C Job Trends in Cambridge

C
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Cambridge requiring C skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 29 10
Rank change year-on-year -19 -19 +24
Permanent jobs citing C 29 26 79
As % of all permanent jobs in Cambridge 2.71% 7.34% 12.62%
As % of the Programming Languages category 9.45% 21.14% 30.62%
Number of salaries quoted 18 24 64
10th Percentile £50,000 - £45,000
25th Percentile £50,625 £47,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,750 £55,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.91% -35.29% +13.33%
75th Percentile £72,813 £62,500 -
90th Percentile £76,375 - £93,500
Cambridgeshire median annual salary £61,500 £55,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year +11.82% -35.29% +13.33%

All Programming Languages
Cambridge

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 Cambridge.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 307 123 258
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridge 28.69% 34.75% 41.21%
Number of salaries quoted 260 92 200
10th Percentile £46,250 £29,871 £43,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £44,688 £52,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £55,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +22.73% -21.43% +1.82%
75th Percentile £80,000 £62,813 £85,000
90th Percentile £90,299 £75,000 £93,750
Cambridgeshire median annual salary £67,500 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +22.73% -15.38% +8.33%

C
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

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

C job vacancy trend in Cambridge

C
Salary Trend in Cambridge

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing C.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing C

C
Salary Histogram in Cambridge

Salary distribution for jobs citing C in Cambridge over the 6 months to 18 August 2026.

Salary histogram for C in Cambridge

C
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridge 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.45%) Bluetooth
1 1 (3.45%) LTE
1 1 (3.45%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (3.45%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 3 (10.34%) LabVIEW
2 1 (3.45%) Bitbucket
2 1 (3.45%) Git
2 1 (3.45%) JIRA
2 1 (3.45%) Zephyr
General
1 5 (17.24%) Electronics
2 4 (13.79%) Manufacturing
3 3 (10.34%) Multimedia
3 3 (10.34%) Social Skills
4 1 (3.45%) Aerospace
4 1 (3.45%) Telecoms
4 1 (3.45%) Wearables
4 1 (3.45%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 22 (75.86%) Software Engineer
2 16 (55.17%) Embedded Engineer
3 14 (48.28%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 6 (20.69%) Senior
4 6 (20.69%) Senior Embedded Engineer
4 6 (20.69%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
4 6 (20.69%) Senior Software Engineer
5 5 (17.24%) C Software Engineer
5 5 (17.24%) C/C++ Embedded Software Engineer
5 5 (17.24%) C/C++ Software Engineer
5 5 (17.24%) C++ Software Engineer
5 5 (17.24%) Embedded C Engineer
5 5 (17.24%) Embedded C Software Engineer
5 5 (17.24%) Embedded C/C++ Engineer
5 5 (17.24%) Embedded C/C++ Software Engineer
5 5 (17.24%) Embedded C++ Engineer
5 5 (17.24%) Embedded C++ Software Engineer
6 4 (13.79%) Graduate
6 4 (13.79%) Graduate Software Engineer
6 4 (13.79%) Rust Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.34%) Middleware
1 3 (10.34%) Qt
1 3 (10.34%) Yocto
2 2 (6.90%) WPF
3 1 (3.45%) WinUI
Miscellaneous
1 11 (37.93%) Embedded Systems
2 6 (20.69%) Device Driver
3 4 (13.79%) RISC-V
4 3 (10.34%) IoT
4 3 (10.34%) Media Streaming
4 3 (10.34%) Robotics
5 2 (6.90%) Algorithms
6 1 (3.45%) NB-IoT
Operating Systems
1 12 (41.38%) Linux
2 7 (24.14%) Embedded Linux
3 1 (3.45%) FreeRTOS
3 1 (3.45%) ThreadX
3 1 (3.45%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (86.21%) Software Engineering
2 6 (20.69%) Software Testing
3 5 (17.24%) Computer Science
3 5 (17.24%) Continuous Improvement
3 5 (17.24%) Embedded Software Development
4 4 (13.79%) Device Driver Development
4 4 (13.79%) Electronic Design Automation
4 4 (13.79%) Test Automation
5 3 (10.34%) Code Quality
5 3 (10.34%) Collaborative Engineering
5 3 (10.34%) Multithreading
5 3 (10.34%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (6.90%) Design for Test
6 2 (6.90%) Integration Testing
6 2 (6.90%) MVVM
6 2 (6.90%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (6.90%) Project Planning
6 2 (6.90%) Software Architecture
7 1 (3.45%) Collaborative Culture
7 1 (3.45%) Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 22 (75.86%) C++
2 7 (24.14%) Rust
3 6 (20.69%) Embedded C
4 5 (17.24%) C#
4 5 (17.24%) Embedded C++
4 5 (17.24%) Python
Qualifications
1 10 (34.48%) Degree
2 4 (13.79%) Master's Degree
3 2 (6.90%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (3.45%) PhD
4 1 (3.45%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (13.79%) QA
System Software
1 9 (31.03%) Firmware
2 4 (13.79%) QEMU
3 3 (10.34%) Embedded Firmware