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 8 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
8 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 594 617 846
Rank change year-on-year +23 +229 -234
Permanent jobs requiring a C++ Developer 337 316 473
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.31% 0.34% 0.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.33% 0.37% 0.29%
Number of salaries quoted 238 251 341
10th Percentile £37,200 £45,000 £43,750
25th Percentile £45,563 £53,750 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £70,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.86% -17.65% +41.67%
75th Percentile £68,750 £120,625 £127,500
90th Percentile £91,125 £142,500 £140,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +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 102,593 85,161 165,180
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.87% 91.21% 95.99%
Number of salaries quoted 72,456 55,290 85,908
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,518 £45,000 £42,750
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 £50,500
% change year-on-year -6.54% +5.94% +6.32%

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 8 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 8 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 +44 313 £60,000 -20.00% 48
UK excluding London +108 261 £57,500 -4.17% 22
Work from Home -19 86 £55,000 -8.33% 26
South East +54 82 £58,750 -2.08% 5
North of England +82 71 £60,000 - 11
London -56 65 £115,000 +9.52% 26
North West +49 58 £62,500 - 10
Midlands -33 39 £47,500 -9.52% 3
East of England +21 36 £50,000 -31.03% 6
West Midlands +6 28 £45,000 -14.29% 2
South West -22 20 £56,500 -11.37%
Yorkshire +81 13 £52,500 -12.50% 1
East Midlands -38 11 £50,000 -13.04% 1
Scotland -63 9 £65,000 +13.04%
Wales - 4 £31,250 -

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

For the 6 months to 8 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.

1 337 (100.00%) C++
2 79 (23.44%) C#
3 78 (23.15%) Social Skills
4 76 (22.55%) Linux
5 75 (22.26%) C
6 65 (19.29%) Problem-Solving
7 58 (17.21%) Finance
8 56 (16.62%) Agile
9 53 (15.73%) Java
10 52 (15.43%) Security Cleared
11 51 (15.13%) Python
12 44 (13.06%) SQL
13 43 (12.76%) Software Engineering
13 43 (12.76%) Multithreading
14 42 (12.46%) Azure
15 41 (12.17%) Degree
16 38 (11.28%) .NET
17 37 (10.98%) Algorithms
18 36 (10.68%) SC Cleared
19 35 (10.39%) Windows
20 33 (9.79%) Mathematics
20 33 (9.79%) Low Latency
21 31 (9.20%) Computer Science
22 26 (7.72%) SQL Server
22 26 (7.72%) Mentoring
22 26 (7.72%) SDLC
23 24 (7.12%) Test Automation
24 23 (6.82%) Hedge funds
24 23 (6.82%) ASP.NET
24 23 (6.82%) STL

