C++ Developer Jobs

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 1 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 601 643 824
Rank change year-on-year +42 +181 -213
Permanent jobs requiring a C++ Developer 327 315 471
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.31% 0.33% 0.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.33% 0.36% 0.29%
Number of salaries quoted 227 253 344
10th Percentile £36,400 £45,000 £42,875
25th Percentile £44,375 £52,500 £55,000
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 £88,500 £142,500 £140,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,750 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -7.08% +9.09% +10.00%

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 99,552 86,380 162,088
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.85% 91.27% 96.05%
Number of salaries quoted 70,786 55,655 84,889
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,500 £50,244
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.48% +5.78%

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 1 June 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 1 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
England +58 302 £57,500 -24.59% 58
UK excluding London +104 251 £55,750 -7.08% 26
Work from Home -29 87 £55,000 -8.33% 30
South East +58 83 £60,000 +3.45% 6
North of England +96 66 £60,000 - 10
London -15 66 £115,000 +9.52% 30
North West +49 55 £62,500 - 9
East of England +30 34 £50,000 -31.03% 3
Midlands -19 33 £45,000 -14.29% 9
West Midlands -12 23 £45,000 -14.29% 6
South West -12 20 £56,500 -11.37%
Yorkshire +73 11 £48,750 -18.75% 1
Scotland -70 11 £65,000 +8.33%
East Midlands -26 10 £50,000 -9.09% 3
Wales - 4 £31,250 -

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

For the 6 months to 1 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 featuring C++ Developer in the job title.

1 327 (100.00%) C++
2 80 (24.46%) C
2 80 (24.46%) Social Skills
3 79 (24.16%) Linux
4 76 (23.24%) C#
5 63 (19.27%) Problem-Solving
6 61 (18.65%) Finance
7 57 (17.43%) Java
8 55 (16.82%) Agile
9 54 (16.51%) Security Cleared
10 51 (15.60%) Python
11 45 (13.76%) SQL
12 43 (13.15%) Multithreading
13 42 (12.84%) Azure
14 41 (12.54%) Software Engineering
14 41 (12.54%) Degree
15 38 (11.62%) .NET
15 38 (11.62%) SC Cleared
16 37 (11.31%) Windows
17 36 (11.01%) Algorithms
18 34 (10.40%) Low Latency
19 32 (9.79%) Mathematics
20 30 (9.17%) Computer Science
21 28 (8.56%) Mentoring
22 26 (7.95%) SDLC
22 26 (7.95%) SQL Server
23 25 (7.65%) Test Automation
24 24 (7.34%) STL
25 23 (7.03%) ASP.NET
26 22 (6.73%) SystemVerilog

