C++ Job Trends in Lancashire

C++
North West > Lancashire

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

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 45 76 48
Rank change year-on-year +31 -28 +31
Permanent jobs citing C++ 24 10 7
As % of all permanent jobs in Lancashire 3.30% 0.91% 1.69%
As % of the Programming Languages category 9.09% 4.59% 6.09%
Number of salaries quoted 0 9 6
10th Percentile - £35,800 £55,000
25th Percentile - £47,750 £58,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £50,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - -27.86% +33.33%
75th Percentile - £53,250 £83,750
90th Percentile - £61,250 £87,500
North West median annual salary £50,000 £60,000 £59,500
% change year-on-year -16.67% +0.84% -0.83%

All Programming Languages
Lancashire

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 Lancashire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 264 218 115
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Lancashire 36.26% 19.87% 27.85%
Number of salaries quoted 56 139 90
10th Percentile £24,438 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £30,313 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.89% +1.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £54,845 £60,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £61,875 £70,000 £67,500
North West median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,043
% change year-on-year +4.55% -0.08% +0.08%

C++
Job Vacancy Trend in Lancashire

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

C++ job vacancy trend in Lancashire

C++
Salary Trend in Lancashire

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Lancashire citing C++

C++
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Lancashire 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:

Cloud Services
1 24 (100.00%) AWS
1 24 (100.00%) Azure
1 24 (100.00%) GCP
General
1 24 (100.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 24 (100.00%) Senior
1 24 (100.00%) Senior Software Engineer
1 24 (100.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (100.00%) .NET
1 24 (100.00%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 24 (100.00%) Cyberattack
1 24 (100.00%) Linux Command Line
1 24 (100.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 24 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (100.00%) Agile
1 24 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 24 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 24 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 24 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 24 (100.00%) Microservices
1 24 (100.00%) Scrum
1 24 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 24 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 24 (100.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 24 (100.00%) Go
1 24 (100.00%) Java
1 24 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 24 (100.00%) Python
1 24 (100.00%) Rust
Qualifications
1 24 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 24 (100.00%) AWS Certified Developer
1 24 (100.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 24 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 24 (100.00%) Security Cleared