C++ Jobs in Scotland

C++
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for C++ skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited C++ over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 133 72 141
Rank change year-on-year -61 +69 -70
Permanent jobs citing C++ 173 180 107
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 2.58% 3.80% 1.87%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.57% 8.74% 4.10%
Number of salaries quoted 155 139 59
10th Percentile £41,250 £33,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £39,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.21% +6.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £71,250 £78,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% -3.70% +17.39%

All Programming Languages
Scotland

C++ is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 3,786 2,060 2,610
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 56.39% 43.49% 45.73%
Number of salaries quoted 1,146 1,162 1,553
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £75,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £83,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +13.64%

C++
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing C++ as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for C++ in Scotland

C++
Salary Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing C++ in Scotland.

Salary trend for C++ in Scotland

C++
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing C++ in Scotland over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for C++ in Scotland

C++
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing C++ within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Glasgow -68 66 £61,500 -5.38% 12
Edinburgh +28 56 £60,000 +13.21% 31
Fife +5 23 £50,000 - 8
South Lanarkshire - 9 £80,000 - 2
Aberdeen -20 8 £61,250 +44.12% 5
Dundee -8 6 £48,750 -4.88% 2
West Lothian -20 4 £56,250 -6.25% 1
Lanarkshire -8 1 - - 2
North Lanarkshire - 1 £32,500 - 1
C++
UK

