The first table below looks at the demand for C skills in IT jobs advertised for the Livingston region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited C over the 3 months to 22 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 Livingston region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
C
Rank 26 15 38
Rank change year-on-year
-11 +23
Permanent jobs citing C 3 8 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Livingston 3.061% 8.000% 0.800%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.478% 18.18% 1.754%
Number of salaries quoted 0 6 1
Average salary - £45,000 £47,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -5.26%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
All Programming Languages
Livingston
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
67 44 114
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Livingston 68.37% 44.00% 45.60%
Number of salaries quoted 23 32 70
Average salary £36,000 £45,000 £33,750
Average salary % change year-on-year
-20.00% +33.33%
90% offered a salary of more than £33,000 £34,500 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £41,000 £55,000 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
C
West Lothian

C
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Livingston 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 Livingston region.

Livingston C Salary Trend

C
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Livingston 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 7 (77.78%) SQL
1 7 (77.78%) C#
1 7 (77.78%) Linux
2 6 (66.67%) Shell Script
2 6 (66.67%) Java
2 6 (66.67%) UNIX
2 6 (66.67%) Windows
2 6 (66.67%) Degree
3 5 (55.56%) SSH
3 5 (55.56%) AWK
3 5 (55.56%) Asset Management
3 5 (55.56%) Altiris
3 5 (55.56%) WMI
3 5 (55.56%) Web Development
3 5 (55.56%) sed
3 5 (55.56%) XML
3 5 (55.56%) Perl
3 5 (55.56%) T-SQL
3 5 (55.56%) VBScript
3 5 (55.56%) Broadband
3 5 (55.56%) MS Excel
3 5 (55.56%) Data Modelling
3 5 (55.56%) SNMP
4 1 (11.11%) Debian
4 1 (11.11%) VMware
4 1 (11.11%) Ethernet
4 1 (11.11%) TCP/IP
4 1 (11.11%) SAN
4 1 (11.11%) Firmware
4 1 (11.11%) Eclipse

C
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Livingston 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 5 (55.56%) XML
2 1 (11.11%) .NET
2 1 (11.11%) ASP
2 1 (11.11%) ASP.NET
2 1 (11.11%) Web Services
Applications
1 5 (55.56%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 5 (55.56%) SSH
1 5 (55.56%) Broadband
1 5 (55.56%) SNMP
2 1 (11.11%) Ethernet
2 1 (11.11%) TCP/IP
2 1 (11.11%) SAN
2 1 (11.11%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Eclipse
1 1 (11.11%) Subversion
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Administrator
2 2 (22.22%) Software Developer
2 2 (22.22%) Software Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Support Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Graduate
3 1 (11.11%) Software Support Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Software Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Support Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Embedded Software Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Graduate Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Firmware
1 1 (11.11%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 7 (77.78%) Linux
2 6 (66.67%) UNIX
2 6 (66.67%) Windows
3 1 (11.11%) Debian
3 1 (11.11%) Embedded Linux
3 1 (11.11%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Asset Management
1 5 (55.56%) Web Development
1 5 (55.56%) Data Modelling
2 1 (11.11%) OO
2 1 (11.11%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (11.11%) Software Engineering
2 1 (11.11%) Digital Signal Processing
2 1 (11.11%) Signal Processing
Programming Languages
1 7 (77.78%) SQL
1 7 (77.78%) C#
2 6 (66.67%) Shell Script
2 6 (66.67%) Java
3 5 (55.56%) AWK
3 5 (55.56%) sed
3 5 (55.56%) Perl
3 5 (55.56%) T-SQL
3 5 (55.56%) VBScript
4 1 (11.11%) VB
4 1 (11.11%) VB.NET
4 1 (11.11%) PHP
4 1 (11.11%) C++
4 1 (11.11%) VB6
Qualifications
1 6 (66.67%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (55.56%) WMI
Vendors
1 5 (55.56%) Altiris
2 1 (11.11%) VMware