The first table below looks at the demand for C++ skills in IT jobs advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited C++ over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Programming Languages category for the City of London region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
C++
Rank 43 29 21
Rank change year-on-year
-14 -8
Permanent jobs citing C++ 582 904 1335
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 4.989% 6.919% 8.654%
As % of the Programming Languages category 9.288% 12.97% 15.90%
Number of salaries quoted 527 852 1187
Average salary £55,000 £62,500 £70,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-12.00% -10.71%
90% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £40,000 £45,000
10% offered a salary of more than £85,000 £87,500 £92,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+1.33% -
All Programming Languages
City of London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
6266 6970 8398
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 53.72% 53.35% 54.44%
Number of salaries quoted 5543 6523 7549
Average salary £52,500 £52,500 £55,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -4.54%
90% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
10% offered a salary of more than £75,000 £85,000 £80,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
C++
London

C++
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total 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++ Jobs Demand Trend

C++
Salary Trend

This 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

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing C++ across the City of London region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

City of London C++ Salary Histogram

C++
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, 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++.

1 649 (57.95%) Java
2 464 (41.43%) C#
3 457 (40.80%) Finance
4 345 (30.80%) OO
5 322 (28.75%) Python
6 311 (27.77%) SQL
7 301 (26.88%) Linux
8 285 (25.45%) Computer Science
9 284 (25.36%) Degree
10 257 (22.95%) UNIX
11 229 (20.45%) Banking
12 228 (20.36%) Agile Software Development
13 225 (20.09%) C
14 207 (18.48%) Multithreading
15 189 (16.88%) Windows
16 188 (16.79%) Oracle
17 179 (15.98%) .NET
18 170 (15.18%) Front Office
19 149 (13.30%) JavaScript
20 143 (12.77%) Investment Banking
21 133 (11.88%) Games
22 120 (10.71%) HTTP
23 112 (10.00%) Derivative
24 111 (9.911%) Android
25 110 (9.821%) SQL Server
26 106 (9.464%) Mathematics
27 103 (9.196%) Perl
27 103 (9.196%) Apple iOS
28 94 (8.393%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
29 93 (8.304%) OOP

C++
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, 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.

