England C++ Jobs

This section looks at the demand for C++ skills within the England region with a comparison to our Programming Languages category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT job ads that have cited C++ over the 3 months to 18 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Abingdon Aldershot Altrincham Andover Ascot Ashton-under-Lyne Avon Aylesbury Banbury Barnet Basildon Basingstoke Bath Beaconsfield Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Bellshill Berkhamsted Berkshire Beverley Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Bournemouth Brackley Bracknell Bradford Bridgend Bridgwater Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckingham Buckinghamshire Burnley Bury St Edmunds Calne Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Chatham Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chippenham Cirencester City of London Clapham Colchester Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Dagenham Darlington Daventry Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorchester Dorking Dorset Dudley Dundee Dunfermline Durham Ealing East Anglia East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Egham England Epsom Essex Exeter Exmouth Fareham Farnborough Farnham Felixstowe Feltham Fife Gateshead Glasgow Glossop Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Gosport Grantham Guernsey Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Harrow Hastings Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Henley-on-Thames Hereford Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire High Peak High Wycombe Highlands Home Counties Horley Horsham Hove Hull Hungerford Huntingdon Inverness Ipswich Isle of Man Isle of Wight Jersey Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Malmesbury Malton Malvern Manchester Marlow Melksham Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Mitcheldean Monmouth Monmouthshire New Milton Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northumberland Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Paignton Peterborough Petersfield Plymouth Pontypool Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Redditch Renfrew Renfrewshire Ringwood Ripon Romford Romsey Rotherham Royston Rugby Ruislip Saffron Walden Sale Salford Scotland Sheffield Shepton Mallet Shropshire Slough Smethwick Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southwark St Albans St Helens St Neots Staffordshire Staines Stamford Stevenage Stirling Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Street Stroud Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Tamworth Teddington Telford Tetbury Tewkesbury Thame Thames Valley Torfaen Totnes Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear Tyneside UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wells Welwyn Garden City Wembley West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weybridge Weymouth Wigan Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Winsford Wirral Witham Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Wotton-under-Edge York Yorkshire	3 months to 18 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	19	16
Rank change on same period last year	-3
Matching permanent IT job ads	13741	21843
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	7.174 %	9.012 %
As % of the category below	16.30 %	20.41 %
Salaries quoted	11265	17062
Average minimum salary	£41,618	£43,618
Average salary	£46,542	£48,510
% change on same period last year	-4.05 %
Average maximum salary	£51,467	£53,402
UK excluding London average salary	£36,347	£36,122
% change on same period last year	+0.62 %
Programming Languages England
Matching permanent IT job ads	84279	107047
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	44.00 %	44.16 %
Salaries quoted	71695	86768
Average minimum salary	£37,386	£39,304
Average salary	£41,029	£43,133
% change on same period last year	-4.87 %
Average maximum salary	£44,673	£46,963
UK excluding London average salary	£35,189	£35,554
% change on same period last year	-1.02 %
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Demand Trend

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

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Salary Trend

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

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing C++ across the England region over the 3 months to 18 July 2008.

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Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT job ads citing C++ within the England region over the 3 months to 18 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
London	-1	6471	£59,178	-1.62 %
South East	-2	2654	£38,618	-0.07 %
East of England	-2	1605	£37,029	+0.84 %
South West	-4	1097	£35,610	+3.28 %
West Midlands	-7	581	£33,379	-3.83 %
North West	-13	570	£32,858	+0.53 %
Yorkshire	-8	420	£32,754	-0.02 %
East Midlands	-27	236	£33,393	+5.27 %
North East	-8	94	£32,798	+6.09 %
Midlands	+3	15	£38,692	+22.39 %
South Coast	+14	13	£53,000	+51.42 %

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 July 2008, IT jobs across the England 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 10400 (35.10 %) Java 2 10211 (34.46 %) C# 3 8059 (27.20 %) C 4 7548 (25.47 %) Finance 5 7515 (25.36 %) .NET 6 7013 (23.67 %) Windows 7 6671 (22.51 %) UNIX 8 6583 (22.22 %) Degree 9 6155 (20.77 %) SQL 10 6111 (20.62 %) OO 11 4775 (16.11 %) SQL Server 12 4361 (14.72 %) Linux 13 3951 (13.33 %) XML 14 3730 (12.59 %) Oracle 15 3724 (12.57 %) Banking

