The first table below looks at the demand for C++ skills in IT jobs advertised for the Glasgow region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited C++ over the 3 months to 17 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 Glasgow region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
C++
Rank 26 40 19
Rank change year-on-year
+14 -21
Permanent jobs citing C++ 96 37 97
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Glasgow 8.348% 4.405% 9.979%
As % of the Programming Languages category 12.11% 7.889% 17.20%
Number of salaries quoted 53 32 81
Average salary £42,500 £38,500 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+10.38% +2.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £31,000 £29,600 £28,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £42,500 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £37,500
All Programming Languages
Glasgow
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
793 469 564
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Glasgow 68.96% 55.83% 58.02%
Number of salaries quoted 445 369 428
Average salary £40,000 £36,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+11.11% -4.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £25,000 £28,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £50,000 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
C++
Scotland

C++
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing C++ across the Glasgow region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

Glasgow 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 Glasgow region.

Glasgow C++ Salary Trend

C++
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing C++ across the Glasgow region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Glasgow C++ Salary Histogram

C++
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Glasgow 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 96 (61.54%) Java
2 88 (56.41%) C#
3 48 (30.77%) SQL
4 47 (30.13%) .NET
5 41 (26.28%) Banking
6 40 (25.64%) Degree
7 38 (24.36%) C
8 37 (23.72%) Linux
9 36 (23.08%) UNIX
10 35 (22.44%) Finance
11 31 (19.87%) Python
12 29 (18.59%) Windows
12 29 (18.59%) Software Engineering
12 29 (18.59%) Multithreading
13 27 (17.31%) Sybase
14 25 (16.03%) Front Office
15 23 (14.74%) Investment Banking
16 22 (14.10%) WPF
16 22 (14.10%) Electronic Trading
16 22 (14.10%) Risk Management
16 22 (14.10%) OO
17 21 (13.46%) XML
18 20 (12.82%) Perl
18 20 (12.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
19 19 (12.18%) Oracle
20 17 (10.90%) Computer Science
20 17 (10.90%) TDD
21 16 (10.26%) QA
21 16 (10.26%) Derivative
21 16 (10.26%) ASP.NET

