C++ Developer Jobs

C++ Developer
UK

The median C++ Developer salary in the UK is £62,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 26 July 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 616 632 836
Rank change year-on-year +16 +204 -167
Permanent jobs requiring a C++ Developer 230 265 459
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.25% 0.33% 0.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.27% 0.36% 0.27%
Number of salaries quoted 181 205 292
10th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £53,750 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £75,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% -11.76% +41.67%
75th Percentile £75,000 £130,000 £126,563
90th Percentile £100,000 £145,000 £139,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £54,500
% change year-on-year +4.35% +5.50% +9.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides 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 85,709 74,085 167,386
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.83% 91.81% 95.50%
Number of salaries quoted 58,134 51,472 87,435
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,800 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £52,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +1.92% +9.47%

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 26 July 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 26 July 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 +9 216 £62,500 -21.88% 25
UK excluding London +57 169 £60,000 +4.35% 19
Work from Home -15 65 £62,500 +4.17% 14
North of England +57 52 £62,500 +25.00% 7
South East +40 51 £58,750 -2.08% 5
London -40 50 £100,000 -9.09% 6
North West +33 44 £62,500 +28.21% 5
Midlands -15 32 £50,000 -4.76% 6
West Midlands +4 21 £70,000 +105.88% 6
East of England +11 20 £50,000 - 1
East Midlands -29 11 £50,000 -13.04%
South West -5 10 £56,500 -31.52%
Yorkshire +65 8 £60,000 - 2
Scotland -50 2 - -
Wales - 2 £35,000 - 1

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

For the 6 months to 26 July 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.

1 230 (100.00%) C++
2 59 (25.65%) C
3 54 (23.48%) Linux
4 45 (19.57%) Finance
5 40 (17.39%) Degree
6 38 (16.52%) Agile
6 38 (16.52%) Python
7 37 (16.09%) Software Engineering
7 37 (16.09%) Security Cleared
7 37 (16.09%) Problem-Solving
8 35 (15.22%) C#
9 31 (13.48%) Java
9 31 (13.48%) Social Skills
10 29 (12.61%) Computer Science
10 29 (12.61%) Algorithms
11 25 (10.87%) Mathematics
12 24 (10.43%) SC Cleared
13 23 (10.00%) Low Latency
14 22 (9.57%) Master's Degree
15 21 (9.13%) SQL
15 21 (9.13%) Windows
16 20 (8.70%) Multithreading
16 20 (8.70%) Azure
17 17 (7.39%) SDLC
18 16 (6.96%) Qt
18 16 (6.96%) Machine Learning
19 15 (6.52%) Git
20 14 (6.09%) Apache
20 14 (6.09%) STL
20 14 (6.09%) .NET

