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

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
C
Rank 36 44 36
Rank change year-on-year
+8 -8
Permanent jobs citing C 18 16 17
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Swindon 3.871% 3.125% 3.393%
As % of the Programming Languages category 8.411% 5.882% 6.564%
Number of salaries quoted 18 8 15
Average salary £34,500 £38,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-9.21% -5.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £34,350 £37,100 £35,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £40,000 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
All Programming Languages
Swindon
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
214 272 259
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Swindon 46.02% 53.13% 51.70%
Number of salaries quoted 190 232 233
Average salary £34,500 £35,000 £33,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-1.42% +4.47%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £25,000 £23,962
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £45,000 £44,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
C
Wiltshire

C
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Swindon 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 Swindon region.

Swindon C Salary Trend

C
Salary Histogram

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

Swindon C Salary Histogram

C
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Swindon 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 60 (75.00%) C++
2 58 (72.50%) SQL
3 56 (70.00%) Linux
4 54 (67.50%) OO
5 52 (65.00%) MySQL
6 51 (63.75%) PHP
6 51 (63.75%) LAMP
7 49 (61.25%) Oracle
8 46 (57.50%) Apache
9 43 (53.75%) SOA
9 43 (53.75%) QA
10 38 (47.50%) Enterprise Software
11 33 (41.25%) Automated Testing
12 32 (40.00%) Integration Testing
12 32 (40.00%) DSDM
13 26 (32.50%) Finance
14 20 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
15 13 (16.25%) Configuration Management
16 12 (15.00%) Degree
17 8 (10.00%) Software Engineering
17 8 (10.00%) Embedded C
18 7 (8.750%) Java
18 7 (8.750%) JavaScript
18 7 (8.750%) Perl
18 7 (8.750%) Mathematics
19 5 (6.250%) Management Information System
19 5 (6.250%) Wireless
19 5 (6.250%) HTML
19 5 (6.250%) T-SQL
19 5 (6.250%) MS Office

C
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Swindon 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 51 (63.75%) LAMP
2 5 (6.250%) Web Services
2 5 (6.250%) HTML
2 5 (6.250%) CSS
2 5 (6.250%) JSP
2 5 (6.250%) SOAP
2 5 (6.250%) Ext JS
2 5 (6.250%) Node.js
3 4 (5.000%) XML
3 4 (5.000%) Hibernate
3 4 (5.000%) Spring
4 3 (3.750%) Backbone.js
4 3 (3.750%) jQuery
4 3 (3.750%) Ajax
4 3 (3.750%) RESTful
5 2 (2.500%) Boost C++ Libraries
5 2 (2.500%) ASP.NET MVC
5 2 (2.500%) .NET Framework
5 2 (2.500%) Java EE
5 2 (2.500%) ASP.NET MVC 2
Application Platforms
1 46 (57.50%) Apache
Applications
1 5 (6.250%) MS Office
1 5 (6.250%) MS Excel
2 1 (1.250%) Simulink
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.250%) Wireless
2 4 (5.000%) 3G
2 4 (5.000%) 4G
2 4 (5.000%) Broadband
3 3 (3.750%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.250%) VPN
4 1 (1.250%) 3GPP
4 1 (1.250%) Ethernet
4 1 (1.250%) IGMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (65.00%) MySQL
2 5 (6.250%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 4 (5.000%) Hadoop
3 4 (5.000%) Big Data
4 2 (2.500%) CouchDB
4 2 (2.500%) MongoDB
4 2 (2.500%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.250%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 4 (5.000%) Subversion
2 2 (2.500%) GNU Toolchain
3 1 (1.250%) GCC
3 1 (1.250%) MagicDraw
3 1 (1.250%) LLVM
3 1 (1.250%) Eclipse
3 1 (1.250%) LabVIEW
General
1 26 (32.50%) Finance
2 4 (5.000%) Telecoms
3 3 (3.750%) Electronics
3 3 (3.750%) Games
4 2 (2.500%) Marketing
5 1 (1.250%) Aerospace
5 1 (1.250%) Legal
Job Titles
1 54 (67.50%) Developer
2 29 (36.25%) Software Developer
3 14 (17.50%) Software Engineer
3 14 (17.50%) LAMP Developer
4 12 (15.00%) PHP Developer
5 6 (7.500%) Analyst
5 6 (7.500%) Senior Software Engineer
6 5 (6.250%) Report Analyst
6 5 (6.250%) Systems Analyst
7 4 (5.000%) Java Engineer
8 3 (3.750%) Senior Developer
9 2 (2.500%) C# .NET Developer
9 2 (2.500%) PHP MySQL Developer
9 2 (2.500%) Development Engineer
9 2 (2.500%) Senior PHP Developer
9 2 (2.500%) C Developer
9 2 (2.500%) C# ASP.NET Developer
9 2 (2.500%) .NET Developer
9 2 (2.500%) C++ Developer
9 2 (2.500%) C# Developer
Miscellaneous
1 38 (47.50%) Enterprise Software
2 7 (8.750%) Mathematics
3 5 (6.250%) Management Information System
3 5 (6.250%) Computer Science
3 5 (6.250%) Open Source
4 4 (5.000%) Device Driver
4 4 (5.000%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
5 2 (2.500%) Physics
5 2 (2.500%) Social Media
5 2 (2.500%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (2.500%) CAN bus
6 1 (1.250%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 56 (70.00%) Linux
2 4 (5.000%) Embedded Linux
3 2 (2.500%) VxWorks
4 1 (1.250%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (67.50%) OO
2 43 (53.75%) SOA
3 33 (41.25%) Automated Testing
4 32 (40.00%) DSDM
4 32 (40.00%) Integration Testing
5 20 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
6 13 (16.25%) Configuration Management
7 8 (10.00%) Software Engineering
8 5 (6.250%) UML
8 5 (6.250%) Unit Testing
8 5 (6.250%) Performance Management
9 4 (5.000%) Validation
9 4 (5.000%) OOD
10 3 (3.750%) MVC
10 3 (3.750%) TDD
10 3 (3.750%) Game Development
11 2 (2.500%) Test Automation
11 2 (2.500%) Embedded Software Development
11 2 (2.500%) SEO
12 1 (1.250%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 60 (75.00%) C++
2 58 (72.50%) SQL
3 51 (63.75%) PHP
4 8 (10.00%) Embedded C
5 7 (8.750%) Java
5 7 (8.750%) JavaScript
5 7 (8.750%) Perl
6 5 (6.250%) T-SQL
6 5 (6.250%) Scala
7 4 (5.000%) Clojure
7 4 (5.000%) R
8 3 (3.750%) Python
8 3 (3.750%) C#
9 2 (2.500%) Tcl
10 1 (1.250%) MATLAB
10 1 (1.250%) Bash shell
10 1 (1.250%) Ada
10 1 (1.250%) Embedded C++
10 1 (1.250%) Assembly Language
10 1 (1.250%) VB
Qualifications
1 12 (15.00%) Degree
2 4 (5.000%) PhD
3 1 (1.250%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.250%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (53.75%) QA
2 1 (1.250%) JTAG
Vendors
1 49 (61.25%) Oracle
2 2 (2.500%) QNX
3 1 (1.250%) Atmel
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