The first table below looks at the demand for C skills in IT jobs advertised for the Edinburgh region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited C over the 3 months to 23 May 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 Edinburgh region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
C
Rank 60 54 70
Rank change year-on-year
-6 +16
Permanent jobs citing C 26 39 35
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Edinburgh 2.444% 2.853% 2.207%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.437% 5.812% 5.263%
Number of salaries quoted 18 32 28
Average salary £40,000 £32,250 £39,250
Average salary % change year-on-year
+24.03% -17.83%
90% offered a salary of more than £28,000 £19,650 £22,250
10% offered a salary of more than £50,250 £39,850 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
All Programming Languages
Edinburgh
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
586 671 665
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Edinburgh 55.08% 49.09% 41.93%
Number of salaries quoted 353 514 481
Average salary £39,500 £35,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+12.85% -
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £27,500 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £47,500 £45,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
C
Scotland

C
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh C Salary Trend

C
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing C across the Edinburgh region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Edinburgh C Salary Histogram

C
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Edinburgh 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 32 (64.00%) C++
2 22 (44.00%) Degree
3 20 (40.00%) Computer Science
4 14 (28.00%) Firmware
5 13 (26.00%) C#
5 13 (26.00%) .NET
5 13 (26.00%) UNIX
6 12 (24.00%) Windows
7 10 (20.00%) Python
8 9 (18.00%) Linux
8 9 (18.00%) Java
8 9 (18.00%) Electronics
9 8 (16.00%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
9 8 (16.00%) Embedded C
10 7 (14.00%) MATLAB
10 7 (14.00%) Perl
10 7 (14.00%) SQL
10 7 (14.00%) XML
10 7 (14.00%) Wireless
11 6 (12.00%) OO
11 6 (12.00%) OpenGL
11 6 (12.00%) OOD
11 6 (12.00%) Ethernet
11 6 (12.00%) Qt
11 6 (12.00%) Unit Testing
12 5 (10.00%) WPF
12 5 (10.00%) Visualisation
12 5 (10.00%) CUDA
12 5 (10.00%) Direct3D
12 5 (10.00%) Bluetooth