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 (5.93%) Apache
2 4 (1.19%) Confluence
3 1 (0.30%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 1 (0.30%) Revit
Business Applications
1 4 (1.19%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 42 (12.46%) Azure
2 18 (5.34%) AWS
3 10 (2.97%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (2.08%) GitHub
5 6 (1.78%) SaaS
6 2 (0.59%) Azure Service Bus
6 2 (0.59%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (0.59%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (0.30%) Azure Service Fabric
7 1 (0.30%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 15 (4.45%) TCP/IP
2 5 (1.48%) Firewall
2 5 (1.48%) Network Security
3 3 (0.89%) Wireless
4 2 (0.59%) 4G
4 2 (0.59%) 5G
5 1 (0.30%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (7.72%) SQL Server
2 3 (0.89%) Tick Data
3 2 (0.59%) Relational Database
3 2 (0.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (0.30%) Big Data
4 1 (0.30%) Flink
4 1 (0.30%) MySQL
4 1 (0.30%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 20 (5.93%) Ant
2 19 (5.64%) Git
3 8 (2.37%) Jenkins
4 7 (2.08%) Bitbucket
4 7 (2.08%) JIRA
4 7 (2.08%) Visual Studio
5 6 (1.78%) GitLab
6 5 (1.48%) Subversion
7 4 (1.19%) GDB
8 3 (0.89%) CMake
8 3 (0.89%) GCC
8 3 (0.89%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.30%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.30%) Mockito
9 1 (0.30%) NUnit
9 1 (0.30%) SoapUI
General
1 78 (23.15%) Social Skills
2 58 (17.21%) Finance
3 22 (6.53%) Automotive
4 15 (4.45%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (4.45%) Games
5 13 (3.86%) Influencing Skills
5 13 (3.86%) Manufacturing
6 10 (2.97%) Front Office
7 9 (2.67%) Marketing
8 8 (2.37%) Presentation Skills
9 7 (2.08%) Banking
10 6 (1.78%) Public Sector
11 5 (1.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (1.48%) Law
11 5 (1.48%) Retail
12 2 (0.59%) Legal
12 2 (0.59%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.30%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.30%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.30%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (11.28%) .NET
2 23 (6.82%) ASP.NET
2 23 (6.82%) STL
3 20 (5.93%) Hibernate
4 19 (5.64%) .NET Framework
4 19 (5.64%) Apache NiFi
5 18 (5.34%) Qt
6 16 (4.75%) HTML
7 15 (4.45%) Entity Framework
8 11 (3.26%) Blazor
9 10 (2.97%) .NET Core
9 10 (2.97%) CSS
10 9 (2.67%) ASP.NET MVC
11 7 (2.08%) HTML5
12 6 (1.78%) LESS
12 6 (1.78%) LINQ
12 6 (1.78%) Twitter Bootstrap
12 6 (1.78%) WPF
13 5 (1.48%) AngularJS
13 5 (1.48%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 37 (10.98%) Algorithms
2 23 (6.82%) Hedge funds
3 22 (6.53%) IoT
4 17 (5.04%) FPGA
5 11 (3.26%) Data Structures
6 10 (2.97%) Client/Server
7 9 (2.67%) ARM Cortex
7 9 (2.67%) Verilog
8 8 (2.37%) Blog
8 8 (2.37%) Raspberry Pi
8 8 (2.37%) Robotics
9 6 (1.78%) Embedded Systems
9 6 (1.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 4 (1.19%) Distributed Systems
10 4 (1.19%) Equities
10 4 (1.19%) Mobile App
11 3 (0.89%) Podcast
11 3 (0.89%) Virtual Team
12 2 (0.59%) ASIC
12 2 (0.59%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 76 (22.55%) Linux
2 35 (10.39%) Windows
3 10 (2.97%) Android
3 10 (2.97%) Apple iOS
4 4 (1.19%) Unix
5 3 (0.89%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (0.30%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (19.29%) Problem-Solving
2 56 (16.62%) Agile
3 43 (12.76%) Multithreading
3 43 (12.76%) Software Engineering
4 33 (9.79%) Low Latency
4 33 (9.79%) Mathematics
5 31 (9.20%) Computer Science
6 26 (7.72%) Mentoring
6 26 (7.72%) SDLC
7 24 (7.12%) Test Automation
8 22 (6.53%) DevOps
9 20 (5.93%) Actionable Insight
10 19 (5.64%) System Testing
11 18 (5.34%) CI/CD
11 18 (5.34%) Machine Learning
12 14 (4.15%) Algorithmic Trading
12 14 (4.15%) MVC
12 14 (4.15%) OOP
13 13 (3.86%) Quantitative Trading
13 13 (3.86%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 337 (100.00%) C++
2 79 (23.44%) C#
3 75 (22.26%) C
4 53 (15.73%) Java
5 51 (15.13%) Python
6 44 (13.06%) SQL
7 22 (6.53%) SystemVerilog
8 14 (4.15%) JavaScript
9 9 (2.67%) Rust
9 9 (2.67%) Tcl
10 5 (1.48%) Go
11 4 (1.19%) VBA
12 3 (0.89%) Objective-C
12 3 (0.89%) PHP
13 2 (0.59%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.59%) TypeScript
14 1 (0.30%) Bash
14 1 (0.30%) Embedded C
14 1 (0.30%) MATLAB
14 1 (0.30%) VB
Qualifications
1 52 (15.43%) Security Cleared
2 41 (12.17%) Degree
3 36 (10.68%) SC Cleared
4 20 (5.93%) Master's Degree
5 11 (3.26%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (2.67%) PhD
7 4 (1.19%) DBS Check
8 3 (0.89%) DV Cleared
8 3 (0.89%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (2.08%) QA
2 3 (0.89%) GDPR
System Software
1 4 (1.19%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (3.86%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.30%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 14 (4.15%) Microsoft
2 9 (2.67%) Cadence
2 9 (2.67%) Synopsys
3 6 (1.78%) Google
4 5 (1.48%) BT
4 5 (1.48%) HP
5 3 (0.89%) Atlassian
5 3 (0.89%) Coverity
5 3 (0.89%) YouTube
6 1 (0.30%) Autodesk
6 1 (0.30%) AVEVA
6 1 (0.30%) Meraki