C Jobs in England

C
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England requiring C skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited C over the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 148 233 197
Rank change year-on-year +85 -36 +25
Permanent jobs citing C 1,414 1,102 3,070
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 1.80% 1.55% 2.09%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.07% 3.85% 4.07%
Number of salaries quoted 1,049 640 989
10th Percentile £38,750 £36,198 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,500 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.80% +8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £90,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £61,180 £57,500
% change year-on-year -6.01% +6.40% +4.55%

All Programming Languages
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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 23,314 28,657 75,412
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 29.75% 40.31% 51.29%
Number of salaries quoted 17,627 21,657 38,997
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,500 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £82,500 £86,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £102,500 £110,000 £101,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +8.70%

C
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing C as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for C in England

C
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing C in England.

Salary trend for C in England

C
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing C in England over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for C in England

C
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing C within the England region over the 6 months to 26 July 2024. 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
South East +27 472 £55,000 - 64
South West +60 247 £60,000 -4.00% 44
North of England +65 189 £55,000 -8.33% 48
East of England +19 176 £65,000 - 41
London +10 164 £90,000 +28.57% 24
Midlands +19 160 £50,000 - 41
East Midlands +51 95 £45,000 - 20
North West +35 91 £55,000 -12.00% 31
Yorkshire +62 77 £55,000 - 13
West Midlands -30 65 £60,000 +14.29% 21
North East +6 21 £60,000 +20.00% 4
C
UK

