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 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 104 114 107
Rank change year-on-year +10 -7 +30
Permanent jobs citing C 4 16 2
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 0.23% 0.89% 0.15%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.11% 2.83% 0.45%
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% -33.08%
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% +11.61%

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 361 565 446
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 20.75% 31.32% 32.89%
Number of salaries quoted 302 252 414
10th Percentile £28,250 £34,075 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,372 £41,000 £42,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -7.95%
75th Percentile £70,000 £69,063 £67,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £80,000
West Midlands median annual salary £55,000 £54,344 £52,500
% change year-on-year +1.21% +3.51% -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 4 (100.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) JUnit
1 4 (100.00%) Maven
1 4 (100.00%) Mockito
General
1 4 (100.00%) Finance
1 4 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Developer
1 4 (100.00%) Full-Stack Developer
1 4 (100.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
1 4 (100.00%) Java Developer
1 4 (100.00%) Senior
1 4 (100.00%) Senior Developer
1 4 (100.00%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
1 4 (100.00%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Management Information System
1 4 (100.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
1 4 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 4 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 4 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 4 (100.00%) Deadline-Driven
1 4 (100.00%) Emotional Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 4 (100.00%) Microservices
1 4 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 4 (100.00%) Project Delivery
1 4 (100.00%) Resource Management
1 4 (100.00%) Scrum
1 4 (100.00%) SDLC
1 4 (100.00%) Service Delivery
1 4 (100.00%) SOA
1 4 (100.00%) Sprint Planning
1 4 (100.00%) Systems Thinking
1 4 (100.00%) TDD
1 4 (100.00%) Time Management
1 4 (100.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Bash
1 4 (100.00%) Java
1 4 (100.00%) PL/SQL
1 4 (100.00%) R
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (100.00%) QA
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Oracle