CMake
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for CMake skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited CMake over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 858 953 1169
Rank change year-on-year +95 +216 -285
Permanent jobs citing CMake 38 17 63
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.039% 0.016% 0.041%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.40% 0.11% 0.18%
Number of salaries quoted 30 6 7
10th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 -
25th Percentile £55,500 £55,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +39.13% +4.55% -15.38%
75th Percentile £82,500 £65,000 £71,250
90th Percentile - £82,500 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £80,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +39.13% +4.55% -31.25%

All Development Application Skills
UK

CMake is in the Development Applications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for development application skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 9,547 15,237 34,312
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.74% 14.56% 22.26%
Number of salaries quoted 6,733 9,275 15,885
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +9.65%
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%

CMake
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing CMake as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for CMake in the UK

CMake
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing CMake.

Salary trend for CMake in the UK

CMake
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing CMake over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for CMake in the UK

CMake
Top 9 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing CMake within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +135 38 £80,000 +33.33% 10
UK excluding London +34 31 £80,000 +39.13% 8
Work from Home +104 26 £80,000 +39.13% 4
South East +54 24 £80,000 -20.00% 4
London +133 7 - - 2
North West - 4 £61,000 - 1
North of England - 4 £61,000 - 1
Midlands +7 3 £49,990 -9.11% 2
East Midlands - 3 £49,990 - 2

CMake
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Applications
1 1 (2.63%) GNU Octave
Cloud Services
1 8 (21.05%) GitHub
1 8 (21.05%) GitHub Actions
2 4 (10.53%) Azure
2 4 (10.53%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 17 (44.74%) Subversion
2 16 (42.11%) Git
3 7 (18.42%) CircleCI
3 7 (18.42%) Jenkins
3 7 (18.42%) JIRA
3 7 (18.42%) Team Foundation Server
3 7 (18.42%) TestRail
4 4 (10.53%) GCC
4 4 (10.53%) GDB
General
1 17 (44.74%) Military
2 7 (18.42%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (18.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 7 (18.42%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (2.63%) Music Industry
Job Titles
1 29 (76.32%) Software Engineer
2 25 (65.79%) Senior
3 20 (52.63%) C++ Software Engineer
4 18 (47.37%) Senior Software Engineer
5 16 (42.11%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
6 8 (21.05%) Developer
6 8 (21.05%) Software Developer
7 7 (18.42%) Senior Developer
7 7 (18.42%) Senior Software Developer
8 6 (15.79%) C# Developer
8 6 (15.79%) C# Software Developer
8 6 (15.79%) Senior C# Developer
8 6 (15.79%) Senior C# Software Developer
9 3 (7.89%) Graduate
9 3 (7.89%) Graduate Software Engineer
10 2 (5.26%) C++ Developer
10 2 (5.26%) C++ Software Developer
10 2 (5.26%) GUI Software Engineer
10 2 (5.26%) Research Engineer
10 2 (5.26%) Research Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (63.16%) Qt
2 17 (44.74%) MFC
2 17 (44.74%) STL
2 17 (44.74%) XML
3 10 (26.32%) OpenGL
4 9 (23.68%) OpenCL
5 7 (18.42%) HTML
5 7 (18.42%) HTML5
5 7 (18.42%) QML
5 7 (18.42%) VTK
5 7 (18.42%) Vulkan
5 7 (18.42%) WinForms
5 7 (18.42%) WPF
6 3 (7.89%) Boost C++ Libraries
7 2 (5.26%) OpenACC
7 2 (5.26%) OpenMP
Miscellaneous
1 19 (50.00%) Algorithms
2 9 (23.68%) CUDA
3 2 (5.26%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (2.63%) FPGA
4 1 (2.63%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (2.63%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 28 (73.68%) Windows
2 21 (55.26%) Linux
3 10 (26.32%) Mac OS
4 8 (21.05%) Apple iOS
5 2 (5.26%) Unix
6 1 (2.63%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (97.37%) Software Engineering
2 33 (86.84%) Computer Science
3 24 (63.16%) Agile
3 24 (63.16%) Mathematics
4 17 (44.74%) Configuration Management
4 17 (44.74%) Mentoring
4 17 (44.74%) OO
4 17 (44.74%) Technical Leadership
5 9 (23.68%) Continuous Integration
6 7 (18.42%) Artificial Intelligence
6 7 (18.42%) Clean Code
6 7 (18.42%) Community of Practice
6 7 (18.42%) Machine Learning
6 7 (18.42%) Pair Programming
6 7 (18.42%) Physics
6 7 (18.42%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (10.53%) DevOps
8 2 (5.26%) Build Automation
8 2 (5.26%) Issue Tracking
8 2 (5.26%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 32 (84.21%) C++
2 13 (34.21%) C#
3 9 (23.68%) Fortran
4 8 (21.05%) Bash
5 7 (18.42%) C
5 7 (18.42%) C-shell
5 7 (18.42%) PowerShell
6 4 (10.53%) Python
7 1 (2.63%) Assembly Language
7 1 (2.63%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 38 (100.00%) Degree
2 21 (55.26%) Computer Science Degree
3 16 (42.11%) SC Cleared
3 16 (42.11%) Security Cleared
4 5 (13.16%) PhD
5 3 (7.89%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 2 (5.26%) Docker
2 1 (2.63%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (2.63%) Firmware