C
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Edinburgh 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 13 (26.00%) .NET
2 7 (14.00%) XML
3 6 (12.00%) OpenGL
3 6 (12.00%) Qt
4 5 (10.00%) WPF
4 5 (10.00%) Direct3D
4 5 (10.00%) MFC
5 3 (6.000%) CSS
6 2 (4.000%) Flash
6 2 (4.000%) HTML
7 1 (2.000%) HTML5
7 1 (2.000%) CSS3
7 1 (2.000%) J2EE
7 1 (2.000%) ASP.NET
7 1 (2.000%) JSP
7 1 (2.000%) Servlets
7 1 (2.000%) Spring
7 1 (2.000%) Ajax
7 1 (2.000%) Hibernate
Application Platforms
1 2 (4.000%) OpenROAD
2 1 (2.000%) Apache
2 1 (2.000%) Tomcat
2 1 (2.000%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (2.000%) MS Office
1 1 (2.000%) MS Visio
1 1 (2.000%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 7 (14.00%) Wireless
2 6 (12.00%) Ethernet
3 5 (10.00%) Bluetooth
3 5 (10.00%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (6.000%) SAN
5 2 (4.000%) Internet
5 2 (4.000%) DHCP
5 2 (4.000%) DNS
5 2 (4.000%) xDSL
5 2 (4.000%) ZigBee
5 2 (4.000%) iSCSI
6 1 (2.000%) NAS
6 1 (2.000%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.000%) SQL Server
1 3 (6.000%) DB2
1 3 (6.000%) Crystal Reports
1 3 (6.000%) Informix
1 3 (6.000%) Oracle Reports
1 3 (6.000%) Ingres
1 3 (6.000%) RDBMS
2 2 (4.000%) MySQL
3 1 (2.000%) Oracle 8/8i
3 1 (2.000%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (10.00%) Visual Studio
1 5 (10.00%) Subversion
2 3 (6.000%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (2.000%) Rational DOORS
General
1 9 (18.00%) Electronics
2 3 (6.000%) Banking
2 3 (6.000%) Finance
3 2 (4.000%) Investment Banking
4 1 (2.000%) Retail
Job Titles
1 22 (44.00%) Software Engineer
2 11 (22.00%) Developer
2 11 (22.00%) Firmware Engineer
3 7 (14.00%) Senior Software Engineer
4 5 (10.00%) Software Developer
5 3 (6.000%) Test Engineer
5 3 (6.000%) Software Test Engineer
5 3 (6.000%) C Software Engineer
5 3 (6.000%) Senior C Software Engineer
5 3 (6.000%) Analyst
5 3 (6.000%) Senior Developer
5 3 (6.000%) Programmer
6 2 (4.000%) Analyst Programmer
6 2 (4.000%) C++ Software Engineer
6 2 (4.000%) Server Engineer
6 2 (4.000%) Lead Developer
6 2 (4.000%) Java Developer
6 2 (4.000%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
6 2 (4.000%) Windows Server Engineer
6 2 (4.000%) Senior Windows Server Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 20 (40.00%) Computer Science
2 14 (28.00%) Firmware
3 8 (16.00%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
4 5 (10.00%) Visualisation
4 5 (10.00%) CUDA
4 5 (10.00%) Mathematics
5 3 (6.000%) Verilog
6 1 (2.000%) CAN bus
6 1 (2.000%) Celerra
6 1 (2.000%) W3C
6 1 (2.000%) STB
6 1 (2.000%) Physics
6 1 (2.000%) IPTV
6 1 (2.000%) CLARiiON
6 1 (2.000%) Symmetrix
6 1 (2.000%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 13 (26.00%) UNIX
2 12 (24.00%) Windows
3 9 (18.00%) Linux
4 3 (6.000%) Windows Server 2008
4 3 (6.000%) Windows Server 2012
4 3 (6.000%) HPUX
4 3 (6.000%) Solaris
4 3 (6.000%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (2.000%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (12.00%) OO
1 6 (12.00%) OOD
1 6 (12.00%) Unit Testing
2 5 (10.00%) Requirements Analysis
3 4 (8.000%) Embedded Software Development
3 4 (8.000%) Web Application Development
4 3 (6.000%) Signal Processing
5 2 (4.000%) Validation
5 2 (4.000%) Systems Analysis
6 1 (2.000%) Digital Signal Processing
6 1 (2.000%) Problem Management
6 1 (2.000%) PRINCE2
6 1 (2.000%) Configuration Management
6 1 (2.000%) Project Management
6 1 (2.000%) Software Engineering
6 1 (2.000%) Content Management
6 1 (2.000%) Agile Software Development
6 1 (2.000%) Project Planning
6 1 (2.000%) Web Development
6 1 (2.000%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 32 (64.00%) C++
2 13 (26.00%) C#
3 10 (20.00%) Python
4 9 (18.00%) Java
5 8 (16.00%) Embedded C
6 7 (14.00%) MATLAB
6 7 (14.00%) Perl
6 7 (14.00%) SQL
7 5 (10.00%) VC++
7 5 (10.00%) PHP
8 4 (8.000%) VB.NET
9 3 (6.000%) JavaScript
10 2 (4.000%) Ruby
10 2 (4.000%) VB
10 2 (4.000%) PowerShell
11 1 (2.000%) Assembly Language
Qualifications
1 22 (44.00%) Degree
2 3 (6.000%) PhD
3 1 (2.000%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.000%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.000%) PMP
3 1 (2.000%) PMI Certification
System Software
1 2 (4.000%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (4.000%) SCCM
Vendors
1 4 (8.000%) Oracle
2 3 (6.000%) EMC
3 2 (4.000%) Microsoft
3 2 (4.000%) Sun
4 1 (2.000%) Alterian
Edinburgh, Scotland
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Salary: £23000 to £33000 per annum - Performance related bonus, pension and 3
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Salary: £18k to £25k depending on experience
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