England C Jobs

This section 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 job ads that have cited C over the 3 months to 18 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Abingdon Alderley Edge Aldershot Andover Ascot Avon Aylesbury Barnet Barry Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Bellshill Berkhamsted Berkshire Beverley Birmingham Blackburn Bolton Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromsgrove Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Bury St Edmunds 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 Daresbury Darlington Daventry Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorchester Dorking Dorset Dudley Dundee Dunfermline Durham Ealing East Anglia East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham Enfield England Epsom Essex Evesham Exeter Fareham Farnborough Farnham Felixstowe Fife Gateshead Glasgow Glossop Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Gosport Grampian Gravesend Grays Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Hastings Havant Haverhill Hayes Hemel Hempstead Henley-on-Thames Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Peak High Wycombe Home Counties Hounslow Hove Huddersfield Hull Humberside Huntingdon Ipswich Isle of Man Isle of Wight Jersey Kendal Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Luton Lutterworth M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Malton Malvern Manchester Margate Market Harborough Marlow Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Midlothian Milton Keynes Mitcheldean Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newmarket Newport Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northumberland Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Paignton Peebles Pembrokeshire Peterborough Petersfield Plymouth Pontypool Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Redditch Redhill Reigate Renfrewshire Rochester Romsey Rugby Saffron Walden Sale Salford Salisbury Scotland Scottish Borders Sheffield Shropshire Slough Smethwick Solihull Somerset South Coast South Croydon South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southam Southampton Spalding St Albans St Helens Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stirling Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Stowmarket Stratford-upon-Avon Strathclyde Street Stroud Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surbiton Surrey Swansea Swindon Telford Tetbury Tewkesbury Thame Thames Valley Tonbridge Torfaen Truro Tyne and Wear Tyneside UK Uxbridge Vale of Glamorgan Wakefield Wales Wallingford Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Waterlooville Watford Wellingborough Wells Welwyn Garden City West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weymouth Whyteleafe Widnes Wigan Wilmslow Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Winsford Witney Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Wotton-under-Edge York Yorkshire	3 months to 18 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	39	38
Rank change on same period last year	-1
Matching permanent IT job ads	8128	9796
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	4.244 %	4.042 %
As % of the category below	9.644 %	9.151 %
Salaries quoted	6596	8179
Average minimum salary	£35,786	£36,318
Average salary	£39,659	£40,173
% change on same period last year	-1.27 %
Average maximum salary	£43,533	£44,027
UK excluding London average salary	£37,260	£37,033
% change on same period last year	+0.61 %
Programming Languages England
Matching permanent IT job ads	84279	107047
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	44.00 %	44.16 %
Salaries quoted	71695	86768
Average minimum salary	£37,386	£39,304
Average salary	£41,029	£43,133
% change on same period last year	-4.87 %
Average maximum salary	£44,673	£46,963
UK excluding London average salary	£35,189	£35,554
% change on same period last year	-1.02 %
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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 18 July 2008.

