The first table below looks at the demand for C++ skills in IT jobs advertised for the Shrewsbury region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited C++ 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 of the Programming Languages category for the Shrewsbury region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
C++
Rank 7 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing C++ 4 0 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Shrewsbury 21.05% - -
As % of the Programming Languages category 22.22% - -
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 0
Average salary £42,000 - -
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+1.33% -
All Programming Languages
Shrewsbury
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
18 18 10
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Shrewsbury 94.74% 94.74% 83.33%
Number of salaries quoted 11 15 10
Average salary £34,000 £22,250 £25,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+52.80% -11.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £21,000 £22,650
10% offered a salary of more than £40,000 £30,000 £32,650
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
C++
Shropshire

C++
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Shrewsbury 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 Shrewsbury region.

Shrewsbury C++ Salary Trend

C++
Top 23 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Shrewsbury 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 4 (80.00%) C#
2 3 (60.00%) UML
3 2 (40.00%) Visualisation
3 2 (40.00%) Windows
3 2 (40.00%) .NET
4 1 (20.00%) MFC
4 1 (20.00%) Visual Studio
4 1 (20.00%) ASP.NET
4 1 (20.00%) C
4 1 (20.00%) SQL
4 1 (20.00%) Regression Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Finance
4 1 (20.00%) Manufacturing
4 1 (20.00%) WinForms
4 1 (20.00%) TDD
4 1 (20.00%) WPF
4 1 (20.00%) Manual Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Automation Testing
4 1 (20.00%) VC++
4 1 (20.00%) TCP/IP
4 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (20.00%) Embedded C
4 1 (20.00%) Windows CE

C++
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Shrewsbury 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 2 (40.00%) .NET
2 1 (20.00%) MFC
2 1 (20.00%) ASP.NET
2 1 (20.00%) WinForms
2 1 (20.00%) WPF
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
1 1 (20.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Software Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Senior Software Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Test Manager
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Developer
3 1 (20.00%) .NET Developer
3 1 (20.00%) C# Developer
3 1 (20.00%) C++ Software Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) C# Software Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior C# Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior .NET Developer
3 1 (20.00%) C# .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Visualisation
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Windows
2 1 (20.00%) Windows CE
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) UML
2 1 (20.00%) Regression Testing
2 1 (20.00%) TDD
2 1 (20.00%) Manual Testing
2 1 (20.00%) Automation Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) C#
2 1 (20.00%) C
2 1 (20.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) VC++
2 1 (20.00%) Embedded C
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft