The first part of the table below looks at the demand for C skills in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited C over the 3 months to 21 May 2012 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Programming Languages category.

C
Location
3 months to
21 May 2012
Same period 2011Same period 2010
Rank666759
Rank change year-on-year
Up+1Down-8
Matching permanent IT job ads437741963396
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK3.612 %3.439 %3.566 %
As % of the Programming Languages category6.731 %6.543 %7.007 %
Number of salaries quoted357235582853
Average salary£42,500£40,000£40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.25 %-
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£28,000£27,500£26,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£67,500£70,000£60,000
UK excluding London average salary£40,000£37,500£37,500
% change year-on-year
+6.66 %-
IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryAll Programming Languages
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
650266412748463
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK53.65 %52.55 %50.90 %
Number of salaries quoted573265558941223
Average salary£40,000£40,000£40,000
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£27,500£27,500£27,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£65,000£70,000£70,000
UK excluding London average salary£37,500£35,000£35,000
% change year-on-year
+7.14 %-

C
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing C within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

C Demand Trend

C
Salary Trend

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

C Salary Trend

C
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing C over the 3 months to 21 May 2012 within the UK.

C Salary Histogram

C
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 within the UK over the 3 months to 21 May 2012. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
EnglandUp+14175£42,500+6.25 %
LondonDown-191296£53,500-2.72 %
South EastUp+221042£40,000-
East of EnglandUp+2749£43,000+7.50 %
CambridgeshireDown-1474£45,000+12.50 %
CambridgeDown-2384£45,000+12.50 %
City of LondonUp+5333£60,000-
South WestDown-7328£40,000+14.28 %
North WestUp+10286£37,000+13.84 %
HampshireUp+7276£38,500-3.75 %
BerkshireDown-2259£40,000-11.11 %
SurreyUp+5197£42,500+6.25 %
West MidlandsUp+38178£35,000-11.94 %
YorkshireUp+15157£40,000+23.07 %
CheshireUp+23140£39,000+1.29 %
BristolNo change0130£40,000+11.11 %
ScotlandUp+6114£34,000-15.00 %
ManchesterDown-5111£35,000+11.11 %
East MidlandsUp+1110£35,433+2.70 %
HertfordshireDown-25103£41,250+3.12 %
GloucestershireDown-3100£42,500+21.42 %
ReadingUp+695£38,750-29.54 %
SouthamptonUp+2494£38,500+2.66 %
West YorkshireDown-584£37,500+19.04 %
CheltenhamUp+1979£40,000+10.34 %
EssexDown-474£40,000-5.88 %
OxfordshireUp+2671£33,272-2.14 %
SloughUp+3669£50,000+25.00 %
BuckinghamshireUp+669£37,500-
GloucesterUp+663£41,250+17.85 %

C
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2012, IT jobs within the UK 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.

14644 (53.36 %)C++
22821 (32.41 %)Java
32794 (32.10 %)Degree
42752 (31.62 %)Linux
52052 (23.58 %)C#
61962 (22.54 %)Windows
71630 (18.73 %)UNIX
81575 (18.10 %)SQL
91473 (16.93 %)Computer Science
101466 (16.84 %).NET
111250 (14.36 %)Finance
121233 (14.17 %)Python
131226 (14.09 %)Perl
141023 (11.75 %)Oracle
151011 (11.62 %)OO
16964 (11.08 %)JavaScript
17930 (10.69 %)SQL Server
18877 (10.08 %)Microsoft
19855 (9.824 %)XML
20821 (9.434 %)Software Engineering
21785 (9.020 %)Embedded C
22779 (8.951 %)Agile Software Development
23765 (8.790 %)HTML
24763 (8.767 %)Mathematics
25693 (7.963 %)Telecoms
26684 (7.859 %)PHP
27682 (7.836 %)Security Cleared
28652 (7.492 %)TCP/IP
28652 (7.492 %)Electronics
29599 (6.883 %)UML

C
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2012, IT jobs within the UK 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.

IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
11466 (16.84 %).NET
2855 (9.824 %)XML
3765 (8.790 %)HTML
4535 (6.147 %)CSS
5486 (5.584 %)Web Services
6463 (5.320 %)J2EE
7399 (4.585 %)ASP.NET
8303 (3.482 %)Spring
9270 (3.102 %)Ajax
10222 (2.551 %)Hibernate
11212 (2.436 %).NET Framework
12202 (2.321 %)jQuery
13178 (2.045 %)HTML5
14170 (1.953 %)SOAP
15168 (1.930 %)Middleware
16148 (1.701 %)MFC
16148 (1.701 %)STL
17147 (1.689 %)LAMP
18142 (1.632 %)XSLT
18142 (1.632 %)WinForms
IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
1250 (2.873 %)Apache
2161 (1.850 %)SharePoint
3125 (1.436 %)IIS
4123 (1.413 %)Tomcat
589 (1.023 %)Jetty
680 (0.919 %)MS Exchange
769 (0.793 %)SAS
864 (0.735 %)ESB
952 (0.597 %)WebSphere Application Server
1049 (0.563 %)CMS
1148 (0.552 %)SharePoint 2010
1240 (0.460 %)Exchange Server 2010
1338 (0.437 %)Documentum
1435 (0.402 %)MediaWiki
1531 (0.356 %)Exchange Server 2007
1531 (0.356 %)TeamSite
1531 (0.356 %)WebSphere Process Server
1531 (0.356 %)RabbitMQ
1630 (0.345 %)Exchange Server 2003
1726 (0.299 %)SharePoint Server
IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
1559 (6.423 %)MS Excel
2384 (4.412 %)MATLAB
3240 (2.758 %)MS Office
4164 (1.884 %)MS Visio
5114 (1.310 %)Simulink
666 (0.758 %)Photoshop
738 (0.437 %)Google Apps
837 (0.425 %)MS Project
922 (0.253 %)Stateflow
1017 (0.195 %)MS PowerPoint
1111 (0.126 %)TargetLink
129 (0.103 %)Fireworks
138 (0.092 %)Spreadsheet
138 (0.092 %)SketchUp
147 (0.080 %)SPSS
147 (0.080 %)Adobe Illustrator
156 (0.069 %)Pro/ENGINEER
165 (0.057 %)Maple
165 (0.057 %)Doxygen
174 (0.046 %)Final Cut Pro
IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
1128 (1.471 %)Dynamics NAV
254 (0.620 %)Dynamics CRM
336 (0.414 %)Staffware
427 (0.310 %)Dynamics AX
525 (0.287 %)Oracle EBS
623 (0.264 %)Line 50
722 (0.253 %)Sage 200
722 (0.253 %)Sage MMS
722 (0.253 %)Line 100
815 (0.172 %)Oracle EBS R12
914 (0.161 %)Eagle PACE
1013 (0.149 %)Sentinel
1112 (0.138 %)LatentZero
1112 (0.138 %)Tesseract
1112 (0.138 %)Minerva
1112 (0.138 %)Decalog
1112 (0.138 %)LongView
1112 (0.138 %)HiInvest
1112 (0.138 %)HiPerformance
1112 (0.138 %)HiPortfolio
IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
1652 (7.492 %)TCP/IP
2516 (5.929 %)Wireless
3375 (4.309 %)Internet
4329 (3.780 %)LTE
5311 (3.573 %)GSM
6294 (3.378 %)HTTP
7249 (2.861 %)Firewall
8243 (2.792 %)UMTS
9195 (2.241 %)Ethernet
10189 (2.172 %)DNS
11179 (2.057 %)3G
12165 (1.896 %)GPRS
13157 (1.804 %)3GPP
14153 (1.758 %)SAN
15115 (1.321 %)DHCP
16109 (1.252 %)VoIP
17104 (1.195 %)WCDMA
1893 (1.069 %)LAN
1983 (0.954 %)WAN
2082 (0.942 %)RTP
IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
1930 (10.69 %)SQL Server
2495 (5.688 %)MySQL
3126 (1.448 %)SQL Server 2008
4125 (1.436 %)SQL Server 2005
4125 (1.436 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
5118 (1.356 %)Data Warehouse
6110 (1.264 %)RDBMS
794 (1.080 %)DB2
886 (0.988 %)SQL Server Integration Services
982 (0.942 %)Data Mining
1075 (0.862 %)Oracle 8/8i
1168 (0.781 %)Hadoop
1267 (0.770 %)Oracle 10g
1362 (0.712 %)PostgreSQL
1459 (0.678 %)SQL Server 2000
1554 (0.620 %)DTS
1653 (0.609 %)Informix
1747 (0.540 %)ETL
1747 (0.540 %)Text Mining
1747 (0.540 %)GIS
IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
1386 (4.435 %)Subversion
2377 (4.332 %)Visual Studio
