C++ Jobs in Scotland

C++
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 114 72 135
Rank change year-on-year -42 +63 -27
Permanent jobs citing C++ 154 157 121
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 2.70% 4.14% 1.99%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.66% 11.02% 4.40%
Number of salaries quoted 128 131 52
10th Percentile £41,250 £33,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £44,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £56,250
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -2.22% +18.42%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £61,563
90th Percentile £71,250 £75,000 £81,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% -3.85% +13.04%

All Programming Languages
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 2,721 1,425 2,750
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 47.75% 37.56% 45.16%
Number of salaries quoted 927 928 1,682
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,874 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +14.58%
75th Percentile £68,114 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,548 £83,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +8.70%

C++
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for C++ in Scotland

C++
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for C++ in Scotland

C++
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing C++ in Scotland over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for C++ in Scotland

C++
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing C++ within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 26 July 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Glasgow -44 51 £47,500 -24.90% 9
Edinburgh +23 44 £60,000 +9.09% 4
Fife +3 21 £50,000 - 1
Aberdeen -10 16 £53,750 +10.26%
West Lothian -12 12 £66,250 +10.42%
South Lanarkshire +4 5 £80,000 +23.08%
Aberdeenshire -10 2 £50,000 -23.08%
Lanarkshire -10 1 - - 7
North Lanarkshire - 1 £32,500 - 2
C++
UK

