The first table below looks at the demand for C skills in IT jobs advertised for the Staffordshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited C over the 3 months to 24 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 Staffordshire region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
C
Rank 56 45 51
Rank change year-on-year
-11 +6
Permanent jobs citing C 11 22 12
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Staffordshire 1.874% 3.787% 2.044%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.459% 6.232% 3.252%
Number of salaries quoted 6 22 8
Average salary £39,500 £40,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-1.25% +14.28%
90% offered a salary of more than £37,500 £33,000 £29,700
10% offered a salary of more than £42,500 £45,000 £50,750
UK excluding London average salary £39,500 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-1.25% +6.66%
All Programming Languages
Staffordshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
318 353 369
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Staffordshire 54.17% 60.76% 62.86%
Number of salaries quoted 282 308 298
Average salary £35,000 £40,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-12.50% -
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £27,500 £27,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £65,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
C
West Midlands

C
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Staffordshire 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 Staffordshire region.

Staffordshire C Salary Trend

C
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing C within the Staffordshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Burton-upon-Trent -6 6 £39,500 -1.25%
Stafford -3 5 - -
C
West Midlands

C
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Staffordshire 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 8 (47.06%) C++
2 7 (41.18%) Degree
3 5 (29.41%) MATLAB
4 4 (23.53%) Requirements Analysis
4 4 (23.53%) LAN
4 4 (23.53%) MFC
4 4 (23.53%) Visual Studio
5 3 (17.65%) Linux
5 3 (17.65%) Microsoft
5 3 (17.65%) Embedded C
5 3 (17.65%) Embedded C++
5 3 (17.65%) Project Management
5 3 (17.65%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
5 3 (17.65%) Electronics
5 3 (17.65%) Computer Science
6 2 (11.76%) Wind River
6 2 (11.76%) SolarWinds Orion
6 2 (11.76%) ArcSight
6 2 (11.76%) Process Improvement
6 2 (11.76%) Aerospace
6 2 (11.76%) VHDL
6 2 (11.76%) Verilog
6 2 (11.76%) Business Continuity
6 2 (11.76%) Information Security
6 2 (11.76%) Supplier Management
6 2 (11.76%) Subversion
6 2 (11.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (11.76%) COBIT
6 2 (11.76%) Time Management
6 2 (11.76%) Data Protection

C
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Staffordshire 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 4 (23.53%) MFC
2 1 (5.882%) Web Services
2 1 (5.882%) .NET
2 1 (5.882%) .NET Framework
2 1 (5.882%) Windows SharePoint Services
2 1 (5.882%) WCF
Application Platforms
1 1 (5.882%) SharePoint
1 1 (5.882%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Simulink
1 2 (11.76%) Stateflow
2 1 (5.882%) MS Excel
2 1 (5.882%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 1 (5.882%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (5.882%) Oracle Retail
Communications & Networking
1 4 (23.53%) LAN
2 2 (11.76%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (5.882%) GPRS
3 1 (5.882%) GSM
3 1 (5.882%) 3G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.882%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (23.53%) Visual Studio
2 2 (11.76%) Subversion
2 2 (11.76%) ClearCase
General
1 3 (17.65%) Electronics
2 2 (11.76%) Aerospace
3 1 (5.882%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (35.29%) Design Engineer
1 6 (35.29%) Systems Engineer
2 5 (29.41%) Real Time Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) Software Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Senior Design Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Electronics Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Security Manager
4 2 (11.76%) Compliance Manager
5 1 (5.882%) Technical Leader
5 1 (5.882%) Embedded Software Engineer
5 1 (5.882%) SharePoint Developer
5 1 (5.882%) Real Time Software Engineer
5 1 (5.882%) Real Time Embedded Engineer
5 1 (5.882%) Developer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (17.65%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
1 3 (17.65%) Computer Science
2 2 (11.76%) VHDL
2 2 (11.76%) Verilog
2 2 (11.76%) Management Information System
2 2 (11.76%) ASIC
3 1 (5.882%) Firmware
3 1 (5.882%) Smart Meter
3 1 (5.882%) Derivative
3 1 (5.882%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (17.65%) Linux
2 2 (11.76%) VxWorks
3 1 (5.882%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (23.53%) Requirements Analysis
2 3 (17.65%) Project Management
3 2 (11.76%) Process Improvement
3 2 (11.76%) Business Continuity
3 2 (11.76%) Information Security
3 2 (11.76%) Supplier Management
3 2 (11.76%) Time Management
3 2 (11.76%) Data Protection
3 2 (11.76%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (11.76%) Identity Management
4 1 (5.882%) ERP
4 1 (5.882%) Migration
4 1 (5.882%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (47.06%) C++
2 5 (29.41%) MATLAB
3 3 (17.65%) Embedded C
3 3 (17.65%) Embedded C++
4 2 (11.76%) Assembly Language
5 1 (5.882%) SQL
5 1 (5.882%) C#
Qualifications
1 7 (41.18%) Degree
2 2 (11.76%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (11.76%) COBIT
1 2 (11.76%) PCI DSS
1 2 (11.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Systems Management
1 2 (11.76%) SolarWinds Orion
1 2 (11.76%) CA SiteMinder
Vendors
1 3 (17.65%) Microsoft
2 2 (11.76%) Wind River
2 2 (11.76%) ArcSight
2 2 (11.76%) QNX
2 2 (11.76%) Cisco
2 2 (11.76%) CA
3 1 (5.882%) Intel
3 1 (5.882%) Oracle
3 1 (5.882%) Altera
3 1 (5.882%) Atmel
Stafford, Staffordshire
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