Senior C++ Developer Jobs in England

Senior C++ Developer
UK > England

The median Senior C++ Developer salary in England is £65,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 June 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
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 818 870 1053
Rank change year-on-year +52 +183 -199
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior C++ Developer 30 44 117
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.033% 0.052% 0.083%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.035% 0.057% 0.086%
Number of salaries quoted 23 32 92
10th Percentile £47,800 £51,250 £85,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £62,500 £91,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £80,000 £125,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.75% -36.00% +66.67%
75th Percentile £85,000 £123,750 £132,500
90th Percentile £117,000 £140,000 £185,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £75,000 £120,000
% change year-on-year -13.33% -37.50% +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 86,435 76,952 135,807
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.72% 91.31% 96.01%
Number of salaries quoted 63,785 50,234 75,047
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,567 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.32% +0.95% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £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 2 June 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 2 June 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
South East -4 10 £85,000 +13.33% 1
London +85 8 £125,000 +6.38% 4
North of England +36 5 £65,000 +4.00% 6
North West -9 5 £65,000 +4.00% 6
Midlands -13 4 £50,000 -13.04% 4
East Midlands -17 4 £50,000 -13.04% 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 2 June 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 30 (100.00%) C++
2 13 (43.33%) C
3 9 (30.00%) Finance
4 8 (26.67%) Agile
5 7 (23.33%) Python
6 6 (20.00%) Linux
6 6 (20.00%) Java
6 6 (20.00%) Software Engineering
6 6 (20.00%) Git
6 6 (20.00%) Low Latency
7 5 (16.67%) Confluence
7 5 (16.67%) Degree
7 5 (16.67%) JIRA
8 4 (13.33%) Front Office
8 4 (13.33%) Unix
8 4 (13.33%) Computer Science
8 4 (13.33%) Multithreading
8 4 (13.33%) Hedge funds
8 4 (13.33%) DevOps
8 4 (13.33%) Automated Trading
8 4 (13.33%) Master's Degree
8 4 (13.33%) SDLC
8 4 (13.33%) Order Management
8 4 (13.33%) CI/CD
9 3 (10.00%) Customer Requirements
9 3 (10.00%) Collaborative Culture
9 3 (10.00%) Atlassian
9 3 (10.00%) SonarQube
9 3 (10.00%) Component Testing
9 3 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree

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 (16.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (3.33%) AWS
1 1 (3.33%) Azure
1 1 (3.33%) GitHub
1 1 (3.33%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 6 (20.00%) Git
2 5 (16.67%) JIRA
3 3 (10.00%) Bitbucket
3 3 (10.00%) Jenkins
3 3 (10.00%) SonarQube
4 1 (3.33%) CircleCI
4 1 (3.33%) CMake
General
1 9 (30.00%) Finance
2 4 (13.33%) Front Office
3 2 (6.67%) Manufacturing
4 1 (3.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.67%) Qt
1 2 (6.67%) STL
1 2 (6.67%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (13.33%) Hedge funds
2 2 (6.67%) FPGA
3 1 (3.33%) Algorithms
3 1 (3.33%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 6 (20.00%) Linux
2 4 (13.33%) Unix
3 3 (10.00%) Windows
4 1 (3.33%) Apple iOS
4 1 (3.33%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (26.67%) Agile
2 6 (20.00%) Low Latency
2 6 (20.00%) Software Engineering
3 4 (13.33%) Automated Trading
3 4 (13.33%) CI/CD
3 4 (13.33%) Computer Science
3 4 (13.33%) DevOps
3 4 (13.33%) Multithreading
3 4 (13.33%) Order Management
3 4 (13.33%) SDLC
4 3 (10.00%) Artificial Intelligence
4 3 (10.00%) Collaborative Culture
4 3 (10.00%) Component Testing
4 3 (10.00%) Customer Requirements
4 3 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
4 3 (10.00%) Machine Learning
4 3 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (10.00%) Scrum
4 3 (10.00%) Test Automation
4 3 (10.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 30 (100.00%) C++
2 13 (43.33%) C
3 7 (23.33%) Python
4 6 (20.00%) Java
5 3 (10.00%) Rust
6 2 (6.67%) SQL
7 1 (3.33%) C#
Qualifications
1 5 (16.67%) Degree
2 4 (13.33%) Master's Degree
3 3 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (10.00%) DV Cleared
3 3 (10.00%) Security Cleared
4 1 (3.33%) PhD
Systems Management
1 1 (3.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (10.00%) Atlassian
1 3 (10.00%) Coverity