Cambridge C++ Software Engineer Jobs

This section looks at the demand for the C++ Software Engineer role in IT jobs within the Cambridge region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited C++ Software Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

C++ Software Engineer
Location Abingdon Aldershot Aylesbury Basingstoke Bath Beaconsfield Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Beverley Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Bracknell Bradford Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Calne Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Chelmsford Cheshire Chippenham City of London Clevedon Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Derbyshire Devon Dorset East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Exmouth Farnham Fife Gateshead Glasgow Glossop Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hampshire Harrow Hastings Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Peak High Wycombe Home Counties Horley Horsham Hove Hull Huntingdon Ipswich Lancashire Leeds Leicestershire Lewes Lincolnshire Liverpool London Maidenhead Malmesbury Malvern Manchester Marlow Melksham Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northumberland Northwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Petersfield Pontypool Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Reading Rotherham Rugby Scotland Sheffield Slough Smethwick Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staines Stevenage Stockport Suffolk Surrey Swansea Swindon Tewkesbury Thame Torfaen Totnes Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warwickshire Wembley West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Winsford Woking Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	55	37
Rank change on same period last year	-18
Matching permanent IT job ads	105	152
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.055 %	0.062 %
As % of the category below	3.598 %	5.558 %
Salaries quoted	101	102
Average minimum salary	£31,436	£31,882
Average salary	£35,431	£36,848
% change on same period last year	-3.84 %
Average maximum salary	£39,426	£41,814
UK excluding London average salary	£36,092	£35,618
% change on same period last year	+1.33 %
Job Titles Cambridge
Matching permanent IT job ads	2918	2735
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	1.540 %	1.120 %
Salaries quoted	2537	2274
Average minimum salary	£32,515	£32,217
Average salary	£35,924	£35,561
% change on same period last year	+1.02 %
Average maximum salary	£39,332	£38,904
UK excluding London average salary	£38,197	£39,483
% change on same period last year	-3.25 %
C++ Software Engineer Cambridgeshire

C++ Software Engineer
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing C++ Software Engineer across the Cambridge region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

C++ Software Engineer
Salary Trend

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

C++ Software Engineer
Salary Histogram

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

C++ Software Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the Cambridge region that cited C++ Software Engineer in their job title 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 with C++ Software Engineer in their job title.

1 194 (100.00 %) C++ 2 96 (49.48 %) Degree 3 77 (39.69 %) C 4 60 (30.93 %) Computer Science 5 54 (27.84 %) C# 6 53 (27.32 %) Windows 7 52 (26.80 %) Linux 8 43 (22.16 %) .NET 9 36 (18.56 %) Mathematics 10 28 (14.43 %) PhD 11 27 (13.92 %) Embedded C++ 11 27 (13.92 %) UNIX 12 25 (12.89 %) MATLAB 13 24 (12.37 %) OO 13 24 (12.37 %) Java

13 24 (12.37 %) Perl 13 24 (12.37 %) Python 14 23 (11.86 %) Pensions 15 22 (11.34 %) SQL Server 16 20 (10.31 %) STL 17 19 (9.794 %) Microsoft 17 19 (9.794 %) 3ds Max 18 18 (9.278 %) TCP/IP 18 18 (9.278 %) OOD 19 17 (8.763 %) 3D Graphics 19 17 (8.763 %) Maya 20 16 (8.247 %) Visual Studio 20 16 (8.247 %) Embedded C 21 15 (7.732 %) Software Engineering 22 13 (6.701 %) Health