3212 (2.436 %)Eclipse
4191 (2.195 %)Git (software)
5182 (2.091 %)ClearCase
6146 (1.678 %)Bugzilla
7144 (1.655 %)JUnit
8113 (1.298 %)Maven
998 (1.126 %)Ant
1097 (1.115 %)Mercurial
1195 (1.092 %)GCC
1290 (1.034 %)LoadRunner
1384 (0.965 %)Selenium
1473 (0.839 %)ProC
1473 (0.839 %)JIRA
1559 (0.678 %)LabVIEW
1658 (0.666 %)Rational DOORS
1750 (0.575 %)Team Foundation Server
1844 (0.506 %)Oracle Forms
1943 (0.494 %)ClearQuest
IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
11250 (14.36 %)Finance
2693 (7.963 %)Telecoms
3652 (7.492 %)Electronics
4388 (4.458 %)Banking
5291 (3.344 %)Games
6237 (2.723 %)Retail
7205 (2.356 %)Manufacturing
8204 (2.344 %)Marketing
9193 (2.218 %)Automotive
10167 (1.919 %)Advertising
11159 (1.827 %)Aerospace
12112 (1.287 %)Back Office
13107 (1.229 %)Front Office
1489 (1.023 %)Multimedia
1585 (0.977 %)Investment Banking
1675 (0.862 %)Publishing
1757 (0.655 %)German Language
1854 (0.620 %)Military
1953 (0.609 %)Financial Institution
2050 (0.575 %)French Language
IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
12616 (30.06 %)Developer
22242 (25.76 %)Software Engineer
3695 (7.986 %)Software Developer
4685 (7.871 %)Embedded Software Engineer
5500 (5.745 %)C++ Developer
6461 (5.297 %)Analyst
7450 (5.171 %)Senior Software Engineer
8420 (4.826 %)Java Developer
9409 (4.700 %)Consultant
10393 (4.516 %)Senior Developer
11389 (4.470 %)C++ Software Engineer
12384 (4.412 %)Graduate
13302 (3.470 %)Architect
14299 (3.436 %)C Software Engineer
15276 (3.171 %)Programmer
16250 (2.873 %)C Developer
17239 (2.746 %)Junior
18227 (2.608 %)C# Developer
19216 (2.482 %)Test Engineer
20193 (2.218 %)Team Leader
IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
11473 (16.93 %)Computer Science
2763 (8.767 %)Mathematics
3525 (6.032 %)Embedded Systems
4394 (4.527 %)Device Driver
5363 (4.171 %)Open Source
6340 (3.907 %)Physics
7297 (3.413 %)Firmware
8261 (2.999 %)Field-Programmable Gate Array
9195 (2.241 %)VHDL
10193 (2.218 %)iPhone
11137 (1.574 %)Client/Server
12133 (1.528 %)Management Information System
13131 (1.505 %)Clustering
14113 (1.298 %)Hedge funds
15104 (1.195 %)iPad
1697 (1.115 %)Derivative
1793 (1.069 %)Online Games
1890 (1.034 %)Visualisation
1989 (1.023 %)Handset
1989 (1.023 %)Verilog
IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
12752 (31.62 %)Linux
21962 (22.54 %)Windows
31630 (18.73 %)UNIX
4415 (4.768 %)Android
5262 (3.010 %)Apple iOS
6258 (2.964 %)Solaris
7235 (2.700 %)Embedded Linux
8222 (2.551 %)Windows Server 2003
9158 (1.815 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10155 (1.781 %)Windows Server 2008
11133 (1.528 %)VxWorks
12126 (1.448 %)Windows XP
13123 (1.413 %)AIX
14111 (1.275 %)Windows CE
15109 (1.252 %)Windows 7
1699 (1.138 %)Mac OS X
1798 (1.126 %)HPUX
1856 (0.643 %)Windows Mobile
1954 (0.620 %)Debian
2051 (0.586 %)LynxOS
IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
11011 (11.62 %)OO
2821 (9.434 %)Software Engineering
3779 (8.951 %)Agile Software Development
4599 (6.883 %)UML
5534 (6.136 %)Project Management
6453 (5.205 %)Multithreading
7337 (3.872 %)Scrum
8319 (3.665 %)Configuration Management
9305 (3.505 %)TDD
10303 (3.482 %)E-Commerce
11268 (3.079 %)OOD
12253 (2.907 %)Waterfall
13250 (2.873 %)Software Architecture
14226 (2.597 %)ITIL
14226 (2.597 %)OOP
15222 (2.551 %)Software Testing
16208 (2.390 %)Web Development
17201 (2.310 %)Business Intelligence
18189 (2.172 %)Validation
19187 (2.149 %)Embedded Software Development
IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
14644 (53.36 %)C++
22821 (32.41 %)Java
32052 (23.58 %)C#
41575 (18.10 %)SQL
51233 (14.17 %)Python
61226 (14.09 %)Perl
7964 (11.08 %)JavaScript
8785 (9.020 %)Embedded C
9684 (7.859 %)PHP
10475 (5.458 %)VB
11376 (4.320 %)Assembly Language
12339 (3.895 %)Shell Script
13276 (3.171 %)Embedded C++
14263 (3.022 %)Ruby
15249 (2.861 %)PL/SQL
16234 (2.689 %)VB.NET
17206 (2.367 %)Objective-C
18154 (1.770 %)T-SQL
18154 (1.770 %)Bash shell
19129 (1.482 %)VC++
IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
12794 (32.10 %)Degree
2682 (7.836 %)Security Cleared
3330 (3.792 %)SC Cleared
4271 (3.114 %)PhD
5240 (2.758 %)DV Cleared
6176 (2.022 %)Microsoft Certification
7133 (1.528 %)ISEB
8105 (1.206 %)Cisco Certification
9103 (1.183 %)MCSE
1083 (0.954 %)CISSP
1182 (0.942 %)MCP
1270 (0.804 %)HND
1367 (0.770 %)MCITP
1451 (0.586 %)CCNP
1545 (0.517 %)CCNA
1644 (0.506 %)HNC
1742 (0.483 %)ISTQB
1840 (0.460 %)Postgraduate
1939 (0.448 %)MCSA
2029 (0.333 %)CCIE
IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
1486 (5.584 %)QA
296 (1.103 %)SLA
393 (1.069 %)DO-178B
492 (1.057 %)ISO/IEC 27001
575 (0.862 %)ISO 9001
662 (0.712 %)JTAG
727 (0.310 %)Data Quality
826 (0.299 %)PCI DSS
924 (0.276 %)ISO 9000
1021 (0.241 %)TickIT
1117 (0.195 %)IEC 61508
1211 (0.126 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
136 (0.069 %)WCAG
143 (0.034 %)ISO/IEC 14443
143 (0.034 %)COBIT
143 (0.034 %)ISO/IEC 17799
143 (0.034 %)ISO 14001
152 (0.023 %)ISO 8583
152 (0.023 %)ISO/IEC 15504 (SPICE)
152 (0.023 %)BS7799
IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
1226 (2.597 %)Active Directory
2169 (1.942 %)VMware Infrastructure
348 (0.552 %)vSphere
439 (0.448 %)Xen
439 (0.448 %)VMware ESX
533 (0.379 %)XenServer
632 (0.368 %)Oracle RMAN
730 (0.345 %)Hyper-V
828 (0.322 %)NFS
922 (0.253 %)Samba
1019 (0.218 %)XenApp
1118 (0.207 %)Veritas Cluster Server
1217 (0.195 %)VMware ESXi
1313 (0.149 %)Oracle RAC
1412 (0.138 %)Dovecot
159 (0.103 %)Nmap
159 (0.103 %)vCloud
166 (0.069 %)LiteSpeed
166 (0.069 %)XenDesktop
175 (0.057 %)Terminal Server
IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
167 (0.770 %)HP Quality Center
252 (0.597 %)Tivoli
330 (0.345 %)SCCM
429 (0.333 %)Tivoli Monitoring
527 (0.310 %)Data Guard
626 (0.299 %)Puppet
720 (0.230 %)Cisco CUCM
720 (0.230 %)NetBackup
720 (0.230 %)Nagios
818 (0.207 %)WSUS
917 (0.195 %)CA Wily
917 (0.195 %)SCOM
917 (0.195 %)OpenView
1013 (0.149 %)EMC NetWorker
1013 (0.149 %)Tivoli Storage Manager
1013 (0.149 %)vCenter
1111 (0.126 %)Unicenter
1210 (0.115 %)Cisco UCCX
139 (0.103 %)Nessus
139 (0.103 %)CA SiteMinder
IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
11023 (11.75 %)Oracle
2877 (10.08 %)Microsoft
3301 (3.459 %)HP
4271 (3.114 %)VMware
5260 (2.987 %)Cisco
6181 (2.080 %)Citrix
6181 (2.080 %)Red Hat
7174 (1.999 %)IBM
8128 (1.471 %)JBoss
9118 (1.356 %)SAP
10115 (1.321 %)Google
11106 (1.218 %)EMC
1288 (1.011 %)Business Objects
1376 (0.873 %)Apple
1474 (0.850 %)Perforce
1571 (0.816 %)Sun
1665 (0.747 %)Sybase
1754 (0.620 %)Veritas
1754 (0.620 %)Symbian
1852 (0.597 %)TIBCO