The first table below looks at the demand for the Senior C++ Software Engineer role in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Senior C++ Software Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 20 June 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles currently tracked.

Location
3 months to
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Senior C++ Software Engineer
Rank 833 822 826
Rank change year-on-year
-11 +4
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior C++ Software Engineer 26 74 63
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.024% 0.063% 0.049%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.025% 0.066% 0.052%
Number of salaries quoted 21 72 51
Average salary £42,000 £57,500 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-26.95% +35.29%
90% offered a salary of more than £37,500 £45,000 £37,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £75,000 £55,500
UK excluding London average salary £42,000 £50,000 £41,500
% change year-on-year
-16.00% +20.48%
All Job Titles
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
104260 112424 121400
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 94.39% 94.97% 94.14%
Number of salaries quoted 86734 96496 103078
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
90% offered a salary of more than £26,500 £27,500 £26,500
10% offered a salary of more than £67,500 £72,500 £70,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-1.29% +2.66%

Senior C++ Software Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Senior C++ Software Engineer within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Senior C++ Software Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Senior C++ Software Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Senior C++ Software Engineer Salary Trend

Senior C++ Software Engineer
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Senior C++ Software Engineer over the 3 months to 20 June 2013 within the UK.

Senior C++ Software Engineer Salary Histogram

Senior C++ Software Engineer
Top 30 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior C++ Software Engineer within the UK over the 3 months to 20 June 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Find
Job
Vacancies
England -41 20 £47,500 -17.39% 4
South East +16 7 £50,000 -27.27%
Cambridgeshire +8 6 £50,000 -4.76%
East of England -7 6 £50,000 -4.76%
Cambridge +2 5 £50,000 -4.76%
Cardiff - 4 £42,000 -
South Wales - 4 £42,000 -
Wales - 4 £42,000 -
South West -6 3 £37,500 -16.66% 1
Bristol -7 3 £37,500 -16.66%
Bridgend - 3 £42,000 -
Newport - 3 £42,000 -
Swansea - 3 £42,000 -
West Wales - 3 £42,000 -
Horsham +7 2 - -
Hampshire +5 2 £51,250 -24.07%
Southampton +2 2 £51,250 -24.07%
West Sussex -7 2 - -
London -16 2 £85,000 +25.92% 3
Edinburgh - 2 £37,500 -
Berkshire - 2 £50,000 -
Reading - 2 £50,000 -
Scotland - 2 £37,500 -
Oxfordshire - 1 £40,000 -
Stockport - 1 £45,000 -
West Yorkshire - 1 £41,500 -
Yorkshire - 1 £41,500 -
North West - 1 £45,000 -
Manchester - 1 £45,000 -
Oxford - 1 £40,000 -

Senior C++ Software Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT jobs within the UK that cited Senior C++ Software Engineer in their job title 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 with Senior C++ Software Engineer in their job title.

1 62 (100.00%) C++
2 23 (37.10%) Windows
3 22 (35.48%) C
3 22 (35.48%) UNIX
4 20 (32.26%) Linux
4 20 (32.26%) Finance
5 17 (27.42%) Degree
6 13 (20.97%) Multithreading
7 12 (19.35%) Scrum
7 12 (19.35%) STL
8 11 (17.74%) UML
8 11 (17.74%) C#
8 11 (17.74%) Computer Science
8 11 (17.74%) Boost C++ Libraries
9 9 (14.52%) Software Engineering
9 9 (14.52%) OOD
10 8 (12.90%) SQL
10 8 (12.90%) OO
10 8 (12.90%) Python
10 8 (12.90%) Telecoms
11 7 (11.29%) Configuration Management
11 7 (11.29%) Project Management
12 6 (9.677%) Pharmaceutical
12 6 (9.677%) Web Services
12 6 (9.677%) Agile Software Development
12 6 (9.677%) Qt
13 5 (8.065%) Apache Solr
13 5 (8.065%) 3G
13 5 (8.065%) Statistics
13 5 (8.065%) ClearCase

