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The first part of the table below looks at the demand for C++ skills in IT jobs advertised for the South East region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited C++ over the 3 months to 19 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Programming Languages category for the South East region.

 C++
Location
3 months to
19 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank342219
Rank change year-on-year
Down-12Down-3
Matching permanent IT job ads79712343205
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South East5.143 %6.949 %7.476 %
As % of the Programming Languages category11.34 %16.66 %17.41 %
Salaries quoted67710592841
Average salary£37,500£40,000£38,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.250 %+3.890 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£26,350£27,000£27,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£52,500£52,500£50,000
UK excluding London average salary£35,000£37,500£35,000
% change year-on-year
-6.660 %+7.140 %
South East IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryAll Programming Languages
South East
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
7029740518404
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South East45.36 %41.70 %42.93 %
Salaries quoted6226640415830
Average salary£37,500£37,500£36,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-+4.160 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£25,000£25,000£25,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£50,000£50,000£50,000
UK excluding London average salary£35,000£35,000£34,500
% change year-on-year
-+1.440 %
C++ EnglandC++
England

C++
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing C++ across the South East region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

South East C++ Demand Trend

C++
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing C++ across the South East region.

South East C++ Salary Trend

C++
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing C++ across the South East region over the 3 months to 19 March 2010.

South East C++ Salary Histogram

C++
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing C++ within the South East region over the 3 months to 19 March 2010. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
SurreyDown-19197£40,000-
BerkshireDown-8188£40,000-4.76 %
HampshireDown-6158£36,500-5.19 %
OxfordshireUp+195£33,500+11.66 %
BuckinghamshireDown-2650£34,000-2.85 %
West SussexUp+627£30,000-25.00 %
East SussexUp+925£35,000+6.87 %
MiddlesexDown-1320£44,500+4.70 %
Thames ValleyUp+710£32,000-20.00 %
KentDown-74£27,500-22.53 %
SussexDown-41£32,000+6.66 %
C++ EnglandC++
England

C++
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT jobs across the South East 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++.

1653 (38.10 %)C
2643 (37.51 %)C#
3610 (35.59 %)Java
4541 (31.56 %)Degree
5458 (26.72 %).NET
6398 (23.22 %)Linux
7341 (19.89 %)Windows
8326 (19.02 %)OO
9309 (18.03 %)Computer Science
10285 (16.63 %)SQL
11251 (14.64 %)SQL Server
12221 (12.89 %)XML
13218 (12.72 %)Mathematics
14200 (11.67 %)UNIX
15188 (10.97 %)Oracle
16167 (9.743 %)ASP.NET
17163 (9.510 %)Software Engineering
18160 (9.335 %)Microsoft
19150 (8.751 %)VB
20148 (8.635 %)Finance
21145 (8.460 %)UML
22142 (8.285 %)JavaScript
23141 (8.226 %)Security Cleared
24129 (7.526 %)Physics
25128 (7.468 %)HTML
26123 (7.176 %)Python
27117 (6.826 %)Pensions
28116 (6.768 %)MFC
28116 (6.768 %)Agile Software Development
29108 (6.301 %)CSS

C++
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT jobs across the South East 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.

