East of England C Jobs

This section looks at the demand for C skills within the East of 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 last 3 months to 16 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Abingdon Aldershot Altrincham Ascot Avon Aylesbury Banbury Barnet Barnsley Barry Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Bellshill Berkhamsted Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Bolton Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromsgrove Buckinghamshire Burnley Bury St Edmunds Calne Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chippenham Cirencester City of London Clapham Clevedon Colchester Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Dagenham Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorchester Dorking Dorset Dudley Dunfermline Dunstable Durham Ealing East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edenbridge Edinburgh Egham Enfield England Epsom Essex Evesham Exeter Fareham Farnborough Farnham Felixstowe Fife Gateshead Glasgow Glossop Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Goole Grampian Gravesend Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Hastings Havant Haverhill Hayes Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Peak High Wycombe Highland Hinckley Home Counties Horsham Hove Huddersfield Hull Humberside Huntingdon Ipswich Isle of Man Jersey Kent Kettering Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Lichfield Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Malmesbury Malvern Manchester Mansfield Margate Market Harborough Marlow Melksham Merseyside Mid Wales Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Monmouth Monmouthshire Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton Abbot Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northumberland Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oldham Osterley Oxford Oxfordshire Paignton Peterborough Petersfield Plymouth Pontypool Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Powys Preston Reading Redditch Redhill Reigate Romsey Rotherham Royston Rugby Runcorn Sale Salford Salisbury Scotland Scottish Borders Sheffield Shropshire Sidcup Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South Croydon South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Spalding St Albans St Asaph St Helens Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stirling Stockport Street Stroud Suffolk Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Tadley Tamworth Taunton Telford Tetbury Tewkesbury Thame Thames Valley Torfaen Trowbridge Tyne and Wear Tyneside Uckfield UK Uxbridge Vale of Glamorgan Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Waterlooville Watford Wells Welwyn Garden City Wembley West Bromwich West Lothian West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weston-super-Mare Whyteleafe Wigan Willenhall Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Winsford Wirral Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Wotton-under-Edge York Yorkshire	3 months to 16 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	18	15
Rank change on same period last year	-3
Matching permanent IT job ads	1097	1332
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.538 %	0.590 %
As % of the category below	16.15 %	21.41 %
Salaries quoted	838	1086
Average minimum salary	£34,073	£35,607
Average salary	£37,995	£39,369
% change on same period last year	-3.48 %
Average maximum salary	£41,917	£43,131
UK excluding London average salary	£37,683	£38,059
% change on same period last year	-0.98 %
Programming Languages East of England
Matching permanent IT job ads	6793	6221
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	3.331 %	2.754 %
Salaries quoted	5705	5264
Average minimum salary	£32,910	£33,218
Average salary	£36,090	£36,361
% change on same period last year	-0.74 %
Average maximum salary	£39,271	£39,505
UK excluding London average salary	£35,401	£35,481
% change on same period last year	-0.22 %
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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total starting in 2004 of permanent IT jobs ads citing C across the East of 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 ads citing C across the East of England region.

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing C across the East of England region over the past 3 months.

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Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing C within the East of England region over the past 3 months.

Rank	Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
1	Cambridgeshire	-4	696	£37,139	-6.25 %
2	Hertfordshire	-24	170	£41,253	+4.90 %
3	Essex	+30	110	£38,555	+2.34 %
4	Suffolk	+1	74	£38,380	-1.19 %
5	Bedfordshire	-9	49	£38,216	+3.35 %
6	Norfolk	-8	8	£28,750	-21.01 %
7	East Anglia	-10	6	£39,000	-5.64 %

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the East of England region citing C also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing C.

1 1322 (61.46 %) C++ 2 654 (30.40 %) Degree 3 577 (26.82 %) Linux 4 449 (20.87 %) Windows 5 388 (18.04 %) Embedded C 6 372 (17.29 %) Java 7 361 (16.78 %) Unix 8 349 (16.23 %) Electronics 9 286 (13.30 %) C# 10 253 (11.76 %) .NET 11 234 (10.88 %) SQL 12 222 (10.32 %) Computer Science 13 182 (8.461 %) Perl 14 181 (8.415 %) Wireless 15 180 (8.368 %) Embedded C++

16 163 (7.578 %) Microsoft 16 163 (7.578 %) Oracle 17 161 (7.485 %) Telecoms 18 138 (6.416 %) TCP/IP 19 132 (6.137 %) Project Management 20 128 (5.951 %) SQL Server 21 127 (5.904 %) Software Engineering 22 126 (5.858 %) OO 23 123 (5.718 %) UML 24 121 (5.625 %) Finance 25 120 (5.579 %) Health 26 117 (5.439 %) Python 27 111 (5.160 %) VxWorks 27 111 (5.160 %) HTML 28 110 (5.114 %) Assembly Language