Application Development
1 179 (15.98%) .NET
2 79 (7.054%) STL
3 73 (6.518%) XML
4 71 (6.339%) HTML
5 66 (5.893%) Web Services
6 59 (5.268%) CSS
7 57 (5.089%) Boost C++ Libraries
8 55 (4.911%) J2EE
9 52 (4.643%) WPF
10 47 (4.196%) Django
11 45 (4.018%) WCF
12 44 (3.929%) HTML5
13 38 (3.393%) Ruby on Rails
14 37 (3.304%) Ajax
15 36 (3.214%) Spring
16 35 (3.125%) REST
17 33 (2.946%) OpenGL
18 32 (2.857%) Middleware
19 30 (2.679%) ASP.NET
20 28 (2.500%) XSLT
Application Platforms
1 27 (2.411%) Apache
2 21 (1.875%) Oracle Coherence
3 17 (1.518%) Rendezvous
3 17 (1.518%) SharePoint
4 13 (1.161%) Amazon AWS
5 12 (1.071%) IIS
6 11 (0.982%) ESB
7 8 (0.714%) Amazon EC2
8 7 (0.625%) SAS
8 7 (0.625%) Apache Pig
9 5 (0.446%) TIBCO EMS
10 4 (0.357%) Apache Solr
10 4 (0.357%) GemFire
10 4 (0.357%) Oracle Workflow
10 4 (0.357%) MSMQ
10 4 (0.357%) MS Exchange
11 3 (0.268%) Tomcat
11 3 (0.268%) OpenStack
12 2 (0.179%) Confluence
12 2 (0.179%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 41 (3.661%) MS Excel
2 7 (0.625%) XMetaL
3 6 (0.536%) S-PLUS
4 5 (0.446%) SPSS
5 4 (0.357%) MS Office
6 3 (0.268%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.179%) PowerPivot
7 2 (0.179%) Stata
8 1 (0.089%) PrintSoft PReS
Business Applications
1 7 (0.625%) Kondor+
2 6 (0.536%) Front Arena
3 2 (0.179%) ION MarketView
3 2 (0.179%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.089%) Decalog
4 1 (0.089%) HiInvest
4 1 (0.089%) SunGard Martini
4 1 (0.089%) Sophis RISQUE
4 1 (0.089%) LatentZero
4 1 (0.089%) Summit
Communications & Networking
1 120 (10.71%) HTTP
2 54 (4.821%) TCP/IP
3 23 (2.054%) RTP
4 20 (1.786%) VoIP
5 12 (1.071%) Internet
6 9 (0.804%) GSM
7 8 (0.714%) AMQP
8 7 (0.625%) Asterisk PBX
9 6 (0.536%) LDAP
10 4 (0.357%) NFC
11 2 (0.179%) Wi-Fi
11 2 (0.179%) Wireless
11 2 (0.179%) SMS
11 2 (0.179%) DHCP
11 2 (0.179%) DNS
12 1 (0.089%) FTP
12 1 (0.089%) UMTS
12 1 (0.089%) Broadband
12 1 (0.089%) DVB
12 1 (0.089%) 3G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 110 (9.821%) SQL Server
2 33 (2.946%) MySQL
3 24 (2.143%) Big Data
4 23 (2.054%) RDBMS
5 20 (1.786%) NoSQL
6 18 (1.607%) SQL Server 2008
7 17 (1.518%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 16 (1.429%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 13 (1.161%) DB2
10 12 (1.071%) Hadoop
10 12 (1.071%) Oracle 10g
11 10 (0.893%) Oracle 8/8i
12 9 (0.804%) Data Mining
13 8 (0.714%) KDB
14 7 (0.625%) OLTP
14 7 (0.625%) SQL Server 2005
14 7 (0.625%) MarkLogic
14 7 (0.625%) QlikView
15 6 (0.536%) MongoDB
15 6 (0.536%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 45 (4.018%) Git (software)
2 36 (3.214%) Subversion
3 24 (2.143%) Maven
4 23 (2.054%) Xcode
5 18 (1.607%) Mercurial
6 17 (1.518%) Eclipse
6 17 (1.518%) JIRA
7 14 (1.250%) Visual Studio
8 13 (1.161%) Hudson
9 11 (0.982%) Selenium
10 10 (0.893%) Team Foundation Server
11 5 (0.446%) WebDriver
11 5 (0.446%) SpecFlow
11 5 (0.446%) GoogleTest
11 5 (0.446%) CppUnit
12 4 (0.357%) Expression Blend
12 4 (0.357%) Cucumber
12 4 (0.357%) NUnit
12 4 (0.357%) JUnit
12 4 (0.357%) ClearCase
General
1 457 (40.80%) Finance
2 229 (20.45%) Banking
3 170 (15.18%) Front Office
4 143 (12.77%) Investment Banking
5 133 (11.88%) Games
6 41 (3.661%) Telecoms
7 30 (2.679%) Financial Institution
8 19 (1.696%) Music
9 17 (1.518%) Music Industry
10 14 (1.250%) Multimedia
11 12 (1.071%) Publishing
11 12 (1.071%) Legal
12 8 (0.714%) Retail
12 8 (0.714%) Marketing
13 7 (0.625%) Advertising
14 5 (0.446%) Russian Language
15 4 (0.357%) Electronics
15 4 (0.357%) Back Office
16 2 (0.179%) Automotive
17 1 (0.089%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 655 (58.48%) Developer
2 241 (21.52%) C++ Developer
3 127 (11.34%) Software Engineer
4 115 (10.27%) Analyst
5 98 (8.750%) Junior
6 97 (8.661%) Software Developer
7 88 (7.857%) Graduate
8 77 (6.875%) Java Developer
9 71 (6.339%) Senior Developer
9 71 (6.339%) Junior Developer
10 64 (5.714%) C# Developer
11 53 (4.732%) Architect
12 46 (4.107%) Programmer
13 44 (3.929%) Applications Support
14 43 (3.839%) Graduate Developer
15 42 (3.750%) Support Analyst
16 33 (2.946%) iOS Developer
17 32 (2.857%) Analyst Developer
18 30 (2.679%) Applications Support Analyst
19 28 (2.500%) C++ Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 285 (25.45%) Computer Science
2 112 (10.00%) Derivative
3 106 (9.464%) Mathematics
4 94 (8.393%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 91 (8.125%) Open Source
6 79 (7.054%) Hedge funds
7 70 (6.250%) Equities
8 65 (5.804%) Fixed Income
9 64 (5.714%) Grid Computing
10 52 (4.643%) Physics
