South West C Jobs

This section looks at the demand for C skills within the South 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	18	14
Rank change on same period last year	-4
Matching permanent IT job ads	1036	989
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.547 %	0.405 %
As % of the category below	17.35 %	18.54 %
Salaries quoted	941	771
Average minimum salary	£31,650	£31,163
Average salary	£35,616	£34,916
% change on same period last year	+2.00 %
Average maximum salary	£39,582	£38,669
UK excluding London average salary	£37,294	£36,884
% change on same period last year	+1.11 %
Programming Languages South West
Matching permanent IT job ads	5971	5335
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	3.152 %	2.185 %
Salaries quoted	5285	4520
Average minimum salary	£30,341	£30,634
Average salary	£33,641	£33,799
% change on same period last year	-0.46 %
Average maximum salary	£36,941	£36,964
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 South 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 South West region.

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing C across the South 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 South 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
Bristol	-4	343	£36,432	+6.72 %
Gloucestershire	+13	227	£34,210	+2.23 %
Somerset	-7	154	£33,966	+3.64 %
Wiltshire	-11	142	£38,328	-2.55 %
Dorset	+5	93	£35,165	-2.65 %
Devon	+1	38	£35,437	-1.21 %
Avon	+8	13	£41,423	+43.24 %
Cornwall	+1	6	£21,000	-35.97 %

C England

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the South 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 1169 (52.63 %) C++ 2 579 (26.07 %) Java 3 446 (20.08 %) Degree 4 412 (18.55 %) Windows 5 390 (17.56 %) Linux 6 379 (17.06 %) SQL Server 7 357 (16.07 %) Oracle 8 347 (15.62 %) SQL 8 347 (15.62 %) C# 9 339 (15.26 %) .NET 10 333 (14.99 %) Embedded C 11 330 (14.86 %) UML 12 295 (13.28 %) Electronics 13 282 (12.70 %) UNIX 14 261 (11.75 %) XML

15 222 (9.995 %) Pensions 16 210 (9.455 %) Software Engineering 17 207 (9.320 %) HTML 18 184 (8.285 %) Finance 19 182 (8.195 %) Wireless 20 179 (8.059 %) Telecoms 21 177 (7.969 %) Computer Science 22 159 (7.159 %) OO 23 156 (7.024 %) Visual Studio 24 153 (6.889 %) Microsoft 25 137 (6.168 %) Perl 26 127 (5.718 %) VB 27 126 (5.673 %) JavaScript 27 126 (5.673 %) ASP.NET 28 124 (5.583 %) Health

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the South 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 1 339 (15.26 %) .NET 2 261 (11.75 %) XML 3 207 (9.320 %) HTML 4 126 (5.673 %) ASP.NET 5 96 (4.322 %) J2EE 6 95 (4.277 %) WebServices 7 83 (3.737 %) CSS 8 81 (3.647 %) .NET Framework 9 69 (3.107 %) ASP 10 62 (2.792 %) XHTML 11 57 (2.566 %) MFC 12 53 (2.386 %) AJAX 13 29 (1.306 %) SOAP 14 22 (0.991 %) XSLT 15 21 (0.946 %) XSD 16 18 (0.810 %) JSP 16 18 (0.810 %) DirectX 17 17 (0.765 %) WinForms 18 15 (0.675 %) WAP 19 14 (0.630 %) WML	Application Platforms 1 63 (2.837 %) WebLogic 2 33 (1.486 %) IIS 3 27 (1.216 %) Apache 4 24 (1.081 %) BizTalk Server 5 19 (0.855 %) Oracle Spatial 6 18 (0.810 %) MS Exchange 7 15 (0.675 %) OpenROAD 7 15 (0.675 %) SharePoint 8 11 (0.495 %) Exchange Server 2003 8 11 (0.495 %) ESB 9 9 (0.405 %) Exchange Server 2000 10 8 (0.360 %) SAS 11 7 (0.315 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server 11 7 (0.315 %) SharePoint Server 2007 11 7 (0.315 %) Exchange Server 2007 12 5 (0.225 %) SharePoint Portal Server 13 2 (0.090 %) Exchange Server 5.5 13 2 (0.090 %) Site Server 13 2 (0.090 %) OpenEdge 13 2 (0.090 %) ColdFusion
Applications 1 120 (5.403 %) MS Excel 2 83 (3.737 %) MS Office 3 35 (1.576 %) MATLAB 4 21 (0.946 %) Simulink 5 18 (0.810 %) MS PowerPoint 6 11 (0.495 %) MS Project 7 10 (0.450 %) Photoshop 8 5 (0.225 %) MS Visio 8 5 (0.225 %) InfoPath 9 3 (0.135 %) Windchill 10 2 (0.090 %) Acrobat 10 2 (0.090 %) Spreadsheet 10 2 (0.090 %) S-PLUS 11 1 (0.045 %) 3ds Max 11 1 (0.045 %) CATIA 11 1 (0.045 %) Adobe Illustrator 11 1 (0.045 %) Shockwave 11 1 (0.045 %) AutoCAD	Business Applications 1 37 (1.666 %) Summit 2 13 (0.585 %) AWD 3 9 (0.405 %) Microsoft CRM 4 8 (0.360 %) LabWindows 5 3 (0.135 %) Endur 5 3 (0.135 %) Staffware 6 2 (0.090 %) Pegasus Opera 6 2 (0.090 %) SAP HR 7 1 (0.045 %) SAP FI 7 1 (0.045 %) SAP FI/CO 7 1 (0.045 %) MAXIMO 7 1 (0.045 %) assyst 7 1 (0.045 %) Cognos Business Intelligence 7 1 (0.045 %) SyteLine 7 1 (0.045 %) SAP ERP 7 1 (0.045 %) Line 500 7 1 (0.045 %) SAP CO
Communications & Networking 1 182 (8.195 %) Wireless 2 108 (4.863 %) Internet 3 102 (4.593 %) TCP/IP 4 66 (2.972 %) Ethernet 5 40 (1.801 %) DNS 6 39 (1.756 %) GPRS 7 38 (1.711 %) Intranet 8 33 (1.486 %) Network Security 9 31 (1.396 %) GSM 10 30 (1.351 %) SMTP 10 30 (1.351 %) FTP 11 29 (1.306 %) SNMP 11 29 (1.306 %) 3G 12 28 (1.261 %) HTTPS 13 26 (1.171 %) SSL 13 26 (1.171 %) LAN 14 25 (1.126 %) WAN 14 25 (1.126 %) HTTP 15 24 (1.081 %) UMTS 15 24 (1.081 %) SSH	Database & Business Intelligence 1 379 (17.06 %) SQL Server 2 99 (4.457 %) RDBMS 3 62 (2.792 %) SQL Server 2000 4 57 (2.566 %) Crystal Reports 5 41 (1.846 %) MySQL 6 35 (1.576 %) GIS 7 26 (1.171 %) BusinessObjects 7 26 (1.171 %) MS Access 8 24 (1.081 %) SQL Server 7 9 20 (0.900 %) Oracle 8/8i 10 16 (0.720 %) SQL Server 2005 11 13 (0.585 %) DB2 11 13 (0.585 %) Ingres 12 12 (0.540 %) Oracle 9i 13 9 (0.405 %) Oracle Reports 14 6 (0.270 %) OLAP 14 6 (0.270 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 15 5 (0.225 %) NovaView 16 3 (0.135 %) Oracle 10g 17 2 (0.090 %) Datawarehouse
