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 12 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
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 531 641 739
Rank change year-on-year +110 +98 -227
Permanent jobs requiring a C++ Developer 239 114 113
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.34% 0.19% 0.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.36% 0.21% 0.17%
Number of salaries quoted 173 99 102
10th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £32,625
25th Percentile £43,750 £45,000 £41,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £56,250
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +6.67% +12.50%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £72,000 -
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year -11.54% -23.53% +41.67%

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 67,306 53,672 68,079
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.79% 89.22% 95.76%
Number of salaries quoted 47,632 30,597 42,434
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +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 12 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 12 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 +70 82 £60,000 +16.50% 10
North of England +104 58 £55,000 -8.33% 6
North West +48 48 £62,500 +11.11% 6
East of England +42 32 £50,000 -31.03% 2
Midlands -18 30 £45,000 -14.29% 3
West Midlands +20 21 £45,000 -14.29%
South West -10 19 £56,500 -11.37% 2
Scotland -53 14 £61,250 +2.08%
Yorkshire +90 10 £47,500 -20.83%
East Midlands -20 9 £50,000 -4.76% 3
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 12 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.

1 239 (100.00%) C++
2 78 (32.64%) Social Skills
3 61 (25.52%) C#
4 57 (23.85%) C
5 56 (23.43%) Linux
6 52 (21.76%) Problem-Solving
7 51 (21.34%) Security Cleared
8 45 (18.83%) Agile
9 38 (15.90%) Windows
9 38 (15.90%) SQL
10 36 (15.06%) Java
11 35 (14.64%) SC Cleared
12 34 (14.23%) Azure
13 33 (13.81%) Multithreading
13 33 (13.81%) .NET
14 29 (12.13%) Software Engineering
15 28 (11.72%) Mathematics
15 28 (11.72%) Test Automation
16 27 (11.30%) Degree
17 26 (10.88%) Mentoring
18 25 (10.46%) SQL Server
18 25 (10.46%) Python
19 24 (10.04%) Ant
19 24 (10.04%) Hibernate
19 24 (10.04%) Actionable Insight
19 24 (10.04%) Algorithms
20 23 (9.62%) ASP.NET
20 23 (9.62%) System Testing
21 22 (9.21%) SystemVerilog
22 21 (8.79%) 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 (7.95%) Apache
2 5 (2.09%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 4 (1.67%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 34 (14.23%) Azure
2 10 (4.18%) AWS
2 10 (4.18%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (2.51%) SaaS
4 5 (2.09%) GitHub
5 2 (0.84%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (0.42%) Azure Service Fabric
6 1 (0.42%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (0.42%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.67%) Wireless
2 2 (0.84%) 4G
2 2 (0.84%) 5G
3 1 (0.42%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (10.46%) SQL Server
2 4 (1.67%) Relational Database
3 3 (1.26%) RDBMS
4 2 (0.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.42%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 24 (10.04%) Ant
2 14 (5.86%) Git
3 8 (3.35%) JIRA
4 7 (2.93%) Bitbucket
4 7 (2.93%) Visual Studio
5 4 (1.67%) GDB
5 4 (1.67%) Jenkins
6 3 (1.26%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.84%) CMake
7 2 (0.84%) GCC
7 2 (0.84%) GitLab
8 1 (0.42%) NUnit
8 1 (0.42%) SoapUI
General
1 78 (32.64%) Social Skills
2 21 (8.79%) Automotive
3 16 (6.69%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (5.44%) Finance
4 13 (5.44%) Influencing Skills
5 12 (5.02%) Games
6 10 (4.18%) Manufacturing
7 9 (3.77%) Marketing
8 8 (3.35%) Presentation Skills
8 8 (3.35%) Retail
9 5 (2.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (2.09%) Law
10 2 (0.84%) Legal
10 2 (0.84%) Public Sector
10 2 (0.84%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.42%) Aviation
11 1 (0.42%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.42%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.42%) Music Industry
11 1 (0.42%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (13.81%) .NET
2 24 (10.04%) Hibernate
3 23 (9.62%) ASP.NET
4 21 (8.79%) STL
5 19 (7.95%) Apache NiFi
6 16 (6.69%) HTML
7 15 (6.28%) .NET Framework
7 15 (6.28%) Entity Framework
8 14 (5.86%) Qt
9 11 (4.60%) Blazor
10 10 (4.18%) CSS
11 9 (3.77%) ASP.NET MVC
12 8 (3.35%) HTML5
13 7 (2.93%) .NET Core
14 6 (2.51%) LESS
14 6 (2.51%) LINQ
14 6 (2.51%) Twitter Bootstrap
14 6 (2.51%) WPF
15 5 (2.09%) AngularJS
16 4 (1.67%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 24 (10.04%) Algorithms
2 21 (8.79%) IoT
3 9 (3.77%) ARM Cortex
3 9 (3.77%) Verilog
4 8 (3.35%) Blog
4 8 (3.35%) Client/Server
4 8 (3.35%) Raspberry Pi
5 7 (2.93%) Robotics
6 6 (2.51%) Embedded Systems
7 4 (1.67%) Mobile App
8 3 (1.26%) Podcast
8 3 (1.26%) Virtual Team
9 2 (0.84%) Data Structures
9 2 (0.84%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.42%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (0.42%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 56 (23.43%) Linux
2 38 (15.90%) Windows
3 9 (3.77%) Android
3 9 (3.77%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (21.76%) Problem-Solving
2 45 (18.83%) Agile
3 33 (13.81%) Multithreading
4 29 (12.13%) Software Engineering
5 28 (11.72%) Mathematics
5 28 (11.72%) Test Automation
6 26 (10.88%) Mentoring
7 24 (10.04%) Actionable Insight
8 23 (9.62%) System Testing
9 19 (7.95%) SDLC
10 18 (7.53%) Computer Science
11 16 (6.69%) DevOps
11 16 (6.69%) Machine Learning
12 14 (5.86%) MVC
13 13 (5.44%) CI/CD
13 13 (5.44%) OOP
13 13 (5.44%) Technical Leadership
14 11 (4.60%) Scrum
15 10 (4.18%) Coaching
15 10 (4.18%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 239 (100.00%) C++
2 61 (25.52%) C#
3 57 (23.85%) C
4 38 (15.90%) SQL
5 36 (15.06%) Java
6 25 (10.46%) Python
7 22 (9.21%) SystemVerilog
8 14 (5.86%) JavaScript
9 9 (3.77%) Tcl
10 4 (1.67%) VBA
11 3 (1.26%) Objective-C
11 3 (1.26%) PHP
11 3 (1.26%) Rust
12 1 (0.42%) Assembly Language
12 1 (0.42%) Bash
12 1 (0.42%) Embedded C
12 1 (0.42%) Embedded C++
12 1 (0.42%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.42%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.42%) VB
Qualifications
1 51 (21.34%) Security Cleared
2 35 (14.64%) SC Cleared
3 27 (11.30%) Degree
4 9 (3.77%) Master's Degree
5 8 (3.35%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (2.09%) PhD
7 4 (1.67%) DBS Check
8 3 (1.26%) DV Cleared
8 3 (1.26%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (2.93%) QA
2 3 (1.26%) GDPR
System Software
1 4 (1.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (3.35%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.42%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 13 (5.44%) Microsoft
2 9 (3.77%) Cadence
2 9 (3.77%) Synopsys
3 5 (2.09%) BT
3 5 (2.09%) Google
3 5 (2.09%) HP
4 3 (1.26%) Atlassian
4 3 (1.26%) Coverity
5 2 (0.84%) YouTube