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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 129 154 88
Rank change year-on-year +25 -66 +7
Permanent jobs citing C++ 1,879 1,997 5,483
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 2.06% 2.37% 3.88%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.61% 5.60% 7.23%
Number of salaries quoted 1,463 1,390 2,041
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 £125,000 £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 28,419 35,659 75,821
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 31.14% 42.31% 53.60%
Number of salaries quoted 22,739 23,985 38,638
10th Percentile £35,000 £39,943 £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 2 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 2 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 +19 602 £57,500 -4.17% 191
London -78 335 £90,000 +6.51% 375
South West +26 309 £56,500 -7.38% 124
North of England +85 240 £57,500 -4.17% 74
Midlands +21 238 £50,000 -9.09% 95
East of England +15 152 £60,000 - 133
North West +54 132 £62,500 -7.41% 49
West Midlands -10 132 £60,000 +4.35% 41
East Midlands +40 106 £45,000 -0.55% 53
Yorkshire +44 83 £47,500 +11.76% 20
North East +8 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 (3.30%) Apache
2 17 (0.90%) 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 (0.053%) IBM Domino
9 1 (0.053%) IBM Notes
9 1 (0.053%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.053%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.053%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.053%) WinCC
Applications
1 86 (4.58%) 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 (0.053%) CATIA
6 1 (0.053%) Revit
6 1 (0.053%) SOLIDWORKS
6 1 (0.053%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.053%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 4 (0.21%) Teamcenter
1 4 (0.21%) Visualfiles
2 2 (0.11%) C-CURE
3 1 (0.053%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.053%) LabWindows
3 1 (0.053%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.053%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 130 (6.92%) Azure
2 120 (6.39%) AWS
3 35 (1.86%) SaaS
4 27 (1.44%) Azure DevOps
5 20 (1.06%) GCP
6 18 (0.96%) GitHub
7 10 (0.53%) 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 Functions
13 3 (0.16%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 63 (3.35%) TCP/IP
2 32 (1.70%) Wireless
3 27 (1.44%) MQTT
4 22 (1.17%) 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 (1.01%) Network Security
7 18 (0.96%) 3G
7 18 (0.96%) Ethernet
8 17 (0.90%) Firewall
9 16 (0.85%) SD-WAN
9 16 (0.85%) WAN
10 15 (0.80%) DNS
11 13 (0.69%) Bluetooth
11 13 (0.69%) HTTP
11 13 (0.69%) Wireshark
12 10 (0.53%) LoRaWAN
13 9 (0.48%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (3.89%) SQL Server
2 53 (2.82%) PostgreSQL
3 36 (1.92%) NoSQL
4 27 (1.44%) MongoDB
5 20 (1.06%) 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
1 164 (8.73%) Git
2 104 (5.53%) Visual Studio
3 70 (3.73%) Subversion
4 68 (3.62%) Jenkins
5 58 (3.09%) JIRA
6 41 (2.18%) GitLab
7 31 (1.65%) CMake
8 26 (1.38%) LabVIEW
9 22 (1.17%) Ant
10 20 (1.06%) Vagrant
11 16 (0.85%) Eclipse
12 15 (0.80%) Bitbucket
13 13 (0.69%) GDB
13 13 (0.69%) Rational Rhapsody
14 12 (0.64%) Team Foundation Server
15 11 (0.59%) GCC
16 10 (0.53%) GNU Toolchain
17 9 (0.48%) Xcode
18 8 (0.43%) Rational DOORS
18 8 (0.43%) TestRail
General
1 316 (16.82%) Social Skills
2 209 (11.12%) Electronics
3 189 (10.06%) Finance
4 172 (9.15%) Analytical Skills
5 101 (5.38%) Manufacturing
6 95 (5.06%) Automotive
7 75 (3.99%) Marketing
8 54 (2.87%) Telecoms
9 44 (2.34%) Aerospace
9 44 (2.34%) Public Sector
10 42 (2.24%) Front Office
11 41 (2.18%) Games
12 40 (2.13%) Military
13 31 (1.65%) Aviation
14 28 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
15 21 (1.12%) Banking
15 21 (1.12%) Organisational Skills
16 18 (0.96%) Law
17 17 (0.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 16 (0.85%) Legal
Job Titles
1 849 (45.18%) Software Engineer
2 481 (25.60%) Developer
3 391 (20.81%) Senior
4 325 (17.30%) C++ Software Engineer
5 303 (16.13%) C++ Developer
6 302 (16.07%) Embedded Engineer
7 247 (13.15%) Senior Software Engineer
8 220 (11.71%) Embedded Software Engineer
9 174 (9.26%) Lead
10 134 (7.13%) Software Developer
11 95 (5.06%) Senior Embedded Engineer
