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 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 140 158 86
Rank change year-on-year +18 -72 +7
Permanent jobs citing C++ 1,776 2,069 5,319
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 2.05% 2.34% 3.88%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.42% 5.39% 7.27%
Number of salaries quoted 1,403 1,450 2,078
10th Percentile £38,750 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £46,930 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% - +17.39%
75th Percentile £75,000 £90,000 £95,375
90th Percentile £95,000 £122,500 £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 27,671 38,352 73,136
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 32.00% 43.35% 53.39%
Number of salaries quoted 22,367 24,763 39,036
10th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £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 20 May 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 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
South East +20 568 £57,500 -4.17% 328
London -70 334 £92,500 +14.91% 502
South West +22 298 £55,000 -9.84% 139
North of England +50 219 £57,500 - 77
Midlands -2 207 £50,000 -4.76% 97
East of England +18 147 £60,000 - 177
North West +39 121 £62,500 +3.31% 48
West Midlands 0 118 £57,500 +2.22% 40
East Midlands +18 89 £47,500 +5.56% 56
Yorkshire +40 74 £47,500 +11.76% 23
North East +16 24 £55,000 +10.55% 6
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 61 (3.43%) Apache
2 17 (0.96%) Confluence
3 16 (0.90%) Apache Spark
4 12 (0.68%) nginx
5 6 (0.34%) Kinematics
6 4 (0.23%) CMS
7 3 (0.17%) Ethereum
7 3 (0.17%) Hyperledger
8 2 (0.11%) IIS
8 2 (0.11%) WinCC
9 1 (0.056%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.056%) IBM Notes
9 1 (0.056%) WebLogic
Applications
1 80 (4.50%) Simulink
2 12 (0.68%) GNU Octave
3 11 (0.62%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (0.34%) OrCAD
5 4 (0.23%) Microsoft Excel
6 2 (0.11%) CANalyzer
6 2 (0.11%) Doxygen
6 2 (0.11%) Fusion 360
6 2 (0.11%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.056%) CATIA
7 1 (0.056%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.056%) SOLIDWORKS
7 1 (0.056%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.056%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 4 (0.23%) Teamcenter
1 4 (0.23%) Visualfiles
2 1 (0.056%) C-CURE
2 1 (0.056%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.056%) LabWindows
2 1 (0.056%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.056%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 129 (7.26%) Azure
2 127 (7.15%) AWS
3 37 (2.08%) SaaS
4 25 (1.41%) Azure DevOps
5 18 (1.01%) GCP
6 17 (0.96%) GitHub
7 13 (0.73%) OpenShift
8 12 (0.68%) Pulumi
9 9 (0.51%) Sentry
9 9 (0.51%) WhatsApp
10 8 (0.45%) AWS IoT
11 7 (0.39%) Cloud Computing
12 6 (0.34%) Power Platform
13 5 (0.28%) PaaS
13 5 (0.28%) PowerApps
13 5 (0.28%) Serverless
14 4 (0.23%) AWS CloudFormation
14 4 (0.23%) Power Automate
14 4 (0.23%) TestFlight
15 3 (0.17%) Azure App Service
Communications & Networking
1 63 (3.55%) TCP/IP
2 34 (1.91%) Wireless
3 27 (1.52%) MQTT
4 23 (1.30%) Internet
5 21 (1.18%) 4G
5 21 (1.18%) 5G
6 20 (1.13%) Wi-Fi
7 19 (1.07%) Ethernet
8 18 (1.01%) RS-485
9 17 (0.96%) 3G
10 16 (0.90%) DNS
10 16 (0.90%) Network Security
10 16 (0.90%) SD-WAN
10 16 (0.90%) WAN
11 14 (0.79%) Bluetooth
11 14 (0.79%) Firewall
12 13 (0.73%) HTTP
13 11 (0.62%) LoRaWAN
13 11 (0.62%) Wireshark
14 9 (0.51%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (3.89%) SQL Server
2 55 (3.10%) PostgreSQL
3 33 (1.86%) MongoDB
4 31 (1.75%) NoSQL
