Senior C++ Developer Jobs in England

Senior C++ Developer
UK > England

The median Senior C++ Developer salary in England is £85,000 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 821 890 1021
Rank change year-on-year +69 +131 -179
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior C++ Developer 26 42 120
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.030% 0.047% 0.090%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.032% 0.051% 0.094%
Number of salaries quoted 19 28 99
10th Percentile £47,250 £48,000 £85,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £70,000 £87,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £96,000 £125,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.46% -23.20% +61.29%
75th Percentile £105,000 £127,813 £132,500
90th Percentile £125,000 £140,000 £185,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £78,750 £120,000
% change year-on-year -17.46% -34.38% +60.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 81,185 82,540 127,939
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.48% 91.53% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 60,576 52,509 74,661
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,288 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,822 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Senior C++ Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior C++ Developer in England

Senior C++ Developer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Senior C++ Developer in England

Senior C++ Developer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior C++ Developer in England over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior C++ Developer in England

Senior C++ Developer
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior C++ Developer within the England 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
London +108 11 £125,000 +2.04% 4
South East +16 9 £85,000 -2.86% 2
Midlands -5 3 £50,000 - 1
East Midlands -10 3 £50,000 -4.76% 1
South West - 3 £56,500 -
Senior C++ Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 12 May 2024, Senior 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 England region featuring Senior C++ Developer in the job title.

1 26 (100.00%) C++
2 14 (53.85%) C
3 11 (42.31%) Finance
4 8 (30.77%) Agile
4 8 (30.77%) Java
4 8 (30.77%) Python
4 8 (30.77%) Low Latency
5 7 (26.92%) Software Engineering
5 7 (26.92%) Linux
6 6 (23.08%) Git
7 5 (19.23%) Degree
7 5 (19.23%) JIRA
7 5 (19.23%) Confluence
7 5 (19.23%) Unix
8 4 (15.38%) Front Office
8 4 (15.38%) FPGA
8 4 (15.38%) Hedge funds
8 4 (15.38%) DevOps
8 4 (15.38%) Computer Science
8 4 (15.38%) Test Automation
8 4 (15.38%) Multithreading
8 4 (15.38%) CI/CD
8 4 (15.38%) Automated Trading
8 4 (15.38%) Master's Degree
8 4 (15.38%) Order Management
8 4 (15.38%) SDLC
9 3 (11.54%) Atlassian
9 3 (11.54%) SonarQube
9 3 (11.54%) Jenkins
9 3 (11.54%) User Stories

Senior C++ Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 5 (19.23%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (3.85%) AWS
1 1 (3.85%) Azure
1 1 (3.85%) GitHub
1 1 (3.85%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.85%) VoIP
Development Applications
1 6 (23.08%) Git
2 5 (19.23%) JIRA
3 3 (11.54%) Bitbucket
3 3 (11.54%) Jenkins
3 3 (11.54%) SonarQube
4 1 (3.85%) CircleCI
4 1 (3.85%) CMake
General
1 11 (42.31%) Finance
2 4 (15.38%) Front Office
3 1 (3.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (3.85%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.69%) Qt
1 2 (7.69%) STL
1 2 (7.69%) XML
2 1 (3.85%) FreeSWITCH
Miscellaneous
1 4 (15.38%) FPGA
1 4 (15.38%) Hedge funds
2 1 (3.85%) Algorithms
2 1 (3.85%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 7 (26.92%) Linux
2 5 (19.23%) Unix
3 3 (11.54%) Windows
4 1 (3.85%) Apple iOS
4 1 (3.85%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (30.77%) Agile
1 8 (30.77%) Low Latency
2 7 (26.92%) Software Engineering
3 4 (15.38%) Automated Trading
3 4 (15.38%) CI/CD
3 4 (15.38%) Computer Science
3 4 (15.38%) DevOps
3 4 (15.38%) Multithreading
3 4 (15.38%) Order Management
3 4 (15.38%) SDLC
3 4 (15.38%) Test Automation
4 3 (11.54%) Artificial Intelligence
4 3 (11.54%) Collaborative Culture
4 3 (11.54%) Component Testing
4 3 (11.54%) Customer Requirements
4 3 (11.54%) Cybersecurity
4 3 (11.54%) Machine Learning
4 3 (11.54%) Scrum
4 3 (11.54%) User Stories
5 2 (7.69%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 26 (100.00%) C++
2 14 (53.85%) C
3 8 (30.77%) Java
3 8 (30.77%) Python
4 3 (11.54%) Rust
5 2 (7.69%) SQL
6 1 (3.85%) C#
6 1 (3.85%) JavaScript
6 1 (3.85%) PHP
Qualifications
1 5 (19.23%) Degree
2 4 (15.38%) Master's Degree
3 3 (11.54%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (11.54%) DV Cleared
3 3 (11.54%) Security Cleared
4 1 (3.85%) PhD
System Software
1 1 (3.85%) OpenSIPS
Systems Management
1 1 (3.85%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (11.54%) Atlassian
1 3 (11.54%) Coverity