Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for C++ skills in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited C++ over the 3 months to 9 February 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.

LinkC++
Location
3 months to
9 Feb 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank221818
Rank change year-on-year
Down-4No change0
Matching permanent IT job ads5865780915892
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK7.448 %7.726 %7.864 %
As % of the Programming Languages category15.26 %16.61 %17.40 %
Salaries quoted4948671812813
Average salary£47,500£40,000£40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+18.75 %-
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£27,500£27,500£28,500
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£90,000£65,000£70,000
UK excluding London average salary£35,000£36,000£35,000
% change year-on-year
-2.770 %+2.850 %
IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryAll Programming Languages
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
384264700891356
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK48.80 %46.51 %45.21 %
Salaries quoted331384065375843
Average salary£38,500£36,500£37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.470 %-2.660 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£26,000£25,000£26,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£70,000£60,000£60,000
UK excluding London average salary£34,000£35,000£35,000
% change year-on-year
-2.850 %-

C++
Demand Trend

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

C++ Demand Trend

C++
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing C++ within the UK.

C++ Salary Trend

C++
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing C++ over the 3 months to 9 February 2010 within the UK.

C++ Salary Histogram

C++
Top 30 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 UK over the 3 months to 9 February 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
EnglandDown-45744£48,750+21.87 %
LondonUp+43550£67,500+28.57 %
City of LondonUp+31376£65,000+13.04 %
South EastDown-10749£36,500-8.75 %
East of EnglandDown-3527£34,500-10.38 %
CambridgeshireDown-2395£32,500-18.75 %
CambridgeDown-1336£33,500-16.25 %
South WestDown-17334£35,000-
West MidlandsUp+6185£35,500+9.23 %
BerkshireDown-11174£40,000-5.88 %
HampshireDown-4167£35,000-6.66 %
SurreyDown-20155£40,000-
North WestDown-9136£30,500-6.15 %
YorkshireDown-15132£35,000+7.69 %
OxfordshireUp+2114£32,500-10.34 %
BristolDown-13114£39,000+11.42 %
West YorkshireDown-2109£35,000+7.69 %
HertfordshireDown-1684£37,500-
LeedsUp+678£35,000+7.69 %
BirminghamUp+974£40,000+23.07 %
North EastDown-170£33,250+20.90 %
ScotlandDown-2470£35,000-
ManchesterDown-2965£27,500-6.77 %
East MidlandsDown-3564£32,500-7.14 %
OxfordDown-163£33,000-5.71 %
Docklands, LondonDown-857£74,500+5.67 %
Tyne and WearDown-556£34,000+23.63 %
ReadingUp+455£43,000-8.51 %
SomersetDown-1251£35,000-5.40 %
GloucestershireDown-1350£37,500+7.14 %

C++
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 9 February 2010, IT jobs within the UK 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++.

14852 (41.85 %)Java
24488 (38.71 %)C#
33186 (27.48 %)Finance
43069 (26.47 %)C
52800 (24.15 %).NET
62672 (23.05 %)Degree
72609 (22.50 %)Windows
82523 (21.76 %)UNIX
92301 (19.85 %)SQL
102260 (19.49 %)OO
112124 (18.32 %)Linux
121688 (14.56 %)Banking
131684 (14.52 %)SQL Server
141633 (14.08 %)Front Office
151514 (13.06 %)Derivative
161311 (11.31 %)Computer Science
171147 (9.893 %)Oracle
181113 (9.600 %)Multithreading
191034 (8.918 %)STL
191034 (8.918 %)Mathematics
201023 (8.824 %)XML
21964 (8.315 %)Perl
22950 (8.194 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
23859 (7.409 %)Microsoft
24827 (7.133 %)Agile Software Development
25808 (6.969 %)Fixed Income
26802 (6.917 %)Investment Banking
27792 (6.831 %)Python
28733 (6.322 %)Client/Server
29729 (6.288 %)MFC

C++
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 9 February 2010, IT jobs within the UK 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.

IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
12800 (24.15 %).NET
21034 (8.918 %)STL
31023 (8.824 %)XML
4729 (6.288 %)MFC
5702 (6.055 %)ASP.NET
6597 (5.149 %)Boost C++ Libraries
7511 (4.407 %)HTML
8490 (4.226 %)WinForms
9488 (4.209 %)J2EE
10454 (3.916 %)WPF
11431 (3.717 %)Web Services
12354 (3.053 %)Middleware
13347 (2.993 %)AJAX
14294 (2.536 %)CSS
15235 (2.027 %)WCF
16224 (1.932 %).NET Framework
17219 (1.889 %)Spring
18197 (1.699 %)ASP
19130 (1.121 %)Qt
20128 (1.104 %)FIX Protocol
IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
1125 (1.078 %)Apache
2120 (1.035 %)Rendezvous
387 (0.750 %)SharePoint
480 (0.690 %)IIS
572 (0.621 %)Tomcat
670 (0.604 %)MQSeries
757 (0.492 %)WebSphere MQ
854 (0.466 %)WebLogic
854 (0.466 %)CMS
951 (0.440 %)BizTalk Server
1041 (0.354 %)ArcGIS
1134 (0.293 %)SAS
1232 (0.276 %)SharePoint Server 2007
1322 (0.190 %)TIBCO EMS
1411 (0.095 %)GlassFish
1510 (0.086 %)SmartSockets
169 (0.078 %)Office Communications Server
169 (0.078 %)ColdFusion
178 (0.069 %)Oracle Workflow
187 (0.060 %)ESB
IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
1364 (3.140 %)MS Excel
2179 (1.544 %)MATLAB
3135 (1.164 %)MS Visio
476 (0.656 %)MS Office
535 (0.302 %)Photoshop
634 (0.293 %)Spreadsheet
733 (0.285 %)S-PLUS
821 (0.181 %)MS Project
918 (0.155 %)SPSS
1014 (0.121 %)Simulink
1110 (0.086 %)Quicktime
127 (0.060 %)Maya
127 (0.060 %)3ds Max
136 (0.052 %)Stata
145 (0.043 %)NASTRAN
145 (0.043 %)PrintSoft PReS
154 (0.035 %)Acrobat
154 (0.035 %)Windchill
154 (0.035 %)MS PowerPoint
163 (0.026 %)SketchUp
IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
1124 (1.070 %)RMDS
253 (0.457 %)Summit
331 (0.267 %)Endur
430 (0.259 %)Front Arena
528 (0.242 %)ION MarketView
612 (0.104 %)SolArc RightAngle
711 (0.095 %)Kondor+
711 (0.095 %)SunGard Martini
810 (0.086 %)BASE24
97 (0.060 %)Dynamics AX
106 (0.052 %)Sophis RISQUE
106 (0.052 %)ZaiNet
115 (0.043 %)SAP IS-U
115 (0.043 %)Capstone
115 (0.043 %)Beauchamp
124 (0.035 %)Axapta
133 (0.026 %)GL Clearvision
133 (0.026 %)Maximo
133 (0.026 %)Reech
142 (0.017 %)Oracle Financials
IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
1428 (3.692 %)TCP/IP
2236 (2.036 %)Internet
3119 (1.026 %)HTTP
4102 (0.880 %)Wireless
583 (0.716 %)SMTP
670 (0.604 %)GSM
759 (0.509 %)VoIP
858 (0.500 %)UMTS
957 (0.492 %)GPRS
1056 (0.483 %)Firewall
1144 (0.380 %)DNS
1242 (0.362 %)Intranet
1339 (0.336 %)3G
1339 (0.336 %)3GPP
1436 (0.311 %)Ethernet
1535 (0.302 %)SAN
1634 (0.293 %)DVB
1732 (0.276 %)Broadband
1831 (0.267 %)FTP
1930 (0.259 %)LTE
IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
11684 (14.52 %)SQL Server
2408 (3.519 %)RDBMS
3375 (3.234 %)MySQL
4285 (2.458 %)SQL Server 2005
5246 (2.122 %)SQL Server 2008
6132 (1.139 %)GIS
7100 (0.863 %)SQL Server 2000
875 (0.647 %)KDB
963 (0.543 %)OLAP
1062 (0.535 %)DB2
1157 (0.492 %)Oracle 8/8i
1243 (0.371 %)Data Mining
1340 (0.345 %)PostgreSQL
1439 (0.336 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
1533 (0.285 %)ETL
1533 (0.285 %)SQL Server Integration Services
1632 (0.276 %)Datawarehouse
1632 (0.276 %)Oracle OLAP
1731 (0.267 %)BusinessObjects
