C Job Trends in Birmingham

C
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring C skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 97 108 101
Rank change year-on-year +11 -7 +42
Permanent jobs citing C 3 16 2
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 0.18% 0.85% 0.16%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.82% 2.79% 0.49%
Number of salaries quoted 0 8 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £31,250 £39,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £32,500 £43,500
Median % change year-on-year - -25.29% -17.14%
75th Percentile - £45,625 £47,750
90th Percentile - £58,750 -
West Midlands median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -12.50% -4.00% +27.55%

All Programming Languages
Birmingham

C falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills in Birmingham.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 364 574 405
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 21.31% 30.50% 32.93%
Number of salaries quoted 311 256 377
10th Percentile £28,250 £34,375 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,000 £41,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -7.56%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £82,500
West Midlands median annual salary £55,000 £53,688 £52,500
% change year-on-year +2.44% +2.26% -4.55%

C
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing C relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

C job vacancy trend in Birmingham

C
Salary Trend in Birmingham

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing C.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing C

C
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub
2 1 (33.33%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) JUnit
1 2 (66.67%) Maven
1 2 (66.67%) Mockito
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Back Office
2 1 (33.33%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
2 2 (66.67%) Full-Stack Developer
2 2 (66.67%) Full-Stack Java Developer
2 2 (66.67%) Java Developer
2 2 (66.67%) Senior
2 2 (66.67%) Senior Developer
2 2 (66.67%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
2 2 (66.67%) Senior Java Developer
3 1 (33.33%) Dynamics NAV Developer
3 1 (33.33%) SaaS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) REST
2 1 (33.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Management Information System
1 2 (66.67%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (33.33%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Computer Science
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (66.67%) Deadline-Driven
2 2 (66.67%) Decision-Making
2 2 (66.67%) Emotional Intelligence
2 2 (66.67%) Full-Stack Development
2 2 (66.67%) Microservices
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) Project Delivery
2 2 (66.67%) Resource Management
2 2 (66.67%) Scrum
2 2 (66.67%) SDLC
2 2 (66.67%) Service Delivery
2 2 (66.67%) SOA
2 2 (66.67%) Sprint Planning
2 2 (66.67%) Systems Thinking
2 2 (66.67%) TDD
2 2 (66.67%) Time Management
2 2 (66.67%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java
2 2 (66.67%) Bash
2 2 (66.67%) PL/SQL
2 2 (66.67%) R
2 2 (66.67%) SQL
3 1 (33.33%) C#
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (33.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) QA
2 1 (33.33%) ISO 9001
2 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft