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 21 May 2012 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.

C++
Location
3 months to
21 May 2012
Same period 2011Same period 2010
Rank282522
Rank change year-on-year
Down-3Down-3
Matching permanent IT job ads765783047711
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK6.318 %6.805 %8.098 %
As % of the Programming Languages category11.78 %12.95 %15.91 %
Number of salaries quoted650070516351
Average salary£42,500£45,000£47,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-5.55 %-5.26 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£30,000£30,000£28,500
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£77,500£82,500£85,000
UK excluding London average salary£37,500£37,500£36,500
% change year-on-year
-+2.73 %
IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryAll Programming Languages
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
650266412748463
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK53.65 %52.55 %50.90 %
Number of salaries quoted573265558941223
Average salary£40,000£40,000£40,000
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£27,500£27,500£27,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£65,000£70,000£70,000
UK excluding London average salary£37,500£35,000£35,000
% change year-on-year
+7.14 %-

C++
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total 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 21 May 2012 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 21 May 2012. 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-47341£44,000-7.36 %
LondonDown-83288£57,500-11.53 %
South EastUp+61741£40,000-
City of LondonDown-9900£62,500-10.71 %
East of EnglandDown-1864£40,000+6.66 %
CambridgeshireDown-4528£40,000+6.66 %
SurreyUp+14487£45,000+12.50 %
South WestDown-1484£37,500+15.38 %
CambridgeDown-1480£40,000+6.66 %
North WestNo change0372£35,000-
HampshireUp+8371£39,000-2.50 %
BerkshireUp+5360£40,000-
East MidlandsUp+54244£36,000+10.76 %
ScotlandDown-3213£37,500+7.14 %
West MidlandsUp+11191£35,000-
BristolUp+2183£37,500+7.14 %
West SussexUp+2172£37,500-
HertfordshireUp+4157£45,000+16.88 %
YorkshireDown-13156£33,000-2.94 %
ManchesterDown-9153£35,000+7.69 %
ReadingUp+21141£37,500+7.14 %
SouthamptonUp+14140£38,500+5.47 %
GloucestershireDown-6135£38,000+8.57 %
CheshireUp+6134£35,000-12.50 %
OxfordshireDown-7133£41,250-8.33 %
EdinburghNo change0115£37,500+7.14 %
BuckinghamshireUp+9109£36,750-2.00 %
LeicestershireUp+2399£40,000+14.28 %
CrawleyUp+2683£45,000+20.00 %
West YorkshireDown-1883£34,000+3.03 %

C++
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2012, 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++.

16821 (44.50 %)Java
26396 (41.73 %)C#
34772 (31.13 %)Degree
44644 (30.30 %)C
54034 (26.32 %)Linux
64026 (26.27 %)Windows
73891 (25.39 %).NET
83813 (24.88 %)SQL
93585 (23.39 %)Finance
103477 (22.69 %)OO
112964 (19.34 %)UNIX
122680 (17.49 %)Computer Science
132412 (15.74 %)SQL Server
142214 (14.45 %)Python
152038 (13.30 %)Oracle
162026 (13.22 %)Multithreading
171839 (12.00 %)Agile Software Development
181814 (11.84 %)Perl
191766 (11.52 %)XML
201656 (10.80 %)Mathematics
211518 (9.904 %)Microsoft
211518 (9.904 %)Software Engineering
221510 (9.852 %)JavaScript
231188 (7.751 %)Banking
241169 (7.627 %)STL
251053 (6.870 %)HTML
261050 (6.851 %)Telecoms
271038 (6.772 %)Visual Studio
271038 (6.772 %)UML
281028 (6.707 %)Front Office

C++
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2012, 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
13891 (25.39 %).NET
21766 (11.52 %)XML
31169 (7.627 %)STL
41053 (6.870 %)HTML
5992 (6.472 %)ASP.NET
6865 (5.644 %)Web Services
7812 (5.298 %)J2EE
8799 (5.213 %)CSS
9778 (5.076 %)WPF
10641 (4.182 %)Boost C++ Libraries
11564 (3.680 %)MFC
12510 (3.327 %)Ajax
13491 (3.203 %)Spring
14478 (3.119 %)WCF
15477 (3.112 %).NET Framework
16455 (2.969 %)WinForms
17379 (2.473 %)Middleware
18323 (2.107 %)XSLT
19313 (2.042 %)OpenGL
20300 (1.957 %)Hibernate
IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
1406 (2.649 %)Apache
2291 (1.899 %)Tomcat
3180 (1.174 %)SharePoint
4161 (1.050 %)WebLogic
5153 (0.998 %)IIS
681 (0.528 %)Rendezvous
760 (0.391 %)Oracle Coherence
760 (0.391 %)SAS
855 (0.359 %)CMS
954 (0.352 %)MQSeries
954 (0.352 %)Jetty
1047 (0.307 %)GlassFish
1047 (0.307 %)MS Exchange
1139 (0.254 %)ESB
1238 (0.248 %)MediaWiki
1333 (0.215 %)Apache Solr
1333 (0.215 %)Documentum
1432 (0.209 %)WebSphere MQ
1529 (0.189 %)MSMQ
1624 (0.157 %)ActiveMQ
IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
1700 (4.567 %)MS Excel
2478 (3.119 %)MATLAB
3205 (1.338 %)MS Visio
3205 (1.338 %)MS Office
493 (0.607 %)Simulink
549 (0.320 %)Photoshop
642 (0.274 %)MS Project
740 (0.261 %)Google Apps
824 (0.157 %)Spreadsheet
922 (0.144 %)MS PowerPoint
1021 (0.137 %)S-PLUS
1120 (0.130 %)Stateflow
1214 (0.091 %)XMetaL
1310 (0.065 %)Windchill
149 (0.059 %)Adobe Illustrator
149 (0.059 %)SPSS
149 (0.059 %)Quicktime
157 (0.046 %)Doxygen
166 (0.039 %)Maya
166 (0.039 %)TargetLink
IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
188 (0.574 %)RMDS
240 (0.261 %)Staffware
240 (0.261 %)Dynamics CRM
327 (0.176 %)Summit
414 (0.091 %)BASE24
513 (0.085 %)Oracle CRM
611 (0.072 %)LatentZero
611 (0.072 %)Decalog
710 (0.065 %)HiInvest
710 (0.065 %)Front Arena
710 (0.065 %)Sword FircoSoft
88 (0.052 %)SunGard Martini
97 (0.046 %)Dynamics AX
106 (0.039 %)BusinessWorks
106 (0.039 %)Oracle BPM
115 (0.033 %)ION MarketView
115 (0.033 %)Oracle ERP
124 (0.026 %)Oracle Retail
124 (0.026 %)WebTrends
124 (0.026 %)Google Analytics
IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
1905 (5.905 %)TCP/IP
2477 (3.112 %)HTTP
3409 (2.668 %)Internet
4384 (2.505 %)Wireless
5328 (2.140 %)GSM
6320 (2.088 %)LTE
7272 (1.775 %)UMTS
8205 (1.338 %)3GPP
9187 (1.220 %)GPRS
10169 (1.103 %)3G
11156 (1.018 %)Ethernet
12127 (0.829 %)Firewall
13108 (0.705 %)VoIP
14106 (0.692 %)WCDMA
1591 (0.594 %)RTP
1690 (0.587 %)DNS
1786 (0.561 %)Broadband
1882 (0.535 %)SAN
1976 (0.496 %)DHCP
2072 (0.470 %)LAN
IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
12412 (15.74 %)SQL Server
2755 (4.926 %)MySQL
3326 (2.127 %)RDBMS
4293 (1.912 %)SQL Server 2008
5262 (1.709 %)SQL Server 2005
6126 (0.822 %)Hadoop
7101 (0.659 %)GIS
898 (0.639 %)NoSQL
997 (0.633 %)Data Warehouse
1094 (0.613 %)Data Mining
1094 (0.613 %)PostgreSQL
1189 (0.581 %)Oracle 8/8i
1189 (0.581 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
1281 (0.528 %)Oracle 10g
1379 (0.515 %)SQL Server Integration Services
1471 (0.463 %)Crystal Reports
1567 (0.437 %)DB2
1658 (0.378 %)KDB
1658 (0.378 %)Apache Cassandra
1753 (0.346 %)OLAP
IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
11038 (6.772 %)Visual Studio
2626 (4.084 %)Subversion
3345 (2.251 %)Eclipse
4263 (1.716 %)Git (software)
5233 (1.520 %)Ant
6229 (1.494 %)Maven
7211 (1.377 %)ClearCase
8173 (1.129 %)JUnit
9155 (1.011 %)Team Foundation Server
10149 (0.972 %)Selenium
11147 (0.959 %)Bugzilla
12118 (0.770 %)JIRA
13112 (0.731 %)GCC
1484 (0.548 %)Xcode
1581 (0.528 %)VSS/SourceSafe
1680 (0.522 %)Mercurial
1779 (0.515 %)NUnit
1867 (0.437 %)Rational DOORS
1964 (0.418 %)Hudson
2060 (0.391 %)LoadRunner
IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
13585 (23.39 %)Finance
21188 (7.751 %)Banking
31050 (6.851 %)Telecoms
41028 (6.707 %)Front Office
5810 (5.285 %)Games
6593 (3.869 %)Investment Banking
7569 (3.712 %)Electronics
8224 (1.461 %)Financial Institution
9221 (1.442 %)Retail
10211 (1.377 %)Aerospace
11188 (1.227 %)Back Office
12174 (1.135 %)Marketing
13171 (1.116 %)Automotive
14161 (1.050 %)Manufacturing
15137 (0.894 %)Multimedia
1699 (0.646 %)Advertising
1797 (0.633 %)Publishing
1878 (0.509 %)Military
1968 (0.444 %)Billing
2063 (0.411 %)French Language
IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
17909 (51.60 %)Developer
23344 (21.82 %)Software Engineer
32992 (19.52 %)C++ Developer
41656 (10.80 %)Software Developer
51281 (8.358 %)C# Developer
61140 (7.438 %)Senior Developer
71042 (6.798 %)Java Developer
8903 (5.892 %)Graduate
9899 (5.865 %)C++ Software Engineer
10832 (5.428 %)Analyst
11729 (4.756 %)Senior Software Engineer
12573 (3.739 %).NET Developer
13524 (3.419 %)Programmer
14515 (3.360 %)Architect
15500 (3.262 %)Graduate Developer
16456 (2.975 %)Embedded Software Engineer
17439 (2.864 %)Junior
18427 (2.786 %)C# .NET Developer
19410 (2.675 %)Senior C++ Developer
19410 (2.675 %)C++/C# Developer
IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
12680 (17.49 %)Computer Science
21656 (10.80 %)Mathematics
3753 (4.913 %)Derivative
3753 (4.913 %)Hedge funds
4716 (4.671 %)Physics
5582 (3.797 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
6516 (3.367 %)Embedded Systems
7471 (3.073 %)Open Source
8432 (2.819 %)iPhone
9383 (2.499 %)Fixed Income
10378 (2.466 %)Equities
11321 (2.094 %)Client/Server
12311 (2.029 %)Device Driver
13223 (1.455 %)Blackberry
14220 (1.435 %)Field-Programmable Gate Array
15205 (1.338 %)iPad
16198 (1.292 %)Online Games
17180 (1.174 %)Firmware
18177 (1.155 %)Statistics
19169 (1.103 %)VHDL
IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
14034 (26.32 %)Linux
24026 (26.27 %)Windows
32964 (19.34 %)UNIX
4731 (4.769 %)Android
5495 (3.230 %)Apple iOS
6335 (2.186 %)Solaris
7209 (1.364 %)Windows Server 2003
8176 (1.148 %)Embedded Linux
9168 (1.096 %)Mac OS X
10160 (1.044 %)Windows XP
10160 (1.044 %)Windows CE
11137 (0.894 %)VxWorks
12133 (0.868 %)Windows Server 2008
13132 (0.861 %)Windows Mobile
14126 (0.822 %)Windows Vista
15119 (0.776 %)Windows 7
1680 (0.522 %)Mac OS
1772 (0.470 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1870 (0.457 %)HPUX
1951 (0.333 %)LynxOS
IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
13477 (22.69 %)OO
22026 (13.22 %)Multithreading
31839 (12.00 %)Agile Software Development
41518 (9.904 %)Software Engineering
51038 (6.772 %)UML
6820 (5.350 %)OOD
7738 (4.815 %)Scrum
8693 (4.521 %)Project Management
9604 (3.941 %)TDD
10583 (3.804 %)OOP
11498 (3.249 %)Unit Testing
12453 (2.956 %)Web Development