16 3573 (12.06 %) Derivative 17 3416 (11.53 %) Front Office 18 3109 (10.49 %) VB 19 2701 (9.115 %) VC++ 20 2626 (8.862 %) UML 21 2573 (8.683 %) Microsoft 22 2270 (7.660 %) STL 23 2213 (7.468 %) MFC 24 2164 (7.303 %) Computer Science 25 2132 (7.195 %) Perl 26 1961 (6.618 %) Mathematics 27 1940 (6.547 %) ASP.NET 28 1934 (6.527 %) Investment Banking 29 1872 (6.317 %) OOD 30 1649 (5.565 %) Multithreading

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 July 2008, IT jobs across the England 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 7515 (25.36 %) .NET 2 3951 (13.33 %) XML 3 2270 (7.660 %) STL 4 2213 (7.468 %) MFC 5 1940 (6.547 %) ASP.NET 6 1588 (5.359 %) HTML 7 1557 (5.254 %) J2EE 8 1190 (4.016 %) WebServices 9 905 (3.054 %) WinForms 10 824 (2.781 %) ASP 11 772 (2.605 %) .NET Framework 12 560 (1.890 %) AJAX 13 550 (1.856 %) Middleware 14 545 (1.839 %) CSS 15 509 (1.718 %) JSP 16 503 (1.697 %) XSLT 17 499 (1.684 %) SOAP 18 472 (1.593 %) ATL 19 452 (1.525 %) Spring 20 451 (1.522 %) OpenGL	Application Platforms 1 414 (1.397 %) Apache 2 271 (0.915 %) WebLogic 3 238 (0.803 %) SharePoint 4 219 (0.739 %) IIS 5 214 (0.722 %) BizTalk Server 6 205 (0.692 %) Tomcat 7 177 (0.597 %) MQSeries 8 146 (0.493 %) MS Exchange 9 127 (0.429 %) JBoss 9 127 (0.429 %) WebSphere MQ 10 89 (0.300 %) Rendezvous 10 89 (0.300 %) SAS 11 85 (0.287 %) SharePoint Server 2007 12 82 (0.277 %) CMS 13 65 (0.219 %) CICS 14 60 (0.202 %) Oracle Workflow 15 46 (0.155 %) ColdFusion 16 39 (0.132 %) WebSphere Message Broker 17 31 (0.105 %) Documentum 18 29 (0.098 %) TIBCO EMS
Applications 1 1054 (3.557 %) MS Excel 2 494 (1.667 %) MATLAB 3 305 (1.029 %) MS Office 4 252 (0.850 %) MS Visio 5 104 (0.351 %) 3ds Max 6 102 (0.344 %) Simulink 7 81 (0.273 %) Maya 8 49 (0.165 %) MS Project 9 45 (0.152 %) Photoshop 10 40 (0.135 %) S-PLUS 11 38 (0.128 %) Quicktime 12 36 (0.121 %) MS PowerPoint 13 34 (0.115 %) AutoCAD 14 32 (0.108 %) PrintSoft PReS 15 21 (0.071 %) DOC1 16 20 (0.067 %) FrameMaker 17 13 (0.044 %) SPSS 18 9 (0.030 %) RoboHelp 19 8 (0.027 %) CATIA 20 6 (0.020 %) Adobe Illustrator	Business Applications 1 158 (0.533 %) Summit 2 95 (0.321 %) Endur 3 54 (0.182 %) FRONT ARENA 4 47 (0.159 %) Oracle Financials 5 29 (0.098 %) RMDS 6 22 (0.074 %) BASE24 7 21 (0.071 %) Dynamics AX 8 18 (0.061 %) LabWindows 9 16 (0.054 %) AWD 10 15 (0.051 %) Kondor+ 10 15 (0.051 %) Oracle Applications 11 13 (0.044 %) SAP Retail 12 11 (0.037 %) Temenos Globus 12 11 (0.037 %) Sophis RISQUE 12 11 (0.037 %) SoftGrid 12 11 (0.037 %) Oracle 11i 12 11 (0.037 %) Axapta 13 10 (0.034 %) FLEXCUBE 14 9 (0.030 %) Murex MxG2000 14 9 (0.030 %) Oracle BRM
