West Midlands C++ Software Engineer Jobs

This section looks at the demand for the C++ Software Engineer role in IT jobs within the West Midlands region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited C++ Software Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 20 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

C++ Software Engineer
Location Abingdon Aldershot Aylesbury Barnsley Basingstoke Bath Beaconsfield Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Beverley Bicester Birmingham Bracknell Bradford Bridgend Bristol Buckinghamshire Calne Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Castleford Chelmsford Cheshire Chippenham City of London Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Derby Derbyshire Devon Doncaster Dorset Dudley East Midlands East of England East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Exmouth Farnham Fife Gateshead Glasgow Glossop Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Peak High Wycombe Home Counties Horley Horsham Hounslow Hull Ipswich Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool London Luton Malmesbury Malvern Manchester Marlow Melksham Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northumberland Northwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Petersfield Pontypool Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Reading Rotherham Rugby Scarborough Scotland Sheffield Slough Smethwick Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staines Stevenage Stockport Suffolk Surrey Swansea Swindon Tewkesbury Thames Valley Torfaen Totnes Tyne and Wear Tyneside UK Wales Warwickshire Welwyn Garden City Wembley West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Winsford Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 20 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	183	193
Rank change on same period last year	+10
Matching permanent IT job ads	43	41
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.023 %	0.017 %
As % of the category below	0.537 %	0.491 %
Salaries quoted	33	35
Average minimum salary	£30,395	£32,800
Average salary	£33,372	£34,675
% change on same period last year	-3.75 %
Average maximum salary	£36,349	£36,550
UK excluding London average salary	£36,626	£35,418
% change on same period last year	+3.40 %
Job Titles West Midlands
Matching permanent IT job ads	8003	8352
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	4.308 %	3.481 %
Salaries quoted	6845	7254
Average minimum salary	£32,827	£33,784
Average salary	£35,731	£36,559
% change on same period last year	-2.26 %
Average maximum salary	£38,635	£39,334
UK excluding London average salary	£38,055	£39,430
% change on same period last year	-3.48 %
C++ Software Engineer England

C++ Software Engineer
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing C++ Software Engineer across the West Midlands region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

C++ Software Engineer
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing C++ Software Engineer across the West Midlands region.

C++ Software Engineer
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing C++ Software Engineer across the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 20 August 2008.

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Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing C++ Software Engineer within the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 20 August 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
Birmingham	+2	17	£31,500	-3.81 %
Warwickshire	+6	14	£37,346	-1.72 %
Coventry	-13	8	£34,063	-15.43 %
Worcestershire	-19	3	£37,500	+19.86 %
Dudley	-	2	£32,500	-
Smethwick	-	2	£25,000	-
Solihull	-	2	£28,750	-
Herefordshire	-9	1	£20,000	-37.82 %

C++ Software Engineer England

C++ Software Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT jobs across the West Midlands region that cited 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 C++ Software Engineer in their job title.

1 79 (100.00 %) C++ 2 30 (37.97 %) Windows 3 29 (36.71 %) OO 4 28 (35.44 %) C 5 27 (34.18 %) Degree 6 20 (25.32 %) C# 6 20 (25.32 %) MFC 7 19 (24.05 %) Java 8 18 (22.78 %) Computer Science 9 17 (21.52 %) Linux 10 15 (18.99 %) Pensions 11 13 (16.46 %) Mathematics 11 13 (16.46 %) OOD 12 12 (15.19 %) UNIX 13 11 (13.92 %) RUP

14 10 (12.66 %) Automotive 14 10 (12.66 %) SQL Server 15 9 (11.39 %) SQL 15 9 (11.39 %) .NET 15 9 (11.39 %) OOA/OOD 15 9 (11.39 %) Health 15 9 (11.39 %) Finance 15 9 (11.39 %) Physics 16 8 (10.13 %) UML 17 7 (8.861 %) OOP 17 7 (8.861 %) VC++ 17 7 (8.861 %) VB 17 7 (8.861 %) VxWorks 17 7 (8.861 %) CAD 18 6 (7.595 %) Electronics

