The first table below looks at the demand for C skills in IT jobs advertised for the Lancashire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited C over the 3 months to 17 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 Lancashire region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
C
Rank 42 45 43
Rank change year-on-year
+3 -2
Permanent jobs citing C 19 19 13
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Lancashire 3.926% 3.351% 3.467%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.129% 5.523% 5.462%
Number of salaries quoted 14 17 12
Average salary £36,000 £28,000 £28,750
Average salary % change year-on-year
+28.57% -2.60%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,674 £28,000 £22,000
10% offered a salary of more than £42,500 £35,500 £37,400
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
All Programming Languages
Lancashire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
310 344 238
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Lancashire 64.05% 60.67% 63.47%
Number of salaries quoted 285 324 215
Average salary £33,000 £31,000 £31,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.45% -
90% offered a salary of more than £24,500 £26,000 £22,000
10% offered a salary of more than £42,500 £42,500 £38,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
C
North West

C
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Lancashire 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 Lancashire region.

Lancashire C Salary Trend

C
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing C across the Lancashire region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Lancashire 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 Lancashire region over the 3 months to 17 May 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
Burnley - 6 £36,000 -
Lancaster - 4 £42,500 -
C
North West

C
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Lancashire 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 18 (48.65%) Embedded C
1 18 (48.65%) Electronics
1 18 (48.65%) Manufacturing
2 14 (37.84%) SQL
3 13 (35.14%) C#
3 13 (35.14%) Unit Testing
4 12 (32.43%) HTTP
5 11 (29.73%) C++
5 11 (29.73%) Java
5 11 (29.73%) Mobile App
6 10 (27.03%) soapUI
6 10 (27.03%) REST
6 10 (27.03%) Waterfall
6 10 (27.03%) User Acceptance Testing
6 10 (27.03%) System Testing
6 10 (27.03%) Ruby
6 10 (27.03%) QA
6 10 (27.03%) WATIR
6 10 (27.03%) Selenium
6 10 (27.03%) FitNesse
6 10 (27.03%) PHP
6 10 (27.03%) SOAP
6 10 (27.03%) Web Services
6 10 (27.03%) XML
6 10 (27.03%) RAD
6 10 (27.03%) Python
7 4 (10.81%) MS Excel
7 4 (10.81%) HTML
7 4 (10.81%) .NET
7 4 (10.81%) MySQL

C
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Lancashire 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 10 (27.03%) SOAP
1 10 (27.03%) Web Services
1 10 (27.03%) XML
1 10 (27.03%) soapUI
1 10 (27.03%) REST
2 4 (10.81%) HTML
2 4 (10.81%) .NET
3 3 (8.108%) ASP.NET
3 3 (8.108%) WCF
3 3 (8.108%) jQuery
3 3 (8.108%) ASP.NET MVC
3 3 (8.108%) CSS
4 2 (5.405%) COM
Application Platforms
1 3 (8.108%) IIS
1 3 (8.108%) SharePoint
2 2 (5.405%) MS Exchange
2 2 (5.405%) BizTalk Server
2 2 (5.405%) Exchange Server 2003
2 2 (5.405%) Exchange Server 2007
2 2 (5.405%) Lync
2 2 (5.405%) Exchange Server 2010
3 1 (2.703%) SharePoint 2010
3 1 (2.703%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 4 (10.81%) MS Excel
2 2 (5.405%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 12 (32.43%) HTTP
2 3 (8.108%) DNS
2 3 (8.108%) SAN
3 2 (5.405%) TCP/IP
3 2 (5.405%) VPN
3 2 (5.405%) Firewall
3 2 (5.405%) Wireless
3 2 (5.405%) VLAN
3 2 (5.405%) DHCP
3 2 (5.405%) LAN
3 2 (5.405%) VoIP
3 2 (5.405%) WAN
4 1 (2.703%) SMTP
4 1 (2.703%) FTP
4 1 (2.703%) SNMP
4 1 (2.703%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.81%) MySQL
1 4 (10.81%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (27.03%) WATIR
1 10 (27.03%) Selenium
1 10 (27.03%) FitNesse
2 3 (8.108%) MSTest
2 3 (8.108%) NUnit
General
1 18 (48.65%) Electronics
1 18 (48.65%) Manufacturing
2 2 (5.405%) Retail
3 1 (2.703%) Finance
Job Titles
1 18 (48.65%) Software Engineer
1 18 (48.65%) Embedded Software Engineer
2 11 (29.73%) Consultant
3 10 (27.03%) Test Consultant
4 3 (8.108%) Software Architect
4 3 (8.108%) Architect
5 2 (5.405%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (5.405%) Storage Systems Administrator
6 1 (2.703%) Blackberry Developer
6 1 (2.703%) Technical Manager
6 1 (2.703%) Technical Consultant
6 1 (2.703%) Developer
Miscellaneous
1 11 (29.73%) Mobile App
2 3 (8.108%) SaaS
3 2 (5.405%) Enterprise Storage
3 2 (5.405%) Clustering
4 1 (2.703%) Chemistry
4 1 (2.703%) New Media
4 1 (2.703%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 3 (8.108%) Linux
2 2 (5.405%) Windows Server 2003
2 2 (5.405%) Windows
2 2 (5.405%) Solaris
2 2 (5.405%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (2.703%) Apple iOS
3 1 (2.703%) BlackBerry OS
3 1 (2.703%) UNIX
3 1 (2.703%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (35.14%) Unit Testing
2 10 (27.03%) System Testing
2 10 (27.03%) Waterfall
2 10 (27.03%) User Acceptance Testing
2 10 (27.03%) RAD
3 4 (10.81%) Agile Software Development
4 3 (8.108%) TDD
4 3 (8.108%) MVC
4 3 (8.108%) Change Management
5 2 (5.405%) E-Commerce
5 2 (5.405%) ITIL
6 1 (2.703%) E-business
6 1 (2.703%) Validation
6 1 (2.703%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 18 (48.65%) Embedded C
2 14 (37.84%) SQL
3 13 (35.14%) C#
4 11 (29.73%) C++
4 11 (29.73%) Java
5 10 (27.03%) Python
5 10 (27.03%) PHP
5 10 (27.03%) Ruby
6 3 (8.108%) JavaScript
7 1 (2.703%) PL/SQL
7 1 (2.703%) Shell Script
7 1 (2.703%) AWK
Qualifications
1 1 (2.703%) PhD
1 1 (2.703%) CEH
1 1 (2.703%) SC Cleared
1 1 (2.703%) DV Cleared
1 1 (2.703%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (27.03%) QA
2 3 (8.108%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (5.405%) Citrix Presentation Server
1 2 (5.405%) XenApp
1 2 (5.405%) vSphere
2 1 (2.703%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (5.405%) SCCM
1 2 (5.405%) SCOM
1 2 (5.405%) WhatsUp Gold
1 2 (5.405%) HP SIM
2 1 (2.703%) Nagios
Vendors
1 4 (10.81%) Microsoft
2 3 (8.108%) Citrix
2 3 (8.108%) VMware
3 2 (5.405%) SolarWinds
3 2 (5.405%) Juniper
3 2 (5.405%) NetApp
3 2 (5.405%) CheckPoint
3 2 (5.405%) Cisco
3 2 (5.405%) HP
4 1 (2.703%) Compuware