C++ Software Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the Cambridge region that cited C++ Software Engineer in their job title 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 with C++ Software Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 43 (22.16 %) .NET 2 20 (10.31 %) STL 3 13 (6.701 %) MFC 3 13 (6.701 %) OpenGL 4 12 (6.186 %) XML 5 8 (4.124 %) J2EE 6 7 (3.608 %) JSP 6 7 (3.608 %) HTML 7 5 (2.577 %) ASP.NET 8 3 (1.546 %) AJAX 8 3 (1.546 %) .NET Framework 9 2 (1.031 %) SOAP 9 2 (1.031 %) WebServices 9 2 (1.031 %) WSDL 9 2 (1.031 %) DirectX 10 1 (0.515 %) Middleware 10 1 (0.515 %) OLE 10 1 (0.515 %) X-Windows 10 1 (0.515 %) WinForms 10 1 (0.515 %) XSL	Application Platforms 1 1 (0.515 %) Apache 1 1 (0.515 %) Tomcat
Applications 1 25 (12.89 %) MATLAB 2 19 (9.794 %) 3ds Max 3 17 (8.763 %) Maya 4 13 (6.701 %) MS Excel 5 8 (4.124 %) Simulink 6 1 (0.515 %) S-PLUS	Communications & Networking 1 18 (9.278 %) TCP/IP 2 5 (2.577 %) Bluetooth 3 4 (2.062 %) Wi-Fi 4 3 (1.546 %) Wireless 4 3 (1.546 %) RTSP 4 3 (1.546 %) Internet 4 3 (1.546 %) DVB 5 2 (1.031 %) HTTP 6 1 (0.515 %) IGMP 6 1 (0.515 %) GSM 6 1 (0.515 %) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 22 (11.34 %) SQL Server 2 11 (5.670 %) MS Access 3 3 (1.546 %) SQL Server 7 4 2 (1.031 %) GIS 4 2 (1.031 %) SQL Server 2005 5 1 (0.515 %) RDBMS	Development Applications 1 16 (8.247 %) Visual Studio 2 7 (3.608 %) MSI 3 4 (2.062 %) Subversion 4 3 (1.546 %) VSS/SourceSafe 4 3 (1.546 %) ClearCase 5 1 (0.515 %) Rational Rose 5 1 (0.515 %) Eclipse 5 1 (0.515 %) InstallShield
General 1 23 (11.86 %) Pensions 2 17 (8.763 %) 3D Graphics 3 13 (6.701 %) Health 4 12 (6.186 %) Education 5 9 (4.639 %) Insurance 5 9 (4.639 %) Automotive 6 8 (4.124 %) Finance 7 7 (3.608 %) Electronics 8 6 (3.093 %) Telecoms 9 5 (2.577 %) Animation 10 3 (1.546 %) Marketing 10 3 (1.546 %) Games 10 3 (1.546 %) Aerospace 11 2 (1.031 %) Multimedia 12 1 (0.515 %) Pharmaceutical 12 1 (0.515 %) Advertising	Miscellaneous 1 60 (30.93 %) Computer Science 2 36 (18.56 %) Mathematics 3 10 (5.155 %) Physics 4 5 (2.577 %) Device Driver 5 4 (2.062 %) IVR 5 4 (2.062 %) MPEG 5 4 (2.062 %) IPTV 5 4 (2.062 %) Data Extraction 6 3 (1.546 %) STB 7 2 (1.031 %) Statistics 7 2 (1.031 %) DTV 7 2 (1.031 %) Multithreading 7 2 (1.031 %) Applied Mathematics 8 1 (0.515 %) Chemistry 8 1 (0.515 %) Biotechnology 8 1 (0.515 %) ASIC 8 1 (0.515 %) Speech Recognition 8 1 (0.515 %) Field-Programmable Gate Array
Operating Systems 1 53 (27.32 %) Windows 2 52 (26.80 %) Linux 3 27 (13.92 %) UNIX 4 9 (4.639 %) Windows CE 5 6 (3.093 %) Solaris 5 6 (3.093 %) Embedded Linux 6 4 (2.062 %) VxWorks 7 3 (1.546 %) Windows Mobile 8 2 (1.031 %) Windows NT 8 2 (1.031 %) HPUX 9 1 (0.515 %) LynxOS 9 1 (0.515 %) Symbian OS 9 1 (0.515 %) Windows XP	Processes & Methodologies 1 24 (12.37 %) OO 2 18 (9.278 %) OOD 3 15 (7.732 %) Software Engineering 4 8 (4.124 %) CAD 5 6 (3.093 %) UML 6 3 (1.546 %) Software Testing 6 3 (1.546 %) Agile Software Development 6 3 (1.546 %) Data Analysis 7 2 (1.031 %) PLM 8 1 (0.515 %) DNA 8 1 (0.515 %) Project Management 8 1 (0.515 %) Yourdon 8 1 (0.515 %) Scrum 8 1 (0.515 %) Bioinformatics 8 1 (0.515 %) EDA 8 1 (0.515 %) Release Management
Programming Languages 1 194 (100.00 %) C++ 2 77 (39.69 %) C 3 54 (27.84 %) C# 4 27 (13.92 %) Embedded C++ 5 24 (12.37 %) Python 5 24 (12.37 %) Java 5 24 (12.37 %) Perl 6 16 (8.247 %) Embedded C 7 11 (5.670 %) SQL 8 9 (4.639 %) JavaScript 9 7 (3.608 %) DHTML 9 7 (3.608 %) Assembly Language 10 6 (3.093 %) VC++ 11 2 (1.031 %) PHP 12 1 (0.515 %) Tcl 12 1 (0.515 %) Lua 12 1 (0.515 %) VB.NET 12 1 (0.515 %) Fortran	Qualifications 1 96 (49.48 %) Degree 2 28 (14.43 %) PhD
Vendors 1 19 (9.794 %) Microsoft 2 5 (2.577 %) Symbian 3 2 (1.031 %) Oracle 4 1 (0.515 %) Mapinfo 4 1 (0.515 %) Wall Street Systems