C Job Trends in the North of England

C
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring C skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 283 263 162
Rank change year-on-year -20 -101 +83
Permanent jobs citing C 51 54 254
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.24% 0.57% 1.39%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.46% 1.99% 5.00%
Number of salaries quoted 47 37 204
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £35,975
25th Percentile £46,500 £43,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £61,250 £57,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £73,000 £62,500 £84,964
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -0.87% -8.00%

All Programming Languages
North of 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 the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 3,482 2,711 5,081
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 16.73% 28.81% 27.80%
Number of salaries quoted 2,635 1,450 4,041
10th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,375 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.55% -
75th Percentile £75,250 £72,750 £68,113
90th Percentile £95,000 £87,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%

C
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

C job vacancy trend in the North of England

C
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing C.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing C

C
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing C in the North of England over the 6 months to 12 July 2026.

Salary histogram for C in the North of England

C
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing C within the North of England region over the 6 months to 12 July 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
North West 0 32 £57,500 +4.55% 20
Yorkshire -47 12 £54,500 +18.48% 11
North East -53 7 £51,000 -7.27% 7
C
England

C
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 4 (7.84%) SOLIDWORKS
Cloud Services
1 5 (9.80%) AWS
2 2 (3.92%) Azure
3 1 (1.96%) GCP
3 1 (1.96%) GitHub
3 1 (1.96%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 6 (11.76%) Wireless
2 2 (3.92%) Bluetooth
2 2 (3.92%) TCP/IP
2 2 (3.92%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (3.92%) ZigBee
3 1 (1.96%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.96%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (1.96%) MongoDB
1 1 (1.96%) Neo4j
1 1 (1.96%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (1.96%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (3.92%) Maven
2 1 (1.96%) Cucumber
2 1 (1.96%) Cypress.io
2 1 (1.96%) Gatling
2 1 (1.96%) Git
2 1 (1.96%) GitLab
2 1 (1.96%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.96%) JIRA
2 1 (1.96%) JMeter
2 1 (1.96%) REST Assured
General
1 26 (50.98%) Electronics
2 6 (11.76%) Social Skills
3 5 (9.80%) Manufacturing
4 3 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (3.92%) Aerospace
5 2 (3.92%) Finance
Job Titles
1 26 (50.98%) Software Engineer
2 14 (27.45%) Senior
3 11 (21.57%) Electronics Engineer
4 10 (19.61%) Design Engineer
4 10 (19.61%) Electronics Design Engineer
4 10 (19.61%) Embedded Engineer
4 10 (19.61%) Firmware Engineer
4 10 (19.61%) Senior Design Engineer
4 10 (19.61%) Senior Electronics Design Engineer
4 10 (19.61%) Senior Electronics Engineer
4 10 (19.61%) Senior Firmware Engineer
5 6 (11.76%) Embedded Software Engineer
5 6 (11.76%) Principal Engineer
5 6 (11.76%) Principal Software Engineer
6 4 (7.84%) Lead
6 4 (7.84%) Systems Engineer
6 4 (7.84%) Test Engineer
7 3 (5.88%) Manufacturing Engineer
7 3 (5.88%) Senior Test Engineer
8 2 (3.92%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (7.84%) .NET
2 3 (5.88%) React
3 2 (3.92%) Spring
3 2 (3.92%) Spring Boot
3 2 (3.92%) Web Services
4 1 (1.96%) AngularJS
4 1 (1.96%) Gherkin
4 1 (1.96%) MERN Stack
4 1 (1.96%) Playwright
4 1 (1.96%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 16 (31.37%) Embedded Systems
2 10 (19.61%) Analogue Electronics
3 6 (11.76%) IoT
4 5 (9.80%) FPGA
5 4 (7.84%) ARM Cortex
6 3 (5.88%) Low-Code
7 2 (3.92%) Mobile App
7 2 (3.92%) Robotics
8 1 (1.96%) Management Information System
8 1 (1.96%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 14 (27.45%) FreeRTOS
2 6 (11.76%) Linux
3 3 (5.88%) Windows
4 2 (3.92%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (56.86%) Software Engineering
2 11 (21.57%) Collaborative Working
3 10 (19.61%) Digital Signal Processing
3 10 (19.61%) Schematic Capture
3 10 (19.61%) Signal Processing
4 9 (17.65%) Continuous Improvement
4 9 (17.65%) DevOps
5 8 (15.69%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (13.73%) Mentoring
7 6 (11.76%) Agile
7 6 (11.76%) Collaborative Culture
7 6 (11.76%) Computer Science
7 6 (11.76%) Prototyping
7 6 (11.76%) Validation
8 5 (9.80%) CI/CD
8 5 (9.80%) Containerisation
8 5 (9.80%) Physics
9 4 (7.84%) AI
9 4 (7.84%) SDLC
9 4 (7.84%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 20 (39.22%) C++
2 16 (31.37%) Embedded C
3 14 (27.45%) Python
4 7 (13.73%) Java
5 6 (11.76%) C#
6 4 (7.84%) TypeScript
7 3 (5.88%) JavaScript
7 3 (5.88%) SQL
8 1 (1.96%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (1.96%) Go
8 1 (1.96%) R
Qualifications
1 15 (29.41%) Degree
2 6 (11.76%) DV Cleared
2 6 (11.76%) Security Cleared
3 3 (5.88%) HNC
3 3 (5.88%) NVQ Level 3
4 2 (3.92%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (3.92%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.96%) ISTQB
5 1 (1.96%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.96%) Accessibility
1 1 (1.96%) GDPR
1 1 (1.96%) QA
1 1 (1.96%) WCAG
System Software
1 23 (45.10%) Firmware
2 19 (37.25%) Embedded Firmware
3 2 (3.92%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (3.92%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.96%) Ansible
2 1 (1.96%) Grafana
2 1 (1.96%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (5.88%) Keysight
2 1 (1.96%) Microsoft
2 1 (1.96%) MuleSoft
2 1 (1.96%) Talend