Compiler Engineer
UK

The median Compiler Engineer salary in the UK is £102,723 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 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
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 877 981 1194
Rank change year-on-year +104 +213 -315
Permanent jobs requiring a Compiler Engineer 17 8 2
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.017% 0.008% 0.001%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.018% 0.008% 0.001%
Number of salaries quoted 2 7 0
10th Percentile £73,795 £84,500 -
25th Percentile £83,237 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £102,723 £100,000 -
Median % change year-on-year +2.72% - -
75th Percentile £118,460 - -
90th Percentile £125,651 - -
UK excluding London median annual salary £102,723 £100,000 -
% change year-on-year +2.72% - -

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 92,894 96,310 147,847
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.63% 91.58% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 66,756 60,420 85,018
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,923 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.80% - +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%

Compiler Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Compiler Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Compiler Engineer in the UK

Compiler Engineer
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Compiler Engineer.

Salary trend for Compiler Engineer in the UK

Compiler Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Compiler Engineer over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Compiler Engineer in the UK

Compiler Engineer
Top 7 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Compiler Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 25 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 +124 17 £102,723 +26.43% 14
UK excluding London +15 17 £102,723 +2.72% 11
Work from Home +113 15 - - 9
North West - 8 - -
North of England - 8 - -
East of England +30 5 £102,723 +26.43% 8
South West - 4 - - 2

Compiler Engineer Skill Set
Top 28 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 25 April 2024, Compiler Engineer 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 Compiler Engineer in the job title.

1 16 (94.12%) Software Engineering
1 16 (94.12%) Degree
1 16 (94.12%) LLVM
2 15 (88.24%) Line Management
2 15 (88.24%) Jenkins
2 15 (88.24%) Progress Chef
2 15 (88.24%) Ansible
2 15 (88.24%) DevOps
2 15 (88.24%) Coaching
2 15 (88.24%) Continuous Integration
2 15 (88.24%) Test Automation
2 15 (88.24%) Open Source
2 15 (88.24%) C
2 15 (88.24%) Linux
3 10 (58.82%) Automotive
3 10 (58.82%) Agile
3 10 (58.82%) Computer Architecture
3 10 (58.82%) Git
3 10 (58.82%) IoT
3 10 (58.82%) Mentoring
4 5 (29.41%) Clang
4 5 (29.41%) Fortran
5 1 (5.88%) C++
5 1 (5.88%) Electronics
5 1 (5.88%) Telecoms
5 1 (5.88%) Computer Science
5 1 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (5.88%) GCC

Compiler Engineer 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:

Development Applications
1 15 (88.24%) Jenkins
2 10 (58.82%) Git
3 5 (29.41%) Clang
4 1 (5.88%) GCC
General
1 10 (58.82%) Automotive
2 1 (5.88%) Electronics
2 1 (5.88%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (94.12%) LLVM
Miscellaneous
1 10 (58.82%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 15 (88.24%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (94.12%) Software Engineering
2 15 (88.24%) Coaching
2 15 (88.24%) Continuous Integration
2 15 (88.24%) DevOps
2 15 (88.24%) Line Management
2 15 (88.24%) Open Source
2 15 (88.24%) Test Automation
3 10 (58.82%) Agile
3 10 (58.82%) Computer Architecture
3 10 (58.82%) Mentoring
4 1 (5.88%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 15 (88.24%) C
2 5 (29.41%) Fortran
3 1 (5.88%) C++
Qualifications
1 16 (94.12%) Degree
2 1 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
Systems Management
1 15 (88.24%) Ansible
1 15 (88.24%) Progress Chef