The first table below looks at the demand for C skills in IT jobs advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited C over the 3 months to 18 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 England region.

Location
3 months to
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
C
Rank 74 67 69
Rank change year-on-year
-7 +2
Permanent jobs citing C 3553 4094 4214
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 3.445% 3.624% 3.461%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.495% 6.655% 6.534%
Number of salaries quoted 2730 3411 3582
Average salary £42,500 £41,500 £40,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+2.40% +2.46%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £27,500 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £70,000 £67,500 £70,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £38,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+3.89% +2.66%
All Programming Languages
England
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
54700 61516 64498
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 53.03% 54.45% 52.97%
Number of salaries quoted 47633 54435 56476
Average salary £40,500 £40,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+1.25% -
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £27,750 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
C
UK

C
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England 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 England region.

England C Salary Trend

C
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing C across the England region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

England C Salary Histogram

C
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing C within the England region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Find
Job
Vacancies
London +4 1185 £52,500 - 165
South East -22 807 £40,000 - 169
East of England -1 577 £42,500 +3.65% 109
South West -1 302 £34,250 -12.73% 87
North West -5 281 £37,500 - 41
Yorkshire +21 167 £40,000 +2.56% 19
West Midlands -38 123 £40,000 +14.28% 20
East Midlands -47 63 £36,000 +2.85% 15
North East +9 35 £32,750 -5.07% 3
Midlands +13 2 £50,000 +47.05% 1
South Coast - 2 £55,000 -
C
UK

C
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, 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 3563 (50.94%) C++
2 2349 (33.58%) Linux
3 2322 (33.20%) Degree
4 1888 (26.99%) Java
5 1395 (19.94%) Windows
6 1376 (19.67%) C#
7 1299 (18.57%) Finance
8 1249 (17.86%) Computer Science
9 1177 (16.83%) SQL
10 1156 (16.53%) UNIX
11 1025 (14.65%) Python
12 841 (12.02%) OO
13 839 (11.99%) .NET
14 833 (11.91%) Perl
15 796 (11.38%) Microsoft
16 710 (10.15%) Embedded C
17 686 (9.807%) Electronics
18 675 (9.650%) JavaScript
19 649 (9.278%) Agile Software Development
20 600 (8.578%) Oracle
21 586 (8.377%) HTML
21 586 (8.377%) Mathematics
22 575 (8.220%) Software Engineering
23 558 (7.977%) SQL Server
24 555 (7.934%) PHP
25 548 (7.834%) XML
26 504 (7.205%) Security Cleared
27 494 (7.062%) CSS
28 492 (7.034%) MS Excel
29 478 (6.833%) Project Management

C
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, 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
1 839 (11.99%) .NET
2 586 (8.377%) HTML
3 548 (7.834%) XML
4 494 (7.062%) CSS
