C Jobs in Scotland

C
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 106 111 97
Rank change year-on-year +5 -14 +65
Permanent jobs citing C 61 220 131
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 2.01% 3.22% 2.98%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.92% 5.93% 7.23%
Number of salaries quoted 51 203 110
10th Percentile £43,750 £35,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £48,750 £41,250 £41,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +23.81% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £77,500 £60,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £67,500 £75,000
UK median annual salary £59,000 £56,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +5.36% -10.40% +8.70%

All Programming Languages
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 1,031 3,708 1,813
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 33.99% 54.32% 41.18%
Number of salaries quoted 683 1,138 1,016
10th Percentile £37,574 £35,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,683 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,033 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.51% -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £61,250 £65,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £84,250 £80,000 £88,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%

C
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for C in Scotland

C
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for C in Scotland

C
Salary Histogram in Scotland

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

Salary histogram for C in Scotland

C
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing C within the Scotland 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
Lanarkshire 0 16 £70,500 - 4
Edinburgh -25 16 £47,500 -20.83% 30
Glasgow +126 14 £75,000 +76.47% 9
West Lothian -3 6 £65,000 +8.33% 9
Dundee 0 3 £57,500 +21.05% 6
Fife -19 3 £51,250 +2.50%
Aberdeen +5 2 - - 2
C
UK

