C Job Trends in the East of England

C
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring C skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 122 110 58
Rank change year-on-year -12 -52 +16
Permanent jobs citing C 83 65 144
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 1.15% 1.89% 3.06%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.82% 8.38% 13.90%
Number of salaries quoted 52 55 100
10th Percentile £43,000 - £45,000
25th Percentile £54,375 £47,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,750 £55,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -18.52% +3.85%
75th Percentile £80,625 £66,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £70,000 -
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,783 £60,000
% change year-on-year +7.56% -7.03% -4.00%

All Programming Languages
East of England

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 the East of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 1,061 776 1,036
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 14.67% 22.55% 22.00%
Number of salaries quoted 784 615 782
10th Percentile £33,750 £28,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £38,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £63,750 £73,250
90th Percentile £92,841 £78,750 £85,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £60,939
% change year-on-year +4.00% +2.56% -6.25%

C
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

C job vacancy trend in the East of England

C
Salary Trend in the East of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing C.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing C

C
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing C in the East of England over the 6 months to 12 August 2026.

Salary histogram for C in the East of England

C
Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing C within the East of England region over the 6 months to 12 August 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Cambridgeshire +3 52 £61,500 +11.82% 144
Hertfordshire -43 11 £135,500 +125.83% 24
Norfolk -22 8 £77,500 +43.52% 10
Bedfordshire -4 7 - - 2
Essex -14 4 £62,500 - 11
Suffolk - 1 £85,000 - 3
C
England

C
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Applications
1 5 (6.02%) Simulink
2 3 (3.61%) Stateflow
Cloud Services
1 1 (1.20%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (13.25%) Wireless
2 10 (12.05%) Bluetooth
3 9 (10.84%) Modbus
3 9 (10.84%) Profibus
3 9 (10.84%) RS-232
3 9 (10.84%) RS-485
3 9 (10.84%) ZigBee
4 6 (7.23%) SNMP
5 2 (2.41%) LTE
6 1 (1.20%) 5G
6 1 (1.20%) Ethernet
6 1 (1.20%) Software-Defined Radio
6 1 (1.20%) TCP/IP
6 1 (1.20%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 5 (6.02%) Git
2 4 (4.82%) LabVIEW
3 3 (3.61%) PetaLinux
4 1 (1.20%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.20%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.20%) JIRA
4 1 (1.20%) Zephyr
General
1 30 (36.14%) Electronics
2 28 (33.73%) Manufacturing
3 24 (28.92%) Social Skills
4 9 (10.84%) Aviation
4 9 (10.84%) Organisational Skills
5 8 (9.64%) Advertising
6 7 (8.43%) Swedish Language
7 6 (7.23%) Aerospace
8 3 (3.61%) Automotive
8 3 (3.61%) Multimedia
9 2 (2.41%) Telecoms
10 1 (1.20%) Wearables
10 1 (1.20%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 45 (54.22%) Software Engineer
2 40 (48.19%) Embedded Engineer
3 27 (32.53%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 25 (30.12%) Senior
5 21 (25.30%) Senior Embedded Engineer
6 19 (22.89%) Senior Software Engineer
7 18 (21.69%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
8 10 (12.05%) Lead
9 7 (8.43%) Rust Engineer
9 7 (8.43%) Rust Software Engineer
10 6 (7.23%) Architect
10 6 (7.23%) C Software Engineer
10 6 (7.23%) C/C++ Software Engineer
10 6 (7.23%) C++ Software Engineer
10 6 (7.23%) Embedded Linux Engineer
10 6 (7.23%) Junior
10 6 (7.23%) Linux Engineer
10 6 (7.23%) Software Test Engineer
10 6 (7.23%) Test Engineer
11 5 (6.02%) Embedded C/C++ Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (9.64%) Yocto
2 6 (7.23%) .NET
2 6 (7.23%) ASP.NET
2 6 (7.23%) HTML
3 5 (6.02%) Middleware
4 3 (3.61%) Qt
5 2 (2.41%) WPF
6 1 (1.20%) MEAN Stack
6 1 (1.20%) WinUI
Miscellaneous
1 29 (34.94%) Embedded Systems
2 19 (22.89%) Robotics
3 14 (16.87%) Algorithms
4 8 (9.64%) Device Driver
4 8 (9.64%) FPGA
5 7 (8.43%) RISC-V
5 7 (8.43%) Verilog
5 7 (8.43%) VHDL
6 5 (6.02%) IoT
7 3 (3.61%) Media Streaming
7 3 (3.61%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (1.20%) Analogue Electronics
8 1 (1.20%) ARM Cortex
8 1 (1.20%) NB-IoT
Operating Systems
1 28 (33.73%) Linux
2 16 (19.28%) Embedded Linux
3 10 (12.05%) FreeRTOS
4 7 (8.43%) Windows
5 3 (3.61%) Robot Operating System
6 1 (1.20%) ThreadX
6 1 (1.20%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (75.90%) Software Engineering
2 20 (24.10%) Validation
3 19 (22.89%) Software Testing
4 17 (20.48%) Unit Testing
5 12 (14.46%) Computer Science
5 12 (14.46%) Continuous Improvement
6 9 (10.84%) Embedded Software Development
6 9 (10.84%) TDD
6 9 (10.84%) Test Automation
7 8 (9.64%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
7 8 (9.64%) Problem-Solving
7 8 (9.64%) Verification and Validation
8 7 (8.43%) AI
8 7 (8.43%) Electronic Design Automation
9 6 (7.23%) Signal Processing
9 6 (7.23%) Software Architecture
10 5 (6.02%) Code Quality
10 5 (6.02%) Customer Requirements
10 5 (6.02%) Integration Testing
10 5 (6.02%) Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 60 (72.29%) C++
2 23 (27.71%) Python
3 17 (20.48%) Rust
4 16 (19.28%) C#
5 15 (18.07%) Embedded C
6 10 (12.05%) Embedded C++
7 8 (9.64%) MATLAB
8 7 (8.43%) JavaScript
9 6 (7.23%) Java
9 6 (7.23%) SQL
10 4 (4.82%) Clojure
10 4 (4.82%) Erlang
10 4 (4.82%) Scala
11 3 (3.61%) Delphi
12 1 (1.20%) Ada
12 1 (1.20%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 28 (33.73%) Degree
2 12 (14.46%) Security Cleared
3 7 (8.43%) SC Cleared
4 6 (7.23%) Master's Degree
5 4 (4.82%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.20%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.20%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (9.64%) Automotive SPICE
2 6 (7.23%) ISO 26262
2 6 (7.23%) MISRA
2 6 (7.23%) MISRA C
3 4 (4.82%) DO-254
3 4 (4.82%) QA
System Software
1 26 (31.33%) Firmware
2 12 (14.46%) Embedded Firmware
3 7 (8.43%) QEMU
4 1 (1.20%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (3.61%) Functional Safety
2 1 (1.20%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (2.41%) Xilinx
2 1 (1.20%) Microsoft