South East IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
1458 (26.72 %).NET
2221 (12.89 %)XML
3167 (9.743 %)ASP.NET
4128 (7.468 %)HTML
5116 (6.768 %)MFC
6108 (6.301 %)CSS
7103 (6.009 %)Web Services
886 (5.018 %)J2EE
979 (4.609 %)STL
1056 (3.267 %)AJAX
1152 (3.034 %)J2SE
1246 (2.684 %)ASP
1342 (2.450 %)SOAP
1441 (2.392 %)Boost C++ Libraries
1536 (2.100 %)COM
1634 (1.984 %)Spring
1634 (1.984 %)LAMP
1733 (1.925 %)Swing
1831 (1.809 %)Hibernate
1930 (1.750 %).NET Framework
South East IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
126 (1.517 %)CMS
224 (1.400 %)SharePoint
319 (1.109 %)Tomcat
416 (0.933 %)Apache
513 (0.758 %)Joomla!
513 (0.758 %)Drupal
513 (0.758 %)WordPress
513 (0.758 %)osCommerce
611 (0.642 %)IIS
710 (0.583 %)WebSphere Message Broker
89 (0.525 %)Office Communications Server
89 (0.525 %)BizTalk Server
97 (0.408 %)WebLogic
106 (0.350 %)SAS
106 (0.350 %)ESB
115 (0.292 %)TIBCO EMS
115 (0.292 %)Lotus Domino
121 (0.058 %)Lotus Notes
121 (0.058 %)Documentum
121 (0.058 %)SharePoint Server 2007
South East IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
154 (3.151 %)MS Excel
246 (2.684 %)MATLAB
315 (0.875 %)MS Visio
413 (0.758 %)MS Office
58 (0.467 %)Simulink
65 (0.292 %)SPSS
74 (0.233 %)Acrobat
82 (0.117 %)Windchill
82 (0.117 %)NASTRAN
91 (0.058 %)Photoshop
91 (0.058 %)MS Project
91 (0.058 %)Paint Shop Pro
91 (0.058 %)3ds Max
South East IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
14 (0.233 %)SAP IS-U
22 (0.117 %)JDE OneWorld
22 (0.117 %)Oracle Financials
22 (0.117 %)Dynamics AX
22 (0.117 %)JDE EnterpriseOne
22 (0.117 %)SAP FI-CA
31 (0.058 %)Oracle 11i
South East IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
167 (3.909 %)TCP/IP
232 (1.867 %)HTTP
329 (1.692 %)Firewall
428 (1.634 %)Internet
526 (1.517 %)Wireless
620 (1.167 %)UMTS
718 (1.050 %)SSL
813 (0.758 %)GSM
910 (0.583 %)GPRS
910 (0.583 %)Ethernet
910 (0.583 %)FTP
910 (0.583 %)Wi-Fi
910 (0.583 %)SNMP
109 (0.525 %)3GPP
109 (0.525 %)LDAP
109 (0.525 %)IPv6
118 (0.467 %)SMTP
118 (0.467 %)LTE
126 (0.350 %)DHCP
126 (0.350 %)VoIP
South East IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
1251 (14.64 %)SQL Server
252 (3.034 %)MySQL
340 (2.334 %)SQL Server 2005
429 (1.692 %)GIS
519 (1.109 %)SQL Server 2000
615 (0.875 %)RDBMS
714 (0.817 %)Data Mining
813 (0.758 %)Ingres
911 (0.642 %)Datawarehouse
1010 (0.583 %)Oracle 8/8i
119 (0.525 %)Reference Data
119 (0.525 %)SQL Server 2008
128 (0.467 %)DTS
128 (0.467 %)OLTP
135 (0.292 %)MS Access
135 (0.292 %)DB2
144 (0.233 %)OLAP
144 (0.233 %)Oracle 10g
153 (0.175 %)PowerCenter
162 (0.117 %)SAP BW
South East IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
179 (4.609 %)Visual Studio
241 (2.392 %)ClearCase
336 (2.100 %)ClearQuest
428 (1.634 %)Subversion
522 (1.284 %)VSS/SourceSafe
618 (1.050 %)Eclipse
716 (0.933 %)Selenium
814 (0.817 %)CruiseControl
814 (0.817 %)Ant
913 (0.758 %)TestComplete
1010 (0.583 %)NUnit
1010 (0.583 %)QuickTest Pro
1010 (0.583 %)LoadRunner
119 (0.525 %)JUnit
127 (0.408 %)Maven
135 (0.292 %)ARTiSAN
135 (0.292 %)InstallShield
135 (0.292 %)C++Builder
144 (0.233 %)Oracle Forms
144 (0.233 %)Rational Rose
South East IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
1148 (8.635 %)Finance
2117 (6.826 %)Pensions
398 (5.718 %)Games
491 (5.309 %)Telecoms
590 (5.251 %)Health
684 (4.901 %)Education
684 (4.901 %)Electronics
755 (3.209 %)Insurance
852 (3.034 %)Electric
932 (1.867 %)Military
1030 (1.750 %)Government
1129 (1.692 %)Marketing
1226 (1.517 %)Animation
1226 (1.517 %)Retail
1226 (1.517 %)Aerospace
1323 (1.342 %)Billing
1421 (1.225 %)Financial Institution
1518 (1.050 %)Multimedia
1518 (1.050 %)3D Graphics
1614 (0.817 %)Banking
South East IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
1699 (40.78 %)Developer
2468 (27.30 %)Software Engineer
3243 (14.18 %)Software Developer
4206 (12.02 %)C++ Developer
5189 (11.03 %)Graduate
6156 (9.102 %)C++ Software Engineer
7100 (5.834 %)Senior Developer
896 (5.601 %)Programmer
995 (5.543 %)C# Developer
