The first table below looks at the demand for C skills in IT jobs advertised for the Southampton region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited C over the 3 months to 17 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 Southampton region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
C
Rank 33 21 43
Rank change year-on-year
-12 +22
Permanent jobs citing C 54 96 27
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Southampton 6.467% 10.27% 4.405%
As % of the Programming Languages category 11.87% 17.24% 8.940%
Number of salaries quoted 54 93 26
Average salary £35,000 £38,500 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-9.09% +2.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £30,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £58,500 £43,250
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
All Programming Languages
Southampton
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
455 557 302
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Southampton 54.49% 59.57% 49.27%
Number of salaries quoted 433 525 279
Average salary £35,000 £38,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-7.89% +16.92%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,000 £27,500 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £45,000 £47,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
C
Hampshire

C
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Southampton 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 Southampton region.

Southampton C Salary Trend

C
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing C across the Southampton region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Southampton C Salary Histogram

C
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Southampton 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 53 (58.89%) C++
2 45 (50.00%) Degree
3 33 (36.67%) Linux
4 24 (26.67%) Electronics
4 24 (26.67%) Computer Science
5 23 (25.56%) Software Engineering
6 21 (23.33%) Embedded C
7 18 (20.00%) Perl
7 18 (20.00%) Agile Software Development
8 16 (17.78%) UNIX
9 14 (15.56%) Java
10 13 (14.44%) OO
11 12 (13.33%) Python
11 12 (13.33%) Web Services
11 12 (13.33%) Security Cleared
12 11 (12.22%) Embedded C++
13 10 (11.11%) Mathematics
14 9 (10.00%) LabVIEW
14 9 (10.00%) Ruby
14 9 (10.00%) Middleware
14 9 (10.00%) XML
14 9 (10.00%) PHP
14 9 (10.00%) OOP
15 8 (8.889%) OOA/OOD
15 8 (8.889%) Windows
15 8 (8.889%) ISO 9001
15 8 (8.889%) Ada
15 8 (8.889%) Aerospace
15 8 (8.889%) Embedded Systems
16 7 (7.778%) Big Data