Communications & Networking 1 1187 (4.006 %) TCP/IP 2 819 (2.764 %) Internet 3 434 (1.465 %) Wireless 4 317 (1.070 %) GSM 5 257 (0.867 %) HTTP 6 181 (0.611 %) VoIP 7 179 (0.604 %) GPRS 8 171 (0.577 %) UMTS 9 170 (0.574 %) 3G 10 150 (0.506 %) SNMP 11 147 (0.496 %) Ethernet 12 138 (0.466 %) DVB 13 110 (0.371 %) SMS 14 108 (0.364 %) Bluetooth 15 107 (0.361 %) Broadband 16 102 (0.344 %) Firewall 17 99 (0.334 %) H.323 18 98 (0.331 %) INAP 18 98 (0.331 %) LAN 19 93 (0.314 %) Intranet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 4775 (16.11 %) SQL Server 2 1013 (3.418 %) RDBMS 3 798 (2.693 %) SQL Server 2005 4 744 (2.511 %) MySQL 5 582 (1.964 %) SQL Server 2000 6 354 (1.195 %) DB2 7 264 (0.891 %) SQL Server 7 8 203 (0.685 %) Oracle 10g 9 190 (0.641 %) GIS 10 189 (0.638 %) Datawarehouse 11 161 (0.543 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 12 149 (0.503 %) Crystal Reports 13 146 (0.493 %) Oracle 8/8i 14 139 (0.469 %) MS Access 15 123 (0.415 %) Oracle 9i 16 103 (0.348 %) Oracle Reports 17 75 (0.253 %) Ingres 18 72 (0.243 %) SQL Server Integration Services 19 69 (0.233 %) BusinessObjects 20 61 (0.206 %) PostgreSQL
Development Applications 1 1411 (4.762 %) Visual Studio 2 298 (1.006 %) ClearCase 3 276 (0.931 %) Eclipse 4 244 (0.823 %) VSS/SourceSafe 5 227 (0.766 %) Ant 6 161 (0.543 %) Subversion 7 146 (0.493 %) JUnit 8 143 (0.483 %) Rational Rose 9 129 (0.435 %) Flash 10 107 (0.361 %) InstallShield 11 95 (0.321 %) NUnit 12 77 (0.260 %) TestDirector 13 70 (0.236 %) LabVIEW 14 69 (0.233 %) WinRunner 15 60 (0.202 %) PowerBuilder 16 51 (0.172 %) ClearQuest 17 48 (0.162 %) PVCS 18 44 (0.148 %) MSI 19 42 (0.142 %) QuickTest Pro 20 39 (0.132 %) Oracle Forms	General 1 7548 (25.47 %) Finance 2 3724 (12.57 %) Banking 3 3416 (11.53 %) Front Office 4 1934 (6.527 %) Investment Banking 5 1517 (5.119 %) Games 6 1292 (4.360 %) Telecoms 7 1177 (3.972 %) Pensions 8 976 (3.294 %) Education 9 875 (2.953 %) Health 10 867 (2.926 %) Electronics 11 437 (1.475 %) Government 12 402 (1.357 %) Insurance 13 392 (1.323 %) 3D Graphics 14 387 (1.306 %) Financial Institution 15 336 (1.134 %) Retail 16 304 (1.026 %) Aerospace 17 285 (0.962 %) Back Office 18 254 (0.857 %) Manufacturing 19 245 (0.827 %) Automotive 20 232 (0.783 %) Marketing