13410 (2.675 %)Software Architecture
14397 (2.590 %)Continuous Integration
15391 (2.551 %)Algorithmic Trading
16359 (2.342 %)MVC
17358 (2.336 %)E-Commerce
18347 (2.264 %)Waterfall
19339 (2.212 %)Software Testing
20330 (2.153 %)Configuration Management
IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
16821 (44.50 %)Java
26396 (41.73 %)C#
34644 (30.30 %)C
43813 (24.88 %)SQL
52214 (14.45 %)Python
61814 (11.84 %)Perl
71510 (9.852 %)JavaScript
81003 (6.544 %)PHP
9935 (6.100 %)VB
10667 (4.352 %)VC++
11525 (3.425 %)Ruby
12524 (3.419 %)VB.NET
13473 (3.086 %)Objective-C
14461 (3.008 %)Shell Script
15453 (2.956 %)Embedded C
16418 (2.727 %)VBA
17347 (2.264 %)Embedded C++
18337 (2.199 %)Delphi
19307 (2.003 %)Bash shell
20294 (1.918 %)PL/SQL
IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
14772 (31.13 %)Degree
2818 (5.337 %)Security Cleared
3535 (3.491 %)PhD
4309 (2.016 %)SC Cleared
5278 (1.814 %)DV Cleared
6207 (1.351 %)ISEB
7109 (0.711 %)Microsoft Certification
893 (0.607 %)ISTQB
986 (0.561 %)HND
1067 (0.437 %)ITIL Certification
1150 (0.326 %)MCP
1150 (0.326 %)MCTS
1243 (0.281 %)HNC
1342 (0.274 %)Postgraduate
1439 (0.254 %)MCSD
1536 (0.235 %)MCAD
1631 (0.202 %)CISSP
1727 (0.176 %)MCPD
1818 (0.117 %)PMI Certification
1916 (0.104 %)PRINCE2 Certification
IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
1906 (5.911 %)QA
2126 (0.822 %)ISO 9001
379 (0.515 %)DO-178B
440 (0.261 %)SLA
440 (0.261 %)TickIT
532 (0.209 %)ISO 9000
532 (0.209 %)JTAG
629 (0.189 %)Data Quality
728 (0.183 %)Basel III
815 (0.098 %)COBIT
815 (0.098 %)ISO 8583
914 (0.091 %)IEC 61508
109 (0.059 %)HL7
116 (0.039 %)ISO/IEC 27001
125 (0.033 %)PCI DSS
134 (0.026 %)Solvency II
134 (0.026 %)COSO
134 (0.026 %)DICOM
143 (0.020 %)ISO/IEC 14443
143 (0.020 %)ISO/IEC 7816
IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
1150 (0.979 %)Active Directory
284 (0.548 %)VMware Infrastructure
346 (0.300 %)VMware ESX
444 (0.287 %)vSphere
538 (0.248 %)Xen
627 (0.176 %)Hyper-V
716 (0.104 %)NFS
815 (0.098 %)Oracle RAC
911 (0.072 %)XenDesktop
109 (0.059 %)XenServer
109 (0.059 %)Nmap
116 (0.039 %)VMware ESXi
124 (0.026 %)OpenSIPS
124 (0.026 %)XenApp
133 (0.020 %)Veritas Cluster Server
133 (0.020 %)Kamailio
142 (0.013 %)Snort
142 (0.013 %)SpamAssassin
142 (0.013 %)Varnish
142 (0.013 %)Microsoft Virtual Server
IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
175 (0.489 %)HP Quality Center
255 (0.359 %)SCCM
354 (0.352 %)WMI
450 (0.326 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
542 (0.274 %)NetBackup
617 (0.111 %)OpenView
714 (0.091 %)Tivoli
813 (0.085 %)Control-M
910 (0.065 %)Nagios
910 (0.065 %)Tivoli Monitoring
109 (0.059 %)Nessus
109 (0.059 %)CA SiteMinder
118 (0.052 %)Backup Exec
118 (0.052 %)Puppet
125 (0.033 %)WebInspect
125 (0.033 %)Cisco CUCM
134 (0.026 %)Cacti
134 (0.026 %)Ganglia
142 (0.013 %)Cobbler
142 (0.013 %)DameWare
IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
12038 (13.30 %)Oracle
21518 (9.904 %)Microsoft
3286 (1.866 %)Sybase
4258 (1.683 %)TIBCO
5248 (1.618 %)JBoss
6218 (1.422 %)Google
7210 (1.370 %)HP
8175 (1.142 %)Cisco
9157 (1.024 %)IBM
10144 (0.940 %)VMware
11141 (0.920 %)Perforce
12138 (0.900 %)Symbian
13132 (0.861 %)Reuters
14105 (0.685 %)Facebook
15102 (0.665 %)Bloomberg
15102 (0.665 %)Citrix
1696 (0.626 %)Apple
1791 (0.594 %)Red Hat
1878 (0.509 %)SAP
1968 (0.444 %)Business Objects