The first table below looks at the demand for C++ skills in IT jobs advertised for the Wolverhampton region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited C++ over the 3 months to 22 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Programming Languages category for the Wolverhampton region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
C++
Rank 19 19 -
Rank change year-on-year
0 -
Permanent jobs citing C++ 2 1 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Wolverhampton 3.077% 1.389% -
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.651% 2.273% -
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 0
Average salary £50,000 - -
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+1.33% -
All Programming Languages
Wolverhampton
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
43 44 39
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Wolverhampton 66.15% 61.11% 66.10%
Number of salaries quoted 42 43 35
Average salary £37,500 £32,250 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+16.27% -0.76%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,600 £22,750 £21,000
10% offered a salary of more than £46,000 £43,500 £47,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
C++
West Midlands

C++
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing C++ across the Wolverhampton region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

Wolverhampton C++ Jobs Demand Trend

C++
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing C++ across the Wolverhampton region.

Wolverhampton C++ Salary Trend

C++
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Wolverhampton region 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++.

1 6 (75.00%) Java
2 5 (62.50%) Oracle
2 5 (62.50%) SQL Server
2 5 (62.50%) HNC
2 5 (62.50%) HND
2 5 (62.50%) Flash
2 5 (62.50%) QuickTest Pro
2 5 (62.50%) Automated Testing
3 3 (37.50%) Games
3 3 (37.50%) Degree
3 3 (37.50%) Test Management
3 3 (37.50%) Test Scripting
4 2 (25.00%) CAD
4 2 (25.00%) Oracle 8/8i
4 2 (25.00%) VC++
4 2 (25.00%) .NET
4 2 (25.00%) C#
4 2 (25.00%) Visual Studio
4 2 (25.00%) Mathematics
4 2 (25.00%) Scrum
4 2 (25.00%) WinForms
4 2 (25.00%) Aerospace
4 2 (25.00%) Automotive
4 2 (25.00%) Manufacturing
4 2 (25.00%) WCF
4 2 (25.00%) WPF
4 2 (25.00%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (12.50%) XPath
5 1 (12.50%) Spring
5 1 (12.50%) Computer Science

C++
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Wolverhampton region 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.

Application Development
1 5 (62.50%) Flash
2 2 (25.00%) .NET
2 2 (25.00%) WinForms
2 2 (25.00%) WCF
2 2 (25.00%) WPF
3 1 (12.50%) Spring
3 1 (12.50%) Spring MVC
3 1 (12.50%) CSS
3 1 (12.50%) JSP
3 1 (12.50%) Servlets
3 1 (12.50%) Struts
3 1 (12.50%) Web Services
3 1 (12.50%) XML
3 1 (12.50%) XSLT
3 1 (12.50%) HTML
3 1 (12.50%) J2EE
Application Platforms
1 1 (12.50%) Apache
1 1 (12.50%) Tomcat
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (62.50%) SQL Server
2 2 (25.00%) Oracle 8/8i
3 1 (12.50%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 5 (62.50%) QuickTest Pro
2 2 (25.00%) Visual Studio
2 2 (25.00%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (12.50%) Git (software)
3 1 (12.50%) JUnit
3 1 (12.50%) Eclipse
General
1 3 (37.50%) Games
2 2 (25.00%) Aerospace
2 2 (25.00%) Automotive
2 2 (25.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Analyst
1 3 (37.50%) Test Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Tester
2 2 (25.00%) Graduate
2 2 (25.00%) Software Tester
2 2 (25.00%) Graduate Software Tester
3 1 (12.50%) Java Technical Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Java Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Software Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Technical Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Mathematics
2 1 (12.50%) Computer Science
2 1 (12.50%) iPhone
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Automated Testing
2 3 (37.50%) Test Management
2 3 (37.50%) Test Scripting
3 2 (25.00%) CAD
3 2 (25.00%) Scrum
4 1 (12.50%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) Java
2 2 (25.00%) VC++
2 2 (25.00%) C#
3 1 (12.50%) XPath
3 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
3 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (62.50%) HNC
1 5 (62.50%) HND
2 3 (37.50%) Degree
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) Oracle