C Job Trends in Manchester

C
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring C skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 121 129 111
Rank change year-on-year +8 -18 +81
Permanent jobs citing C 17 28 34
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.61% 1.03% 1.48%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.16% 3.06% 3.45%
Number of salaries quoted 15 9 24
10th Percentile - £43,500 £47,708
25th Percentile £45,750 £52,500 £53,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,500 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -22.50% -4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £73,750 £71,250 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 - £75,000
North West median annual salary £60,326 £57,560 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.81% +0.10% +4.55%

All Programming Languages
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 538 915 986
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 19.34% 33.58% 43.00%
Number of salaries quoted 459 477 811
10th Percentile £34,225 £38,750 £37,199
25th Percentile £46,250 £46,251 £44,263
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year - +0.80% -
75th Percentile £74,162 £72,500 £72,433
90th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £82,548
North West median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -

C
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

C job vacancy trend in Manchester

C
Salary Trend in Manchester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing C.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing C

C
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing C in Manchester over the 6 months to 2 January 2026.

Salary histogram for C in Manchester

C
Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing C within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 2 January 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
Bolton +17 3 £75,000 - 4
C
North West

C
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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 3 (17.65%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 5 (29.41%) AWS
2 3 (17.65%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.76%) OpenVPN
1 2 (11.76%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (17.65%) Elasticsearch
1 3 (17.65%) Neo4j
2 2 (11.76%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Git
General
1 11 (64.71%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 11 (64.71%) Electronics Engineer
2 9 (52.94%) Embedded Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) C Software Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) Design Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) FPGA Design Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) FPGA Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) Software Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Senior
4 2 (11.76%) Senior Electronics Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (17.65%) AngularJS
1 3 (17.65%) MERN Stack
1 3 (17.65%) React
2 2 (11.76%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 3 (17.65%) Embedded Systems
1 3 (17.65%) FPGA
1 3 (17.65%) Verilog
1 3 (17.65%) VHDL
2 2 (11.76%) Management Information System
2 2 (11.76%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.76%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (52.94%) Embedded Software Development
2 3 (17.65%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (17.65%) FPGA Design
2 3 (17.65%) Signal Processing
2 3 (17.65%) Software Engineering
2 3 (17.65%) Software Testing
2 3 (17.65%) UVM
3 2 (11.76%) Agile
3 2 (11.76%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (11.76%) Energy Management
3 2 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (11.76%) Roadmaps
3 2 (11.76%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 9 (52.94%) C++
1 9 (52.94%) Embedded C
1 9 (52.94%) Embedded C++
2 5 (29.41%) JavaScript
2 5 (29.41%) TypeScript
3 3 (17.65%) Java
3 3 (17.65%) Python
3 3 (17.65%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 3 (17.65%) Degree
1 3 (17.65%) DV Cleared
1 3 (17.65%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 9 (52.94%) Embedded Firmware
1 9 (52.94%) Firmware
2 3 (17.65%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (17.65%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 9 (52.94%) EMC
2 3 (17.65%) Intel
2 3 (17.65%) Microsemi
2 3 (17.65%) Xilinx