C++ Developer Jobs in the UK excluding London

C++ Developer
UK > UK excluding London

The median C++ Developer salary in the UK excluding London is £56,500 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 530 630 739
Rank change year-on-year +100 +109 -205
Permanent jobs requiring a C++ Developer 252 103 124
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.33% 0.18% 0.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.35% 0.20% 0.18%
Number of salaries quoted 187 89 102
10th Percentile £37,500 £42,250 £32,625
25th Percentile £43,750 £45,000 £40,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.83% +9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 -
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year -11.54% -23.53% +41.67%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 72,397 50,271 70,852
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.99% 88.93% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 50,949 29,577 42,673
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,500 £50,238
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +6.49% +5.76%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £67,000
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

C++ Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for C++ Developer in the UK excluding London

C++ Developer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing C++ Developer in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for C++ Developer in the UK excluding London

C++ Developer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing C++ Developer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for C++ Developer in the UK excluding London

C++ Developer
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London 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 +53 83 £60,000 +3.45% 7
North of England +97 67 £60,000 - 10
North West +42 56 £62,500 - 9
East of England +26 34 £50,000 -31.03% 3
Midlands -17 33 £45,000 -14.29% 8
West Midlands -8 23 £45,000 -14.29% 6
South West -14 20 £56,500 -11.37%
Yorkshire +71 11 £48,750 -18.75% 1
Scotland -72 11 £65,000 +8.33%
East Midlands -23 10 £50,000 -9.09% 2
Wales - 4 £31,250 -
C++ Developer
UK

C++ Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 2 June 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 across the UK excluding London region featuring C++ Developer in the job title.

1 252 (100.00%) C++
2 74 (29.37%) Social Skills
3 61 (24.21%) C#
4 58 (23.02%) C
5 54 (21.43%) Linux
6 53 (21.03%) Problem-Solving
7 51 (20.24%) Security Cleared
8 45 (17.86%) Agile
9 35 (13.89%) Windows
9 35 (13.89%) SQL
9 35 (13.89%) SC Cleared
9 35 (13.89%) Azure
10 33 (13.10%) Java
10 33 (13.10%) .NET
11 31 (12.30%) Software Engineering
12 30 (11.90%) Multithreading
13 28 (11.11%) Mathematics
14 27 (10.71%) Degree
15 26 (10.32%) Python
15 26 (10.32%) Mentoring
16 25 (9.92%) Algorithms
16 25 (9.92%) SQL Server
16 25 (9.92%) Test Automation
17 23 (9.13%) ASP.NET
18 22 (8.73%) SystemVerilog
19 21 (8.33%) Actionable Insight
19 21 (8.33%) IoT
19 21 (8.33%) STL
19 21 (8.33%) Ant
19 21 (8.33%) Automotive

C++ Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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:

