C++ Jobs in Scotland

C++
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 131 71 144
Rank change year-on-year -60 +73 -64
Permanent jobs citing C++ 176 183 103
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 2.63% 3.96% 1.79%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.68% 9.24% 3.96%
Number of salaries quoted 157 144 59
10th Percentile £41,250 £33,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £39,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.21% +6.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £71,250 £78,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% - +13.04%

All Programming Languages
Scotland

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 Scotland with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 3,757 1,981 2,601
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 56.05% 42.89% 45.10%
Number of salaries quoted 1,148 1,106 1,535
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £75,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £87,250 £83,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +13.64%

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 9 May 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 9 May 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 -65 68 £61,500 -5.38% 10
Edinburgh +22 56 £60,000 +13.21% 16
Fife +3 23 £50,000 - 8
South Lanarkshire - 9 £80,000 - 1
Aberdeen -22 8 £61,250 +44.12% 3
Dundee -8 6 £48,750 -4.88% 3
West Lothian -19 5 £60,000 - 1
Lanarkshire -5 1 - - 3
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 6 (3.41%) Apache
2 2 (1.14%) Confluence
2 2 (1.14%) SAS
3 1 (0.57%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 5 (2.84%) Simulink
2 1 (0.57%) EViews
2 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.57%) SPSS
Cloud Services
1 14 (7.95%) AWS
1 14 (7.95%) SaaS
2 6 (3.41%) Serverless
3 5 (2.84%) Azure
3 5 (2.84%) Cloud Computing
4 3 (1.70%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (1.70%) Amazon S3
4 3 (1.70%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (1.70%) ChatGPT
4 3 (1.70%) GCP
5 1 (0.57%) GitHub
5 1 (0.57%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 17 (9.66%) Network Security
2 14 (7.95%) Modbus
2 14 (7.95%) TCP/IP
3 5 (2.84%) Wireless
4 4 (2.27%) Bluetooth
4 4 (2.27%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.57%) Ethernet
5 1 (0.57%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (5.11%) Relational Database
3 5 (2.84%) SQL Server
4 4 (2.27%) MongoDB
5 3 (1.70%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (1.70%) NoSQL
5 3 (1.70%) RDBMS
6 2 (1.14%) GIS
7 1 (0.57%) Big Data
7 1 (0.57%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.57%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 25 (14.20%) Visual Studio
2 19 (10.80%) LabVIEW
3 17 (9.66%) GitLab
4 15 (8.52%) JIRA
5 4 (2.27%) Git
6 2 (1.14%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.57%) Subversion
General
1 53 (30.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 32 (18.18%) Social Skills
3 24 (13.64%) Electronics
4 23 (13.07%) Manufacturing
5 22 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (5.11%) Automotive
6 9 (5.11%) Legal
7 7 (3.98%) Finance
7 7 (3.98%) Telecoms
8 6 (3.41%) Games
9 5 (2.84%) Retail
10 4 (2.27%) Law
11 2 (1.14%) Marketing
11 2 (1.14%) Public Sector
12 1 (0.57%) Banking
Job Titles
1 88 (50.00%) Software Engineer
2 65 (36.93%) Senior
3 52 (29.55%) Senior Software Engineer
4 38 (21.59%) Developer
5 29 (16.48%) C++ Software Engineer
6 24 (13.64%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
7 17 (9.66%) Architect
8 16 (9.09%) C Software Engineer
8 16 (9.09%) C/C++ Software Engineer
8 16 (9.09%) Senior C Software Engineer
9 15 (8.52%) Electronics Engineer
10 14 (7.95%) C++ Developer
10 14 (7.95%) Manufacturing Engineer
10 14 (7.95%) Software Design Engineer
11 12 (6.82%) Senior Developer
12 11 (6.25%) Systems Architect
13 10 (5.68%) C# Software Engineer
14 9 (5.11%) Embedded Engineer
14 9 (5.11%) Senior C# Software Engineer
14 9 (5.11%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (22.16%) .NET
2 26 (14.77%) .NET Framework
3 17 (9.66%) CSS
3 17 (9.66%) HTML
4 13 (7.39%) WinForms
4 13 (7.39%) WPF
5 9 (5.11%) REST
6 4 (2.27%) OpenCV
6 4 (2.27%) OpenVINO
6 4 (2.27%) SOAP
6 4 (2.27%) Web Services
7 2 (1.14%) DPDK
7 2 (1.14%) MFC
7 2 (1.14%) ONNX
7 2 (1.14%) RESTful
8 1 (0.57%) Kafka
8 1 (0.57%) LDAP
8 1 (0.57%) React
8 1 (0.57%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 17 (9.66%) Algorithms
2 13 (7.39%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (6.82%) Video\Live Streaming
4 8 (4.55%) Embedded Systems
5 5 (2.84%) Data Structures
5 5 (2.84%) Distributed Computing
6 4 (2.27%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.70%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.14%) Device Driver
8 2 (1.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 1 (0.57%) Credit Risk
9 1 (0.57%) FPGA
9 1 (0.57%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.57%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 29 (16.48%) Linux
2 28 (15.91%) Windows
3 8 (4.55%) Mac OS
4 4 (2.27%) AIX
5 1 (0.57%) Android
5 1 (0.57%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.57%) Embedded Linux
5 1 (0.57%) OpenWrt
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (67.61%) Software Engineering
2 51 (28.98%) Computer Science
3 41 (23.30%) Agile
4 33 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
5 23 (13.07%) Microservices
5 23 (13.07%) SOA
6 21 (11.93%) Multithreading
6 21 (11.93%) OO
7 19 (10.80%) Decision-Making
8 15 (8.52%) Machine Learning
9 14 (7.95%) Analytical Thinking
9 14 (7.95%) Customer Service
9 14 (7.95%) Knowledge Transfer
10 13 (7.39%) Artificial Intelligence
11 12 (6.82%) Collaborative Working
12 11 (6.25%) Mentoring
13 9 (5.11%) Benchmarking
14 8 (4.55%) Mathematics
15 7 (3.98%) Performance Optimisation
16 6 (3.41%) Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 89 (50.57%) C
2 79 (44.89%) C#
3 58 (32.95%) Java
4 54 (30.68%) Python
5 27 (15.34%) SQL
6 20 (11.36%) Rust
7 17 (9.66%) Go
8 10 (5.68%) JavaScript
9 7 (3.98%) MATLAB
10 6 (3.41%) Embedded C
10 6 (3.41%) Haskell
10 6 (3.41%) TypeScript
11 4 (2.27%) VB
12 3 (1.70%) Bash
13 2 (1.14%) R
14 1 (0.57%) Assembly Language
14 1 (0.57%) Embedded C++
14 1 (0.57%) Perl
14 1 (0.57%) Scala
Qualifications
1 50 (28.41%) Degree
2 15 (8.52%) Computer Science Degree
2 15 (8.52%) PhD
3 14 (7.95%) Master's Degree
4 2 (1.14%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.55%) QA
2 1 (0.57%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (0.57%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.57%) GDPR
System Software
1 9 (5.11%) Docker
1 9 (5.11%) Firmware
2 6 (3.41%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 5 (2.84%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.57%) Grafana
Vendors
1 5 (2.84%) Oracle
2 4 (2.27%) Twitter
3 3 (1.70%) Google
3 3 (1.70%) OpenAI
4 2 (1.14%) SAP
5 1 (0.57%) Databricks
5 1 (0.57%) Microsoft
5 1 (0.57%) Teradata