Home Counties C++ Jobs

This section looks at the demand for C++ skills within the Home Counties region with a comparison to our Programming Languages category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited C++ over the 3 months to 20 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Abingdon Aldershot Altrincham Amersham Andover Ascot Ashton-under-Lyne Avon Aylesbury Banbury Barnet Basildon Basingstoke Bath Beaconsfield Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Bellshill Berkshire Beverley Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Bournemouth Brackley Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Bridgend Bridgwater Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckingham Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Castleford Channel Islands Chatham Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham Cirencester City of London Clapham Colchester Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Dagenham Darlington Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorchester Dorking Dorset Dudley Dundee Dunfermline Durham Ealing East Anglia East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Ellesmere Port England Epsom Essex Evesham Exeter Exmouth Fareham Farnborough Farnham Felixstowe Feltham Fife Gateshead Glasgow Glossop Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Goole Gosport Grantham Guernsey Guildford Halesowen Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Havant Hayes Heanor Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire High Peak High Wycombe Highlands Home Counties Horley Horsham Hounslow Hove Hull Hungerford Inverness Ipswich Isle of Man Isle of Wight Kent Kettering Kidderminster Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Leighton Buzzard Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Malton Malvern Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Mitcheldean Monmouth Monmouthshire Nantwich New Milton Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwich Northwood Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Orpington Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Peterborough Petersfield Plymouth Pontypool Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Redditch Redhill Renfrewshire Ringwood Rochford Romford Rotherham Royston Rugby Ruislip Runcorn Saffron Walden Salford Salisbury Scarborough Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Smethwick Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southwark St Albans St Neots Staffordshire Staines Stamford Stevenage Stirling Stockport Street Stroud Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Tamworth Taunton Teddington Telford Tewkesbury Thames Valley Torfaen Totnes Tring Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear Tyneside UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warminster Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wells Welwyn Garden City West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weybridge Weymouth Wilmslow Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Winsford Wirral Witham Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Wotton-under-Edge York Yorkshire	3 months to 20 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	22	22
Rank change on same period last year	0
Matching permanent IT job ads	16	18
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.009 %	0.008 %
As % of the category below	13.68 %	21.43 %
Salaries quoted	13	17
Average minimum salary	£38,462	£57,235
Average salary	£38,462	£59,588
% change on same period last year	-35.45 %
Average maximum salary	£38,462	£61,941
UK excluding London average salary	£36,191	£36,259
% change on same period last year	-0.18 %
Programming Languages Home Counties
Matching permanent IT job ads	117	84
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.063 %	0.035 %
Salaries quoted	108	72
Average minimum salary	£39,746	£56,018
Average salary	£42,114	£58,174
% change on same period last year	-27.60 %
Average maximum salary	£44,481	£60,329
UK excluding London average salary	£35,245	£35,645
% change on same period last year	-1.11 %
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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 Home Counties 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 Home Counties region.

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing C++ across the Home Counties region over the 3 months to 20 August 2008.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT jobs across the Home Counties 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 30 (85.71 %) C# 2 23 (65.71 %) C 3 18 (51.43 %) Degree 4 17 (48.57 %) Finance 5 16 (45.71 %) S-PLUS 5 16 (45.71 %) MATLAB 5 16 (45.71 %) Java 5 16 (45.71 %) Perl 5 16 (45.71 %) PHP 5 16 (45.71 %) PhD 5 16 (45.71 %) Banking 5 16 (45.71 %) Investment Banking 5 16 (45.71 %) Wall Street Systems 6 12 (34.29 %) VC++ 7 9 (25.71 %) InstallShield

7 9 (25.71 %) NHS 7 9 (25.71 %) SQL Server 8 4 (11.43 %) Windows 9 3 (8.571 %) .NET 10 2 (5.714 %) Visual Studio 10 2 (5.714 %) Simulink 10 2 (5.714 %) Electronics 10 2 (5.714 %) LabVIEW 10 2 (5.714 %) VHDL 10 2 (5.714 %) Verilog 10 2 (5.714 %) Software Engineering 10 2 (5.714 %) LabWindows 11 1 (2.857 %) MS PowerPoint 11 1 (2.857 %) Kondor+ 11 1 (2.857 %) Statistics

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT jobs across the Home Counties 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 3 (8.571 %) .NET	Applications 1 16 (45.71 %) MATLAB 1 16 (45.71 %) S-PLUS 2 2 (5.714 %) Simulink 3 1 (2.857 %) MS PowerPoint 3 1 (2.857 %) MS Visio
Business Applications 1 2 (5.714 %) LabWindows 2 1 (2.857 %) Kondor+	Communications & Networking 1 1 (2.857 %) Ethernet 1 1 (2.857 %) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence 1 9 (25.71 %) SQL Server	Development Applications 1 9 (25.71 %) InstallShield 2 2 (5.714 %) LabVIEW 2 2 (5.714 %) Visual Studio
General 1 17 (48.57 %) Finance 2 16 (45.71 %) Banking 2 16 (45.71 %) Investment Banking 3 2 (5.714 %) Electronics 4 1 (2.857 %) Marketing 4 1 (2.857 %) Construction	Job Titles 1 27 (77.14 %) Developer 2 16 (45.71 %) Quant Developer 3 9 (25.71 %) C# Developer 4 6 (17.14 %) Software Engineer 5 5 (14.29 %) C++ Software Engineer 5 5 (14.29 %) C Software Engineer 6 2 (5.714 %) Software Developer 7 1 (2.857 %) Consultant 7 1 (2.857 %) Technical Support 7 1 (2.857 %) C# Software Engineer
Miscellaneous 1 9 (25.71 %) NHS 2 2 (5.714 %) VHDL 2 2 (5.714 %) Verilog 3 1 (2.857 %) Statistics 3 1 (2.857 %) Mathematics 3 1 (2.857 %) Physics 3 1 (2.857 %) Credit Risk 3 1 (2.857 %) Market Risk	Operating Systems 1 4 (11.43 %) Windows 2 1 (2.857 %) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (5.714 %) Software Engineering 2 1 (2.857 %) Finite Element Analysis 2 1 (2.857 %) Stress Testing 2 1 (2.857 %) Security Cleared 2 1 (2.857 %) Business Intelligence 2 1 (2.857 %) Econometrics	Programming Languages 1 30 (85.71 %) C# 2 23 (65.71 %) C 3 16 (45.71 %) Java 3 16 (45.71 %) Perl 3 16 (45.71 %) PHP 4 12 (34.29 %) VC++ 5 1 (2.857 %) Fortran 5 1 (2.857 %) Assembly Language
Qualifications 1 18 (51.43 %) Degree 2 16 (45.71 %) PhD	Vendors 1 16 (45.71 %) Wall Street Systems 2 1 (2.857 %) Misys 2 1 (2.857 %) SunGard 2 1 (2.857 %) Intel 2 1 (2.857 %) Reuters 2 1 (2.857 %) Algorithmics