C Jobs in the South East

C
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for C skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited C over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 82 117 68
Rank change year-on-year +35 -49 +115
Permanent jobs citing C 524 415 910
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 3.16% 2.75% 4.62%
As % of the Programming Languages category 10.56% 6.85% 9.45%
Number of salaries quoted 383 250 324
10th Percentile £35,500 £32,500 £34,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,500 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.83% +14.29% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £72,875 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,750 £81,250 £72,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.00% +8.70% +4.55%

All Programming Languages
South East

C is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 4,960 6,058 9,627
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 29.87% 40.18% 48.85%
Number of salaries quoted 4,005 3,939 6,450
10th Percentile £34,000 £34,324 £33,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £44,525 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £68,750 £73,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +8.70%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing C as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for C in the South East

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Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing C in the South East.

Salary trend for C in the South East

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Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing C in the South East over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for C in the South East

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Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing C within the South East region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Thames Valley +16 189 £57,500 +32.95% 66
Hampshire +21 155 £55,000 -16.98% 31
Surrey +40 98 £60,000 -4.00% 30
Oxfordshire +33 88 £57,500 +53.33% 29
Berkshire +27 60 £58,000 +12.95% 17
Kent +18 48 £44,750 -28.40% 4
Buckinghamshire -32 41 £52,501 +39.78% 20
West Sussex +33 20 £55,000 -12.00% 13
East Sussex +10 15 £47,500 -32.14% 2
Sussex -25 1 - -
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England

