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 16 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 70 70
Rank change year-on-year +21 0 +20
Permanent jobs citing C 18 4 62
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 1.93% 0.82% 4.10%
As % of the Programming Languages category 9.33% 1.65% 8.68%
Number of salaries quoted 17 4 59
10th Percentile £44,400 £38,575 £44,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,063 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £45,250 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +27.07% -30.38% +30.00%
75th Percentile £76,250 £54,375 £80,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £64,500 £85,000
South West median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - -13.04% -8.00%

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 193 243 714
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 20.73% 50.00% 47.22%
Number of salaries quoted 115 84 557
10th Percentile £41,250 £40,750 £31,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +14.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £76,250 £71,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £80,000
South West median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,750
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.00% -3.88%

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 16 March 2026.

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 16 March 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
Cheltenham -7 9 £57,500 +30.68% 4
Gloucester +6 3 £87,500 +29.63% 5
Tewkesbury -3 2 £44,000 +3.53% 9
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:

Applications
1 2 (11.11%) OrCAD
Cloud Services
1 10 (55.56%) AWS
2 9 (50.00%) Azure
3 1 (5.56%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.11%) Network Security
2 1 (5.56%) DNS
2 1 (5.56%) HTTP
2 1 (5.56%) ICMP
2 1 (5.56%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (44.44%) Elasticsearch
1 8 (44.44%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 4 (22.22%) Cucumber
1 4 (22.22%) Cypress.io
2 2 (11.11%) IDA Disassembler
2 2 (11.11%) Subversion
General
1 6 (33.33%) Aerospace
2 4 (22.22%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (11.11%) Social Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Law
4 1 (5.56%) Military
Job Titles
1 9 (50.00%) Software Engineer
2 4 (22.22%) Test Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) C Software Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Graduate
4 2 (11.11%) Graduate Software Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Hardware Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) DevSecOps Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Vulnerability Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (44.44%) AngularJS
1 8 (44.44%) MERN Stack
1 8 (44.44%) React
2 4 (22.22%) HTML
3 1 (5.56%) Flash
Miscellaneous
1 4 (22.22%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (11.11%) Algorithms
2 2 (11.11%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (11.11%) Device Driver
2 2 (11.11%) FPGA
2 2 (11.11%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (11.11%) VHDL
3 1 (5.56%) Arduino
3 1 (5.56%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (5.56%) Raspberry Pi
Operating Systems
1 7 (38.89%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (55.56%) Cybersecurity
2 9 (50.00%) Software Engineering
3 4 (22.22%) Mentoring
4 3 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (16.67%) Prototyping
4 3 (16.67%) Reverse Engineering
5 2 (11.11%) Device Driver Development
5 2 (11.11%) Embedded Software Development
5 2 (11.11%) Kalman Filter
5 2 (11.11%) Schematic Capture
5 2 (11.11%) Vulnerability Research
6 1 (5.56%) Actionable Insight
6 1 (5.56%) CI/CD
6 1 (5.56%) Containerisation
6 1 (5.56%) DevOps
6 1 (5.56%) DevSecOps
6 1 (5.56%) Infrastructure Automation
6 1 (5.56%) SDLC
6 1 (5.56%) Security Monitoring
6 1 (5.56%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 14 (77.78%) Python
2 12 (66.67%) JavaScript
2 12 (66.67%) TypeScript
3 9 (50.00%) C++
4 8 (44.44%) Java
5 2 (11.11%) Embedded C
5 2 (11.11%) Embedded C++
5 2 (11.11%) Rust
6 1 (5.56%) Bash
6 1 (5.56%) Elixir
6 1 (5.56%) Erlang
Qualifications
1 12 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 11 (61.11%) DV Cleared
3 2 (11.11%) Degree
4 1 (5.56%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 9 (50.00%) Docker
2 2 (11.11%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 9 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.56%) Ansible
2 1 (5.56%) Grafana
2 1 (5.56%) Prometheus
2 1 (5.56%) Terraform