C++ Developer Jobs in the UK excluding London

C++ Developer
UK > UK excluding London

The median C++ Developer salary in the UK excluding London is £55,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 526 639 732
Rank change year-on-year +113 +93 -206
Permanent jobs requiring a C++ Developer 234 120 110
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.33% 0.19% 0.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.35% 0.22% 0.16%
Number of salaries quoted 168 105 103
10th Percentile £37,200 £41,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £43,750 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +20.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £73,500 -
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year -11.54% -23.53% +38.78%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 66,682 54,970 67,847
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.79% 89.26% 95.78%
Number of salaries quoted 47,230 31,194 42,991
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,777 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.04% - +9.09%

C++ Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured C++ Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for C++ Developer in the UK excluding London

C++ Developer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing C++ Developer in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for C++ Developer in the UK excluding London

C++ Developer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing C++ Developer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

Salary histogram for C++ Developer in the UK excluding London

C++ Developer
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing C++ Developer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 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 +73 82 £60,000 +16.50% 11
North of England +90 55 £55,000 -8.33% 10
North West +49 45 £56,250 - 10
East of England +38 31 £50,000 -31.03% 3
Midlands -13 28 £45,000 -14.29% 4
West Midlands +17 20 £45,000 -14.29%
South West -5 19 £56,500 -11.37% 2
Scotland -63 15 £65,000 +8.33% 1
Yorkshire +97 10 £47,500 -20.83%
East Midlands -24 8 £50,000 -11.11% 4
Wales - 4 £31,250 -
C++ Developer
UK

C++ Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 1 May 2024, C++ Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring C++ Developer in the job title.

1 234 (100.00%) C++
2 78 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 61 (26.07%) C#
4 57 (24.36%) C
5 55 (23.50%) Linux
6 50 (21.37%) Security Cleared
6 50 (21.37%) Problem-Solving
7 43 (18.38%) Agile
8 38 (16.24%) SQL
9 37 (15.81%) Windows
10 36 (15.38%) Java
11 34 (14.53%) SC Cleared
12 33 (14.10%) Multithreading
12 33 (14.10%) Azure
12 33 (14.10%) .NET
13 28 (11.97%) Software Engineering
13 28 (11.97%) Mathematics
14 27 (11.54%) Test Automation
15 26 (11.11%) Degree
15 26 (11.11%) Mentoring
16 25 (10.68%) SQL Server
16 25 (10.68%) Python
17 24 (10.26%) Ant
17 24 (10.26%) Hibernate
17 24 (10.26%) Actionable Insight
18 23 (9.83%) ASP.NET
18 23 (9.83%) System Testing
19 22 (9.40%) SystemVerilog
19 22 (9.40%) Algorithms
20 21 (8.97%) IoT

C++ Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 19 (8.12%) Apache
2 5 (2.14%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 4 (1.71%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 33 (14.10%) Azure
2 10 (4.27%) Azure DevOps
3 9 (3.85%) AWS
4 6 (2.56%) SaaS
5 5 (2.14%) GitHub
6 2 (0.85%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (0.43%) Azure Service Fabric
7 1 (0.43%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.71%) Wireless
2 1 (0.43%) 4G
2 1 (0.43%) 5G
2 1 (0.43%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (10.68%) SQL Server
2 5 (2.14%) Relational Database
3 4 (1.71%) RDBMS
4 2 (0.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.43%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 24 (10.26%) Ant
2 12 (5.13%) Git
3 8 (3.42%) JIRA
4 7 (2.99%) Bitbucket
4 7 (2.99%) Visual Studio
5 4 (1.71%) GDB
6 3 (1.28%) Jenkins
6 3 (1.28%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.85%) GitLab
8 1 (0.43%) CMake
8 1 (0.43%) GCC
8 1 (0.43%) NUnit
8 1 (0.43%) SoapUI
General
1 78 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 21 (8.97%) Automotive
3 16 (6.84%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (5.56%) Finance
4 13 (5.56%) Influencing Skills
5 11 (4.70%) Games
6 10 (4.27%) Manufacturing
7 9 (3.85%) Marketing
8 8 (3.42%) Presentation Skills
8 8 (3.42%) Retail
9 6 (2.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (2.14%) Law
11 2 (0.85%) Legal
11 2 (0.85%) Public Sector
12 1 (0.43%) Aviation
12 1 (0.43%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.43%) Health Technology
12 1 (0.43%) Music Industry
12 1 (0.43%) Police
12 1 (0.43%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (14.10%) .NET
2 24 (10.26%) Hibernate
3 23 (9.83%) ASP.NET
4 21 (8.97%) STL
5 19 (8.12%) Apache NiFi
6 16 (6.84%) HTML
7 15 (6.41%) .NET Framework
7 15 (6.41%) Entity Framework
8 14 (5.98%) Qt
9 11 (4.70%) Blazor
10 10 (4.27%) CSS
11 9 (3.85%) ASP.NET MVC
12 8 (3.42%) HTML5
13 7 (2.99%) .NET Core
14 6 (2.56%) LESS
14 6 (2.56%) LINQ
14 6 (2.56%) Twitter Bootstrap
14 6 (2.56%) WPF
15 5 (2.14%) AngularJS
16 4 (1.71%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 22 (9.40%) Algorithms
2 21 (8.97%) IoT
3 9 (3.85%) ARM Cortex
3 9 (3.85%) Verilog
4 8 (3.42%) Blog
4 8 (3.42%) Client/Server
4 8 (3.42%) Raspberry Pi
5 7 (2.99%) Robotics
6 6 (2.56%) Embedded Systems
7 4 (1.71%) Mobile App
8 3 (1.28%) Podcast
8 3 (1.28%) Virtual Team
9 2 (0.85%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.43%) Data Structures
10 1 (0.43%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 55 (23.50%) Linux
2 37 (15.81%) Windows
3 9 (3.85%) Android
3 9 (3.85%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (21.37%) Problem-Solving
2 43 (18.38%) Agile
3 33 (14.10%) Multithreading
4 28 (11.97%) Mathematics
4 28 (11.97%) Software Engineering
5 27 (11.54%) Test Automation
6 26 (11.11%) Mentoring
7 24 (10.26%) Actionable Insight
8 23 (9.83%) System Testing
9 18 (7.69%) SDLC
10 17 (7.26%) Computer Science
11 16 (6.84%) DevOps
11 16 (6.84%) Machine Learning
12 14 (5.98%) MVC
13 13 (5.56%) CI/CD
13 13 (5.56%) Technical Leadership
14 12 (5.13%) OOP
15 10 (4.27%) Coaching
15 10 (4.27%) TDD
16 9 (3.85%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 234 (100.00%) C++
2 61 (26.07%) C#
3 57 (24.36%) C
4 38 (16.24%) SQL
5 36 (15.38%) Java
6 25 (10.68%) Python
7 22 (9.40%) SystemVerilog
8 14 (5.98%) JavaScript
9 9 (3.85%) Tcl
10 4 (1.71%) VBA
11 3 (1.28%) Objective-C
11 3 (1.28%) PHP
11 3 (1.28%) Rust
12 1 (0.43%) Assembly Language
12 1 (0.43%) Bash
12 1 (0.43%) Embedded C
12 1 (0.43%) Embedded C++
12 1 (0.43%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.43%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.43%) VB
Qualifications
1 50 (21.37%) Security Cleared
2 34 (14.53%) SC Cleared
3 26 (11.11%) Degree
4 8 (3.42%) Master's Degree
5 7 (2.99%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (2.14%) PhD
7 4 (1.71%) DBS Check
8 3 (1.28%) DV Cleared
8 3 (1.28%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (2.99%) QA
2 3 (1.28%) GDPR
System Software
1 4 (1.71%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (2.99%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.43%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 12 (5.13%) Microsoft
2 9 (3.85%) Cadence
2 9 (3.85%) Synopsys
3 5 (2.14%) BT
3 5 (2.14%) Google
3 5 (2.14%) HP
4 3 (1.28%) Atlassian
4 3 (1.28%) Coverity
5 2 (0.85%) YouTube