Senior C++ Software Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT jobs within the UK that cited Senior C++ Software Engineer in their job title 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 with Senior C++ Software Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 12 (19.35%) STL
2 11 (17.74%) Boost C++ Libraries
3 6 (9.677%) Web Services
3 6 (9.677%) Qt
4 5 (8.065%) MFC
5 4 (6.452%) HTML
5 4 (6.452%) XML
5 4 (6.452%) CSS
5 4 (6.452%) JSP
6 3 (4.839%) ZeroMQ
6 3 (4.839%) WCF
6 3 (4.839%) WPF
6 3 (4.839%) .NET
6 3 (4.839%) COM
7 2 (3.226%) OpenGL
7 2 (3.226%) DirectX
7 2 (3.226%) WinForms
7 2 (3.226%) Silverlight
8 1 (1.613%) jQuery
8 1 (1.613%) JSON
Application Platforms
1 5 (8.065%) Apache Solr
Communications & Networking
1 5 (8.065%) 3G
1 5 (8.065%) 3GPP
1 5 (8.065%) UMTS
1 5 (8.065%) WCDMA
2 3 (4.839%) HTTP
2 3 (4.839%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.613%) SNMP
3 1 (1.613%) SMTP
3 1 (1.613%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (8.065%) Data Mining
2 4 (6.452%) SQL Server
3 3 (4.839%) MySQL
4 2 (3.226%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (3.226%) NoSQL
4 2 (3.226%) Big Data
5 1 (1.613%) DB2
Development Applications
1 5 (8.065%) ClearCase
2 4 (6.452%) Visual Studio
3 3 (4.839%) Rational DOORS
4 1 (1.613%) CppUnit
4 1 (1.613%) Xcode
General
1 20 (32.26%) Finance
2 8 (12.90%) Telecoms
3 6 (9.677%) Pharmaceutical
4 3 (4.839%) Games
4 3 (4.839%) Aerospace
4 3 (4.839%) Front Office
5 2 (3.226%) Law
5 2 (3.226%) Banking
5 2 (3.226%) Music Industry
6 1 (1.613%) Advertising
6 1 (1.613%) Electronics
Miscellaneous
1 11 (17.74%) Computer Science
2 5 (8.065%) Statistics
3 4 (6.452%) Mathematics
4 3 (4.839%) Derivative
4 3 (4.839%) Client/Server
4 3 (4.839%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (3.226%) Verilog
6 1 (1.613%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (1.613%) Physics
6 1 (1.613%) Equities
6 1 (1.613%) Device Driver
6 1 (1.613%) Mobile Games
Operating Systems
1 23 (37.10%) Windows
2 22 (35.48%) UNIX
3 20 (32.26%) Linux
4 3 (4.839%) Apple iOS
4 3 (4.839%) Android
5 1 (1.613%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (20.97%) Multithreading
2 12 (19.35%) Scrum
3 11 (17.74%) UML
4 9 (14.52%) Software Engineering
4 9 (14.52%) OOD
5 8 (12.90%) OO
6 7 (11.29%) Configuration Management
6 7 (11.29%) Project Management
7 6 (9.677%) Agile Software Development
8 5 (8.065%) SOA
9 4 (6.452%) OOP
9 4 (6.452%) Unit Testing
9 4 (6.452%) Web Application Development
10 3 (4.839%) Metaprogramming
10 3 (4.839%) Requirements Analysis
11 2 (3.226%) TDD
11 2 (3.226%) Automated Testing
12 1 (1.613%) Agile Project Management
12 1 (1.613%) Requirements Engineering
12 1 (1.613%) Game Development
Programming Languages
1 62 (100.00%) C++
2 22 (35.48%) C
3 11 (17.74%) C#
4 8 (12.90%) SQL
4 8 (12.90%) Python
5 5 (8.065%) Java
5 5 (8.065%) JavaScript
6 4 (6.452%) Perl
6 4 (6.452%) Bash shell
7 2 (3.226%) Embedded C
7 2 (3.226%) Embedded C++
7 2 (3.226%) T-SQL
8 1 (1.613%) Objective-C
8 1 (1.613%) Assembly Language
Qualifications
1 17 (27.42%) Degree
2 2 (3.226%) HNC
3 1 (1.613%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.839%) DO-178B
System Software
1 1 (1.613%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (1.613%) WMI
Vendors
1 5 (8.065%) Oracle
2 3 (4.839%) Microsoft
3 2 (3.226%) Apple
4 1 (1.613%) Perforce
4 1 (1.613%) Sybase
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