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This section looks at the demand for C++ skills within the City of London 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.

LinkC++
Location
3 months to 25 Jul 2008Same period last year
Rank1312
Rank change on same period last yearDown-1
Matching permanent IT job ads21962759
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled1.159 %1.130 %
As % of the category below20.89 %25.90 %
Salaries quoted18342102
Average minimum salary£55,366£59,831
Average salary£62,459£66,423
% change on same period last year-5.96 %
Average maximum salary£69,552£73,015
UK excluding London average salary£36,223£36,138
% change on same period last year+0.23 %
City of London IT Job Market, Programming LanguagesProgramming Languages
City of London
Matching permanent IT job ads1051110651
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled5.549 %4.361 %
Salaries quoted90348240
Average minimum salary£48,050£52,214
Average salary£53,532£57,412
% change on same period last year-6.75 %
Average maximum salary£59,014£62,611
UK excluding London average salary£35,180£35,575
% change on same period last year-1.10 %
C++ LondonC++
London

C++
Demand Trend

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

City of London C++ Demand Trend

C++
Salary Trend

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

City of London C++ Salary Trend

C++
Salary Histogram

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

City of London C++ Salary Histogram

C++
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the City of London 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++.

12600 (52.86 %)Finance
22105 (42.79 %)Java
31942 (39.48 %)UNIX
41508 (30.66 %)Banking
51488 (30.25 %)C#
61286 (26.14 %)Front Office
71279 (26.00 %)Derivative
81237 (25.15 %)Windows
91155 (23.48 %)SQL
101032 (20.98 %)OO
11967 (19.66 %)Degree
12783 (15.92 %).NET
13731 (14.86 %)Investment Banking
14706 (14.35 %)Sybase
15657 (13.36 %)C
16641 (13.03 %)Oracle
17635 (12.91 %)Linux
18612 (12.44 %)Equities
19601 (12.22 %)VC++
20515 (10.47 %)Fixed Income
21512 (10.41 %)SQL Server
22510 (10.37 %)XML
23507 (10.31 %)STL
24465 (9.453 %)Multithreading
25444 (9.026 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
26390 (7.928 %)VBA
27365 (7.420 %)VB
28355 (7.217 %)OOD
29345 (7.014 %)Perl
30331 (6.729 %)Equity Derivative

C++
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the City of London 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.

City of London IT Job Market, Application DevelopmentApplication Development
1783 (15.92 %).NET
2510 (10.37 %)XML
3507 (10.31 %)STL
4284 (5.774 %)MFC
5180 (3.659 %)J2EE
6144 (2.927 %)ASP.NET
7140 (2.846 %)HTML
8127 (2.582 %)WinForms
9123 (2.501 %)Spring
9123 (2.501 %)Middleware
10107 (2.175 %).NET Framework
11104 (2.114 %)WebServices
1294 (1.911 %)WebSphere
1389 (1.809 %)ATL
1480 (1.626 %)JMS
1569 (1.403 %)CORBA
1664 (1.301 %)J2SE
1760 (1.220 %)XSLT
1853 (1.077 %)Swing
1853 (1.077 %)COM
City of London IT Job Market, Application PlatformsApplication Platforms
157 (1.159 %)WebSphere MQ
253 (1.077 %)Rendezvous
350 (1.016 %)MQSeries
444 (0.894 %)Tomcat
532 (0.651 %)SharePoint
631 (0.630 %)MS Exchange
726 (0.529 %)WebLogic
824 (0.488 %)Oracle Workflow
917 (0.346 %)WebSphere Message Broker
1014 (0.285 %)Apache
1014 (0.285 %)IIS
1111 (0.224 %)CICS
1210 (0.203 %)JBoss
139 (0.183 %)SAS
146 (0.122 %)ColdFusion
155 (0.102 %)SmartSockets
155 (0.102 %)Exchange Server 2000
164 (0.081 %)MTS
173 (0.061 %)SharePoint Server 2007
182 (0.041 %)TIBCO EMS
City of London IT Job Market, ApplicationsApplications
1109 (2.216 %)MS Excel
254 (1.098 %)MATLAB
328 (0.569 %)Spreadsheet
426 (0.529 %)MS Visio
521 (0.427 %)MS Office
64 (0.081 %)CA Clarity
73 (0.061 %)S-PLUS
81 (0.020 %)MS PowerPoint
81 (0.020 %)MS Project
City of London IT Job Market, Business ApplicationsBusiness Applications
149 (0.996 %)Summit
230 (0.610 %)Oracle Financials
327 (0.549 %)FRONT ARENA
422 (0.447 %)RMDS
513 (0.264 %)Endur
68 (0.163 %)Monis
68 (0.163 %)Kondor+
68 (0.163 %)Murex MxG2000
77 (0.142 %)SunGard Panorama
82 (0.041 %)Microsoft CRM
82 (0.041 %)Beauchamp
91 (0.020 %)Navision
City of London IT Job Market, Communications & NetworkingCommunications & Networking
1141 (2.866 %)TCP/IP
293 (1.891 %)Internet
319 (0.386 %)Firewall
417 (0.346 %)HTTP
511 (0.224 %)Broadband
69 (0.183 %)BSS
77 (0.142 %)SSL
86 (0.122 %)SMS
86 (0.122 %)Wireless
86 (0.122 %)X.509
95 (0.102 %)Intranet
104 (0.081 %)IIOP
104 (0.081 %)SAN
104 (0.081 %)SNMP
113 (0.061 %)VPN
113 (0.061 %)UMTS
113 (0.061 %)GPRS
113 (0.061 %)GSM
113 (0.061 %)IPsec
113 (0.061 %)Intrusion Detection
City of London IT Job Market, Database & Business IntelligenceDatabase & Business Intelligence
1512 (10.41 %)SQL Server
2257 (5.225 %)RDBMS
369 (1.403 %)SQL Server 2005
455 (1.118 %)SQL Server 7
554 (1.098 %)Ingres
653 (1.077 %)SQL Server 2000
741 (0.834 %)Datawarehouse
833 (0.671 %)OLAP
932 (0.651 %)Oracle OLAP
1030 (0.610 %)MySQL
1127 (0.549 %)Oracle 10g
1226 (0.529 %)Oracle 8/8i
1226 (0.529 %)Reference Data
1324 (0.488 %)Oracle 9i
1324 (0.488 %)DB2
1416 (0.325 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
1515 (0.305 %)KDB
1515 (0.305 %)Crystal Reports
1612 (0.244 %)MS Access
1612 (0.244 %)DTS
City of London IT Job Market, Development ApplicationsDevelopment Applications
194 (1.911 %)ClearCase
248 (0.976 %)Visual Studio
347 (0.955 %)Eclipse
438 (0.773 %)JUnit
534 (0.691 %)Subversion
628 (0.569 %)Ant
724 (0.488 %)VSS/SourceSafe
822 (0.447 %)NUnit
910 (0.203 %)Log4j
109 (0.183 %)CruiseControl
118 (0.163 %)QuickTest Pro
127 (0.142 %)Flash
136 (0.122 %)JIRA
145 (0.102 %)PowerBuilder
154 (0.081 %)Oracle Forms
154 (0.081 %)PVCS
154 (0.081 %)FitNesse
163 (0.061 %)TestDirector
172 (0.041 %)ClearQuest
181 (0.020 %)Rational Robot
City of London IT Job Market, GeneralGeneral
12600 (52.86 %)Finance
21508 (30.66 %)Banking
31286 (26.14 %)Front Office
4731 (14.86 %)Investment Banking
5222 (4.513 %)Games
6202 (4.107 %)Education
7150 (3.049 %)Telecoms
8117 (2.379 %)Financial Institution
971 (1.443 %)Back Office
1034 (0.691 %)Pensions
1123 (0.468 %)Retail
1219 (0.386 %)Online Games
1318 (0.366 %)Insurance
1318 (0.366 %)Legal
1416 (0.325 %)Mobile Games
1514 (0.285 %)Billing
1613 (0.264 %)Marketing
1712 (0.244 %)Government
1712 (0.244 %)Aerospace
189 (0.183 %)Health
City of London IT Job Market, Job TitlesJob Titles
13350 (68.10 %)Developer
21699 (34.54 %)C++ Developer
3584 (11.87 %)Analyst
4550 (11.18 %)Java Developer
5437 (8.884 %)C# Developer
6405 (8.233 %)Senior Developer
7281 (5.713 %)Architect
8245 (4.981 %)Analyst Developer
9227 (4.615 %)C++/Java Developer
10212 (4.310 %)Graduate