C++
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Glasgow 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 47 (30.13%) .NET
2 22 (14.10%) WPF
3 21 (13.46%) XML
4 16 (10.26%) ASP.NET
5 12 (7.692%) HTML
5 12 (7.692%) WCF
6 10 (6.410%) Boost C++ Libraries
7 9 (5.769%) DCOM
8 8 (5.128%) LINQ
8 8 (5.128%) ASP.NET MVC
9 7 (4.487%) HTML5
10 6 (3.846%) ATL
11 5 (3.205%) CSS
11 5 (3.205%) STL
11 5 (3.205%) Web Services
11 5 (3.205%) JSON
12 4 (2.564%) Hibernate
12 4 (2.564%) Core Animation
12 4 (2.564%) Cocoa Touch
13 3 (1.923%) Spring
Application Platforms
1 14 (8.974%) SharePoint
2 9 (5.769%) SharePoint 2010
3 7 (4.487%) IIS
4 2 (1.282%) Confluence
4 2 (1.282%) MQSeries
5 1 (0.641%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (0.641%) Apache
5 1 (0.641%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.641%) MSMQ
Applications
1 3 (1.923%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 7 (4.487%) Dynamics AX
Communications & Networking
1 8 (5.128%) HTTP
2 5 (3.205%) TCP/IP
3 3 (1.923%) Firewall
4 1 (0.641%) ASN.1
4 1 (0.641%) Internet
4 1 (0.641%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (7.692%) SQL Server
2 5 (3.205%) RDBMS
2 5 (3.205%) SQLite
3 4 (2.564%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (2.564%) Sybase ASE
3 4 (2.564%) Crystal Reports
3 4 (2.564%) Oracle Reports
4 3 (1.923%) Oracle 8/8i
4 3 (1.923%) GIS
4 3 (1.923%) SQL Server 2005
4 3 (1.923%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 3 (1.923%) SQL Server 2008
4 3 (1.923%) NoSQL
5 2 (1.282%) BigTable
5 2 (1.282%) Apache Cassandra
5 2 (1.282%) DB2
6 1 (0.641%) Data Mining
6 1 (0.641%) MySQL
6 1 (0.641%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.641%) Sybase IQ
Development Applications
1 9 (5.769%) JIRA
2 5 (3.205%) NUnit
2 5 (3.205%) Visual Studio
2 5 (3.205%) QuickTest Pro
3 4 (2.564%) Eclipse
3 4 (2.564%) Xcode
4 3 (1.923%) VSS/SourceSafe
5 2 (1.282%) JUnit
5 2 (1.282%) Mercurial
5 2 (1.282%) Jasmine
6 1 (0.641%) WebDriver
6 1 (0.641%) CruiseControl
6 1 (0.641%) Subversion
6 1 (0.641%) Selenium
6 1 (0.641%) FitNesse
6 1 (0.641%) jMock
6 1 (0.641%) JSUnit
6 1 (0.641%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.641%) Ant
6 1 (0.641%) ClearCase
General
1 41 (26.28%) Banking
2 35 (22.44%) Finance
3 25 (16.03%) Front Office
4 23 (14.74%) Investment Banking
5 9 (5.769%) Telecoms
6 8 (5.128%) Games
7 5 (3.205%) Legal
8 3 (1.923%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.282%) Back Office
10 1 (0.641%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 95 (60.90%) Developer
2 28 (17.95%) C++ Developer
3 26 (16.67%) Software Engineer
4 18 (11.54%) Software Developer
5 13 (8.333%) Senior Developer
5 13 (8.333%) C# Developer
6 12 (7.692%) Java Developer
7 9 (5.769%) Front Office Developer
7 9 (5.769%) WPF Developer
8 8 (5.128%) C++/Java Developer
8 8 (5.128%) Applications Developer
9 7 (4.487%) Analyst
9 7 (4.487%) C Software Engineer
9 7 (4.487%) Technical Leader
10 6 (3.846%) C++/C# Developer
11 5 (3.205%) Mobile Developer
11 5 (3.205%) Dynamics AX Developer
11 5 (3.205%) Coordinator
11 5 (3.205%) Senior Software Engineer
11 5 (3.205%) C++ Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 20 (12.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 17 (10.90%) Computer Science
3 16 (10.26%) Derivative
4 13 (8.333%) Fixed Income
5 9 (5.769%) Mobile App
6 7 (4.487%) Open Source
7 6 (3.846%) Embedded Systems
7 6 (3.846%) Equity Derivative
7 6 (3.846%) Equities
8 5 (3.205%) Physics
8 5 (3.205%) iPhone
8 5 (3.205%) iPad
9 4 (2.564%) Market Risk
9 4 (2.564%) Animation
9 4 (2.564%) Mathematics
9 4 (2.564%) Device Driver
10 3 (1.923%) Enterprise Software
11 2 (1.282%) Commodity Exotics
11 2 (1.282%) Handset
11 2 (1.282%) Grid Computing
Operating Systems
1 37 (23.72%) Linux
2 36 (23.08%) UNIX
3 29 (18.59%) Windows
4 12 (7.692%) Android
5 11 (7.051%) Apple iOS
6 3 (1.923%) Windows Server 2008
6 3 (1.923%) HPUX
6 3 (1.923%) Windows CE
6 3 (1.923%) Windows Server 2003
7 2 (1.282%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (18.59%) Software Engineering
1 29 (18.59%) Multithreading
2 22 (14.10%) Electronic Trading
2 22 (14.10%) OO
