C++ Jobs in Kent

C++
South East > Kent

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Kent 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 92 79 46
Rank change year-on-year -13 -33 +10
Permanent jobs citing C++ 16 20 83
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Kent 1.04% 1.86% 5.94%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.12% 7.02% 12.91%
Number of salaries quoted 14 16 28
10th Percentile £29,700 - -
25th Percentile £35,500 £26,000 £25,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,000 £34,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.82% -20.00% -5.56%
75th Percentile £42,906 £58,750 £44,688
90th Percentile £44,375 £66,875 £60,750
South East median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.17% +14.29% +5.00%

All Programming Languages
Kent

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 Kent with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 388 285 643
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Kent 25.11% 26.51% 45.99%
Number of salaries quoted 319 147 270
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £26,750
25th Percentile £39,250 £42,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +23.53% +4.94%
75th Percentile £65,000 £60,000 £53,938
90th Percentile £71,500 £67,020 £76,250
South East median annual salary £55,000 £59,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -6.78% +7.27% +10.00%

C++
Job Vacancy Trend in Kent

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

Job vacancy trend for C++ in Kent

C++
Salary Trend in Kent

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

Salary trend for C++ in Kent

C++
Salary Histogram in Kent

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

Salary histogram for C++ in Kent

C++
Job Locations in Kent

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing C++ within the Kent 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
Rochester +9 7 £37,000 +23.33% 3
Sevenoaks - 4 £41,250 - 2
Tunbridge Wells -14 1 £29,000 -14.71%
Whitstable - 1 £27,500 -
C++
South East

C++
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Kent 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 1 (6.25%) OrCAD
1 1 (6.25%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (25.00%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 4 (25.00%) Azure
1 4 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (25.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Git
General
1 7 (43.75%) Electronics
2 5 (31.25%) Aerospace
2 5 (31.25%) Finance
3 4 (25.00%) Manufacturing
3 4 (25.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Avionics
4 1 (6.25%) Marketing
4 1 (6.25%) Military
4 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
4 1 (6.25%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (50.00%) Developer
2 7 (43.75%) Software Engineer
3 5 (31.25%) C++ Developer
3 5 (31.25%) Graduate
4 4 (25.00%) Embedded Engineer
4 4 (25.00%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 4 (25.00%) Graduate Software Engineer
5 3 (18.75%) Graduate Embedded Software Engineer
5 3 (18.75%) IT Technician
5 3 (18.75%) Senior
5 3 (18.75%) Senior Developer
5 3 (18.75%) Senior IT Technician
5 3 (18.75%) Senior Technician
6 2 (12.50%) Junior
7 1 (6.25%) Electronics Engineer
7 1 (6.25%) Graduate Electronics Engineer
7 1 (6.25%) Junior C++ Developer
7 1 (6.25%) Junior Developer
7 1 (6.25%) Junior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (31.25%) .NET
1 5 (31.25%) LINQ
2 4 (25.00%) .NET Core
2 4 (25.00%) .NET Framework
2 4 (25.00%) Blazor
2 4 (25.00%) Entity Framework
2 4 (25.00%) WPF
3 1 (6.25%) ASP.NET
3 1 (6.25%) MFC
3 1 (6.25%) Qt
3 1 (6.25%) React
3 1 (6.25%) STL
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.25%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (43.75%) Software Engineering
2 6 (37.50%) Mathematics
2 6 (37.50%) Physics
2 6 (37.50%) Software Architecture
2 6 (37.50%) Validation
2 6 (37.50%) Verification and Validation
3 4 (25.00%) Agile
3 4 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 4 (25.00%) Coaching
3 4 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 4 (25.00%) DevOps
3 4 (25.00%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
3 4 (25.00%) Microservices
3 4 (25.00%) Migration
3 4 (25.00%) Scrum
3 4 (25.00%) Sprint Planning
3 4 (25.00%) Sprint Retrospective
3 4 (25.00%) Workflow
4 3 (18.75%) Data Analysis
4 3 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 11 (68.75%) C#
2 7 (43.75%) C
3 5 (31.25%) Ada
3 5 (31.25%) Python
4 3 (18.75%) Java
5 1 (6.25%) JavaScript
5 1 (6.25%) MATLAB
5 1 (6.25%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 8 (50.00%) Degree
2 4 (25.00%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (18.75%) QA
System Software
1 1 (6.25%) Embedded Firmware
1 1 (6.25%) Firmware
Vendors
1 3 (18.75%) Oracle
2 1 (6.25%) SAP