C++
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 4 (2.60%) Apache
2 1 (0.65%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.65%) SAS
Applications
1 7 (4.55%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 1 (0.65%) JDE EnterpriseOne
1 1 (0.65%) JDE World
Cloud Services
1 9 (5.84%) SaaS
2 8 (5.19%) AWS
3 5 (3.25%) Azure
3 5 (3.25%) Serverless
4 4 (2.60%) Amazon EC2
4 4 (2.60%) Amazon S3
4 4 (2.60%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (0.65%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (0.65%) ChatGPT
5 1 (0.65%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (0.65%) GCP
5 1 (0.65%) GitHub
5 1 (0.65%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 18 (11.69%) Network Security
2 8 (5.19%) Wireless
3 7 (4.55%) Wi-Fi
4 5 (3.25%) Bluetooth
4 5 (3.25%) RS-232
4 5 (3.25%) TCP/IP
5 4 (2.60%) Ethernet
6 3 (1.95%) Modbus
6 3 (1.95%) ZigBee
7 2 (1.30%) RS-485
8 1 (0.65%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (4.55%) Relational Database
3 5 (3.25%) SQL Server
4 4 (2.60%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (2.60%) MongoDB
5 2 (1.30%) Big Data
5 2 (1.30%) GIS
5 2 (1.30%) NoSQL
5 2 (1.30%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.65%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.65%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 15 (9.74%) LabVIEW
2 8 (5.19%) Visual Studio
3 7 (4.55%) Git
4 4 (2.60%) GitLab
5 3 (1.95%) Jenkins
6 2 (1.30%) JIRA
7 1 (0.65%) Subversion
General
1 42 (27.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 31 (20.13%) Analytical Skills
2 31 (20.13%) Social Skills
3 24 (15.58%) Manufacturing
4 23 (14.94%) Electronics
5 20 (12.99%) Automotive
6 11 (7.14%) Legal
7 5 (3.25%) Games
8 3 (1.95%) Finance
8 3 (1.95%) Public Sector
8 3 (1.95%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.30%) Aerospace
9 2 (1.30%) Marketing
10 1 (0.65%) French Language
10 1 (0.65%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.65%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 82 (53.25%) Software Engineer
2 53 (34.42%) Senior
3 40 (25.97%) Senior Software Engineer
4 39 (25.32%) C++ Software Engineer
5 26 (16.88%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
6 24 (15.58%) Developer
7 19 (12.34%) C Software Engineer
7 19 (12.34%) C/C++ Software Engineer
8 18 (11.69%) Senior C Software Engineer
9 17 (11.04%) Embedded Engineer
10 15 (9.74%) Electronics Engineer
11 14 (9.09%) Embedded Software Engineer
11 14 (9.09%) Manufacturing Engineer
11 14 (9.09%) Software Design Engineer
12 13 (8.44%) Architect
13 10 (6.49%) C# Software Engineer
13 10 (6.49%) Senior Developer
13 10 (6.49%) Senior Embedded Engineer
13 10 (6.49%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
14 9 (5.84%) Senior C# Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (14.29%) .NET
2 8 (5.19%) REST
3 7 (4.55%) .NET Framework
4 6 (3.90%) OpenCV
4 6 (3.90%) OpenVINO
5 5 (3.25%) Web Services
5 5 (3.25%) Yocto
6 4 (2.60%) SOAP
7 3 (1.95%) DPDK
7 3 (1.95%) ONNX
8 2 (1.30%) CSS
8 2 (1.30%) HTML
8 2 (1.30%) MFC
8 2 (1.30%) RESTful
8 2 (1.30%) WinForms
8 2 (1.30%) WPF
9 1 (0.65%) Kafka
9 1 (0.65%) LDAP
9 1 (0.65%) Qt
9 1 (0.65%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 16 (10.39%) Video\Live Streaming
2 12 (7.79%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (6.49%) Algorithms
3 10 (6.49%) Embedded Systems
4 5 (3.25%) Device Driver
5 4 (2.60%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (1.95%) IoT
7 2 (1.30%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.65%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.65%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (0.65%) FPGA
8 1 (0.65%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 40 (25.97%) Linux
2 31 (20.13%) Windows
3 10 (6.49%) Mac OS
4 8 (5.19%) Windows Server
5 6 (3.90%) Embedded Linux
6 4 (2.60%) AIX
7 2 (1.30%) Android
7 2 (1.30%) Apple iOS
7 2 (1.30%) ThreadX
7 2 (1.30%) Unix
8 1 (0.65%) OpenWrt
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (69.48%) Software Engineering
2 43 (27.92%) Computer Science
3 37 (24.03%) Problem-Solving
4 20 (12.99%) Agile
4 20 (12.99%) Decision-Making
5 17 (11.04%) Collaborative Working
6 14 (9.09%) Analytical Thinking
6 14 (9.09%) Knowledge Transfer
7 13 (8.44%) Machine Learning
7 13 (8.44%) OO
8 11 (7.14%) Artificial Intelligence
9 10 (6.49%) Microservices
9 10 (6.49%) SOA
10 9 (5.84%) Continuous Improvement
10 9 (5.84%) Performance Optimisation
11 7 (4.55%) Benchmarking
11 7 (4.55%) Computer Vision
11 7 (4.55%) Image Processing
11 7 (4.55%) Stakeholder Management
11 7 (4.55%) UML
Programming Languages
1 82 (53.25%) C
2 55 (35.71%) C#
3 51 (33.12%) Python
4 30 (19.48%) Java
5 12 (7.79%) Embedded C
6 11 (7.14%) Rust
6 11 (7.14%) SQL
7 10 (6.49%) Go
8 8 (5.19%) Embedded C++
8 8 (5.19%) MATLAB
9 7 (4.55%) JavaScript
10 4 (2.60%) Bash
10 4 (2.60%) TypeScript
10 4 (2.60%) VB
11 3 (1.95%) Haskell
12 2 (1.30%) Perl
13 1 (0.65%) Fortran
13 1 (0.65%) R
13 1 (0.65%) RPG
13 1 (0.65%) Scala
Qualifications
1 44 (28.57%) Degree
2 12 (7.79%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (5.84%) PhD
4 8 (5.19%) Master's Degree
5 2 (1.30%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.60%) QA
2 2 (1.30%) GDPR
3 1 (0.65%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.65%) IEC 62304
System Software
1 14 (9.09%) Firmware
2 10 (6.49%) Docker
3 7 (4.55%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 5 (3.25%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (3.25%) Oracle
2 4 (2.60%) Twitter
3 2 (1.30%) QNX
3 2 (1.30%) SAP
4 1 (0.65%) ANSYS
4 1 (0.65%) Databricks
4 1 (0.65%) Google
4 1 (0.65%) IBM
4 1 (0.65%) JD Edwards
4 1 (0.65%) Microsoft
4 1 (0.65%) OpenAI
4 1 (0.65%) Teradata