The first table below looks at the demand for the C++ Developer role in IT jobs advertised for the East of England region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited C++ Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 21 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 Job Titles advertised for the East of England region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
C++ Developer
Rank 180 150 169
Rank change year-on-year
-30 +19
Permanent jobs requiring a C++ Developer 83 128 103
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the East of England 1.000% 1.460% 1.098%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.049% 1.510% 1.160%
Number of salaries quoted 80 94 92
Average salary £45,000 £40,000 £33,250
Average salary % change year-on-year
+12.50% +20.30%
90% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £32,500 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £50,000 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £39,000 £37,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year
+4.00% -6.25%
All Job Titles
East of England
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
7915 8479 8883
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the East of England 95.40% 96.70% 94.69%
Number of salaries quoted 6895 7100 7595
Average salary £39,500 £40,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-1.25% +6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £25,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
C++ Developer
England

C++ Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing C++ Developer across the East of England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

East of England C++ Developer Jobs Demand Trend

C++ Developer
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing C++ Developer across the East of England region.

East of England C++ Developer Salary Trend

C++ Developer
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing C++ Developer across the East of England region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

East of England C++ Developer Salary Histogram

C++ Developer
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing C++ Developer within the East of England region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Cambridgeshire -39 42 £45,000 +12.50%
Hertfordshire +11 19 £45,000 +20.00%
Essex +49 18 £37,500 +15.38%
Suffolk -18 2 £30,750 -19.07%
East Anglia - 2 £33,750 -
C++ Developer
England

C++ Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the East of England region that cited C++ Developer 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++ Developer in their job title.

1 144 (100.00%) C++
2 53 (36.81%) .NET
3 52 (36.11%) SQL
3 52 (36.11%) C
4 42 (29.17%) C#
4 42 (29.17%) Windows
5 37 (25.69%) Degree
5 37 (25.69%) Multithreading
6 34 (23.61%) Linux
7 29 (20.14%) Boost C++ Libraries
8 26 (18.06%) OO
8 26 (18.06%) ASP.NET
8 26 (18.06%) Python
9 25 (17.36%) MFC
10 24 (16.67%) STL
11 23 (15.97%) Mathematics
11 23 (15.97%) WPF
11 23 (15.97%) Qt
12 22 (15.28%) ASP.NET MVC
12 22 (15.28%) MVC
13 21 (14.58%) Computer Science
13 21 (14.58%) SQL Server
14 20 (13.89%) Embedded C
15 19 (13.19%) Embedded C++
15 19 (13.19%) Perl
15 19 (13.19%) Visual Studio
15 19 (13.19%) UNIX
16 18 (12.50%) Agile Software Development
17 17 (11.81%) OOD
17 17 (11.81%) OOP