1826 (0.224 %)DTS
IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
1258 (2.225 %)Visual Studio
2116 (1.001 %)Subversion
3105 (0.906 %)ClearCase
478 (0.673 %)JUnit
570 (0.604 %)Maven
666 (0.569 %)Ant
760 (0.518 %)Eclipse
850 (0.431 %)NUnit
947 (0.405 %)VSS/SourceSafe
1037 (0.319 %)QuickTest Pro
1134 (0.293 %)ClearQuest
1231 (0.267 %)LoadRunner
1329 (0.250 %)Oracle Forms
1425 (0.216 %)Selenium
1521 (0.181 %)FlexUnit
1620 (0.173 %)ProC
1717 (0.147 %)TestComplete
1717 (0.147 %)InstallShield
1816 (0.138 %)WinRunner
1914 (0.121 %)Bugzilla
IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
13186 (27.48 %)Finance
21688 (14.56 %)Banking
31633 (14.08 %)Front Office
4802 (6.917 %)Investment Banking
5638 (5.503 %)Pensions
6542 (4.675 %)Games
7514 (4.433 %)Education
8431 (3.717 %)Health
9321 (2.769 %)Telecoms
10270 (2.329 %)Electronics
11219 (1.889 %)Insurance
12196 (1.691 %)Back Office
13191 (1.647 %)Financial Institution
14166 (1.432 %)Government
15150 (1.294 %)3D Graphics
16137 (1.182 %)Electric
17126 (1.087 %)Retail
1888 (0.759 %)Aerospace
1977 (0.664 %)Marketing
2076 (0.656 %)Manufacturing
IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
16906 (59.57 %)Developer
22915 (25.14 %)C++ Developer
31699 (14.65 %)Software Engineer
41078 (9.298 %)C# Developer
51029 (8.875 %)Senior Developer
61021 (8.806 %)Software Developer
7850 (7.331 %)Java Developer
8665 (5.736 %)Graduate
9607 (5.235 %)Programmer
10565 (4.873 %)Analyst
11552 (4.761 %)C++ Software Engineer
12452 (3.899 %).NET Developer
13400 (3.450 %)Senior C++ Developer
14376 (3.243 %)Architect
15344 (2.967 %)Graduate Developer
16331 (2.855 %)Team Leader
17329 (2.838 %)C++/Java Developer
18311 (2.682 %)C++ Software Developer
19303 (2.613 %)Quantitative Developer
20299 (2.579 %)Senior Software Engineer
IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
11514 (13.06 %)Derivative
21311 (11.31 %)Computer Science
31113 (9.600 %)Multithreading
41034 (8.918 %)Mathematics
5950 (8.194 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
6808 (6.969 %)Fixed Income
7733 (6.322 %)Client/Server
8625 (5.391 %)Equities
9436 (3.761 %)Physics
10392 (3.381 %)Equity Derivative
11195 (1.682 %)Credit Derivative
12188 (1.622 %)Open Source
13166 (1.432 %)iPhone
14158 (1.363 %)Interest Rate Derivative
15126 (1.087 %)Device Driver
16100 (0.863 %)Grid Computing
1796 (0.828 %)Firmware
1893 (0.802 %)Blackberry
1992 (0.794 %)Statistics
2088 (0.759 %)N-Tier
IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
12609 (22.50 %)Windows
22523 (21.76 %)UNIX
32124 (18.32 %)Linux
4437 (3.769 %)Solaris
5137 (1.182 %)Windows Mobile
6132 (1.139 %)Android
7109 (0.940 %)Windows CE
889 (0.768 %)Embedded Linux
986 (0.742 %)Windows Server 2003
1074 (0.638 %)Windows XP
1160 (0.518 %)AIX
1251 (0.440 %)VMS
1349 (0.423 %)Windows Vista
1447 (0.405 %)VxWorks
1540 (0.345 %)HPUX
1629 (0.250 %)Windows Server 2008
1629 (0.250 %)Mac OS X
1727 (0.233 %)Windows 2000
1825 (0.216 %)Mac OS
1923 (0.198 %)Nucleus RTOS
IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
12260 (19.49 %)OO
2827 (7.133 %)Agile Software Development
