The first table below looks at the demand for C++ skills in IT jobs advertised for the Liverpool region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited C++ over the 3 months to 20 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 Liverpool region.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
C++
Rank 17 24 27
Rank change year-on-year
+7 +3
Permanent jobs citing C++ 35 53 24
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Liverpool 9.669% 10.43% 7.547%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.36% 16.56% 12.44%
Number of salaries quoted 30 33 19
Average salary £32,000 £37,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-14.66% -6.25%
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+1.33% -
All Programming Languages
Liverpool
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
214 320 193
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Liverpool 59.12% 62.99% 60.69%
Number of salaries quoted 184 280 155
Average salary £32,500 £37,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-13.33% +7.14%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,500 £30,000 £30,400
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £43,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
C++
Merseyside

C++
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Liverpool 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 Liverpool region.

Liverpool C++ Salary Trend

C++
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing C++ across the Liverpool region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

Liverpool C++ Salary Histogram

C++
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Liverpool 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 24 (52.17%) PHP
2 22 (47.83%) JavaScript
2 22 (47.83%) HTML5
3 21 (45.65%) CSS
3 21 (45.65%) Games
4 20 (43.48%) C
4 20 (43.48%) HTML
5 19 (41.30%) Android
6 17 (36.96%) Apple iOS
6 17 (36.96%) CSS3
7 15 (32.61%) Game Development
7 15 (32.61%) cocos2d
7 15 (32.61%) Objective-C
7 15 (32.61%) Animation
7 15 (32.61%) SQL
7 15 (32.61%) ASP
7 15 (32.61%) XHTML
7 15 (32.61%) Apple
8 14 (30.43%) Java
9 13 (28.26%) Agile Software Development
10 11 (23.91%) Degree
10 11 (23.91%) C#
11 10 (21.74%) SQL Server
11 10 (21.74%) QA
12 9 (19.57%) Perl
12 9 (19.57%) Windows
12 9 (19.57%) Web Services
12 9 (19.57%) OO
12 9 (19.57%) Python
12 9 (19.57%) Finance

C++
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Liverpool 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 22 (47.83%) HTML5
2 21 (45.65%) CSS
3 20 (43.48%) HTML
4 17 (36.96%) CSS3
5 15 (32.61%) cocos2d
5 15 (32.61%) XHTML
5 15 (32.61%) ASP
6 9 (19.57%) Web Services
7 8 (17.39%) Qt
8 7 (15.22%) .NET
9 6 (13.04%) XML
9 6 (13.04%) STL
9 6 (13.04%) XML Messaging
9 6 (13.04%) Boost C++ Libraries
10 4 (8.696%) jQuery
10 4 (8.696%) MFC
11 3 (6.522%) Flash
12 2 (4.348%) Spring Web Flow
12 2 (4.348%) EJB 3.0
12 2 (4.348%) JMS
Application Platforms
1 2 (4.348%) ESB
2 1 (2.174%) Orchard CMS
2 1 (2.174%) CMS
Applications
1 4 (8.696%) Photoshop
2 3 (6.522%) MS Office
2 3 (6.522%) 3ds Max
2 3 (6.522%) ZBrush
3 1 (2.174%) Adobe Illustrator
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.522%) Internet
2 2 (4.348%) TCP/IP
3 1 (2.174%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (21.74%) SQL Server
2 6 (13.04%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (10.87%) SQL Server 2005
4 3 (6.522%) DB2
4 3 (6.522%) SQL Server 2000
5 2 (4.348%) MySQL
6 1 (2.174%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 7 (15.22%) Visual Studio
1 7 (15.22%) Subversion
2 5 (10.87%) Git (software)
3 2 (4.348%) JUnit
3 2 (4.348%) TeamCity
4 1 (2.174%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (2.174%) Dreamweaver
4 1 (2.174%) NUnit
4 1 (2.174%) CruiseControl
4 1 (2.174%) Moq
General
1 21 (45.65%) Games
2 9 (19.57%) Finance
3 2 (4.348%) Manufacturing
3 2 (4.348%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 37 (80.43%) Developer
2 18 (39.13%) Games Developer
3 11 (23.91%) C++ Developer
4 7 (15.22%) Senior Developer
4 7 (15.22%) Software Engineer
5 3 (6.522%) Senior Games Developer
5 3 (6.522%) Programmer
6 2 (4.348%) Java Developer
6 2 (4.348%) Software Developer
6 2 (4.348%) C# Developer
6 2 (4.348%) Software Programmer
6 2 (4.348%) Front-End Developer
6 2 (4.348%) Senior Front-End Developer
6 2 (4.348%) Development Engineer
7 1 (2.174%) C# Programmer
7 1 (2.174%) C# .NET Developer
7 1 (2.174%) Junior C++ Developer
7 1 (2.174%) C# ASP.NET Developer
7 1 (2.174%) Junior Developer
7 1 (2.174%) PHP Developer
Miscellaneous
1 15 (32.61%) Animation
2 8 (17.39%) Computer Science
3 5 (10.87%) Open Source
4 3 (6.522%) Streaming Video
4 3 (6.522%) Physics
5 2 (4.348%) Mathematics
5 2 (4.348%) Blackberry
5 2 (4.348%) RIA
6 1 (2.174%) SaaS
6 1 (2.174%) Mobile App
6 1 (2.174%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (2.174%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 19 (41.30%) Android
2 17 (36.96%) Apple iOS
3 9 (19.57%) Windows
4 7 (15.22%) Linux
5 2 (4.348%) Windows Mobile
5 2 (4.348%) Windows Phone 8
5 2 (4.348%) Windows Phone
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (32.61%) Game Development
2 13 (28.26%) Agile Software Development
3 9 (19.57%) OO
4 8 (17.39%) Unit Testing
5 7 (15.22%) Multithreading
6 5 (10.87%) Web Development
6 5 (10.87%) TDD
6 5 (10.87%) MVC
7 3 (6.522%) OOD
7 3 (6.522%) UML
7 3 (6.522%) Software Testing
7 3 (6.522%) Test Automation
8 2 (4.348%) Dependency Injection
8 2 (4.348%) Electronic Trading
8 2 (4.348%) Manual Testing
8 2 (4.348%) Portfolio Management
8 2 (4.348%) Root Cause Analysis
8 2 (4.348%) Analytics
8 2 (4.348%) AOP
8 2 (4.348%) Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 24 (52.17%) PHP
2 22 (47.83%) JavaScript
3 20 (43.48%) C
4 15 (32.61%) SQL
4 15 (32.61%) Objective-C
5 14 (30.43%) Java
6 11 (23.91%) C#
7 9 (19.57%) Perl
7 9 (19.57%) Python
8 6 (13.04%) Ruby
9 5 (10.87%) Groovy
10 3 (6.522%) PL/SQL
11 2 (4.348%) VB6
11 2 (4.348%) VB
11 2 (4.348%) VB.NET
12 1 (2.174%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (23.91%) Degree
2 2 (4.348%) HND
2 2 (4.348%) ISEB
2 2 (4.348%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (21.74%) QA
Vendors
1 15 (32.61%) Apple
2 3 (6.522%) Oracle
3 2 (4.348%) JBoss
4 1 (2.174%) Microsoft
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