C++ Developer
UK

The median C++ Developer salary in the UK is £57,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 14 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
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 600 666 813
Rank change year-on-year +66 +147 -198
Permanent jobs requiring a C++ Developer 318 318 449
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.32% 0.32% 0.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.34% 0.35% 0.29%
Number of salaries quoted 218 255 348
10th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £54,375 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% -23.53% +41.67%
75th Percentile £68,750 £120,000 £127,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £141,500 £140,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +15.00%

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 93,739 91,836 153,630
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.65% 91.52% 96.11%
Number of salaries quoted 67,104 57,926 84,939
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,604
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £80,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

C++ Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for C++ Developer in the UK

C++ Developer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for C++ Developer in the UK

C++ Developer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing C++ Developer over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Salary histogram for C++ Developer in the UK

C++ Developer
Top 15 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 14 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
England +88 291 £57,500 -23.33% 49
UK excluding London +111 240 £55,000 -8.33% 20
Work from Home -12 83 £55,000 -8.33% 23
South East +68 82 £60,000 +16.50% 9
London +5 69 £125,000 +16.28% 29
North of England +88 59 £55,000 -8.33% 6
North West +49 49 £62,500 +11.11% 6
East of England +32 32 £50,000 -31.03% 2
Midlands -8 30 £45,000 -14.29% 3
West Midlands +3 21 £45,000 -14.29%
South West -11 19 £56,500 -11.37%
Scotland -53 14 £61,250 +2.08%
Yorkshire +97 10 £47,500 -20.83%
East Midlands -27 9 £50,000 -4.76% 3
Wales - 4 £31,250 -

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

For the 6 months to 14 May 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 featuring C++ Developer in the job title.

1 318 (100.00%) C++
2 87 (27.36%) Linux
3 86 (27.04%) Social Skills
4 83 (26.10%) C
5 72 (22.64%) C#
6 67 (21.07%) Problem-Solving
7 62 (19.50%) Finance
8 61 (19.18%) Java
9 56 (17.61%) Agile
10 55 (17.30%) Security Cleared
11 50 (15.72%) Python
12 48 (15.09%) Multithreading
13 47 (14.78%) SQL
14 40 (12.58%) Windows
14 40 (12.58%) Software Engineering
15 39 (12.26%) SC Cleared
15 39 (12.26%) Azure
15 39 (12.26%) Low Latency
16 38 (11.95%) Degree
16 38 (11.95%) .NET
17 34 (10.69%) Algorithms
18 33 (10.38%) Mathematics
19 30 (9.43%) Computer Science
20 29 (9.12%) Test Automation
21 28 (8.81%) Mentoring
22 27 (8.49%) SDLC
23 26 (8.18%) SQL Server
24 24 (7.55%) Ant
24 24 (7.55%) STL
24 24 (7.55%) Hibernate

