The first table below looks at the demand for C skills in IT jobs advertised for the Canary Wharf region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited C over the 3 months to 19 June 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Programming Languages category for the Canary Wharf region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
C
Rank 34 35 27
Rank change year-on-year
+1 -8
Permanent jobs citing C 8 19 6
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Canary Wharf 3.556% 4.810% 2.817%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.229% 11.31% 6.977%
Number of salaries quoted 7 15 4
Average salary £57,500 £100,000 £60,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-42.50% +66.66%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £38,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+3.89% +2.66%
All Programming Languages
Canary Wharf
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
153 168 86
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Canary Wharf 68.00% 42.53% 40.38%
Number of salaries quoted 119 131 61
Average salary £77,500 £72,500 £65,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.89% +11.53%
90% offered a salary of more than £40,000 £55,000 £51,400
10% offered a salary of more than £100,000 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
C
London

C
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing C across the Canary Wharf region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

Canary Wharf C Jobs Demand Trend

C
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing C across the Canary Wharf region.

Canary Wharf C Salary Trend

C
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing C across the Canary Wharf region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Canary Wharf C Salary Histogram

C
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Canary Wharf 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 16 (76.19%) C++
2 15 (71.43%) UNIX
2 15 (71.43%) Linux
2 15 (71.43%) Finance
3 10 (47.62%) STL
3 10 (47.62%) Boost C++ Libraries
4 9 (42.86%) Multithreading
5 8 (38.10%) Java
6 6 (28.57%) JavaScript
7 5 (23.81%) Windows
8 4 (19.05%) SQL
8 4 (19.05%) Oracle
8 4 (19.05%) Perl
8 4 (19.05%) Shell Script
8 4 (19.05%) Korn
8 4 (19.05%) Computer Science
9 3 (14.29%) Hedge funds
9 3 (14.29%) Analytics
9 3 (14.29%) Banking
9 3 (14.29%) Derivative
9 3 (14.29%) Investment Banking
9 3 (14.29%) Publishing
9 3 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
9 3 (14.29%) PHP
9 3 (14.29%) Sybase
9 3 (14.29%) OOP
9 3 (14.29%) Informix
9 3 (14.29%) OOD
9 3 (14.29%) HTTP
9 3 (14.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)

C
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Canary Wharf 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 10 (47.62%) STL
1 10 (47.62%) Boost C++ Libraries
2 1 (4.762%) Qt
2 1 (4.762%) SciPy
2 1 (4.762%) NumPy
2 1 (4.762%) PyQt
2 1 (4.762%) SQLAlchemy
2 1 (4.762%) Lucene
Application Platforms
1 1 (4.762%) Apache Solr
Communications & Networking
1 3 (14.29%) HTTP
1 3 (14.29%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (14.29%) Informix
2 1 (4.762%) Big Data
General
1 15 (71.43%) Finance
2 3 (14.29%) Banking
2 3 (14.29%) Investment Banking
2 3 (14.29%) Publishing
3 1 (4.762%) Games
Job Titles
1 9 (42.86%) Developer
1 9 (42.86%) C++ Developer
2 6 (28.57%) C Developer
3 4 (19.05%) Team Leader
3 4 (19.05%) Support Engineer
3 4 (19.05%) UNIX Team Leader
3 4 (19.05%) Support Team Leader
4 3 (14.29%) Java Team Leader
5 2 (9.524%) C++ Software Engineer
5 2 (9.524%) Software Engineer
5 2 (9.524%) C Software Engineer
6 1 (4.762%) C++ Programmer
6 1 (4.762%) UNIX Engineer
6 1 (4.762%) UNIX Scripting Engineer
6 1 (4.762%) UNIX Support Engineer
6 1 (4.762%) UNIX Support
6 1 (4.762%) C Programmer
6 1 (4.762%) Process Manager
6 1 (4.762%) Programmer
6 1 (4.762%) Resource Manager
Miscellaneous
1 4 (19.05%) Computer Science
2 3 (14.29%) Hedge funds
2 3 (14.29%) Derivative
2 3 (14.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (9.524%) Tandem
4 1 (4.762%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 15 (71.43%) UNIX
1 15 (71.43%) Linux
2 5 (23.81%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (42.86%) Multithreading
2 3 (14.29%) Analytics
2 3 (14.29%) OOP
2 3 (14.29%) OOD
3 2 (9.524%) Algorithmic Trading
4 1 (4.762%) Resource Management
4 1 (4.762%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (4.762%) OO
Programming Languages
1 16 (76.19%) C++
2 8 (38.10%) Java
3 6 (28.57%) JavaScript
4 4 (19.05%) SQL
4 4 (19.05%) Perl
4 4 (19.05%) Shell Script
4 4 (19.05%) Korn
5 3 (14.29%) PHP
6 1 (4.762%) Cython
6 1 (4.762%) Python
Vendors
1 4 (19.05%) Oracle
2 3 (14.29%) Sybase