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 14 (6.09%) Apache
2 3 (1.30%) Confluence
3 2 (0.87%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 1 (0.43%) Revit
Cloud Services
1 20 (8.70%) Azure
2 11 (4.78%) AWS
3 3 (1.30%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (1.30%) GitHub
4 2 (0.87%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (0.87%) SaaS
5 1 (0.43%) Azure Service Fabric
5 1 (0.43%) GCP
5 1 (0.43%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.91%) TCP/IP
2 5 (2.17%) Firewall
2 5 (2.17%) Network Security
3 4 (1.74%) Wireless
4 2 (0.87%) 4G
4 2 (0.87%) 5G
5 1 (0.43%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (3.48%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.43%) Big Data
2 1 (0.43%) Flink
2 1 (0.43%) MySQL
2 1 (0.43%) Relational Database
2 1 (0.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (0.43%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 15 (6.52%) Git
2 9 (3.91%) Ant
2 9 (3.91%) Jenkins
3 6 (2.61%) Subversion
3 6 (2.61%) Visual Studio
4 5 (2.17%) Bitbucket
4 5 (2.17%) GitLab
5 4 (1.74%) GDB
5 4 (1.74%) JIRA
6 3 (1.30%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.87%) CMake
7 2 (0.87%) GCC
8 1 (0.43%) Mockito
8 1 (0.43%) NUnit
8 1 (0.43%) SoapUI
General
1 45 (19.57%) Finance
2 31 (13.48%) Social Skills
3 14 (6.09%) Games
4 12 (5.22%) Manufacturing
5 9 (3.91%) Banking
6 8 (3.48%) Front Office
7 6 (2.61%) Automotive
8 5 (2.17%) Analytical Skills
9 3 (1.30%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.30%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.87%) Law
10 2 (0.87%) Legal
10 2 (0.87%) Marketing
10 2 (0.87%) Retail
10 2 (0.87%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.43%) Advertising
11 1 (0.43%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.43%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.43%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.43%) Music Industry
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (6.96%) Qt
2 14 (6.09%) .NET
2 14 (6.09%) STL
3 13 (5.65%) Apache NiFi
4 12 (5.22%) HTML
5 10 (4.35%) ASP.NET
6 9 (3.91%) Hibernate
7 7 (3.04%) .NET Framework
8 6 (2.61%) Entity Framework
8 6 (2.61%) HTML5
9 5 (2.17%) CSS
9 5 (2.17%) React
9 5 (2.17%) RESTful
10 4 (1.74%) Redux
10 4 (1.74%) Web Services
11 3 (1.30%) AngularJS
11 3 (1.30%) PyTorch
11 3 (1.30%) REST
11 3 (1.30%) Twitter Bootstrap
12 2 (0.87%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 29 (12.61%) Algorithms
2 13 (5.65%) Hedge funds
3 12 (5.22%) Data Structures
4 9 (3.91%) IoT
5 8 (3.48%) Embedded Systems
6 7 (3.04%) FPGA
7 5 (2.17%) Client/Server
8 4 (1.74%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (1.74%) Robotics
9 3 (1.30%) Equities
10 2 (0.87%) ARM Cortex
10 2 (0.87%) Blog
10 2 (0.87%) Distributed Computing
10 2 (0.87%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.87%) Operational Technology
10 2 (0.87%) Podcast
10 2 (0.87%) Raspberry Pi
10 2 (0.87%) Verilog
11 1 (0.43%) Lidar
11 1 (0.43%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 54 (23.48%) Linux
2 21 (9.13%) Windows
3 7 (3.04%) Embedded Linux
4 5 (2.17%) Unix
5 4 (1.74%) Android
6 3 (1.30%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (16.52%) Agile
2 37 (16.09%) Problem-Solving
2 37 (16.09%) Software Engineering
3 29 (12.61%) Computer Science
4 25 (10.87%) Mathematics
5 23 (10.00%) Low Latency
6 20 (8.70%) Multithreading
7 17 (7.39%) SDLC
8 16 (6.96%) Machine Learning
9 13 (5.65%) OOP
9 13 (5.65%) Test Automation
10 12 (5.22%) Analytics
11 10 (4.35%) Algorithmic Trading
11 10 (4.35%) Mentoring
12 9 (3.91%) Actionable Insight
12 9 (3.91%) CI/CD
12 9 (3.91%) DevOps
12 9 (3.91%) System Testing
13 8 (3.48%) Cybersecurity
13 8 (3.48%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 230 (100.00%) C++
2 59 (25.65%) C
3 38 (16.52%) Python
4 35 (15.22%) C#
5 31 (13.48%) Java
6 21 (9.13%) SQL
7 9 (3.91%) Rust
8 7 (3.04%) JavaScript
9 5 (2.17%) Go
9 5 (2.17%) SystemVerilog
10 3 (1.30%) Bash
10 3 (1.30%) Embedded C++
11 2 (0.87%) Tcl
11 2 (0.87%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.43%) Assembly Language
12 1 (0.43%) Embedded C
12 1 (0.43%) MATLAB
12 1 (0.43%) Objective-C
12 1 (0.43%) PHP
12 1 (0.43%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 40 (17.39%) Degree
2 37 (16.09%) Security Cleared
3 24 (10.43%) SC Cleared
4 22 (9.57%) Master's Degree
5 8 (3.48%) PhD
6 7 (3.04%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.30%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.30%) QA
2 1 (0.43%) GDPR
System Software
1 3 (1.30%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (4.35%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.43%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 5 (2.17%) Microsoft
2 3 (1.30%) Atlassian
2 3 (1.30%) Cadence
2 3 (1.30%) Coverity
2 3 (1.30%) Synopsys
3 2 (0.87%) AVEVA
3 2 (0.87%) Google
4 1 (0.43%) Autodesk
4 1 (0.43%) BT
4 1 (0.43%) HP