1078 (4.551 %)Analyst
1078 (4.551 %)Senior Software Engineer
1177 (4.492 %)Consultant
1268 (3.967 %)C Developer
1360 (3.501 %)Junior
1459 (3.442 %)C++ Software Developer
1459 (3.442 %)Graduate Developer
1555 (3.209 %)Java Developer
1650 (2.917 %)Graduate Software Engineer
1745 (2.625 %)Senior Software Developer
1844 (2.567 %)Embedded Software Engineer
South East IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
1309 (18.03 %)Computer Science
2218 (12.72 %)Mathematics
3129 (7.526 %)Physics
494 (5.484 %)Multithreading
555 (3.209 %)Client/Server
648 (2.800 %)Open Source
741 (2.392 %)Field-Programmable Gate Array
827 (1.575 %)VHDL
827 (1.575 %)Firmware
922 (1.284 %)MPEG
922 (1.284 %)SaaS
1017 (0.992 %)N-Tier
1116 (0.933 %)Smartcard
1116 (0.933 %)Handset
1215 (0.875 %)iDTV
1314 (0.817 %)Verilog
1413 (0.758 %)Blackberry
1512 (0.700 %)Biometrics
1512 (0.700 %)Device Driver
1611 (0.642 %)Cryptography
South East IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
1398 (23.22 %)Linux
2341 (19.89 %)Windows
3200 (11.67 %)UNIX
431 (1.809 %)Windows Mobile
530 (1.750 %)Embedded Linux
530 (1.750 %)Android
625 (1.459 %)Solaris
723 (1.342 %)Windows CE
815 (0.875 %)Windows Server 2003
914 (0.817 %)Windows XP
1010 (0.583 %)VxWorks
118 (0.467 %)Red Hat Linux
124 (0.233 %)Windows Server 2008
124 (0.233 %)Windows Vista
124 (0.233 %)AIX
124 (0.233 %)HPUX
133 (0.175 %)VMS
142 (0.117 %)Mac OS
142 (0.117 %)zOS
151 (0.058 %)Windows 2000 Server
South East IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
1326 (19.02 %)OO
2163 (9.510 %)Software Engineering
3145 (8.460 %)UML
4116 (6.768 %)Agile Software Development
581 (4.726 %)OOD
666 (3.851 %)Project Management
755 (3.209 %)Scrum
851 (2.975 %)Software Testing
942 (2.450 %)Unit Testing
1034 (1.984 %)Configuration Management
1131 (1.809 %)Web Development
1229 (1.692 %)OOA/OOD
1328 (1.634 %)OOP
1427 (1.575 %)Content Management
1524 (1.400 %)Requirements Analysis
1621 (1.225 %)Project Planning
1718 (1.050 %)Information Management
1816 (0.933 %)Migration
1816 (0.933 %)PRINCE2
1816 (0.933 %)MVC
South East IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
1653 (38.10 %)C
2643 (37.51 %)C#
3610 (35.59 %)Java
4285 (16.63 %)SQL
5150 (8.751 %)VB
6142 (8.285 %)JavaScript
7123 (7.176 %)Python
8104 (6.068 %)PHP
9100 (5.834 %)Perl
1063 (3.676 %)VB.NET
1158 (3.384 %)Delphi
1255 (3.209 %)VC++
1342 (2.450 %)Embedded C
1430 (1.750 %)Ruby
1529 (1.692 %)Lua
1628 (1.634 %)Embedded C++
1721 (1.225 %)Fortran
1721 (1.225 %)VBScript
1820 (1.167 %)Shell Script
1919 (1.109 %)T-SQL
South East IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
1541 (31.56 %)Degree
2141 (8.226 %)Security Cleared
3104 (6.068 %)PhD
462 (3.617 %)SC Cleared
526 (1.517 %)Postgraduate
616 (0.933 %)Microsoft Certification
713 (0.758 %)MCAD
713 (0.758 %)MCSD
713 (0.758 %)ISEB
88 (0.467 %)DV Cleared
95 (0.292 %)Sun Certification
103 (0.175 %)MCSE
112 (0.117 %)PRINCE2 Certification
112 (0.117 %)HND
121 (0.058 %)ITIL Certification
121 (0.058 %)HNC
121 (0.058 %)Cisco Certification
121 (0.058 %)CCNA
South East IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
184 (4.901 %)QA
213 (0.758 %)HL7
38 (0.467 %)ISO9001
47 (0.408 %)SLA
55 (0.292 %)DICOM
64 (0.233 %)ISO14443
64 (0.233 %)ISO7816
South East IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
115 (0.875 %)Active Directory
24 (0.233 %)VMware Infrastructure
24 (0.233 %)NFS
32 (0.117 %)Hyper-V
South East IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
17 (0.408 %)MSI
21 (0.058 %)MIIS
South East IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
1188 (10.97 %)Oracle
2160 (9.335 %)Microsoft
330 (1.750 %)Symbian
426 (1.517 %)IBM
522 (1.284 %)Sybase
621 (1.225 %)SAP
720 (1.167 %)HP
815 (0.875 %)InterSystems
914 (0.817 %)Zend
914 (0.817 %)Sun
1011 (0.642 %)Siebel
119 (0.525 %)VMware
119 (0.525 %)OPNET
128 (0.467 %)Red Hat
128 (0.467 %)Sony
137 (0.408 %)JBoss
137 (0.408 %)Adobe
137 (0.408 %)Perforce
146 (0.350 %)BEA
155 (0.292 %)Intel