CMake
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring CMake skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited CMake over the 6 months leading up to 10 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 777 752 1114
Rank change year-on-year -25 +362 -82
Permanent jobs citing CMake 23 23 54
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.029% 0.038% 0.037%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.34% 0.29% 0.18%
Number of salaries quoted 11 17 19
10th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £66,500
25th Percentile £55,500 £46,250 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,000 £65,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.15% -18.75% +28.00%
75th Percentile £82,500 £77,500 £85,000
90th Percentile - - £85,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,500 £62,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +12.80% -16.67% +15.38%

All Development Application Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 6,785 8,051 30,523
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.65% 13.26% 21.09%
Number of salaries quoted 3,646 6,016 14,080
10th Percentile £37,574 £42,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £75,188 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £96,914 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £58,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -5.17% +5.45% +10.00%

CMake
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing CMake as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for CMake in the UK

CMake
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing CMake.

Salary trend for CMake in the UK

CMake
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing CMake over the 6 months to 10 October 2024.

Salary histogram for CMake in the UK

CMake
Top 9 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing CMake within the UK over the 6 months to 10 October 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
England -28 23 £61,000 -7.92% 5
UK excluding London -34 18 £70,500 +12.80% 6
South East -39 15 £80,000 +6.67% 2
Work from Home +23 11 £80,000 +52.38% 1
London +26 5 £61,000 -18.67%
North of England -1 2 £61,000 +16.19%
North West -18 2 £61,000 +3.83%
West Midlands -24 1 £45,000 -24.37%
Midlands -34 1 £45,000 -24.37%

CMake
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (30.43%) Azure
2 6 (26.09%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (4.35%) AWS
3 1 (4.35%) Cloud Computing
Development Applications
1 11 (47.83%) Subversion
2 6 (26.09%) GCC
2 6 (26.09%) GDB
3 4 (17.39%) Git
4 2 (8.70%) Jenkins
4 2 (8.70%) JIRA
4 2 (8.70%) Team Foundation Server
4 2 (8.70%) TestRail
General
1 11 (47.83%) Military
2 2 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (8.70%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (4.35%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (73.91%) Software Engineer
2 15 (65.22%) C++ Software Engineer
3 12 (52.17%) Senior
4 11 (47.83%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
4 11 (47.83%) Senior Software Engineer
5 5 (21.74%) Developer
6 4 (17.39%) GUI Software Engineer
7 3 (13.04%) C++ Developer
8 2 (8.70%) Software Developer
9 1 (4.35%) Computer Vision Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (56.52%) Qt
2 11 (47.83%) MFC
2 11 (47.83%) STL
2 11 (47.83%) XML
3 8 (34.78%) OpenGL
4 7 (30.43%) Boost C++ Libraries
5 2 (8.70%) HTML
5 2 (8.70%) HTML5
5 2 (8.70%) OpenCL
5 2 (8.70%) OpenCV
5 2 (8.70%) OpenMP
5 2 (8.70%) QML
5 2 (8.70%) VTK
5 2 (8.70%) Vulkan
5 2 (8.70%) WinForms
5 2 (8.70%) WPF
6 1 (4.35%) .NET
6 1 (4.35%) PyTorch
6 1 (4.35%) RESTful
6 1 (4.35%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 12 (52.17%) Algorithms
2 2 (8.70%) CUDA
3 1 (4.35%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 20 (86.96%) Linux
2 18 (78.26%) Windows
3 6 (26.09%) Mac OS
4 1 (4.35%) Android
4 1 (4.35%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (95.65%) Computer Science
2 20 (86.96%) Software Engineering
3 15 (65.22%) Mathematics
3 15 (65.22%) OO
4 13 (56.52%) Agile
5 11 (47.83%) Configuration Management
5 11 (47.83%) Mentoring
5 11 (47.83%) Technical Leadership
6 8 (34.78%) DevOps
7 4 (17.39%) Physics
7 4 (17.39%) Problem-Solving
8 3 (13.04%) Artificial Intelligence
8 3 (13.04%) CI/CD
8 3 (13.04%) Continuous Integration
8 3 (13.04%) OOP
8 3 (13.04%) Open Source
8 3 (13.04%) Unit Testing
9 2 (8.70%) Functional Testing
9 2 (8.70%) Machine Learning
9 2 (8.70%) Performance Analysis
Programming Languages
1 22 (95.65%) C++
2 3 (13.04%) Python
3 2 (8.70%) Bash
3 2 (8.70%) C
3 2 (8.70%) C#
3 2 (8.70%) C-shell
3 2 (8.70%) Fortran
3 2 (8.70%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 22 (95.65%) Degree
2 14 (60.87%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (56.52%) Security Cleared
4 11 (47.83%) SC Cleared
5 1 (4.35%) Master's Degree
Vendors
1 3 (13.04%) Microsoft