The first table below looks at the demand for the Senior C++ Developer role in IT jobs advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Senior C++ Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 24 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 Job Titles advertised for the London region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Senior C++ Developer
Rank 527 524 432
Rank change year-on-year
-3 -92
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior C++ Developer 57 113 219
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in London 0.130% 0.211% 0.378%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.140% 0.224% 0.404%
Number of salaries quoted 51 98 171
Average salary £75,000 £65,000 £70,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+15.38% -7.14%
90% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £45,000 £50,000
10% offered a salary of more than £100,000 £90,000 £97,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £43,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year
-6.97% -4.44%
All Job Titles
London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
40860 50394 54260
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in London 93.43% 93.96% 93.55%
Number of salaries quoted 34360 43737 45781
Average salary £50,000 £50,000 £52,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -4.76%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £31,500 £31,500
10% offered a salary of more than £75,000 £80,000 £77,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Senior C++ Developer
England

Senior C++ Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Senior C++ Developer across the London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

London Senior C++ Developer Jobs Demand Trend

Senior C++ Developer
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Senior C++ Developer across the London region.

London Senior C++ Developer Salary Trend

Senior C++ Developer
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Senior C++ Developer across the London region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

London Senior C++ Developer Salary Histogram

Senior C++ Developer
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior C++ Developer within the London region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
City of London -18 9 £70,000 +24.44%
Canary Wharf - 3 £85,000 -
Docklands, London - 1 - -
Senior C++ Developer
England

Senior C++ Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the London region that cited Senior C++ Developer in their job title 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 with Senior C++ Developer in their job title.

1 135 (100.00%) C++
2 69 (51.11%) UNIX
3 56 (41.48%) Linux
4 50 (37.04%) Finance
5 36 (26.67%) C#
6 35 (25.93%) Java
6 35 (25.93%) Windows
7 32 (23.70%) Multithreading
8 28 (20.74%) Hedge funds
9 27 (20.00%) C
10 25 (18.52%) Algorithmic Trading
11 24 (17.78%) STL
12 22 (16.30%) Front Office
13 21 (15.56%) Python
13 21 (15.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 20 (14.81%) SQL
15 18 (13.33%) Oracle
16 17 (12.59%) Banking
17 16 (11.85%) .NET
18 15 (11.11%) ASP.NET
18 15 (11.11%) XML
18 15 (11.11%) Microsoft
18 15 (11.11%) OOD
19 14 (10.37%) SQL Server
19 14 (10.37%) Equities
19 14 (10.37%) Scrum
19 14 (10.37%) Degree
19 14 (10.37%) Derivative
19 14 (10.37%) Boost C++ Libraries
20 13 (9.630%) QA

