C++ Jobs in the South East

C++
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 71 90 45
Rank change year-on-year +19 -45 +54
Permanent jobs citing C++ 602 467 1,266
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 3.37% 3.39% 6.12%
As % of the Programming Languages category 11.77% 8.49% 12.61%
Number of salaries quoted 490 345 469
10th Percentile £37,450 £33,750 £31,458
25th Percentile £41,563 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +14.29% +5.00%
75th Percentile £69,688 £76,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £67,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year -11.11% - +17.39%

All Programming Languages
South East

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 South East with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 5,114 5,503 10,041
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 28.62% 39.98% 48.55%
Number of salaries quoted 4,072 3,680 6,299
10th Percentile £34,750 £35,000 £32,950
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £58,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.98% +6.36% +10.00%
75th Percentile £68,750 £73,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £85,000
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 South East

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

Job vacancy trend for C++ in the South East

C++
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing C++ in the South East.

Salary trend for C++ in the South East

C++
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing C++ in the South East over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for C++ in the South East

C++
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing C++ within the South East 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
Thames Valley +31 205 £56,500 +13.00% 86
Hampshire +6 174 £60,000 - 34
Surrey +16 151 £60,000 -4.00% 35
Oxfordshire +26 99 £56,500 +32.94% 45
Berkshire +34 78 £50,000 -33.33% 21
Buckinghamshire -31 28 £70,000 +86.37% 21
East Sussex +25 22 £47,500 -32.14% 3
West Sussex +22 22 £60,000 -2.04% 11
Kent -13 17 £37,000 +8.82% 8
Sussex -13 15 £50,000 -33.33%
C++
England

C++
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 18 (2.99%) Apache
2 8 (1.33%) Confluence
3 6 (1.00%) Kinematics
Applications
1 64 (10.63%) Simulink
2 9 (1.50%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (1.00%) OrCAD
4 4 (0.66%) Microsoft Excel
5 3 (0.50%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.33%) Doxygen
7 1 (0.17%) GNU Octave
7 1 (0.17%) Revit
7 1 (0.17%) SOLIDWORKS
7 1 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.17%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 4 (0.66%) Visualfiles
2 1 (0.17%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.17%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 47 (7.81%) Azure
2 36 (5.98%) AWS
3 23 (3.82%) SaaS
4 10 (1.66%) GCP
5 5 (0.83%) GitHub
6 4 (0.66%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (0.66%) TestFlight
7 2 (0.33%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (0.17%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (0.17%) Power Automate
8 1 (0.17%) Power Platform
8 1 (0.17%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 13 (2.16%) TCP/IP
2 10 (1.66%) Ethernet
3 9 (1.50%) Wireless
4 7 (1.16%) Internet
5 6 (1.00%) 4G
5 6 (1.00%) RS-485
6 5 (0.83%) Bluetooth
6 5 (0.83%) LoRaWAN
6 5 (0.83%) Modbus
6 5 (0.83%) RFID
6 5 (0.83%) RS-232
7 4 (0.66%) 3G
7 4 (0.66%) GPRS
7 4 (0.66%) Wireshark
8 3 (0.50%) Network Security
9 2 (0.33%) 5G
9 2 (0.33%) CTI
9 2 (0.33%) MQTT
9 2 (0.33%) Software-Defined Radio
10 1 (0.17%) 5G NR
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (3.99%) SQL Server
2 21 (3.49%) NoSQL
3 5 (0.83%) Big Data
3 5 (0.83%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (0.66%) MongoDB
5 2 (0.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.17%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 91 (15.12%) Git
2 51 (8.47%) Visual Studio
3 45 (7.48%) Subversion
4 25 (4.15%) JIRA
5 23 (3.82%) CMake
6 21 (3.49%) Ant
7 20 (3.32%) GitLab
7 20 (3.32%) Vagrant
8 18 (2.99%) Jenkins
9 10 (1.66%) Team Foundation Server
10 8 (1.33%) TestRail
11 6 (1.00%) Eclipse
12 5 (0.83%) Bitbucket
13 4 (0.66%) Android Studio
13 4 (0.66%) Xcode
14 2 (0.33%) GCC
14 2 (0.33%) GDB
15 1 (0.17%) LabVIEW
15 1 (0.17%) Robot Framework
15 1 (0.17%) TeamCity
General
1 112 (18.60%) Social Skills
2 84 (13.95%) Electronics
3 47 (7.81%) Analytical Skills
4 38 (6.31%) Finance
4 38 (6.31%) Military
5 33 (5.48%) Manufacturing
6 30 (4.98%) Marketing
7 17 (2.82%) Public Sector
7 17 (2.82%) Telecoms
8 13 (2.16%) Aerospace
9 12 (1.99%) Games
10 10 (1.66%) Organisational Skills
11 9 (1.50%) Automotive
12 7 (1.16%) Aviation
13 4 (0.66%) Aeronautics
13 4 (0.66%) Retail
14 2 (0.33%) Advertising
14 2 (0.33%) Police
14 2 (0.33%) Tech for Good
15 1 (0.17%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 298 (49.50%) Software Engineer
2 137 (22.76%) Developer
3 121 (20.10%) Senior
4 105 (17.44%) C++ Software Engineer
5 83 (13.79%) C++ Developer
6 76 (12.62%) Embedded Engineer
7 70 (11.63%) Senior Software Engineer
8 59 (9.80%) Software Developer
9 53 (8.80%) Embedded Software Engineer
10 37 (6.15%) Lead
11 32 (5.32%) Senior Embedded Engineer
12 30 (4.98%) Embedded Developer
13 29 (4.82%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
14 27 (4.49%) Junior
15 23 (3.82%) Electronics Engineer
15 23 (3.82%) Graduate
16 22 (3.65%) Embedded C++ Engineer
17 21 (3.49%) Python Engineer
18 20 (3.32%) Graduate Software Engineer
18 20 (3.32%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (12.29%) .NET
2 59 (9.80%) Qt
3 32 (5.32%) WPF
4 29 (4.82%) STL
5 24 (3.99%) .NET Framework
5 24 (3.99%) Hibernate
5 24 (3.99%) HTML
6 23 (3.82%) React
7 22 (3.65%) XML
8 20 (3.32%) Middleware
9 17 (2.82%) JSON
9 17 (2.82%) MFC
10 15 (2.49%) OpenMP
11 14 (2.33%) AngularJS
11 14 (2.33%) ASP.NET
12 13 (2.16%) HTML5
13 12 (1.99%) Unreal Engine
14 10 (1.66%) Apache NiFi
14 10 (1.66%) QML
14 10 (1.66%) Unity (Game Engine)
Miscellaneous
1 138 (22.92%) Algorithms
2 35 (5.81%) IoT
3 34 (5.65%) Embedded Systems
4 29 (4.82%) Robotics
5 25 (4.15%) FPGA
6 23 (3.82%) CUDA
7 22 (3.65%) Analogue Electronics
8 21 (3.49%) Device Driver
9 19 (3.16%) VHDL
10 18 (2.99%) Satnav
11 17 (2.82%) Analytical Mindset
12 13 (2.16%) Digital Media
13 11 (1.83%) Data Structures
13 11 (1.83%) Distributed Systems
14 10 (1.66%) Greenfield Project
15 9 (1.50%) Management Information System
15 9 (1.50%) Raspberry Pi
16 8 (1.33%) CAN bus
16 8 (1.33%) Mobile App
17 7 (1.16%) Verilog
Operating Systems
1 243 (40.37%) Linux
2 157 (26.08%) Windows
3 39 (6.48%) Embedded Linux
4 34 (5.65%) Ubuntu
4 34 (5.65%) Unix
5 26 (4.32%) Android
6 24 (3.99%) CentOS
7 23 (3.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 11 (1.83%) Windows 10
9 4 (0.66%) AIX
9 4 (0.66%) FreeRTOS
10 3 (0.50%) VxWorks
11 2 (0.33%) Rocky
12 1 (0.17%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 380 (63.12%) Software Engineering
2 191 (31.73%) Computer Science
3 182 (30.23%) Problem-Solving
4 158 (26.25%) Mathematics
5 127 (21.10%) Agile
6 112 (18.60%) Physics
7 101 (16.78%) Artificial Intelligence
8 99 (16.45%) Machine Learning
9 82 (13.62%) Multithreading
10 75 (12.46%) Signal Processing
11 60 (9.97%) Collaborative Working
11 60 (9.97%) DevOps
12 55 (9.14%) Code Quality
13 52 (8.64%) Mentoring
14 50 (8.31%) Software Testing
15 46 (7.64%) Test Automation
16 44 (7.31%) Actionable Insight
16 44 (7.31%) OO
17 43 (7.14%) SDLC
17 43 (7.14%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 294 (48.84%) C
2 243 (40.37%) Python
3 150 (24.92%) C#
4 135 (22.43%) Java
5 80 (13.29%) SQL
6 73 (12.13%) Fortran
6 73 (12.13%) JavaScript
7 31 (5.15%) Bash
8 26 (4.32%) MATLAB
9 21 (3.49%) Kotlin
10 20 (3.32%) Embedded C++
11 19 (3.16%) XAML
12 16 (2.66%) Embedded C
13 15 (2.49%) Haskell
14 12 (1.99%) PowerShell
15 10 (1.66%) TypeScript
16 9 (1.50%) Go
16 9 (1.50%) VB
17 8 (1.33%) C-shell
18 7 (1.16%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 288 (47.84%) Degree
2 201 (33.39%) Security Cleared
3 123 (20.43%) Computer Science Degree
4 105 (17.44%) SC Cleared
5 68 (11.30%) PhD
6 59 (9.80%) Master's Degree
7 28 (4.65%) DV Cleared
8 4 (0.66%) DBS Check
9 3 (0.50%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.33%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.17%) HNC
11 1 (0.17%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (6.15%) QA
2 18 (2.99%) Software Quality Assurance
3 4 (0.66%) IEC 61131
3 4 (0.66%) JTAG
4 3 (0.50%) GDPR
4 3 (0.50%) ISO 13485
5 1 (0.17%) NIST
System Software
1 50 (8.31%) Firmware
2 22 (3.65%) Embedded Firmware
3 20 (3.32%) Docker
4 4 (0.66%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.50%) VirtualBox
6 1 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 30 (4.98%) Terraform
2 27 (4.49%) Ansible
3 5 (0.83%) Kubernetes
4 2 (0.33%) Grafana
4 2 (0.33%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.17%) Puppet
Vendors
1 82 (13.62%) Microsoft
2 46 (7.64%) Xilinx
3 18 (2.99%) SAP
4 10 (1.66%) EMC
5 7 (1.16%) Oracle
6 6 (1.00%) Google
7 4 (0.66%) Apple
7 4 (0.66%) VMware
8 3 (0.50%) Atlassian
9 2 (0.33%) Autodesk
9 2 (0.33%) Red Hat
9 2 (0.33%) Renesas
9 2 (0.33%) Splunk
10 1 (0.17%) Atmel
10 1 (0.17%) Blue Prism
10 1 (0.17%) CA
10 1 (0.17%) Freescale
10 1 (0.17%) NCR
10 1 (0.17%) TSYS