North West C Jobs

This section looks at the demand for C skills within the North West region with a comparison to our Programming Languages category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited C over the 3 months to 25 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 Dursley 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 Highlands Home Counties Hove Huddersfield Hull Humberside Huntingdon Ilford 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 Melton Mowbray 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 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 Sunderland 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 Wilmslow Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Winsford Witney Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Wotton-under-Edge York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	44	54
Rank change on same period last year	+10
Matching permanent IT job ads	494	464
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.261 %	0.190 %
As % of the category below	9.244 %	7.779 %
Salaries quoted	363	406
Average minimum salary	£31,480	£29,504
Average salary	£34,545	£32,709
% change on same period last year	+5.61 %
Average maximum salary	£37,609	£35,914
UK excluding London average salary	£37,294	£36,884
% change on same period last year	+1.11 %
Programming Languages North West
Matching permanent IT job ads	5344	5965
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	2.821 %	2.443 %
Salaries quoted	4509	5134
Average minimum salary	£29,476	£30,142
Average salary	£32,258	£32,890
% change on same period last year	-1.92 %
Average maximum salary	£35,041	£35,638
UK excluding London average salary	£35,180	£35,575
% change on same period last year	-1.10 %
C England

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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 North West 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 North West region.

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing C across the North West region over the 3 months to 25 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 jobs citing C within the North West region over the 3 months to 25 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
Manchester	+3	222	£34,147	+2.66 %
Cheshire	+8	168	£37,811	+20.38 %
Merseyside	+31	57	£24,902	-11.23 %
Lancashire	+13	38	£34,652	+31.58 %
Cumbria	-6	5	£34,000	+9.67 %

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the North West 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.

1 412 (38.36 %) C++ 2 196 (18.25 %) Windows 3 174 (16.20 %) Degree 4 161 (14.99 %) Linux 5 153 (14.25 %) UNIX 6 149 (13.87 %) Pensions 7 142 (13.22 %) Java 7 142 (13.22 %) Finance 8 140 (13.04 %) SQL 9 126 (11.73 %) C# 10 112 (10.43 %) Microsoft 11 107 (9.963 %) .NET 12 100 (9.311 %) Embedded C 13 91 (8.473 %) SQL Server 14 85 (7.914 %) Perl

15 81 (7.542 %) Oracle 16 73 (6.797 %) VB 16 73 (6.797 %) XML 17 68 (6.331 %) Mathematics 18 58 (5.400 %) Banking 19 57 (5.307 %) Retail 19 57 (5.307 %) ITIL 19 57 (5.307 %) JavaScript 20 55 (5.121 %) OO 21 54 (5.028 %) MS Excel 21 54 (5.028 %) Electronics 22 53 (4.935 %) Games 23 51 (4.749 %) Telecoms 23 51 (4.749 %) TCP/IP 24 47 (4.376 %) Citrix

