C++ Jobs in Edinburgh

C++
Scotland > Edinburgh

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh 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 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 60 77 122
Rank change year-on-year +17 +45 -32
Permanent jobs citing C++ 50 71 37
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 3.31% 3.65% 1.46%
As % of the Programming Languages category 8.76% 8.37% 2.73%
Number of salaries quoted 45 63 19
10th Percentile £45,500 £42,700 £33,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £44,375 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.21% +6.00% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £61,125 £56,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £94,000 £67,250
Scotland median annual salary £60,000 £53,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +13.21% -3.64% +15.79%

All Programming Languages
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 571 848 1,355
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 37.84% 43.60% 53.54%
Number of salaries quoted 447 532 881
10th Percentile £43,750 £39,750 £38,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £48,091 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% +15.00%
75th Percentile £74,500 £78,108 £70,000
90th Percentile £91,934 £95,000 £85,000
Scotland median annual salary £55,000 £59,526 £55,000
% change year-on-year -7.60% +8.23% +14.58%

C++
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for C++ in Edinburgh

C++
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

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

Salary trend for C++ in Edinburgh

C++
Salary Histogram in Edinburgh

Salary distribution for jobs citing C++ in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for C++ in Edinburgh

C++
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 (14.00%) AWS
2 5 (10.00%) Cloud Computing
2 5 (10.00%) Serverless
3 3 (6.00%) Amazon EC2
3 3 (6.00%) Amazon S3
3 3 (6.00%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (6.00%) SaaS
4 2 (4.00%) Azure
4 2 (4.00%) ChatGPT
4 2 (4.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 18 (36.00%) Network Security
2 5 (10.00%) Wireless
3 4 (8.00%) Bluetooth
3 4 (8.00%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (2.00%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.00%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (4.00%) RDBMS
2 2 (4.00%) Relational Database
3 1 (2.00%) GIS
3 1 (2.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (8.00%) Git
2 1 (2.00%) Subversion
General
1 22 (44.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 5 (10.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (10.00%) Telecoms
3 4 (8.00%) Legal
4 1 (2.00%) Games
Job Titles
1 39 (78.00%) Software Engineer
2 27 (54.00%) Senior
3 24 (48.00%) Senior Software Engineer
4 19 (38.00%) C++ Software Engineer
4 19 (38.00%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
5 17 (34.00%) C Software Engineer
5 17 (34.00%) C/C++ Software Engineer
5 17 (34.00%) Senior C Software Engineer
6 5 (10.00%) Database Engineer
6 5 (10.00%) Embedded Engineer
6 5 (10.00%) Research Engineer
6 5 (10.00%) Research Software Engineer
7 4 (8.00%) Embedded Software Engineer
7 4 (8.00%) Senior Embedded Engineer
7 4 (8.00%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
8 3 (6.00%) C/C++ Developer
8 3 (6.00%) C++ Developer
8 3 (6.00%) Developer
8 3 (6.00%) Senior C++ Developer
8 3 (6.00%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.00%) DPDK
2 1 (2.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 12 (24.00%) Algorithms
2 8 (16.00%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (10.00%) Data Structures
3 5 (10.00%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (2.00%) Device Driver
4 1 (2.00%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (2.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 12 (24.00%) Linux
2 1 (2.00%) Android
2 1 (2.00%) Apple iOS
2 1 (2.00%) Embedded Linux
2 1 (2.00%) OpenWrt
2 1 (2.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (78.00%) Software Engineering
2 23 (46.00%) Computer Science
3 8 (16.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 8 (16.00%) Machine Learning
4 5 (10.00%) Agile
4 5 (10.00%) Benchmarking
4 5 (10.00%) Computer Architecture
4 5 (10.00%) Data Management
4 5 (10.00%) Mathematics
4 5 (10.00%) Multithreading
4 5 (10.00%) Parallel Programming
4 5 (10.00%) Performance Analysis
4 5 (10.00%) Prototyping
4 5 (10.00%) Workflow
5 4 (8.00%) B2B
6 3 (6.00%) CI/CD
6 3 (6.00%) Collaborative Working
6 3 (6.00%) Performance Optimisation
6 3 (6.00%) Resource Management
7 2 (4.00%) Low Latency
Programming Languages
1 42 (84.00%) C
2 20 (40.00%) Java
3 18 (36.00%) Rust
4 13 (26.00%) Python
5 10 (20.00%) Go
6 5 (10.00%) Haskell
7 1 (2.00%) Assembly Language
7 1 (2.00%) Bash
7 1 (2.00%) C#
7 1 (2.00%) Perl
Qualifications
1 21 (42.00%) Degree
2 11 (22.00%) Master's Degree
2 11 (22.00%) PhD
3 10 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
System Software
1 1 (2.00%) Firmware
Vendors
1 2 (4.00%) Google
1 2 (4.00%) OpenAI