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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 297 137 227
Rank change year-on-year -160 +90 -36
Permanent jobs citing C 534 1,803 1,408
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 1.09% 2.02% 1.63%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.59% 6.40% 3.79%
Number of salaries quoted 335 1,389 730
10th Percentile £42,700 £38,750 £35,659
25th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £47,025
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,836 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.58% -8.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £71,250 £72,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £87,500 £91,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,571 £62,500
% change year-on-year +7.97% -11.09% +8.70%

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 14,867 28,151 37,128
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 30.36% 31.46% 42.98%
Number of salaries quoted 9,623 22,592 24,107
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,683 £45,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £100,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%

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 30 May 2025.

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 30 May 2025. 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 -86 156 £60,000 +9.09% 810
London +24 131 £90,000 +9.09% 228
North of England -90 72 £55,000 - 668
East of England -68 67 £55,000 -8.33% 604
South West -39 60 £46,500 -19.13% 411
North West -76 48 £56,418 +2.58% 297
Midlands -59 47 £52,500 - 592
East Midlands -31 24 £52,500 +10.53% 248
West Midlands -29 23 £65,000 +8.33% 306
Yorkshire -5 20 £46,000 -8.00% 270
North East +28 4 £61,000 +1.67% 102
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 12 (2.25%) Kinematics
2 4 (0.75%) Apache
3 3 (0.56%) OpenStack
4 2 (0.37%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.19%) CMS
5 1 (0.19%) NetWeaver
5 1 (0.19%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.19%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.19%) Umbraco
Applications
1 16 (3.00%) Simulink
2 5 (0.94%) Chatbot
3 4 (0.75%) GNU Octave
3 4 (0.75%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.75%) SOLIDWORKS
4 2 (0.37%) OrCAD
5 1 (0.19%) CANalyzer
5 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (0.75%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.19%) C-CURE
2 1 (0.19%) LabWindows
2 1 (0.19%) Lorenzo
2 1 (0.19%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 1 (0.19%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 28 (5.24%) AWS
1 28 (5.24%) Azure
2 7 (1.31%) Dynamics 365
2 7 (1.31%) GitHub
2 7 (1.31%) Power Platform
2 7 (1.31%) Serverless
3 5 (0.94%) GCP
4 4 (0.75%) Amazon Bedrock
5 3 (0.56%) Amazon S3
5 3 (0.56%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (0.56%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (0.56%) SaaS
6 2 (0.37%) IaaS
6 2 (0.37%) PaaS
7 1 (0.19%) Azure Pipelines
7 1 (0.19%) CloudAMQP
7 1 (0.19%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 1 (0.19%) Snowflake
7 1 (0.19%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 42 (7.87%) Wireless
2 32 (5.99%) TCP/IP
3 20 (3.75%) RS-485
4 18 (3.37%) Software-Defined Radio
5 16 (3.00%) Bluetooth
5 16 (3.00%) RS-232
6 12 (2.25%) Modbus
7 10 (1.87%) HTTP
8 9 (1.69%) ZigBee