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the North West 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 1 107 (9.963 %) .NET 2 73 (6.797 %) XML 3 40 (3.724 %) HTML 4 30 (2.793 %) WebSphere 5 28 (2.607 %) ASP.NET 6 25 (2.328 %) ASP 7 23 (2.142 %) BREW 8 21 (1.955 %) MFC 9 20 (1.862 %) WebServices 10 18 (1.676 %) J2SE 11 15 (1.397 %) J2ME 12 14 (1.304 %) CSS 13 13 (1.210 %) J2EE 13 13 (1.210 %) JSP 13 13 (1.210 %) AJAX 14 11 (1.024 %) Middleware 15 10 (0.931 %) OpenGL 15 10 (0.931 %) .NET Framework 16 9 (0.838 %) WAP 17 8 (0.745 %) DirectX	Application Platforms 1 33 (3.073 %) MS Exchange 2 31 (2.886 %) CICS 3 23 (2.142 %) Apache 4 15 (1.397 %) SAS 5 10 (0.931 %) Exchange Server 2000 5 10 (0.931 %) Exchange Server 2003 6 9 (0.838 %) Exchange Server 5.5 7 8 (0.745 %) Oracle Application Server 8 7 (0.652 %) Lotus Notes 9 6 (0.559 %) IIS 10 5 (0.466 %) Tomcat 11 4 (0.372 %) Oracle Workflow 12 2 (0.186 %) BizTalk Server 12 2 (0.186 %) SharePoint 13 1 (0.093 %) JBoss 13 1 (0.093 %) WebLogic 13 1 (0.093 %) Zope 13 1 (0.093 %) Plone 13 1 (0.093 %) NetWeaver 13 1 (0.093 %) Captiva
Applications 1 54 (5.028 %) MS Excel 2 17 (1.583 %) MS Office 3 15 (1.397 %) MS Visio 4 6 (0.559 %) MS PowerPoint 5 4 (0.372 %) MS Project 6 3 (0.279 %) Maya 6 3 (0.279 %) 3ds Max 6 3 (0.279 %) LightWave 3D 7 2 (0.186 %) Spreadsheet 8 1 (0.093 %) PrintSoft PReS 8 1 (0.093 %) MATLAB 8 1 (0.093 %) Simulink	Business Applications 1 9 (0.838 %) Oracle 11i 1 9 (0.838 %) Oracle Applications 2 2 (0.186 %) SAP MDM 2 2 (0.186 %) Oracle EBS 2 2 (0.186 %) Oracle Clinical 3 1 (0.093 %) LabWindows
Communications & Networking 1 51 (4.749 %) TCP/IP 2 31 (2.886 %) GSM 3 28 (2.607 %) VoIP 4 27 (2.514 %) DNS 5 26 (2.421 %) SAN 6 25 (2.328 %) SNA 6 25 (2.328 %) DHCP 7 21 (1.955 %) PSTN 8 19 (1.769 %) Firewall 9 18 (1.676 %) Wireless 10 15 (1.397 %) WAN 10 15 (1.397 %) NGN 11 11 (1.024 %) GPRS 11 11 (1.024 %) Bluetooth 11 11 (1.024 %) Wi-Fi 11 11 (1.024 %) DVB 12 9 (0.838 %) LAN 13 8 (0.745 %) Ethernet 14 7 (0.652 %) Internet 14 7 (0.652 %) WiMAX	Database & Business Intelligence 1 91 (8.473 %) SQL Server 2 31 (2.886 %) Oracle 9i 3 28 (2.607 %) Oracle 10g 4 21 (1.955 %) MySQL 5 20 (1.862 %) Oracle Reports 5 20 (1.862 %) RDBMS 6 19 (1.769 %) DB2 7 16 (1.490 %) Oracle 8/8i 8 15 (1.397 %) Datawarehouse 9 14 (1.304 %) ETL 10 11 (1.024 %) SQL Server 2000 11 10 (0.931 %) SQL Server 2005 12 9 (0.838 %) BusinessObjects 13 6 (0.559 %) Informix 14 4 (0.372 %) Oracle Discoverer 14 4 (0.372 %) Data Cleansing 15 3 (0.279 %) BusinessObjects XI 15 3 (0.279 %) Crystal Reports 15 3 (0.279 %) MS Access 16 2 (0.186 %) PostgreSQL
