Birmingham C++ Jobs

This section looks at the demand for C++ skills within the Birmingham region with a comparison to our Programming Languages category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited C++ over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Abingdon Aldershot Altrincham Andover Ascot Ashton-under-Lyne Avon Aylesbury Banbury Barnet Basildon Basingstoke Bath Beaconsfield Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Bellshill Berkshire Beverley Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Bournemouth Brackley Bracknell Bradford Bridgend Bridgwater Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckingham Buckinghamshire Burnley Bury St Edmunds Calne Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Chatham Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chippenham Cirencester City of London Clapham Colchester Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Dagenham Darlington Daventry Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorchester Dorking Dorset Dudley Dundee Dunfermline Durham Ealing East Anglia East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Egham England Epsom Essex Exeter Exmouth Fareham Farnborough Farnham Felixstowe Feltham Fife Flintshire Gateshead Glasgow Glossop Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Gosport Grantham Guernsey Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Harrow Hastings Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Henley-on-Thames Hereford Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire High Peak High Wycombe Highlands Home Counties Horley Horsham Hove Hull Hungerford Huntingdon Inverness Ipswich Isle of Man Isle of Wight Jersey Kent Kettering Kidderminster Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Malmesbury Malton Malvern Manchester Marlow Melksham Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Mitcheldean Monmouth Monmouthshire New Milton Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northumberland Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Paignton Peterborough Petersfield Plymouth Pontypool Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Redditch Renfrewshire Ringwood Romford Romsey Rotherham Royston Rugby Ruislip Ryde Saffron Walden Salford Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shepton Mallet Shropshire Slough Smethwick Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southwark St Albans St Helens St Neots Staffordshire Staines Stamford Stevenage Stirling Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Street Stroud Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Tamworth Teddington Telford Tewkesbury Thames Valley Torfaen Totnes Tring Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear Tyneside UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wellingborough Wells Welwyn Garden City Wembley West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weybridge Weymouth Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Winsford Wirral Witham Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Wotton-under-Edge York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	48	40
Rank change on same period last year	-8
Matching permanent IT job ads	116	111
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.061 %	0.045 %
As % of the category below	9.493 %	10.93 %
Salaries quoted	95	103
Average minimum salary	£30,211	£28,204
Average salary	£33,379	£33,170
% change on same period last year	+0.63 %
Average maximum salary	£36,547	£38,136
UK excluding London average salary	£36,223	£36,138
% change on same period last year	+0.23 %
Programming Languages Birmingham
Matching permanent IT job ads	1222	1016
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.645 %	0.416 %
Salaries quoted	1101	884
Average minimum salary	£30,925	£30,646
Average salary	£33,844	£33,506
% change on same period last year	+1.00 %
Average maximum salary	£36,764	£36,366
UK excluding London average salary	£35,180	£35,575
% change on same period last year	-1.10 %
C++ West Midlands

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing C++ across the Birmingham region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

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Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing C++ across the Birmingham region.

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing C++ across the Birmingham region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the Birmingham region citing C++ also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited C++.

1 88 (44.67 %) C 2 60 (30.46 %) Degree 3 57 (28.93 %) OO 4 48 (24.37 %) C# 5 41 (20.81 %) .NET 6 39 (19.80 %) Java 6 39 (19.80 %) Mathematics 7 38 (19.29 %) OOD 8 36 (18.27 %) VB 9 33 (16.75 %) SQL 10 31 (15.74 %) Windows 11 28 (14.21 %) Computer Science 12 26 (13.20 %) UML 12 26 (13.20 %) Perl 12 26 (13.20 %) Manufacturing

13 24 (12.18 %) Electronics 13 24 (12.18 %) UNIX 14 23 (11.68 %) Automotive 15 20 (10.15 %) Pensions 15 20 (10.15 %) Linux 16 19 (9.645 %) Physics 17 18 (9.137 %) MFC 17 18 (9.137 %) Oracle 18 16 (8.122 %) XML 18 16 (8.122 %) Telecoms 18 16 (8.122 %) Health 18 16 (8.122 %) Games 19 15 (7.614 %) Embedded C 19 15 (7.614 %) Embedded C++ 20 14 (7.107 %) OOP

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the Birmingham region citing C++ also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited C++. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 41 (20.81 %) .NET 2 18 (9.137 %) MFC 3 16 (8.122 %) XML 4 13 (6.599 %) OpenGL 5 11 (5.584 %) HTML 6 8 (4.061 %) ASP 7 6 (3.046 %) ASP.NET 7 6 (3.046 %) J2EE 8 5 (2.538 %) Struts 8 5 (2.538 %) CSS 8 5 (2.538 %) SOAP 8 5 (2.538 %) Hibernate 8 5 (2.538 %) JSON 9 4 (2.030 %) Acegi Security 9 4 (2.030 %) WebServices 10 3 (1.523 %) STL 10 3 (1.523 %) CGI 10 3 (1.523 %) Middleware 10 3 (1.523 %) XSLT 10 3 (1.523 %) Spring	Application Platforms 1 3 (1.523 %) WebLogic 2 1 (0.508 %) IIS 2 1 (0.508 %) Apache
Applications 1 7 (3.553 %) MS Excel 2 2 (1.015 %) MS Office 3 1 (0.508 %) MS Visio 3 1 (0.508 %) AutoCAD 3 1 (0.508 %) Simulink	Business Applications 1 7 (3.553 %) LabWindows 2 1 (0.508 %) Oracle Applications
Communications & Networking 1 10 (5.076 %) TCP/IP 1 10 (5.076 %) Wireless 2 9 (4.569 %) Internet 3 5 (2.538 %) UMTS 3 5 (2.538 %) VoIP 4 3 (1.523 %) Ethernet 4 3 (1.523 %) GPRS 4 3 (1.523 %) GSM 4 3 (1.523 %) 3GPP 4 3 (1.523 %) DVB 4 3 (1.523 %) Megaco 4 3 (1.523 %) SNMP 5 2 (1.015 %) 3G 5 2 (1.015 %) DSL 5 2 (1.015 %) Intranet 5 2 (1.015 %) LDAP 5 2 (1.015 %) ATM 5 2 (1.015 %) HTTP 6 1 (0.508 %) ASN.1	Database & Business Intelligence 1 13 (6.599 %) SQL Server 2 3 (1.523 %) MS Access 3 2 (1.015 %) RDBMS 3 2 (1.015 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 3 2 (1.015 %) SQL Server 2005 4 1 (0.508 %) DB2 4 1 (0.508 %) Informix 4 1 (0.508 %) SQL Server 7 4 1 (0.508 %) SQL Server 2000
Development Applications 1 10 (5.076 %) Visual Studio 2 4 (2.030 %) Eclipse 2 4 (2.030 %) yacc 3 2 (1.015 %) LabVIEW 4 1 (0.508 %) Oracle Forms	General 1 26 (13.20 %) Manufacturing 2 24 (12.18 %) Electronics 3 23 (11.68 %) Automotive 4 20 (10.15 %) Pensions 5 16 (8.122 %) Health 5 16 (8.122 %) Games 5 16 (8.122 %) Telecoms 6 11 (5.584 %) 3D Graphics 7 9 (4.569 %) Aerospace 7 9 (4.569 %) Education 8 7 (3.553 %) Finance 8 7 (3.553 %) Insurance 9 3 (1.523 %) Construction 10 2 (1.015 %) Electric 11 1 (0.508 %) Government 11 1 (0.508 %) Pharmaceutical 11 1 (0.508 %) Music 11 1 (0.508 %) Retail