5 462 (6.605%) Web Services
6 253 (3.617%) ASP.NET
7 219 (3.131%) JSON
8 199 (2.845%) HTML5
9 194 (2.773%) Middleware
10 192 (2.745%) jQuery
11 166 (2.373%) J2EE
12 144 (2.059%) Ajax
13 140 (2.001%) .NET Framework
14 139 (1.987%) LAMP
15 138 (1.973%) STL
16 124 (1.773%) SOAP
17 114 (1.630%) Boost C++ Libraries
18 108 (1.544%) WCF
19 103 (1.472%) CSS3
20 99 (1.415%) OpenGL
Application Platforms
1 251 (3.588%) Apache
2 188 (2.688%) IIS
3 129 (1.844%) MS Exchange
4 117 (1.673%) SharePoint
5 66 (0.944%) SAS
6 61 (0.872%) Tomcat
7 58 (0.829%) Exchange Server 2010
8 40 (0.572%) Exchange Server 2003
9 39 (0.558%) CMS
10 36 (0.515%) Amazon AWS
11 35 (0.500%) Exchange Server 2007
12 31 (0.443%) ESB
13 30 (0.429%) Lync
14 25 (0.357%) WebLogic
15 23 (0.329%) Lotus Domino
15 23 (0.329%) nginx
16 22 (0.315%) Office Communications Server
16 22 (0.315%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
17 21 (0.300%) IBM Notes
18 20 (0.286%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 492 (7.034%) MS Excel
2 227 (3.245%) MS Office
3 55 (0.786%) MS Project
4 37 (0.529%) Simulink
5 34 (0.486%) MS PowerPoint
6 25 (0.357%) Photoshop
6 25 (0.357%) MS Visio
7 11 (0.157%) Stateflow
7 11 (0.157%) Spreadsheet
7 11 (0.157%) Maya
7 11 (0.157%) Google Apps
8 8 (0.114%) Office 365
8 8 (0.114%) Stata
9 7 (0.100%) Adobe Illustrator
10 6 (0.086%) PowerPivot
10 6 (0.086%) EPLAN
10 6 (0.086%) Doxygen
11 5 (0.071%) 3ds Max
11 5 (0.071%) SPSS
12 4 (0.057%) Quicktime
Business Applications
1 63 (0.901%) Dynamics NAV
2 51 (0.729%) Oracle EBS
3 43 (0.615%) SAP SCM
4 41 (0.586%) SAP APO
4 41 (0.586%) SAP R/3
5 40 (0.572%) Dynamics AX
6 25 (0.357%) Oracle iProcurement
7 20 (0.286%) Oracle EBS R12
7 20 (0.286%) Oracle ASCP
8 19 (0.272%) Oracle Retail
9 18 (0.257%) Google Analytics
9 18 (0.257%) Dynamics CRM
10 16 (0.229%) Oracle 11i
11 15 (0.214%) Oracle Applications
11 15 (0.214%) LabWindows
12 13 (0.186%) BPCS
13 12 (0.172%) SAP GRC
14 11 (0.157%) Taleo
15 10 (0.143%) SAP ERP
16 7 (0.100%) SAP Oil and Gas
Communications & Networking
1 468 (6.690%) TCP/IP
2 335 (4.789%) Internet
3 254 (3.631%) Wireless
4 250 (3.574%) HTTP
5 181 (2.588%) SAN
6 169 (2.416%) Ethernet
7 158 (2.259%) DNS
8 137 (1.959%) VoIP
9 134 (1.916%) Broadband
10 133 (1.901%) Firewall
11 109 (1.558%) DHCP
12 105 (1.501%) LAN
12 105 (1.501%) DVB
13 72 (1.029%) WAN
14 70 (1.001%) GSM
15 61 (0.872%) Wi-Fi
16 59 (0.843%) 3G
16 59 (0.843%) SMTP
17 57 (0.815%) SNMP
17 57 (0.815%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 558 (7.977%) SQL Server
2 383 (5.475%) MySQL
3 123 (1.758%) Big Data
4 115 (1.644%) SQL Server 2008
5 89 (1.272%) RDBMS
6 81 (1.158%) DB2
7 78 (1.115%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 72 (1.029%) SQL Server 2005
9 71 (1.015%) Data Warehouse
10 63 (0.901%) PostgreSQL
10 63 (0.901%) NoSQL
11 62 (0.886%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 60 (0.858%) Oracle 8/8i
13 53 (0.758%) Data Mining
14 46 (0.658%) Hadoop
15 41 (0.586%) MongoDB
16 39 (0.558%) Oracle Reports
17 28 (0.400%) SQL Server Analysis Services
18 27 (0.386%) Apache Cassandra
18 27 (0.386%) Oracle 11g
Development Applications
1 302 (4.317%) Subversion
2 256 (3.660%) Visual Studio
3 155 (2.216%) Git (software)
4 132 (1.887%) Eclipse
5 130 (1.858%) Selenium
6 85 (1.215%) Rational DOORS
7 79 (1.129%) GCC