C
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Southampton 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 12 (13.33%) Web Services
2 9 (10.00%) XML
2 9 (10.00%) Middleware
3 6 (6.667%) Cocoa
3 6 (6.667%) JSON
3 6 (6.667%) Cocoa Touch
4 5 (5.556%) LAMP
4 5 (5.556%) POSIX
4 5 (5.556%) .NET
5 3 (3.333%) OpenGL
5 3 (3.333%) jQuery
5 3 (3.333%) Ajax
6 2 (2.222%) HTML
6 2 (2.222%) OpenCV
6 2 (2.222%) HTML5
7 1 (1.111%) soapUI
7 1 (1.111%) REST
7 1 (1.111%) Hibernate
7 1 (1.111%) Spring
7 1 (1.111%) J2EE
Application Platforms
1 2 (2.222%) Mathematica
2 1 (1.111%) Oracle Spatial
2 1 (1.111%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (1.111%) CMS
Applications
1 3 (3.333%) MS Office
1 3 (3.333%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (3.333%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (1.111%) Dynamics AX
Communications & Networking
1 7 (7.778%) DVB
2 4 (4.444%) Broadband
3 1 (1.111%) LAN
3 1 (1.111%) WAN
3 1 (1.111%) SMTP
3 1 (1.111%) FTP
3 1 (1.111%) HTTP
3 1 (1.111%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.111%) DNS
3 1 (1.111%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (1.111%) Wireshark
3 1 (1.111%) tcpdump
3 1 (1.111%) LDAP
3 1 (1.111%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (7.778%) NoSQL
1 7 (7.778%) Big Data
2 6 (6.667%) Hadoop
2 6 (6.667%) MongoDB
2 6 (6.667%) Apache Cassandra
2 6 (6.667%) MySQL
3 2 (2.222%) Oracle 11g
4 1 (1.111%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.111%) Oracle 8/8i
4 1 (1.111%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (10.00%) LabVIEW
2 2 (2.222%) Xcode
2 2 (2.222%) Git (software)
3 1 (1.111%) Rational Rhapsody
3 1 (1.111%) JUnit
3 1 (1.111%) HttpUnit
3 1 (1.111%) FitNesse
3 1 (1.111%) TestNG
General
1 24 (26.67%) Electronics
2 8 (8.889%) Aerospace
3 5 (5.556%) Advertising
3 5 (5.556%) Telecoms
4 4 (4.444%) Finance
5 2 (2.222%) Games
5 2 (2.222%) Military
6 1 (1.111%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 54 (60.00%) Software Engineer
2 27 (30.00%) Developer
3 22 (24.44%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 10 (11.11%) Senior Software Engineer
4 10 (11.11%) C++ Software Engineer
4 10 (11.11%) C Software Engineer
5 8 (8.889%) Embedded C Engineer
5 8 (8.889%) Embedded C Software Engineer
6 7 (7.778%) Web Applications Developer
6 7 (7.778%) Web Developer
6 7 (7.778%) Applications Developer
7 6 (6.667%) iOS Developer
8 5 (5.556%) Integration Engineer
8 5 (5.556%) Embedded C/C++ Engineer
8 5 (5.556%) Embedded C/C++ Software Engineer
8 5 (5.556%) Embedded C++ Engineer
8 5 (5.556%) Embedded C++ Software Engineer
8 5 (5.556%) Graduate
9 4 (4.444%) Software Developer
9 4 (4.444%) Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 24 (26.67%) Computer Science
2 10 (11.11%) Mathematics
3 8 (8.889%) Embedded Systems
4 7 (7.778%) STB
5 6 (6.667%) iPhone
6 5 (5.556%) Firmware
7 3 (3.333%) DTV
7 3 (3.333%) Statistics
7 3 (3.333%) SaaS
8 2 (2.222%) iPad
8 2 (2.222%) GPGPU
8 2 (2.222%) Social Network
8 2 (2.222%) Physics
8 2 (2.222%) Client/Server
9 1 (1.111%) MPEG
9 1 (1.111%) Handset
9 1 (1.111%) Robotics
9 1 (1.111%) Kindle
9 1 (1.111%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 33 (36.67%) Linux
2 16 (17.78%) UNIX
3 8 (8.889%) Windows
4 6 (6.667%) Apple iOS
5 4 (4.444%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (3.333%) Embedded Linux
7 2 (2.222%) Solaris
7 2 (2.222%) VxWorks
7 2 (2.222%) SUSE
8 1 (1.111%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (25.56%) Software Engineering
2 18 (20.00%) Agile Software Development
3 13 (14.44%) OO
4 9 (10.00%) OOP
5 8 (8.889%) OOA/OOD
6 7 (7.778%) Multithreading
7 6 (6.667%) Memory Management
7 6 (6.667%) TDD
8 5 (5.556%) Digital Signal Processing
8 5 (5.556%) Signal Processing
8 5 (5.556%) UML
8 5 (5.556%) Embedded Software Development
9 4 (4.444%) Continuous Improvement
9 4 (4.444%) Integration Testing
9 4 (4.444%) Continuous Integration
9 4 (4.444%) Scrum
10 3 (3.333%) Data Management
10 3 (3.333%) Business Development
10 3 (3.333%) Image Processing
10 3 (3.333%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 53 (58.89%) C++
2 21 (23.33%) Embedded C
3 18 (20.00%) Perl
4 14 (15.56%) Java
5 12 (13.33%) Python
6 11 (12.22%) Embedded C++
7 9 (10.00%) Ruby
7 9 (10.00%) PHP
8 8 (8.889%) Ada
9 6 (6.667%) PHP5
9 6 (6.667%) Objective-C
10 5 (5.556%) MATLAB
10 5 (5.556%) C#
10 5 (5.556%) SQL
10 5 (5.556%) JavaScript
11 2 (2.222%) PL/SQL
11 2 (2.222%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 45 (50.00%) Degree
2 12 (13.33%) Security Cleared
3 3 (3.333%) SC Cleared
4 2 (2.222%) DV Cleared
4 2 (2.222%) Postgraduate
4 2 (2.222%) PhD
5 1 (1.111%) GCIA
5 1 (1.111%) GCIH
5 1 (1.111%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (8.889%) ISO 9001
2 7 (7.778%) DO-178B
System Software
1 1 (1.111%) Snort
Vendors
1 6 (6.667%) Apple
1 6 (6.667%) Facebook
1 6 (6.667%) Twitter
2 4 (4.444%) Google
2 4 (4.444%) Atmel
2 4 (4.444%) Oracle
2 4 (4.444%) Red Hat
3 3 (3.333%) Microsoft
4 2 (2.222%) Yahoo!
5 1 (1.111%) IBM
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Posted: 15 May 2013
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Posted: 16 May 2013
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Jam Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £45000 - £50000 per annum + Benefits
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