11 43 (3.839%) Mobile App
12 33 (2.946%) iPad
13 31 (2.768%) Market Risk
14 30 (2.679%) CMDB
15 29 (2.589%) Blackberry
16 24 (2.143%) Social Network
16 24 (2.143%) Equity Derivative
17 23 (2.054%) Mobile Games
17 23 (2.054%) Digital Media
18 22 (1.964%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 301 (26.88%) Linux
2 257 (22.95%) UNIX
3 189 (16.88%) Windows
4 111 (9.911%) Android
5 103 (9.196%) Apple iOS
6 27 (2.411%) Solaris
7 13 (1.161%) Windows Phone
8 8 (0.714%) Windows Server 2008
9 7 (0.625%) Mac OS X
10 4 (0.357%) Windows Phone 8
11 3 (0.268%) Windows Mobile
12 2 (0.179%) Symbian OS
13 1 (0.089%) Windows NT
13 1 (0.089%) FreeBSD
13 1 (0.089%) Windows 2000
13 1 (0.089%) Windows Server 2003
13 1 (0.089%) Ubuntu
13 1 (0.089%) Tizen
Processes & Methodologies
1 345 (30.80%) OO
2 228 (20.36%) Agile Software Development
3 207 (18.48%) Multithreading
4 93 (8.304%) OOP
5 88 (7.857%) Risk Management
6 87 (7.768%) TDD
7 75 (6.696%) Scrum
8 61 (5.446%) Software Engineering
9 49 (4.375%) Analytics
10 47 (4.196%) BDD
11 42 (3.750%) Unit Testing
12 40 (3.571%) MVC
13 38 (3.393%) Algorithmic Trading
14 37 (3.304%) UML
15 36 (3.214%) Continuous Integration
16 32 (2.857%) Game Development
17 30 (2.679%) Business Analysis
18 28 (2.500%) E-Commerce
19 27 (2.411%) OOD
19 27 (2.411%) RUP
Programming Languages
1 649 (57.95%) Java
2 464 (41.43%) C#
3 322 (28.75%) Python
4 311 (27.77%) SQL
5 225 (20.09%) C
6 149 (13.30%) JavaScript
7 103 (9.196%) Perl
8 83 (7.411%) Ruby
9 56 (5.000%) PHP
10 54 (4.821%) Objective-C
11 49 (4.375%) VBA
12 33 (2.946%) ActionScript
12 33 (2.946%) MATLAB
13 31 (2.768%) Scala
14 26 (2.321%) Shell Script
15 19 (1.696%) R
16 17 (1.518%) F#
17 16 (1.429%) Haskell
17 16 (1.429%) Erlang
17 16 (1.429%) VC++
Qualifications
1 284 (25.36%) Degree
2 42 (3.750%) PhD
3 5 (0.446%) ISEB
4 4 (0.357%) ISTQB
5 3 (0.268%) Postgraduate
6 1 (0.089%) CISSP
6 1 (0.089%) QiCA
6 1 (0.089%) CISA
6 1 (0.089%) CISM
6 1 (0.089%) CIPD
6 1 (0.089%) GSNA
6 1 (0.089%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.089%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (4.107%) QA
2 8 (0.714%) ISO 9001
3 5 (0.446%) MiFID
3 5 (0.446%) Basel III
4 2 (0.179%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.089%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.089%) Basel II
5 1 (0.089%) COBIT
5 1 (0.089%) ISO 8583
5 1 (0.089%) ISO/IEC 14443
5 1 (0.089%) ISO/IEC 7816
System Software
1 8 (0.714%) Xen
2 7 (0.625%) OpenSIPS
3 4 (0.357%) Kamailio
3 4 (0.357%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.089%) SpamAssassin
4 1 (0.089%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (0.714%) MOM
2 7 (0.625%) HP Quality Center
3 1 (0.089%) Puppet
Vendors
1 188 (16.79%) Oracle
2 64 (5.714%) Microsoft
3 61 (5.446%) Sybase
4 53 (4.732%) TIBCO
5 44 (3.929%) Google
6 27 (2.411%) Facebook
7 20 (1.786%) DataSynapse
8 18 (1.607%) Apple
9 8 (0.714%) VMware
9 8 (0.714%) JBoss
9 8 (0.714%) HP
10 7 (0.625%) Murex
10 7 (0.625%) Cadis
11 6 (0.536%) Hyperion
11 6 (0.536%) Calypso
12 4 (0.357%) 29West
12 4 (0.357%) Intel
12 4 (0.357%) IBM
12 4 (0.357%) Symbian
13 3 (0.268%) Sony
City, London
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Rullion IT Plus
Salary: £23000 - £25000 per annum + benefits
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Bridge Noble
Salary: £40000 - £50000 per annum + Bonus + Benefits
Posted: 24 May 2013
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Aston Carter
Salary: £40000 - £65000 per annum + bonus + benefits
Posted: 19 May 2013
City, London
C++, C#, Grid, Developer, Fixed Income, Rates, Bonds, Risk, Front Office, Investment Bank... To be successful you must have: C++ development experience. Ideally some Grid and C# Ability...
iKas International
Salary: £70000 - £85000 per annum + bonus + package
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City, London
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Applause IT Innovation
Salary: £30000 - £45000 per annum + excellent benefits + bonus
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Applause IT Ltd
Salary: £30000 - £45000 per annum + excellent benefits
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Applause IT Ltd
Salary: £30000 - £45000 per annum + excellent benefits + bonus
Posted: 4 May 2013
City, London
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Client Server
Salary: £60k to £95k + bonus (c100%) + benefits
Posted: 24 May 2013
City, London
We are looking for Developer’s with extensive exposure to C++/C with knowledge of Windows platform... Successful candidate would have a Degree in Computer Science Engineering Technology...
