England C++ Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for C++ skills within the England region with a comparison to our Programming Languages category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited C++ over the 3 months to 8 January 2009 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Abingdon Aldershot Altrincham Andover Ascot Avon Avonmouth Aylesbury Ayr Banbury Bargoed Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Belper Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Blackpool Bodmin Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Bradford-on-Avon Bridgend Bridgwater Brighton Bristol Brixham Bromsgrove Buckinghamshire Burnley Burton-upon-Trent Bury Bury St Edmunds Caerphilly Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Cheadle Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham Chorley Cirencester City of London Clevedon Corby Cornwall County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Crawley Crowthorne Croydon Cumbria Cwmbran Daresbury Dartford Daventry Deeside Derby Derbyshire Devizes Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Dudley Dundee Dunfermline Dunstable Durham Ealing East Anglia East Grinstead East Kilbride East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham England Epsom Essex Evesham Exeter Exmouth Fareham Farnborough Farnham Felixstowe Feltham Fife Flintshire Gateshead Gatwick Glamorgan Glasgow Glastonbury Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Gosport Greenock Guildford Halesowen Halifax Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Harrow Haslemere Havant Haywards Heath Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Hoddesdon Home Counties Horsham Hounslow Hove Huddersfield Hull Hungerford Huntingdon Inverness Ipswich Isleworth Jarrow Jersey Keighley Kent Kidderminster Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lanarkshire Lancashire Leamington Spa Leatherhead Ledbury Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lewes Lichfield Lincoln Lincolnshire Liphook Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Loughton Luton Lutterworth Lymington M4 Corridor Maidenhead Malvern Manchester Marlow Matlock Melton Mowbray Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Monmouthshire Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton Abbot Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Perth and Kinross Peterborough Petersfield Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Rainham Reading Redditch Rickmansworth Ringwood Romford Romsey Ross-shire Royston Rugby Saffron Walden Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stirling Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Street Stroud Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Tamworth Taunton Telford Tewkesbury Thames Valley Torfaen Trowbridge Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Usk Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warminster Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wells Welwyn Garden City West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weybridge Wigan Wilmslow Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Wirral Witham Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Woodbridge Worcester Worcestershire Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 8 Jan 2009	Same period last year
Rank	17	17
Rank change on same period last year	0
Matching permanent IT job ads	8608	14817
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	7.440 %	7.562 %
As % of the category below	16.55 %	17.47 %
Salaries quoted	7496	12027
Average minimum salary	£39,306	£40,980
Average salary	£44,242	£46,142
% change on same period last year	-4.11 %
Average maximum salary	£49,177	£51,305
UK excluding London average salary	£37,456	£37,059
% change on same period last year	+1.07 %
Programming Languages England
Matching permanent IT job ads	51998	84817
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	44.94 %	43.29 %
Salaries quoted	45080	70381
Average minimum salary	£36,833	£37,517
Average salary	£40,380	£41,356
% change on same period last year	-2.35 %
Average maximum salary	£43,928	£45,195
UK excluding London average salary	£35,639	£35,856
% change on same period last year	-0.60 %
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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing C++ across the England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

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Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing C++ across the England region.

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing C++ across the England region over the 3 months to 8 January 2009.

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Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing C++ within the England region over the 3 months to 8 January 2009. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
London	+1	3631	£55,920	-3.33 %
South East	-1	1786	£38,987	+0.34 %
South West	+3	944	£36,800	+3.45 %
East of England	-2	915	£40,021	+5.65 %
North West	-15	379	£33,316	-4.60 %
East Midlands	+9	296	£36,834	+15.16 %
West Midlands	-8	296	£34,695	-1.37 %
Yorkshire	0	295	£34,362	-2.22 %
North East	+3	108	£33,016	-10.52 %
South Coast	+5	16	£55,625	+77.21 %
Midlands	+18	9	£42,100	+22.14 %

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 8 January 2009, IT jobs across the England region citing C++ also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited C++.

