Job Vacancy Trend Salary Trend Salary Histogram Skill Sets
Period
to 27 January 2022

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for C++ skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited C++ over the 6 months to 27 January 2022 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

C++
Central London > City of London
6 months to
27 Jan 2022		 Same period 2021 Same period 2020
Rank 100 105 65
Rank change year-on-year +5 -40 -2
Permanent jobs citing C++ 184 125 368
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 2.93% 2.88% 4.05%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.06% 4.50% 7.08%
Number of salaries quoted 127 103 312
10th Percentile £56,500 £55,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £66,250 £67,500 £56,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £85,000 £76,250
Median % change year-on-year - +11.48% +1.67%
75th Percentile £116,250 £108,125 £120,000
90th Percentile £136,750 £132,500 £150,000
Central London median annual salary £85,000 £85,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year - +13.33% +3.45%

C++ is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for coding skills.

All Programming Languages
City of London
Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 3,639 2,779 5,199
As % of all permanent IT jobs advertised in the City of London 57.94% 64.05% 57.21%
Number of salaries quoted 3,248 2,534 4,607
10th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £56,313 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +3.57% +7.69%
75th Percentile £95,000 £88,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £110,000 £102,500
Central London median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% - +7.69%

C++
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing C++ as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for C++ in the City of London

C++
Salary Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing C++ in the City of London.

Salary trend for C++ in the City of London

C++
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing C++ in the City of London over the 6 months to 27 January 2022.

Salary histogram for C++ in the City of London

For the 6 months to 27 January 2022, IT jobs citing C++ also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the City of London region with a requirement for C++.

1 154 (83.70%) Python
2 133 (72.28%) Java
3 123 (66.85%) C#
4 80 (43.48%) Finance
5 74 (40.22%) Social Skills
6 73 (39.67%) AWS
7 66 (35.87%) Degree
8 61 (33.15%) JavaScript
9 54 (29.35%) Agile Software Development
10 51 (27.72%) OO
11 49 (26.63%) Software Engineering
12 45 (24.46%) Scala
12 45 (24.46%) R
12 45 (24.46%) DevOps
13 44 (23.91%) MATLAB
14 43 (23.37%) .NET
15 42 (22.83%) Master's Degree
16 40 (21.74%) Linux
17 38 (20.65%) OOP
17 38 (20.65%) Microservices
18 36 (19.57%) GCP
18 36 (19.57%) C
19 35 (19.02%) Kubernetes
20 34 (18.48%) Computer Science
21 33 (17.93%) Ruby
21 33 (17.93%) Mathematics
22 32 (17.39%) QA
22 32 (17.39%) Perl
22 32 (17.39%) Salesforce.com
22 32 (17.39%) SDLC