Development Applications 1 156 (7.024 %) Visual Studio 2 34 (1.531 %) Flash 3 33 (1.486 %) ClearCase 4 18 (0.810 %) Subversion 5 16 (0.720 %) PVCS 6 14 (0.630 %) LabVIEW 7 6 (0.270 %) StarTeam 7 6 (0.270 %) Dreamweaver 8 5 (0.225 %) C++Builder 8 5 (0.225 %) Rational Rose 9 4 (0.180 %) Oracle Forms 10 3 (0.135 %) Eclipse 10 3 (0.135 %) ARTiSAN 10 3 (0.135 %) ClearQuest 11 2 (0.090 %) TestDirector 12 1 (0.045 %) WebSpeed 12 1 (0.045 %) Oracle APEX 12 1 (0.045 %) Ant 12 1 (0.045 %) VSS/SourceSafe	General 1 295 (13.28 %) Electronics 2 222 (9.995 %) Pensions 3 184 (8.285 %) Finance 4 179 (8.059 %) Telecoms 5 124 (5.583 %) Health 6 110 (4.953 %) Aerospace 7 100 (4.502 %) Government 8 81 (3.647 %) Marketing 9 41 (1.846 %) Billing 10 39 (1.756 %) Games 11 29 (1.306 %) Insurance 11 29 (1.306 %) Construction 12 28 (1.261 %) Multimedia 13 27 (1.216 %) Manufacturing 13 27 (1.216 %) Back Office 14 26 (1.171 %) Retail 15 25 (1.126 %) Home Office 15 25 (1.126 %) Automotive 16 22 (0.991 %) Electric 16 22 (0.991 %) Military
Job Titles 1 773 (34.80 %) Software Engineer 2 606 (27.29 %) Developer 3 190 (8.555 %) Software Developer 4 148 (6.664 %) C Software Engineer 5 138 (6.213 %) Embedded Software Engineer 6 126 (5.673 %) C Developer 7 116 (5.223 %) C++ Software Engineer 8 112 (5.043 %) C++ Developer 9 102 (4.593 %) .NET Developer 10 99 (4.457 %) Analyst 11 92 (4.142 %) Consultant 12 88 (3.962 %) Programmer 13 79 (3.557 %) Systems Engineer 14 73 (3.287 %) Design Engineer 15 72 (3.242 %) Graduate 16 71 (3.197 %) Embedded C Engineer 17 64 (2.882 %) Web Developer 18 63 (2.837 %) Senior Software Engineer 19 55 (2.476 %) Principal Engineer 20 53 (2.386 %) Team Leader	Miscellaneous 1 177 (7.969 %) Computer Science 2 119 (5.358 %) Device Driver 3 69 (3.107 %) Firmware 4 63 (2.837 %) N-Tier 4 63 (2.837 %) Physics 5 57 (2.566 %) Mathematics 6 54 (2.431 %) Client/Server 7 45 (2.026 %) Field-Programmable Gate Array 8 21 (0.946 %) VHDL 9 18 (0.810 %) Artificial Intelligence 10 14 (0.630 %) Remote Sensing 11 11 (0.495 %) DTV 12 10 (0.450 %) Verilog 12 10 (0.450 %) W3C 12 10 (0.450 %) PKI 13 8 (0.360 %) IPTV 13 8 (0.360 %) Handset 13 8 (0.360 %) ASIC 14 7 (0.315 %) Blackberry 14 7 (0.315 %) Thin Client
Operating Systems 1 412 (18.55 %) Windows 2 390 (17.56 %) Linux 3 282 (12.70 %) UNIX 4 66 (2.972 %) Embedded Linux 5 37 (1.666 %) Windows CE 6 32 (1.441 %) Windows XP 7 30 (1.351 %) Windows Mobile 8 29 (1.306 %) VxWorks 9 26 (1.171 %) Windows 2000 10 25 (1.126 %) Windows Server 2003 11 20 (0.900 %) Solaris 12 19 (0.855 %) Windows NT 13 12 (0.540 %) Nucleus RTOS 14 8 (0.360 %) Mac OS X 15 5 (0.225 %) FreeBSD 16 4 (0.180 %) HPUX 17 3 (0.135 %) AIX 17 3 (0.135 %) VMS 18 2 (0.090 %) Ubuntu 19 1 (0.045 %) Windows Vista	Processes & Methodologies 1 330 (14.86 %) UML 2 210 (9.455 %) Software Engineering 3 159 (7.159 %) OO 4 120 (5.403 %) Security Cleared 5 96 (4.322 %) Project Management 6 79 (3.557 %) Validation 7 73 (3.287 %) OOD 8 48 (2.161 %) PRINCE2 9 47 (2.116 %) E-Commerce 10 46 (2.071 %) Web Development 11 45 (2.026 %) Business Development 12 37 (1.666 %) CRM 12 37 (1.666 %) Service Management 13 36 (1.621 %) Systems Analysis 14 31 (1.396 %) Requirements Analysis 15 30 (1.351 %) Workflow 16 28 (1.261 %) Business Intelligence 16 28 (1.261 %) ITIL 16 28 (1.261 %) SC Cleared 17 27 (1.216 %) OOA/OOD
Programming Languages 1 1169 (52.63 %) C++ 2 579 (26.07 %) Java 3 347 (15.62 %) SQL 3 347 (15.62 %) C# 4 333 (14.99 %) Embedded C 5 137 (6.168 %) Perl 6 127 (5.718 %) VB 7 126 (5.673 %) JavaScript 8 121 (5.448 %) Assembly Language 9 95 (4.277 %) Embedded C++ 10 71 (3.197 %) PHP 11 63 (2.837 %) Ada 12 61 (2.747 %) VB.NET 13 58 (2.611 %) Python 14 44 (1.981 %) Delphi 15 30 (1.351 %) Tcl 15 30 (1.351 %) Shell Script 16 27 (1.216 %) VC++ 16 27 (1.216 %) VBScript 17 24 (1.081 %) PL/SQL	Qualifications 1 446 (20.08 %) Degree 2 30 (1.351 %) HND 3 17 (0.765 %) Microsoft Certification 4 13 (0.585 %) MCAD 5 11 (0.495 %) Cisco Certification 6 10 (0.450 %) MCSD 6 10 (0.450 %) PhD 6 10 (0.450 %) CCNA 7 9 (0.405 %) ISEB 8 5 (0.225 %) HNC 9 4 (0.180 %) CCNP 9 4 (0.180 %) CISSP 9 4 (0.180 %) PRINCE2 Certification 9 4 (0.180 %) CISM 10 3 (0.135 %) ITIL Certification 10 3 (0.135 %) ACCA 11 2 (0.090 %) CCSP 11 2 (0.090 %) MCSE 11 2 (0.090 %) CIMA 11 2 (0.090 %) Chartered Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 23 (1.036 %) QA 2 5 (0.225 %) SLA 3 4 (0.180 %) ISO9001 4 2 (0.090 %) ISO9000	System Software 1 24 (1.081 %) Active Directory 2 19 (0.855 %) MSMQ 3 4 (0.180 %) VMware ESX 3 4 (0.180 %) VMware Infrastructure 4 3 (0.135 %) Oracle RMAN 4 3 (0.135 %) Terminal Services 5 2 (0.090 %) ISA Server 5 2 (0.090 %) NetBackup 5 2 (0.090 %) Backup Exec 5 2 (0.090 %) NFS 6 1 (0.045 %) MetaFrame 6 1 (0.045 %) Orbix
Systems Management 1 3 (0.135 %) Unicenter 2 2 (0.090 %) AutoSys 2 2 (0.090 %) CA SiteMinder 2 2 (0.090 %) SCOM 2 2 (0.090 %) HP Data Protector 2 2 (0.090 %) CiscoWorks	Vendors 1 357 (16.07 %) Oracle 2 153 (6.889 %) Microsoft 3 26 (1.171 %) Business Objects 4 25 (1.126 %) Symbian 5 23 (1.036 %) ESRI 6 14 (0.630 %) Adobe 7 11 (0.495 %) Sybase 8 10 (0.450 %) Borland 9 9 (0.405 %) Symantec 9 9 (0.405 %) Motorola 10 8 (0.360 %) Mapinfo 10 8 (0.360 %) Cisco 10 8 (0.360 %) BT 11 7 (0.315 %) SAP 11 7 (0.315 %) Intel 12 6 (0.270 %) Sun 13 5 (0.225 %) Macromedia 13 5 (0.225 %) Citrix 13 5 (0.225 %) QNX 14 4 (0.180 %) VMware