C Job Trends in Northamptonshire

C
East Midlands > Northamptonshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Northamptonshire requiring C skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 64 46
Rank change year-on-year +2 -18 +1
Permanent jobs citing C 2 1 32
As % of all permanent jobs in Northamptonshire 0.19% 0.18% 3.46%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.71% 0.89% 23.19%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 22
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £65,000 - £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 - £40,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -20.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 - £52,500
90th Percentile - - £53,750
East Midlands median annual salary £54,000 £53,750 £45,000
% change year-on-year +0.47% +19.44% +5.88%

All Programming Languages
Northamptonshire

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 Northamptonshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 117 112 138
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 11.20% 20.55% 14.94%
Number of salaries quoted 77 67 105
10th Percentile £39,000 £31,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,683 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.86% -4.63% -13.04%
75th Percentile £63,051 £58,750 £60,000
90th Percentile £71,000 £76,850 £73,750
East Midlands median annual salary £50,000 £47,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +5.26% - -13.64%

C
Job Vacancy Trend in Northamptonshire

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

C job vacancy trend in Northamptonshire

C
Salary Trend in Northamptonshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northamptonshire citing C.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northamptonshire citing C

C
Job Locations in Northamptonshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing C within the Northamptonshire region over the 6 months to 7 August 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
Northampton -10 2 £70,000 - 2
C
East Midlands

C
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northamptonshire 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Power Automate
2 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Visual Studio Code
2 1 (50.00%) Git
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Senior
1 2 (100.00%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Web Services
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven Programming
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft