The first table below looks at the demand for C++ skills in IT jobs advertised for the St Albans region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited C++ over the 3 months to 20 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 St Albans region.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
C++
Rank 29 - 30
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing C++ 8 0 6
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in St Albans 4.348% - 3.429%
As % of the Programming Languages category 8.081% - 7.692%
Number of salaries quoted 7 0 6
Average salary £45,000 - £38,750
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+1.33% -
All Programming Languages
St Albans
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
99 85 78
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in St Albans 53.80% 63.91% 44.57%
Number of salaries quoted 67 62 53
Average salary £45,000 £40,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+12.50% -
90% offered a salary of more than £27,800 £28,500 £32,500
10% offered a salary of more than £72,500 £45,000 £61,250
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
C++
Hertfordshire

C++
Jobs Demand Trend

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

St Albans 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 St Albans region.

St Albans C++ Salary Trend

C++
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the St Albans 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 9 (81.82%) Java
2 7 (63.64%) C
2 7 (63.64%) Linux
3 6 (54.55%) HTTP
3 6 (54.55%) Solaris
3 6 (54.55%) Agile Software Development
4 5 (45.45%) Erlang
4 5 (45.45%) Taleo
4 5 (45.45%) XMPP
4 5 (45.45%) Mac OS X
4 5 (45.45%) TDD
4 5 (45.45%) Telecoms
4 5 (45.45%) Project Management
4 5 (45.45%) SMPP
4 5 (45.45%) C#
4 5 (45.45%) CSS
5 3 (27.27%) Fortran
5 3 (27.27%) Python
6 2 (18.18%) Apache
6 2 (18.18%) UNIX
6 2 (18.18%) PhD
6 2 (18.18%) Perl
6 2 (18.18%) .NET
6 2 (18.18%) Pharmaceutical
6 2 (18.18%) Sun
6 2 (18.18%) Red Hat
6 2 (18.18%) IBM
6 2 (18.18%) Mathematics
6 2 (18.18%) Chemistry
6 2 (18.18%) Debian

C++
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the St Albans 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 5 (45.45%) CSS
1 5 (45.45%) XMPP
2 2 (18.18%) .NET
3 1 (9.091%) J2EE
3 1 (9.091%) WebSphere
3 1 (9.091%) Web Services
3 1 (9.091%) XML
3 1 (9.091%) XSLT
3 1 (9.091%) XML Schema
3 1 (9.091%) OpenMP
Application Platforms
1 2 (18.18%) Apache
2 1 (9.091%) WebLogic
2 1 (9.091%) IIS
Business Applications
1 5 (45.45%) Taleo
2 1 (9.091%) Temenos Globus
Communications & Networking
1 6 (54.55%) HTTP
2 5 (45.45%) SMPP
3 1 (9.091%) Wireless
3 1 (9.091%) SSH
3 1 (9.091%) VLAN
3 1 (9.091%) Wireshark
3 1 (9.091%) Network Security
3 1 (9.091%) iSCSI
3 1 (9.091%) tcpdump
3 1 (9.091%) snoop
3 1 (9.091%) Fibre Channel
3 1 (9.091%) Kerberos
3 1 (9.091%) DNS
3 1 (9.091%) IPv4
3 1 (9.091%) IPv6
3 1 (9.091%) SAN
3 1 (9.091%) WLAN
3 1 (9.091%) WAN
3 1 (9.091%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.091%) MySQL
1 1 (9.091%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 1 (9.091%) Ant
1 1 (9.091%) Visual Studio
1 1 (9.091%) Maven
General
1 5 (45.45%) Telecoms
2 2 (18.18%) Pharmaceutical
3 1 (9.091%) Back Office
3 1 (9.091%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (54.55%) Development Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Developer
3 1 (9.091%) Trainee Developer
3 1 (9.091%) Trainee
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Mathematics
1 2 (18.18%) Chemistry
2 1 (9.091%) Grid Computing
2 1 (9.091%) Statistics
Operating Systems
1 7 (63.64%) Linux
2 6 (54.55%) Solaris
3 5 (45.45%) Mac OS X
4 2 (18.18%) UNIX
4 2 (18.18%) Debian
5 1 (9.091%) OpenBSD
5 1 (9.091%) Ubuntu
5 1 (9.091%) CentOS
5 1 (9.091%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (9.091%) Windows
5 1 (9.091%) FreeBSD
5 1 (9.091%) Windows NT
5 1 (9.091%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) Agile Software Development
2 5 (45.45%) TDD
2 5 (45.45%) Project Management
3 1 (9.091%) Process Management
3 1 (9.091%) GAP Analysis
3 1 (9.091%) UML
3 1 (9.091%) CAD
3 1 (9.091%) Parallel Computing
3 1 (9.091%) Parallel Programming
3 1 (9.091%) Capacity Planning
Programming Languages
1 9 (81.82%) Java
2 7 (63.64%) C
3 5 (45.45%) C#
3 5 (45.45%) Erlang
4 3 (27.27%) Python
4 3 (27.27%) Fortran
5 2 (18.18%) Perl
6 1 (9.091%) SQL
6 1 (9.091%) AWK
6 1 (9.091%) Ruby
6 1 (9.091%) C-shell
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) PhD
2 1 (9.091%) RHCE
2 1 (9.091%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (9.091%) NFS
1 1 (9.091%) Samba
1 1 (9.091%) VMware ESX
1 1 (9.091%) Nmap
1 1 (9.091%) Squid
1 1 (9.091%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (9.091%) Postfix
1 1 (9.091%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 1 (9.091%) Cacti
1 1 (9.091%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) IBM
1 2 (18.18%) Sun
1 2 (18.18%) Red Hat
2 1 (9.091%) VMware
2 1 (9.091%) Dell
2 1 (9.091%) Intel
2 1 (9.091%) NetApp
2 1 (9.091%) Microsoft
2 1 (9.091%) Oracle
2 1 (9.091%) JBoss
2 1 (9.091%) Cisco
St. Albans, Hertfordshire
Practical experience building applications using Java, Web technologies, C++ etc. Strong understanding of RDBMS. Exposure to modern development techniques and approaches like Ruby on Rails & schema-less databases...
Deanslist Limited
Salary: From £60,000 to £75,000 per annum
Posted: 15 May 2013