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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 139 139 155
Rank change year-on-year 0 +16 -28
Permanent jobs citing C++ 118 135 142
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.58% 2.16% 1.91%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.22% 5.94% 4.79%
Number of salaries quoted 101 60 45
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,250 £43,400
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £56,250 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% +5.14% +7.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £84,964 £94,250 £90,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £67,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year -11.11% - +17.39%

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 1,896 2,272 2,965
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 25.32% 36.42% 39.94%
Number of salaries quoted 1,632 1,178 2,064
10th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,906 £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 20 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 20 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 -8 34 £46,250 -15.91% 9
Staffordshire -3 22 £35,000 +45.83% 7
Worcestershire -1 20 £50,000 - 8
Coventry +40 14 £65,000 +52.94% 5
Herefordshire +7 6 £61,500 -44.09% 3
Warwickshire -10 6 £100,000 +11.73% 4
Wolverhampton +19 3 - - 1
Shropshire -14 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 (8.47%) nginx
Applications
1 9 (7.63%) Simulink
2 2 (1.69%) CANalyzer
3 1 (0.85%) CATIA
Cloud Services
1 9 (7.63%) Azure
2 4 (3.39%) AWS
2 4 (3.39%) Azure DevOps
2 4 (3.39%) GitHub
2 4 (3.39%) Power Platform
2 4 (3.39%) PowerApps
3 3 (2.54%) Power Automate
4 2 (1.69%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (0.85%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 10 (8.47%) Firewall
2 3 (2.54%) 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 (11.86%) MySQL
2 11 (9.32%) SQL Server
3 10 (8.47%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (3.39%) BusinessObjects
5 3 (2.54%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 11 (9.32%) Git
2 10 (8.47%) GNU Toolchain
2 10 (8.47%) Subversion
3 5 (4.24%) Visual Studio
4 4 (3.39%) Xcode
5 2 (1.69%) CANoe
6 1 (0.85%) CMake
6 1 (0.85%) PVCS
6 1 (0.85%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 23 (19.49%) Social Skills
2 20 (16.95%) Analytical Skills
3 17 (14.41%) Electronics
4 16 (13.56%) Automotive
5 11 (9.32%) Games
6 7 (5.93%) Law
6 7 (5.93%) Manufacturing
7 6 (5.08%) 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 39 (33.05%) Developer
2 37 (31.36%) Embedded Engineer
2 37 (31.36%) Software Engineer
3 21 (17.80%) C++ Developer
3 21 (17.80%) Senior
4 19 (16.10%) Senior Embedded Engineer
5 16 (13.56%) C++ Software Engineer
5 16 (13.56%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 13 (11.02%) Embedded Linux Engineer
6 13 (11.02%) Linux Engineer
6 13 (11.02%) Senior Linux Engineer
7 10 (8.47%) Linux Developer
8 8 (6.78%) Lead
8 8 (6.78%) Software Developer
9 7 (5.93%) Junior
9 7 (5.93%) Junior Developer
10 5 (4.24%) IT Engineer
10 5 (4.24%) Operations Engineer
10 5 (4.24%) SCADA Engineer
10 5 (4.24%) SCADA Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (11.86%) Yocto
2 10 (8.47%) Node.js
2 10 (8.47%) POSIX
3 9 (7.63%) .NET
4 5 (4.24%) ASP.NET
4 5 (4.24%) ASP.NET MVC
4 5 (4.24%) HTML
5 4 (3.39%) XML
5 4 (3.39%) XSLT
6 3 (2.54%) .NET Framework
6 3 (2.54%) Blazor
6 3 (2.54%) Entity Framework
7 2 (1.69%) AngularJS
7 2 (1.69%) CSS
7 2 (1.69%) 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 (13.56%) IoT
2 12 (10.17%) Embedded Systems
3 10 (8.47%) Linux Command Line
4 6 (5.08%) SCADA
4 6 (5.08%) Virtual Team
5 3 (2.54%) Operational Technology
6 2 (1.69%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.69%) ARM Cortex
6 2 (1.69%) 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 (28.81%) Linux
2 17 (14.41%) Embedded Linux
3 10 (8.47%) Unix
4 6 (5.08%) Windows
5 5 (4.24%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.85%) FreeRTOS
6 1 (0.85%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (49.15%) Software Engineering
2 28 (23.73%) Agile
3 21 (17.80%) Problem-Solving
4 18 (15.25%) Embedded Software Development
5 14 (11.86%) Mathematics
5 14 (11.86%) Open Source
6 11 (9.32%) Computer Science
6 11 (9.32%) Mentoring
7 10 (8.47%) Customer Service
7 10 (8.47%) Test Automation
8 9 (7.63%) Proactive Monitoring
9 8 (6.78%) DevOps
10 6 (5.08%) System Testing
10 6 (5.08%) Validation
11 5 (4.24%) Coaching
11 5 (4.24%) MVC
11 5 (4.24%) OO
11 5 (4.24%) Physics
11 5 (4.24%) Scrum
11 5 (4.24%) UML
Programming Languages
1 58 (49.15%) C
2 32 (27.12%) C#
3 20 (16.95%) Java
4 15 (12.71%) Embedded C
5 14 (11.86%) Embedded C++
6 13 (11.02%) Python
7 12 (10.17%) SQL
8 10 (8.47%) Bash
9 9 (7.63%) MATLAB
10 8 (6.78%) VB
11 7 (5.93%) JavaScript
12 6 (5.08%) PowerShell
13 4 (3.39%) COBOL
13 4 (3.39%) Micro Focus COBOL
14 1 (0.85%) Perl
14 1 (0.85%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 29 (24.58%) Degree
2 8 (6.78%) Security Cleared
3 6 (5.08%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.85%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.85%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.93%) AUTOSAR
2 4 (3.39%) MISRA
2 4 (3.39%) MISRA C
3 3 (2.54%) ISO 26262
4 1 (0.85%) Automotive SPICE
System Software
1 15 (12.71%) Firmware
2 13 (11.02%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 2 (1.69%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 9 (7.63%) Microsoft
2 5 (4.24%) Cisco
2 5 (4.24%) Remedy
3 4 (3.39%) Micro Focus
3 4 (3.39%) Oracle
4 1 (0.85%) EMC
4 1 (0.85%) Xamarin
4 1 (0.85%) YouTube