CMake Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

CMake
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 395 566 659
Rank change year-on-year +171 +93 +153
Permanent jobs citing CMake 2 26 14
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.013% 0.077% 0.033%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.11% 0.67% 0.21%
Number of salaries quoted 2 18 6
10th Percentile £61,625 £68,586 £50,000
25th Percentile £62,188 £77,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,750 £80,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -20.31% +39.13% -11.54%
75th Percentile £64,688 £82,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £64,875 - £82,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £80,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -21.88% +39.13% +4.55%

All Development Application Skills
Work from Home

CMake falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring development application skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 1,837 3,906 6,567
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 12.28% 11.54% 15.36%
Number of salaries quoted 1,437 3,030 4,676
10th Percentile £42,500 £37,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £46,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,000 £64,472
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -6.94% +7.45%
75th Percentile £81,750 £75,772 £80,000
90th Percentile £103,000 £91,934 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%

CMake
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing CMake as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

CMake trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

CMake
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing CMake.

CMake salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (50.00%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) Subversion
1 1 (50.00%) WiX
General
1 1 (50.00%) Electronics
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Manufacturing
1 1 (50.00%) Marketing
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (50.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) C++ Software Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Principal Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Principal Software Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) HTML
1 1 (50.00%) Qt
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (50.00%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Clean Code
2 1 (50.00%) Customer Requirements
2 1 (50.00%) Digital Marketing
2 1 (50.00%) Issue Tracking
2 1 (50.00%) Mathematics
2 1 (50.00%) Multithreading
2 1 (50.00%) Programme Management
2 1 (50.00%) SOLID
2 1 (50.00%) Sprint Planning
2 1 (50.00%) TDD
2 1 (50.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C
1 2 (100.00%) C++
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) Bash
2 1 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) SAP