Senior C++ Developer Jobs in London

Senior C++ Developer
England > London

The median Senior C++ Developer salary in London is £125,000 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 491 576 810
Rank change year-on-year +85 +234 -206
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior C++ Developer 8 31 110
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.033% 0.097% 0.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.035% 0.10% 0.16%
Number of salaries quoted 3 19 85
10th Percentile - £62,500 £85,000
25th Percentile - £81,250 £100,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £125,000 £117,500 £125,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.38% -6.00% +66.67%
75th Percentile £132,500 £140,000 £132,500
90th Percentile £137,000 £180,000 £185,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £80,000 £125,000
% change year-on-year -18.75% -36.00% +66.67%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 22,868 30,463 70,595
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.46% 95.03% 96.24%
Number of salaries quoted 16,938 22,839 34,712
10th Percentile £37,500 £41,875 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -
75th Percentile £93,750 £95,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £110,000
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,567 £60,000
% change year-on-year -13.32% +0.95% +9.09%

Senior C++ Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior C++ Developer in London

Senior C++ Developer
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Senior C++ Developer in London

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

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 London region featuring Senior C++ Developer in the job title.

1 8 (100.00%) C++
2 7 (87.50%) Finance
3 6 (75.00%) Low Latency
4 5 (62.50%) Agile
5 4 (50.00%) Multithreading
5 4 (50.00%) Hedge funds
5 4 (50.00%) Front Office
5 4 (50.00%) Unix
5 4 (50.00%) Linux
5 4 (50.00%) Python
5 4 (50.00%) Order Management
5 4 (50.00%) DevOps
5 4 (50.00%) SDLC
5 4 (50.00%) Automated Trading
6 3 (37.50%) Java
7 2 (25.00%) C
7 2 (25.00%) FPGA
7 2 (25.00%) Degree
8 1 (12.50%) CircleCI
8 1 (12.50%) Clean Code
8 1 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (12.50%) CI/CD
8 1 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (12.50%) Fintech
8 1 (12.50%) Algorithms
8 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
8 1 (12.50%) Master's Degree
8 1 (12.50%) Community of Practice
8 1 (12.50%) Computer Science

Senior C++ Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (12.50%) AWS
1 1 (12.50%) Azure
1 1 (12.50%) GitHub
1 1 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) CircleCI
1 1 (12.50%) CMake
1 1 (12.50%) Git
General
1 7 (87.50%) Finance
2 4 (50.00%) Front Office
3 1 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Hedge funds
2 2 (25.00%) FPGA
3 1 (12.50%) Algorithms
3 1 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 4 (50.00%) Linux
1 4 (50.00%) Unix
2 1 (12.50%) Apple iOS
2 1 (12.50%) Mac OS
2 1 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Low Latency
2 5 (62.50%) Agile
3 4 (50.00%) Automated Trading
3 4 (50.00%) DevOps
3 4 (50.00%) Multithreading
3 4 (50.00%) Order Management
3 4 (50.00%) SDLC
4 1 (12.50%) Analytics
4 1 (12.50%) CI/CD
4 1 (12.50%) Clean Code
4 1 (12.50%) Community of Practice
4 1 (12.50%) Computer Science
4 1 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (12.50%) Fintech
4 1 (12.50%) Pair Programming
4 1 (12.50%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) C++
2 4 (50.00%) Python
3 3 (37.50%) Java
4 2 (25.00%) C
5 1 (12.50%) C#
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) Degree
2 1 (12.50%) Master's Degree
2 1 (12.50%) PhD
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes