The first table below looks at the demand for the C Developer role in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited C Developer in their job title 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 Job Titles currently tracked.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
C Developer
Rank 776 767 717
Rank change year-on-year
-9 -50
Permanent jobs requiring a C Developer 86 132 164
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.080% 0.109% 0.132%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.084% 0.115% 0.140%
Number of salaries quoted 76 115 136
Average salary £40,000 £42,500 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-5.88% +13.33%
90% offered a salary of more than £34,300 £28,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £75,000 £70,000 £52,750
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-6.25% +6.66%
All Job Titles
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
102035 114410 117207
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 94.41% 94.80% 94.20%
Number of salaries quoted 84835 98106 99148
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
90% offered a salary of more than £26,500 £27,500 £26,500
10% offered a salary of more than £67,500 £72,500 £70,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%

C Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing C Developer within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

C Developer Jobs Demand Trend

C Developer
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing C Developer within the UK.

C Developer Salary Trend

C Developer
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing C Developer over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 within the UK.

C Developer Salary Histogram

C Developer
Top 30 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing C Developer within the UK 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
England -20 86 £40,000 -5.88%
London +30 38 £57,500 -8.00%
East of England -2 16 £42,500 -15.00%
South East -13 10 £27,000 -28.00%
West Midlands -15 8 £35,750 +27.67%
Croydon +14 7 £37,500 -6.25%
Cambridgeshire 0 7 £45,000 -14.28%
City of London -5 7 £57,500 -14.81%
Birmingham - 7 £35,000 -
North West +4 6 £35,000 -
Cambridge -13 6 £45,000 -14.28%
Manchester -17 6 £35,000 -
Hertfordshire +12 4 £35,000 -30.00%
Berkshire +6 4 £22,500 -47.05%
South West -8 4 £34,750 -7.33%
Suffolk - 4 £40,000 -
Ipswich - 4 £40,000 -
Bracknell - 3 £22,500 -
Canary Wharf - 3 £57,500 -
Surrey +5 2 £31,250 -28.57%
Hemel Hempstead +4 2 - -
Bristol -11 2 £30,000 -20.00%
Hampshire -18 2 £28,500 -24.00%
Stockport - 2 £36,750 -
Southampton - 2 £28,500 -
Leeds - 2 £37,500 -
West Yorkshire - 2 £37,500 -
Yorkshire - 2 £37,500 -
Wiltshire +7 1 £34,500 -4.16%
Swindon +3 1 £34,500 -13.75%

C Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK that cited C Developer in their job title 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 with C Developer in their job title.

1 204 (100.00%) C
2 162 (79.41%) C++
3 114 (55.88%) Linux
4 94 (46.08%) UNIX
5 69 (33.82%) Finance
6 46 (22.55%) Computer Science
7 43 (21.08%) Degree
8 42 (20.59%) Java
9 41 (20.10%) Multithreading
10 37 (18.14%) Windows
11 27 (13.24%) SQL
12 25 (12.25%) Derivative
13 23 (11.27%) Interest Rate Derivative
13 23 (11.27%) Fixed Income
13 23 (11.27%) Credit Derivative
14 22 (10.78%) Embedded Linux
14 22 (10.78%) PHP
15 20 (9.804%) Embedded C
15 20 (9.804%) C#
15 20 (9.804%) Analytics
16 18 (8.824%) JavaScript
16 18 (8.824%) Oracle
17 17 (8.333%) OO
18 16 (7.843%) HTTP
18 16 (7.843%) TCP/IP
19 15 (7.353%) Embedded C++
19 15 (7.353%) Microsoft
20 14 (6.863%) Software Engineering
20 14 (6.863%) Device Driver
21 13 (6.373%) Scrum

C Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK that cited C Developer in their job title 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 with C Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 10 (4.902%) HTML
2 9 (4.412%) STL
2 9 (4.412%) Middleware
3 8 (3.922%) .NET
4 7 (3.431%) iOS SDK
4 7 (3.431%) Boost C++ Libraries
5 6 (2.941%) XMPP
6 5 (2.451%) ASP.NET
7 4 (1.961%) Web Services
7 4 (1.961%) XML
8 3 (1.471%) COM
9 2 (0.980%) jQuery
9 2 (0.980%) HTML5
9 2 (0.980%) Java EE
9 2 (0.980%) LAMP
9 2 (0.980%) OpenGL
9 2 (0.980%) CSS
9 2 (0.980%) CGI
10 1 (0.490%) POSIX
10 1 (0.490%) Flash
Application Platforms
1 1 (0.490%) CICS
Applications
1 2 (0.980%) MS Office
2 1 (0.490%) MS Project
Communications & Networking
1 16 (7.843%) HTTP
1 16 (7.843%) TCP/IP
2 7 (3.431%) Internet
3 6 (2.941%) SMS
4 5 (2.451%) Network Security
5 3 (1.471%) DVB
6 2 (0.980%) IGMP
6 2 (0.980%) RTSP
6 2 (0.980%) Wireless
7 1 (0.490%) VPN
7 1 (0.490%) DNS
7 1 (0.490%) DHCP
7 1 (0.490%) PPP
7 1 (0.490%) SNMP
7 1 (0.490%) ADSL
7 1 (0.490%) Broadband
7 1 (0.490%) SAN
7 1 (0.490%) IPv4
7 1 (0.490%) IPv6
7 1 (0.490%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (3.922%) MySQL
2 7 (3.431%) DB2
3 6 (2.941%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (2.451%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (2.451%) RDBMS
4 5 (2.451%) IDMS
5 2 (0.980%) SQL Server
5 2 (0.980%) Big Data
6 1 (0.490%) SQLBase
6 1 (0.490%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 7 (3.431%) Visual Studio
2 5 (2.451%) VTune
3 3 (1.471%) Eclipse
4 2 (0.980%) Subversion
4 2 (0.980%) LabVIEW
4 2 (0.980%) ProC
4 2 (0.980%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (0.490%) Rational Rose
5 1 (0.490%) Ant
5 1 (0.490%) Xcode
5 1 (0.490%) GNU Toolchain
5 1 (0.490%) CppUnit
General
1 69 (33.82%) Finance
2 11 (5.392%) Multimedia
3 9 (4.412%) Games
3 9 (4.412%) Marketing
4 8 (3.922%) Advertising
5 7 (3.431%) Electronics
6 6 (2.941%) Financial Institution
7 5 (2.451%) Front Office
8 2 (0.980%) Banking
8 2 (0.980%) Automotive
9 1 (0.490%) Back Office
9 1 (0.490%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.490%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.490%) Dutch Language
9 1 (0.490%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.490%) Avionics
Miscellaneous
1 46 (22.55%) Computer Science
2 25 (12.25%) Derivative
3 23 (11.27%) Interest Rate Derivative
3 23 (11.27%) Fixed Income
3 23 (11.27%) Credit Derivative
4 14 (6.863%) Device Driver
5 13 (6.373%) Embedded Systems
6 12 (5.882%) Mathematics
7 9 (4.412%) MPEG
8 7 (3.431%) Physics
9 6 (2.941%) Enterprise Software
9 6 (2.941%) Mainframe
10 5 (2.451%) Mobile Games
10 5 (2.451%) STB
10 5 (2.451%) VSAM
10 5 (2.451%) Data Integration
11 3 (1.471%) IVR
12 2 (0.980%) iPad
12 2 (0.980%) Clustering
12 2 (0.980%) IPTV
Operating Systems
1 114 (55.88%) Linux
2 94 (46.08%) UNIX
3 37 (18.14%) Windows
4 22 (10.78%) Embedded Linux
5 11 (5.392%) Android
6 9 (4.412%) Apple iOS
7 7 (3.431%) Mac OS X
8 5 (2.451%) FreeBSD
9 3 (1.471%) zOS
9 3 (1.471%) Debian
9 3 (1.471%) i5/OS
10 2 (0.980%) AIX
10 2 (0.980%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (20.10%) Multithreading
2 20 (9.804%) Analytics
3 17 (8.333%) OO
4 14 (6.863%) Software Engineering
5 13 (6.373%) Scrum
6 11 (5.392%) OOD
6 11 (5.392%) Agile Software Development
7 9 (4.412%) OOA/OOD
7 9 (4.412%) Project Management
7 9 (4.412%) Software Architecture
8 7 (3.431%) E-Commerce
8 7 (3.431%) Business Intelligence
8 7 (3.431%) DRM
9 6 (2.941%) Unit Testing
9 6 (2.941%) Digital Marketing
10 5 (2.451%) OOP
10 5 (2.451%) Video Processing
10 5 (2.451%) Video Content Analysis
11 4 (1.961%) Data Modelling
12 3 (1.471%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 204 (100.00%) C
2 162 (79.41%) C++
3 42 (20.59%) Java
4 27 (13.24%) SQL
5 22 (10.78%) PHP
6 20 (9.804%) Embedded C
6 20 (9.804%) C#
7 18 (8.824%) JavaScript
8 15 (7.353%) Embedded C++
9 13 (6.373%) Perl
10 12 (5.882%) Python
11 11 (5.392%) Assembly Language
12 8 (3.922%) MATLAB
13 6 (2.941%) Objective-C
13 6 (2.941%) Fortran
14 3 (1.471%) VB.NET
14 3 (1.471%) Shell Script
14 3 (1.471%) PHP5
15 1 (0.490%) VC++
15 1 (0.490%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 43 (21.08%) Degree
2 2 (0.980%) PhD
3 1 (0.490%) HND
3 1 (0.490%) SC Cleared
3 1 (0.490%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.392%) JTAG
2 3 (1.471%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.490%) QA
Vendors
1 18 (8.824%) Oracle
2 15 (7.353%) Microsoft
3 7 (3.431%) Google
3 7 (3.431%) Facebook
4 4 (1.961%) HP
4 4 (1.961%) Sybase
5 3 (1.471%) BT
6 2 (0.980%) Atmel
7 1 (0.490%) Twitter
7 1 (0.490%) Hitachi
7 1 (0.490%) Borland
7 1 (0.490%) IBM
7 1 (0.490%) Perforce
7 1 (0.490%) ArcSight
7 1 (0.490%) TippingPoint
Manchester, Lancashire
They are currently looking to fill a couple of positions and the top level skillset they are after is for someone with some or all of the following:...
Evolution Recruitment Solutions
Salary: 35,000 - 40,000 + Bens
Posted: 22 May 2013
Stockport, Cheshire
Key skills - C++ Developer, C Developer, Software Engineer, Windows Development C++ Developer / C Developer is urgently needed for a high profile client!... We are looking for C++ Developers...
Circle Recruitment
Salary: £35000 - £45000 per annum + benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013
Hertfordshire
The successful applicant is likely to have a PHD and have experience within computational chemistry and drug discovery. You need to have strong programming skills in C, C++,...
Redrock Consulting Ltd
Salary: £40000 - £60000 per annum
Posted: 17 May 2013
Manchester, Lancashire
Strong knowledge of the Linux and the Open Source world and community... Qualifications : Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Maths or Dciences... Some Open Source technologies would be an...
Real Time Recruitment Solutions
Salary: 20,000 to 40,000
Posted: 22 May 2013
Croydon, Surrey
I am looking for a C++ / C Developer who has the following skills Solid C / C++ Development background. Worked with C / C++ in a TCP/IP real time...
Reflex Computer Recruitment
Salary: £30000 - £40000 per annum + Bens
Posted: 23 May 2013
Central London / West End
C / C++ Developer / Software Engineer MSc AI London to £50k. C / C++ Developer / Software Engineer (MSc Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning C++)... Requirements for C / C++ Developer : Excellent academic...
Client Server
Salary: £35k to £50k + bonus + benefits
Posted: 22 May 2013
London
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Client Server
Salary: £35k to £50k + bonus + benefits
Posted: 22 May 2013
Hertfordshire, South East
Summary: This is an excellent opportunity for a C / C++ Embedded Software Engineer to work on robust video processing and graphics products with an established leader in their...
ECM Selection Ltd
Salary: to c£50k + benefits
Posted: 21 May 2013
Hertfordshire
You should have a good degree in computer science, electronics, physics or similar and commercial experience of embedded software development in C and/or C++... Ideally, your experience...
ECM Selection Ltd
Salary: to c£50k + benefits
Posted: 21 May 2013