C Jobs in the South West

C
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 84 145 126
Rank change year-on-year +61 -19 +18
Permanent jobs citing C 282 133 220
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 3.06% 1.92% 2.74%
As % of the Programming Languages category 9.22% 5.10% 5.32%
Number of salaries quoted 227 70 89
10th Percentile £43,250 £42,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £40,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £63,750 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.80% +27.50% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £58,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £100,000 £70,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.00% +8.70% +4.55%

All Programming Languages
South West

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 West with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 3,058 2,610 4,139
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 33.15% 37.74% 51.61%
Number of salaries quoted 2,419 1,698 2,828
10th Percentile £32,500 £33,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £66,250 £71,250 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £81,312
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +8.70%

C
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for C in the South West

C
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary trend for C in the South West

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Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing C in the South West over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Salary histogram for C in the South West

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Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing C within the South West region over the 6 months to 4 May 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
Bristol +54 88 £57,500 -16.36% 47
Gloucestershire +7 74 £60,000 +9.09% 17
Dorset +10 47 £52,500 -8.70% 10
Wiltshire +13 35 £62,500 -10.71% 12
Devon +4 18 £50,000 +5.26% 6
Somerset +16 15 £50,000 -33.33% 11
C
England

C
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 4 (1.42%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.06%) Confluence
3 2 (0.71%) Apache
3 2 (0.71%) CMS
3 2 (0.71%) Headless CMS
3 2 (0.71%) IIS
3 2 (0.71%) Kentico
3 2 (0.71%) Sitecore CMS
3 2 (0.71%) Umbraco
Applications
1 17 (6.03%) Simulink
2 8 (2.84%) GNU Octave
Business Applications
1 2 (0.71%) Dynamics NAV
1 2 (0.71%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 19 (6.74%) AWS
2 7 (2.48%) Azure
3 2 (0.71%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (0.71%) Cloud Computing
3 2 (0.71%) Dynamics 365
3 2 (0.71%) GitHub
3 2 (0.71%) Kontent
3 2 (0.71%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 12 (4.26%) Wireless
2 10 (3.55%) 5G
2 10 (3.55%) TCP/IP
3 9 (3.19%) HTTP
3 9 (3.19%) Internet
4 8 (2.84%) DNS
4 8 (2.84%) SD-WAN
4 8 (2.84%) SMTP
4 8 (2.84%) WAN
5 7 (2.48%) Link 16
5 7 (2.48%) OFDM
6 5 (1.77%) Bluetooth
6 5 (1.77%) Network Security
7 4 (1.42%) Ethernet
8 3 (1.06%) Wireshark
9 2 (0.71%) 3GPP
9 2 (0.71%) PBX
9 2 (0.71%) RS-232
9 2 (0.71%) RTP
9 2 (0.71%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (3.19%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (2.48%) SQLite
3 4 (1.42%) Hadoop
4 3 (1.06%) Big Data
4 3 (1.06%) Data Mining
4 3 (1.06%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (1.06%) SQL Server
5 2 (0.71%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 20 (7.09%) Git
2 19 (6.74%) Rational Rhapsody
3 17 (6.03%) Jenkins
4 16 (5.67%) LabVIEW
5 13 (4.61%) JIRA
6 12 (4.26%) Visual Studio
7 7 (2.48%) Eclipse
7 7 (2.48%) Subversion
8 6 (2.13%) Rational DOORS
9 3 (1.06%) Android Studio
9 3 (1.06%) Bitbucket
9 3 (1.06%) IDA Disassembler
9 3 (1.06%) NetBeans
9 3 (1.06%) SonarQube
10 2 (0.71%) PetaLinux
11 1 (0.35%) GDB
General
1 53 (18.79%) Social Skills
2 34 (12.06%) Analytical Skills
2 34 (12.06%) Electronics
3 20 (7.09%) Finance
3 20 (7.09%) Marketing
3 20 (7.09%) Telecoms
4 16 (5.67%) Aerospace
4 16 (5.67%) Manufacturing
5 15 (5.32%) Public Sector
6 13 (4.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (3.19%) Automotive
8 8 (2.84%) Documentation Skills
8 8 (2.84%) Presentation Skills
8 8 (2.84%) Retail
9 7 (2.48%) Avionics
10 6 (2.13%) Law
11 4 (1.42%) French Language
11 4 (1.42%) German Language
11 4 (1.42%) Italian Language