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the East of England region citing C also mentioned the following skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing C. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 253 (11.76 %) .NET 2 111 (5.160 %) HTML 3 102 (4.742 %) XML 4 51 (2.371 %) ASP.NET 5 46 (2.139 %) J2EE 6 44 (2.046 %) CSS 7 33 (1.534 %) SOAP 7 33 (1.534 %) ASP 8 29 (1.348 %) AJAX 9 27 (1.255 %) OpenGL 10 23 (1.069 %) DirectX 10 23 (1.069 %) Middleware 11 21 (0.976 %) WinForms 12 19 (0.883 %) JSP 13 18 (0.837 %) WebServices 13 18 (0.837 %) XHTML 13 18 (0.837 %) MFC 14 15 (0.697 %) .NET Framework 15 14 (0.651 %) DOM 16 10 (0.465 %) XSLT	Application Platforms 1 37 (1.720 %) Apache 2 15 (0.697 %) Tomcat 3 11 (0.511 %) MS Exchange 4 10 (0.465 %) Exchange Server 2003 5 9 (0.418 %) IIS 6 8 (0.372 %) BizTalk Server 7 6 (0.279 %) Commerce Server 7 6 (0.279 %) CMS 7 6 (0.279 %) Lotus Notes 7 6 (0.279 %) SharePoint 8 4 (0.186 %) SAS 9 3 (0.139 %) Documentum 9 3 (0.139 %) MQSeries 9 3 (0.139 %) Exchange Server 2000 10 2 (0.093 %) Oracle 10gAS 10 2 (0.093 %) WebLogic 10 2 (0.093 %) Oracle Application Server 11 1 (0.046 %) Exchange Server 5.5 11 1 (0.046 %) ColdFusion 11 1 (0.046 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications 1 70 (3.254 %) MATLAB 2 47 (2.185 %) MS Excel 3 41 (1.906 %) MS Office 4 37 (1.720 %) 3ds Max 5 27 (1.255 %) Maya 6 19 (0.883 %) MS Visio 7 13 (0.604 %) MS Project 8 12 (0.558 %) S-PLUS 9 9 (0.418 %) Photoshop 10 4 (0.186 %) FrameMaker 11 2 (0.093 %) Adobe Illustrator 11 2 (0.093 %) AutoCAD 12 1 (0.046 %) SPSS 12 1 (0.046 %) Fireworks 12 1 (0.046 %) ArcView 12 1 (0.046 %) Paint Shop Pro 12 1 (0.046 %) Stateflow 12 1 (0.046 %) ArcInfo	Business Applications 1 17 (0.790 %) Summit 2 8 (0.372 %) Navision 3 7 (0.325 %) Dynamics NAV 4 6 (0.279 %) Oracle Financials 5 5 (0.232 %) LabWindows 6 2 (0.093 %) Pivotal CRM 6 2 (0.093 %) SAP SD 6 2 (0.093 %) SAP MM 6 2 (0.093 %) SAP PP 6 2 (0.093 %) SAP WM 6 2 (0.093 %) Dynamics CRM 7 1 (0.046 %) Oracle ASCP 7 1 (0.046 %) Remedy AR System 7 1 (0.046 %) Oracle Manufacturing
Communications & Networking 1 181 (8.415 %) Wireless 2 138 (6.416 %) TCP/IP 3 70 (3.254 %) Internet 4 50 (2.325 %) 3G 5 44 (2.046 %) WCDMA 6 43 (1.999 %) 3GPP 7 39 (1.813 %) GSM 8 38 (1.767 %) UMTS 9 36 (1.674 %) DVB 10 34 (1.581 %) Wi-Fi 10 34 (1.581 %) Bluetooth 11 31 (1.441 %) VoIP 12 27 (1.255 %) 2G 13 22 (1.023 %) SSL 14 20 (0.930 %) SNMP 14 20 (0.930 %) WiMAX 15 19 (0.883 %) Ethernet 15 19 (0.883 %) GPRS 15 19 (0.883 %) ATM 15 19 (0.883 %) INAP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 128 (5.951 %) SQL Server 2 46 (2.139 %) Oracle Reports 3 36 (1.674 %) SQL Server 2000 4 33 (1.534 %) MySQL 5 23 (1.069 %) Oracle 10g 5 23 (1.069 %) SQL Server 2005 6 21 (0.976 %) RDBMS 7 20 (0.930 %) GIS 8 17 (0.790 %) Oracle 9i 9 15 (0.697 %) Oracle 8/8i 10 14 (0.651 %) DB2 10 14 (0.651 %) DTS 11 10 (0.465 %) Datawarehouse 12 8 (0.372 %) Crystal Reports 13 7 (0.325 %) Data Mining 14 4 (0.186 %) Text Mining 14 4 (0.186 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 15 3 (0.139 %) TOAD 15 3 (0.139 %) BusinessObjects 16 2 (0.093 %) SQL Server 7
Development Applications 1 45 (2.092 %) Oracle Forms 2 43 (1.999 %) Visual Studio 3 39 (1.813 %) ProC 4 27 (1.255 %) JDeveloper 5 16 (0.744 %) VSS/SourceSafe 6 12 (0.558 %) Subversion 7 11 (0.511 %) Eclipse 8 9 (0.418 %) Flash 9 8 (0.372 %) PVCS 9 8 (0.372 %) Oracle Developer 2000 10 6 (0.279 %) LabVIEW 11 5 (0.232 %) InstallShield 12 4 (0.186 %) ClearCase 12 4 (0.186 %) TestDirector 13 3 (0.139 %) LoadRunner 13 3 (0.139 %) Synon 13 3 (0.139 %) Rational Rose 14 2 (0.093 %) Ant 14 2 (0.093 %) Dreamweaver 14 2 (0.093 %) WinRunner	General 1 349 (16.23 %) Electronics 2 161 (7.485 %) Telecoms 3 121 (5.625 %) Finance 4 120 (5.579 %) Health 5 101 (4.695 %) Pensions 6 61 (2.836 %) Manufacturing 7 59 (2.743 %) Marketing 8 56 (2.603 %) Multimedia 9 50 (2.325 %) Insurance 10 48 (2.232 %) Government 11 46 (2.139 %) Education 12 45 (2.092 %) 3D Graphics 13 38 (1.767 %) Automotive 14 32 (1.488 %) Aerospace 15 26 (1.209 %) Pharmaceutical 16 24 (1.116 %) Retail 17 21 (0.976 %) Local Government 18 19 (0.883 %) Games 19 16 (0.744 %) Banking 19 16 (0.744 %) Back Office
Job Titles 1 786 (36.54 %) Software Engineer 2 485 (22.55 %) Developer 3 324 (15.06 %) Embedded Software Engineer 4 189 (8.787 %) C Software Engineer 5 177 (8.229 %) C++ Developer 6 163 (7.578 %) Software Developer 7 138 (6.416 %) C++ Software Engineer 8 137 (6.369 %) C Developer 9 112 (5.207 %) Senior Software Engineer 10 91 (4.231 %) Graduate 11 89 (4.138 %) Consultant 12 85 (3.952 %) Embedded C Engineer 13 83 (3.859 %) Hardware Engineer 14 72 (3.347 %) C++ Software Developer 15 68 (3.161 %) Linux Engineer 16 67 (3.115 %) Embedded C Software Engineer 17 53 (2.464 %) Project Manager 18 52 (2.417 %) Systems Engineer 19 50 (2.325 %) Junior 20 49 (2.278 %) Analyst	Miscellaneous 1 222 (10.32 %) Computer Science 2 107 (4.974 %) Field-Programmable Gate Array 3 92 (4.277 %) Mathematics 4 87 (4.045 %) Device Driver 4 87 (4.045 %) VHDL 5 79 (3.673 %) Firmware 6 60 (2.789 %) Verilog 7 57 (2.650 %) DTV 8 56 (2.603 %) STB 9 51 (2.371 %) IPTV 10 47 (2.185 %) MPEG 11 37 (1.720 %) Physics 12 22 (1.023 %) Cryptography 13 21 (0.976 %) Multithreading 14 19 (0.883 %) CCTV 15 16 (0.744 %) Biotechnology 16 15 (0.697 %) PKI 16 15 (0.697 %) AS400 17 13 (0.604 %) Client/Server 17 13 (0.604 %) Life Science
Operating Systems 1 577 (26.82 %) Linux 2 449 (20.87 %) Windows 3 361 (16.78 %) Unix 4 111 (5.160 %) VxWorks 5 110 (5.114 %) Embedded Linux 6 92 (4.277 %) Solaris 7 46 (2.139 %) Windows XP 8 29 (1.348 %) Windows CE 9 25 (1.162 %) Windows 2000 10 24 (1.116 %) HPUX 11 23 (1.069 %) AIX 12 22 (1.023 %) Windows NT 13 14 (0.651 %) Windows Server 2003 13 14 (0.651 %) zOS 13 14 (0.651 %) Debian 14 13 (0.604 %) OS/400 15 10 (0.465 %) Windows Mobile 16 7 (0.325 %) Mac OS X 17 6 (0.279 %) pSOS 17 6 (0.279 %) Nucleus RTOS	Processes & Methodologies 1 132 (6.137 %) Project Management 2 127 (5.904 %) Software Engineering 3 126 (5.858 %) OO 4 123 (5.718 %) UML 5 38 (1.767 %) OOD 6 30 (1.395 %) CAD 7 28 (1.302 %) PRINCE2 8 27 (1.255 %) Software Testing 9 24 (1.116 %) Unit Testing 10 21 (0.976 %) Service Delivery 11 20 (0.930 %) EDA 12 19 (0.883 %) Agile Software Development 12 19 (0.883 %) E-Commerce 13 17 (0.790 %) Configuration Management 13 17 (0.790 %) Change Management 14 16 (0.744 %) Validation 14 16 (0.744 %) Automated Testing 15 15 (0.697 %) Test Scripting 15 15 (0.697 %) Data Protection 16 14 (0.651 %) Information Security
Programming Languages 1 1322 (61.46 %) C++ 2 388 (18.04 %) Embedded C 3 372 (17.29 %) Java 4 286 (13.30 %) C# 5 234 (10.88 %) SQL 6 182 (8.461 %) Perl 7 180 (8.368 %) Embedded C++ 8 117 (5.439 %) Python 9 110 (5.114 %) Assembly Language 10 102 (4.742 %) PHP 10 102 (4.742 %) JavaScript 11 81 (3.766 %) VC++ 12 75 (3.487 %) VB 13 64 (2.975 %) PL/SQL 14 54 (2.510 %) VB.NET 15 32 (1.488 %) Delphi 16 29 (1.348 %) VB6 17 21 (0.976 %) Shell Script 18 18 (0.837 %) Pascal 19 14 (0.651 %) Ruby	Qualifications 1 654 (30.40 %) Degree 2 80 (3.719 %) PhD 3 22 (1.023 %) HND 4 11 (0.511 %) Microsoft Certification 5 9 (0.418 %) MCP 6 5 (0.232 %) Postgraduate 6 5 (0.232 %) PRINCE2 Certification 6 5 (0.232 %) Cisco Certification 7 4 (0.186 %) CISSP 7 4 (0.186 %) CCNP 7 4 (0.186 %) ACCA 8 3 (0.139 %) CCNA 8 3 (0.139 %) ISEB 9 2 (0.093 %) MCSE 9 2 (0.093 %) CCDA 9 2 (0.093 %) CCVP 10 1 (0.046 %) Check Point Certification 10 1 (0.046 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 10 1 (0.046 %) Chartered Engineer 10 1 (0.046 %) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 49 (2.278 %) QA 2 16 (0.744 %) ISO9000 3 13 (0.604 %) SLA 4 7 (0.325 %) WAI 5 4 (0.186 %) ISO9001 6 2 (0.093 %) TickIT 7 1 (0.046 %) PCI DSS	System Software 1 31 (1.441 %) Active Directory 2 3 (0.139 %) ISA Server 2 3 (0.139 %) Xen 3 2 (0.093 %) Microsoft Virtual Server 4 1 (0.046 %) Citrix Presentation Server 4 1 (0.046 %) Samba 4 1 (0.046 %) Terminal Server
Systems Management 1 5 (0.232 %) OpenView 2 2 (0.093 %) Tivoli 2 2 (0.093 %) MOM 2 2 (0.093 %) Netcool 2 2 (0.093 %) Oracle Statspack 3 1 (0.046 %) Nagios	Vendors 1 163 (7.578 %) Oracle 1 163 (7.578 %) Microsoft 2 34 (1.581 %) HP 3 30 (1.395 %) Intel 4 26 (1.209 %) Symbian 5 16 (0.744 %) Cisco 6 13 (0.604 %) QNX 7 11 (0.511 %) Citrix 7 11 (0.511 %) MKS 8 10 (0.465 %) Ab Initio 8 10 (0.465 %) Red Hat 8 10 (0.465 %) Sun 9 9 (0.418 %) BT 10 8 (0.372 %) Borland 10 8 (0.372 %) IBM 11 7 (0.325 %) Adobe 11 7 (0.325 %) SAP 12 6 (0.279 %) Sybase 12 6 (0.279 %) VERITAS 12 6 (0.279 %) Lotus