2 22 (14.10%) Risk Management
3 17 (10.90%) TDD
4 15 (9.615%) Agile Software Development
5 11 (7.051%) MVC
6 9 (5.769%) Configuration Management
6 9 (5.769%) OOP
6 9 (5.769%) Release Management
6 9 (5.769%) Asset Management
7 8 (5.128%) ITIL
7 8 (5.128%) Change Management
8 7 (4.487%) ERP
9 6 (3.846%) Algorithmic Trading
10 5 (3.205%) OOD
10 5 (3.205%) Time Management
11 4 (2.564%) Data Protection
11 4 (2.564%) Memory Management
Programming Languages
1 96 (61.54%) Java
2 88 (56.41%) C#
3 48 (30.77%) SQL
4 38 (24.36%) C
5 31 (19.87%) Python
6 20 (12.82%) Perl
7 16 (10.26%) JavaScript
8 10 (6.410%) VB
8 10 (6.410%) Shell Script
9 6 (3.846%) Ruby
10 5 (3.205%) Objective-C
11 4 (2.564%) COBOL
11 4 (2.564%) Scala
12 3 (1.923%) XPath
12 3 (1.923%) PL/SQL
12 3 (1.923%) Embedded C++
12 3 (1.923%) PL/1
12 3 (1.923%) VB.NET
13 2 (1.282%) Embedded C
13 2 (1.282%) X++
Qualifications
1 40 (25.64%) Degree
2 3 (1.923%) PhD
2 3 (1.923%) Security Cleared
3 2 (1.282%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (10.26%) QA
2 5 (3.205%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 2 (1.282%) ISO 9001
4 1 (0.641%) JTAG
Vendors
1 27 (17.31%) Sybase
2 19 (12.18%) Oracle
3 11 (7.051%) Microsoft
4 6 (3.846%) Razor Risk
5 5 (3.205%) Remedy
6 4 (2.564%) Apple
7 3 (1.923%) ION Trading
8 2 (1.282%) Tradeweb
8 2 (1.282%) Pega
8 2 (1.282%) MarketAxess
8 2 (1.282%) Bloomberg
8 2 (1.282%) VMware
9 1 (0.641%) Perforce
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Design and development of Relational Databases using SQL... Be knowledgeable in front end web technologies (HTML5, JavaScript, CSS3) An understanding or experience of Agile methodologies would be desirable.....
Net Talent
Salary: Competitive + Benefits
Posted: 13 May 2013
Glasgow, Scotland
The successful candidate will have: A Degree in Computer Science, Electronic Engineering or equivalent qualification. Experience in C/C++ programming Any experience of Embedded Operating Systems - Linux, Windows -...
Cathcart Associates
Salary: £30000 - £50000 per annum
Posted: 2 May 2013
Glasgow, Lanarkshire
This includes electronic trading for Cash and Derivative products. The high availability, low latency environment consists of C++ and Java pricing and risk engines, C# and third party...
Claremont Consulting Ltd
Salary: £40000 - £45000 per annum + Excellent benefits
Posted: 13 May 2013
Glasgow, Scotland
This includes electronic trading for Cash and Derivative products. The high availability, low latency environment consists of C++ and Java pricing and risk engines, C# and third party...
Claremont Consulting
Salary: £40000 - £45000 per annum + Excellent benefits
Posted: 14 May 2013
Glasgow, Scotland
This includes electronic trading for Cash and Derivative products. The high availability, low latency environment consists of C++ and Java pricing and risk engines, C# and third party...
Claremont Consulting
Salary: £40000 - £50000 per annum + excellent benefits
Posted: 1 May 2013
Glasgow, Lanarkshire
This includes electronic trading for Cash and Derivative products. The high availability, low latency environment consists of C++ and Java pricing and risk engines, C# and third party...
Claremont Consulting Ltd
Salary: £40000 - £50000 per annum + excellent benefits
Posted: 15 May 2013
Glasgow, Lanarkshire
c) Windows or Linux or Mac development; iOS or Android development. d) C or C++ programming design; OO design and UML; STL and Boost... c) Multithreading experience; GPU...
EasyWebRecruitment.com
Salary: Competitive
Posted: 17 May 2013
Glasgow, Lanarkshire
This computation is extremely compute-intensive, so optimisation and parallel computation are a significant focus, and in this role you would find yourself constantly learning and pushing the...
Aston Carter
Salary: £50000 - £75000 per annum + Bonus guaranteed, 28 days hol
Posted: 17 May 2013
Glasgow, Lanarkshire
Reporting to all stakeholders on QA status and progress... SQL, UNIX/Linux and message based testing... Testing tools - QC; QTP. Sybase/SQL, Java, C++, C#/.net skills are...
Nicoll Curtin
Salary: £45000 - £55000 per annum + benefits & bonus
Posted: 13 May 2013