C++ Jobs in Edinburgh

C++
Scotland > Edinburgh

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh with a requirement for C++ skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited C++ over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 57 85 114
Rank change year-on-year +28 +29 -31
Permanent jobs citing C++ 56 68 44
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 3.65% 3.17% 1.90%
As % of the Programming Languages category 9.15% 7.14% 3.51%
Number of salaries quoted 49 60 24
10th Percentile £45,000 £43,500 £34,875
25th Percentile £55,000 £47,813 £43,963
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.21% +6.00% +2.56%
75th Percentile £70,000 £61,375 £58,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £62,500
Scotland median annual salary £60,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +13.21% +6.00% +5.26%

All Programming Languages
Edinburgh

C++ is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 612 953 1,255
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 39.90% 44.39% 54.19%
Number of salaries quoted 467 612 819
10th Percentile £45,000 £39,750 £38,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £48,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +18.18% +10.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £91,934 £97,095 £85,000
Scotland median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +10.00%

C++
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing C++ as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for C++ in Edinburgh

C++
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing C++ in Edinburgh.

Salary trend for C++ in Edinburgh

C++
Salary Histogram in Edinburgh

Salary distribution for jobs citing C++ in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for C++ in Edinburgh

C++
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (3.57%) Apache
2 1 (1.79%) Confluence
2 1 (1.79%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (1.79%) EViews
1 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.79%) SPSS
Cloud Services
1 8 (14.29%) AWS
2 6 (10.71%) Serverless
3 5 (8.93%) Cloud Computing
4 3 (5.36%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (5.36%) Amazon S3
4 3 (5.36%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (5.36%) Azure
4 3 (5.36%) ChatGPT
4 3 (5.36%) GCP
4 3 (5.36%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (28.57%) Network Security
2 5 (8.93%) Wireless
3 4 (7.14%) Bluetooth
3 4 (7.14%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (1.79%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (7.14%) RDBMS
1 4 (7.14%) Relational Database
2 3 (5.36%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (3.57%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.79%) GIS
4 1 (1.79%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (7.14%) Git
2 1 (1.79%) JIRA
2 1 (1.79%) Subversion
General
1 27 (48.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 8 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 5 (8.93%) Telecoms
4 4 (7.14%) Legal
5 2 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.79%) Banking
6 1 (1.79%) Finance
6 1 (1.79%) Games
6 1 (1.79%) Retail
Job Titles
1 39 (69.64%) Software Engineer
2 27 (48.21%) Senior
3 21 (37.50%) Senior Software Engineer
4 16 (28.57%) C++ Software Engineer
4 16 (28.57%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
5 14 (25.00%) C Software Engineer
5 14 (25.00%) C/C++ Software Engineer
5 14 (25.00%) Senior C Software Engineer
6 7 (12.50%) Developer
7 6 (10.71%) Database Engineer
7 6 (10.71%) Research Engineer
7 6 (10.71%) Research Software Engineer
8 5 (8.93%) C Developer
8 5 (8.93%) C/C++ Developer
8 5 (8.93%) C++ Developer
8 5 (8.93%) Embedded Engineer
8 5 (8.93%) Senior C Developer
8 5 (8.93%) Senior C++ Developer
8 5 (8.93%) Senior Developer
9 4 (7.14%) Embedded Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.57%) DPDK
2 1 (1.79%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 14 (25.00%) Algorithms
2 8 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (8.93%) Data Structures
3 5 (8.93%) Distributed Computing
4 2 (3.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (1.79%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.79%) Credit Risk
5 1 (1.79%) Device Driver
5 1 (1.79%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (1.79%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (1.79%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 16 (28.57%) Linux
2 1 (1.79%) Android
2 1 (1.79%) Apple iOS
2 1 (1.79%) Embedded Linux
2 1 (1.79%) Mac OS X
2 1 (1.79%) OpenWrt
2 1 (1.79%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (71.43%) Software Engineering
2 26 (46.43%) Computer Science
3 10 (17.86%) Machine Learning
4 9 (16.07%) Artificial Intelligence
5 7 (12.50%) Agile
5 7 (12.50%) Mathematics
5 7 (12.50%) Multithreading
6 6 (10.71%) Prototyping
7 5 (8.93%) Benchmarking
7 5 (8.93%) Computer Architecture
7 5 (8.93%) Data Management
7 5 (8.93%) Parallel Programming
7 5 (8.93%) Performance Analysis
7 5 (8.93%) Workflow
8 4 (7.14%) B2B
8 4 (7.14%) CI/CD
9 3 (5.36%) Concurrent Programming
9 3 (5.36%) Generative AI
9 3 (5.36%) Low Latency
9 3 (5.36%) Resource Management
Programming Languages
1 43 (76.79%) C
2 25 (44.64%) Java
3 20 (35.71%) Rust
4 19 (33.93%) Python
5 11 (19.64%) Go
6 6 (10.71%) Haskell
7 2 (3.57%) JavaScript
7 2 (3.57%) SQL
8 1 (1.79%) Assembly Language
8 1 (1.79%) Bash
8 1 (1.79%) C#
8 1 (1.79%) MATLAB
8 1 (1.79%) Perl
8 1 (1.79%) R
Qualifications
1 25 (44.64%) Degree
2 13 (23.21%) Master's Degree
3 12 (21.43%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (21.43%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.79%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 1 (1.79%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (1.79%) Ansible
1 1 (1.79%) Kubernetes
1 1 (1.79%) vRealize
1 1 (1.79%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 3 (5.36%) Google
1 3 (5.36%) OpenAI
2 1 (1.79%) Atlassian
2 1 (1.79%) Dell