9 8 (1.50%) Wi-Fi
10 7 (1.31%) Link 16
10 7 (1.31%) Profibus
10 7 (1.31%) Tactical Data Link
10 7 (1.31%) VLAN
10 7 (1.31%) WAN
11 4 (0.75%) 5G
11 4 (0.75%) Ethernet
11 4 (0.75%) HTTPS
11 4 (0.75%) SD-WAN
12 3 (0.56%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (1.50%) SQL Server
2 7 (1.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 6 (1.12%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (0.75%) Amazon QuickSight
4 4 (0.75%) KDB
4 4 (0.75%) Kdb+
5 3 (0.56%) MySQL
5 3 (0.56%) RDBMS
5 3 (0.56%) Relational Database
6 2 (0.37%) Big Data
6 2 (0.37%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (0.37%) Geospatial Data
6 2 (0.37%) GIS
6 2 (0.37%) Hadoop
6 2 (0.37%) Metadata
6 2 (0.37%) MongoDB
6 2 (0.37%) Scylla
6 2 (0.37%) SQLite
7 1 (0.19%) Electronic Patient Records
7 1 (0.19%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 53 (9.93%) Git
2 48 (8.99%) JIRA
3 40 (7.49%) Visual Studio
4 23 (4.31%) Rational DOORS
5 16 (3.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 16 (3.00%) Bitbucket
6 14 (2.62%) Subversion
7 9 (1.69%) Jenkins
8 7 (1.31%) GDB
9 6 (1.12%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 4 (0.75%) CMake
10 4 (0.75%) CppUnit
10 4 (0.75%) Eclipse
10 4 (0.75%) LabVIEW
11 3 (0.56%) IDA Disassembler
12 2 (0.37%) Fiddler
12 2 (0.37%) GitLab
12 2 (0.37%) Rational Rhapsody
12 2 (0.37%) Team Foundation Server
13 1 (0.19%) WinDbg
General
1 98 (18.35%) Finance
2 87 (16.29%) Electronics
2 87 (16.29%) Social Skills
3 48 (8.99%) Aerospace
4 41 (7.68%) Manufacturing
5 31 (5.81%) Analytical Skills
5 31 (5.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 27 (5.06%) Avionics
7 24 (4.49%) Banking
8 23 (4.31%) Telecoms
9 19 (3.56%) Automotive
10 18 (3.37%) Marketing
11 16 (3.00%) Investment Banking
11 16 (3.00%) Law
11 16 (3.00%) Military
12 10 (1.87%) Presentation Skills
13 8 (1.50%) Legal
14 7 (1.31%) Games
14 7 (1.31%) Organisational Skills
15 6 (1.12%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 189 (35.39%) Software Engineer
2 162 (30.34%) Senior
3 91 (17.04%) Lead
4 90 (16.85%) Embedded Engineer
5 81 (15.17%) Senior Software Engineer
6 72 (13.48%) Developer
7 71 (13.30%) Embedded Software Engineer
8 44 (8.24%) C++ Developer
9 36 (6.74%) Low Latency C++ Developer
10 35 (6.55%) Cloud Engineer
10 35 (6.55%) Cloud Native Engineer
10 35 (6.55%) Cloud Software Engineer
11 32 (5.99%) Systems Engineer
12 23 (4.31%) Senior Embedded Engineer
13 22 (4.12%) Lead Software Engineer
14 20 (3.75%) Lead Cloud Engineer
14 20 (3.75%) Linux Developer
14 20 (3.75%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
15 16 (3.00%) Firmware Engineer
15 16 (3.00%) Robotics Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (13.30%) HTML
2 16 (3.00%) Qt
3 15 (2.81%) XML
4 14 (2.62%) Middleware
5 11 (2.06%) .NET
5 11 (2.06%) Yocto
6 9 (1.69%) CSS
7 7 (1.31%) .NET Framework
7 7 (1.31%) React
8 6 (1.12%) JSON
9 5 (0.94%) OpenEmbedded
9 5 (0.94%) WebSockets
10 4 (0.75%) HTML5
10 4 (0.75%) LangChain
10 4 (0.75%) OpenCL
10 4 (0.75%) REST
10 4 (0.75%) Web Services
11 3 (0.56%) Django
11 3 (0.56%) Node.js
11 3 (0.56%) OpenGL
Miscellaneous
1 89 (16.67%) Embedded Systems
2 58 (10.86%) Algorithms
3 43 (8.05%) FPGA
4 40 (7.49%) Cloud Native
5 38 (7.12%) Distributed Systems
6 35 (6.55%) Legacy Code
7 24 (4.49%) Self-Motivation
8 22 (4.12%) e-Learning
9 21 (3.93%) Robotics
10 19 (3.56%) Management Information System
