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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 123 64 165
Rank change year-on-year -59 +101 -75
Permanent jobs citing C++ 180 184 94
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 2.63% 4.23% 1.55%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.89% 10.31% 3.43%
Number of salaries quoted 155 147 56
10th Percentile £41,250 £33,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £39,875 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £53,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.21% -3.64% +15.79%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £71,250 £79,375
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 3,678 1,784 2,737
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 53.79% 41.00% 45.00%
Number of salaries quoted 1,144 1,012 1,581
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,810 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.86% +5.11% +15.79%
75th Percentile £65,000 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £87,450 £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 1 June 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 1 June 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 -72 68 £54,250 -9.58% 6
Edinburgh +13 52 £60,000 +11.11% 21
Fife +3 24 £50,000 - 2
Aberdeen -17 14 £57,500 +35.29% 5
South Lanarkshire - 9 £80,000 -
West Lothian -17 7 £60,000 - 3
Dundee -14 2 £56,250 +12.50% 1
Aberdeenshire +1 1 £50,000 -23.08% 3
Lanarkshire -9 1 - - 2
North Lanarkshire - 1 £32,500 - 3
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 4 (2.22%) Apache
2 1 (0.56%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.56%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (3.33%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 14 (7.78%) AWS
1 14 (7.78%) SaaS
2 6 (3.33%) Serverless
3 5 (2.78%) Cloud Computing
4 4 (2.22%) Amazon EC2
4 4 (2.22%) Amazon S3
4 4 (2.22%) AWS Lambda
4 4 (2.22%) Azure
5 2 (1.11%) ChatGPT
5 2 (1.11%) GCP
6 1 (0.56%) GitHub
6 1 (0.56%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 18 (10.00%) Network Security
2 14 (7.78%) TCP/IP
3 13 (7.22%) Modbus
4 7 (3.89%) Wireless
5 6 (3.33%) Wi-Fi
6 5 (2.78%) Bluetooth
7 2 (1.11%) Ethernet
7 2 (1.11%) RS-232
7 2 (1.11%) ZigBee
8 1 (0.56%) RS-485
8 1 (0.56%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (6.11%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (4.44%) Relational Database
3 5 (2.78%) SQL Server
4 4 (2.22%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (2.22%) MongoDB
5 2 (1.11%) GIS
5 2 (1.11%) NoSQL
5 2 (1.11%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.56%) Big Data
6 1 (0.56%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.56%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 22 (12.22%) Visual Studio
2 19 (10.56%) LabVIEW
3 14 (7.78%) GitLab
4 12 (6.67%) JIRA
5 4 (2.22%) Git
6 2 (1.11%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.56%) Subversion
General
1 51 (28.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 32 (17.78%) Social Skills
3 26 (14.44%) Analytical Skills
3 26 (14.44%) Electronics
4 24 (13.33%) Manufacturing
5 17 (9.44%) Automotive
6 10 (5.56%) Legal
7 7 (3.89%) Telecoms
8 6 (3.33%) Games
9 4 (2.22%) Finance
10 2 (1.11%) Law
10 2 (1.11%) Marketing
10 2 (1.11%) Public Sector
10 2 (1.11%) Retail
11 1 (0.56%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.56%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 95 (52.78%) Software Engineer
