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 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 128 74 148
Rank change year-on-year -54 +74 -73
Permanent jobs citing C++ 172 179 106
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 2.55% 3.79% 1.85%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.52% 8.71% 4.06%
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 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% - +13.04%

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 3,802 2,054 2,611
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 56.45% 43.52% 45.53%
Number of salaries quoted 1,145 1,156 1,556
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 29 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 29 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 -71 66 £61,500 -5.38% 11
Edinburgh +27 55 £60,000 +13.21% 28
Fife +5 23 £50,000 - 7
South Lanarkshire - 9 £80,000 - 2
Aberdeen -23 8 £61,250 +44.12% 5
Dundee -9 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 (3.49%) Apache
2 2 (1.16%) Confluence
2 2 (1.16%) SAS
3 1 (0.58%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 5 (2.91%) Simulink
2 1 (0.58%) EViews
2 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.58%) SPSS
Cloud Services
1 14 (8.14%) AWS
1 14 (8.14%) SaaS
2 6 (3.49%) Serverless
3 5 (2.91%) Azure
3 5 (2.91%) Cloud Computing
4 3 (1.74%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (1.74%) Amazon S3
4 3 (1.74%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (1.74%) ChatGPT
4 3 (1.74%) GCP
5 1 (0.58%) GitHub
5 1 (0.58%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 15 (8.72%) Network Security
2 14 (8.14%) Modbus
2 14 (8.14%) TCP/IP
3 5 (2.91%) Wireless
4 4 (2.33%) Bluetooth
4 4 (2.33%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.58%) Ethernet
5 1 (0.58%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (6.40%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (5.81%) Relational Database
3 5 (2.91%) SQL Server
4 4 (2.33%) MongoDB
4 4 (2.33%) RDBMS
5 3 (1.74%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (1.74%) 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 (14.53%) Visual Studio
2 19 (11.05%) LabVIEW
3 17 (9.88%) GitLab
4 15 (8.72%) JIRA
5 4 (2.33%) Git
6 2 (1.16%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.58%) Subversion
General
1 53 (30.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 33 (19.19%) Social Skills
3 23 (13.37%) Electronics
3 23 (13.37%) Manufacturing
4 22 (12.79%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (5.23%) Automotive
5 9 (5.23%) Legal
6 7 (4.07%) Finance
6 7 (4.07%) Telecoms
7 6 (3.49%) Games
8 5 (2.91%) Retail
9 4 (2.33%) Law
10 2 (1.16%) Marketing
10 2 (1.16%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.58%) Banking
Job Titles
1 85 (49.42%) Software Engineer
2 63 (36.63%) Senior
3 49 (28.49%) Senior Software Engineer
4 39 (22.67%) Developer
5 27 (15.70%) C++ Software Engineer
6 22 (12.79%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
7 17 (9.88%) Architect
8 15 (8.72%) C++ Developer
8 15 (8.72%) Electronics Engineer
9 14 (8.14%) C Software Engineer
9 14 (8.14%) C/C++ Software Engineer
9 14 (8.14%) Manufacturing Engineer
9 14 (8.14%) Senior C Software Engineer
9 14 (8.14%) Software Design Engineer
10 13 (7.56%) Senior Developer
11 11 (6.40%) Systems Architect
12 10 (5.81%) C# Software Engineer
13 9 (5.23%) Senior C# Software Engineer
13 9 (5.23%) Software Developer
14 8 (4.65%) Embedded Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (22.67%) .NET
2 26 (15.12%) .NET Framework
3 17 (9.88%) CSS
3 17 (9.88%) HTML
4 13 (7.56%) WinForms
4 13 (7.56%) WPF
5 9 (5.23%) REST
6 4 (2.33%) SOAP
6 4 (2.33%) 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 (9.88%) Algorithms
2 13 (7.56%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (5.81%) Video\Live Streaming
4 8 (4.65%) Embedded Systems
5 5 (2.91%) Data Structures
5 5 (2.91%) Distributed Computing
6 4 (2.33%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.74%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.16%) Device Driver
8 2 (1.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 1 (0.58%) Credit Risk
9 1 (0.58%) FPGA
9 1 (0.58%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.58%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 27 (15.70%) Linux
2 25 (14.53%) Windows
3 8 (4.65%) Mac OS
4 4 (2.33%) AIX
5 1 (0.58%) Android
5 1 (0.58%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.58%) Embedded Linux
5 1 (0.58%) OpenWrt
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (67.44%) Software Engineering
2 51 (29.65%) Computer Science
3 41 (23.84%) Agile
4 31 (18.02%) Problem-Solving
5 23 (13.37%) Microservices
5 23 (13.37%) SOA
6 21 (12.21%) Multithreading
6 21 (12.21%) OO
7 17 (9.88%) Decision-Making
8 14 (8.14%) Analytical Thinking
8 14 (8.14%) Customer Service
8 14 (8.14%) Knowledge Transfer
9 13 (7.56%) Machine Learning
10 11 (6.40%) Artificial Intelligence
10 11 (6.40%) Collaborative Working
10 11 (6.40%) Mentoring
11 8 (4.65%) Mathematics
12 7 (4.07%) Benchmarking
13 6 (3.49%) Data Management
13 6 (3.49%) Parallel Programming
Programming Languages
1 87 (50.58%) C
2 79 (45.93%) C#
3 58 (33.72%) Java
4 52 (30.23%) Python
5 27 (15.70%) SQL
6 20 (11.63%) Rust
7 17 (9.88%) Go
8 10 (5.81%) JavaScript
9 7 (4.07%) MATLAB
10 6 (3.49%) Haskell
10 6 (3.49%) TypeScript
11 5 (2.91%) Embedded C
12 4 (2.33%) 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 50 (29.07%) Degree
2 15 (8.72%) Computer Science Degree
2 15 (8.72%) PhD
3 14 (8.14%) Master's Degree
4 2 (1.16%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.65%) QA
2 1 (0.58%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (0.58%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.58%) GDPR
System Software
1 8 (4.65%) Firmware
2 7 (4.07%) Docker
3 6 (3.49%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 5 (2.91%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.58%) Grafana
Vendors
1 5 (2.91%) Oracle
2 4 (2.33%) Twitter
3 3 (1.74%) Google
3 3 (1.74%) OpenAI
4 2 (1.16%) SAP
5 1 (0.58%) Databricks
5 1 (0.58%) Microsoft
5 1 (0.58%) Teradata