5 22 (1.24%) MySQL
6 13 (0.73%) Redis
7 12 (0.68%) Big Data
8 11 (0.62%) Elasticsearch
9 8 (0.45%) Relational Database
10 7 (0.39%) KDB
10 7 (0.39%) Kdb+
10 7 (0.39%) SQLite
11 6 (0.34%) Apache Cassandra
12 5 (0.28%) Hadoop
13 4 (0.23%) BusinessObjects
13 4 (0.23%) Power BI
14 3 (0.17%) Azure SQL Database
14 3 (0.17%) Data Mining
14 3 (0.17%) RDBMS
15 2 (0.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 155 (8.73%) Git
2 97 (5.46%) Visual Studio
3 72 (4.05%) Jenkins
3 72 (4.05%) Subversion
4 58 (3.27%) JIRA
5 36 (2.03%) GitLab
6 31 (1.75%) CMake
7 27 (1.52%) LabVIEW
8 25 (1.41%) Ant
9 16 (0.90%) Eclipse
9 16 (0.90%) Vagrant
10 15 (0.84%) Bitbucket
10 15 (0.84%) Rational Rhapsody
11 14 (0.79%) GDB
12 13 (0.73%) Selenium
13 12 (0.68%) GCC
14 11 (0.62%) Cucumber
14 11 (0.62%) Team Foundation Server
15 10 (0.56%) Cypress.io
15 10 (0.56%) GNU Toolchain
General
1 313 (17.62%) Social Skills
2 204 (11.49%) Electronics
3 189 (10.64%) Finance
4 176 (9.91%) Analytical Skills
5 97 (5.46%) Automotive
6 95 (5.35%) Manufacturing
7 76 (4.28%) Marketing
8 56 (3.15%) Telecoms
9 46 (2.59%) Public Sector
10 43 (2.42%) Aerospace
10 43 (2.42%) Front Office
11 40 (2.25%) Games
12 38 (2.14%) Military
13 32 (1.80%) Aviation
14 28 (1.58%) Presentation Skills
15 21 (1.18%) Banking
16 20 (1.13%) Organisational Skills
17 18 (1.01%) Law
18 16 (0.90%) Influencing Skills
19 15 (0.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 780 (43.92%) Software Engineer
2 469 (26.41%) Developer
3 367 (20.66%) Senior
4 300 (16.89%) C++ Software Engineer
5 294 (16.55%) C++ Developer
6 277 (15.60%) Embedded Engineer
7 232 (13.06%) Senior Software Engineer
8 199 (11.20%) Embedded Software Engineer
9 177 (9.97%) Lead
10 129 (7.26%) Software Developer
11 88 (4.95%) Senior Embedded Engineer
12 86 (4.84%) Embedded C++ Engineer
13 80 (4.50%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
14 72 (4.05%) Embedded C++ Software Engineer
15 64 (3.60%) C++ Software Developer
16 53 (2.98%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
17 51 (2.87%) Junior
18 49 (2.76%) Embedded Developer
19 47 (2.65%) Architect
20 46 (2.59%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 165 (9.29%) .NET
2 89 (5.01%) Qt
3 67 (3.77%) STL
4 63 (3.55%) HTML
5 47 (2.65%) React
6 45 (2.53%) Yocto
7 44 (2.48%) .NET Framework
7 44 (2.48%) REST
7 44 (2.48%) WPF
8 35 (1.97%) MFC
8 35 (1.97%) XML
9 34 (1.91%) ASP.NET
10 33 (1.86%) Apache NiFi
11 31 (1.75%) Middleware
12 29 (1.63%) Hibernate
13 28 (1.58%) Web Services
14 26 (1.46%) CSS
14 26 (1.46%) OpenGL
15 24 (1.35%) Entity Framework
15 24 (1.35%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 201 (11.32%) Algorithms
2 120 (6.76%) Embedded Systems
3 107 (6.02%) FPGA
4 99 (5.57%) IoT
5 80 (4.50%) Self-Motivation
6 56 (3.15%) Robotics
7 54 (3.04%) Distributed Systems
8 52 (2.93%) VHDL
9 42 (2.36%) Hedge funds
10 38 (2.14%) CUDA
11 36 (2.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 34 (1.91%) GNSS
12 34 (1.91%) Greenfield Project
13 30 (1.69%) Cloud Native
13 30 (1.69%) Device Driver
13 30 (1.69%) Equities
14 27 (1.52%) Data Structures
15 26 (1.46%) Analogue Electronics
16 25 (1.41%) Verilog
17 24 (1.35%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 623 (35.08%) Linux
2 291 (16.39%) Windows
3 108 (6.08%) Embedded Linux
4 71 (4.00%) Unix
5 62 (3.49%) Android
6 39 (2.20%) Ubuntu
7 25 (1.41%) Apple iOS
8 24 (1.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 20 (1.13%) CentOS
10 18 (1.01%) AIX
11 12 (0.68%) Windows 10
12 11 (0.62%) Debian
12 11 (0.62%) Windows Server
13 9 (0.51%) FreeRTOS
14 5 (0.28%) Kali Linux
14 5 (0.28%) Mac OS
