C++ Software Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Software Engineer - C++
UK > UK excluding London

The median Software Engineer - C++ salary in the UK excluding London is £60,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 23 May 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 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 470 616 576
Rank change year-on-year +146 -40 -89
Permanent jobs requiring a C++ Software Engineer 320 155 290
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.44% 0.26% 0.40%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.46% 0.30% 0.42%
Number of salaries quoted 248 91 206
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £32,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £42,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% +21.05%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £80,375 £85,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% +26.32%

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 68,862 52,395 69,656
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.90% 89.16% 95.72%
Number of salaries quoted 48,635 29,827 42,609
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,250 £50,173
Median % change year-on-year -6.10% +6.13% +5.63%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
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++ Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for C++ Software Engineer in the UK excluding London

C++ Software Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for C++ Software Engineer in the UK excluding London

C++ Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing C++ Software Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Salary histogram for C++ Software Engineer in the UK excluding London

C++ Software Engineer
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++ Software Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 23 May 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 +71 109 £60,000 -14.29% 22
South West +30 76 £55,000 +25.00% 10
North of England +58 47 £60,000 +41.18% 6
Midlands +16 32 £51,250 +10.81% 8
Scotland -42 30 £60,000 +20.00% 2
East of England +4 22 £62,500 +4.17% 11
North West +19 21 £61,000 -11.27%
West Midlands +20 18 £78,750 +70.27% 3
Yorkshire +72 16 £40,000 -5.88% 4
East Midlands +7 14 £42,500 - 4
North East - 10 £60,000 - 2
Wales - 4 £55,000 - 2
C++ Software Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 23 May 2024, C++ Software Engineer 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++ Software Engineer in the job title.

1 320 (100.00%) C++
1 320 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 117 (36.56%) C
3 71 (22.19%) Security Cleared
4 70 (21.88%) Linux
5 67 (20.94%) Degree
6 62 (19.38%) Windows
7 56 (17.50%) Computer Science
8 51 (15.94%) C#
9 48 (15.00%) Computer Science Degree
10 45 (14.06%) SC Cleared
11 42 (13.13%) Mathematics
12 40 (12.50%) Agile
13 39 (12.19%) Problem-Solving
14 31 (9.69%) Self-Motivation
15 29 (9.06%) Test Automation
16 28 (8.75%) Manufacturing
17 26 (8.13%) Multithreading
17 26 (8.13%) Network Security
17 26 (8.13%) Mentoring
17 26 (8.13%) Algorithms
18 25 (7.81%) SaaS
19 24 (7.50%) Actionable Insight
20 23 (7.19%) Automotive
21 22 (6.88%) QA
21 22 (6.88%) Embedded Systems
21 22 (6.88%) Code Quality
22 20 (6.25%) Satnav
22 20 (6.25%) Software Quality Assurance
22 20 (6.25%) Subversion

