CMake Job Trends in the UK excluding London

CMake
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring CMake skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 599 526 738
Rank change year-on-year -73 +212 -42
Permanent jobs citing CMake 1 5 29
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.001% 0.017% 0.037%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.041% 0.20% 0.44%
Number of salaries quoted 1 5 27
10th Percentile - £59,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £61,250 £55,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £62,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -21.88% +18.52%
75th Percentile £55,000 £65,000 £82,500
90th Percentile - £71,000 -
UK median annual salary £75,000 £63,750 £70,000
% change year-on-year +17.65% -8.93% -6.67%

All Development Application Skills
UK excluding London

CMake falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring development application skills in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 2,456 2,553 6,550
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 3.65% 8.58% 8.30%
Number of salaries quoted 1,729 1,577 4,502
10th Percentile £30,500 £33,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £44,250 £41,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £72,500 £73,750 £69,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £82,500
UK median annual salary £61,018 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -6.13% +13.04% -11.54%

CMake
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing CMake relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

CMake job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

CMake
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing CMake.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing CMake

CMake
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing CMake within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 17 June 2026. 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
South East -17 1 £50,000 -23.08% 3
CMake
UK

CMake
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Multicast
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
General
1 1 (100.00%) Electronics
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Embedded Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Embedded Software Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Qt
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Embedded Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Memory Management
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Software Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C
1 1 (100.00%) C++
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Degree