C++ Jobs in Surrey

C++
South East > Surrey

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Surrey requiring C++ skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited C++ over the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 80 40 51
Rank change year-on-year -40 +11 +23
Permanent jobs citing C++ 26 149 85
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 2.12% 5.53% 4.77%
As % of the Programming Languages category 8.18% 19.25% 12.63%
Number of salaries quoted 16 105 75
10th Percentile £62,500 - £42,500
25th Percentile £64,688 £40,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.83% -7.69% +18.18%
75th Percentile £78,750 £68,750 £76,250
90th Percentile £101,875 £85,000 £82,500
South East median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% +14.29%

All Programming Languages
Surrey

C++ falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills in Surrey.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 318 774 673
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 25.92% 28.74% 37.77%
Number of salaries quoted 206 556 493
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,750 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.91% -8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £72,500 £70,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £92,500
South East median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% +9.09%

C++
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

Job postings citing C++ as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Surrey.

Job vacancy trend for C++ in Surrey

C++
Salary Trend in Surrey

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

Salary trend for C++ in Surrey

C++
Salary Histogram in Surrey

Salary distribution for jobs citing C++ in Surrey over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Salary histogram for C++ in Surrey

C++
Job Locations in Surrey

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing C++ within the Surrey region over the 6 months to 3 July 2025. 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
Guildford -6 13 £70,000 +27.27% 24
Staines +7 1 £67,500 -15.63% 6
Godalming +1 1 £75,000 -
Camberley - 1 £75,000 -
Caterham - 1 - - 1
Esher - 1 - -
Walton-on-Thames - 1 - -
Warlingham - 1 - -
Weybridge - 1 - - 1
C++
South East

C++
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Surrey 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:

Applications
1 2 (7.69%) OrCAD
Cloud Services
1 10 (38.46%) Amazon EKS
1 10 (38.46%) AWS
1 10 (38.46%) AWS CloudFormation
1 10 (38.46%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.69%) Network Security
1 2 (7.69%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (38.46%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (3.85%) GIS
Development Applications
1 4 (15.38%) Git
2 3 (11.54%) Subversion
3 1 (3.85%) CMake
3 1 (3.85%) GDB
3 1 (3.85%) Jenkins
3 1 (3.85%) JIRA
3 1 (3.85%) TestRail
3 1 (3.85%) Visual Studio
General
1 11 (42.31%) Analytical Skills
2 10 (38.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 4 (15.38%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (7.69%) Social Skills
5 1 (3.85%) Military
Job Titles
1 16 (61.54%) Developer
2 15 (57.69%) Software Developer
3 7 (26.92%) Lead
4 6 (23.08%) Software Engineer
5 4 (15.38%) C++ Software Engineer
5 4 (15.38%) Lead Developer
6 3 (11.54%) C++ Developer
6 3 (11.54%) Lead Software Developer
6 3 (11.54%) Senior
7 2 (7.69%) C Developer
7 2 (7.69%) C# Software Engineer
7 2 (7.69%) C/C++ Developer
7 2 (7.69%) C++ Software Developer
7 2 (7.69%) Hardware Engineer
7 2 (7.69%) Qt Software Engineer
8 1 (3.85%) C/C++ Software Developer
8 1 (3.85%) C++ GUI Developer
8 1 (3.85%) Linux Developer
8 1 (3.85%) MATLAB Developer
8 1 (3.85%) Scientific Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (42.31%) .NET
1 11 (42.31%) Node.js
2 10 (38.46%) Pandas
3 4 (15.38%) HTML
3 4 (15.38%) Qt
3 4 (15.38%) WPF
4 3 (11.54%) WinForms
5 2 (7.69%) React
6 1 (3.85%) Bazel
6 1 (3.85%) HTML5
6 1 (3.85%) OpenGL
6 1 (3.85%) Redux
6 1 (3.85%) Vulkan
Miscellaneous
1 10 (38.46%) Cyberattack
2 8 (30.77%) Algorithms
3 5 (19.23%) 3D Graphics
3 5 (19.23%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (15.38%) Device Driver
5 3 (11.54%) FPGA
5 3 (11.54%) VHDL
6 2 (7.69%) Embedded Systems
7 1 (3.85%) Acoustics
7 1 (3.85%) CUDA
7 1 (3.85%) Data Structures
7 1 (3.85%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 18 (69.23%) Linux
2 11 (42.31%) Android
3 2 (7.69%) Windows
4 1 (3.85%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (84.62%) Mathematics
2 17 (65.38%) Software Engineering
3 16 (61.54%) Agile
4 10 (38.46%) Android Development
4 10 (38.46%) CI/CD
4 10 (38.46%) Collaborative Working
4 10 (38.46%) Containerisation
4 10 (38.46%) Design Patterns
4 10 (38.46%) Kanban
4 10 (38.46%) Line Management
4 10 (38.46%) OO
4 10 (38.46%) OOP
4 10 (38.46%) OWASP
4 10 (38.46%) Secure Coding
4 10 (38.46%) Statistics
5 9 (34.62%) Physics
6 6 (23.08%) Mentoring
7 5 (19.23%) Machine Learning
7 5 (19.23%) Multithreading
8 4 (15.38%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 14 (53.85%) Java
1 14 (53.85%) JavaScript
2 13 (50.00%) Python
3 11 (42.31%) C
3 11 (42.31%) Rust
4 10 (38.46%) Go
5 5 (19.23%) C#
6 3 (11.54%) TypeScript
7 2 (7.69%) Embedded C
7 2 (7.69%) Embedded C++
7 2 (7.69%) Fortran
8 1 (3.85%) Bash
8 1 (3.85%) MATLAB
8 1 (3.85%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 18 (69.23%) Security Cleared
2 14 (53.85%) Degree
2 14 (53.85%) DV Cleared
3 11 (42.31%) PhD
4 9 (34.62%) Master's Degree
5 2 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (3.85%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 10 (38.46%) Docker
2 3 (11.54%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 10 (38.46%) Ansible
1 10 (38.46%) Kubernetes
1 10 (38.46%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (3.85%) Red Hat