C++ Jobs in the South West

C++
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West requiring C++ skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited C++ over the 6 months leading up to 11 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 114 74 98
Rank change year-on-year -40 +24 -47
Permanent jobs citing C++ 61 325 198
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 1.71% 3.11% 3.06%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.82% 10.40% 8.24%
Number of salaries quoted 29 221 130
10th Percentile £32,500 £42,500 £42,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £47,500 £49,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £61,750
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -6.88% +7.39%
75th Percentile £71,250 £65,000 £78,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £86,275
England median annual salary £66,222 £60,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +10.37% -11.11% -

All Programming Languages
South West

C++ falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills in the South West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 1,049 3,126 2,403
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 29.36% 29.91% 37.15%
Number of salaries quoted 724 2,411 1,603
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £44,750 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,600 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.36% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £66,193 £70,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £61,182 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +1.97% -7.69% +4.00%

C++
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for C++ in the South West

C++
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary trend for C++ in the South West

C++
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing C++ in the South West over the 6 months to 11 June 2025.

Salary histogram for C++ in the South West

C++
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing C++ within the South West region over the 6 months to 11 June 2025. 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
Bristol -13 16 £70,000 +27.27% 57
Gloucestershire +8 15 £60,000 - 30
Devon -7 10 - - 3
Dorset -13 9 £48,750 -18.75% 9
Somerset 0 6 £63,750 +27.50% 14
Wiltshire +33 3 £65,000 +48.57% 16
C++
England