C++ Software Engineer 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 2 (0.63%) CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (0.31%) C-CURE
Cloud Services
1 25 (7.81%) SaaS
2 3 (0.94%) Azure
2 3 (0.94%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (0.94%) WhatsApp
3 2 (0.63%) AWS
4 1 (0.31%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 26 (8.13%) Network Security
2 8 (2.50%) TCP/IP
3 3 (0.94%) Wireless
4 2 (0.63%) VoIP
5 1 (0.31%) Ethernet
5 1 (0.31%) Internet
5 1 (0.31%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (1.25%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.31%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 20 (6.25%) Subversion
2 19 (5.94%) CMake
3 15 (4.69%) Git
4 12 (3.75%) Visual Studio
5 6 (1.88%) Jenkins
6 4 (1.25%) GCC
6 4 (1.25%) GDB
6 4 (1.25%) Xcode
7 3 (0.94%) JIRA
8 2 (0.63%) LabVIEW
8 2 (0.63%) NetBeans
General
1 28 (8.75%) Manufacturing
2 23 (7.19%) Automotive
3 20 (6.25%) Military
4 19 (5.94%) Aviation
5 14 (4.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 12 (3.75%) Social Skills
7 10 (3.13%) Electronics
8 8 (2.50%) Aerospace
9 4 (1.25%) Marketing
10 3 (0.94%) Analytical Skills
11 2 (0.63%) Agriculture
11 2 (0.63%) Finance
11 2 (0.63%) Legal
12 1 (0.31%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (5.94%) STL
2 18 (5.63%) Qt
3 17 (5.31%) .NET
3 17 (5.31%) MFC
4 16 (5.00%) XML
5 12 (3.75%) OpenGL
6 11 (3.44%) WPF
7 6 (1.88%) Yocto
8 5 (1.56%) FFmpeg
8 5 (1.56%) GStreamer
8 5 (1.56%) OpenEmbedded
9 4 (1.25%) DirectX
9 4 (1.25%) WebGL
10 3 (0.94%) ASP.NET
10 3 (0.94%) Boost C++ Libraries
10 3 (0.94%) DPDK
11 2 (0.63%) JavaFX
11 2 (0.63%) REST
11 2 (0.63%) Web Services
12 1 (0.31%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 31 (9.69%) Self-Motivation
2 26 (8.13%) Algorithms
3 22 (6.88%) Embedded Systems
4 20 (6.25%) Satnav
5 8 (2.50%) Distributed Systems
6 7 (2.19%) Renewable Energy
7 6 (1.88%) Virtual Team
8 3 (0.94%) Arduino
8 3 (0.94%) Raspberry Pi
9 2 (0.63%) Blog
9 2 (0.63%) CCTV
10 1 (0.31%) Data Structures
10 1 (0.31%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 70 (21.88%) Linux
2 62 (19.38%) Windows
3 17 (5.31%) Embedded Linux
4 5 (1.56%) Windows Embedded Compact
5 3 (0.94%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.31%) CentOS
6 1 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.31%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.31%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 320 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 56 (17.50%) Computer Science
3 42 (13.13%) Mathematics
4 40 (12.50%) Agile
5 39 (12.19%) Problem-Solving
6 29 (9.06%) Test Automation
7 26 (8.13%) Mentoring
7 26 (8.13%) Multithreading
8 24 (7.50%) Actionable Insight
9 22 (6.88%) Code Quality
10 20 (6.25%) Quality Management
11 19 (5.94%) Configuration Management
11 19 (5.94%) OO
12 16 (5.00%) SDLC
12 16 (5.00%) Technical Leadership
13 14 (4.38%) DevOps
14 10 (3.13%) Unit Testing
15 9 (2.81%) Customer Service
16 8 (2.50%) Cybersecurity
16 8 (2.50%) OOD
Programming Languages
1 320 (100.00%) C++
2 117 (36.56%) C
3 51 (15.94%) C#
4 18 (5.63%) Python
5 14 (4.38%) Java
6 12 (3.75%) Embedded C
7 11 (3.44%) Embedded C++
8 9 (2.81%) SQL
9 5 (1.56%) Bash
10 4 (1.25%) JavaScript
10 4 (1.25%) Perl
10 4 (1.25%) T-SQL
11 3 (0.94%) PowerShell
12 2 (0.63%) Fortran
12 2 (0.63%) MATLAB
13 1 (0.31%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 71 (22.19%) Security Cleared
2 67 (20.94%) Degree
3 48 (15.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 45 (14.06%) SC Cleared
5 3 (0.94%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (0.63%) HND
6 2 (0.63%) PhD
7 1 (0.31%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.31%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (6.88%) QA
2 20 (6.25%) Software Quality Assurance
3 6 (1.88%) ISO 9000
4 2 (0.63%) ISO 9001
4 2 (0.63%) TickIT
System Software
1 3 (0.94%) Firmware
2 1 (0.31%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (0.94%) Ansible
2 1 (0.31%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (0.94%) Samsung
2 2 (0.63%) Atlassian