8 77 (1.101%) ClearCase
9 75 (1.072%) Ant
9 75 (1.072%) LabVIEW
10 74 (1.058%) Xcode
10 74 (1.058%) Team Foundation Server
11 65 (0.929%) Maven
12 60 (0.858%) Cucumber
13 56 (0.801%) WebDriver
14 53 (0.758%) FitNesse
14 53 (0.758%) JIRA
15 52 (0.743%) ProC
16 51 (0.729%) GDB
17 49 (0.701%) Bugzilla
General
1 1299 (18.57%) Finance
2 686 (9.807%) Electronics
3 469 (6.705%) Telecoms
4 279 (3.989%) Banking
5 277 (3.960%) Games
5 277 (3.960%) Marketing
6 248 (3.545%) Manufacturing
7 241 (3.445%) Retail
8 180 (2.573%) Aerospace
9 179 (2.559%) Legal
10 156 (2.230%) Military
11 129 (1.844%) Automotive
12 125 (1.787%) Advertising
13 97 (1.387%) Law
14 90 (1.287%) Front Office
15 82 (1.172%) Multimedia
16 79 (1.129%) Investment Banking
17 68 (0.972%) Financial Institution
17 68 (0.972%) German Language
18 64 (0.915%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 2137 (30.55%) Developer
2 1705 (24.37%) Software Engineer
3 497 (7.105%) Software Developer
4 464 (6.633%) Analyst
5 458 (6.548%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 430 (6.147%) C++ Developer
7 328 (4.689%) Graduate
8 313 (4.475%) Consultant
9 281 (4.017%) Senior Developer
10 270 (3.860%) Senior Software Engineer
11 208 (2.974%) C Developer
12 196 (2.802%) Architect
13 195 (2.788%) C Software Engineer
14 194 (2.773%) Programmer
15 191 (2.731%) Support Engineer
16 189 (2.702%) C++ Software Engineer
17 182 (2.602%) Administrator
18 175 (2.502%) Web Developer
19 165 (2.359%) Graduate Developer
20 144 (2.059%) Junior
Miscellaneous
1 1249 (17.86%) Computer Science
2 586 (8.377%) Mathematics
3 381 (5.447%) Embedded Systems
4 330 (4.718%) Device Driver
5 309 (4.417%) Mobile App
6 263 (3.760%) Firmware
7 246 (3.517%) Physics
8 216 (3.088%) Management Information System
9 190 (2.716%) Open Source
10 148 (2.116%) iPhone
11 141 (2.016%) STB
12 140 (2.001%) Enterprise Software
13 138 (1.973%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
14 136 (1.944%) Clustering
15 128 (1.830%) Blackberry
16 126 (1.801%) Fixed Income
17 115 (1.644%) iPad
18 109 (1.558%) Derivative
18 109 (1.558%) Statistics
19 107 (1.530%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 2349 (33.58%) Linux
2 1395 (19.94%) Windows
3 1156 (16.53%) UNIX
4 408 (5.833%) Android
5 380 (5.432%) Apple iOS
6 319 (4.560%) Embedded Linux
7 175 (2.502%) Windows Server 2008
8 150 (2.144%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 149 (2.130%) Solaris
10 132 (1.887%) Windows Server 2003
11 121 (1.730%) VxWorks
12 82 (1.172%) AIX
13 74 (1.058%) Windows 7
14 66 (0.944%) Windows XP
15 56 (0.801%) Windows Phone
16 46 (0.658%) Mac OS X
17 41 (0.586%) CentOS
18 39 (0.558%) Windows Mobile
19 35 (0.500%) Windows Server 2012
20 33 (0.472%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 841 (12.02%) OO
2 649 (9.278%) Agile Software Development
3 575 (8.220%) Software Engineering
4 478 (6.833%) Project Management
5 407 (5.818%) Multithreading
6 364 (5.204%) Scrum
7 357 (5.104%) UML
8 280 (4.003%) E-Commerce
9 279 (3.989%) Software Testing
10 276 (3.946%) Web Development
11 262 (3.746%) TDD
12 254 (3.631%) OOD
13 253 (3.617%) ITIL
14 233 (3.331%) Business Development
15 220 (3.145%) Validation
16 217 (3.102%) Configuration Management
17 208 (2.974%) Waterfall
18 207 (2.959%) OOP
19 196 (2.802%) Business Analysis
