C++ Jobs in Glasgow

C++
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Glasgow requiring C++ skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited C++ over the 6 months leading up to 1 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 63 163 95
Rank change year-on-year +100 -68 +3
Permanent jobs citing C++ 21 58 29
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 2.83% 1.62% 1.95%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.21% 2.57% 4.49%
Number of salaries quoted 20 47 12
10th Percentile £63,750 - £45,000
25th Percentile £72,375 £41,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £50,000 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% -18.70% +9.33%
75th Percentile £85,000 £65,000 £69,375
90th Percentile - £67,500 £75,000
Scotland median annual salary £66,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% +9.09% -

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 338 2,257 646
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 45.61% 63.08% 43.36%
Number of salaries quoted 108 357 307
10th Percentile £39,775 £32,500 £38,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £41,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,017 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.30% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £77,500 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £75,000
Scotland median annual salary £58,033 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +5.51% -4.35% +4.55%

C++
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Job postings citing C++ as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

Job vacancy trend for C++ in Glasgow

C++
Salary Trend in Glasgow

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing C++ in Glasgow.

Salary trend for C++ in Glasgow

C++
Salary Histogram in Glasgow

Salary distribution for jobs citing C++ in Glasgow over the 6 months to 1 July 2025.

Salary histogram for C++ in Glasgow

C++
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow by Category

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

Application Platforms
1 1 (4.76%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 1 (4.76%) AWS
1 1 (4.76%) Azure
1 1 (4.76%) Datadog
1 1 (4.76%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.76%) Apache Cassandra
1 1 (4.76%) CockroachDB
1 1 (4.76%) Couchbase
1 1 (4.76%) DynamoDB
1 1 (4.76%) MongoDB
1 1 (4.76%) MySQL
1 1 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (4.76%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Android Studio
1 1 (4.76%) Visual Studio
General
1 1 (4.76%) Finance
1 1 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (4.76%) Law
1 1 (4.76%) Legal
1 1 (4.76%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (42.86%) Architect
2 8 (38.10%) Firmware Architect
3 7 (33.33%) Software Engineer
4 5 (23.81%) Principal Engineer
4 5 (23.81%) Principal Software Engineer
4 5 (23.81%) Senior
5 3 (14.29%) Embedded Engineer
5 3 (14.29%) Embedded Firmware Engineer
5 3 (14.29%) Firmware Engineer
5 3 (14.29%) Senior Embedded Engineer
5 3 (14.29%) Senior Firmware Engineer
6 2 (9.52%) Engineering Manager
6 2 (9.52%) Software Engineering Manager
6 2 (9.52%) Software Manager
7 1 (4.76%) Senior Architect
7 1 (4.76%) Senior Software Architect
7 1 (4.76%) Senior Software Engineer
7 1 (4.76%) Senior Systems Architect
7 1 (4.76%) Software Architect
7 1 (4.76%) Systems Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.76%) .NET
1 1 (4.76%) .NET Framework
1 1 (4.76%) CSS
1 1 (4.76%) HTML
1 1 (4.76%) Kafka
1 1 (4.76%) Memcached
Miscellaneous
1 5 (23.81%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (9.52%) Mobile App
3 1 (4.76%) Algorithms
3 1 (4.76%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (23.81%) Apple iOS
2 3 (14.29%) Mac OS
3 2 (9.52%) Android
4 1 (4.76%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (66.67%) Mentoring
2 12 (57.14%) Continuous Improvement
3 11 (52.38%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (47.62%) Software Engineering
5 6 (28.57%) Cybersecurity
6 5 (23.81%) Architectural Patterns
6 5 (23.81%) Refactoring
7 3 (14.29%) Agile
7 3 (14.29%) Mobile Development
8 2 (9.52%) Microservices
8 2 (9.52%) Reverse Engineering
9 1 (4.76%) API Design
9 1 (4.76%) Community of Practice
9 1 (4.76%) Data Engineering
9 1 (4.76%) Observability
9 1 (4.76%) Operational Stability
9 1 (4.76%) Project Delivery
9 1 (4.76%) SDLC
9 1 (4.76%) Secure Coding
9 1 (4.76%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 10 (47.62%) C
2 7 (33.33%) Objective-C
3 2 (9.52%) C#
3 2 (9.52%) Java
3 2 (9.52%) Python
3 2 (9.52%) SQL
4 1 (4.76%) Kotlin
4 1 (4.76%) Perl
4 1 (4.76%) Swift
Qualifications
1 1 (4.76%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 11 (52.38%) Firmware
2 3 (14.29%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (4.76%) Grafana
Vendors
1 1 (4.76%) Oracle
1 1 (4.76%) Splunk
1 1 (4.76%) Sybase