C
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 9 (1.72%) Confluence
2 8 (1.53%) Apache
3 3 (0.57%) Kinematics
4 2 (0.38%) IBM Domino
4 2 (0.38%) Umbraco
5 1 (0.19%) CMS
5 1 (0.19%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.19%) IIS
5 1 (0.19%) Kentico
5 1 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 55 (10.50%) Simulink
2 32 (6.11%) Stateflow
3 7 (1.34%) CANalyzer
4 5 (0.95%) Doxygen
4 5 (0.95%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.38%) TargetLink
6 1 (0.19%) GNU Octave
6 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Excel
6 1 (0.19%) OrCAD
6 1 (0.19%) SOLIDWORKS
6 1 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (0.57%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.19%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 28 (5.34%) SaaS
2 20 (3.82%) Azure
3 14 (2.67%) Power Platform
4 11 (2.10%) AWS
4 11 (2.10%) GitHub
5 5 (0.95%) GCP
6 4 (0.76%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (0.38%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (0.19%) Azure Stack
8 1 (0.19%) Kontent
Communications & Networking
1 21 (4.01%) J1939
2 16 (3.05%) TCP/IP
3 14 (2.67%) Wireless
4 10 (1.91%) RS-485
5 7 (1.34%) Bluetooth
5 7 (1.34%) Ethernet
5 7 (1.34%) Internet
6 6 (1.15%) Network Security
7 5 (0.95%) RS-232
8 4 (0.76%) 5G
8 4 (0.76%) LoRaWAN
8 4 (0.76%) Wireshark
9 3 (0.57%) 3GPP
10 2 (0.38%) Modbus
10 2 (0.38%) MQTT
10 2 (0.38%) RFID
11 1 (0.19%) 4G
11 1 (0.19%) LTE
11 1 (0.19%) Software-Defined Radio
11 1 (0.19%) SpaceWire
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (2.67%) Power BI
2 10 (1.91%) SQL Server
3 9 (1.72%) MySQL
4 6 (1.15%) MongoDB
5 5 (0.95%) Relational Database
6 4 (0.76%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (0.38%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 42 (8.02%) JIRA
2 37 (7.06%) Git
3 36 (6.87%) Visual Studio
4 21 (4.01%) ClearCase
4 21 (4.01%) Plastic SCM
5 18 (3.44%) Jenkins
6 16 (3.05%) Subversion
7 14 (2.67%) ClearQuest
8 12 (2.29%) Bitbucket
9 7 (1.34%) CMake
9 7 (1.34%) GitLab
9 7 (1.34%) Team Foundation Server
9 7 (1.34%) TestRail
10 6 (1.15%) GDB
11 3 (0.57%) Eclipse
11 3 (0.57%) JMeter
11 3 (0.57%) LoadRunner
12 2 (0.38%) GCC
13 1 (0.19%) Mercurial
13 1 (0.19%) TeamCity
General
1 132 (25.19%) Electronics
2 100 (19.08%) Social Skills
3 66 (12.60%) Analytical Skills
4 49 (9.35%) Marketing
5 41 (7.82%) Automotive
5 41 (7.82%) Telecoms
6 39 (7.44%) Manufacturing
7 36 (6.87%) Finance
8 26 (4.96%) Aerospace
9 23 (4.39%) Public Sector
10 19 (3.63%) Military
11 14 (2.67%) Brand Awareness
11 14 (2.67%) Retail
12 12 (2.29%) Organisational Skills
13 7 (1.34%) Publishing
14 5 (0.95%) Aviation
15 4 (0.76%) Games
16 2 (0.38%) Law
16 2 (0.38%) Legal
16 2 (0.38%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 269 (51.34%) Software Engineer
2 119 (22.71%) Embedded Engineer
3 117 (22.33%) Senior
4 82 (15.65%) Embedded Software Engineer
5 63 (12.02%) Developer
6 52 (9.92%) Senior Software Engineer
7 47 (8.97%) C++ Software Engineer
8 38 (7.25%) Software Developer
9 32 (6.11%) Senior Embedded Engineer
10 28 (5.34%) Graduate
11 27 (5.15%) Lead
12 25 (4.77%) Electronics Engineer
13 24 (4.58%) Junior
14 23 (4.39%) Applications Engineer
15 20 (3.82%) Systems Engineer
16 19 (3.63%) Graduate Software Engineer
16 19 (3.63%) Python Engineer
17 17 (3.24%) Embedded Developer
18 16 (3.05%) C++ Developer
18 16 (3.05%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (8.59%) .NET
2 28 (5.34%) WPF
3 27 (5.15%) HTML
3 27 (5.15%) Qt
4 23 (4.39%) .NET Framework
5 20 (3.82%) OpenMP
6 19 (3.63%) HTML5
7 14 (2.67%) JSON
7 14 (2.67%) OpenACC
8 12 (2.29%) CSS
9 11 (2.10%) React
9 11 (2.10%) Web Services
10 10 (1.91%) ASP.NET
10 10 (1.91%) OpenGL
10 10 (1.91%) Vulkan
