The first table below looks at the demand for C skills in IT jobs advertised for the Gloucester region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited C over the 3 months to 20 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 Gloucester region.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
C
Rank 29 12 21
Rank change year-on-year
-17 +9
Permanent jobs citing C 22 65 16
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Gloucester 9.205% 16.29% 8.081%
As % of the Programming Languages category 11.58% 23.30% 16.84%
Number of salaries quoted 7 34 13
Average salary £30,500 £42,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-28.23% +21.42%
90% offered a salary of more than £29,100 £30,000 £25,300
10% offered a salary of more than £43,000 £55,250 £41,200
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
All Programming Languages
Gloucester
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
190 279 95
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Gloucester 79.50% 69.92% 47.98%
Number of salaries quoted 149 203 76
Average salary £40,500 £40,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+1.25% +14.28%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £32,550 £23,500
10% offered a salary of more than £46,000 £45,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
C
Gloucestershire

C
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Gloucester 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 Gloucester region.

Gloucester C Salary Trend

C
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing C across the Gloucester region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

Gloucester C Salary Histogram

C
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Gloucester 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 27 (65.85%) C++
2 24 (58.54%) Linux
3 21 (51.22%) Security Cleared
4 16 (39.02%) Java
5 15 (36.59%) DV Cleared
6 14 (34.15%) C#
7 12 (29.27%) SQL
8 11 (26.83%) Telecoms
8 11 (26.83%) Root Cause Analysis
9 10 (24.39%) Electronics
9 10 (24.39%) Windows
10 9 (21.95%) Ethernet
10 9 (21.95%) .NET
10 9 (21.95%) UML
10 9 (21.95%) Finance
10 9 (21.95%) VHDL
10 9 (21.95%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
11 8 (19.51%) Degree
11 8 (19.51%) Project Management
12 6 (14.63%) Embedded C
12 6 (14.63%) UNIX
12 6 (14.63%) Mathematics
12 6 (14.63%) SC Cleared
12 6 (14.63%) Software Engineering
12 6 (14.63%) Signal Processing
13 5 (12.20%) Rational Rhapsody
13 5 (12.20%) TDD
13 5 (12.20%) Military
13 5 (12.20%) Physics
13 5 (12.20%) Computer Science

C
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Gloucester 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 9 (21.95%) .NET
2 5 (12.20%) XML
3 4 (9.756%) J2EE
3 4 (9.756%) ASP.NET
4 3 (7.317%) JSP
4 3 (7.317%) Middleware
4 3 (7.317%) LAMP
5 1 (2.439%) HTML5
5 1 (2.439%) Flash
5 1 (2.439%) CGI
Application Platforms
1 2 (4.878%) SharePoint Server
Communications & Networking
1 9 (21.95%) Ethernet
2 5 (12.20%) Wireless
3 4 (9.756%) Gigabit Ethernet
3 4 (9.756%) SDH
3 4 (9.756%) DHCP
3 4 (9.756%) DNS
3 4 (9.756%) SONET
4 1 (2.439%) Firewall
4 1 (2.439%) Internet
4 1 (2.439%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.439%) SQL Server
1 1 (2.439%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (2.439%) Hadoop
1 1 (2.439%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (12.20%) PVCS
1 5 (12.20%) Rational DOORS
1 5 (12.20%) Rational Rhapsody
2 3 (7.317%) ClearCase
2 3 (7.317%) Eclipse
3 2 (4.878%) LabVIEW
4 1 (2.439%) Subversion
4 1 (2.439%) Ant
General
1 11 (26.83%) Telecoms
2 10 (24.39%) Electronics
3 9 (21.95%) Finance
4 5 (12.20%) Aerospace
4 5 (12.20%) Military
4 5 (12.20%) Marketing
5 4 (9.756%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 17 (41.46%) Developer
2 12 (29.27%) Software Engineer
3 7 (17.07%) Web Developer
4 4 (9.756%) UNIX Engineer
4 4 (9.756%) Linux Engineer
5 3 (7.317%) Middleware Developer
5 3 (7.317%) Electronics Engineer
5 3 (7.317%) C Developer
5 3 (7.317%) Applications Developer
6 2 (4.878%) C++ Developer
6 2 (4.878%) C++ Software Engineer
6 2 (4.878%) C# Software Engineer
6 2 (4.878%) Hardware Engineer
7 1 (2.439%) ASP.NET Developer
7 1 (2.439%) Embedded Software Engineer
7 1 (2.439%) Senior Software Engineer
7 1 (2.439%) C Software Engineer
7 1 (2.439%) .NET Web Developer
7 1 (2.439%) Security Analyst
7 1 (2.439%) .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 9 (21.95%) VHDL
1 9 (21.95%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
2 6 (14.63%) Mathematics
3 5 (12.20%) Physics
3 5 (12.20%) Computer Science
3 5 (12.20%) Embedded Systems
3 5 (12.20%) CAN bus
3 5 (12.20%) Firmware
4 4 (9.756%) ASIC
4 4 (9.756%) Clustering
4 4 (9.756%) iPhone
4 4 (9.756%) CUDA
5 3 (7.317%) PKI
5 3 (7.317%) Cryptography
6 1 (2.439%) Management Information System
6 1 (2.439%) Device Driver
6 1 (2.439%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 24 (58.54%) Linux
2 10 (24.39%) Windows
3 6 (14.63%) UNIX
4 5 (12.20%) VxWorks
5 4 (9.756%) Android
5 4 (9.756%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (26.83%) Root Cause Analysis
2 9 (21.95%) UML
3 8 (19.51%) Project Management
4 6 (14.63%) Software Engineering
4 6 (14.63%) Signal Processing
5 5 (12.20%) Requirements Engineering
5 5 (12.20%) SysML
5 5 (12.20%) TDD
6 4 (9.756%) Software Testing
6 4 (9.756%) Reverse Engineering
6 4 (9.756%) Web Development
7 3 (7.317%) Business Development
7 3 (7.317%) Release Management
7 3 (7.317%) Requirements Analysis
7 3 (7.317%) Penetration Testing
7 3 (7.317%) Programme Management
7 3 (7.317%) OOA/OOD
7 3 (7.317%) OO
7 3 (7.317%) OOD
8 2 (4.878%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 27 (65.85%) C++
2 16 (39.02%) Java
3 14 (34.15%) C#
4 12 (29.27%) SQL
5 6 (14.63%) Embedded C
6 5 (12.20%) Perl
6 5 (12.20%) Shell Script
7 4 (9.756%) VB
8 2 (4.878%) MATLAB
9 1 (2.439%) AWK
9 1 (2.439%) Bash shell
9 1 (2.439%) sed
9 1 (2.439%) Python
9 1 (2.439%) Embedded C++
Qualifications
1 21 (51.22%) Security Cleared
2 15 (36.59%) DV Cleared
3 8 (19.51%) Degree
4 6 (14.63%) SC Cleared
5 1 (2.439%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (12.20%) TickIT
1 5 (12.20%) IEC 61508
1 5 (12.20%) DO-178B
Vendors
1 5 (12.20%) Oracle
2 4 (9.756%) Red Hat
2 4 (9.756%) Xilinx
2 4 (9.756%) Altera
3 3 (7.317%) JBoss
4 2 (4.878%) Agilent
5 1 (2.439%) IBM
5 1 (2.439%) Lotus
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