C/C++ Software Engineer Jobs in England

C/C++ Software Engineer
UK > England

The median C/C++ Software Engineer salary in England 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 807 860 1134
Rank change year-on-year +53 +274 -274
Permanent jobs requiring a C/C++ Software Engineer 56 34 52
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.059% 0.041% 0.036%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.062% 0.045% 0.038%
Number of salaries quoted 36 29 43
10th Percentile - £41,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% - -5.26%
75th Percentile - £65,000 £56,250
90th Percentile - £68,000 £60,500
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
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 90,431 74,847 138,483
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.61% 91.19% 95.86%
Number of salaries quoted 65,915 49,353 75,297
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,713 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.53% +1.19% +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

C/C++ Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for C/C++ Software Engineer in England

C/C++ Software Engineer
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing C/C++ Software Engineer in England.

Salary trend for C/C++ Software Engineer in England

C/C++ Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing C/C++ Software Engineer in England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Salary histogram for C/C++ Software Engineer in England

C/C++ Software Engineer
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing C/C++ Software Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 12 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
South West - 19 £60,000 - 3
North of England +18 18 £50,000 +17.65% 1
Yorkshire +63 8 £45,000 +5.88%
East of England -6 8 £60,000 - 1
Midlands -31 7 £41,750 -16.50% 1
North East - 6 £60,000 -
West Midlands -7 4 - - 1
North West - 4 £60,000 - 1
South East -26 3 £67,500 +12.50%
East Midlands - 3 £41,750 -
London +79 1 £60,000 -7.69% 4
C/C++ Software Engineer
UK

C/C++ Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

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 job ads across the England region featuring C/C++ Software Engineer in the job title.

1 56 (100.00%) C
1 56 (100.00%) C++
1 56 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 14 (25.00%) Embedded Systems
2 14 (25.00%) Linux
3 12 (21.43%) Embedded C
3 12 (21.43%) Embedded C++
4 11 (19.64%) Python
4 11 (19.64%) Bash
5 10 (17.86%) Cybersecurity
5 10 (17.86%) Perl
5 10 (17.86%) SDLC
6 8 (14.29%) Embedded Linux
7 7 (12.50%) Network Security
7 7 (12.50%) Renewable Energy
7 7 (12.50%) Social Skills
8 6 (10.71%) Open Source
8 6 (10.71%) C#
8 6 (10.71%) Manufacturing
8 6 (10.71%) Multithreading
9 5 (8.93%) GStreamer
9 5 (8.93%) FFmpeg
9 5 (8.93%) Mathematics
9 5 (8.93%) Degree
9 5 (8.93%) OpenEmbedded
9 5 (8.93%) Yocto
10 4 (7.14%) Computer Science
10 4 (7.14%) Security Cleared
11 3 (5.36%) DevOps
11 3 (5.36%) Physics

C/C++ Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (1.79%) Azure
1 1 (1.79%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 7 (12.50%) Network Security
2 3 (5.36%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 2 (3.57%) Git
2 1 (1.79%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.79%) JIRA
General
1 7 (12.50%) Social Skills
2 6 (10.71%) Manufacturing
3 1 (1.79%) Aerospace
3 1 (1.79%) Automotive
3 1 (1.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (8.93%) FFmpeg
1 5 (8.93%) GStreamer
1 5 (8.93%) OpenEmbedded
1 5 (8.93%) Yocto
2 1 (1.79%) DPDK
2 1 (1.79%) GTK
Miscellaneous
1 14 (25.00%) Embedded Systems
2 7 (12.50%) Renewable Energy
3 2 (3.57%) Algorithms
3 2 (3.57%) CCTV
4 1 (1.79%) Blackberry
4 1 (1.79%) Device Driver
4 1 (1.79%) IoT
4 1 (1.79%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 14 (25.00%) Linux
2 8 (14.29%) Embedded Linux
3 1 (1.79%) Debian
3 1 (1.79%) Ubuntu
3 1 (1.79%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 10 (17.86%) Cybersecurity
2 10 (17.86%) SDLC
3 6 (10.71%) Multithreading
3 6 (10.71%) Open Source
4 5 (8.93%) Mathematics
5 4 (7.14%) Computer Science
6 3 (5.36%) Agile
6 3 (5.36%) DevOps
6 3 (5.36%) Embedded Software Development
6 3 (5.36%) Physics
7 2 (3.57%) Artificial Intelligence
7 2 (3.57%) Computer Vision
7 2 (3.57%) Scrum
7 2 (3.57%) Value Proposition
8 1 (1.79%) CI/CD
8 1 (1.79%) Customer Experience
8 1 (1.79%) Key Management
8 1 (1.79%) Mentoring
8 1 (1.79%) Verification and Validation
Programming Languages
1 56 (100.00%) C
1 56 (100.00%) C++
2 12 (21.43%) Embedded C
2 12 (21.43%) Embedded C++
3 11 (19.64%) Bash
3 11 (19.64%) Python
4 10 (17.86%) Perl
5 6 (10.71%) C#
Qualifications
1 5 (8.93%) Degree
2 4 (7.14%) Security Cleared
3 2 (3.57%) PhD
4 1 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.79%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.57%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (1.79%) QNX