Job Titles 1 15852 (53.49 %) Developer 2 6940 (23.42 %) C++ Developer 3 5823 (19.65 %) Software Engineer 4 2611 (8.811 %) Software Developer 5 2510 (8.470 %) C# Developer 6 2012 (6.790 %) Analyst 7 1937 (6.537 %) Senior Developer 8 1926 (6.500 %) Java Developer 9 1684 (5.683 %) C++ Software Engineer 10 1641 (5.538 %) Programmer 11 1216 (4.104 %) .NET Developer 12 1118 (3.773 %) Graduate 13 1023 (3.452 %) C++/CSharp Developer 14 919 (3.101 %) C++ Software Developer 15 898 (3.030 %) Senior Software Engineer 16 873 (2.946 %) Architect 17 852 (2.875 %) Team Leader 18 768 (2.592 %) C++/Java Developer 19 767 (2.588 %) Junior 20 734 (2.477 %) Senior C++ Developer	Miscellaneous 1 3573 (12.06 %) Derivative 2 2164 (7.303 %) Computer Science 3 1961 (6.618 %) Mathematics 4 1649 (5.565 %) Multithreading 5 1437 (4.849 %) Foreign Exchange (FX) 6 1408 (4.751 %) Fixed Income 7 1331 (4.492 %) Equities 8 845 (2.852 %) Equity Derivative 9 731 (2.467 %) Physics 10 580 (1.957 %) Client/Server 11 440 (1.485 %) Interest Rate Derivative 12 428 (1.444 %) Grid Computing 13 389 (1.313 %) Device Driver 14 373 (1.259 %) Credit Derivative 15 324 (1.093 %) N-Tier 16 287 (0.969 %) Asset Management 17 270 (0.911 %) Credit Risk 18 259 (0.874 %) Market Risk 19 225 (0.759 %) VHDL 20 221 (0.746 %) MPEG
Operating Systems 1 7013 (23.67 %) Windows 2 6671 (22.51 %) UNIX 3 4361 (14.72 %) Linux 4 962 (3.246 %) Solaris 5 493 (1.664 %) Windows NT 6 309 (1.043 %) VxWorks 7 304 (1.026 %) Windows XP 8 288 (0.972 %) Symbian OS 9 270 (0.911 %) Windows 2000 10 248 (0.837 %) Windows Mobile 11 246 (0.830 %) Embedded Linux 12 244 (0.823 %) Windows CE 13 154 (0.520 %) AIX 14 148 (0.499 %) HPUX 15 112 (0.378 %) Windows Server 2003 16 96 (0.324 %) VMS 17 71 (0.240 %) Nucleus RTOS 18 70 (0.236 %) Mac OS X 19 35 (0.118 %) ThreadX 20 31 (0.105 %) MVS	Processes & Methodologies 1 6111 (20.62 %) OO 2 2626 (8.862 %) UML 3 1872 (6.317 %) OOD 4 1482 (5.001 %) Software Engineering 5 1034 (3.489 %) Project Management 6 1020 (3.442 %) Risk Management 7 732 (2.470 %) OOP 8 667 (2.251 %) OOA/OOD 9 630 (2.126 %) Agile Software Development 10 592 (1.998 %) Algorithmic Trading 11 543 (1.832 %) Security Cleared 12 525 (1.772 %) Electronic Trading 13 491 (1.657 %) Web Development 14 416 (1.404 %) Unit Testing 15 400 (1.350 %) E-Commerce 16 373 (1.259 %) RUP 17 333 (1.124 %) CAD 18 327 (1.103 %) Software Testing 19 323 (1.090 %) SOA 20 292 (0.985 %) Requirements Analysis
Programming Languages 1 10400 (35.10 %) Java 2 10211 (34.46 %) C# 3 8059 (27.20 %) C 4 6155 (20.77 %) SQL 5 3109 (10.49 %) VB 6 2701 (9.115 %) VC++ 7 2132 (7.195 %) Perl 8 1527 (5.153 %) JavaScript 9 1340 (4.522 %) VB.NET 10 1195 (4.033 %) VBA 11 1143 (3.857 %) Python 12 1027 (3.466 %) PHP 13 939 (3.169 %) Embedded C++ 14 770 (2.598 %) Embedded C 15 679 (2.291 %) Delphi 16 621 (2.096 %) Shell Script 17 614 (2.072 %) VB6 18 430 (1.451 %) PL/SQL 19 426 (1.438 %) Transact-SQL 20 331 (1.117 %) Assembly Language	Qualifications 1 6583 (22.22 %) Degree 2 710 (2.396 %) PhD 3 293 (0.989 %) Microsoft Certification 4 169 (0.570 %) MCSD 5 106 (0.358 %) MCAD 6 103 (0.348 %) MCP 6 103 (0.348 %) HND 7 93 (0.314 %) ISEB 8 72 (0.243 %) HNC 9 43 (0.145 %) Postgraduate 10 38 (0.128 %) CISSP 11 37 (0.125 %) Cisco Certification 12 30 (0.101 %) PRINCE2 Certification 13 28 (0.094 %) CCNA 14 23 (0.078 %) MCSE 15 18 (0.061 %) ITIL Certification 16 14 (0.047 %) CCNP 17 13 (0.044 %) NVQ Level 3 17 13 (0.044 %) PMP 17 13 (0.044 %) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 672 (2.268 %) QA 2 73 (0.246 %) ISO9001 3 51 (0.172 %) WAI 4 48 (0.162 %) SLA 5 41 (0.138 %) ISO9000 5 41 (0.138 %) TickIT 6 33 (0.111 %) Basel II 7 16 (0.054 %) JTAG 8 15 (0.051 %) HL7 9 8 (0.027 %) ISO8583 10 7 (0.024 %) DICOM 10 7 (0.024 %) MiFID 11 5 (0.017 %) COBIT 12 2 (0.007 %) IAS 39 12 2 (0.007 %) ISO14001 13 1 (0.003 %) ISO12207 13 1 (0.003 %) ISO15504 13 1 (0.003 %) 21 CFR Part 11 13 1 (0.003 %) BS7799 13 1 (0.003 %) ISO27001	System Software 1 181 (0.611 %) Active Directory 2 68 (0.229 %) MSMQ 3 22 (0.074 %) AquaLogic 4 21 (0.071 %) NDS 5 18 (0.061 %) VMware Infrastructure 6 16 (0.054 %) NFS 7 15 (0.051 %) Nmap 8 12 (0.040 %) Orbix 9 10 (0.034 %) Terminal Services 10 7 (0.024 %) Terminal Server 11 6 (0.020 %) VMware ESX 11 6 (0.020 %) VMware Workstation 11 6 (0.020 %) Squid 12 3 (0.010 %) Snort 13 2 (0.007 %) Backup Exec 13 2 (0.007 %) Samba 13 2 (0.007 %) Oracle RAC 14 1 (0.003 %) ISA Server 14 1 (0.003 %) Xen 14 1 (0.003 %) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management 1 53 (0.179 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 2 21 (0.071 %) MOM 3 15 (0.051 %) Nessus 4 14 (0.047 %) CONTROL-M 5 13 (0.044 %) Nagios 6 11 (0.037 %) OpenView 7 9 (0.030 %) Tivoli 7 9 (0.030 %) AutoSys 8 8 (0.027 %) BMC PATROL 9 7 (0.024 %) Netcool 10 6 (0.020 %) Unicenter 10 6 (0.020 %) SCOM 11 5 (0.017 %) Oracle Enterprise Manager 12 4 (0.013 %) OMEGAMON 12 4 (0.013 %) CA SiteMinder 13 3 (0.010 %) SCCM 14 2 (0.007 %) AppManager 15 1 (0.003 %) ZENworks 15 1 (0.003 %) EMC NetWorker 15 1 (0.003 %) CiscoWorks	Vendors 1 3730 (12.59 %) Oracle 2 2573 (8.683 %) Microsoft 3 1580 (5.332 %) Sybase 4 644 (2.173 %) Symbian 5 436 (1.471 %) TIBCO 6 253 (0.854 %) IBM 7 164 (0.553 %) Google 8 148 (0.499 %) Sun 9 141 (0.476 %) Reuters 10 129 (0.435 %) Perforce 11 120 (0.405 %) Cisco 12 117 (0.395 %) OpenLink 13 115 (0.388 %) Bloomberg 14 95 (0.321 %) Red Hat 15 89 (0.300 %) Borland 16 81 (0.273 %) HP 16 81 (0.273 %) Calypso 17 69 (0.233 %) Business Objects 18 60 (0.202 %) SAP 19 59 (0.199 %) Citrix