Job Titles 1 75 (38.07 %) Developer 2 61 (30.96 %) Software Engineer 3 23 (11.68 %) C++ Developer 4 21 (10.66 %) C++ Software Engineer 5 16 (8.122 %) Test Engineer 5 16 (8.122 %) Software Developer 6 15 (7.614 %) Graduate 7 12 (6.091 %) Embedded C Engineer 8 11 (5.584 %) Programmer 9 10 (5.076 %) Architect 10 9 (4.569 %) Java Developer 11 8 (4.061 %) Senior Developer 11 8 (4.061 %) .NET Developer 11 8 (4.061 %) C Software Engineer 12 7 (3.553 %) C# Developer 12 7 (3.553 %) Analyst 12 7 (3.553 %) IT Consultant 12 7 (3.553 %) Consultant 12 7 (3.553 %) IT Architect 12 7 (3.553 %) Systems Architect	Miscellaneous 1 39 (19.80 %) Mathematics 2 28 (14.21 %) Computer Science 3 19 (9.645 %) Physics 4 9 (4.569 %) Life Science 5 3 (1.523 %) SCADA 5 3 (1.523 %) N-Tier 5 3 (1.523 %) MPEG 5 3 (1.523 %) DTV 6 2 (1.015 %) Statistics 7 1 (0.508 %) Client/Server 7 1 (0.508 %) BBC 7 1 (0.508 %) Smartphone 7 1 (0.508 %) PDA
Operating Systems 1 31 (15.74 %) Windows 2 24 (12.18 %) UNIX 3 20 (10.15 %) Linux 4 11 (5.584 %) Mac OS X 5 5 (2.538 %) Solaris 6 4 (2.030 %) VxWorks 7 1 (0.508 %) pSOS 7 1 (0.508 %) Embedded Linux 7 1 (0.508 %) Windows NT	Processes & Methodologies 1 57 (28.93 %) OO 2 38 (19.29 %) OOD 3 26 (13.20 %) UML 4 14 (7.107 %) OOP 5 11 (5.584 %) Project Management 6 10 (5.076 %) CAD 7 9 (4.569 %) Unit Testing 8 8 (4.061 %) Software Engineering 9 7 (3.553 %) SOA 10 5 (2.538 %) OOA/OOD 10 5 (2.538 %) Data Modelling 11 4 (2.030 %) Content Management 11 4 (2.030 %) Document Management 12 3 (1.523 %) Zachman Framework 12 3 (1.523 %) TOGAF 12 3 (1.523 %) Financial Modelling 12 3 (1.523 %) PRINCE2 12 3 (1.523 %) RAD 12 3 (1.523 %) RUP 13 2 (1.015 %) E-Commerce
Programming Languages 1 88 (44.67 %) C 2 48 (24.37 %) C# 3 39 (19.80 %) Java 4 36 (18.27 %) VB 5 33 (16.75 %) SQL 6 26 (13.20 %) Perl 7 15 (7.614 %) Embedded C 7 15 (7.614 %) Embedded C++ 8 12 (6.091 %) VC++ 9 10 (5.076 %) VB.NET 9 10 (5.076 %) JavaScript 10 6 (3.046 %) PL/SQL 11 5 (2.538 %) VBA 12 3 (1.523 %) Assembly Language 12 3 (1.523 %) Tcl 12 3 (1.523 %) PHP 13 2 (1.015 %) Delphi 13 2 (1.015 %) VB6 14 1 (0.508 %) Ada	Qualifications 1 60 (30.46 %) Degree 2 2 (1.015 %) MAPM 2 2 (1.015 %) PhD 2 2 (1.015 %) PMP 2 2 (1.015 %) PMI Certification 3 1 (0.508 %) Microsoft Certification 3 1 (0.508 %) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (1.015 %) QA	System Software 1 1 (0.508 %) NDS
Vendors 1 18 (9.137 %) Oracle 2 9 (4.569 %) Microsoft 3 4 (2.030 %) Sun 3 4 (2.030 %) Redback 4 3 (1.523 %) webMethods 5 2 (1.015 %) Infragistics 6 1 (0.508 %) Sybase 6 1 (0.508 %) SAP 6 1 (0.508 %) Symbian