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 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 124 72 151
Rank change year-on-year -52 +79 -71
Permanent jobs citing C++ 173 181 101
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 2.59% 3.91% 1.72%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.62% 9.18% 3.82%
Number of salaries quoted 154 143 57
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 £79,000
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 3,747 1,971 2,647
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 56.08% 42.59% 45.02%
Number of salaries quoted 1,138 1,095 1,558
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £43,000 £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 £87,000 £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 14 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 14 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 66 £61,500 -5.38% 8
Edinburgh +26 55 £60,000 +13.21% 12
Fife +4 23 £50,000 - 8
South Lanarkshire - 9 £80,000 - 1
Aberdeen -20 8 £61,250 +44.12% 4
Dundee -9 5 £50,000 - 3
West Lothian -19 5 £60,000 - 1
Lanarkshire -6 1 - - 1
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 5 (2.89%) Apache
2 2 (1.16%) SAS
3 1 (0.58%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.58%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (2.89%) Simulink
2 1 (0.58%) EViews
2 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.58%) SPSS
Cloud Services
1 14 (8.09%) AWS
1 14 (8.09%) SaaS
2 6 (3.47%) Serverless
3 5 (2.89%) Azure
3 5 (2.89%) Cloud Computing
4 3 (1.73%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (1.73%) Amazon S3
4 3 (1.73%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (1.73%) ChatGPT
4 3 (1.73%) GCP
5 1 (0.58%) GitHub
5 1 (0.58%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 18 (10.40%) Network Security
2 14 (8.09%) Modbus
2 14 (8.09%) TCP/IP
3 5 (2.89%) Wireless
4 4 (2.31%) Bluetooth
4 4 (2.31%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.58%) Ethernet
5 1 (0.58%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (6.36%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (5.20%) Relational Database
3 5 (2.89%) SQL Server
4 4 (2.31%) MongoDB
5 3 (1.73%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (1.73%) RDBMS
6 2 (1.16%) GIS
6 2 (1.16%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.58%) Big Data
7 1 (0.58%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.58%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 24 (13.87%) Visual Studio
2 19 (10.98%) LabVIEW
3 16 (9.25%) GitLab
4 14 (8.09%) JIRA
5 4 (2.31%) Git
6 2 (1.16%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.58%) Subversion
General
1 49 (28.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 32 (18.50%) Social Skills
3 24 (13.87%) Electronics
4 23 (13.29%) Manufacturing
5 22 (12.72%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (5.20%) Automotive
6 9 (5.20%) Legal
7 7 (4.05%) Finance
7 7 (4.05%) Telecoms
8 6 (3.47%) Games
9 5 (2.89%) Retail
10 4 (2.31%) Law
11 2 (1.16%) Marketing
11 2 (1.16%) Public Sector
12 1 (0.58%) Banking
Job Titles
1 87 (50.29%) Software Engineer
2 65 (37.57%) Senior
3 52 (30.06%) Senior Software Engineer
4 37 (21.39%) Developer
5 30 (17.34%) C++ Software Engineer
6 25 (14.45%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
7 17 (9.83%) C Software Engineer
7 17 (9.83%) C/C++ Software Engineer
7 17 (9.83%) Senior C Software Engineer
8 16 (9.25%) Architect
9 15 (8.67%) Electronics Engineer
10 14 (8.09%) C++ Developer
10 14 (8.09%) Manufacturing Engineer
10 14 (8.09%) Software Design Engineer
11 12 (6.94%) Senior Developer
12 10 (5.78%) C# Software Engineer
12 10 (5.78%) Systems Architect
13 9 (5.20%) Embedded Engineer
13 9 (5.20%) Senior C# Software Engineer
13 9 (5.20%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (21.39%) .NET
2 24 (13.87%) .NET Framework
3 15 (8.67%) CSS
3 15 (8.67%) HTML
4 13 (7.51%) WinForms
4 13 (7.51%) WPF
5 9 (5.20%) REST
6 4 (2.31%) OpenCV
6 4 (2.31%) OpenVINO
6 4 (2.31%) SOAP
6 4 (2.31%) Web Services
7 2 (1.16%) DPDK
7 2 (1.16%) MFC
7 2 (1.16%) ONNX
7 2 (1.16%) RESTful
8 1 (0.58%) Kafka
8 1 (0.58%) LDAP
8 1 (0.58%) React
8 1 (0.58%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 17 (9.83%) Algorithms
2 13 (7.51%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (6.94%) Video\Live Streaming
4 8 (4.62%) Embedded Systems
5 5 (2.89%) Data Structures
5 5 (2.89%) Distributed Computing
6 4 (2.31%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.73%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.16%) Device Driver
9 1 (0.58%) Credit Risk
9 1 (0.58%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 1 (0.58%) FPGA
9 1 (0.58%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.58%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 28 (16.18%) Linux
1 28 (16.18%) Windows
2 8 (4.62%) Mac OS
3 4 (2.31%) AIX
4 1 (0.58%) Android
4 1 (0.58%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.58%) Embedded Linux
4 1 (0.58%) OpenWrt
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (67.63%) Software Engineering
2 50 (28.90%) Computer Science
3 40 (23.12%) Agile
4 33 (19.08%) Problem-Solving
5 21 (12.14%) Microservices
5 21 (12.14%) SOA
6 20 (11.56%) Multithreading
7 19 (10.98%) Decision-Making
7 19 (10.98%) OO
8 15 (8.67%) Machine Learning
9 14 (8.09%) Analytical Thinking
9 14 (8.09%) Knowledge Transfer
10 13 (7.51%) Artificial Intelligence
10 13 (7.51%) Customer Service
11 12 (6.94%) Collaborative Working
12 10 (5.78%) Mentoring
13 9 (5.20%) Benchmarking
14 8 (4.62%) Mathematics
15 7 (4.05%) Performance Optimisation
16 6 (3.47%) Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 88 (50.87%) C
2 77 (44.51%) C#
3 54 (31.21%) Java
4 53 (30.64%) Python
5 24 (13.87%) SQL
6 19 (10.98%) Rust
7 17 (9.83%) Go
8 9 (5.20%) JavaScript
9 7 (4.05%) MATLAB
10 6 (3.47%) Embedded C
10 6 (3.47%) Haskell
10 6 (3.47%) TypeScript
11 4 (2.31%) VB
12 3 (1.73%) Bash
13 2 (1.16%) R
14 1 (0.58%) Assembly Language
14 1 (0.58%) Embedded C++
14 1 (0.58%) Perl
14 1 (0.58%) Scala
Qualifications
1 50 (28.90%) Degree
2 15 (8.67%) Computer Science Degree
2 15 (8.67%) PhD
3 14 (8.09%) Master's Degree
4 2 (1.16%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.62%) QA
2 1 (0.58%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (0.58%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.58%) GDPR
System Software
1 9 (5.20%) Docker
1 9 (5.20%) Firmware
2 6 (3.47%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 5 (2.89%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.58%) Grafana
Vendors
1 5 (2.89%) Oracle
2 4 (2.31%) Twitter
3 3 (1.73%) Google
3 3 (1.73%) OpenAI
4 2 (1.16%) SAP
5 1 (0.58%) Databricks
5 1 (0.58%) Microsoft
5 1 (0.58%) Teradata