpenGL
12 26 (1.43%) Hibernate
13 24 (1.32%) Entity Framework
13 24 (1.32%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 207 (11.40%) Algorithms
2 114 (6.28%) Embedded Systems
3 105 (5.78%) FPGA
4 96 (5.29%) IoT
5 82 (4.52%) Self-Motivation
6 57 (3.14%) Robotics
7 54 (2.97%) Distributed Systems
7 54 (2.97%) VHDL
8 42 (2.31%) Hedge funds
9 39 (2.15%) CUDA
10 35 (1.93%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 34 (1.87%) GNSS
11 34 (1.87%) Greenfield Project
12 32 (1.76%) Cloud Native
13 30 (1.65%) Equities
14 28 (1.54%) Device Driver
15 27 (1.49%) Data Structures
16 26 (1.43%) Analogue Electronics
17 25 (1.38%) Verilog
18 24 (1.32%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 631 (34.75%) Linux
2 292 (16.08%) Windows
3 118 (6.50%) Embedded Linux
4 77 (4.24%) Unix
5 65 (3.58%) Android
6 42 (2.31%) Ubuntu
7 26 (1.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 25 (1.38%) Apple iOS
9 22 (1.21%) CentOS
10 18 (0.99%) AIX
11 12 (0.66%) Windows 10
12 11 (0.61%) Debian
12 11 (0.61%) Windows Server
13 9 (0.50%) FreeRTOS
14 6 (0.33%) Kali Linux
15 5 (0.28%) Mac OS
15 5 (0.28%) Windows Embedded Compact
16 4 (0.22%) VxWorks
17 2 (0.11%) Mac OS X
17 2 (0.11%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,055 (58.09%) Software Engineering
2 391 (21.53%) Problem-Solving
3 368 (20.26%) Computer Science
4 308 (16.96%) Agile
5 239 (13.16%) Mathematics
6 190 (10.46%) Multithreading
7 155 (8.54%) Physics
8 142 (7.82%) Artificial Intelligence
9 141 (7.76%) Machine Learning
9 141 (7.76%) Mentoring
9 141 (7.76%) Test Automation
10 138 (7.60%) DevOps
11 124 (6.83%) OO
12 119 (6.55%) SDLC
13 105 (5.78%) Signal Processing
14 98 (5.40%) Software Testing
15 87 (4.79%) CI/CD
16 80 (4.41%) Open Source
17 79 (4.35%) Code Quality
18 66 (3.63%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 823 (45.32%) C
2 622 (34.25%) Python
3 400 (22.03%) C#
4 358 (19.71%) Java
5 200 (11.01%) SQL
6 168 (9.25%) JavaScript
7 91 (5.01%) MATLAB
8 83 (4.57%) Bash
9 77 (4.24%) Fortran
10 76 (4.19%) Embedded C
11 64 (3.52%) Rust
12 59 (3.25%) Go
13 58 (3.19%) Embedded C++
14 51 (2.81%) VB
15 38 (2.09%) Perl
16 36 (1.98%) PowerShell
17 29 (1.60%) COBOL
17 29 (1.60%) Micro Focus COBOL
18 25 (1.38%) Kotlin
19 24 (1.32%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 560 (30.84%) Degree
2 314 (17.29%) Security Cleared
3 161 (8.87%) Computer Science Degree
4 154 (8.48%) SC Cleared
5 111 (6.11%) Master's Degree
6 104 (5.73%) PhD
7 59 (3.25%) DV Cleared
8 10 (0.55%) HND
9 9 (0.50%) BPSS Clearance
10 7 (0.39%) PMI Certification
11 5 (0.28%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (0.22%) AWS Certification
12 4 (0.22%) DBS Check
12 4 (0.22%) Postgraduate
13 3 (0.17%) ISTQB
13 3 (0.17%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 2 (0.11%) CEH
14 2 (0.11%) HNC
14 2 (0.11%) ISEB
14 2 (0.11%) MCAD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (2.59%) QA
2 22 (1.21%) Software Quality Assurance
3 20 (1.10%) PMO
4 17 (0.94%) GDPR
5 12 (0.66%) MISRA
6 9 (0.50%) ISO 9001
6 9 (0.50%) MISRA C
7 7 (0.39%) AUTOSAR
7 7 (0.39%) ISO 9000
8 5 (0.28%) IEC 61508
8 5 (0.28%) ISO 13485
8 5 (0.28%) JTAG
8 5 (0.28%) TickIT
9 4 (0.22%) Def Stans
9 4 (0.22%) IEC 61131
9 4 (0.22%) NIST
10 3 (0.17%) ISO 26262
11 2 (0.11%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.11%) IEC 62304
12 1 (0.055%) NIST 800
System Software
1 154 (8.48%) Firmware
2 88 (4.85%) Embedded Firmware
3 66 (3.63%) Docker
4 7 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.33%) Ceph
5 6 (0.33%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
6 3 (0.17%) VirtualBox
6 3 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.11%) Active Directory
8 1 (0.055%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.055%) KVM
8 1 (0.055%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.055%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 80 (4.41%) Kubernetes
2 48 (2.64%) Terraform
3 39 (2.15%) Ansible
4 18 (0.99%) Grafana
5 6 (0.33%) Knative
5 6 (0.33%) Puppet
6 5 (0.28%) Prometheus
7 4 (0.22%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.11%) Kibana
8 2 (0.11%) Podman
9 1 (0.055%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (0.055%) Functional Safety
9 1 (0.055%) Istio
9 1 (0.055%) logstash
9 1 (0.055%) Nagios
9 1 (0.055%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 1 (0.055%) Packer
9 1 (0.055%) Salt
9 1 (0.055%) Wonderware InTouch
9 1 (0.055%) ZENworks
Vendors
1 135 (7.43%) Microsoft
2 53 (2.92%) Xilinx
3 42 (2.31%) SAP
4 34 (1.87%) Oracle
5 29 (1.60%) Micro Focus
6 28 (1.54%) Google
7 14 (0.77%) Atlassian
8 12 (0.66%) EMC
8 12 (0.66%) Red Hat
9 10 (0.55%) Cadence
9 10 (0.55%) Synopsys
10 8 (0.44%) Altera
10 8 (0.44%) Apple
10 8 (0.44%) Green Hills
10 8 (0.44%) Motorola
11 7 (0.39%) Cisco
12 6 (0.33%) BT
12 6 (0.33%) HP
12 6 (0.33%) Remedy
12 6 (0.33%) VMware