Development Applications 1 28 (2.607 %) Visual Studio 2 23 (2.142 %) Oracle Forms 3 17 (1.583 %) Eclipse 4 9 (0.838 %) JBuilder 4 9 (0.838 %) Rational Rose 5 6 (0.559 %) QuickTest Pro 6 5 (0.466 %) ERwin 7 4 (0.372 %) TestDirector 7 4 (0.372 %) LabVIEW 7 4 (0.372 %) Oracle APEX 8 2 (0.186 %) Rational Robot 8 2 (0.186 %) WinRunner 8 2 (0.186 %) Flash 8 2 (0.186 %) VSS/SourceSafe 9 1 (0.093 %) Dreamweaver 9 1 (0.093 %) JDeveloper 9 1 (0.093 %) Ant 9 1 (0.093 %) ProC 9 1 (0.093 %) TestPartner	General 1 149 (13.87 %) Pensions 2 142 (13.22 %) Finance 3 58 (5.400 %) Banking 4 57 (5.307 %) Retail 5 54 (5.028 %) Electronics 6 53 (4.935 %) Games 7 51 (4.749 %) Telecoms 8 39 (3.631 %) Education 9 31 (2.886 %) Marketing 10 28 (2.607 %) Insurance 11 27 (2.514 %) Electric 11 27 (2.514 %) Health 12 21 (1.955 %) Publishing 13 19 (1.769 %) Aerospace 13 19 (1.769 %) Automotive 14 18 (1.676 %) Government 15 12 (1.117 %) Manufacturing 16 8 (0.745 %) Mobile Games 17 6 (0.559 %) Legal 18 5 (0.466 %) Military
Job Titles 1 231 (21.51 %) Developer 2 161 (14.99 %) Software Engineer 3 110 (10.24 %) Analyst 4 72 (6.704 %) Programmer 5 70 (6.518 %) C++ Developer 6 65 (6.052 %) Administrator 7 62 (5.773 %) Consultant 8 60 (5.587 %) Software Developer 9 46 (4.283 %) Graduate 10 44 (4.097 %) Systems Administrator 11 43 (4.004 %) Project Manager 12 40 (3.724 %) Architect 12 40 (3.724 %) Embedded Software Engineer 13 34 (3.166 %) UNIX Administrator 14 29 (2.700 %) Trainee 15 28 (2.607 %) Senior Developer 15 28 (2.607 %) C Developer 16 27 (2.514 %) Support Analyst 17 26 (2.421 %) C++ Software Developer 18 24 (2.235 %) UNIX Systems Administrator	Miscellaneous 1 68 (6.331 %) Mathematics 2 43 (4.004 %) Computer Science 3 31 (2.886 %) Multithreading 4 25 (2.328 %) Field-Programmable Gate Array 4 25 (2.328 %) PMI 5 22 (2.048 %) Device Driver 6 21 (1.955 %) SCADA 7 19 (1.769 %) MPEG 8 17 (1.583 %) Statistics 9 16 (1.490 %) Mainframe 10 15 (1.397 %) IVR 11 12 (1.117 %) Credit Risk 11 12 (1.117 %) DTV 11 12 (1.117 %) Client/Server 12 10 (0.931 %) Management Information System 12 10 (0.931 %) Clustering 13 9 (0.838 %) Blackberry 13 9 (0.838 %) VHDL 14 8 (0.745 %) Firmware 14 8 (0.745 %) STB
Operating Systems 1 196 (18.25 %) Windows 2 161 (14.99 %) Linux 3 153 (14.25 %) UNIX 4 45 (4.190 %) Solaris 4 45 (4.190 %) AIX 5 25 (2.328 %) Windows Mobile 6 22 (2.048 %) Windows NT 6 22 (2.048 %) VxWorks 7 21 (1.955 %) Embedded Linux 8 16 (1.490 %) Windows CE 8 16 (1.490 %) Windows 2000 9 14 (1.304 %) HPUX 10 6 (0.559 %) Debian 10 6 (0.559 %) Fedora 11 5 (0.466 %) Symbian OS 12 4 (0.372 %) Windows Server 2003 13 2 (0.186 %) Nucleus RTOS 13 2 (0.186 %) Palm OS 13 2 (0.186 %) Tru64 13 2 (0.186 %) LynxOS	Processes & Methodologies 1 57 (5.307 %) ITIL 2 55 (5.121 %) OO 3 45 (4.190 %) Project Management 4 39 (3.631 %) UML 5 37 (3.445 %) Security Cleared 6 33 (3.073 %) SC Cleared 7 31 (2.886 %) PRINCE2 8 29 (2.700 %) Change Management 9 24 (2.235 %) Workflow 9 24 (2.235 %) Migration 9 24 (2.235 %) Systems Analysis 10 23 (2.142 %) Service Delivery 10 23 (2.142 %) Service Management 11 22 (2.048 %) Risk Management 12 20 (1.862 %) Data Analysis 13 18 (1.676 %) Software Engineering 14 17 (1.583 %) Business Analysis 14 17 (1.583 %) Supplier Management 14 17 (1.583 %) Software Testing 15 15 (1.397 %) Validation