C++ Software Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT jobs across the West Midlands region that cited 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 C++ Software Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 20 (25.32 %) MFC 2 9 (11.39 %) .NET 3 4 (5.063 %) OpenGL 4 3 (3.797 %) HTML 4 3 (3.797 %) XML 5 2 (2.532 %) COM+ 5 2 (2.532 %) DCOM 5 2 (2.532 %) J2EE 5 2 (2.532 %) CGI 5 2 (2.532 %) X-Windows 6 1 (1.266 %) ATL 6 1 (1.266 %) STL 6 1 (1.266 %) XSLT 6 1 (1.266 %) ActiveX	Applications 1 1 (1.266 %) MS Excel
Communications & Networking 1 4 (5.063 %) TCP/IP 1 4 (5.063 %) DVB 1 4 (5.063 %) Wireless 2 2 (2.532 %) SNMP 2 2 (2.532 %) SDH 3 1 (1.266 %) Ethernet 3 1 (1.266 %) Megaco	Database & Business Intelligence 1 10 (12.66 %) SQL Server 2 6 (7.595 %) RDBMS
Development Applications 1 6 (7.595 %) Visual Studio 2 2 (2.532 %) yacc	General 1 15 (18.99 %) Pensions 2 10 (12.66 %) Automotive 3 9 (11.39 %) Health 3 9 (11.39 %) Finance 4 6 (7.595 %) Electronics 4 6 (7.595 %) Education 4 6 (7.595 %) Marketing 5 5 (6.329 %) Telecoms 6 3 (3.797 %) Aerospace 6 3 (3.797 %) 3D Graphics 6 3 (3.797 %) Retail 6 3 (3.797 %) Financial Institution 7 2 (2.532 %) Manufacturing
Miscellaneous 1 18 (22.78 %) Computer Science 2 13 (16.46 %) Mathematics 3 9 (11.39 %) Physics 4 4 (5.063 %) MPEG 4 4 (5.063 %) DTV 5 3 (3.797 %) Pocket PC 5 3 (3.797 %) Multithreading 6 2 (2.532 %) Smartphone 6 2 (2.532 %) N-Tier 7 1 (1.266 %) SCADA	Operating Systems 1 30 (37.97 %) Windows 2 17 (21.52 %) Linux 3 12 (15.19 %) UNIX 4 7 (8.861 %) VxWorks 5 4 (5.063 %) Embedded Linux 6 3 (3.797 %) pSOS 6 3 (3.797 %) Windows Mobile 6 3 (3.797 %) Windows CE 7 2 (2.532 %) Red Hat Linux
Processes & Methodologies 1 29 (36.71 %) OO 2 13 (16.46 %) OOD 3 11 (13.92 %) RUP 4 9 (11.39 %) OOA/OOD 5 8 (10.13 %) UML 6 7 (8.861 %) OOP 6 7 (8.861 %) CAD 7 6 (7.595 %) Data Validation 7 6 (7.595 %) Validation 8 5 (6.329 %) Unified Process 9 3 (3.797 %) Software Engineering 9 3 (3.797 %) Configuration Management 10 2 (2.532 %) Test Scripting 11 1 (1.266 %) Business Analysis	Programming Languages 1 79 (100.00 %) C++ 2 28 (35.44 %) C 3 20 (25.32 %) C# 4 19 (24.05 %) Java 5 9 (11.39 %) SQL 6 7 (8.861 %) VB 6 7 (8.861 %) VC++ 7 6 (7.595 %) Perl 8 3 (3.797 %) PHP 8 3 (3.797 %) Embedded C 8 3 (3.797 %) Embedded C++ 8 3 (3.797 %) PHP5 9 2 (2.532 %) Tcl 9 2 (2.532 %) JavaScript 10 1 (1.266 %) VB.NET
Qualifications 1 27 (34.18 %) Degree	Vendors 1 6 (7.595 %) Microsoft 2 3 (3.797 %) MontaVista 3 2 (2.532 %) Oracle 3 2 (2.532 %) Red Hat 4 1 (1.266 %) ION Trading