20 189 (2.702%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 3563 (50.94%) C++
2 1888 (26.99%) Java
3 1376 (19.67%) C#
4 1177 (16.83%) SQL
5 1025 (14.65%) Python
6 833 (11.91%) Perl
7 710 (10.15%) Embedded C
8 675 (9.650%) JavaScript
9 555 (7.934%) PHP
10 339 (4.846%) Embedded C++
11 305 (4.360%) Objective-C
12 283 (4.046%) Ruby
13 238 (3.402%) Shell Script
14 227 (3.245%) VB
15 219 (3.131%) Assembly Language
16 177 (2.530%) MATLAB
17 142 (2.030%) PL/SQL
18 119 (1.701%) Bash shell
19 115 (1.644%) T-SQL
20 105 (1.501%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 2322 (33.20%) Degree
2 504 (7.205%) Security Cleared
3 304 (4.346%) SC Cleared
4 189 (2.702%) PhD
5 160 (2.287%) Microsoft Certification
6 159 (2.273%) DV Cleared
7 107 (1.530%) ISEB
8 97 (1.387%) CISSP
9 88 (1.258%) Cisco Certification
10 85 (1.215%) MCSE
11 82 (1.172%) HND
12 79 (1.129%) CISA
13 70 (1.001%) CISM
14 53 (0.758%) HNC
15 52 (0.743%) ISTQB
16 45 (0.643%) MCDST
17 41 (0.586%) MCP
18 36 (0.515%) PMI Certification
19 34 (0.486%) CCNP
20 31 (0.443%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 401 (5.733%) QA
2 97 (1.387%) SLA
3 93 (1.330%) ISO 9001
4 90 (1.287%) DO-178B
5 43 (0.615%) JTAG
6 39 (0.558%) ISO 9000
6 39 (0.558%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 35 (0.500%) TickIT
8 23 (0.329%) IEC 61508
8 23 (0.329%) Data Quality
9 18 (0.257%) COBIT
10 16 (0.229%) BS25999
10 16 (0.229%) PCI DSS
11 15 (0.214%) FATCA
12 11 (0.157%) GxP
12 11 (0.157%) 21 CFR Part 11
12 11 (0.157%) GAMP
13 9 (0.129%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 9 (0.129%) HL7
14 6 (0.086%) WCAG
System Software
1 158 (2.259%) Active Directory
2 141 (2.016%) VMware Infrastructure
3 70 (1.001%) vSphere
4 47 (0.672%) VMware ESX
5 43 (0.615%) Hyper-V
6 37 (0.529%) NFS
7 31 (0.443%) Xen
8 27 (0.386%) VMware ESXi
9 26 (0.372%) Veritas Cluster Server
9 26 (0.372%) Sendmail
10 25 (0.357%) XenApp
11 19 (0.272%) Samba
12 18 (0.257%) Squid
12 18 (0.257%) Microsoft App-V
13 15 (0.214%) ProxySG
14 14 (0.200%) Oracle RMAN
15 12 (0.172%) qmail
16 11 (0.157%) Varnish
17 9 (0.129%) Kamailio
17 9 (0.129%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 48 (0.686%) Puppet
2 44 (0.629%) HP Quality Center
3 43 (0.615%) SCOM
3 43 (0.615%) Tivoli
4 42 (0.600%) SCCM
5 38 (0.543%) WSUS
6 35 (0.500%) Nagios
7 32 (0.457%) Cisco CUCM
8 29 (0.415%) Norton AntiVirus
9 23 (0.329%) HP SIM
9 23 (0.329%) Cisco UCCX
10 22 (0.315%) NetBackup
11 19 (0.272%) MAILsweeper
11 19 (0.272%) OpenView
11 19 (0.272%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
12 18 (0.257%) Tivoli Monitoring
12 18 (0.257%) Backup Exec
12 18 (0.257%) Cacti
13 16 (0.229%) Data Guard
13 16 (0.229%) Cisco UCCE
Vendors
1 796 (11.38%) Microsoft
2 600 (8.578%) Oracle
3 242 (3.460%) Cisco
4 238 (3.402%) HP
5 216 (3.088%) VMware
6 187 (2.673%) SAP
7 178 (2.545%) Red Hat
8 168 (2.402%) Google
9 107 (1.530%) IBM
10 105 (1.501%) EMC
11 81 (1.158%) Apple
12 80 (1.144%) Citrix
13 62 (0.886%) Symantec
13 62 (0.886%) NetApp
14 54 (0.772%) Sun
15 49 (0.701%) Sybase
16 46 (0.658%) Juniper
17 42 (0.600%) JBoss
17 42 (0.600%) Zend
18 39 (0.558%) Twitter
Oxfordshire, South East
The ideal candidate will have a skill set to include many of the following: Experience in the following is essential: Embedded C... Key skills are; C++ This is...