11 7 (1.34%) AngularJS
11 7 (1.34%) OpenCL
11 7 (1.34%) QML
11 7 (1.34%) REST
11 7 (1.34%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 114 (21.76%) Algorithms
2 76 (14.50%) Embedded Systems
3 46 (8.78%) IoT
4 34 (6.49%) Analogue Electronics
5 33 (6.30%) FPGA
6 31 (5.92%) Analytical Mindset
7 27 (5.15%) CUDA
8 25 (4.77%) Product Ownership
9 23 (4.39%) VHDL
10 21 (4.01%) Mobile App
10 21 (4.01%) Satnav
11 20 (3.82%) Greenfield Project
12 19 (3.63%) Robotics
13 18 (3.44%) Data Structures
14 17 (3.24%) Device Driver
14 17 (3.24%) Raspberry Pi
15 15 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
16 11 (2.10%) Distributed Systems
17 10 (1.91%) Digital Media
18 9 (1.72%) Arduino
Operating Systems
1 196 (37.40%) Linux
2 92 (17.56%) Windows
3 37 (7.06%) Embedded Linux
4 31 (5.92%) Unix
5 13 (2.48%) Ubuntu
6 12 (2.29%) Windows 10
7 4 (0.76%) AIX
7 4 (0.76%) FreeRTOS
8 3 (0.57%) Android
9 2 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.19%) CentOS
10 1 (0.19%) VxWorks
10 1 (0.19%) Windows Server
10 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 341 (65.08%) Software Engineering
2 137 (26.15%) Problem-Solving
3 116 (22.14%) Mathematics
4 114 (21.76%) Computer Science
5 96 (18.32%) Agile
6 93 (17.75%) Physics
7 59 (11.26%) Software Testing
8 56 (10.69%) Multithreading
9 44 (8.40%) Artificial Intelligence
9 44 (8.40%) Code Quality
10 40 (7.63%) DevOps
10 40 (7.63%) Machine Learning
11 39 (7.44%) Software Architecture
12 38 (7.25%) Prototyping
12 38 (7.25%) SDLC
13 37 (7.06%) Digital Marketing
13 37 (7.06%) Signal Processing
14 36 (6.87%) Customer Requirements
15 34 (6.49%) Schematic Capture
16 33 (6.30%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 262 (50.00%) C++
2 190 (36.26%) Python
3 116 (22.14%) C#
4 87 (16.60%) Java
5 74 (14.12%) Embedded C
6 51 (9.73%) Fortran
7 50 (9.54%) MATLAB
8 44 (8.40%) JavaScript
9 28 (5.34%) Bash
10 24 (4.58%) Perl
11 17 (3.24%) XAML
12 15 (2.86%) Haskell
13 14 (2.67%) Go
14 13 (2.48%) PowerShell
15 11 (2.10%) Embedded C++
16 10 (1.91%) Assembly Language
16 10 (1.91%) SQL
17 8 (1.53%) PHP
18 7 (1.34%) C-shell
19 5 (0.95%) Ada
Qualifications
1 250 (47.71%) Degree
2 84 (16.03%) Security Cleared
3 76 (14.50%) PhD
4 63 (12.02%) Master's Degree
5 62 (11.83%) Computer Science Degree
6 53 (10.11%) SC Cleared
7 25 (4.77%) DV Cleared
8 12 (2.29%) HND
9 4 (0.76%) CESG Certified Professional
9 4 (0.76%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.38%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.19%) MCP
11 1 (0.19%) Numerate Degree
11 1 (0.19%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (8.21%) QA
2 22 (4.20%) ISO 26262
2 22 (4.20%) MISRA
3 21 (4.01%) Automotive SPICE
3 21 (4.01%) Software Quality Assurance
4 14 (2.67%) AUTOSAR
5 8 (1.53%) ISO 13485
6 4 (0.76%) GDPR
7 2 (0.38%) PMO
8 1 (0.19%) IEC 62304
8 1 (0.19%) JTAG
8 1 (0.19%) SLA
System Software
1 83 (15.84%) Firmware
2 44 (8.40%) Embedded Firmware
3 11 (2.10%) Docker
4 4 (0.76%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.19%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 1 (0.19%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 9 (1.72%) Functional Safety
2 8 (1.53%) Kubernetes
3 6 (1.15%) Ansible
4 2 (0.38%) Grafana
4 2 (0.38%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.38%) Terraform
5 1 (0.19%) SCCM
Vendors
1 59 (11.26%) Microsoft
2 24 (4.58%) SAP
3 21 (4.01%) IBM
3 21 (4.01%) Lauterbach
4 11 (2.10%) Xilinx
5 8 (1.53%) Oracle
6 7 (1.34%) Facebook
6 7 (1.34%) Instagram
7 6 (1.15%) EMC
8 5 (0.95%) Google
9 4 (0.76%) Atlassian
9 4 (0.76%) VMware
10 3 (0.57%) Dynatrace
10 3 (0.57%) Renesas
10 3 (0.57%) Samsung
11 2 (0.38%) Splunk
11 2 (0.38%) Thales
12 1 (0.19%) Intel
12 1 (0.19%) Optimizely
12 1 (0.19%) Sitecore