C++
Co-occurring IT Skills in the City of London by Category

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

Application Platforms
1 18 (9.78%) Confluence
2 6 (3.26%) IBM HTTP Server
3 2 (1.09%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (1.09%) Luigi
4 1 (0.54%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 7 (3.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.54%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (2.72%) MetaTrader
2 1 (0.54%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 73 (39.67%) AWS
2 36 (19.57%) GCP
3 30 (16.30%) Azure
4 21 (11.41%) Serverless
5 2 (1.09%) Power Automate
5 2 (1.09%) Power Platform
5 2 (1.09%) PowerApps
6 1 (0.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (0.54%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (0.54%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (0.54%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (0.54%) Azure App Service
6 1 (0.54%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (0.54%) CloudFront
6 1 (0.54%) GitHub
6 1 (0.54%) IaaS
6 1 (0.54%) PaaS
6 1 (0.54%) SaaS
6 1 (0.54%) Slack
6 1 (0.54%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.63%) HTTP
2 2 (1.09%) Internet
2 2 (1.09%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.54%) Bluetooth
3 1 (0.54%) DNS
3 1 (0.54%) LAN
3 1 (0.54%) MQTT
3 1 (0.54%) RS-485
3 1 (0.54%) SSL
3 1 (0.54%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (15.22%) Relational Database
2 23 (12.50%) NoSQL
3 22 (11.96%) PostgreSQL
4 21 (11.41%) MongoDB
4 21 (11.41%) SQL Server
5 20 (10.87%) Amazon DynamoDB
6 13 (7.07%) Big Data
7 6 (3.26%) OLAP
8 3 (1.63%) Apache Cassandra
8 3 (1.63%) MySQL
9 2 (1.09%) KDB
10 1 (0.54%) Hadoop
10 1 (0.54%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 22 (11.96%) Jenkins
2 21 (11.41%) JIRA
3 20 (10.87%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 20 (10.87%) SonarQube
4 16 (8.70%) Git (software)
5 2 (1.09%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.54%) AppScan
6 1 (0.54%) Burp Suite
6 1 (0.54%) CMake
6 1 (0.54%) Eclipse
6 1 (0.54%) JUnit
6 1 (0.54%) NUnit
6 1 (0.54%) TestNG
General
1 80 (43.48%) Finance
2 74 (40.22%) Social Skills
3 30 (16.30%) Banking
4 21 (11.41%) Presentation Skills
5 20 (10.87%) Influencing Skills
6 14 (7.61%) Advertising
6 14 (7.61%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (7.61%) Investment Banking
7 13 (7.07%) Front Office
8 12 (6.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 9 (4.89%) Retail
10 6 (3.26%) Marketing
11 5 (2.72%) Games
11 5 (2.72%) Law
12 4 (2.17%) Electronics
12 4 (2.17%) Manufacturing
12 4 (2.17%) Public Sector
12 4 (2.17%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.54%) International Banking
13 1 (0.54%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 70 (38.04%) Developer
2 34 (18.48%) Technical Leader
3 30 (16.30%) Software Developer
4 22 (11.96%) Salesforce Developer
5 21 (11.41%) Analyst
6 18 (9.78%) C++ Developer
6 18 (9.78%) Qualitative Analyst
6 18 (9.78%) Quantitative Analyst
6 18 (9.78%) Software Engineer
7 13 (7.07%) Senior Developer
7 13 (7.07%) Support Specialist
8 12 (6.52%) Developer/Software Engineer
9 9 (4.89%) Java Developer
10 8 (4.35%) Salesforce Software Engineer
10 8 (4.35%) Senior C++ Developer
11 7 (3.80%) Architect
11 7 (3.80%) Python Developer
12 6 (3.26%) C# Developer
12 6 (3.26%) Investment Banking C++ Developer
12 6 (3.26%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (23.37%) .NET
2 26 (14.13%) Node.js
3 20 (10.87%) OAuth
3 20 (10.87%) OAuth2
3 20 (10.87%) OpenID
4 17 (9.24%) React
5 15 (8.15%) REST
6 8 (4.35%) FIX Protocol
7 6 (3.26%) .NET Framework
8 5 (2.72%) WPF
9 4 (2.17%) XML
10 3 (1.63%) ASP.NET
10 3 (1.63%) CSS
10 3 (1.63%) HTML
10 3 (1.63%) RESTful
11 2 (1.09%) AngularJS
11 2 (1.09%) Flask
11 2 (1.09%) Pandas
11 2 (1.09%) SOAP
11 2 (1.09%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 20 (10.87%) Cloud Native
2 18 (9.78%) Algorithms
3 13 (7.07%) Linux Command Line
4 12 (6.52%) Equities
5 9 (4.89%) Data Structures
5 9 (4.89%) Derivative
6 7 (3.80%) Enterprise Software
6 7 (3.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 6 (3.26%) Credit Risk
7 6 (3.26%) Data Fabric
7 6 (3.26%) Exotic Derivative
7 6 (3.26%) Market Risk
8 5 (2.72%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.09%) Blog
9 2 (1.09%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.09%) Embedded Systems
9 2 (1.09%) Mobile Computing
9 2 (1.09%) Public Cloud
10 1 (0.54%) Credit Derivative
10 1 (0.54%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 40 (21.74%) Linux
2 15 (8.15%) Windows
3 13 (7.07%) Mac OS
4 3 (1.63%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (29.35%) Agile Software Development
2 51 (27.72%) OO
3 49 (26.63%) Software Engineering
4 45 (24.46%) DevOps
5 38 (20.65%) Microservices
5 38 (20.65%) OOP
6 34 (18.48%) Computer Science
7 33 (17.93%) Mathematics
8 32 (17.39%) Mentoring
8 32 (17.39%) SDLC
9 31 (16.85%) Risk Management
10 28 (15.22%) Test Automation
11 26 (14.13%) CRM
11 26 (14.13%) Validation
12 24 (13.04%) Enterprise Architecture
13 23 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
14 22 (11.96%) Data Protection
14 22 (11.96%) OWASP
15 21 (11.41%) Event-Driven
15 21 (11.41%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 154 (83.70%) Python
2 133 (72.28%) Java
3 123 (66.85%) C#
4 61 (33.15%) JavaScript
5 45 (24.46%) R
5 45 (24.46%) Scala
6 44 (23.91%) MATLAB
7 36 (19.57%) C
8 33 (17.93%) Ruby
9 32 (17.39%) Perl
10 28 (15.22%) Kotlin
10 28 (15.22%) SQL
11 27 (14.67%) PHP
12 26 (14.13%) Apple Swift
12 26 (14.13%) Dart
12 26 (14.13%) Objective-C
12 26 (14.13%) Pascal
12 26 (14.13%) VB.NET
13 22 (11.96%) Go
14 12 (6.52%) Rust
Qualifications
1 66 (35.87%) Degree
2 42 (22.83%) Master's Degree
3 20 (10.87%) Computer Science Degree
4 19 (10.33%) PhD
5 1 (0.54%) CEH
5 1 (0.54%) CISA
5 1 (0.54%) CISSP
5 1 (0.54%) CREST Certified
5 1 (0.54%) EC-Council LPT
5 1 (0.54%) ECSA
5 1 (0.54%) Numerate Degree
5 1 (0.54%) OSCP
5 1 (0.54%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (17.39%) QA
2 20 (10.87%) GDPR
3 6 (3.26%) Dodd-Frank
3 6 (3.26%) EMIR
3 6 (3.26%) MiFID
4 2 (1.09%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.54%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.54%) Solvency II
System Software
1 23 (12.50%) Docker
2 2 (1.09%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 2 (1.09%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 35 (19.02%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.17%) Terraform
3 3 (1.63%) Ansible
4 1 (0.54%) Grafana
4 1 (0.54%) HP Fortify
4 1 (0.54%) Nessus
4 1 (0.54%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.54%) Puppet
4 1 (0.54%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 32 (17.39%) Salesforce.com
2 21 (11.41%) Oracle
3 15 (8.15%) Microsoft
4 4 (2.17%) SAP
5 2 (1.09%) Sybase
6 1 (0.54%) Checkmarx
6 1 (0.54%) Demandware
6 1 (0.54%) Google
6 1 (0.54%) ION Trading
6 1 (0.54%) Murex
6 1 (0.54%) Qualys