C++ Jobs in the West Midlands

C++
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 138 141 146
Rank change year-on-year +3 +5 -17
Permanent jobs citing C++ 117 133 142
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.58% 2.11% 1.94%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.20% 5.81% 4.81%
Number of salaries quoted 100 59 49
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,000 £43,800
25th Percentile £43,438 £43,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +2.80% +7.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £84,964 £94,250 £94,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £69,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% -1.43% +21.74%

All Programming Languages
West Midlands

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 the West Midlands with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 1,887 2,291 2,952
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 25.56% 36.43% 40.29%
Number of salaries quoted 1,631 1,180 2,069
10th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,000 £40,399
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,772 £78,750 £82,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +8.70%

C++
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing C++ as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for C++ in the West Midlands

C++
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing C++ in the West Midlands.

Salary trend for C++ in the West Midlands

C++
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing C++ in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

Salary histogram for C++ in the West Midlands

C++
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing C++ within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 15 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
Birmingham -14 33 £47,500 -11.63% 11
Staffordshire -3 22 £35,000 +45.83% 3
Worcestershire -6 20 £50,000 - 4
Coventry +44 14 £65,000 +52.94% 6
Herefordshire +5 6 £61,500 -44.09% 3
Warwickshire -7 6 £100,000 +11.73% 4
Wolverhampton +21 3 - - 1
Shropshire -11 2 £52,500 -12.50% 1
C++
England

C++
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 10 (8.55%) nginx
Applications
1 9 (7.69%) Simulink
2 2 (1.71%) CANalyzer
3 1 (0.85%) CATIA
Cloud Services
1 9 (7.69%) Azure
2 4 (3.42%) AWS
2 4 (3.42%) Azure DevOps
2 4 (3.42%) GitHub
2 4 (3.42%) Power Platform
2 4 (3.42%) PowerApps
3 3 (2.56%) Power Automate
4 2 (1.71%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (0.85%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 10 (8.55%) Firewall
2 3 (2.56%) Ethernet
3 1 (0.85%) Bluetooth
3 1 (0.85%) DHCP
3 1 (0.85%) DNS
3 1 (0.85%) SSH
3 1 (0.85%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.85%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (0.85%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (11.97%) MySQL
2 10 (8.55%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (8.55%) SQL Server
3 4 (3.42%) BusinessObjects
4 3 (2.56%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 11 (9.40%) Git
2 10 (8.55%) GNU Toolchain
2 10 (8.55%) Subversion
3 5 (4.27%) Visual Studio
4 4 (3.42%) Xcode
5 2 (1.71%) CANoe
6 1 (0.85%) CMake
6 1 (0.85%) PVCS
6 1 (0.85%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 22 (18.80%) Social Skills
2 20 (17.09%) Analytical Skills
3 17 (14.53%) Electronics
4 16 (13.68%) Automotive
5 11 (9.40%) Games
6 7 (5.98%) Law
6 7 (5.98%) Manufacturing
7 5 (4.27%) Finance
8 1 (0.85%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.85%) Multimedia
8 1 (0.85%) Police
8 1 (0.85%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 38 (32.48%) Developer
2 37 (31.62%) Embedded Engineer
2 37 (31.62%) Software Engineer
3 21 (17.95%) C++ Developer
3 21 (17.95%) Senior
4 19 (16.24%) Senior Embedded Engineer
5 16 (13.68%) C++ Software Engineer
5 16 (13.68%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 13 (11.11%) Embedded Linux Engineer
6 13 (11.11%) Linux Engineer
6 13 (11.11%) Senior Linux Engineer
7 10 (8.55%) Linux Developer
8 8 (6.84%) Lead
9 7 (5.98%) Software Developer
10 6 (5.13%) Junior
10 6 (5.13%) Junior Developer
11 5 (4.27%) IT Engineer
11 5 (4.27%) Operations Engineer
11 5 (4.27%) SCADA Engineer
11 5 (4.27%) SCADA Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (11.97%) Yocto
2 10 (8.55%) Node.js
2 10 (8.55%) POSIX
3 9 (7.69%) .NET
4 5 (4.27%) ASP.NET
4 5 (4.27%) ASP.NET MVC
4 5 (4.27%) HTML
5 4 (3.42%) XML
5 4 (3.42%) XSLT
6 3 (2.56%) .NET Framework
6 3 (2.56%) Blazor
6 3 (2.56%) Entity Framework
7 2 (1.71%) AngularJS
7 2 (1.71%) CSS
7 2 (1.71%) Twitter Bootstrap
8 1 (0.85%) Ionic Framework
8 1 (0.85%) OpenCV
8 1 (0.85%) TensorFlow
8 1 (0.85%) Web Services
8 1 (0.85%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 16 (13.68%) IoT
2 12 (10.26%) Embedded Systems
3 10 (8.55%) Linux Command Line
4 6 (5.13%) SCADA
4 6 (5.13%) Virtual Team
5 3 (2.56%) Operational Technology
6 2 (1.71%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.71%) ARM Cortex
6 2 (1.71%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.85%) Analogue Electronics
7 1 (0.85%) FPGA
7 1 (0.85%) Infotainment
7 1 (0.85%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.85%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (0.85%) Robotics
7 1 (0.85%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 34 (29.06%) Linux
2 17 (14.53%) Embedded Linux
3 10 (8.55%) Unix
4 6 (5.13%) Windows
5 5 (4.27%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.85%) FreeRTOS
6 1 (0.85%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (49.57%) Software Engineering
2 27 (23.08%) Agile
3 21 (17.95%) Problem-Solving
4 18 (15.38%) Embedded Software Development
5 14 (11.97%) Mathematics
5 14 (11.97%) Open Source
6 11 (9.40%) Mentoring
7 10 (8.55%) Computer Science
7 10 (8.55%) Test Automation
8 9 (7.69%) Customer Service
8 9 (7.69%) Proactive Monitoring
9 8 (6.84%) DevOps
10 6 (5.13%) System Testing
10 6 (5.13%) Validation
11 5 (4.27%) Coaching
11 5 (4.27%) MVC
11 5 (4.27%) OO
11 5 (4.27%) Physics
11 5 (4.27%) Roadmaps
11 5 (4.27%) UML
Programming Languages
1 58 (49.57%) C
2 31 (26.50%) C#
3 19 (16.24%) Java
4 15 (12.82%) Embedded C
5 14 (11.97%) Embedded C++
6 13 (11.11%) Python
7 11 (9.40%) SQL
8 10 (8.55%) Bash
9 9 (7.69%) MATLAB
10 8 (6.84%) VB
11 7 (5.98%) JavaScript
12 6 (5.13%) PowerShell
13 4 (3.42%) COBOL
13 4 (3.42%) Micro Focus COBOL
14 1 (0.85%) Perl
14 1 (0.85%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 28 (23.93%) Degree
2 8 (6.84%) Security Cleared
3 6 (5.13%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.85%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.85%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.98%) AUTOSAR
2 4 (3.42%) MISRA
2 4 (3.42%) MISRA C
3 3 (2.56%) ISO 26262
4 1 (0.85%) Automotive SPICE
System Software
1 15 (12.82%) Firmware
2 13 (11.11%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 2 (1.71%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (6.84%) Microsoft
2 5 (4.27%) Cisco
2 5 (4.27%) Remedy
3 4 (3.42%) Micro Focus
3 4 (3.42%) Oracle
4 1 (0.85%) EMC
4 1 (0.85%) Xamarin
4 1 (0.85%) YouTube