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Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT job ads citing C within the England region over the 3 months to 18 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

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
South East	+3	2243	£39,692	+1.51 %
London	-17	1978	£47,968	-0.02 %
East of England	-3	1163	£37,949	+2.08 %
South West	-3	1038	£35,431	+1.47 %
North West	+7	504	£34,255	+3.64 %
West Midlands	0	469	£35,968	+1.97 %
Yorkshire	+2	426	£34,052	+7.41 %
East Midlands	+15	249	£33,887	+9.17 %
North East	+19	113	£33,308	+15.85 %
South Coast	-	23	£43,696	-
Midlands	+4	17	£35,654	-22.52 %
Humberside	-	4	£30,333	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 July 2008, 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 8059 (47.50 %) C++ 2 3753 (22.12 %) Java 3 3416 (20.14 %) Degree 4 3282 (19.35 %) UNIX 5 3116 (18.37 %) Windows 6 3064 (18.06 %) Linux 7 2914 (17.18 %) SQL 8 2465 (14.53 %) Finance 9 2350 (13.85 %) .NET 10 2254 (13.29 %) Oracle 11 2164 (12.76 %) C# 12 2093 (12.34 %) SQL Server 13 1728 (10.19 %) Embedded C 14 1573 (9.272 %) OO 15 1554 (9.160 %) Microsoft

16 1521 (8.966 %) Perl 17 1393 (8.211 %) XML 18 1302 (7.675 %) Electronics 19 1168 (6.885 %) Telecoms 20 1147 (6.761 %) Pensions 21 1144 (6.743 %) UML 22 1143 (6.737 %) Computer Science 23 1125 (6.631 %) HTML 24 1124 (6.625 %) VB 25 1033 (6.089 %) TCP/IP 26 881 (5.193 %) Banking 27 846 (4.987 %) Project Management 28 835 (4.922 %) JavaScript 29 833 (4.910 %) Mathematics 30 831 (4.898 %) Health

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 July 2008, 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 2350 (13.85 %) .NET 2 1393 (8.211 %) XML 3 1125 (6.631 %) HTML 4 733 (4.321 %) ASP.NET 5 719 (4.238 %) J2EE 6 496 (2.924 %) WebServices 7 447 (2.635 %) CSS 8 397 (2.340 %) ASP 9 360 (2.122 %) WebSphere 10 344 (2.028 %) AJAX 11 300 (1.768 %) Middleware 12 297 (1.751 %) MFC 13 277 (1.633 %) JSP 14 253 (1.491 %) .NET Framework 15 247 (1.456 %) XSLT 16 208 (1.226 %) SOAP 17 189 (1.114 %) XHTML 18 156 (0.920 %) Servlets 19 153 (0.902 %) Spring 20 147 (0.866 %) J2SE	Application Platforms 1 388 (2.287 %) Apache 2 250 (1.474 %) IIS 3 242 (1.426 %) MS Exchange 4 237 (1.397 %) WebLogic 5 227 (1.338 %) Tomcat 6 138 (0.813 %) Exchange Server 2003 7 128 (0.754 %) SAS 8 126 (0.743 %) SharePoint 9 120 (0.707 %) JBoss 10 103 (0.607 %) WebSphere MQ 11 71 (0.419 %) BizTalk Server 12 65 (0.383 %) CICS 12 65 (0.383 %) Exchange Server 2000 13 63 (0.371 %) CMS 14 55 (0.324 %) MQSeries 15 40 (0.236 %) Lotus Notes 16 38 (0.224 %) Exchange Server 2007 17 35 (0.206 %) ColdFusion 18 33 (0.195 %) OpenROAD 19 31 (0.183 %) SharePoint Server 2007