Programming Languages 1 412 (38.36 %) C++ 2 142 (13.22 %) Java 3 140 (13.04 %) SQL 4 126 (11.73 %) C# 5 100 (9.311 %) Embedded C 6 85 (7.914 %) Perl 7 73 (6.797 %) VB 8 57 (5.307 %) JavaScript 9 43 (4.004 %) Shell Script 10 42 (3.911 %) Embedded C++ 11 41 (3.818 %) VB.NET 12 34 (3.166 %) Assembly Language 13 26 (2.421 %) PHP 14 24 (2.235 %) PL/SQL 15 23 (2.142 %) COBOL 16 17 (1.583 %) Delphi 17 13 (1.210 %) VBScript 18 11 (1.024 %) VC++ 19 10 (0.931 %) Ruby 20 9 (0.838 %) VB6	Qualifications 1 174 (16.20 %) Degree 2 40 (3.724 %) Microsoft Certification 3 22 (2.048 %) Cisco Certification 4 21 (1.955 %) HNC 5 20 (1.862 %) CCNA 6 13 (1.210 %) MCSE 7 11 (1.024 %) CISSP 7 11 (1.024 %) CISM 8 8 (0.745 %) ITIL Certification 9 7 (0.652 %) OCP 9 7 (0.652 %) Oracle Certification 9 7 (0.652 %) ISEB 10 4 (0.372 %) HND 10 4 (0.372 %) Postgraduate 11 2 (0.186 %) MCSA 11 2 (0.186 %) NVQ Level 3 12 1 (0.093 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 12 1 (0.093 %) ISEB Practitioner 12 1 (0.093 %) MCP 12 1 (0.093 %) MCDBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 18 (1.676 %) QA 2 15 (1.397 %) SLA 3 8 (0.745 %) Basel II 4 5 (0.466 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 5 4 (0.372 %) JTAG 6 2 (0.186 %) ISO9000	System Software 1 25 (2.328 %) Active Directory 1 25 (2.328 %) Citrix Presentation Server 2 12 (1.117 %) MetaFrame 3 9 (0.838 %) ISA Server 3 9 (0.838 %) RACF 3 9 (0.838 %) VMware ESX 4 5 (0.466 %) Nmap 5 4 (0.372 %) Terminal Server 6 1 (0.093 %) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management 1 17 (1.583 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 2 9 (0.838 %) OpenView Configuration Management 3 7 (0.652 %) Tivoli 4 5 (0.466 %) Nessus 4 5 (0.466 %) ServiceCenter 5 3 (0.279 %) AssetCenter 6 2 (0.186 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 7 1 (0.093 %) MOM 7 1 (0.093 %) SCCM 7 1 (0.093 %) SCOM	Vendors 1 112 (10.43 %) Microsoft 2 81 (7.542 %) Oracle 3 47 (4.376 %) Citrix 4 36 (3.352 %) Cisco 5 35 (3.259 %) Symbian 6 27 (2.514 %) BT 7 20 (1.862 %) IBM 8 16 (1.490 %) Avaya 8 16 (1.490 %) Siemens 9 15 (1.397 %) HP 10 14 (1.304 %) Toshiba 11 11 (1.024 %) Compaq 11 11 (1.024 %) Ab Initio 12 10 (0.931 %) Red Hat 13 9 (0.838 %) Dell 13 9 (0.838 %) Business Objects 14 8 (0.745 %) Juniper 14 8 (0.745 %) Niku 14 8 (0.745 %) Redback 14 8 (0.745 %) Xilinx