C Jobs in Oxfordshire

C
South East > Oxfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Oxfordshire requiring C skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited C over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 30 62
Rank change year-on-year -18 +32 -28
Permanent jobs citing C 28 102 59
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 4.03% 5.65% 4.09%
As % of the Programming Languages category 13.86% 19.43% 10.28%
Number of salaries quoted 6 98 27
10th Percentile £48,125 £35,850 -
25th Percentile £58,750 £41,250 £22,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,750 £57,500 £39,955
Median % change year-on-year +10.87% +43.91% -23.90%
75th Percentile £67,188 £63,750 £45,000
90th Percentile £67,500 £77,575 £66,000
South East median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% +14.29%

All Programming Languages
Oxfordshire

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 Oxfordshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 202 525 574
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 29.06% 29.09% 39.78%
Number of salaries quoted 136 486 307
10th Percentile £36,250 £34,750 £30,750
25th Percentile £44,688 £41,250 £42,178
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £54,500 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.92% -2.68% -2.61%
75th Percentile £67,813 £62,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £73,750 £81,750
South East median annual salary £55,895 £55,000 £58,500
% change year-on-year +1.63% -5.98% +6.36%

C
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

Job postings citing C as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire.

Job vacancy trend for C in Oxfordshire

C
Salary Trend in Oxfordshire

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing C in Oxfordshire.

Salary trend for C in Oxfordshire

C
Salary Histogram in Oxfordshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing C in Oxfordshire over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for C in Oxfordshire

C
Job Locations in Oxfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing C within the Oxfordshire region over the 6 months to 31 May 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
Oxford +6 26 £62,500 +8.70% 10
C
South East

C
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Oxfordshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 1 (3.57%) AWS
1 1 (3.57%) Azure
Development Applications
1 14 (50.00%) Git
2 1 (3.57%) CMake
General
1 22 (78.57%) Aerospace
2 8 (28.57%) Electronics
3 1 (3.57%) Manufacturing
3 1 (3.57%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (35.71%) Senior
2 2 (7.14%) Firmware Engineer
2 2 (7.14%) FPGA Engineer
2 2 (7.14%) Senior Firmware Engineer
2 2 (7.14%) Software Engineer
3 1 (3.57%) C++ Software Engineer
3 1 (3.57%) Principal Engineer
3 1 (3.57%) Principal Software Engineer
3 1 (3.57%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (46.43%) Qt
Miscellaneous
1 13 (46.43%) Embedded Systems
2 2 (7.14%) Algorithms
2 2 (7.14%) ASIC
2 2 (7.14%) FPGA
2 2 (7.14%) Verilog
2 2 (7.14%) VHDL
3 1 (3.57%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (3.57%) IoT
3 1 (3.57%) Raspberry Pi
3 1 (3.57%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.14%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (46.43%) Knowledge Transfer
1 13 (46.43%) Manual Testing
1 13 (46.43%) Regression Testing
1 13 (46.43%) Software Testing
1 13 (46.43%) Test Automation
1 13 (46.43%) Validation
1 13 (46.43%) Verification and Validation
2 9 (32.14%) Mentoring
3 8 (28.57%) OO
3 8 (28.57%) OOD
3 8 (28.57%) Technical Leadership
3 8 (28.57%) Unit Testing
4 2 (7.14%) Customer Requirements
4 2 (7.14%) PLM
4 2 (7.14%) Signal Processing
4 2 (7.14%) Software Engineering
5 1 (3.57%) Issue Tracking
5 1 (3.57%) Mathematics
5 1 (3.57%) Physics
5 1 (3.57%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 28 (100.00%) C++
2 16 (57.14%) Python
3 1 (3.57%) MATLAB
3 1 (3.57%) SQL
3 1 (3.57%) VB
Qualifications
1 10 (35.71%) Degree
2 1 (3.57%) Master's Degree
2 1 (3.57%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.57%) ECSS
System Software
1 2 (7.14%) Embedded Firmware
1 2 (7.14%) Firmware