1 7660 (36.60 %) C# 2 6815 (32.57 %) Java 3 5697 (27.22 %) C 4 5496 (26.26 %) .NET 5 5018 (23.98 %) Windows 6 4815 (23.01 %) Degree 7 4590 (21.93 %) Finance 8 4224 (20.18 %) SQL 9 4211 (20.12 %) UNIX 10 4157 (19.86 %) OO 11 3282 (15.68 %) SQL Server 12 3158 (15.09 %) Linux 13 2619 (12.51 %) XML 14 2472 (11.81 %) Oracle 15 2281 (10.90 %) Front Office

16 2279 (10.89 %) Derivative 17 2261 (10.80 %) Banking 18 1897 (9.065 %) VB 19 1822 (8.706 %) Computer Science 20 1813 (8.663 %) UML 21 1724 (8.238 %) STL 22 1680 (8.028 %) VC++ 23 1611 (7.698 %) Mathematics 24 1585 (7.574 %) Microsoft 25 1449 (6.924 %) ASP.NET 26 1446 (6.910 %) MFC 27 1372 (6.556 %) Multithreading 28 1326 (6.336 %) Perl 29 1316 (6.289 %) OOD 30 1274 (6.088 %) Games

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 8 January 2009, IT jobs across the England region citing C++ also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited C++. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 5496 (26.26 %) .NET 2 2619 (12.51 %) XML 3 1724 (8.238 %) STL 4 1449 (6.924 %) ASP.NET 5 1446 (6.910 %) MFC 6 1053 (5.032 %) HTML 7 906 (4.329 %) J2EE 8 864 (4.129 %) WebServices 9 755 (3.608 %) WinForms 10 645 (3.082 %) .NET Framework 11 456 (2.179 %) ASP 12 429 (2.050 %) CSS 13 408 (1.950 %) OpenGL 14 392 (1.873 %) AJAX 15 366 (1.749 %) Middleware 16 333 (1.591 %) XSLT 17 332 (1.586 %) ATL 18 305 (1.457 %) DirectX 19 283 (1.352 %) WPF 20 266 (1.271 %) WCF	Application Platforms 1 272 (1.300 %) WebLogic 2 211 (1.008 %) Apache 3 186 (0.889 %) SharePoint 4 126 (0.602 %) IIS 5 103 (0.492 %) MQSeries 6 90 (0.430 %) BizTalk Server 7 87 (0.416 %) Tomcat 8 65 (0.311 %) Rendezvous 9 61 (0.291 %) SAS 10 53 (0.253 %) JBoss 11 48 (0.229 %) CMS 12 44 (0.210 %) SharePoint Server 2007 13 36 (0.172 %) ColdFusion 14 34 (0.162 %) WebSphere MQ 15 31 (0.148 %) MS Exchange 16 30 (0.143 %) ArcGIS 17 24 (0.115 %) CICS 18 23 (0.110 %) Oracle Workflow 19 22 (0.105 %) SmartSockets 20 21 (0.100 %) TIBCO EMS
Applications 1 644 (3.077 %) MS Excel 2 326 (1.558 %) MATLAB 3 215 (1.027 %) MS Visio 4 118 (0.564 %) MS Office 5 108 (0.516 %) Spreadsheet 6 77 (0.368 %) Simulink 7 42 (0.201 %) AutoCAD 8 35 (0.167 %) CA Clarity 9 34 (0.162 %) 3ds Max 10 32 (0.153 %) Photoshop 11 30 (0.143 %) Maya 12 25 (0.119 %) CATIA 13 20 (0.096 %) ArcInfo 14 19 (0.091 %) MS Project 14 19 (0.091 %) MS PowerPoint 15 15 (0.072 %) Doxygen 16 11 (0.053 %) Pro/ENGINEER 17 10 (0.048 %) FrameMaker 18 9 (0.043 %) S-PLUS 19 8 (0.038 %) LightWave 3D	Business Applications 1 36 (0.172 %) Endur 1 36 (0.172 %) Summit 2 22 (0.105 %) SAP Retail 3 19 (0.091 %) Oracle Applications 4 17 (0.081 %) RMDS 