The first table below looks at the demand for C skills in IT jobs advertised for the Swansea 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 Swansea region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
C
Rank 8 22 21
Rank change year-on-year
+14 -1
Permanent jobs citing C 6 2 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Swansea 12.24% 2.410% 1.316%
As % of the Programming Languages category 22.22% 3.846% 2.128%
Number of salaries quoted 6 2 1
Average salary £35,000 £27,500 £21,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+27.27% +27.90%
UK excluding London average salary £39,500 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-1.25% +6.66%
All Programming Languages
Swansea
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
27 52 47
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Swansea 55.10% 62.65% 61.84%
Number of salaries quoted 25 50 40
Average salary £35,000 £29,000 £25,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+20.68% +16.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,500 £22,000 £18,500
10% offered a salary of more than £40,000 £32,000 £40,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
C
West Wales

C
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Swansea 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 Swansea region.

Swansea C Salary Trend

C
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Swansea 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 16 (94.12%) C++
2 11 (64.71%) Windows
3 9 (52.94%) Software Engineering
4 6 (35.29%) Embedded C
5 5 (29.41%) Embedded C++
5 5 (29.41%) UML
5 5 (29.41%) Embedded Software Development
6 3 (17.65%) C#
6 3 (17.65%) CSS
6 3 (17.65%) HTML
6 3 (17.65%) PHP
6 3 (17.65%) Automotive
6 3 (17.65%) Ajax
6 3 (17.65%) Test Scripting
6 3 (17.65%) HTML5
7 2 (11.76%) DO-178B
7 2 (11.76%) Avionics
7 2 (11.76%) Configuration Management
7 2 (11.76%) Twitter
7 2 (11.76%) JTAG
7 2 (11.76%) Subversion
7 2 (11.76%) .NET
7 2 (11.76%) Assembly Language
7 2 (11.76%) Embarcadero
7 2 (11.76%) Borland
8 1 (5.882%) Mac OS X
8 1 (5.882%) Electronics
8 1 (5.882%) Aerospace
8 1 (5.882%) Cocoa
8 1 (5.882%) Xcode

C
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Swansea 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 3 (17.65%) CSS
1 3 (17.65%) HTML
1 3 (17.65%) Ajax
1 3 (17.65%) HTML5
2 2 (11.76%) .NET
3 1 (5.882%) Cocoa
Development Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Subversion
2 1 (5.882%) Xcode
General
1 3 (17.65%) Automotive
2 2 (11.76%) Avionics
3 1 (5.882%) Electronics
3 1 (5.882%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 13 (76.47%) Software Engineer
2 5 (29.41%) Senior Software Engineer
3 4 (23.53%) Developer
4 3 (17.65%) Team Leader
4 3 (17.65%) Software Team Leader
5 2 (11.76%) Real Time Software Engineer
5 2 (11.76%) Real Time Engineer
5 2 (11.76%) .NET Developer
5 2 (11.76%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 1 (5.882%) Systems Developer
6 1 (5.882%) iPhone Developer
6 1 (5.882%) Mac Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.882%) Computer Science
1 1 (5.882%) iPhone
1 1 (5.882%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 11 (64.71%) Windows
2 1 (5.882%) Mac OS X
2 1 (5.882%) Android
2 1 (5.882%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (52.94%) Software Engineering
2 5 (29.41%) UML
2 5 (29.41%) Embedded Software Development
3 3 (17.65%) Test Scripting
4 2 (11.76%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 16 (94.12%) C++
2 6 (35.29%) Embedded C
3 5 (29.41%) Embedded C++
4 3 (17.65%) C#
4 3 (17.65%) PHP
5 2 (11.76%) Assembly Language
Qualifications
1 1 (5.882%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.76%) DO-178B
1 2 (11.76%) JTAG
Vendors
1 2 (11.76%) Twitter
1 2 (11.76%) Embarcadero
1 2 (11.76%) Borland