14 5 (0.28%) Windows Embedded Compact
15 3 (0.17%) VxWorks
16 2 (0.11%) Mac OS X
16 2 (0.11%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,024 (57.66%) Software Engineering
2 394 (22.18%) Problem-Solving
3 356 (20.05%) Computer Science
4 315 (17.74%) Agile
5 233 (13.12%) Mathematics
6 193 (10.87%) Multithreading
7 146 (8.22%) Mentoring
8 145 (8.16%) Physics
9 142 (8.00%) Test Automation
10 138 (7.77%) DevOps
11 135 (7.60%) Artificial Intelligence
12 133 (7.49%) Machine Learning
13 128 (7.21%) OO
14 112 (6.31%) SDLC
15 101 (5.69%) Signal Processing
16 90 (5.07%) Software Testing
17 83 (4.67%) CI/CD
18 80 (4.50%) Code Quality
19 76 (4.28%) Open Source
20 70 (3.94%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 806 (45.38%) C
2 628 (35.36%) Python
3 395 (22.24%) C#
4 362 (20.38%) Java
5 204 (11.49%) SQL
6 167 (9.40%) JavaScript
7 92 (5.18%) MATLAB
8 77 (4.34%) Bash
9 73 (4.11%) Embedded C
10 68 (3.83%) Fortran
11 65 (3.66%) Rust
12 60 (3.38%) Go
13 55 (3.10%) Embedded C++
14 51 (2.87%) VB
15 37 (2.08%) Perl
16 33 (1.86%) PowerShell
17 29 (1.63%) COBOL
17 29 (1.63%) Micro Focus COBOL
18 25 (1.41%) Ada
18 25 (1.41%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 546 (30.74%) Degree
2 308 (17.34%) Security Cleared
3 159 (8.95%) Computer Science Degree
4 158 (8.90%) SC Cleared
5 107 (6.02%) Master's Degree
6 98 (5.52%) PhD
7 58 (3.27%) DV Cleared
8 11 (0.62%) HND
9 9 (0.51%) BPSS Clearance
10 7 (0.39%) PMI Certification
11 5 (0.28%) Microsoft Certification
11 5 (0.28%) Postgraduate
12 4 (0.23%) AWS Certification
12 4 (0.23%) DBS Check
13 3 (0.17%) HNC
13 3 (0.17%) ISTQB
13 3 (0.17%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 2 (0.11%) ISEB
14 2 (0.11%) MCAD
15 1 (0.056%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (2.87%) QA
2 23 (1.30%) Software Quality Assurance
3 20 (1.13%) PMO
4 17 (0.96%) GDPR
5 13 (0.73%) MISRA
6 10 (0.56%) ISO 9001
7 9 (0.51%) MISRA C
8 7 (0.39%) AUTOSAR
8 7 (0.39%) ISO 9000
9 5 (0.28%) IEC 61508
9 5 (0.28%) ISO 13485
9 5 (0.28%) JTAG
9 5 (0.28%) TickIT
10 4 (0.23%) Def Stans
10 4 (0.23%) IEC 61131
11 3 (0.17%) ISO 26262
11 3 (0.17%) NIST
12 2 (0.11%) HIPAA
12 2 (0.11%) IEC 62304
13 1 (0.056%) DO-178B
System Software
1 158 (8.90%) Firmware
2 91 (5.12%) Embedded Firmware
3 74 (4.17%) Docker
4 6 (0.34%) Ceph
4 6 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.28%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
7 2 (0.11%) VirtualBox
7 2 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.056%) Active Directory
8 1 (0.056%) OpenSIPS
8 1 (0.056%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.056%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 86 (4.84%) Kubernetes
2 49 (2.76%) Terraform
3 38 (2.14%) Ansible
4 20 (1.13%) Grafana
5 6 (0.34%) Knative
5 6 (0.34%) Puppet
6 5 (0.28%) Prometheus
7 4 (0.23%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.11%) Functional Safety
8 2 (0.11%) Kibana
8 2 (0.11%) Podman
8 2 (0.11%) Wonderware InTouch
9 1 (0.056%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (0.056%) Istio
9 1 (0.056%) logstash
9 1 (0.056%) Nagios
9 1 (0.056%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 1 (0.056%) Packer
9 1 (0.056%) Salt
Vendors
1 129 (7.26%) Microsoft
2 49 (2.76%) Xilinx
3 43 (2.42%) SAP
4 34 (1.91%) Oracle
5 30 (1.69%) Google
6 29 (1.63%) Micro Focus
7 14 (0.79%) Atlassian
8 12 (0.68%) EMC
8 12 (0.68%) Red Hat
9 10 (0.56%) Cadence
9 10 (0.56%) Synopsys
10 8 (0.45%) Altera
10 8 (0.45%) Apple
10 8 (0.45%) Green Hills
10 8 (0.45%) Motorola
11 7 (0.39%) Cisco
12 6 (0.34%) BT
12 6 (0.34%) HP
12 6 (0.34%) NVIDIA
12 6 (0.34%) Remedy