C++ jobs in the UK paying over £40k
Live C++ jobs in the UK paying over £40k, detected on employer careers pages and updated hourly. Contract day rates are annualised so they compare like for like.
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We are currently tracking 26 live vacancies matching C++ jobs in the UK paying over £40k, advertised by 16 different employers. 6 of them were first seen in the last seven days. The most active employers in this slice are Avantirec, Grafana Labs, Turleyway and Mrslgroup. Every role is detected on the employer's own careers page rather than reposted from another board, so what you see here is the vacancy as the employer wrote it.
Of the 26 roles, 26 publish a salary. The median advertised ceiling is £55,000. The middle half of the market sits between £55,000 and £114,000, so anything above the upper figure is a genuinely strong offer for C++ jobs in the UK paying over £40k. Contract day rates are annualised at 230 working days a year, so permanent and contract pay compare like for like.
On working pattern, 23% are fully remote and 46% are hybrid. By seniority, 46% at mid level and 19% at senior level. Filter by any of these on the left.
Employers hiring for C++ in this slice most often ask for it alongside Python, Java, C#, Rust, Linux and Kubernetes. That co-occurrence is counted from the live listings on this page, not from a fixed list, so it moves with the market.
Database / Data Engineer
Senior Computer Vision Engineer
Staff Software Engineer - Databases, Tempo | United Kingdom | Remote
Staff Backend Engineer - Alerting | UK | Remote
Senior Backend Engineer - Databases Pyroscope | UK | Remote
Senior Backend Engineer - Databases - Loki Query | UK | Remote
Software Development Engineer | Techniche Global
Electronics Design & Applications Engineer - Embedded and Display Technologies - Berkshire - MRSL Group
Embedded Software Engineer – Coalesce Management Consulting | Coalesce Management Consulting
Software Engineer, Gloucester
IT Infrastructure Manager
Infrastructure Engineer
Junior Developer
Software Engineer
Senior Java Developer
Mid to Snr Full Stack Developer
Senior Software Engineer C++ Posted 2 years ago
Junior Software Engineer - Python/Rust Job in London - TurleyWay Recruitment
Software Engineer - Infrastructure Job in London - TurleyWay Recruitment
Head of Engineering | OHO Group
Job titles employers are advertising
The exact titles on the live vacancies in this search, most common first.
Questions about these roles
How many C++ jobs in the UK paying over £40k are there right now?
We are tracking 26 live vacancies across 16 employers. The crawler revisits employer careers pages continuously and roles disappear from this page as soon as they come down, so the count reflects what is genuinely open today.
What do C++ jobs in the UK paying over £40k pay?
The median advertised ceiling is £55,000, based on the 26 of these roles that publish a figure. The middle half of the market runs from £55,000 to £114,000. Contract day rates are annualised so they compare against permanent salaries.
Can these roles be done remotely?
23% are advertised as fully remote and 46% as hybrid. The rest are on-site or do not say — where an employer is silent we leave it blank rather than guessing.
Are these contract or permanent roles?
Every role here that states a basis is permanent. Contract vacancies are listed separately.
Which employers are hiring?
The most active right now are Avantirec, Grafana Labs, Turleyway, Mrslgroup and Plyable. Every vacancy links straight to that employer's own careers page — we are an aggregator, not the hiring company, and there is no middleman between you and the application.
What other skills do these roles ask for?
Most often Python, Java, C#, Rust and Linux. That is counted from the live adverts on this page rather than a fixed list, so it tracks what employers are asking for this month.
How much does a C++ developer earn in the UK?
£55,000 is the middle of what is advertised here, in line with the UK IT median of £55,000. Read it as the ceiling an employer is advertising towards rather than an offer: 0 of these adverts name no figure at all, and those are the ones where asking early is worth most.
Can you work from home as a C++ developer in the UK?
18 of the 26 live adverts here offer home working in some form — 6 fully remote and 12 hybrid. Fully remote means the advert states no office requirement; hybrid means it names a split.
Are there entry-level or graduate C++ developer jobs in the UK?
4 of the roles on this page read as graduate or junior level, which is 15% of what is live. Level is read from the job title, so a role advertised without one is counted as mid-level and may still be open to less experience.
What job titles are used for this role?
Employers on this page advertise it as Electronics Design & Applications Engineer - Embedded and Display Technologies - Berkshire - MRSL Group, Full stack software engineer, Graduate Software Developer – Banking Sector, LabVIEW Systems Engineer and Embedded Software Engineer. Searching one wording and not another is the most common way people miss vacancies, which is why this page groups them.
How much experience do these roles need?
The largest group is mid level (46% of the page). Seniority is read from the job title, so a role that does not signal a level in its title is counted as mid-level.
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