C++ Developer
UK

The median C++ Developer salary in the UK is £57,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 April 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 596 667 822
Rank change year-on-year +71 +155 -231
Permanent jobs requiring a C++ Developer 312 318 433
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.32% 0.30% 0.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.34% 0.33% 0.29%
Number of salaries quoted 209 264 351
10th Percentile £36,000 £45,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £43,750 £53,438 £62,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% -23.53% +36.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £120,000 £127,500
90th Percentile £125,000 £140,000 £142,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +20.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 92,756 95,826 148,057
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.61% 91.56% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 66,592 60,202 85,221
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,550 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.42% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%

C++ Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for C++ Developer in the UK

C++ Developer
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing C++ Developer.

Salary trend for C++ Developer in the UK

C++ Developer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing C++ Developer over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for C++ Developer in the UK

C++ Developer
Top 15 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 27 April 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
England +112 286 £57,500 -23.33% 55
UK excluding London +124 231 £55,000 -8.33% 30
South East +92 82 £60,000 +16.50% 9
Work from Home -2 79 £55,000 -8.33% 27
London +18 74 £125,000 +16.28% 26
North of England +99 55 £55,000 +10.00% 12
North West +51 45 £56,250 +12.50% 11
East of England +39 31 £50,000 -31.03% 3
Midlands -12 27 £45,000 -14.29% 4
West Midlands +18 20 £45,000 -14.29%
South West +11 17 £53,250 -16.47% 2
Scotland -59 15 £65,000 +8.33% 1
Yorkshire +102 10 £47,500 -20.83% 1
East Midlands -26 7 £50,000 -16.67% 4
Wales - 4 £31,250 -

C++ Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 27 April 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 featuring C++ Developer in the job title.

1 312 (100.00%) C++
2 88 (28.21%) Linux
3 85 (27.24%) Social Skills
4 81 (25.96%) C
5 69 (22.12%) C#
6 67 (21.47%) Problem-Solving
7 61 (19.55%) Finance
8 59 (18.91%) Java
9 51 (16.35%) Python
9 51 (16.35%) Agile
9 51 (16.35%) Security Cleared
10 47 (15.06%) Multithreading
11 45 (14.42%) SQL
12 39 (12.50%) Low Latency
13 38 (12.18%) Azure
13 38 (12.18%) .NET
13 38 (12.18%) Windows
14 37 (11.86%) Software Engineering
14 37 (11.86%) SC Cleared
15 34 (10.90%) Degree
16 33 (10.58%) Mathematics
17 32 (10.26%) Algorithms
18 28 (8.97%) Mentoring
19 27 (8.65%) Test Automation
20 26 (8.33%) SDLC
20 26 (8.33%) SQL Server
21 25 (8.01%) Computer Science
22 24 (7.69%) Actionable Insight
22 24 (7.69%) Hibernate
22 24 (7.69%) Ant

