C Jobs in the South East

C
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 20 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 174 71 98
Rank change year-on-year -103 +27 -32
Permanent jobs citing C 151 611 417
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 1.57% 3.22% 3.17%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.09% 11.35% 7.90%
Number of salaries quoted 84 422 246
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - +2.14%
75th Percentile £66,563 £67,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £74,625 £82,500 £80,625
England median annual salary £57,836 £57,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +0.58% -8.00% +8.70%

All Programming Languages
South East

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 South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 2,479 5,384 5,276
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 25.79% 28.35% 40.12%
Number of salaries quoted 1,679 4,223 3,548
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £68,000 £67,500 £74,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £87,500
England median annual salary £62,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.33% -7.69% +4.00%

C
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing C as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for C in the South East

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Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing C in the South East.

Salary trend for C in the South East

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Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing C in the South East over the 6 months to 20 June 2025.

Salary histogram for C in the South East

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Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing C within the South East region over the 6 months to 20 June 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
Thames Valley -56 52 £55,283 -3.86% 211
Hampshire -15 41 £50,000 -9.09% 95
Oxfordshire -16 26 £65,000 +13.04% 40
Kent +4 20 £60,000 +62.16% 35
Buckinghamshire +5 16 £60,000 +14.28% 38
Isle of Wight - 13 £65,000 - 3
East Sussex +23 12 £55,000 +15.79% 18
Surrey -38 12 £67,500 +12.50% 45
Berkshire -31 10 £52,000 -10.34% 135
West Sussex +10 1 £55,000 - 28
C
England