Computer Futures
Salary: £40000 - £45000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 18 June 2013
Manchester, North West
Ideally you will have the following experience:- - Degree in Electronic Engineering/Computer Science (or similar) with a good understanding of embedded software systems including both analogue and digital...
Computer Futures
Salary: £26000 - £30000 per annum + Excellent Benefits
Posted: 12 June 2013
Stonehouse, Gloucestershire
Embedded Software Engineer required by our client a cutting edge technology company based in Gloucester. You will be required to design and implement the embedded software that is...
Claremont Consulting Ltd
Salary: £40000 - £60000 per annum + Excellent Benefits
Posted: 13 June 2013
Sheffield, South Yorkshire
Java,C/C++) - Sheffield We are looking for an outstanding Senior Software Engineer to join one of the UK’s leading Healthcare and Utilities solution providers... Key Skills: -...
Evolution Recruitment Solutions
Salary: 35,000 - 40,000
Posted: 12 June 2013
Bath, South West
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Computer Futures
Salary: £40000 - £45000 per annum + Benefits & Training
Posted: 7 June 2013
Bristol, South West
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Salary: £30000 - £35000 per annum + Benefits &
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Bath, South West
Computer Futures
Salary: £30000 per annum + Package and Training
Posted: 14 June 2013
Bristol, Avon
Parker White Consulting Ltd
Salary: From £23,000 to £25,000 per annum Plus benefits
Posted: 14 June 2013
Bath, South West
Computer Futures
Salary: £30000 per annum + Excellent Package & Training
Posted: 11 June 2013
Bath, South West
Computer Futures
Salary: £30000 per annum + Benefits & Training
Posted: 14 June 2013
Southend-On-Sea, South East
Computer Futures
Salary: £45000 - £55000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 6 June 2013
Southend-On-Sea, South East
Computer Futures
Salary: £45000 - £55000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 18 June 2013
Reading, Berkshire
Connections Recruitment Ltd.
Salary: £30000 - £35000 per annum + Bonus, Pension, 25 days hols
Posted: 14 June 2013
Cambridgeshire
Intapeople
Posted: 12 June 2013
London
Stott & May
Salary: £40000 - £55000 per annum + Bonus and Extensive Benefits
Posted: 13 June 2013
Bath, South West
Computer Futures
Salary: £35000 - £45000 per annum + Pension & Bonus
Posted: 7 June 2013
Bath, South West
Computer Futures
Salary: £30000 per annum + Package & Training
Posted: 11 June 2013
Bath, South West
Computer Futures
Salary: £25000 - £30000 per annum + Fantastic Benefits & Training
Posted: 14 June 2013
Dorset
Spectrum IT Recruitment (South) Ltd
Salary: £25000 - £35000 per annum
Posted: 17 June 2013
Oxfordshire, South East
Computer Futures
Salary: £40000 - £45000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 18 June 2013
Birmingham, West Midlands (County)
CV Screen Ltd
Salary: Up to £60k plus benefits
Posted: 14 June 2013
Bath, South West
Computer Futures
Salary: £25000 - £30000 per annum + Package & Training
Posted: 11 June 2013
City, London
Client Server
Salary: £60k to £70k + 25 days holiday + benefits
Posted: 17 June 2013
London
Client Server
Salary: £60k to £70k + 25 days holiday + benefits
Posted: 17 June 2013
Chelmsford, Essex
Cooper Lomaz Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £45k - 48k per year
Posted: 12 June 2013