2 65 (36.11%) Senior
3 52 (28.89%) Senior Software Engineer
4 34 (18.89%) C++ Software Engineer
4 34 (18.89%) Developer
5 25 (13.89%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
6 17 (9.44%) C Software Engineer
6 17 (9.44%) C/C++ Software Engineer
6 17 (9.44%) Senior C Software Engineer
7 16 (8.89%) Architect
8 15 (8.33%) Electronics Engineer
9 14 (7.78%) Manufacturing Engineer
9 14 (7.78%) Software Design Engineer
10 13 (7.22%) Embedded Engineer
11 12 (6.67%) Senior Developer
12 11 (6.11%) C++ Developer
13 10 (5.56%) C# Software Engineer
13 10 (5.56%) Embedded Software Engineer
14 9 (5.00%) Senior C# Software Engineer
14 9 (5.00%) Systems Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (19.44%) .NET
2 21 (11.67%) .NET Framework
3 12 (6.67%) CSS
3 12 (6.67%) HTML
3 12 (6.67%) WinForms
3 12 (6.67%) WPF
4 9 (5.00%) REST
5 6 (3.33%) OpenCV
5 6 (3.33%) OpenVINO
6 4 (2.22%) SOAP
6 4 (2.22%) Web Services
7 3 (1.67%) ONNX
8 2 (1.11%) DPDK
8 2 (1.11%) MFC
8 2 (1.11%) RESTful
9 1 (0.56%) LDAP
9 1 (0.56%) PyTorch
9 1 (0.56%) Spring
9 1 (0.56%) TensorFlow
9 1 (0.56%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 16 (8.89%) Algorithms
2 15 (8.33%) Video\Live Streaming
3 13 (7.22%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (5.00%) Embedded Systems
5 5 (2.78%) Data Structures
5 5 (2.78%) Distributed Computing
6 4 (2.22%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.67%) Device Driver
7 3 (1.67%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.11%) IoT
9 1 (0.56%) FPGA
9 1 (0.56%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 35 (19.44%) Windows
2 34 (18.89%) Linux
3 9 (5.00%) Mac OS
4 5 (2.78%) Windows Server
5 4 (2.22%) AIX
6 2 (1.11%) Embedded Linux
7 1 (0.56%) Android
7 1 (0.56%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.56%) OpenWrt
7 1 (0.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 124 (68.89%) Software Engineering
2 50 (27.78%) Computer Science
3 37 (20.56%) Agile
4 36 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 20 (11.11%) Decision-Making
6 19 (10.56%) Microservices
6 19 (10.56%) SOA
7 17 (9.44%) Multithreading
7 17 (9.44%) OO
8 16 (8.89%) Machine Learning
9 15 (8.33%) Artificial Intelligence
10 14 (7.78%) Analytical Thinking
10 14 (7.78%) Collaborative Working
10 14 (7.78%) Knowledge Transfer
11 12 (6.67%) Customer Service
12 11 (6.11%) Benchmarking
13 9 (5.00%) Mentoring
13 9 (5.00%) Performance Optimisation
14 8 (4.44%) Continuous Improvement
15 7 (3.89%) Computer Vision
Programming Languages
1 88 (48.89%) C
2 75 (41.67%) C#
3 54 (30.00%) Python
4 49 (27.22%) Java
5 21 (11.67%) SQL
6 18 (10.00%) Rust
7 16 (8.89%) Go
8 9 (5.00%) Embedded C
9 8 (4.44%) JavaScript
10 7 (3.89%) MATLAB
11 6 (3.33%) TypeScript
12 5 (2.78%) Haskell
13 4 (2.22%) Bash
13 4 (2.22%) Embedded C++
13 4 (2.22%) VB
14 2 (1.11%) Perl
15 1 (0.56%) Assembly Language
15 1 (0.56%) R
15 1 (0.56%) Scala
Qualifications
1 49 (27.22%) Degree
2 14 (7.78%) Computer Science Degree
2 14 (7.78%) Master's Degree
2 14 (7.78%) PhD
3 2 (1.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.44%) QA
2 1 (0.56%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.56%) GDPR
System Software
1 12 (6.67%) Firmware
2 11 (6.11%) Docker
3 7 (3.89%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 6 (3.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.56%) Grafana
Vendors
1 5 (2.78%) Oracle
2 4 (2.22%) Twitter
3 2 (1.11%) Google
3 2 (1.11%) OpenAI
3 2 (1.11%) SAP
4 1 (0.56%) Databricks
4 1 (0.56%) Microsoft
4 1 (0.56%) Teradata