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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 131 155 87
Rank change year-on-year +24 -68 +7
Permanent jobs citing C++ 1,869 1,987 5,478
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 2.05% 2.36% 3.88%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.59% 5.58% 7.24%
Number of salaries quoted 1,453 1,383 2,042
10th Percentile £37,500 £38,750 £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 £124,750 £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 28,379 35,627 75,662
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 31.19% 42.34% 53.57%
Number of salaries quoted 22,712 23,854 38,653
10th Percentile £35,000 £39,805 £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 1 June 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 1 June 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 +16 597 £57,500 -4.17% 180
London -72 333 £90,000 +6.51% 353
South West +21 308 £56,500 -6.61% 120
North of England +87 239 £57,500 -2.13% 70
Midlands +16 238 £50,000 -9.09% 91
East of England +19 151 £60,000 - 116
West Midlands -13 132 £60,000 +4.35% 40
North West +62 131 £62,500 -6.02% 45
East Midlands +40 106 £45,000 -0.55% 50
Yorkshire +46 83 £47,500 +11.76% 20
North East +9 25 £56,000 +6.67% 5
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 (3.32%) Apache
2 17 (0.91%) Confluence
3 15 (0.80%) Apache Spark
4 12 (0.64%) nginx
5 6 (0.32%) Kinematics
6 5 (0.27%) CMS
7 3 (0.16%) Ethereum
7 3 (0.16%) Hyperledger
8 2 (0.11%) IIS
9 1 (0.054%) IBM Domino
9 1 (0.054%) IBM Notes
9 1 (0.054%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.054%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.054%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.054%) WinCC
Applications
1 82 (4.39%) Simulink
2 12 (0.64%) GNU Octave
2 12 (0.64%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (0.32%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.32%) OrCAD
4 3 (0.16%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.11%) Doxygen
5 2 (0.11%) Fusion 360
5 2 (0.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.054%) CATIA
6 1 (0.054%) Revit
6 1 (0.054%) SOLIDWORKS
6 1 (0.054%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.054%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 4 (0.21%) Teamcenter
1 4 (0.21%) Visualfiles
2 2 (0.11%) C-CURE
3 1 (0.054%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.054%) LabWindows
3 1 (0.054%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.054%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 128 (6.85%) Azure
2 118 (6.31%) AWS
3 35 (1.87%) SaaS
4 27 (1.44%) Azure DevOps
5 20 (1.07%) GCP
6 18 (0.96%) GitHub
7 10 (0.54%) Pulumi
8 9 (0.48%) WhatsApp
9 7 (0.37%) AWS IoT
9 7 (0.37%) Cloud Computing
9 7 (0.37%) OpenShift
9 7 (0.37%) Power Platform
10 6 (0.32%) PowerApps
10 6 (0.32%) Sentry
11 5 (0.27%) PaaS
11 5 (0.27%) Power Automate
12 4 (0.21%) AWS CloudFormation
12 4 (0.21%) TestFlight
13 3 (0.16%) Azure App Service
13 3 (0.16%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 63 (3.37%) TCP/IP
2 32 (1.71%) Wireless
3 27 (1.44%) MQTT
4 22 (1.18%) 4G
5 21 (1.12%) 5G
5 21 (1.12%) Internet
5 21 (1.12%) RS-485
5 21 (1.12%) Wi-Fi
6 19 (1.02%) Network Security
7 18 (0.96%) 3G
7 18 (0.96%) Ethernet
8 17 (0.91%) Firewall
9 16 (0.86%) SD-WAN
9 16 (0.86%) WAN
10 15 (0.80%) DNS
11 13 (0.70%) Bluetooth
11 13 (0.70%) HTTP
11 13 (0.70%) Wireshark
12 10 (0.54%) LoRaWAN
13 9 (0.48%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (3.91%) SQL Server
2 53 (2.84%) PostgreSQL
3 34 (1.82%) NoSQL
4 27 (1.44%) MongoDB
5 20 (1.07%) MySQL
6 11 (0.59%) Big Data
6 11 (0.59%) Redis
