Senior C++ Software Engineer Jobs in the South East

Senior Software Engineer - C++
England > South East

The median Senior Software Engineer - C++ salary in the South East is £80,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 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
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 377 396 428
Rank change year-on-year +19 +32 -62
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior C++ Software Engineer 28 13 53
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.17% 0.085% 0.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.094% 0.28%
Number of salaries quoted 27 11 48
10th Percentile £50,000 £62,500 £53,750
25th Percentile £68,125 £72,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - +28.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £82,500 £88,750 £70,000
90th Percentile - £92,500 -
England median annual salary £60,000 £80,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -25.00% +23.08% +36.84%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South East

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the South East. 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 South East with a recognized job title 15,515 13,804 18,906
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.90% 90.69% 96.33%
Number of salaries quoted 11,273 8,655 12,709
10th Percentile £27,500 £29,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,750 £39,875 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £64,750 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £54,000 £60,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.74% +0.83% +9.09%

Senior C++ Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings that featured Senior C++ Software Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Senior C++ Software Engineer in the South East

Senior C++ Software Engineer
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior C++ Software Engineer in the South East.

Salary trend for Senior C++ Software Engineer in the South East

Senior C++ Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior C++ Software Engineer in the South East over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior C++ Software Engineer in the South East

Senior C++ Software Engineer
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior C++ Software Engineer within the South East region over the 6 months to 19 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
Hampshire +11 26 £80,000 +18.52% 1
Thames Valley +2 1 £70,000 -12.50% 3
Buckinghamshire - 1 £70,000 -
Surrey - 1 £57,500 -
Senior C++ Software Engineer
England

Senior C++ Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 19 April 2024, Senior C++ Software 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 across the South East region featuring Senior C++ Software Engineer in the job title.

1 28 (100.00%) C++
1 28 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 20 (71.43%) Agile
3 19 (67.86%) Degree
3 19 (67.86%) Computer Science
3 19 (67.86%) Military
3 19 (67.86%) Linux
3 19 (67.86%) Computer Science Degree
3 19 (67.86%) Algorithms
4 18 (64.29%) Mathematics
5 17 (60.71%) Security Cleared
6 16 (57.14%) Qt
6 16 (57.14%) CMake
6 16 (57.14%) Mentoring
6 16 (57.14%) Technical Leadership
6 16 (57.14%) SC Cleared
6 16 (57.14%) Subversion
6 16 (57.14%) OO
6 16 (57.14%) MFC
6 16 (57.14%) STL
6 16 (57.14%) XML
6 16 (57.14%) Windows
6 16 (57.14%) Configuration Management
7 2 (7.14%) Computer Vision
7 2 (7.14%) DevOps
7 2 (7.14%) Embedded Systems
7 2 (7.14%) Embedded Software Development
7 2 (7.14%) Value Proposition
7 2 (7.14%) Artificial Intelligence
7 2 (7.14%) Embedded Linux

Senior C++ Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 16 (57.14%) CMake
1 16 (57.14%) Subversion
General
1 19 (67.86%) Military
2 2 (7.14%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (57.14%) MFC
1 16 (57.14%) Qt
1 16 (57.14%) STL
1 16 (57.14%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (67.86%) Algorithms
2 2 (7.14%) CCTV
2 2 (7.14%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (3.57%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 19 (67.86%) Linux
2 16 (57.14%) Windows
3 2 (7.14%) Embedded Linux
4 1 (3.57%) CentOS
4 1 (3.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (3.57%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 20 (71.43%) Agile
3 19 (67.86%) Computer Science
4 18 (64.29%) Mathematics
5 16 (57.14%) Configuration Management
5 16 (57.14%) Mentoring
5 16 (57.14%) OO
5 16 (57.14%) Technical Leadership
6 2 (7.14%) Artificial Intelligence
6 2 (7.14%) Computer Vision
6 2 (7.14%) DevOps
6 2 (7.14%) Embedded Software Development
6 2 (7.14%) Value Proposition
7 1 (3.57%) Data Acquisition
7 1 (3.57%) Multithreaded Programming
7 1 (3.57%) Multithreading
7 1 (3.57%) OOD
7 1 (3.57%) Signal Processing
7 1 (3.57%) UML
Programming Languages
1 28 (100.00%) C++
2 2 (7.14%) C
Qualifications
1 19 (67.86%) Computer Science Degree
1 19 (67.86%) Degree
2 17 (60.71%) Security Cleared
3 16 (57.14%) SC Cleared