C++
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 6 (3.47%) Apache
2 3 (1.73%) Confluence
3 2 (1.16%) SAS
4 1 (0.58%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 5 (2.89%) Simulink
2 1 (0.58%) EViews
2 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.58%) SPSS
Cloud Services
1 14 (8.09%) AWS
1 14 (8.09%) SaaS
2 6 (3.47%) Serverless
3 5 (2.89%) Azure
3 5 (2.89%) Cloud Computing
4 3 (1.73%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (1.73%) Amazon S3
4 3 (1.73%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (1.73%) ChatGPT
4 3 (1.73%) GCP
5 1 (0.58%) GitHub
5 1 (0.58%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 16 (9.25%) Network Security
2 14 (8.09%) Modbus
2 14 (8.09%) TCP/IP
3 5 (2.89%) Wireless
4 4 (2.31%) Bluetooth
4 4 (2.31%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.58%) Ethernet
5 1 (0.58%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (6.36%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (5.78%) Relational Database
3 5 (2.89%) SQL Server
4 4 (2.31%) MongoDB
4 4 (2.31%) RDBMS
5 3 (1.73%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (1.73%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.16%) GIS
7 1 (0.58%) Big Data
7 1 (0.58%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.58%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 25 (14.45%) Visual Studio
2 19 (10.98%) LabVIEW
3 17 (9.83%) GitLab
4 16 (9.25%) JIRA
5 4 (2.31%) Git
6 2 (1.16%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.58%) Subversion
General
1 53 (30.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 33 (19.08%) Social Skills
3 23 (13.29%) Analytical Skills
3 23 (13.29%) Electronics
3 23 (13.29%) Manufacturing
4 9 (5.20%) Automotive
4 9 (5.20%) Legal
5 7 (4.05%) Finance
5 7 (4.05%) Telecoms
6 6 (3.47%) Games
7 5 (2.89%) Retail
8 4 (2.31%) Law
9 2 (1.16%) Marketing
9 2 (1.16%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.58%) Banking
Job Titles
1 85 (49.13%) Software Engineer
2 64 (36.99%) Senior
3 49 (28.32%) Senior Software Engineer
4 39 (22.54%) Developer
5 27 (15.61%) C++ Software Engineer
6 22 (12.72%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
7 17 (9.83%) Architect
8 15 (8.67%) C++ Developer
8 15 (8.67%) Electronics Engineer
9 14 (8.09%) C Software Engineer
9 14 (8.09%) C/C++ Software Engineer
9 14 (8.09%) Manufacturing Engineer
9 14 (8.09%) Senior C Software Engineer
9 14 (8.09%) Software Design Engineer
10 13 (7.51%) Senior Developer
11 11 (6.36%) Systems Architect
12 10 (5.78%) C# Software Engineer
13 9 (5.20%) Senior C# Software Engineer
13 9 (5.20%) Software Developer
14 8 (4.62%) Embedded Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (22.54%) .NET
2 26 (15.03%) .NET Framework
3 17 (9.83%) CSS
3 17 (9.83%) HTML
4 13 (7.51%) WinForms
4 13 (7.51%) WPF
5 9 (5.20%) REST
6 4 (2.31%) SOAP
6 4 (2.31%) Web Services
7 2 (1.16%) DPDK
7 2 (1.16%) MFC
7 2 (1.16%) OpenCV
7 2 (1.16%) OpenVINO
7 2 (1.16%) RESTful
8 1 (0.58%) Kafka
8 1 (0.58%) LDAP
8 1 (0.58%) React
8 1 (0.58%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 17 (9.83%) Algorithms
2 13 (7.51%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (5.78%) Video\Live Streaming
4 8 (4.62%) Embedded Systems
5 5 (2.89%) Data Structures
5 5 (2.89%) Distributed Computing
6 4 (2.31%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.73%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.16%) Device Driver
8 2 (1.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 1 (0.58%) Cloud Native
9 1 (0.58%) Credit Risk
9 1 (0.58%) Enterprise Storage
9 1 (0.58%) FPGA
9 1 (0.58%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.58%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 27 (15.61%) Linux
2 25 (14.45%) Windows
3 8 (4.62%) Mac OS
4 4 (2.31%) AIX
5 1 (0.58%) Android
5 1 (0.58%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.58%) Embedded Linux
5 1 (0.58%) Mac OS X
5 1 (0.58%) OpenWrt
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (67.63%) Software Engineering
2 52 (30.06%) Computer Science
3 42 (24.28%) Agile
4 32 (18.50%) Problem-Solving
5 23 (13.29%) Microservices
5 23 (13.29%) SOA
6 22 (12.72%) Multithreading
7 21 (12.14%) OO
8 17 (9.83%) Decision-Making
9 14 (8.09%) Analytical Thinking
9 14 (8.09%) Customer Service
9 14 (8.09%) Knowledge Transfer
10 13 (7.51%) Machine Learning
11 11 (6.36%) Artificial Intelligence
11 11 (6.36%) Collaborative Working
11 11 (6.36%) Mentoring
12 8 (4.62%) Mathematics
13 7 (4.05%) Benchmarking
14 6 (3.47%) Containerisation
14 6 (3.47%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 87 (50.29%) C
2 79 (45.66%) C#
3 58 (33.53%) Java
4 53 (30.64%) Python
5 27 (15.61%) SQL
6 20 (11.56%) Rust
7 17 (9.83%) Go
8 10 (5.78%) JavaScript
9 7 (4.05%) MATLAB
10 6 (3.47%) Haskell
10 6 (3.47%) TypeScript
11 5 (2.89%) Embedded C
12 4 (2.31%) VB
13 2 (1.16%) R
14 1 (0.58%) Assembly Language
14 1 (0.58%) Bash
14 1 (0.58%) Perl
14 1 (0.58%) Scala
Qualifications
1 51 (29.48%) Degree
2 16 (9.25%) Computer Science Degree
3 15 (8.67%) Master's Degree
3 15 (8.67%) PhD
4 2 (1.16%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.62%) QA
2 1 (0.58%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (0.58%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.58%) GDPR
System Software
1 8 (4.62%) Firmware
2 7 (4.05%) Docker
3 6 (3.47%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 6 (3.47%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.58%) Ansible
2 1 (0.58%) Grafana
2 1 (0.58%) vRealize
2 1 (0.58%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 5 (2.89%) Oracle
2 4 (2.31%) Twitter
3 3 (1.73%) Google
3 3 (1.73%) OpenAI
4 2 (1.16%) SAP
5 1 (0.58%) Atlassian
5 1 (0.58%) Databricks
5 1 (0.58%) Dell
5 1 (0.58%) Microsoft
5 1 (0.58%) Teradata