C/C++ Software Engineer Jobs with Work from Home Options

C/C++ Software Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median C/C++ Software Engineer salary for remote or hybrid work is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 581 597 856
Rank change year-on-year +16 +259 -263
Permanent jobs requiring a C/C++ Software Engineer 21 36 45
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.059% 0.096% 0.059%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.061% 0.10% 0.061%
Number of salaries quoted 14 35 39
10th Percentile - £41,000 £31,250
25th Percentile - £41,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £47,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +26.32% +5.56% -18.18%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £56,250
90th Percentile - £67,500 -
UK median annual salary £60,000 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +26.32% +5.56% -5.26%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 34,224 35,954 73,616
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.28% 95.93% 97.29%
Number of salaries quoted 25,903 26,270 42,683
10th Percentile £33,250 £36,875 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,447 £45,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

C/C++ Software Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured C/C++ Software Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

C/C++ Software Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

C/C++ Software Engineer
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing C/C++ Software Engineer.

C/C++ Software Engineer salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

C/C++ Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 12 June 2024, C/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 jobs with remote work options featuring C/C++ Software Engineer in the job title.

1 21 (100.00%) C
1 21 (100.00%) C++
1 21 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 19 (90.48%) Linux
3 14 (66.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 13 (61.90%) Network Security
4 13 (61.90%) Degree
4 13 (61.90%) Distributed Systems
5 12 (57.14%) Computer Science
6 11 (52.38%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (33.33%) DPDK
8 6 (28.57%) Social Skills
8 6 (28.57%) Open Source
8 6 (28.57%) C#
9 5 (23.81%) Embedded C
9 5 (23.81%) Embedded C++
9 5 (23.81%) Embedded Linux
9 5 (23.81%) Multithreading
9 5 (23.81%) GStreamer
9 5 (23.81%) FFmpeg
9 5 (23.81%) Embedded Systems
9 5 (23.81%) OpenEmbedded
9 5 (23.81%) Yocto
10 2 (9.52%) Agile
11 1 (4.76%) TDD
11 1 (4.76%) Mathematics
11 1 (4.76%) Physics
11 1 (4.76%) Ubuntu
11 1 (4.76%) PKI
11 1 (4.76%) Blackberry

C/C++ Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (4.76%) Azure
1 1 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 13 (61.90%) Network Security
2 1 (4.76%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Git
General
1 14 (66.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 6 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.76%) Aerospace
3 1 (4.76%) Automotive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (33.33%) DPDK
2 5 (23.81%) FFmpeg
2 5 (23.81%) GStreamer
2 5 (23.81%) OpenEmbedded
2 5 (23.81%) Yocto
3 1 (4.76%) GTK
Miscellaneous
1 13 (61.90%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (23.81%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (4.76%) Blackberry
3 1 (4.76%) Device Driver
3 1 (4.76%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 19 (90.48%) Linux
2 5 (23.81%) Embedded Linux
3 1 (4.76%) Debian
3 1 (4.76%) Ubuntu
3 1 (4.76%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 12 (57.14%) Computer Science
3 6 (28.57%) Open Source
4 5 (23.81%) Multithreading
5 2 (9.52%) Agile
6 1 (4.76%) CI/CD
6 1 (4.76%) Continuous Delivery
6 1 (4.76%) Continuous Integration
6 1 (4.76%) Cybersecurity
6 1 (4.76%) Device Driver Development
6 1 (4.76%) DevOps
6 1 (4.76%) Mathematics
6 1 (4.76%) Open Source Development
6 1 (4.76%) Physics
6 1 (4.76%) Scrum
6 1 (4.76%) TDD
6 1 (4.76%) Unit Testing
6 1 (4.76%) Validation
6 1 (4.76%) Verification and Validation
6 1 (4.76%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 21 (100.00%) C
1 21 (100.00%) C++
2 6 (28.57%) C#
3 5 (23.81%) Embedded C
3 5 (23.81%) Embedded C++
4 1 (4.76%) Bash
4 1 (4.76%) Python
Qualifications
1 13 (61.90%) Degree
2 11 (52.38%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (4.76%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (4.76%) QNX