5 15 (0.072 %) Oracle Financials 6 12 (0.057 %) Oracle 11i 6 12 (0.057 %) BASE24 6 12 (0.057 %) SAP IS-U 7 10 (0.048 %) Sophis VALUE 8 9 (0.043 %) GoldMine 9 6 (0.029 %) Kondor+ 9 6 (0.029 %) Sophis RISQUE 9 6 (0.029 %) JDE OneWorld 10 5 (0.024 %) FRONT ARENA 10 5 (0.024 %) Siebel Analytics 11 4 (0.019 %) AWD 11 4 (0.019 %) JDE EnterpriseOne 11 4 (0.019 %) SunGard Panorama 11 4 (0.019 %) Monis
Communications & Networking 1 1110 (5.304 %) TCP/IP 2 499 (2.384 %) Internet 3 297 (1.419 %) Wireless 4 285 (1.362 %) GSM 5 263 (1.257 %) HTTP 6 124 (0.593 %) DVB 7 109 (0.521 %) 3G 8 102 (0.487 %) GPRS 9 95 (0.454 %) VoIP 10 94 (0.449 %) UMTS 11 84 (0.401 %) WAN 12 81 (0.387 %) SNMP 13 73 (0.349 %) LAN 14 69 (0.330 %) Ethernet 15 67 (0.320 %) Broadband 16 66 (0.315 %) SMTP 17 64 (0.306 %) DNS 18 62 (0.296 %) ISDN 19 60 (0.287 %) SMS 20 59 (0.282 %) Bluetooth	Database & Business Intelligence 1 3282 (15.68 %) SQL Server 2 570 (2.724 %) SQL Server 2005 3 561 (2.681 %) RDBMS 4 387 (1.849 %) MySQL 5 313 (1.496 %) SQL Server 2000 6 189 (0.903 %) GIS 7 125 (0.597 %) Oracle 8/8i 8 120 (0.573 %) Oracle Reports 9 113 (0.540 %) Oracle 10g 10 103 (0.492 %) DB2 11 85 (0.406 %) Oracle 9i 12 79 (0.378 %) BusinessObjects 13 69 (0.330 %) Crystal Reports 14 63 (0.301 %) KDB 15 59 (0.282 %) Datawarehouse 16 57 (0.272 %) SQL Server Integration Services 17 56 (0.268 %) PostgreSQL 18 52 (0.248 %) ETL 19 50 (0.239 %) Informix 19 50 (0.239 %) OLAP
Development Applications 1 1237 (5.911 %) Visual Studio 2 167 (0.798 %) Eclipse 3 152 (0.726 %) ClearCase 4 110 (0.526 %) VSS/SourceSafe 5 109 (0.521 %) Subversion 6 98 (0.468 %) Ant 7 89 (0.425 %) JUnit 7 89 (0.425 %) NUnit 8 70 (0.334 %) Oracle Forms 9 67 (0.320 %) InstallShield 10 61 (0.291 %) Rational Rose 11 52 (0.248 %) MSI 12 45 (0.215 %) C++Builder 13 39 (0.186 %) LabVIEW 14 38 (0.182 %) LoadRunner 14 38 (0.182 %) ProC 15 35 (0.167 %) Dreamweaver 16 29 (0.139 %) Log4j 17 22 (0.105 %) ClearQuest 18 20 (0.096 %) PVCS	General 1 4590 (21.93 %) Finance 2 2281 (10.90 %) Front Office 3 2261 (10.80 %) Banking 4 1274 (6.088 %) Games 5 1120 (5.352 %) Investment Banking 6 997 (4.764 %) Pensions 7 882 (4.215 %) Telecoms 8 765 (3.656 %) Health 9 682 (3.259 %) Education 10 613 (2.929 %) Electronics 11 370 (1.768 %) 3D Graphics 12 352 (1.682 %) Government 13 341 (1.629 %) Insurance 14 329 (1.572 %) Aerospace 15 283 (1.352 %) Marketing 16 254 (1.214 %) Automotive 17 190 (0.908 %) Back Office 18 188 (0.898 %) Retail 19 182 (0.870 %) Multimedia 20 174 (0.831 %) Manufacturing