Senior C++ Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the London region that cited Senior C++ Developer in their job title 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 with Senior C++ Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 24 (17.78%) STL
2 16 (11.85%) .NET
3 15 (11.11%) ASP.NET
3 15 (11.11%) XML
4 14 (10.37%) Boost C++ Libraries
5 11 (8.148%) Web Services
6 7 (5.185%) WPF
7 6 (4.444%) WCF
8 5 (3.704%) MFC
9 4 (2.963%) HTML
9 4 (2.963%) ATL
9 4 (2.963%) Silverlight
10 3 (2.222%) OpenGL
10 3 (2.222%) COM
11 2 (1.481%) CSS
11 2 (1.481%) Middleware
11 2 (1.481%) Django
12 1 (0.741%) LINQ
12 1 (0.741%) WinForms
12 1 (0.741%) FpML
Application Platforms
1 5 (3.704%) Apache Solr
2 4 (2.963%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.222%) Oracle Coherence
4 2 (1.481%) Rendezvous
5 1 (0.741%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.741%) Mathematica
5 1 (0.741%) SAS
Applications
1 13 (9.630%) MS Office
2 10 (7.407%) MS Project
3 7 (5.185%) MS Excel
4 1 (0.741%) Stata
Business Applications
1 2 (1.481%) BASE24
2 1 (0.741%) Kondor+
2 1 (0.741%) SunGard Martini
2 1 (0.741%) Summit
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.481%) HTTP
1 2 (1.481%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.741%) DSL
2 1 (0.741%) DVB
2 1 (0.741%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (10.37%) SQL Server
2 10 (7.407%) SQLBase
3 6 (4.444%) Data Mining
4 2 (1.481%) MySQL
5 1 (0.741%) KDB
5 1 (0.741%) SQL Server 2008
5 1 (0.741%) OLTP
5 1 (0.741%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.741%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 13 (9.630%) Visual Studio
2 12 (8.889%) Subversion
3 4 (2.963%) NUnit
3 4 (2.963%) NCover
4 3 (2.222%) TeamCity
5 2 (1.481%) Eclipse
5 2 (1.481%) Git (software)
5 2 (1.481%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.741%) Xcode
6 1 (0.741%) JUnit
General
1 50 (37.04%) Finance
2 22 (16.30%) Front Office
3 17 (12.59%) Banking
4 11 (8.148%) Investment Banking
5 5 (3.704%) Games
6 4 (2.963%) Retail
7 1 (0.741%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.741%) Law
Miscellaneous
1 28 (20.74%) Hedge funds
2 21 (15.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 14 (10.37%) Equities
3 14 (10.37%) Derivative
4 9 (6.667%) Computer Science
4 9 (6.667%) Market Risk
4 9 (6.667%) Fixed Income
5 6 (4.444%) Spread Betting
5 6 (4.444%) Statistics
5 6 (4.444%) Credit Risk
6 4 (2.963%) N-Tier
6 4 (2.963%) Mathematics
6 4 (2.963%) Blog
7 3 (2.222%) Social Gaming
8 2 (1.481%) Client/Server
8 2 (1.481%) EPoS
8 2 (1.481%) EMV
8 2 (1.481%) EFT
8 2 (1.481%) EFTPOS
8 2 (1.481%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 69 (51.11%) UNIX
2 56 (41.48%) Linux
3 35 (25.93%) Windows
4 6 (4.444%) Solaris
5 4 (2.963%) Android
6 3 (2.222%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.741%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (23.70%) Multithreading
2 25 (18.52%) Algorithmic Trading
3 15 (11.11%) OOD
4 14 (10.37%) Scrum
5 13 (9.630%) TDD
6 12 (8.889%) Agile Software Development
7 10 (7.407%) SOA
7 10 (7.407%) OO
8 9 (6.667%) Electronic Trading
9 6 (4.444%) OOP
9 6 (4.444%) Risk Management
10 4 (2.963%) E-Commerce
10 4 (2.963%) Market Research
10 4 (2.963%) Analytics
10 4 (2.963%) Data Analysis
11 3 (2.222%) Continuous Integration
12 2 (1.481%) UML
12 2 (1.481%) Mobile Commerce
12 2 (1.481%) Change Management
12 2 (1.481%) Game Development
Programming Languages
1 135 (100.00%) C++
2 36 (26.67%) C#
3 35 (25.93%) Java
4 27 (20.00%) C
5 21 (15.56%) Python
6 20 (14.81%) SQL
7 13 (9.630%) JavaScript
8 12 (8.889%) Perl
8 12 (8.889%) Shell Script
9 10 (7.407%) VB
10 5 (3.704%) Ruby
11 3 (2.222%) PHP
12 1 (0.741%) Objective-C
12 1 (0.741%) MATLAB
12 1 (0.741%) Assembly Language
12 1 (0.741%) Embedded C
12 1 (0.741%) Embedded C++
12 1 (0.741%) Fortran
12 1 (0.741%) VBA
12 1 (0.741%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (10.37%) Degree
2 1 (0.741%) SC Cleared
2 1 (0.741%) Security Cleared
2 1 (0.741%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (9.630%) QA
2 2 (1.481%) ISO 8583
Vendors
1 18 (13.33%) Oracle
2 15 (11.11%) Microsoft
3 4 (2.963%) DataSynapse
4 2 (1.481%) TIBCO
4 2 (1.481%) Apple
4 2 (1.481%) CQG
4 2 (1.481%) Fidessa
4 2 (1.481%) EasyScreen
4 2 (1.481%) VeriFone
4 2 (1.481%) Wincor Nixdorf
4 2 (1.481%) FFastFill
5 1 (0.741%) Wall Street Systems
5 1 (0.741%) SunGard
5 1 (0.741%) Algorithmics
5 1 (0.741%) OpenLink
5 1 (0.741%) Murex
5 1 (0.741%) Calypso
5 1 (0.741%) Reuters
City, London
My client, a world renowned Investment Bank, seeks to find a highly experienced C++ Developer to join a high profile part of the bank in an exciting new...
Thomson Keene Associates
Salary: £75000 - £95000 per annum + Excellent Banking Benefits + Bonus
Posted: 23 May 2013
London
My client, a Leading Global Brokerage firm in London, seeks to find an experienced Senior C++ Developer to work on an exciting new eTrading platform project. The successful...
Thomson Keene Associates
Salary: £85000 - £95000 per annum + Excellent Banking Benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013
London
Job Role: C++ Senior DeveloperLocation: London, CitySalary: £100k to £150k + bonus + benefitsC++ Developer / Senior C++ Software Engineer (C/ C++ UNIX) sought by market leading financial organisation to join...
Client Server
Salary: £100k to £150k + bonus + benefits
Posted: 22 May 2013
London
C++ Developer London c£150k... As a C++ Developer you will design and develop search indexing and retrieval technologies to run on a distributed multi-threaded environment on...
Client Server
Salary: £100k to £150k + bonus + pension, healthcare, gym, subsidised canteen
Posted: 22 May 2013
London
Implement functionality using C++ and Python... Software testing tools experience: (LDRA TBrun, IBM Rational Test Real, Time Parasoft C++test, Parasoft Concerto, IPL Cantata++, Razorcat Development Tessy) Other...
JPS Selection
Salary: From £50,000 to £75,000 per annum + Excellent Benefits
Posted: 22 May 2013