C
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 2 (1.32%) Apache
2 1 (0.66%) CMS
2 1 (0.66%) Umbraco
Applications
1 9 (5.96%) Simulink
2 2 (1.32%) GNU Octave
2 2 (1.32%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.32%) OrCAD
Cloud Services
1 4 (2.65%) AWS
2 3 (1.99%) Azure
3 2 (1.32%) SaaS
4 1 (0.66%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (0.66%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 25 (16.56%) Wireless
2 19 (12.58%) Software-Defined Radio
3 5 (3.31%) HTTP
3 5 (3.31%) TCP/IP
4 4 (2.65%) Bluetooth
4 4 (2.65%) HTTPS
5 2 (1.32%) Network Security
5 2 (1.32%) RS-232
6 1 (0.66%) RS-422
6 1 (0.66%) RS-485
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.32%) Geospatial Data
1 2 (1.32%) GIS
1 2 (1.32%) Metadata
1 2 (1.32%) MySQL
1 2 (1.32%) RDBMS
1 2 (1.32%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 28 (18.54%) Git
2 10 (6.62%) Subversion
3 4 (2.65%) JIRA
3 4 (2.65%) Rational DOORS
4 2 (1.32%) CMake
5 1 (0.66%) GDB
5 1 (0.66%) LabVIEW
5 1 (0.66%) Selenium
5 1 (0.66%) Visual Studio
General
1 36 (23.84%) Aerospace
2 27 (17.88%) Electronics
3 20 (13.25%) Finance
4 11 (7.28%) Social Skills
5 9 (5.96%) Manufacturing
6 6 (3.97%) Military
6 6 (3.97%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (3.31%) Aviation
7 5 (3.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.99%) Marketing
8 3 (1.99%) Retail
9 2 (1.32%) Automotive
10 1 (0.66%) Analytical Skills
10 1 (0.66%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.66%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.66%) Swedish Language
10 1 (0.66%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 49 (32.45%) Software Engineer
2 36 (23.84%) Senior
3 28 (18.54%) Embedded Engineer
4 27 (17.88%) Embedded Software Engineer
5 24 (15.89%) Lead
6 16 (10.60%) Developer
7 12 (7.95%) Software Team Leader
7 12 (7.95%) Team Leader
8 9 (5.96%) Senior Software Engineer
8 9 (5.96%) Software Developer
9 7 (4.64%) Electronics Engineer
10 6 (3.97%) Firmware Engineer
11 5 (3.31%) Principal Engineer
11 5 (3.31%) Senior Firmware Engineer
12 4 (2.65%) Mobile Engineer
12 4 (2.65%) Principal Software Engineer
12 4 (2.65%) Security Engineer
12 4 (2.65%) Senior Electronics Engineer
12 4 (2.65%) Senior Security Engineer
12 4 (2.65%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (18.54%) HTML
2 13 (8.61%) Qt
3 12 (7.95%) XML
4 5 (3.31%) CSS
5 3 (1.99%) .NET
5 3 (1.99%) .NET Framework
5 3 (1.99%) React
6 2 (1.32%) LAMP
6 2 (1.32%) OpenEmbedded
6 2 (1.32%) Yocto
7 1 (0.66%) ADO
7 1 (0.66%) ASP.NET
7 1 (0.66%) Flash
7 1 (0.66%) GraphQL
7 1 (0.66%) HTML5
7 1 (0.66%) JSON
7 1 (0.66%) OpenGL
7 1 (0.66%) Web Services
7 1 (0.66%) WinForms
7 1 (0.66%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 49 (32.45%) Embedded Systems
2 19 (12.58%) e-Learning
2 19 (12.58%) MicroBlaze
2 19 (12.58%) RISC-V
3 15 (9.93%) Algorithms
4 14 (9.27%) Self-Motivation
5 9 (5.96%) FPGA
6 5 (3.31%) Acoustics
7 4 (2.65%) CPLD
7 4 (2.65%) Device Driver
7 4 (2.65%) IoT
7 4 (2.65%) Mobile App
7 4 (2.65%) VHDL
8 2 (1.32%) CCTV
8 2 (1.32%) Data Centre
8 2 (1.32%) Robotics
9 1 (0.66%) 3D Graphics
9 1 (0.66%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.66%) Life Science
9 1 (0.66%) Raspberry Pi
Operating Systems
1 49 (32.45%) Linux
2 19 (12.58%) Embedded Linux
3 10 (6.62%) Unix
4 8 (5.30%) Android
5 4 (2.65%) Apple iOS
6 2 (1.32%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.66%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (48.34%) Software Engineering
2 39 (25.83%) Computer Science
3 29 (19.21%) Mathematics
3 29 (19.21%) Physics
4 28 (18.54%) Software Testing
4 28 (18.54%) Validation
5 26 (17.22%) Verification and Validation
6 25 (16.56%) Agile
6 25 (16.56%) OO
6 25 (16.56%) SDLC
7 24 (15.89%) OOD
7 24 (15.89%) Signal Processing
8 22 (14.57%) Digital Signal Processing
9 21 (13.91%) Test Automation
10 19 (12.58%) Artificial Intelligence
10 19 (12.58%) Innovative Thinking
11 18 (11.92%) Customer Requirements
12 17 (11.26%) Machine Learning
13 16 (10.60%) Data Privacy
14 15 (9.93%) UML
Programming Languages
1 117 (77.48%) C++
2 63 (41.72%) Python
3 36 (23.84%) C#
4 33 (21.85%) MATLAB
5 30 (19.87%) Java
6 29 (19.21%) JavaScript
7 23 (15.23%) SQL
8 21 (13.91%) PHP
9 19 (12.58%) TypeScript
10 17 (11.26%) Rust
11 16 (10.60%) Dart
11 16 (10.60%) R
11 16 (10.60%) Ruby
12 15 (9.93%) Embedded C
13 14 (9.27%) Ada
14 11 (7.28%) Fortran
15 10 (6.62%) Bash
16 7 (4.64%) Kotlin
17 6 (3.97%) Embedded C++
18 5 (3.31%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 72 (47.68%) Degree
2 44 (29.14%) Security Cleared
3 37 (24.50%) SC Cleared
4 20 (13.25%) Computer Science Degree
5 19 (12.58%) Master's Degree
6 17 (11.26%) PhD
7 16 (10.60%) BPSS Clearance
8 12 (7.95%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.66%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.65%) QA
2 2 (1.32%) AUTOSAR
2 2 (1.32%) Def Stans
3 1 (0.66%) ECSS
3 1 (0.66%) ISO 26262
3 1 (0.66%) MISRA
3 1 (0.66%) MISRA C
System Software
1 29 (19.21%) Firmware
2 23 (15.23%) Embedded Firmware
3 2 (1.32%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (1.32%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (2.65%) Agilent
1 4 (2.65%) Siemens
2 3 (1.99%) EMC
3 2 (1.32%) NVIDIA
4 1 (0.66%) Red Hat
4 1 (0.66%) SAP