C++ Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 20 (6.41%) Apache
2 3 (0.96%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 4 (1.28%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 38 (12.18%) Azure
2 14 (4.49%) AWS
3 10 (3.21%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (2.24%) GitHub
5 6 (1.92%) SaaS
6 2 (0.64%) Azure Service Bus
6 2 (0.64%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (0.32%) Azure Service Fabric
7 1 (0.32%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 16 (5.13%) TCP/IP
2 4 (1.28%) Wireless
3 2 (0.64%) VoIP
4 1 (0.32%) 4G
4 1 (0.32%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (8.33%) SQL Server
2 6 (1.92%) Relational Database
3 5 (1.60%) RDBMS
4 3 (0.96%) Tick Data
5 2 (0.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.32%) Big Data
6 1 (0.32%) Flink
6 1 (0.32%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 24 (7.69%) Ant
2 16 (5.13%) Git
3 7 (2.24%) Visual Studio
4 6 (1.92%) GitLab
4 6 (1.92%) JIRA
5 5 (1.60%) Bitbucket
5 5 (1.60%) GDB
5 5 (1.60%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.64%) CMake
6 2 (0.64%) GCC
7 1 (0.32%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.32%) LabVIEW
7 1 (0.32%) Mockito
7 1 (0.32%) NUnit
7 1 (0.32%) SoapUI
7 1 (0.32%) SonarQube
General
1 85 (27.24%) Social Skills
2 61 (19.55%) Finance
3 22 (7.05%) Automotive
4 16 (5.13%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (4.49%) Games
6 13 (4.17%) Front Office
6 13 (4.17%) Influencing Skills
7 10 (3.21%) Manufacturing
8 9 (2.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (2.88%) Marketing
9 8 (2.56%) Law
9 8 (2.56%) Presentation Skills
9 8 (2.56%) Retail
10 6 (1.92%) Public Sector
11 5 (1.60%) Banking
12 3 (0.96%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.64%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.64%) Legal
14 1 (0.32%) Aerospace
14 1 (0.32%) Music Industry
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (12.18%) .NET
2 24 (7.69%) Hibernate
2 24 (7.69%) STL
3 23 (7.37%) ASP.NET
4 19 (6.09%) .NET Framework
4 19 (6.09%) Apache NiFi
5 16 (5.13%) HTML
6 15 (4.81%) Entity Framework
6 15 (4.81%) Qt
7 11 (3.53%) Blazor
8 10 (3.21%) .NET Core
8 10 (3.21%) CSS
9 9 (2.88%) ASP.NET MVC
10 8 (2.56%) HTML5
11 6 (1.92%) LESS
11 6 (1.92%) LINQ
11 6 (1.92%) Twitter Bootstrap
11 6 (1.92%) WPF
12 5 (1.60%) AngularJS
13 4 (1.28%) React
Miscellaneous
1 32 (10.26%) Algorithms
2 24 (7.69%) Hedge funds
3 23 (7.37%) FPGA
4 21 (6.73%) IoT
5 9 (2.88%) ARM Cortex
5 9 (2.88%) Client/Server
5 9 (2.88%) Data Structures
5 9 (2.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 9 (2.88%) Verilog
6 8 (2.56%) Blog
6 8 (2.56%) Raspberry Pi
7 7 (2.24%) Robotics
8 6 (1.92%) Embedded Systems
9 5 (1.60%) Distributed Systems
9 5 (1.60%) Fixed Income
10 4 (1.28%) Equities
10 4 (1.28%) Mobile App
11 3 (0.96%) Derivative
11 3 (0.96%) Distributed Computing
11 3 (0.96%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 88 (28.21%) Linux
2 38 (12.18%) Windows
3 10 (3.21%) Apple iOS
4 9 (2.88%) Android
5 6 (1.92%) Unix
6 1 (0.32%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (21.47%) Problem-Solving
2 51 (16.35%) Agile
3 47 (15.06%) Multithreading
4 39 (12.50%) Low Latency
5 37 (11.86%) Software Engineering
6 33 (10.58%) Mathematics
7 28 (8.97%) Mentoring
8 27 (8.65%) Test Automation
9 26 (8.33%) SDLC
10 25 (8.01%) Computer Science
11 24 (7.69%) Actionable Insight
12 23 (7.37%) System Testing
13 21 (6.73%) DevOps
14 17 (5.45%) CI/CD
15 14 (4.49%) Machine Learning
15 14 (4.49%) MVC
16 13 (4.17%) Quantitative Trading
16 13 (4.17%) Technical Leadership
17 12 (3.85%) Algorithmic Trading
17 12 (3.85%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 312 (100.00%) C++
2 81 (25.96%) C
3 69 (22.12%) C#
4 59 (18.91%) Java
5 51 (16.35%) Python
6 45 (14.42%) SQL
7 22 (7.05%) SystemVerilog
8 16 (5.13%) JavaScript
9 9 (2.88%) Tcl
10 5 (1.60%) PHP
11 4 (1.28%) VBA
12 3 (0.96%) Objective-C
13 2 (0.64%) Embedded C
13 2 (0.64%) Embedded C++
13 2 (0.64%) Rust
13 2 (0.64%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.32%) Assembly Language
14 1 (0.32%) Bash
14 1 (0.32%) TypeScript
14 1 (0.32%) VB
Qualifications
1 51 (16.35%) Security Cleared
2 37 (11.86%) SC Cleared
3 34 (10.90%) Degree
4 13 (4.17%) Master's Degree
5 9 (2.88%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (2.24%) PhD
7 4 (1.28%) DBS Check
8 3 (0.96%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.32%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (2.24%) QA
2 3 (0.96%) GDPR
System Software
1 4 (1.28%) Docker
2 2 (0.64%) OpenSIPS
Systems Management
1 10 (3.21%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.32%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 13 (4.17%) Microsoft
2 9 (2.88%) Cadence
2 9 (2.88%) Synopsys
3 5 (1.60%) BT
3 5 (1.60%) Google
3 5 (1.60%) HP
4 3 (0.96%) YouTube
5 1 (0.32%) Atlassian
5 1 (0.32%) Coverity
5 1 (0.32%) Meraki