7 8 (0.43%) Relational Database
8 7 (0.37%) KDB
8 7 (0.37%) Kdb+
8 7 (0.37%) SQLite
9 6 (0.32%) Apache Cassandra
10 5 (0.27%) Elasticsearch
10 5 (0.27%) Power BI
11 4 (0.21%) Azure SQL Database
11 4 (0.21%) BusinessObjects
11 4 (0.21%) Hadoop
12 3 (0.16%) Data Mining
12 3 (0.16%) RDBMS
13 2 (0.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 162 (8.67%) Git
2 104 (5.56%) Visual Studio
3 70 (3.75%) Subversion
4 68 (3.64%) Jenkins
5 58 (3.10%) JIRA
6 41 (2.19%) GitLab
7 31 (1.66%) CMake
8 26 (1.39%) LabVIEW
9 22 (1.18%) Ant
10 18 (0.96%) Vagrant
11 16 (0.86%) Eclipse
12 15 (0.80%) Bitbucket
13 13 (0.70%) GDB
13 13 (0.70%) Rational Rhapsody
14 12 (0.64%) Team Foundation Server
15 11 (0.59%) GCC
16 10 (0.54%) GNU Toolchain
17 9 (0.48%) Xcode
18 8 (0.43%) Rational DOORS
18 8 (0.43%) TestRail
General
1 314 (16.80%) Social Skills
2 209 (11.18%) Electronics
3 189 (10.11%) Finance
4 172 (9.20%) Analytical Skills
5 101 (5.40%) Manufacturing
6 95 (5.08%) Automotive
7 75 (4.01%) Marketing
8 54 (2.89%) Telecoms
9 44 (2.35%) Aerospace
9 44 (2.35%) Public Sector
10 42 (2.25%) Front Office
11 40 (2.14%) Games
11 40 (2.14%) Military
12 31 (1.66%) Aviation
13 28 (1.50%) Presentation Skills
14 21 (1.12%) Banking
14 21 (1.12%) Organisational Skills
15 18 (0.96%) Law
16 17 (0.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 16 (0.86%) Legal
Job Titles
1 844 (45.16%) Software Engineer
2 478 (25.58%) Developer
3 388 (20.76%) Senior
4 324 (17.34%) C++ Software Engineer
5 302 (16.16%) C++ Developer
6 301 (16.10%) Embedded Engineer
7 245 (13.11%) Senior Software Engineer
8 219 (11.72%) Embedded Software Engineer
9 174 (9.31%) Lead
10 132 (7.06%) Software Developer
11 94 (5.03%) Senior Embedded Engineer
12 90 (4.82%) Embedded C++ Engineer
13 84 (4.49%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
14 76 (4.07%) Embedded C++ Software Engineer
15 67 (3.58%) C++ Software Developer
16 59 (3.16%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
17 58 (3.10%) Junior
18 53 (2.84%) Embedded Developer
19 51 (2.73%) Architect
20 48 (2.57%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 173 (9.26%) .NET
2 95 (5.08%) Qt
3 68 (3.64%) STL
4 65 (3.48%) HTML
5 47 (2.51%) React
5 47 (2.51%) WPF
6 45 (2.41%) .NET Framework
6 45 (2.41%) REST
6 45 (2.41%) Yocto
7 36 (1.93%) MFC
8 34 (1.82%) ASP.NET
8 34 (1.82%) XML
9 33 (1.77%) Apache NiFi
9 33 (1.77%) Middleware
10 28 (1.50%) CSS
10 28 (1.50%) Web Services
11 27 (1.44%) OpenGL
12 24 (1.28%) Entity Framework
12 24 (1.28%) Hibernate
12 24 (1.28%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 210 (11.24%) Algorithms
2 120 (6.42%) Embedded Systems
3 104 (5.56%) FPGA
4 97 (5.19%) IoT
5 85 (4.55%) Self-Motivation
6 60 (3.21%) Robotics
7 57 (3.05%) Distributed Systems
8 54 (2.89%) VHDL
9 41 (2.19%) Hedge funds
10 39 (2.09%) CUDA
11 36 (1.93%) Cloud Native
12 35 (1.87%) GNSS
13 34 (1.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 34 (1.82%) Greenfield Project
14 30 (1.61%) Equities
15 29 (1.55%) Device Driver
16 26 (1.39%) Analogue Electronics
16 26 (1.39%) Data Structures
16 26 (1.39%) Legacy Code
17 25 (1.34%) Verilog
Operating Systems
1 651 (34.83%) Linux
2 295 (15.78%) Windows
3 125 (6.69%) Embedded Linux
4 79 (4.23%) Unix
5 69 (3.69%) Android
6 43 (2.30%) Ubuntu
7 26 (1.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 25 (1.34%) Apple iOS
9 22 (1.18%) CentOS
10 18 (0.96%) AIX
11 13 (0.70%) Windows 10
12 12 (0.64%) FreeRTOS
13 11 (0.59%) Debian
13 11 (0.59%) Windows Server
14 7 (0.37%) Kali Linux
15 5 (0.27%) Mac OS
15 5 (0.27%) Windows Embedded Compact
16 4 (0.21%) VxWorks
17 2 (0.11%) Mac OS X