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 20 (6.29%) Apache
2 5 (1.57%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 4 (1.26%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 39 (12.26%) Azure
2 15 (4.72%) AWS
3 10 (3.14%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (2.20%) GitHub
5 6 (1.89%) SaaS
6 2 (0.63%) Azure Service Bus
6 2 (0.63%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (0.63%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (0.31%) Azure Service Fabric
Communications & Networking
1 17 (5.35%) TCP/IP
2 4 (1.26%) Wireless
3 2 (0.63%) 4G
3 2 (0.63%) 5G
4 1 (0.31%) Multicast
4 1 (0.31%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (8.18%) SQL Server
2 5 (1.57%) Relational Database
3 4 (1.26%) RDBMS
4 3 (0.94%) Tick Data
5 2 (0.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.31%) Big Data
6 1 (0.31%) Flink
6 1 (0.31%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 24 (7.55%) Ant
2 20 (6.29%) Git
3 8 (2.52%) Jenkins
3 8 (2.52%) JIRA
4 7 (2.20%) Bitbucket
4 7 (2.20%) Visual Studio
5 6 (1.89%) GitLab
6 5 (1.57%) GDB
7 3 (0.94%) CMake
7 3 (0.94%) GCC
7 3 (0.94%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.63%) Subversion
9 1 (0.31%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.31%) Mockito
9 1 (0.31%) NUnit
9 1 (0.31%) SoapUI
General
1 86 (27.04%) Social Skills
2 62 (19.50%) Finance
3 22 (6.92%) Automotive
4 16 (5.03%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (4.72%) Games
6 13 (4.09%) Influencing Skills
7 11 (3.46%) Front Office
8 10 (3.14%) Manufacturing
9 9 (2.83%) Marketing
10 8 (2.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 8 (2.52%) Law
10 8 (2.52%) Presentation Skills
10 8 (2.52%) Retail
11 6 (1.89%) Banking
11 6 (1.89%) Public Sector
12 3 (0.94%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.63%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.63%) Legal
14 1 (0.31%) Music Industry
14 1 (0.31%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (11.95%) .NET
2 24 (7.55%) Hibernate
2 24 (7.55%) STL
3 23 (7.23%) ASP.NET
4 19 (5.97%) .NET Framework
4 19 (5.97%) Apache NiFi
5 16 (5.03%) HTML
6 15 (4.72%) Entity Framework
6 15 (4.72%) Qt
7 11 (3.46%) Blazor
8 10 (3.14%) .NET Core
8 10 (3.14%) CSS
9 9 (2.83%) ASP.NET MVC
10 8 (2.52%) HTML5
11 6 (1.89%) LESS
11 6 (1.89%) LINQ
11 6 (1.89%) Twitter Bootstrap
11 6 (1.89%) WPF
12 5 (1.57%) AngularJS
13 4 (1.26%) React
Miscellaneous
1 34 (10.69%) Algorithms
2 23 (7.23%) FPGA
3 22 (6.92%) Hedge funds
4 21 (6.60%) IoT
5 11 (3.46%) Data Structures
6 10 (3.14%) Client/Server
7 9 (2.83%) ARM Cortex
7 9 (2.83%) Verilog
8 8 (2.52%) Blog
8 8 (2.52%) Raspberry Pi
9 7 (2.20%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 7 (2.20%) Robotics
10 6 (1.89%) Embedded Systems
11 4 (1.26%) Equities
11 4 (1.26%) Mobile App
12 3 (0.94%) Distributed Computing
12 3 (0.94%) Distributed Systems
12 3 (0.94%) Fixed Income
12 3 (0.94%) Podcast
12 3 (0.94%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 87 (27.36%) Linux
2 40 (12.58%) Windows
3 10 (3.14%) Apple iOS
4 9 (2.83%) Android
5 5 (1.57%) Unix
6 1 (0.31%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (21.07%) Problem-Solving
2 56 (17.61%) Agile
3 48 (15.09%) Multithreading
4 40 (12.58%) Software Engineering
5 39 (12.26%) Low Latency
6 33 (10.38%) Mathematics
7 30 (9.43%) Computer Science
8 29 (9.12%) Test Automation
9 28 (8.81%) Mentoring
10 27 (8.49%) SDLC
11 24 (7.55%) Actionable Insight
12 23 (7.23%) System Testing
13 21 (6.60%) DevOps
14 17 (5.35%) CI/CD
15 16 (5.03%) Machine Learning
16 14 (4.40%) MVC
16 14 (4.40%) OOP
17 13 (4.09%) Quantitative Trading
17 13 (4.09%) Technical Leadership
18 12 (3.77%) Algorithmic Trading
Programming Languages
1 318 (100.00%) C++
2 83 (26.10%) C
3 72 (22.64%) C#
4 61 (19.18%) Java
5 50 (15.72%) Python
6 47 (14.78%) SQL
7 22 (6.92%) SystemVerilog
8 15 (4.72%) JavaScript
9 9 (2.83%) Tcl
10 4 (1.26%) PHP
10 4 (1.26%) Rust
10 4 (1.26%) VBA
11 3 (0.94%) Objective-C
12 2 (0.63%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.31%) Bash
13 1 (0.31%) Embedded C
13 1 (0.31%) Embedded C++
13 1 (0.31%) MATLAB
13 1 (0.31%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.31%) VB
Qualifications
1 55 (17.30%) Security Cleared
2 39 (12.26%) SC Cleared
3 38 (11.95%) Degree
4 17 (5.35%) Master's Degree
5 12 (3.77%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (2.20%) PhD
7 4 (1.26%) DBS Check
8 3 (0.94%) DV Cleared
8 3 (0.94%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (2.20%) QA
2 3 (0.94%) GDPR
System Software
1 4 (1.26%) Docker
2 1 (0.31%) OpenSIPS
Systems Management
1 11 (3.46%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.31%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 14 (4.40%) Microsoft
2 9 (2.83%) Cadence
2 9 (2.83%) Synopsys
3 5 (1.57%) BT
3 5 (1.57%) Google
3 5 (1.57%) HP
4 3 (0.94%) Atlassian
4 3 (0.94%) Coverity
4 3 (0.94%) YouTube
5 1 (0.31%) Meraki