Senior C++ Developer
UK

The median Senior C++ Developer salary in the UK is £67,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 23 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
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 858 928 1074
Rank change year-on-year +70 +146 -235
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior C++ Developer 31 50 141
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.032% 0.047% 0.092%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.034% 0.052% 0.095%
Number of salaries quoted 24 36 107
10th Percentile £55,000 £45,000 £70,000
25th Percentile £63,750 £55,000 £85,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £76,250 £120,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.48% -36.46% +54.84%
75th Percentile £85,000 £121,875 £132,500
90th Percentile £125,000 £140,000 £185,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +13.04% +4.55% -

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 92,477 96,786 147,852
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.63% 91.57% 96.05%
Number of salaries quoted 66,588 60,676 85,408
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.67% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,075
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%

Senior C++ Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior C++ Developer in the UK

Senior C++ Developer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Senior C++ Developer in the UK

Senior C++ Developer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior C++ Developer over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior C++ Developer in the UK

Senior C++ Developer
Top 9 Job Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 23 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 +94 23 £85,000 -7.61% 11
Work from Home +69 17 £65,000 -16.13% 7
UK excluding London +2 15 £65,000 +13.04% 7
London +112 13 £125,000 +6.38% 4
South East +23 8 £85,000 +13.33% 2
Scotland -62 5 £65,000 +8.33%
Midlands +18 1 £50,000 +11.11% 1
East Midlands -12 1 £50,000 - 1
South West - 1 £56,500 - 1

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

For the 6 months to 23 April 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 featuring Senior C++ Developer in the job title.

1 31 (100.00%) C++
2 17 (54.84%) C
3 14 (45.16%) Linux
4 11 (35.48%) Finance
5 8 (25.81%) Python
5 8 (25.81%) Low Latency
6 7 (22.58%) Unix
6 7 (22.58%) Software Engineering
7 6 (19.35%) Agile
7 6 (19.35%) Java
7 6 (19.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (16.13%) Social Skills
8 5 (16.13%) Relational Database
8 5 (16.13%) RDBMS
9 4 (12.90%) Front Office
9 4 (12.90%) DevOps
9 4 (12.90%) Hedge funds
9 4 (12.90%) Git
9 4 (12.90%) Test Automation
9 4 (12.90%) Multithreading
9 4 (12.90%) FPGA
9 4 (12.90%) Order Management
9 4 (12.90%) SDLC
9 4 (12.90%) Automated Trading
10 3 (9.68%) Functional Testing
10 3 (9.68%) Secure Coding
10 3 (9.68%) Degree
10 3 (9.68%) JIRA
10 3 (9.68%) FreeSWITCH
10 3 (9.68%) OpenSIPS

Senior 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 3 (9.68%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (3.23%) AWS
1 1 (3.23%) Azure
1 1 (3.23%) GitHub
1 1 (3.23%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (9.68%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (16.13%) RDBMS
1 5 (16.13%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (12.90%) Git
2 3 (9.68%) JIRA
3 1 (3.23%) Bitbucket
3 1 (3.23%) CircleCI
3 1 (3.23%) CMake
3 1 (3.23%) Jenkins
3 1 (3.23%) SonarQube
General
1 11 (35.48%) Finance
2 6 (19.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 5 (16.13%) Social Skills
4 4 (12.90%) Front Office
5 3 (9.68%) Telecoms
6 2 (6.45%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (9.68%) FreeSWITCH
2 2 (6.45%) Qt
2 2 (6.45%) STL
2 2 (6.45%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.90%) FPGA
1 4 (12.90%) Hedge funds
2 1 (3.23%) Algorithms
2 1 (3.23%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 14 (45.16%) Linux
2 7 (22.58%) Unix
3 3 (9.68%) Windows
4 1 (3.23%) Apple iOS
4 1 (3.23%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (25.81%) Low Latency
2 7 (22.58%) Software Engineering
3 6 (19.35%) Agile
4 4 (12.90%) Automated Trading
4 4 (12.90%) DevOps
4 4 (12.90%) Multithreading
4 4 (12.90%) Order Management
4 4 (12.90%) SDLC
4 4 (12.90%) Test Automation
5 3 (9.68%) Functional Testing
5 3 (9.68%) Secure Coding
6 2 (6.45%) CI/CD
6 2 (6.45%) Computer Science
6 2 (6.45%) Mentoring
7 1 (3.23%) Clean Code
7 1 (3.23%) Collaborative Culture
7 1 (3.23%) Community of Practice
7 1 (3.23%) Component Testing
7 1 (3.23%) Customer Requirements
7 1 (3.23%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 31 (100.00%) C++
2 17 (54.84%) C
3 8 (25.81%) Python
4 6 (19.35%) Java
5 3 (9.68%) JavaScript
5 3 (9.68%) PHP
6 2 (6.45%) SQL
7 1 (3.23%) C#
7 1 (3.23%) Rust
Qualifications
1 3 (9.68%) Degree
2 2 (6.45%) Master's Degree
3 1 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.23%) DV Cleared
3 1 (3.23%) PhD
3 1 (3.23%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (9.68%) OpenSIPS
Systems Management
1 1 (3.23%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (3.23%) Atlassian
1 1 (3.23%) Coverity