Job Titles 1 10520 (50.27 %) Developer 2 4587 (21.92 %) C++ Developer 3 4425 (21.14 %) Software Engineer 4 2025 (9.676 %) C# Developer 5 1874 (8.955 %) Software Developer 6 1500 (7.168 %) C++ Software Engineer 7 1375 (6.570 %) Senior Developer 8 1130 (5.400 %) Graduate 9 1109 (5.299 %) Programmer 10 1092 (5.218 %) Analyst 11 967 (4.621 %) Java Developer 12 799 (3.818 %) .NET Developer 13 772 (3.689 %) C++/C# Developer 14 682 (3.259 %) Senior Software Engineer 15 661 (3.159 %) Architect 16 592 (2.829 %) Graduate Developer 17 570 (2.724 %) Junior 18 513 (2.451 %) Consultant 19 486 (2.322 %) C++ Software Developer 20 474 (2.265 %) Team Leader	Miscellaneous 1 2279 (10.89 %) Derivative 2 1822 (8.706 %) Computer Science 3 1611 (7.698 %) Mathematics 4 1372 (6.556 %) Multithreading 5 884 (4.224 %) Foreign Exchange (FX) 6 802 (3.832 %) Fixed Income 7 686 (3.278 %) Equities 8 651 (3.111 %) Physics 9 557 (2.662 %) Equity Derivative 10 457 (2.184 %) Client/Server 11 282 (1.348 %) Device Driver 12 264 (1.262 %) Grid Computing 13 263 (1.257 %) Interest Rate Derivative 14 246 (1.176 %) N-Tier 15 227 (1.085 %) Credit Derivative 16 222 (1.061 %) Credit Risk 17 175 (0.836 %) Market Risk 18 167 (0.798 %) Field-Programmable Gate Array 19 146 (0.698 %) Firmware 20 141 (0.674 %) DTV
Operating Systems 1 5018 (23.98 %) Windows 2 4211 (20.12 %) UNIX 3 3158 (15.09 %) Linux 4 461 (2.203 %) Solaris 5 287 (1.371 %) Windows XP 6 268 (1.281 %) Embedded Linux 7 250 (1.195 %) Windows Mobile 8 188 (0.898 %) Windows 2000 9 185 (0.884 %) Windows CE 10 176 (0.841 %) Windows Server 2003 11 149 (0.712 %) VxWorks 12 138 (0.659 %) Windows Vista 13 113 (0.540 %) AIX 14 106 (0.507 %) Windows NT 15 92 (0.440 %) Symbian OS 16 73 (0.349 %) HPUX 17 62 (0.296 %) Red Hat Linux 18 60 (0.287 %) Mac OS X 19 50 (0.239 %) Nucleus RTOS 20 37 (0.177 %) zOS	Processes & Methodologies 1 4157 (19.86 %) OO 2 1813 (8.663 %) UML 3 1316 (6.289 %) OOD 4 1256 (6.002 %) Software Engineering 5 758 (3.622 %) Agile Software Development 6 682 (3.259 %) Risk Management 7 676 (3.230 %) Project Management 8 561 (2.681 %) OOP 9 549 (2.623 %) Algorithmic Trading 10 472 (2.255 %) Electronic Trading 11 418 (1.997 %) Unit Testing 12 365 (1.744 %) OOA/OOD 13 265 (1.266 %) Web Development 14 253 (1.209 %) SOA 15 237 (1.133 %) Requirements Analysis 16 229 (1.094 %) E-Commerce 17 210 (1.003 %) Data Modelling 18 206 (0.984 %) Scrum 19 200 (0.956 %) CAD 20 187 (0.894 %) Software Testing