C
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.64%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (1.64%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.64%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 1 (1.64%) Sage 200
1 1 (1.64%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 4 (6.56%) Azure
2 3 (4.92%) AWS
3 2 (3.28%) GCP
3 2 (3.28%) GitHub
4 1 (1.64%) AWS IoT
4 1 (1.64%) Azure Pipelines
4 1 (1.64%) Datadog
4 1 (1.64%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (1.64%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (26.23%) TCP/IP
2 9 (14.75%) Modbus
3 5 (8.20%) Ethernet
4 4 (6.56%) RS-232
5 3 (4.92%) ZigBee
6 2 (3.28%) Wireless
7 1 (1.64%) Bluetooth
7 1 (1.64%) LoRaWAN
7 1 (1.64%) MQTT
7 1 (1.64%) Multicast
7 1 (1.64%) RTP
7 1 (1.64%) RTSP
7 1 (1.64%) SpaceWire
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.64%) Apache Cassandra
1 1 (1.64%) CockroachDB
1 1 (1.64%) Couchbase
1 1 (1.64%) DynamoDB
1 1 (1.64%) MongoDB
1 1 (1.64%) MySQL
1 1 (1.64%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (1.64%) Redis
1 1 (1.64%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (18.03%) Visual Studio
2 3 (4.92%) Git
3 2 (3.28%) Jenkins
3 2 (3.28%) JIRA
3 2 (3.28%) LabVIEW
4 1 (1.64%) Android Studio
4 1 (1.64%) GitLab
4 1 (1.64%) IntelliJ
4 1 (1.64%) PyCharm
4 1 (1.64%) Subversion
4 1 (1.64%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 14 (22.95%) Electronics
2 12 (19.67%) Finance
3 8 (13.11%) Social Skills
4 7 (11.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 7 (11.48%) Manufacturing
5 6 (9.84%) Telecoms
6 3 (4.92%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (3.28%) Legal
7 2 (3.28%) Wearables
8 1 (1.64%) Advertising
8 1 (1.64%) Agriculture
8 1 (1.64%) Law
8 1 (1.64%) Marketing
8 1 (1.64%) Military
8 1 (1.64%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 30 (49.18%) Embedded Engineer
1 30 (49.18%) Software Engineer
2 27 (44.26%) Senior
3 19 (31.15%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 14 (22.95%) Senior Embedded Engineer
5 11 (18.03%) Firmware Engineer
6 10 (16.39%) Embedded Firmware Engineer
7 9 (14.75%) Architect
7 9 (14.75%) Senior Architect
7 9 (14.75%) Senior Firmware Engineer
7 9 (14.75%) Senior Software Architect
7 9 (14.75%) Senior Software Engineer
7 9 (14.75%) Senior Systems Architect
7 9 (14.75%) Software Architect
7 9 (14.75%) Systems Architect
8 8 (13.11%) Junior
8 8 (13.11%) Junior Embedded Engineer
8 8 (13.11%) Junior Software Engineer
8 8 (13.11%) Mid-Level Software Engineer
9 7 (11.48%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (18.03%) .NET
1 11 (18.03%) CSS
1 11 (18.03%) HTML
2 10 (16.39%) .NET Framework
3 4 (6.56%) Middleware
3 4 (6.56%) REST
3 4 (6.56%) WebSockets
3 4 (6.56%) Yocto
4 1 (1.64%) .NET Core
4 1 (1.64%) AngularJS
4 1 (1.64%) HTML5
4 1 (1.64%) jQuery
4 1 (1.64%) Kafka
4 1 (1.64%) Memcached
4 1 (1.64%) Node.js
4 1 (1.64%) React
4 1 (1.64%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 14 (22.95%) Embedded Systems
2 11 (18.03%) Device Driver
3 9 (14.75%) Product Ownership
4 6 (9.84%) Algorithms
5 5 (8.20%) Greenfield Project
6 4 (6.56%) Data Structures
7 2 (3.28%) Mobile App
7 2 (3.28%) Smart Energy
7 2 (3.28%) Virtual Team
8 1 (1.64%) ARM Cortex
8 1 (1.64%) Digital Signage
8 1 (1.64%) FPGA
8 1 (1.64%) IoT
8 1 (1.64%) IPTV
8 1 (1.64%) Life Science
8 1 (1.64%) MPEG
8 1 (1.64%) PCIe
8 1 (1.64%) Verilog
8 1 (1.64%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 24 (39.34%) Linux
2 13 (21.31%) Embedded Linux
3 5 (8.20%) Apple iOS
4 3 (4.92%) Android
4 3 (4.92%) Mac OS
5 2 (3.28%) Windows
6 1 (1.64%) FreeRTOS
6 1 (1.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.64%) Rocky
6 1 (1.64%) Unix
6 1 (1.64%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (68.85%) Software Engineering
2 18 (29.51%) Mentoring
3 17 (27.87%) Multithreading
3 17 (27.87%) Software Architecture
4 16 (26.23%) Agile
5 12 (19.67%) CI/CD
6 11 (18.03%) OO
7 10 (16.39%) Collaborative Working
7 10 (16.39%) Microservices
7 10 (16.39%) Problem-Solving
8 9 (14.75%) SOA
9 8 (13.11%) Continuous Deployment
9 8 (13.11%) Continuous Integration
10 7 (11.48%) Computer Science
11 6 (9.84%) Cybersecurity
12 5 (8.20%) Architectural Patterns
12 5 (8.20%) Refactoring
13 4 (6.56%) Clean Code
13 4 (6.56%) Distributed Cache
13 4 (6.56%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 42 (68.85%) C++
2 16 (26.23%) Java
3 14 (22.95%) SQL
4 13 (21.31%) C#
5 12 (19.67%) Python
6 7 (11.48%) Objective-C
7 6 (9.84%) JavaScript
8 4 (6.56%) Embedded C
9 2 (3.28%) Assembly Language
10 1 (1.64%) Bash
10 1 (1.64%) Embedded C++
10 1 (1.64%) Kotlin
10 1 (1.64%) MATLAB
10 1 (1.64%) Perl
10 1 (1.64%) PHP
10 1 (1.64%) Shell Script
10 1 (1.64%) Swift
10 1 (1.64%) TypeScript
10 1 (1.64%) VB
Qualifications
1 9 (14.75%) Degree
2 4 (6.56%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (3.28%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.28%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.64%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.64%) ECSS
1 1 (1.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (1.64%) JTAG
1 1 (1.64%) QA
System Software
1 14 (22.95%) Firmware
2 11 (18.03%) Embedded Firmware
3 5 (8.20%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (8.20%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.64%) Ansible
2 1 (1.64%) Grafana
2 1 (1.64%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (1.64%) Cadence
1 1 (1.64%) Google
1 1 (1.64%) Microsoft
1 1 (1.64%) NVIDIA
1 1 (1.64%) Oracle
1 1 (1.64%) Red Hat
1 1 (1.64%) Sage
1 1 (1.64%) SAP
1 1 (1.64%) Splunk
1 1 (1.64%) Sybase