Application Platforms
1 19 (7.54%) Apache
2 5 (1.98%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.40%) Revit
Business Applications
1 4 (1.59%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 35 (13.89%) Azure
2 11 (4.37%) AWS
3 10 (3.97%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (2.38%) SaaS
5 5 (1.98%) GitHub
6 2 (0.79%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (0.40%) Azure Service Fabric
7 1 (0.40%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (0.40%) GCP
7 1 (0.40%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.59%) Wireless
2 2 (0.79%) 4G
2 2 (0.79%) 5G
2 2 (0.79%) Firewall
2 2 (0.79%) Network Security
3 1 (0.40%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (9.92%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.19%) Relational Database
3 2 (0.79%) RDBMS
3 2 (0.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (0.40%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 21 (8.33%) Ant
2 14 (5.56%) Git
3 8 (3.17%) JIRA
4 7 (2.78%) Bitbucket
4 7 (2.78%) Visual Studio
5 4 (1.59%) GDB
5 4 (1.59%) Jenkins
6 3 (1.19%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.79%) CMake
7 2 (0.79%) GCC
7 2 (0.79%) GitLab
8 1 (0.40%) NUnit
8 1 (0.40%) SoapUI
General
1 74 (29.37%) Social Skills
2 21 (8.33%) Automotive
3 15 (5.95%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (5.16%) Influencing Skills
5 12 (4.76%) Games
5 12 (4.76%) Manufacturing
6 11 (4.37%) Finance
7 9 (3.57%) Marketing
8 8 (3.17%) Presentation Skills
9 6 (2.38%) Retail
10 4 (1.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.19%) Law
12 2 (0.79%) Legal
12 2 (0.79%) Public Sector
12 2 (0.79%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.40%) Aviation
13 1 (0.40%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.40%) Health Technology
13 1 (0.40%) Music Industry
13 1 (0.40%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (13.10%) .NET
2 23 (9.13%) ASP.NET
3 21 (8.33%) Hibernate
3 21 (8.33%) STL
4 19 (7.54%) Apache NiFi
5 16 (6.35%) HTML
5 16 (6.35%) Qt
6 15 (5.95%) .NET Framework
6 15 (5.95%) Entity Framework
7 11 (4.37%) Blazor
8 10 (3.97%) CSS
9 9 (3.57%) ASP.NET MVC
10 8 (3.17%) HTML5
11 7 (2.78%) .NET Core
12 6 (2.38%) LESS
12 6 (2.38%) LINQ
12 6 (2.38%) Twitter Bootstrap
12 6 (2.38%) WPF
13 5 (1.98%) AngularJS
13 5 (1.98%) React
Miscellaneous
1 25 (9.92%) Algorithms
2 21 (8.33%) IoT
3 9 (3.57%) ARM Cortex
3 9 (3.57%) Verilog
4 8 (3.17%) Blog
4 8 (3.17%) Client/Server
4 8 (3.17%) Raspberry Pi
4 8 (3.17%) Robotics
5 7 (2.78%) Embedded Systems
6 4 (1.59%) Mobile App
7 3 (1.19%) Podcast
7 3 (1.19%) Virtual Team
8 2 (0.79%) Data Structures
8 2 (0.79%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.40%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.40%) Lidar
9 1 (0.40%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 54 (21.43%) Linux
2 35 (13.89%) Windows
3 10 (3.97%) Android
4 9 (3.57%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.79%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (21.03%) Problem-Solving
2 45 (17.86%) Agile
3 31 (12.30%) Software Engineering
4 30 (11.90%) Multithreading
5 28 (11.11%) Mathematics
6 26 (10.32%) Mentoring
7 25 (9.92%) Test Automation
8 21 (8.33%) Actionable Insight
9 20 (7.94%) System Testing
10 19 (7.54%) SDLC
11 18 (7.14%) Computer Science
12 16 (6.35%) DevOps
12 16 (6.35%) Machine Learning
13 14 (5.56%) MVC
14 13 (5.16%) CI/CD
14 13 (5.16%) OOP
14 13 (5.16%) Technical Leadership
15 11 (4.37%) Scrum
15 11 (4.37%) TDD
16 10 (3.97%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 252 (100.00%) C++
2 61 (24.21%) C#
3 58 (23.02%) C
4 35 (13.89%) SQL
5 33 (13.10%) Java
6 26 (10.32%) Python
7 22 (8.73%) SystemVerilog
8 14 (5.56%) JavaScript
9 9 (3.57%) Tcl
10 5 (1.98%) Rust
11 4 (1.59%) VBA
12 3 (1.19%) Objective-C
12 3 (1.19%) PHP
13 2 (0.79%) Go
13 2 (0.79%) TypeScript
14 1 (0.40%) Assembly Language
14 1 (0.40%) Bash
14 1 (0.40%) Embedded C
14 1 (0.40%) Embedded C++
14 1 (0.40%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 51 (20.24%) Security Cleared
2 35 (13.89%) SC Cleared
3 27 (10.71%) Degree
4 9 (3.57%) Master's Degree
5 8 (3.17%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (1.98%) PhD
7 4 (1.59%) DBS Check
8 3 (1.19%) DV Cleared
8 3 (1.19%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (2.78%) QA
2 3 (1.19%) GDPR
System Software
1 4 (1.59%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (3.17%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.40%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 13 (5.16%) Microsoft
2 9 (3.57%) Cadence
2 9 (3.57%) Synopsys
3 6 (2.38%) Google
4 5 (1.98%) BT
4 5 (1.98%) HP
5 3 (1.19%) Atlassian
5 3 (1.19%) Coverity
6 2 (0.79%) YouTube
7 1 (0.40%) Autodesk