C
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 25 (1.77%) Apache
2 14 (0.99%) Apache Spark
2 14 (0.99%) Confluence
3 8 (0.57%) Kinematics
4 7 (0.50%) Umbraco
5 6 (0.42%) WinCC
6 4 (0.28%) nginx
7 3 (0.21%) CMS
7 3 (0.21%) Headless CMS
7 3 (0.21%) IIS
7 3 (0.21%) Kentico
7 3 (0.21%) OpenStack
7 3 (0.21%) Sitecore CMS
8 1 (0.071%) SAS
Applications
1 92 (6.51%) Simulink
2 13 (0.92%) Stateflow
3 10 (0.71%) GNU Octave
4 4 (0.28%) CANalyzer
5 3 (0.21%) Microsoft Office
6 2 (0.14%) Fusion 360
6 2 (0.14%) SOLIDWORKS
7 1 (0.071%) Doxygen
7 1 (0.071%) Microsoft Excel
7 1 (0.071%) OrCAD
7 1 (0.071%) SketchUp
7 1 (0.071%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.071%) TargetLink
Business Applications
1 10 (0.71%) NEC Housing
2 5 (0.35%) Dynamics NAV
3 3 (0.21%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.21%) Oracle Applications
4 2 (0.14%) SAP MII
4 2 (0.14%) Teamcenter
5 1 (0.071%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 57 (4.03%) AWS
2 46 (3.25%) Azure
3 31 (2.19%) SaaS
4 16 (1.13%) GitHub
5 12 (0.85%) Azure DevOps
6 11 (0.78%) GCP
7 8 (0.57%) Cloud Computing
8 5 (0.35%) AWS IoT
8 5 (0.35%) Dynamics 365
8 5 (0.35%) Serverless
8 5 (0.35%) WhatsApp
9 4 (0.28%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (0.28%) Cohesity
9 4 (0.28%) IaaS
9 4 (0.28%) Power Platform
10 3 (0.21%) Amazon EKS
10 3 (0.21%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (0.21%) Kontent
11 2 (0.14%) Amazon EC2
11 2 (0.14%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 47 (3.32%) Wireless
2 45 (3.18%) TCP/IP
3 36 (2.55%) Internet
4 28 (1.98%) Ethernet
5 26 (1.84%) RS-485
6 24 (1.70%) Wi-Fi
7 19 (1.34%) Bluetooth
7 19 (1.34%) HTTP
7 19 (1.34%) MQTT
8 18 (1.27%) RS-232
9 17 (1.20%) Network Security
10 16 (1.13%) 4G
11 15 (1.06%) Wireshark
12 13 (0.92%) 3G
12 13 (0.92%) 5G
13 12 (0.85%) DVB
14 11 (0.78%) DNS
15 9 (0.64%) OFDM
16 8 (0.57%) Firewall
16 8 (0.57%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (2.33%) PostgreSQL
2 28 (1.98%) MongoDB
3 25 (1.77%) SQL Server
4 17 (1.20%) Relational Database
5 12 (0.85%) MySQL
6 11 (0.78%) Big Data
7 10 (0.71%) Oracle Database
8 6 (0.42%) Apache Cassandra
9 5 (0.35%) Amazon Aurora
9 5 (0.35%) RDBMS
9 5 (0.35%) SQLite
10 4 (0.28%) DynamoDB
10 4 (0.28%) NoSQL
11 3 (0.21%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (0.21%) Redis
11 3 (0.21%) TimescaleDB
12 2 (0.14%) Metadata
13 1 (0.071%) Amazon RDS
13 1 (0.071%) Data Lake
13 1 (0.071%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 107 (7.57%) Git
2 63 (4.46%) Visual Studio
3 56 (3.96%) JIRA
4 55 (3.89%) Jenkins
5 32 (2.26%) Subversion
6 24 (1.70%) LabVIEW
7 17 (1.20%) Rational Rhapsody
8 14 (0.99%) GitLab
9 11 (0.78%) Bitbucket
9 11 (0.78%) IDA Disassembler
10 10 (0.71%) GDB
10 10 (0.71%) Oracle APEX
10 10 (0.71%) Team Foundation Server
11 9 (0.64%) CMake
11 9 (0.64%) Eclipse
11 9 (0.64%) TestRail
12 8 (0.57%) ClearCase
12 8 (0.57%) Plastic SCM
13 7 (0.50%) Rational DOORS
14 5 (0.35%) NetBeans
General
1 276 (19.52%) Social Skills
2 258 (18.25%) Electronics
3 133 (9.41%) Analytical Skills
4 126 (8.91%) Manufacturing
5 100 (7.07%) Automotive
6 83 (5.87%) Finance
7 80 (5.66%) Aerospace
8 53 (3.75%) Telecoms
9 51 (3.61%) Marketing
10 37 (2.62%) Public Sector
11 26 (1.84%) Military
12 24 (1.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 21 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
14 20 (1.41%) Law
15 17 (1.20%) Retail
16 15 (1.06%) Avionics
16 15 (1.06%) Games
17 14 (0.99%) Mandarin Language
18 12 (0.85%) Local Government
19 11 (0.78%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 689 (48.73%) Software Engineer
2 410 (29.00%) Embedded Engineer
3 300 (21.22%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 293 (20.72%) Senior
5 217 (15.35%) Developer
6 170 (12.02%) Senior Software Engineer
7 138 (9.76%) Lead
8 105 (7.43%) Senior Embedded Engineer
9 102 (7.21%) Software Developer
10 100 (7.07%) C++ Software Engineer
11 76 (5.37%) Embedded Developer
12 74 (5.23%) C Software Engineer
13 70 (4.95%) Architect
14 60 (4.24%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
14 60 (4.24%) Systems Engineer
15 59 (4.17%) C++ Developer
16 58 (4.10%) C/C++ Software Engineer
17 48 (3.39%) Embedded Software Developer
18 45 (3.18%) Embedded C Engineer
19 44 (3.11%) Embedded C++ Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 112 (7.92%) .NET
2 82 (5.80%) HTML
3 52 (3.68%) WPF
4 51 (3.61%) REST
5 41 (2.90%) .NET Framework
6 40 (2.83%) CSS
6 40 (2.83%) Qt
7 37 (2.62%) SOAP
8 30 (2.12%) JSON
8 30 (2.12%) Web Services
8 30 (2.12%) XML
9 28 (1.98%) React
10 24 (1.70%) Yocto
11 21 (1.49%) OpenGL
12 19 (1.34%) ASP.NET
13 18 (1.27%) HTML5
13 18 (1.27%) Node.js
14 13 (0.92%) MFC