17 2 (0.11%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,086 (58.11%) Software Engineering
2 388 (20.76%) Problem-Solving
3 370 (19.80%) Computer Science
4 317 (16.96%) Agile
5 241 (12.89%) Mathematics
6 191 (10.22%) Multithreading
7 158 (8.45%) Physics
8 145 (7.76%) Artificial Intelligence
9 144 (7.70%) Machine Learning
10 143 (7.65%) DevOps
10 143 (7.65%) Mentoring
11 138 (7.38%) Test Automation
12 127 (6.80%) SDLC
13 126 (6.74%) OO
14 108 (5.78%) Software Testing
15 107 (5.72%) Signal Processing
16 91 (4.87%) CI/CD
17 84 (4.49%) Open Source
18 78 (4.17%) Code Quality
19 70 (3.75%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 849 (45.43%) C
2 638 (34.14%) Python
3 414 (22.15%) C#
4 365 (19.53%) Java
5 206 (11.02%) SQL
6 173 (9.26%) JavaScript
7 91 (4.87%) MATLAB
8 86 (4.60%) Bash
9 82 (4.39%) Embedded C
10 80 (4.28%) Fortran
11 73 (3.91%) Rust
12 66 (3.53%) Go
13 61 (3.26%) Embedded C++
14 53 (2.84%) VB
15 39 (2.09%) Perl
15 39 (2.09%) PowerShell
16 29 (1.55%) COBOL
16 29 (1.55%) Micro Focus COBOL
17 25 (1.34%) TypeScript
18 24 (1.28%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 566 (30.28%) Degree
2 317 (16.96%) Security Cleared
3 160 (8.56%) Computer Science Degree
4 152 (8.13%) SC Cleared
5 111 (5.94%) Master's Degree
6 106 (5.67%) PhD
7 61 (3.26%) DV Cleared
8 10 (0.54%) HND
9 9 (0.48%) BPSS Clearance
10 7 (0.37%) PMI Certification
11 6 (0.32%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (0.21%) AWS Certification
12 4 (0.21%) DBS Check
12 4 (0.21%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 4 (0.21%) Postgraduate
13 3 (0.16%) HNC
13 3 (0.16%) ISTQB
14 2 (0.11%) CEH
14 2 (0.11%) ISEB
14 2 (0.11%) MCAD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (2.41%) QA
2 20 (1.07%) PMO
2 20 (1.07%) Software Quality Assurance
3 18 (0.96%) GDPR
4 12 (0.64%) MISRA
5 10 (0.54%) ISO 9001
6 9 (0.48%) MISRA C
7 7 (0.37%) AUTOSAR
7 7 (0.37%) ISO 9000
8 6 (0.32%) IEC 61508
9 5 (0.27%) Def Stans
9 5 (0.27%) ISO 13485
9 5 (0.27%) JTAG
9 5 (0.27%) TickIT
10 4 (0.21%) IEC 61131
10 4 (0.21%) NIST
11 2 (0.11%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.11%) IEC 62304
12 1 (0.054%) DO-178B
12 1 (0.054%) ISO/IEC 12207
System Software
1 157 (8.40%) Firmware
2 91 (4.87%) Embedded Firmware
3 67 (3.58%) Docker
4 7 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.32%) Ceph
5 6 (0.32%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (0.16%) Active Directory
6 3 (0.16%) Virtual Servers
6 3 (0.16%) VirtualBox
6 3 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.054%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.054%) KVM
7 1 (0.054%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.054%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 84 (4.49%) Kubernetes
2 49 (2.62%) Terraform
3 41 (2.19%) Ansible
4 17 (0.91%) Grafana
5 8 (0.43%) Puppet
6 6 (0.32%) Knative
7 5 (0.27%) Progress Chef
7 5 (0.27%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.11%) Kibana
8 2 (0.11%) Podman
9 1 (0.054%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (0.054%) Functional Safety
9 1 (0.054%) Istio
9 1 (0.054%) logstash
9 1 (0.054%) Nagios
9 1 (0.054%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 1 (0.054%) Packer
9 1 (0.054%) Salt
9 1 (0.054%) Wonderware InTouch
9 1 (0.054%) ZENworks
Vendors
1 141 (7.54%) Microsoft
2 53 (2.84%) Xilinx
3 42 (2.25%) SAP
4 34 (1.82%) Oracle
5 30 (1.61%) Google
6 29 (1.55%) Micro Focus
7 15 (0.80%) Atlassian
8 13 (0.70%) EMC
9 12 (0.64%) Red Hat
10 10 (0.54%) Cadence
10 10 (0.54%) Synopsys
11 8 (0.43%) Altera
11 8 (0.43%) Apple
11 8 (0.43%) Green Hills
11 8 (0.43%) Motorola
12 7 (0.37%) Cisco
13 6 (0.32%) BT
13 6 (0.32%) HP
13 6 (0.32%) Remedy
13 6 (0.32%) VMware