C Job Trends in Gloucestershire

C
South West > Gloucestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Gloucestershire requiring C skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 41 62 69
Rank change year-on-year +21 +7 +3
Permanent jobs citing C 18 14 36
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 2.78% 2.12% 3.96%
As % of the Programming Languages category 12.86% 4.65% 8.14%
Number of salaries quoted 14 11 26
10th Percentile £48,750 - £40,000
25th Percentile £49,375 £37,000 £44,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £46,500 £59,000
Median % change year-on-year +23.66% -21.19% +2.61%
75th Percentile £76,250 £47,750 £76,875
90th Percentile £87,250 £52,500 £87,500
South West median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £56,250
% change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -6.25%

All Programming Languages
Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 140 301 442
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 21.64% 45.61% 48.62%
Number of salaries quoted 95 103 272
10th Percentile £32,750 £40,250 £31,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £47,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £76,875 £72,500 £66,313
90th Percentile £88,750 £80,000 £78,725
South West median annual salary £54,250 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -1.36% - +4.76%

C
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

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

C job vacancy trend in Gloucestershire

C
Salary Trend in Gloucestershire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing C.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing C

C
Salary Histogram in Gloucestershire

Salary distribution for jobs citing C in Gloucestershire over the 6 months to 30 December 2025.

Salary histogram for C in Gloucestershire

C
Job Locations in Gloucestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing C within the Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 30 December 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
Cheltenham - 7 £57,500 - 16
Filton +1 3 - - 3
Gloucester - 3 £87,500 - 16
C
South West

C
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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:

Cloud Services
1 8 (44.44%) AWS
2 7 (38.89%) Azure
3 3 (16.67%) Google Workspace
4 1 (5.56%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.56%) DNS
1 1 (5.56%) HTTP
1 1 (5.56%) ICMP
1 1 (5.56%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (33.33%) Elasticsearch
1 6 (33.33%) Neo4j
2 3 (16.67%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 3 (16.67%) Cucumber
1 3 (16.67%) Cypress.io
2 2 (11.11%) IDA Disassembler
General
1 7 (38.89%) Electronics
2 6 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 4 (22.22%) Manufacturing
4 3 (16.67%) Avionics
4 3 (16.67%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (5.56%) Law
6 1 (5.56%) Military
Job Titles
1 4 (22.22%) Electronics Engineer
1 4 (22.22%) Software Engineer
2 3 (16.67%) C Software Engineer
2 3 (16.67%) Test Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) DevSecOps Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Lead
3 1 (5.56%) Software Engineering Team Leader
3 1 (5.56%) Software Team Leader
3 1 (5.56%) Team Leader
3 1 (5.56%) Vulnerability Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (38.89%) React
2 6 (33.33%) AngularJS
2 6 (33.33%) MERN Stack
3 1 (5.56%) Flash
Miscellaneous
1 4 (22.22%) Analogue Electronics
2 3 (16.67%) Algorithms
3 2 (11.11%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (11.11%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (5.56%) Arduino
4 1 (5.56%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (5.56%) Raspberry Pi
Operating Systems
1 3 (16.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
1 6 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (27.78%) Software Engineering
3 4 (22.22%) Agile
3 4 (22.22%) AI
3 4 (22.22%) Computer Science
4 3 (16.67%) Analytics
4 3 (16.67%) Data Analysis
4 3 (16.67%) Data Analytics
4 3 (16.67%) Data Science
4 3 (16.67%) Innovative Thinking
4 3 (16.67%) Project Management
4 3 (16.67%) Prototyping
4 3 (16.67%) Reverse Engineering
4 3 (16.67%) Statistics
4 3 (16.67%) Validation
5 2 (11.11%) DevSecOps
5 2 (11.11%) Embedded Software Development
5 2 (11.11%) Vulnerability Research
6 1 (5.56%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 18 (100.00%) Python
2 7 (38.89%) Java
2 7 (38.89%) TypeScript
3 6 (33.33%) JavaScript
4 4 (22.22%) C++
4 4 (22.22%) Embedded C
5 3 (16.67%) Google Apps Script
5 3 (16.67%) MATLAB
5 3 (16.67%) Tcl
6 1 (5.56%) Bash
6 1 (5.56%) Elixir
6 1 (5.56%) Erlang
Qualifications
1 13 (72.22%) Security Cleared
2 9 (50.00%) DV Cleared
3 8 (44.44%) Degree
4 4 (22.22%) SC Cleared
5 3 (16.67%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 7 (38.89%) Docker
2 4 (22.22%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 7 (38.89%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.56%) Ansible
2 1 (5.56%) Grafana
2 1 (5.56%) Prometheus
2 1 (5.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (22.22%) EMC
2 3 (16.67%) Google