11186 (3.781 %)Programmer
12182 (3.700 %)Software Engineer
13165 (3.354 %)C++/CSharp Developer
14160 (3.253 %)Team Leader
15146 (2.968 %)Senior C++ Developer
16145 (2.948 %)Applications Support
17119 (2.419 %)Graduate Developer
18115 (2.338 %)Support Analyst
18115 (2.338 %).NET Developer
19109 (2.216 %)Front Office Developer
City of London IT Job Market, MiscellaneousMiscellaneous
11279 (26.00 %)Derivative
2612 (12.44 %)Equities
3515 (10.47 %)Fixed Income
4465 (9.453 %)Multithreading
5444 (9.026 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
6331 (6.729 %)Equity Derivative
7285 (5.794 %)Mathematics
8232 (4.716 %)Computer Science
9174 (3.537 %)Client/Server
10151 (3.070 %)Credit Derivative
11120 (2.440 %)Interest Rate Derivative
12104 (2.114 %)Physics
1395 (1.931 %)Grid Computing
1484 (1.708 %)Credit Risk
1570 (1.423 %)N-Tier
1668 (1.382 %)Market Risk
1741 (0.834 %)Index Arbitrage
1834 (0.691 %)Statistics
1924 (0.488 %)Exotic Derivative
1924 (0.488 %)Stochastic Calculus
City of London IT Job Market, Operating SystemsOperating Systems
11942 (39.48 %)UNIX
21237 (25.15 %)Windows
3635 (12.91 %)Linux
4326 (6.627 %)Solaris
564 (1.301 %)Windows NT
656 (1.138 %)VMS
748 (0.976 %)Windows 2000
846 (0.935 %)Windows XP
916 (0.325 %)AIX
109 (0.183 %)Windows Server 2003
116 (0.122 %)Windows Mobile
116 (0.122 %)HPUX
124 (0.081 %)SUSE
132 (0.041 %)Symbian OS
141 (0.020 %)Embedded Linux
City of London IT Job Market, Processes & MethodologiesProcesses & Methodologies
11032 (20.98 %)OO
2355 (7.217 %)OOD
3297 (6.038 %)Algorithmic Trading
4251 (5.103 %)Risk Management
5240 (4.879 %)Project Management
6226 (4.594 %)Electronic Trading
7225 (4.574 %)UML
8177 (3.598 %)OOA/OOD
9164 (3.334 %)Software Engineering
1093 (1.891 %)Asset Management
1184 (1.708 %)Agile Software Development
1271 (1.443 %)SOA
1362 (1.260 %)E-Commerce
1457 (1.159 %)Workflow
1556 (1.138 %)Investment Management
1654 (1.098 %)Unit Testing
1654 (1.098 %)Integration Testing
1749 (0.996 %)Monte Carlo Method
1749 (0.996 %)Scrum
1846 (0.935 %)OOP
City of London IT Job Market, Programming LanguagesProgramming Languages
12105 (42.79 %)Java
21488 (30.25 %)C#
31155 (23.48 %)SQL
4657 (13.36 %)C
5601 (12.22 %)VC++
6390 (7.928 %)VBA
7365 (7.420 %)VB
8345 (7.014 %)Perl
9227 (4.615 %)Shell Script
10168 (3.415 %)Python
11105 (2.135 %)VB.NET
1289 (1.809 %)Delphi
1385 (1.728 %)VB6
1473 (1.484 %)Ruby
1571 (1.443 %)Tcl
1668 (1.382 %)Transact-SQL
1760 (1.220 %)PL/SQL
1851 (1.037 %)Smalltalk
1851 (1.037 %)DCL
1945 (0.915 %)JavaScript
City of London IT Job Market, QualificationsQualifications
1967 (19.66 %)Degree
2120 (2.440 %)PhD
314 (0.285 %)ISEB
47 (0.142 %)Postgraduate
55 (0.102 %)Microsoft Certification
63 (0.061 %)PRINCE2 Certification
63 (0.061 %)HNC
72 (0.041 %)CISSP
72 (0.041 %)MCDBA
72 (0.041 %)OCP
72 (0.041 %)Oracle Certification
81 (0.020 %)Cisco Certification
81 (0.020 %)MCP
81 (0.020 %)MCSE
City of London IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & ComplianceQuality Assurance & Compliance
1101 (2.053 %)QA
28 (0.163 %)Basel II
37 (0.142 %)MiFID
46 (0.122 %)SLA
City of London IT Job Market, System SoftwareSystem Software
119 (0.386 %)Active Directory
211 (0.224 %)AquaLogic
39 (0.183 %)Nmap
42 (0.041 %)MSMQ
51 (0.020 %)Terminal Services
51 (0.020 %)Orbix
51 (0.020 %)Microsoft Virtual Server
City of London IT Job Market, Systems ManagementSystems Management
19 (0.183 %)Nessus
26 (0.122 %)OpenView
34 (0.081 %)Unicenter
34 (0.081 %)BMC PATROL
43 (0.061 %)Netcool
43 (0.061 %)AutoSys
43 (0.061 %)Tivoli
52 (0.041 %)MOM
52 (0.041 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
61 (0.020 %)Nagios
61 (0.020 %)AppManager
City of London IT Job Market, VendorsVendors
1706 (14.35 %)Sybase
2641 (13.03 %)Oracle
3237 (4.818 %)Microsoft
4184 (3.741 %)TIBCO
554 (1.098 %)IBM
648 (0.976 %)Reuters
747 (0.955 %)Bloomberg
845 (0.915 %)Calypso
938 (0.773 %)Sun
1033 (0.671 %)Murex
1129 (0.590 %)Red Hat
1226 (0.529 %)Fidessa
1322 (0.447 %)GoldenSource
1419 (0.386 %)Citrix
1518 (0.366 %)OpenLink
1613 (0.264 %)HP
1712 (0.244 %)SunGard
189 (0.183 %)Cisco
189 (0.183 %)Lotus
198 (0.163 %)Algorithmics
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