C++ Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the East of England region that cited C++ Developer 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++ Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 53 (36.81%) .NET
2 29 (20.14%) Boost C++ Libraries
3 26 (18.06%) ASP.NET
4 25 (17.36%) MFC
5 24 (16.67%) STL
6 23 (15.97%) WPF
6 23 (15.97%) Qt
7 22 (15.28%) ASP.NET MVC
8 14 (9.722%) WinForms
9 13 (9.028%) ATL
9 13 (9.028%) COM+
10 9 (6.250%) Web Services
11 6 (4.167%) ActiveX
11 6 (4.167%) OLE
11 6 (4.167%) QML
12 3 (2.083%) XML
12 3 (2.083%) HTML
13 2 (1.389%) .NET Framework
13 2 (1.389%) DCOM
13 2 (1.389%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 1 (0.694%) Amazon AWS
1 1 (0.694%) CMS
Applications
1 4 (2.778%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 16 (11.11%) TCP/IP
2 6 (4.167%) HTTP
3 1 (0.694%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (14.58%) SQL Server
2 9 (6.250%) MySQL
3 5 (3.472%) DB2
4 3 (2.083%) RDBMS
5 2 (1.389%) Berkeley DB
Development Applications
1 19 (13.19%) Visual Studio
2 7 (4.861%) JIRA
3 5 (3.472%) Team Foundation Server
4 4 (2.778%) Subversion
4 4 (2.778%) GCC
5 2 (1.389%) Bugzilla
5 2 (1.389%) Qt Creator
5 2 (1.389%) VTune
5 2 (1.389%) Git (software)
General
1 6 (4.167%) Electronics
1 6 (4.167%) Games
2 4 (2.778%) Telecoms
3 3 (2.083%) Finance
3 3 (2.083%) Retail
4 2 (1.389%) Automotive
4 2 (1.389%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (0.694%) Advertising
5 1 (0.694%) Music
Miscellaneous
1 23 (15.97%) Mathematics
2 21 (14.58%) Computer Science
3 14 (9.722%) Client/Server
3 14 (9.722%) N-Tier
4 8 (5.556%) Physics
5 6 (4.167%) Device Driver
5 6 (4.167%) 3D Graphics
5 6 (4.167%) Firmware
5 6 (4.167%) Mobile App
5 6 (4.167%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (3.472%) Semantic Web
7 3 (2.083%) Chemistry
8 2 (1.389%) EPoS
9 1 (0.694%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 42 (29.17%) Windows
2 34 (23.61%) Linux
3 19 (13.19%) UNIX
4 10 (6.944%) Mac OS X
5 2 (1.389%) FreeBSD
6 1 (0.694%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (25.69%) Multithreading
2 26 (18.06%) OO
3 22 (15.28%) MVC
4 18 (12.50%) Agile Software Development
5 17 (11.81%) OOD
5 17 (11.81%) OOP
6 15 (10.42%) Scrum
7 14 (9.722%) Automated Testing
7 14 (9.722%) User Stories
8 9 (6.250%) Unit Testing
9 7 (4.861%) Software Engineering
10 6 (4.167%) Content Management
10 6 (4.167%) Project Planning
10 6 (4.167%) Load Balancing
10 6 (4.167%) TDD
10 6 (4.167%) Signal Processing
11 3 (2.083%) 3D Modelling
11 3 (2.083%) CAD
11 3 (2.083%) CAE
11 3 (2.083%) UML
Programming Languages
1 144 (100.00%) C++
2 52 (36.11%) SQL
2 52 (36.11%) C
3 42 (29.17%) C#
4 26 (18.06%) Python
5 20 (13.89%) Embedded C
6 19 (13.19%) Embedded C++
6 19 (13.19%) Perl
7 15 (10.42%) Java
8 9 (6.250%) Fortran
8 9 (6.250%) C++/CLI
9 6 (4.167%) VBScript
10 4 (2.778%) VC++
11 3 (2.083%) JavaScript
12 1 (0.694%) Assembly Language
12 1 (0.694%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.694%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 37 (25.69%) Degree
2 15 (10.42%) PhD
3 5 (3.472%) Postgraduate
4 4 (2.778%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.694%) QA
Vendors
1 13 (9.028%) Oracle
2 6 (4.167%) Microsoft
2 6 (4.167%) VeriFone
3 1 (0.694%) Twitter
3 1 (0.694%) Borland
3 1 (0.694%) TIBCO
Ipswich, East Anglia
My client is currently looking for a passionate Junior C++ Developer for a well-established and innovative company based in the centre of Ipswich... The work environment is...
Hays Specialist Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £18000.00 - £25000.00 per annum
Posted: 4 May 2013
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Your responsibilities will include algorithm development, maths modelling, statistical modelling and data analysis and C++ OO programming... To be considered must have achieved a good degree in ideally...
Edgar Cowen
Salary: £35000 - £45000 per annum + Fantastic + Benefits + Prospects
Posted: 17 May 2013
Hertfordshire
The successful applicant is likely to have a PHD and have experience within computational chemistry and drug discovery. You need to have strong programming skills in C, C++,...
Redrock Consulting Ltd
Salary: £40000 - £60000 per annum
Posted: 17 May 2013
Central Cambridge, East Anglia
Can you offer solid C++ skills, a good appreciation of the software development lifecycle and a knowledge of Database architectures (Oracle / DB2 / SQL Server)?This world-leading software...
ECM Selection Ltd
Salary: to c£50k + full benefits package
Posted: 20 May 2013
Cambridgeshire
Software is developed principally in C++ (with some legacy code in C), based on an integrated object-oriented architecture.This is an excellent career opportunity for the right...
ECM Selection Ltd
Salary: to c£50k + full benefits package
Posted: 20 May 2013
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Developing and maintaining risk analysis and visualisation tools... CppUnit or GoogleTest) - Strong engineering, scienti?c or mathematical background Desirable. - MS Visual Studio, Boost, STL, C++/CLI and C++...
MJH Personnel Associates
Salary: From £32,000 to £45,000 per annum Excellent + bens
Posted: 16 May 2013
Hertfordshire, South East
Summary: This is an excellent opportunity for a C / C++ Embedded Software Engineer to work on robust video processing and graphics products with an established leader in their...
ECM Selection Ltd
Salary: to c£50k + benefits
Posted: 21 May 2013
Cambridge
Any experience in the following areas would also be valuable: - Knowledge of software design methodologies including UML - Experience in 2D / 3D graphics technology and standards such as OpenGL,...
ECM Selection Ltd
Salary: £70k + top benefits
Posted: 23 April 2013