12 90 (4.79%) Embedded C++ Engineer
13 84 (4.47%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
14 76 (4.04%) Embedded C++ Software Engineer
15 67 (3.57%) C++ Software Developer
16 60 (3.19%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
17 58 (3.09%) Junior
18 55 (2.93%) Embedded Developer
19 52 (2.77%) Architect
20 49 (2.61%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 173 (9.21%) .NET
2 95 (5.06%) Qt
3 68 (3.62%) STL
4 65 (3.46%) HTML
5 47 (2.50%) React
5 47 (2.50%) WPF
6 45 (2.39%) .NET Framework
6 45 (2.39%) REST
6 45 (2.39%) Yocto
7 36 (1.92%) MFC
8 35 (1.86%) Middleware
9 34 (1.81%) ASP.NET
9 34 (1.81%) XML
10 33 (1.76%) Apache NiFi
11 28 (1.49%) CSS
11 28 (1.49%) Web Services
12 27 (1.44%) OpenGL
13 24 (1.28%) Entity Framework
13 24 (1.28%) Hibernate
13 24 (1.28%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 210 (11.18%) Algorithms
2 120 (6.39%) Embedded Systems
3 104 (5.53%) FPGA
4 97 (5.16%) IoT
5 85 (4.52%) Self-Motivation
6 60 (3.19%) Robotics
7 57 (3.03%) Distributed Systems
8 54 (2.87%) VHDL
9 41 (2.18%) Hedge funds
10 39 (2.08%) CUDA
11 36 (1.92%) Cloud Native
12 35 (1.86%) GNSS
13 34 (1.81%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 34 (1.81%) Greenfield Project
14 30 (1.60%) Equities
15 29 (1.54%) Device Driver
16 26 (1.38%) Analogue Electronics
16 26 (1.38%) Data Structures
16 26 (1.38%) Legacy Code
17 25 (1.33%) Verilog
Operating Systems
1 656 (34.91%) Linux
2 295 (15.70%) Windows
3 128 (6.81%) Embedded Linux
4 79 (4.20%) Unix
5 72 (3.83%) Android
6 45 (2.39%) Ubuntu
7 28 (1.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 25 (1.33%) Apple iOS
9 24 (1.28%) CentOS
10 18 (0.96%) AIX
11 13 (0.69%) 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 1,093 (58.17%) Software Engineering
2 391 (20.81%) Problem-Solving
3 374 (19.90%) Computer Science
4 317 (16.87%) Agile
5 241 (12.83%) Mathematics
6 191 (10.16%) Multithreading
7 158 (8.41%) Physics
8 149 (7.93%) Artificial Intelligence
9 148 (7.88%) Machine Learning
10 145 (7.72%) DevOps
11 143 (7.61%) Mentoring
12 138 (7.34%) Test Automation
13 128 (6.81%) SDLC
14 126 (6.71%) OO
15 111 (5.91%) Signal Processing
16 108 (5.75%) Software Testing
17 91 (4.84%) CI/CD
18 84 (4.47%) Open Source
19 80 (4.26%) Code Quality
20 71 (3.78%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 854 (45.45%) C
2 643 (34.22%) Python
3 416 (22.14%) C#
4 370 (19.69%) Java
5 208 (11.07%) SQL
6 175 (9.31%) JavaScript
7 91 (4.84%) MATLAB
8 87 (4.63%) Bash
9 82 (4.36%) Embedded C
10 80 (4.26%) Fortran
11 73 (3.89%) Rust
12 66 (3.51%) Go
13 61 (3.25%) Embedded C++
14 53 (2.82%) VB
15 40 (2.13%) Perl
16 39 (2.08%) PowerShell
17 29 (1.54%) COBOL
17 29 (1.54%) Micro Focus COBOL
18 26 (1.38%) Kotlin
19 25 (1.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 570 (30.34%) Degree
2 321 (17.08%) Security Cleared
3 164 (8.73%) Computer Science Degree
4 154 (8.20%) SC Cleared
5 111 (5.91%) Master's Degree
6 106 (5.64%) PhD
7 63 (3.35%) DV Cleared
8 10 (0.53%) 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%) CISSP
14 2 (0.11%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (2.39%) QA
2 20 (1.06%) PMO
2 20 (1.06%) Software Quality Assurance
3 18 (0.96%) GDPR
4 12 (0.64%) MISRA
5 10 (0.53%) 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 (0.053%) DO-178B
12 1 (0.053%) ISO/IEC 12207
System Software
1 157 (8.36%) Firmware
2 91 (4.84%) Embedded Firmware
3 67 (3.57%) 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 (0.053%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.053%) KVM
7 1 (0.053%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.053%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 84 (4.47%) Kubernetes
2 51 (2.71%) Terraform
3 43 (2.29%) Ansible
4 17 (0.90%) 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 (0.053%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (0.053%) Functional Safety
9 1 (0.053%) Istio
9 1 (0.053%) logstash
9 1 (0.053%) Nagios
9 1 (0.053%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 1 (0.053%) Packer
9 1 (0.053%) Salt
9 1 (0.053%) Wonderware InTouch
9 1 (0.053%) ZENworks
Vendors
1 141 (7.50%) Microsoft
2 57 (3.03%) Xilinx
3 42 (2.24%) SAP
4 34 (1.81%) Oracle
5 30 (1.60%) Google
6 29 (1.54%) Micro Focus
7 15 (0.80%) Atlassian
8 13 (0.69%) EMC
9 12 (0.64%) Red Hat
10 10 (0.53%) Cadence
10 10 (0.53%) 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