Real Time Recruitment Solutions
Salary: 45,000
Posted: 20 May 2013
City, London
C# Developer - Cash equities - Banking - London... Experience of SQL development (ideally Oracle or Sybase) and Unix is also important and you will exhibit a sound grasp of multithreading,...
Hatstand Limited
Salary: £35000 - £45000 per annum + Benefits, Bonus + Training Budget
Posted: 23 May 2013
City, London
Ideally the junior developer will have a couple of years commercial experience using java/ C++/ C#/ python etc... Strong database skills are also sought after so ideally you...
Thomson Keene Associates
Salary: £35000 - £60000 per annum + benefits + bonus
Posted: 23 May 2013
City, London
Skills: C++, C, Real-Time, Multithreaded, Agile... They are seeking only exceptional developers who have extensive experience building real time, cross platform, multithreaded C++... Ideally candidates will have: *...
Aston Carter
Salary: £35000 - £55000 per annum + top bonus + benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013
City, London
The role is very technically hands on, you will be part of the sophisticated latency improvement team, who build the next generation of low latency trading platforms in...
Harrington Starr
Salary: £70000 - £100000 per annum + Benefits + Bonus
Posted: 18 May 2013
City, London
Vice President, C++, London. My client is at the forefront of electronic confirmation of derivatives... The system is written mainly in C++ with application servers running on Linux...
Aston Carter
Salary: £50000 - £70000 per annum + bonus and benefits
Posted: 24 May 2013
City, London
Low Latency Trading Application Developer & Support Engineer (C++, C#, Low Latency, Python, Java, Linux, Real-Time, CCNA) Proprietary Multi-Asset Trading House - London City £65,000 to £100,...
Harrington Starr
Salary: £65000 - £100000 per annum + Benefits + Bonus
Posted: 18 May 2013
City, London
A global financial services consultancy is looking to hire a number of Java Developers with experience in capital markets to work on various tier 1 investment bank projects...
McGregor Boyall
Salary: £65 - £80 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 22 May 2013
City of London
Futures Front Office Core Java Developer, Investment Bank, London, Permanent A large tier 1 investment bank are looking for an experienced Core Java Developer to sit within the...
Huxley Associates
Salary: £50000 - £75000 per annum
Posted: 23 May 2013
City, London
The focus is on building market leading solutions of which this global brand has built a significant reputation on. Working in agile paired programming methodologies on full life...
Harrington Starr
Salary: £55000 - £80000 per annum + Benefits + Bonus
Posted: 21 May 2013
City, London
C# GUI Developer with Java -Electronic Trading- Investment Banking... the FIX protocol, Market Links Development)... The system is written in Java with a C++ core and is running...
Hatstand Limited
Salary: £30000 - £40000 per annum + BONUS,LIFE INSURANCE,PENSION
Posted: 24 May 2013
City, London
Developer, C#, C++, Java, .NET, OO, F#, Winforms, GUI, SQL, Multithreading, Trading, Hedge Fund, London, Investment bank, Greenfield... You will ideally have a computer science background and will...
Aston Carter
Salary: £75000 - £120000 per annum + Bonus
Posted: 19 May 2013
City, London
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Harrington Starr
Salary: £45000 - £65000 per annum + bonus and benefits and training
Posted: 18 May 2013
City, London
Application Development and Support for Propriety Trading House in London City - Assets, Java, Perl, Python C++ and C#... Perl. C++ C# SQL Server. Oracle. Sybase. Windows. UNIX. Linux.
Harrington Starr
Salary: £70000 - £110000 per annum + Bonus and benefits and Training
Posted: 18 May 2013
City, London
Skills: C/ C++, Unix (Linux/Solaris), Multi-Threaded Programming... They are offering a world class C/C++ developer an opportunity to join their head office team in London.....
Aston Carter
Salary: £45000 - £65000 per annum + top bonus + benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013
City, London
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Oscar Associates (UK) Ltd
Salary: £60000 - £80000 per annum
Posted: 24 May 2013
City, London
The ideal candidate will have graduated with an Academic education in Information Technology, in-depth Analytical skills using C++ development solutions, experience applying Object Orientated concepts in design /...
MBA Ltd
Posted: 24 May 2013