C++ Job Trends in Glasgow

C++
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Glasgow requiring C++ skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 64 69 62
Rank change year-on-year +5 -7 +26
Permanent jobs citing C++ 24 16 11
As % of all permanent jobs in Glasgow 3.02% 1.60% 1.65%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.79% 4.71% 4.04%
Number of salaries quoted 23 3 10
10th Percentile £63,750 £46,100 £44,700
25th Percentile £73,750 £46,250 £58,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £47,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +70.21% -27.69% +13.04%
75th Percentile £85,000 £53,875 £76,250
90th Percentile - £57,700 £80,000
Scotland median annual salary £70,750 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +17.92% +4.35% -

All Programming Languages
Glasgow

C++ falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills in Glasgow.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 308 340 272
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 38.79% 34.10% 40.78%
Number of salaries quoted 83 163 222
10th Percentile £35,850 £24,000 £35,733
25th Percentile £42,500 £37,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £84,625 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £76,500 £71,250
Scotland median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +1.77%

C++
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing C++ relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

C++ job vacancy trend in Glasgow

C++
Salary Trend in Glasgow

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing C++.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing C++

C++
Salary Histogram in Glasgow

Salary distribution for jobs citing C++ in Glasgow over the 6 months to 29 October 2025.

Salary histogram for C++ in Glasgow

C++
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (4.17%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 1 (4.17%) AWS
1 1 (4.17%) Azure
1 1 (4.17%) Datadog
1 1 (4.17%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.17%) Apache Cassandra
1 1 (4.17%) CockroachDB
1 1 (4.17%) Couchbase
1 1 (4.17%) DynamoDB
1 1 (4.17%) MongoDB
1 1 (4.17%) MySQL
1 1 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (4.17%) Redis
General
1 1 (4.17%) Finance
1 1 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (4.17%) Law
1 1 (4.17%) Legal
1 1 (4.17%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (70.83%) Architect
1 17 (70.83%) Firmware Architect
2 4 (16.67%) Embedded Engineer
2 4 (16.67%) Embedded Firmware Engineer
2 4 (16.67%) Firmware Engineer
2 4 (16.67%) Senior
2 4 (16.67%) Senior Embedded Engineer
2 4 (16.67%) Senior Firmware Engineer
3 3 (12.50%) Software Architect
4 2 (8.33%) Software Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Cloud Software Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Engineering Manager
5 1 (4.17%) Principal Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Principal Software Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Software Engineering Manager
5 1 (4.17%) Software Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.17%) Kafka
1 1 (4.17%) Memcached
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.17%) Algorithms
1 1 (4.17%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (4.17%) Mobile App
1 1 (4.17%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.17%) Android
1 1 (4.17%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (91.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 21 (87.50%) Problem-Solving
3 18 (75.00%) Mentoring
4 3 (12.50%) Software Engineering
5 2 (8.33%) Agile
5 2 (8.33%) Cybersecurity
5 2 (8.33%) Mobile Development
6 1 (4.17%) AI
6 1 (4.17%) API Design
6 1 (4.17%) Community of Practice
6 1 (4.17%) Data Engineering
6 1 (4.17%) Machine Learning
6 1 (4.17%) Microservices
6 1 (4.17%) Observability
6 1 (4.17%) Operational Stability
6 1 (4.17%) Refactoring
6 1 (4.17%) SDLC
6 1 (4.17%) Secure Coding
6 1 (4.17%) Technical Leadership
6 1 (4.17%) Virtual Team Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (12.50%) C
2 1 (4.17%) C#
2 1 (4.17%) Java
2 1 (4.17%) Objective-C
2 1 (4.17%) Python
2 1 (4.17%) SQL
System Software
1 21 (87.50%) Firmware
2 9 (37.50%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (4.17%) Grafana
Vendors
1 1 (4.17%) Oracle
1 1 (4.17%) Splunk
1 1 (4.17%) Sybase