Programming Languages 1 7660 (36.60 %) C# 2 6815 (32.57 %) Java 3 5697 (27.22 %) C 4 4224 (20.18 %) SQL 5 1897 (9.065 %) VB 6 1680 (8.028 %) VC++ 7 1326 (6.336 %) Perl 8 938 (4.482 %) JavaScript 9 871 (4.162 %) VB.NET 10 868 (4.148 %) Python 11 806 (3.851 %) VBA 12 774 (3.699 %) Embedded C 13 697 (3.331 %) PHP 14 644 (3.077 %) Embedded C++ 15 467 (2.232 %) Delphi 16 454 (2.169 %) VB6 17 324 (1.548 %) PL/SQL 18 319 (1.524 %) Transact-SQL 19 314 (1.500 %) Assembly Language 20 306 (1.462 %) Shell Script	Qualifications 1 4815 (23.01 %) Degree 2 645 (3.082 %) Security Cleared 3 570 (2.724 %) PhD 4 163 (0.779 %) Microsoft Certification 5 138 (0.659 %) SC Cleared 6 94 (0.449 %) MCSD 7 92 (0.440 %) MCAD 8 78 (0.373 %) ISEB 9 76 (0.363 %) MCP 10 59 (0.282 %) HND 11 52 (0.248 %) DV Cleared 12 42 (0.201 %) HNC 13 38 (0.182 %) Postgraduate 14 30 (0.143 %) CISSP 15 29 (0.139 %) BC Cleared 16 28 (0.134 %) Cisco Certification 17 22 (0.105 %) CCNA 18 19 (0.091 %) PRINCE2 Certification 19 17 (0.081 %) Sun Certification 20 16 (0.076 %) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 328 (1.567 %) QA 2 56 (0.268 %) ISO9001 3 36 (0.172 %) SLA 4 35 (0.167 %) ISO9000 5 32 (0.153 %) HL7 6 31 (0.148 %) DICOM 7 29 (0.139 %) TickIT 8 19 (0.091 %) JTAG 9 18 (0.086 %) WAI 10 13 (0.062 %) MiFID 11 12 (0.057 %) BS7799 12 6 (0.029 %) ISO14001 13 3 (0.014 %) Basel II 14 2 (0.010 %) ISO27001 14 2 (0.010 %) PCI DSS 15 1 (0.005 %) 21 CFR Part 11 15 1 (0.005 %) GAMP	System Software 1 141 (0.674 %) Active Directory 2 35 (0.167 %) MSMQ 3 20 (0.096 %) Terminal Services 4 16 (0.076 %) NFS 5 14 (0.067 %) ISA Server 5 14 (0.067 %) AquaLogic 6 12 (0.057 %) VMware Infrastructure 7 6 (0.029 %) Cronacle 8 5 (0.024 %) Xen 8 5 (0.024 %) Nmap 8 5 (0.024 %) Orbix 8 5 (0.024 %) Terminal Server 9 4 (0.019 %) NDS 10 3 (0.014 %) Squid 11 2 (0.010 %) WebInspect 11 2 (0.010 %) Snort 11 2 (0.010 %) Citrix Presentation Server 12 1 (0.005 %) Oracle RAC 12 1 (0.005 %) Samba
Systems Management 1 34 (0.162 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 2 25 (0.119 %) OpenView 3 24 (0.115 %) SCCM 4 21 (0.100 %) OVSD 5 19 (0.091 %) AutoSys 6 16 (0.076 %) CONTROL-M 7 14 (0.067 %) CA SiteMinder 8 12 (0.057 %) Oracle Enterprise Manager 9 11 (0.053 %) MOM 10 10 (0.048 %) SCOM 11 6 (0.029 %) Nessus 12 5 (0.024 %) Tivoli 13 4 (0.019 %) BMC PATROL 13 4 (0.019 %) Nagios 14 3 (0.014 %) Unicenter 15 2 (0.010 %) ZENworks 16 1 (0.005 %) Data Guard 16 1 (0.005 %) Tivoli Storage Manager	Vendors 1 2472 (11.81 %) Oracle 2 1585 (7.574 %) Microsoft 3 679 (3.245 %) Sybase 4 345 (1.649 %) Symbian 5 268 (1.281 %) TIBCO 6 185 (0.884 %) IBM 7 96 (0.459 %) HP 8 91 (0.435 %) Red Hat 9 85 (0.406 %) SAP 10 79 (0.378 %) Business Objects 11 74 (0.354 %) Sun 11 74 (0.354 %) DataSynapse 12 73 (0.349 %) Cisco 13 70 (0.334 %) Borland 14 68 (0.325 %) Citrix 15 67 (0.320 %) BEA 16 66 (0.315 %) Reuters 16 66 (0.315 %) OpenLink 17 55 (0.263 %) Bloomberg 18 53 (0.253 %) EMC