11 4 (1.42%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 157 (55.67%) Software Engineer
2 92 (32.62%) Embedded Engineer
3 83 (29.43%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 73 (25.89%) Senior
5 53 (18.79%) Senior Software Engineer
6 33 (11.70%) Senior Embedded Engineer
6 33 (11.70%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
7 31 (10.99%) Developer
8 19 (6.74%) Lead
9 17 (6.03%) Architect
10 16 (5.67%) Systems Engineer
11 15 (5.32%) C Software Engineer
12 14 (4.96%) C++ Software Engineer
13 13 (4.61%) Embedded C Engineer
14 11 (3.90%) C/C++ Software Engineer
14 11 (3.90%) Electronics Engineer
14 11 (3.90%) Embedded C Software Engineer
15 9 (3.19%) Principal Engineer
15 9 (3.19%) Principal Software Engineer
16 8 (2.84%) Software Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (6.38%) Qt
2 13 (4.61%) Yocto
3 9 (3.19%) HTML
4 8 (2.84%) .NET
4 8 (2.84%) PyTorch
5 7 (2.48%) ASP.NET
6 5 (1.77%) .NET Core
6 5 (1.77%) .NET Framework
7 4 (1.42%) CakePHP
7 4 (1.42%) Django
7 4 (1.42%) Flask
7 4 (1.42%) Laravel
7 4 (1.42%) LLVM
7 4 (1.42%) Node.js
7 4 (1.42%) ONNX
7 4 (1.42%) Ruby on Rails
7 4 (1.42%) Spring
8 3 (1.06%) JavaFX
8 3 (1.06%) Middleware
8 3 (1.06%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 36 (12.77%) FPGA
2 28 (9.93%) Algorithms
3 25 (8.87%) Embedded Systems
4 18 (6.38%) VHDL
5 16 (5.67%) GNSS
6 12 (4.26%) Device Driver
7 11 (3.90%) Self-Motivation
8 8 (2.84%) CUDA
8 8 (2.84%) MicroBlaze
8 8 (2.84%) Renewable Energy
8 8 (2.84%) Robotics
8 8 (2.84%) Tandem
9 7 (2.48%) PMI
10 6 (2.13%) IoT
10 6 (2.13%) Product Ownership
10 6 (2.13%) Public Cloud
11 5 (1.77%) Cloud Native
11 5 (1.77%) Replication
12 4 (1.42%) BBC
13 3 (1.06%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 132 (46.81%) Linux
2 67 (23.76%) Embedded Linux
3 29 (10.28%) Windows
4 10 (3.55%) Unix
5 7 (2.48%) Android
6 5 (1.77%) Ubuntu
7 3 (1.06%) Kali Linux
8 2 (0.71%) AIX
8 2 (0.71%) CentOS
8 2 (0.71%) FreeRTOS
8 2 (0.71%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 190 (67.38%) Software Engineering
2 69 (24.47%) Cybersecurity
3 60 (21.28%) Problem-Solving
4 38 (13.48%) Computer Science
5 34 (12.06%) UML
6 29 (10.28%) Agile
7 27 (9.57%) Test Automation
8 23 (8.16%) Signal Processing
9 22 (7.80%) Artificial Intelligence
10 20 (7.09%) Configuration Management
10 20 (7.09%) Software Architecture
11 19 (6.74%) SDLC
12 18 (6.38%) Embedded Software Development
13 16 (5.67%) B2B
13 16 (5.67%) Machine Learning
14 15 (5.32%) Mathematics
14 15 (5.32%) Validation
15 14 (4.96%) Defect Tracking
15 14 (4.96%) Open Source
15 14 (4.96%) Requirements Analysis
Programming Languages
1 147 (52.13%) Python
2 123 (43.62%) C++
3 68 (24.11%) Embedded C
4 64 (22.70%) Rust
5 59 (20.92%) Bash
6 37 (13.12%) Java
7 34 (12.06%) MATLAB
8 25 (8.87%) Ada
9 22 (7.80%) SQL
10 18 (6.38%) C#
11 13 (4.61%) Scala
12 12 (4.26%) Perl
13 11 (3.90%) PHP
14 10 (3.55%) VB
15 8 (2.84%) Tcl
16 6 (2.13%) JavaScript
16 6 (2.13%) R
17 5 (1.77%) Shell Script
18 4 (1.42%) Embedded C++
18 4 (1.42%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 109 (38.65%) Security Cleared
2 84 (29.79%) Degree
3 23 (8.16%) BPSS Clearance
4 19 (6.74%) DV Cleared
5 17 (6.03%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (6.03%) SC Cleared
6 7 (2.48%) PMI Certification
7 6 (2.13%) Master's Degree
7 6 (2.13%) SANS
8 5 (1.77%) CISA
8 5 (1.77%) CISM
8 5 (1.77%) CISSP
8 5 (1.77%) CRISC
9 1 (0.35%) CCNA
9 1 (0.35%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.35%) HNC
9 1 (0.35%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.26%) Def Stans
2 8 (2.84%) IEC 61508
3 6 (2.13%) NIST
3 6 (2.13%) QA
4 5 (1.77%) DO-178B
5 4 (1.42%) ISO 9001
6 3 (1.06%) MISRA
6 3 (1.06%) TickIT
System Software
1 36 (12.77%) Firmware
2 29 (10.28%) Embedded Firmware
3 2 (0.71%) Kamailio
4 1 (0.35%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (1.42%) Ansible
1 4 (1.42%) Progress Chef
2 2 (0.71%) Functional Safety
3 1 (0.35%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.35%) Nagios
3 1 (0.35%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (3.90%) Xilinx
2 10 (3.55%) SAP
3 8 (2.84%) Altera
3 8 (2.84%) Green Hills
3 8 (2.84%) Motorola
4 7 (2.48%) Microsoft
5 6 (2.13%) Atlassian
6 5 (1.77%) Red Hat
7 4 (1.42%) Google
7 4 (1.42%) NVIDIA
8 3 (1.06%) Cisco
8 3 (1.06%) Coverity
8 3 (1.06%) Xamarin
9 2 (0.71%) Dialogic
9 2 (0.71%) Keysight
9 2 (0.71%) Optimizely
9 2 (0.71%) Oracle
9 2 (0.71%) Ribbon
9 2 (0.71%) Samsung
9 2 (0.71%) Sitecore