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 (6.12%) Apache
2 5 (1.53%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.31%) Revit
Business Applications
1 4 (1.22%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 42 (12.84%) Azure
2 18 (5.50%) AWS
3 10 (3.06%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (2.14%) GitHub
5 6 (1.83%) SaaS
6 2 (0.61%) Azure Service Bus
6 2 (0.61%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (0.61%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (0.31%) Azure Service Fabric
7 1 (0.31%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 16 (4.89%) TCP/IP
2 4 (1.22%) Wireless
3 2 (0.61%) 4G
3 2 (0.61%) 5G
3 2 (0.61%) Firewall
3 2 (0.61%) Network Security
4 1 (0.31%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (7.95%) SQL Server
2 3 (0.92%) Relational Database
3 2 (0.61%) RDBMS
3 2 (0.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (0.61%) Tick Data
4 1 (0.31%) Big Data
4 1 (0.31%) Flink
4 1 (0.31%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 21 (6.42%) Ant
2 20 (6.12%) Git
3 8 (2.45%) Jenkins
3 8 (2.45%) JIRA
4 7 (2.14%) Bitbucket
4 7 (2.14%) Visual Studio
5 6 (1.83%) GitLab
6 5 (1.53%) GDB
7 4 (1.22%) Subversion
8 3 (0.92%) CMake
8 3 (0.92%) GCC
8 3 (0.92%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.31%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.31%) Mockito
9 1 (0.31%) NUnit
9 1 (0.31%) SoapUI
General
1 80 (24.46%) Social Skills
2 61 (18.65%) Finance
3 22 (6.73%) Automotive
4 15 (4.59%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (4.59%) Games
5 13 (3.98%) Influencing Skills
6 12 (3.67%) Manufacturing
7 10 (3.06%) Front Office
8 9 (2.75%) Marketing
9 8 (2.45%) Presentation Skills
10 7 (2.14%) Banking
11 6 (1.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 6 (1.83%) Law
11 6 (1.83%) Public Sector
11 6 (1.83%) Retail
12 2 (0.61%) Legal
12 2 (0.61%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.31%) Advertising
13 1 (0.31%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.31%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (11.62%) .NET
2 24 (7.34%) STL
3 23 (7.03%) ASP.NET
4 21 (6.42%) Hibernate
5 19 (5.81%) .NET Framework
5 19 (5.81%) Apache NiFi
6 17 (5.20%) Qt
7 16 (4.89%) HTML
8 15 (4.59%) Entity Framework
9 11 (3.36%) Blazor
10 10 (3.06%) .NET Core
10 10 (3.06%) CSS
11 9 (2.75%) ASP.NET MVC
12 8 (2.45%) HTML5
13 6 (1.83%) LESS
13 6 (1.83%) LINQ
13 6 (1.83%) Twitter Bootstrap
13 6 (1.83%) WPF
14 5 (1.53%) AngularJS
14 5 (1.53%) React
Miscellaneous
1 36 (11.01%) Algorithms
2 22 (6.73%) Hedge funds
3 21 (6.42%) IoT
4 19 (5.81%) FPGA
5 10 (3.06%) Client/Server
5 10 (3.06%) Data Structures
6 9 (2.75%) ARM Cortex
6 9 (2.75%) Verilog
7 8 (2.45%) Blog
7 8 (2.45%) Raspberry Pi
7 8 (2.45%) Robotics
8 7 (2.14%) Embedded Systems
9 6 (1.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 5 (1.53%) Distributed Systems
11 4 (1.22%) Equities
11 4 (1.22%) Mobile App
12 3 (0.92%) Fixed Income
12 3 (0.92%) Podcast
12 3 (0.92%) Virtual Team
13 2 (0.61%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 79 (24.16%) Linux
2 37 (11.31%) Windows
3 10 (3.06%) Android
3 10 (3.06%) Apple iOS
4 4 (1.22%) Unix
5 2 (0.61%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (0.31%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (19.27%) Problem-Solving
2 55 (16.82%) Agile
3 43 (13.15%) Multithreading
4 41 (12.54%) Software Engineering
5 34 (10.40%) Low Latency
6 32 (9.79%) Mathematics
7 30 (9.17%) Computer Science
8 28 (8.56%) Mentoring
9 26 (7.95%) SDLC
10 25 (7.65%) Test Automation
11 22 (6.73%) DevOps
12 21 (6.42%) Actionable Insight
13 20 (6.12%) System Testing
14 19 (5.81%) CI/CD
15 16 (4.89%) Machine Learning
16 14 (4.28%) MVC
16 14 (4.28%) OOP
17 13 (3.98%) Technical Leadership
18 12 (3.67%) Quantitative Trading
18 12 (3.67%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 327 (100.00%) C++
2 80 (24.46%) C
3 76 (23.24%) C#
4 57 (17.43%) Java
5 51 (15.60%) Python
6 45 (13.76%) SQL
7 22 (6.73%) SystemVerilog
8 14 (4.28%) JavaScript
9 9 (2.75%) Tcl
10 6 (1.83%) Rust
11 4 (1.22%) VBA
12 3 (0.92%) Objective-C
12 3 (0.92%) PHP
13 2 (0.61%) Go
13 2 (0.61%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.61%) TypeScript
14 1 (0.31%) Bash
14 1 (0.31%) Embedded C
14 1 (0.31%) Embedded C++
14 1 (0.31%) VB
Qualifications
1 54 (16.51%) Security Cleared
2 41 (12.54%) Degree
3 38 (11.62%) SC Cleared
4 20 (6.12%) Master's Degree
5 11 (3.36%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (2.75%) PhD
7 4 (1.22%) DBS Check
8 3 (0.92%) DV Cleared
8 3 (0.92%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (2.14%) QA
2 3 (0.92%) GDPR
System Software
1 4 (1.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (3.98%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.31%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 14 (4.28%) Microsoft
2 9 (2.75%) Cadence
2 9 (2.75%) Synopsys
3 6 (1.83%) Google
4 5 (1.53%) BT
4 5 (1.53%) HP
5 3 (0.92%) Atlassian
5 3 (0.92%) Coverity
5 3 (0.92%) YouTube
6 1 (0.31%) Autodesk
6 1 (0.31%) Meraki