Applications 1 746 (4.397 %) MS Excel 2 417 (2.458 %) MS Office 3 309 (1.821 %) MATLAB 4 169 (0.996 %) MS Visio 5 96 (0.566 %) Photoshop 6 87 (0.513 %) Simulink 7 68 (0.401 %) MS Project 8 51 (0.301 %) SPSS 9 45 (0.265 %) 3ds Max 10 43 (0.253 %) MS PowerPoint 11 40 (0.236 %) S-PLUS 12 32 (0.189 %) Maya 13 29 (0.171 %) Adobe Illustrator 14 13 (0.077 %) AutoCAD 15 10 (0.059 %) InfoPath 15 10 (0.059 %) Quicktime 16 9 (0.053 %) PrintSoft PReS 16 9 (0.053 %) CA Clarity 17 8 (0.047 %) Pro/ENGINEER 17 8 (0.047 %) FrameMaker	Business Applications 1 109 (0.642 %) Summit 2 99 (0.584 %) Oracle Applications 3 78 (0.460 %) Navision 4 62 (0.365 %) Dynamics NAV 5 43 (0.253 %) Dynamics CRM 6 35 (0.206 %) Microsoft CRM 7 28 (0.165 %) Oracle EBS 8 26 (0.153 %) LabWindows 9 22 (0.130 %) Pivotal CRM 9 22 (0.130 %) Endur 10 18 (0.106 %) SAP SD 11 17 (0.100 %) SAP FI 11 17 (0.100 %) Oracle 11i 12 16 (0.094 %) SAP FI/CO 12 16 (0.094 %) SAP CO 12 16 (0.094 %) FRONT ARENA 12 16 (0.094 %) AWD 13 15 (0.088 %) JDE OneWorld 14 14 (0.083 %) Dynamics AX 14 14 (0.083 %) SAP Retail
Communications & Networking 1 1033 (6.089 %) TCP/IP 2 703 (4.144 %) Internet 3 660 (3.890 %) Wireless 4 283 (1.668 %) Firewall 5 254 (1.497 %) VoIP 6 240 (1.415 %) DNS 7 237 (1.397 %) GSM 8 212 (1.250 %) DVB 9 210 (1.238 %) Ethernet 10 206 (1.214 %) LAN 11 199 (1.173 %) VPN 11 199 (1.173 %) 3G 12 188 (1.108 %) WAN 13 172 (1.014 %) SAN 14 168 (0.990 %) UMTS 15 163 (0.961 %) SNMP 16 155 (0.914 %) HTTP 17 143 (0.843 %) GPRS 18 116 (0.684 %) SSL 19 114 (0.672 %) Intranet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 2093 (12.34 %) SQL Server 2 449 (2.647 %) MySQL 3 384 (2.263 %) RDBMS 4 311 (1.833 %) SQL Server 2000 5 296 (1.745 %) SQL Server 2005 6 243 (1.432 %) Datawarehouse 7 229 (1.350 %) Oracle 10g 8 185 (1.090 %) DB2 9 180 (1.061 %) Oracle 9i 10 160 (0.943 %) Oracle 8/8i 11 152 (0.896 %) BusinessObjects 12 149 (0.878 %) Oracle Reports 12 149 (0.878 %) Crystal Reports 13 135 (0.796 %) Informix 14 112 (0.660 %) Ingres 15 109 (0.642 %) MS Access 16 89 (0.525 %) GIS 17 84 (0.495 %) SQL Server 7 18 72 (0.424 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 19 64 (0.377 %) ETL
Development Applications 1 530 (3.124 %) Visual Studio 2 241 (1.421 %) Eclipse 3 234 (1.379 %) ProC 4 225 (1.326 %) ClearCase 5 160 (0.943 %) Oracle Forms 5 160 (0.943 %) Flash 6 127 (0.749 %) Subversion 7 105 (0.619 %) VSS/SourceSafe 8 94 (0.554 %) Ant 9 83 (0.489 %) Rational Rose 10 72 (0.424 %) JUnit 11 61 (0.360 %) LabVIEW 12 54 (0.318 %) TestDirector 13 45 (0.265 %) Dreamweaver 14 44 (0.259 %) JDeveloper 15 38 (0.224 %) ClearQuest 16 36 (0.212 %) PVCS 17 33 (0.195 %) WinRunner 18 31 (0.183 %) JBuilder 19 30 (0.177 %) QuickTest Pro	General 1 2465 (14.53 %) Finance 2 1302 (7.675 %) Electronics 3 1168 (6.885 %) Telecoms 4 1147 (6.761 %) Pensions 5 881 (5.193 %) Banking 6 831 (4.898 %) Health 7 568 (3.348 %) Marketing 8 446 (2.629 %) Retail 9 434 (2.558 %) Education 10 427 (2.517 %) Games 11 408 (2.405 %) Insurance 12 390 (2.299 %) Government 13 334 (1.969 %) Aerospace 14 304 (1.792 %) Manufacturing 15 287 (1.692 %) Investment Banking 16 263 (1.550 %) Automotive 17 244 (1.438 %) Front Office 18 175 (1.032 %) Electric 19 153 (0.902 %) Back Office 20 148 (0.872 %) Multimedia