C++
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 3 (4.92%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (1.64%) 3ds Max
1 1 (1.64%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 1 (1.64%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 8 (13.11%) AWS
2 5 (8.20%) Azure
3 1 (1.64%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (1.64%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 9 (14.75%) 5G
1 9 (14.75%) SD-WAN
1 9 (14.75%) WAN
2 4 (6.56%) Internet
2 4 (6.56%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (3.28%) DNS
3 2 (3.28%) Ethernet
3 2 (3.28%) Software-Defined Radio
3 2 (3.28%) TCP/IP
3 2 (3.28%) VPN
4 1 (1.64%) GSM
4 1 (1.64%) HTTP
4 1 (1.64%) J1939
4 1 (1.64%) Wideband
4 1 (1.64%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (8.20%) NoSQL
2 2 (3.28%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (3.28%) SQLite
3 1 (1.64%) Big Data
3 1 (1.64%) CockroachDB
3 1 (1.64%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.64%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.64%) Redis
3 1 (1.64%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (8.20%) Git
2 4 (6.56%) GitLab
2 4 (6.56%) Visual Studio
3 2 (3.28%) GDB
3 2 (3.28%) JUnit
3 2 (3.28%) Subversion
4 1 (1.64%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.64%) CMake
4 1 (1.64%) GCC
4 1 (1.64%) gcov
4 1 (1.64%) Mockito
4 1 (1.64%) Rational Rhapsody
4 1 (1.64%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (1.64%) WiX
General
1 23 (37.70%) Social Skills
2 15 (24.59%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (22.95%) Electronics
4 8 (13.11%) Finance
5 7 (11.48%) Presentation Skills
6 6 (9.84%) Marketing
6 6 (9.84%) Military
7 5 (8.20%) Manufacturing
7 5 (8.20%) Retail
8 4 (6.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (4.92%) Aerospace
9 3 (4.92%) Automotive
10 2 (3.28%) Public Sector
10 2 (3.28%) Telecoms
11 1 (1.64%) Banking
11 1 (1.64%) Law
11 1 (1.64%) Legal
11 1 (1.64%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 24 (39.34%) Software Engineer
2 16 (26.23%) Developer
3 15 (24.59%) Senior
4 13 (21.31%) Software Developer
5 12 (19.67%) Senior Software Engineer
6 10 (16.39%) Lead
7 9 (14.75%) C++ Software Engineer
8 7 (11.48%) Embedded Engineer
8 7 (11.48%) Embedded Software Engineer
9 5 (8.20%) Professional Services Engineer
9 5 (8.20%) Software Team Leader
9 5 (8.20%) Team Leader
10 4 (6.56%) C/C++ Embedded Software Engineer
10 4 (6.56%) C/C++ Software Engineer
10 4 (6.56%) Embedded C Software Engineer
10 4 (6.56%) Embedded C/C++ Engineer
10 4 (6.56%) Embedded C/C++ Software Engineer
10 4 (6.56%) Embedded C++ Engineer
10 4 (6.56%) Embedded C++ Software Engineer
10 4 (6.56%) Real Time Embedded Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (9.84%) .NET
2 5 (8.20%) HTML
2 5 (8.20%) React
3 4 (6.56%) .NET Core
3 4 (6.56%) .NET Framework
3 4 (6.56%) ASP.NET
3 4 (6.56%) Entity Framework
3 4 (6.56%) REST
4 3 (4.92%) OpenCL
5 2 (3.28%) Pandas
5 2 (3.28%) XML
6 1 (1.64%) AngularJS
6 1 (1.64%) DirectX
6 1 (1.64%) JSON
6 1 (1.64%) OpenGL
6 1 (1.64%) Protocol Buffers
6 1 (1.64%) Spring
6 1 (1.64%) Spring Boot
6 1 (1.64%) Unity (Game Engine)
6 1 (1.64%) Unreal Engine
Miscellaneous
1 10 (16.39%) Algorithms
2 9 (14.75%) Data Structures
2 9 (14.75%) Self-Driving Car
3 7 (11.48%) Onboarding
4 5 (8.20%) GNSS
5 4 (6.56%) FPGA
5 4 (6.56%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (4.92%) CUDA
6 3 (4.92%) Cyberattack
6 3 (4.92%) Data Centre
6 3 (4.92%) Device Driver
6 3 (4.92%) PCIe
6 3 (4.92%) VHDL
7 2 (3.28%) e-Learning
7 2 (3.28%) Embedded Systems
7 2 (3.28%) Verilog
8 1 (1.64%) Augmented Reality
8 1 (1.64%) CAN bus
8 1 (1.64%) IoT
8 1 (1.64%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 25 (40.98%) Linux
2 14 (22.95%) Windows
3 9 (14.75%) Apple iOS
4 4 (6.56%) Android
5 1 (1.64%) Embedded Linux
5 1 (1.64%) FreeRTOS
5 1 (1.64%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (50.82%) Software Engineering
2 22 (36.07%) Computer Science
3 20 (32.79%) Problem-Solving
3 20 (32.79%) Test Automation
4 15 (24.59%) Agile
5 13 (21.31%) Mentoring
6 11 (18.03%) Mathematics
7 10 (16.39%) Analytical Thinking
7 10 (16.39%) B2B
8 9 (14.75%) Scrum
9 8 (13.11%) Complexity Analysis
9 8 (13.11%) Refactoring
9 8 (13.11%) Software Architecture
9 8 (13.11%) System Integration Testing
9 8 (13.11%) User Experience
9 8 (13.11%) UX Design
10 7 (11.48%) Requirements Analysis
10 7 (11.48%) UML
10 7 (11.48%) Validation
11 6 (9.84%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 33 (54.10%) Python
2 26 (42.62%) C
3 20 (32.79%) Java
4 12 (19.67%) Rust
5 9 (14.75%) C#
5 9 (14.75%) Go
6 8 (13.11%) JavaScript
7 7 (11.48%) MATLAB
7 7 (11.48%) SQL
8 5 (8.20%) TypeScript
9 3 (4.92%) Tcl
10 2 (3.28%) Bash
10 2 (3.28%) PHP
11 1 (1.64%) Ada
11 1 (1.64%) Embedded C
11 1 (1.64%) Embedded C++
11 1 (1.64%) Perl
11 1 (1.64%) T-SQL
11 1 (1.64%) VB
Qualifications
1 19 (31.15%) Degree
2 17 (27.87%) Security Cleared
3 9 (14.75%) DV Cleared
4 5 (8.20%) PhD
5 3 (4.92%) SC Cleared
6 1 (1.64%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.64%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.56%) PMO
1 4 (6.56%) QA
2 1 (1.64%) Def Stans
2 1 (1.64%) HL7
2 1 (1.64%) ISO 9001
2 1 (1.64%) JTAG
2 1 (1.64%) MISRA
System Software
1 6 (9.84%) Docker
2 5 (8.20%) Firmware
3 1 (1.64%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 6 (9.84%) Kubernetes
2 3 (4.92%) Ansible
3 2 (3.28%) Terraform
4 1 (1.64%) Kibana
Vendors
1 4 (6.56%) Intel
2 3 (4.92%) Graphcore
3 2 (3.28%) EMC
3 2 (3.28%) SAP
3 2 (3.28%) Xilinx
4 1 (1.64%) Adobe
4 1 (1.64%) Altera
4 1 (1.64%) Google
4 1 (1.64%) Green Hills
4 1 (1.64%) IBM
4 1 (1.64%) InterSystems
4 1 (1.64%) Oracle
4 1 (1.64%) QNX
4 1 (1.64%) Red Hat
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