10 19 (3.56%) MicroBlaze
11 17 (3.18%) RISC-V
12 14 (2.62%) Device Driver
12 14 (2.62%) VHDL
13 13 (2.43%) IoT
14 12 (2.25%) Analogue Electronics
15 10 (1.87%) Mobile App
16 9 (1.69%) Verilog
17 7 (1.31%) GNSS
18 5 (0.94%) CUDA
Operating Systems
1 197 (36.89%) Linux
2 27 (5.06%) Embedded Linux
3 16 (3.00%) Android
3 16 (3.00%) Unix
4 11 (2.06%) Windows
5 9 (1.69%) FreeRTOS
6 7 (1.31%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.56%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.37%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.19%) AIX
9 1 (0.19%) Debian
9 1 (0.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.19%) SafeRTOS
9 1 (0.19%) ThreadX
9 1 (0.19%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 266 (49.81%) Software Engineering
2 112 (20.97%) Computer Science
3 108 (20.22%) Agile
4 79 (14.79%) Mathematics
5 68 (12.73%) Artificial Intelligence
5 68 (12.73%) Machine Learning
6 66 (12.36%) Physics
7 63 (11.80%) Validation
8 50 (9.36%) Problem-Solving
9 49 (9.18%) Data Privacy
9 49 (9.18%) UML
10 48 (8.99%) Test Automation
11 45 (8.43%) SDLC
12 42 (7.87%) OO
13 41 (7.68%) Low Latency
13 41 (7.68%) Mentoring
13 41 (7.68%) Verification and Validation
14 39 (7.30%) Quality Management
15 37 (6.93%) Software Testing
16 34 (6.37%) Signal Processing
Programming Languages
1 349 (65.36%) C++
2 179 (33.52%) Python
3 131 (24.53%) Java
4 125 (23.41%) C#
5 98 (18.35%) Rust
6 74 (13.86%) MATLAB
7 73 (13.67%) JavaScript
8 72 (13.48%) SQL
9 67 (12.55%) R
10 59 (11.05%) PHP
11 57 (10.67%) TypeScript
12 50 (9.36%) Ruby
13 49 (9.18%) Dart
14 46 (8.61%) Go
15 43 (8.05%) Ada
16 35 (6.55%) Embedded C
17 19 (3.56%) VB
18 17 (3.18%) Bash
19 12 (2.25%) Fortran
20 10 (1.87%) Embedded C++
Qualifications
1 236 (44.19%) Degree
2 72 (13.48%) Computer Science Degree
3 68 (12.73%) Security Cleared
4 40 (7.49%) SC Cleared
5 36 (6.74%) BPSS Clearance
6 29 (5.43%) PhD
7 22 (4.12%) Master's Degree
8 16 (3.00%) DV Cleared
9 15 (2.81%) HND
10 7 (1.31%) CCNA
10 7 (1.31%) CCNP
10 7 (1.31%) Cisco Certification
10 7 (1.31%) CompTIA Security+
10 7 (1.31%) GSEC
10 7 (1.31%) SSCP
11 6 (1.12%) Chartered Engineer
12 4 (0.75%) Numerate Degree
13 1 (0.19%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (1.50%) QA
2 7 (1.31%) MIL-STD-1553
3 6 (1.12%) IFRS
3 6 (1.12%) IFRS 9
4 4 (0.75%) IEC 61508
4 4 (0.75%) PMO
4 4 (0.75%) SLA
5 3 (0.56%) AUTOSAR
5 3 (0.56%) Def Stans
5 3 (0.56%) ISO 9001
5 3 (0.56%) JTAG
6 2 (0.37%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.37%) DO-178B
6 2 (0.37%) ISO 26262
7 1 (0.19%) Automotive SPICE
7 1 (0.19%) DICOM
7 1 (0.19%) HL7
7 1 (0.19%) ISO 13485
7 1 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.19%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 71 (13.30%) Firmware
2 42 (7.87%) Embedded Firmware
3 15 (2.81%) Virtual Machines
4 9 (1.69%) Docker
5 1 (0.19%) Xen
Systems Management
1 49 (9.18%) Kubernetes
2 5 (0.94%) Terraform
3 1 (0.19%) Functional Safety
3 1 (0.19%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 38 (7.12%) Microsoft
2 11 (2.06%) EMC
3 8 (1.50%) Siemens
4 7 (1.31%) Intel
4 7 (1.31%) Xilinx
5 5 (0.94%) SAP
6 4 (0.75%) Agilent
6 4 (0.75%) IBM
6 4 (0.75%) OpenAI
6 4 (0.75%) Remedy
6 4 (0.75%) ServiceNow
7 3 (0.56%) Atmel
7 3 (0.56%) Graphcore
7 3 (0.56%) Microsemi
7 3 (0.56%) Oracle
8 2 (0.37%) Altera
8 2 (0.37%) Cadence
8 2 (0.37%) Google
8 2 (0.37%) QNX
8 2 (0.37%) Xamarin