Job Titles 1 4837 (28.51 %) Developer 2 3918 (23.09 %) Software Engineer 3 1355 (7.987 %) Analyst 4 1090 (6.425 %) C++ Developer 5 1071 (6.313 %) Software Developer 6 978 (5.765 %) Embedded Software Engineer 7 977 (5.759 %) Consultant 8 807 (4.757 %) Programmer 9 756 (4.456 %) C Developer 10 671 (3.955 %) C Software Engineer 11 584 (3.442 %) C++ Software Engineer 12 545 (3.212 %) Java Developer 13 532 (3.136 %) Graduate 14 489 (2.882 %) .NET Developer 15 473 (2.788 %) Senior Software Engineer 16 445 (2.623 %) Team Leader 17 438 (2.582 %) Architect 18 429 (2.529 %) Senior Developer 19 413 (2.434 %) Project Manager 20 383 (2.258 %) Support Engineer	Miscellaneous 1 1143 (6.737 %) Computer Science 2 833 (4.910 %) Mathematics 3 502 (2.959 %) Device Driver 4 302 (1.780 %) Field-Programmable Gate Array 5 290 (1.709 %) Firmware 6 279 (1.645 %) Physics 7 278 (1.639 %) MPEG 8 271 (1.597 %) VHDL 9 252 (1.485 %) Handset 10 231 (1.362 %) Multithreading 11 224 (1.320 %) Derivative 12 218 (1.285 %) DTV 13 208 (1.226 %) Client/Server 14 197 (1.161 %) Equities 15 156 (0.920 %) STB 16 122 (0.719 %) IPTV 17 117 (0.690 %) Fixed Income 18 110 (0.648 %) Asset Management 19 99 (0.584 %) French Language 20 96 (0.566 %) Verilog
Operating Systems 1 3282 (19.35 %) UNIX 2 3116 (18.37 %) Windows 3 3064 (18.06 %) Linux 4 700 (4.126 %) Solaris 5 432 (2.546 %) VxWorks 6 344 (2.028 %) Embedded Linux 7 259 (1.527 %) Windows XP 8 240 (1.415 %) Windows 2000 9 219 (1.291 %) Windows NT 10 189 (1.114 %) AIX 11 166 (0.978 %) Windows CE 12 164 (0.967 %) Windows Mobile 13 139 (0.819 %) VMS 14 130 (0.766 %) Windows Server 2003 15 106 (0.625 %) Nucleus RTOS 16 104 (0.613 %) HPUX 17 62 (0.365 %) Symbian OS 18 59 (0.348 %) Debian 19 51 (0.301 %) SUSE 20 42 (0.248 %) Mac OS X	Processes & Methodologies 1 1573 (9.272 %) OO 2 1144 (6.743 %) UML 3 846 (4.987 %) Project Management 4 808 (4.763 %) Software Engineering 5 523 (3.083 %) OOD 6 503 (2.965 %) Security Cleared 7 391 (2.305 %) Business Intelligence 8 352 (2.075 %) CRM 9 314 (1.851 %) Configuration Management 10 302 (1.780 %) PRINCE2 11 301 (1.774 %) ITIL 12 269 (1.586 %) Web Development 13 232 (1.368 %) OOA/OOD 14 231 (1.362 %) SOA 15 222 (1.309 %) Validation 16 220 (1.297 %) OOP 17 217 (1.279 %) Business Analysis 18 206 (1.214 %) E-Commerce 19 197 (1.161 %) Risk Management 20 193 (1.138 %) SC Cleared