3656 (5.658 %)Software Engineering
4641 (5.529 %)UML
5558 (4.813 %)Algorithmic Trading
6557 (4.804 %)OOD
7529 (4.563 %)Risk Management
8522 (4.502 %)Electronic Trading
9401 (3.459 %)Scrum
10353 (3.045 %)Project Management
11330 (2.846 %)Unit Testing
12286 (2.467 %)OOA/OOD
13271 (2.337 %)OOP
14239 (2.061 %)TDD
15204 (1.760 %)E-Commerce
16181 (1.561 %)RAD
17178 (1.535 %)Web Development
18169 (1.458 %)SOA
19148 (1.277 %)Continuous Integration
20139 (1.199 %)RUP
IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
14852 (41.85 %)Java
24488 (38.71 %)C#
33069 (26.47 %)C
42301 (19.85 %)SQL
5964 (8.315 %)Perl
6792 (6.831 %)Python
7652 (5.624 %)JavaScript
8642 (5.537 %)VB
9502 (4.330 %)VC++
10493 (4.252 %)PHP
11479 (4.131 %)VB.NET
12436 (3.761 %)VBA
13253 (2.182 %)Embedded C
14237 (2.044 %)Ruby
15229 (1.975 %)Embedded C++
16205 (1.768 %)Shell Script
17190 (1.639 %)Delphi
18177 (1.527 %)T-SQL
19127 (1.095 %)Objective-C
20125 (1.078 %)Assembly Language
IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
12672 (23.05 %)Degree
2467 (4.028 %)PhD
3287 (2.475 %)Security Cleared
4106 (0.914 %)SC Cleared
584 (0.725 %)Microsoft Certification
665 (0.561 %)MCAD
665 (0.561 %)MCSD
764 (0.552 %)ISEB
856 (0.483 %)MCP
856 (0.483 %)MCTS
934 (0.293 %)Postgraduate
934 (0.293 %)CISSP
1030 (0.259 %)DV Cleared
1122 (0.190 %)ITIL Certification
1215 (0.129 %)ISTQB
1314 (0.121 %)PRINCE2 Certification
1410 (0.086 %)Sun Certification
159 (0.078 %)CFA
159 (0.078 %)HND
165 (0.043 %)ISEB Practitioner
IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
1470 (4.054 %)QA
224 (0.207 %)JTAG
318 (0.155 %)SLA
417 (0.147 %)ISO9001
514 (0.121 %)HL7
68 (0.069 %)DICOM
77 (0.060 %)Basel II
84 (0.035 %)ISO14443
84 (0.035 %)ISO7816
93 (0.026 %)ISO9000
102 (0.017 %)TickIT
111 (0.009 %)MiFID
111 (0.009 %)ISO8583
111 (0.009 %)ISO12207
IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
159 (0.509 %)Active Directory
232 (0.276 %)MSMQ
314 (0.121 %)VMware Infrastructure
48 (0.069 %)Xen
57 (0.060 %)Snort
66 (0.052 %)NFS
66 (0.052 %)Postfix
73 (0.026 %)Microsoft Virtual Server
73 (0.026 %)XenApp
73 (0.026 %)Terminal Services
82 (0.017 %)Samba
82 (0.017 %)Squid
82 (0.017 %)Hyper-V
91 (0.009 %)Hadoop
91 (0.009 %)NDS
IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
164 (0.552 %)MSI
221 (0.181 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
317 (0.147 %)Tivoli
416 (0.138 %)AutoSys
512 (0.104 %)MOM
610 (0.086 %)HP Quality Center
79 (0.078 %)SCCM
87 (0.060 %)Nessus
87 (0.060 %)CONTROL-M
93 (0.026 %)Nagios
93 (0.026 %)BMC PATROL
101 (0.009 %)Data Guard
101 (0.009 %)YUM
101 (0.009 %)TIBCO Hawk
IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
11147 (9.893 %)Oracle
2859 (7.409 %)Microsoft
3448 (3.864 %)Sybase
4274 (2.363 %)TIBCO
5196 (1.691 %)Symbian
6121 (1.044 %)Reuters
7105 (0.906 %)Adobe
889 (0.768 %)Bloomberg
963 (0.543 %)JBoss
1058 (0.500 %)IBM
1058 (0.500 %)Perforce
1058 (0.500 %)DataSynapse
1157 (0.492 %)HP
1245 (0.388 %)Murex
1341 (0.354 %)OpenLink
1440 (0.345 %)Sophis
1537 (0.319 %)ION Trading
1634 (0.293 %)Calypso
1732 (0.276 %)Borland
1732 (0.276 %)SAP