14 13 (0.92%) OpenMP
15 12 (0.85%) QML
Miscellaneous
1 157 (11.10%) Embedded Systems
2 156 (11.03%) Algorithms
3 94 (6.65%) FPGA
4 85 (6.01%) IoT
5 69 (4.88%) Distributed Systems
6 64 (4.53%) VHDL
7 54 (3.82%) Self-Motivation
8 46 (3.25%) Robotics
9 45 (3.18%) Cloud Native
10 41 (2.90%) Legacy Code
11 35 (2.48%) Analogue Electronics
12 32 (2.26%) CUDA
13 27 (1.91%) Device Driver
14 26 (1.84%) Enterprise Software
15 25 (1.77%) GNSS
15 25 (1.77%) Greenfield Project
16 20 (1.41%) ARM Cortex
16 20 (1.41%) Product Ownership
17 19 (1.34%) Verilog
18 18 (1.27%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 605 (42.79%) Linux
2 192 (13.58%) Embedded Linux
3 154 (10.89%) Windows
4 77 (5.45%) Unix
5 62 (4.38%) Android
6 28 (1.98%) FreeRTOS
7 27 (1.91%) Ubuntu
8 18 (1.27%) AIX
9 13 (0.92%) Apple iOS
9 13 (0.92%) Windows 10
10 11 (0.78%) Kali Linux
11 8 (0.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 5 (0.35%) Windows Server
13 4 (0.28%) CentOS
13 4 (0.28%) Debian
13 4 (0.28%) VxWorks
13 4 (0.28%) Windows Server 2012
14 3 (0.21%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
14 3 (0.21%) Windows Embedded Compact
15 2 (0.14%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 876 (61.95%) Software Engineering
2 285 (20.16%) Problem-Solving
3 243 (17.19%) Computer Science
4 218 (15.42%) Agile
5 151 (10.68%) Mathematics
6 142 (10.04%) Software Testing
7 122 (8.63%) Artificial Intelligence
8 113 (7.99%) Machine Learning
9 105 (7.43%) SDLC
10 101 (7.14%) Cybersecurity
10 101 (7.14%) DevOps
10 101 (7.14%) Physics
11 99 (7.00%) Open Source
12 84 (5.94%) Multithreading
12 84 (5.94%) Test Automation
13 83 (5.87%) Signal Processing
14 79 (5.59%) Mentoring
14 79 (5.59%) Software Architecture
15 76 (5.37%) Collaborative Working
16 71 (5.02%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 939 (66.41%) C++
2 486 (34.37%) Python
3 263 (18.60%) C#
4 245 (17.33%) Java
5 204 (14.43%) Embedded C
6 128 (9.05%) Bash
7 119 (8.42%) Rust
8 108 (7.64%) JavaScript
9 99 (7.00%) SQL
10 91 (6.44%) MATLAB
11 66 (4.67%) Go
12 64 (4.53%) Fortran
13 63 (4.46%) Embedded C++
14 50 (3.54%) Perl
15 46 (3.25%) VB
16 32 (2.26%) COBOL
17 29 (2.05%) Micro Focus COBOL
17 29 (2.05%) PowerShell
18 25 (1.77%) Ada
18 25 (1.77%) XAML
Qualifications
1 461 (32.60%) Degree
2 276 (19.52%) Security Cleared
3 109 (7.71%) Computer Science Degree
4 79 (5.59%) DV Cleared
5 77 (5.45%) PhD
6 74 (5.23%) Master's Degree
7 72 (5.09%) SC Cleared
8 25 (1.77%) BPSS Clearance
9 13 (0.92%) DBS Check
10 11 (0.78%) HND
11 9 (0.64%) PMI Certification
12 6 (0.42%) HNC
12 6 (0.42%) SANS
13 5 (0.35%) CCNA
13 5 (0.35%) CISA
13 5 (0.35%) Cisco Certification
13 5 (0.35%) CISM
13 5 (0.35%) CISSP
13 5 (0.35%) CRISC
14 4 (0.28%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (2.97%) QA
2 27 (1.91%) MISRA
3 16 (1.13%) AUTOSAR
4 15 (1.06%) ISO 26262
5 14 (0.99%) GDPR
6 13 (0.92%) ISO 9001
6 13 (0.92%) MISRA C
7 11 (0.78%) Accessibility
7 11 (0.78%) Software Quality Assurance
8 8 (0.57%) Automotive SPICE
8 8 (0.57%) Def Stans
9 6 (0.42%) IEC 61131
9 6 (0.42%) IEC 61508
9 6 (0.42%) ISO 13485
9 6 (0.42%) NIST
10 5 (0.35%) JTAG
10 5 (0.35%) TickIT
11 3 (0.21%) Data Quality
11 3 (0.21%) IEC 62304
12 1 (0.071%) PMO
System Software
1 213 (15.06%) Firmware
2 125 (8.84%) Embedded Firmware
3 30 (2.12%) Docker
4 9 (0.64%) Ceph
4 9 (0.64%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (0.57%) Virtual Servers
5 8 (0.57%) VMware ESXi
5 8 (0.57%) VMware Infrastructure
6 5 (0.35%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 4 (0.28%) Active Directory
7 4 (0.28%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.28%) vSphere
8 3 (0.21%) GPFS
8 3 (0.21%) Kamailio
8 3 (0.21%) KVM
8 3 (0.21%) Lustre
8 3 (0.21%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.071%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 65 (4.60%) Kubernetes
2 23 (1.63%) Ansible
3 13 (0.92%) Terraform
4 6 (0.42%) Knative
5 5 (0.35%) SCCM
6 4 (0.28%) Grafana
6 4 (0.28%) Nagios
6 4 (0.28%) Podman
6 4 (0.28%) Progress Chef
6 4 (0.28%) Puppet
6 4 (0.28%) SCOM
6 4 (0.28%) SCOrch
7 3 (0.21%) Functional Safety
7 3 (0.21%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.14%) SELinux
9 1 (0.071%) Kibana
9 1 (0.071%) Packer
9 1 (0.071%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 104 (7.36%) Microsoft
2 43 (3.04%) Xilinx
3 35 (2.48%) Oracle
4 29 (2.05%) Micro Focus
4 29 (2.05%) SAP
5 16 (1.13%) IBM
6 13 (0.92%) EMC
7 12 (0.85%) Atlassian
8 11 (0.78%) Google
9 10 (0.71%) Cisco
9 10 (0.71%) NEC
10 8 (0.57%) Altera
10 8 (0.57%) Green Hills
10 8 (0.57%) Lauterbach
10 8 (0.57%) Motorola
10 8 (0.57%) Red Hat
10 8 (0.57%) VMware
11 7 (0.50%) ANSYS
11 7 (0.50%) Siemens
12 6 (0.42%) Intel