Programming Languages 1 8059 (47.50 %) C++ 2 3753 (22.12 %) Java 3 2914 (17.18 %) SQL 4 2164 (12.76 %) C# 5 1728 (10.19 %) Embedded C 6 1521 (8.966 %) Perl 7 1124 (6.625 %) VB 8 835 (4.922 %) JavaScript 9 745 (4.391 %) PHP 10 655 (3.861 %) Python 11 653 (3.849 %) Embedded C++ 12 610 (3.596 %) VB.NET 13 584 (3.442 %) Shell Script 14 568 (3.348 %) Assembly Language 15 517 (3.047 %) PL/SQL 16 275 (1.621 %) VC++ 17 224 (1.320 %) Delphi 18 222 (1.309 %) VBA 19 193 (1.138 %) Transact-SQL 20 172 (1.014 %) Ada	Qualifications 1 3416 (20.14 %) Degree 2 264 (1.556 %) Microsoft Certification 3 259 (1.527 %) PhD 4 169 (0.996 %) Cisco Certification 5 147 (0.866 %) HND 6 137 (0.808 %) MCSE 7 117 (0.690 %) CCNA 8 101 (0.595 %) ISEB 9 87 (0.513 %) MCP 10 63 (0.371 %) CCNP 11 59 (0.348 %) CISSP 12 50 (0.295 %) HNC 13 49 (0.289 %) PRINCE2 Certification 14 46 (0.271 %) Oracle Certification 14 46 (0.271 %) MCSA 15 38 (0.224 %) OCP 15 38 (0.224 %) ITIL Certification 16 33 (0.195 %) CCIE 16 33 (0.195 %) Postgraduate 17 29 (0.171 %) ACCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 425 (2.505 %) QA 2 151 (0.890 %) SLA 3 58 (0.342 %) ISO9001 4 39 (0.230 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 5 34 (0.200 %) WAI 6 25 (0.147 %) ISO9000 7 22 (0.130 %) Basel II 8 18 (0.106 %) JTAG 9 11 (0.065 %) GxP 9 11 (0.065 %) ISO27001 10 10 (0.059 %) HL7 11 9 (0.053 %) MiFID 12 7 (0.041 %) COBIT 13 6 (0.035 %) TickIT 14 5 (0.029 %) ISO17799 15 4 (0.024 %) DICOM 15 4 (0.024 %) ISO14001 16 2 (0.012 %) ISO/IEC 20000 16 2 (0.012 %) PCI DSS 17 1 (0.006 %) PCI QSA	System Software 1 341 (2.010 %) Active Directory 2 91 (0.536 %) Oracle RAC 3 50 (0.295 %) ISA Server 4 39 (0.230 %) Citrix Presentation Server 5 34 (0.200 %) NFS 6 32 (0.189 %) NetBackup 6 32 (0.189 %) MSMQ 7 31 (0.183 %) VMware Infrastructure 8 30 (0.177 %) NDS 9 29 (0.171 %) VMware ESX 10 23 (0.136 %) Terminal Services 11 22 (0.130 %) Oracle RMAN 12 19 (0.112 %) MetaFrame 12 19 (0.112 %) Backup Exec 13 9 (0.053 %) Terminal Server 14 8 (0.047 %) RACF 15 7 (0.041 %) ProxySG 15 7 (0.041 %) Samba 16 6 (0.035 %) Nmap 17 4 (0.024 %) VMware GSX
Systems Management 1 27 (0.159 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 1 27 (0.159 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 2 26 (0.153 %) MOM 3 23 (0.136 %) Tivoli 4 22 (0.130 %) OpenView 5 18 (0.106 %) SCOM 6 17 (0.100 %) OpenView Configuration Management 7 14 (0.083 %) Nessus 8 12 (0.071 %) SCCM 8 12 (0.071 %) Nagios 9 9 (0.053 %) AutoSys 10 7 (0.041 %) ZENworks 10 7 (0.041 %) CONTROL-M 11 6 (0.035 %) EMC NetWorker 11 6 (0.035 %) ServiceCenter 11 6 (0.035 %) Netcool 11 6 (0.035 %) Legato 12 5 (0.029 %) Norton AntiVirus 13 4 (0.024 %) CA SiteMinder 13 4 (0.024 %) Unicenter	Vendors 1 2254 (13.29 %) Oracle 2 1554 (9.160 %) Microsoft 3 514 (3.030 %) Sybase 4 411 (2.423 %) Cisco 5 299 (1.762 %) SAP 6 285 (1.680 %) IBM 7 230 (1.356 %) Symbian 8 182 (1.073 %) HP 9 152 (0.896 %) Business Objects 10 149 (0.878 %) Citrix 11 131 (0.772 %) Sun 12 123 (0.725 %) Cognos 13 104 (0.613 %) Red Hat 14 101 (0.595 %) CheckPoint 15 96 (0.566 %) TIBCO 16 85 (0.501 %) Siebel 17 83 (0.489 %) VERITAS 18 79 (0.466 %) Google 19 77 (0.454 %) Intel 20 75 (0.442 %) BT