C Jobs in the Thames Valley

C
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for C skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited C over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 88 106 34
Rank change year-on-year +18 -72 +105
Permanent jobs citing C 190 175 497
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 2.82% 2.85% 7.27%
As % of the Programming Languages category 9.63% 7.06% 16.24%
Number of salaries quoted 154 96 179
10th Percentile £39,500 £22,000 £34,990
25th Percentile £45,125 £34,324 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £43,250 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +32.95% -17.62% +10.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £64,063 £68,125
90th Percentile £77,750 £77,500 £71,250
South East median annual salary £56,500 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.83% +14.29% +1.94%

All Programming Languages
Thames Valley

C is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 1,973 2,480 3,060
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 29.25% 40.33% 44.73%
Number of salaries quoted 1,613 1,433 1,913
10th Percentile £36,600 £34,324 £34,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £44,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £71,250 £77,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £92,500 £82,500
South East median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +4.76%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing C as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for C in the Thames Valley

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Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing C in the Thames Valley.

Salary trend for C in the Thames Valley

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Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing C in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Salary histogram for C in the Thames Valley

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Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing C within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 26 April 2024. 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
Oxfordshire +31 88 £57,500 +53.33% 30
Berkshire +17 61 £58,000 +12.95% 17
Buckinghamshire -33 41 £52,501 +39.78% 19
C
South East

C
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 3 (1.58%) Kinematics
2 2 (1.05%) IBM Domino
3 1 (0.53%) CMS
3 1 (0.53%) Headless CMS
3 1 (0.53%) IIS
3 1 (0.53%) Kentico
3 1 (0.53%) Sitecore CMS
3 1 (0.53%) Umbraco
Applications
1 3 (1.58%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 14 (7.37%) Power Platform
2 3 (1.58%) AWS
3 2 (1.05%) SaaS
4 1 (0.53%) Azure
4 1 (0.53%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (0.53%) Kontent
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.68%) Internet
2 5 (2.63%) Wireless
3 4 (2.11%) Ethernet
3 4 (2.11%) RS-485
4 2 (1.05%) MQTT
4 2 (1.05%) RFID
5 1 (0.53%) DHCP
5 1 (0.53%) DNS
5 1 (0.53%) GPRS
5 1 (0.53%) RS-232
5 1 (0.53%) SpaceWire
5 1 (0.53%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.53%) VLAN
5 1 (0.53%) VPN
5 1 (0.53%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (7.37%) Power BI
2 3 (1.58%) SQL Server
3 2 (1.05%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 6 (3.16%) Git
2 4 (2.11%) Jenkins
2 4 (2.11%) Visual Studio
3 3 (1.58%) Eclipse
4 2 (1.05%) JIRA
5 1 (0.53%) Mercurial
5 1 (0.53%) Subversion
General
1 35 (18.42%) Analytical Skills
2 30 (15.79%) Social Skills
3 29 (15.26%) Electronics
4 26 (13.68%) Marketing
5 18 (9.47%) Aerospace
6 17 (8.95%) Telecoms
7 14 (7.37%) Brand Awareness
8 9 (4.74%) Manufacturing
9 7 (3.68%) Publishing
10 5 (2.63%) Automotive
11 4 (2.11%) Finance
12 3 (1.58%) Retail
13 2 (1.05%) Games
14 1 (0.53%) Banking
14 1 (0.53%) Organisational Skills
14 1 (0.53%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 64 (33.68%) Senior
2 63 (33.16%) Software Engineer
3 33 (17.37%) Embedded Engineer
4 25 (13.16%) Developer
5 17 (8.95%) Senior Software Engineer
6 16 (8.42%) C++ Software Engineer
6 16 (8.42%) Embedded Software Engineer
7 15 (7.89%) Senior Embedded Engineer
8 14 (7.37%) Customer Experience Manager
9 13 (6.84%) Electronics Engineer
10 11 (5.79%) Junior
10 11 (5.79%) Senior Electronics Engineer
10 11 (5.79%) Systems Engineer
11 10 (5.26%) Applications Engineer
11 10 (5.26%) Senior Developer
12 9 (4.74%) Senior Applications Engineer
13 8 (4.21%) Firmware Developer
13 8 (4.21%) Software Developer
14 7 (3.68%) DSP Engineer
14 7 (3.68%) Senior C++ Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (10.53%) OpenMP
2 17 (8.95%) WPF
3 14 (7.37%) OpenACC
4 6 (3.16%) .NET
4 6 (3.16%) ASP.NET
5 3 (1.58%) Qt
6 2 (1.05%) .NET Core
6 2 (1.05%) React
6 2 (1.05%) RESTful
6 2 (1.05%) Unreal Engine
7 1 (0.53%) .NET Framework
7 1 (0.53%) ASP.NET MVC
7 1 (0.53%) JSON
7 1 (0.53%) Next.js
7 1 (0.53%) STL
Miscellaneous
1 45 (23.68%) Algorithms
2 27 (14.21%) Embedded Systems
3 20 (10.53%) CUDA
4 17 (8.95%) Analytical Mindset
4 17 (8.95%) Data Structures
5 15 (7.89%) Product Ownership
6 10 (5.26%) FPGA
6 10 (5.26%) IoT
7 8 (4.21%) Analogue Electronics
8 7 (3.68%) Self-Motivation
9 5 (2.63%) Verilog
10 4 (2.11%) Mobile App
10 4 (2.11%) VHDL
11 3 (1.58%) Arduino
11 3 (1.58%) ARM Cortex
11 3 (1.58%) Enterprise Software
11 3 (1.58%) Raspberry Pi
12 2 (1.05%) ASIC
12 2 (1.05%) ASIC Verification
12 2 (1.05%) GNSS
Operating Systems
1 77 (40.53%) Linux
2 35 (18.42%) Windows
3 30 (15.79%) Unix
4 5 (2.63%) Embedded Linux
5 4 (2.11%) FreeRTOS
6 1 (0.53%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (41.05%) Software Engineering
2 62 (32.63%) Computer Science
3 55 (28.95%) Physics
4 47 (24.74%) Mathematics
5 40 (21.05%) Multithreading
5 40 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
6 33 (17.37%) Parallel Programming
7 29 (15.26%) Prototyping
8 23 (12.11%) Agile
9 22 (11.58%) Continuous Improvement
9 22 (11.58%) OOD
10 21 (11.05%) OO
11 18 (9.47%) Software Testing
12 17 (8.95%) Chemistry
12 17 (8.95%) Complexity Analysis
12 17 (8.95%) Customer Experience
12 17 (8.95%) Performance Metrics
12 17 (8.95%) SOLID
13 16 (8.42%) MVC
13 16 (8.42%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 90 (47.37%) C++
2 81 (42.63%) Python
3 44 (23.16%) Fortran
4 33 (17.37%) C#
5 22 (11.58%) Embedded C
6 17 (8.95%) XAML
7 13 (6.84%) Bash
8 8 (4.21%) Perl
9 7 (3.68%) Java
10 6 (3.16%) Embedded C++
11 5 (2.63%) MATLAB
12 4 (2.11%) JavaScript
12 4 (2.11%) PowerShell
13 3 (1.58%) SQL
14 2 (1.05%) COBOL
14 2 (1.05%) SystemVerilog
14 2 (1.05%) Tcl
15 1 (0.53%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 102 (53.68%) Degree
2 52 (27.37%) PhD
3 49 (25.79%) Master's Degree
4 24 (12.63%) Computer Science Degree
5 19 (10.00%) Security Cleared
6 4 (2.11%) SC Cleared
7 2 (1.05%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.58%) QA
2 2 (1.05%) PMO
3 1 (0.53%) JTAG
System Software
1 39 (20.53%) Firmware
2 12 (6.32%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 4 (2.11%) Ansible
2 1 (0.53%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 14 (7.37%) Microsoft
2 3 (1.58%) Renesas
2 3 (1.58%) Samsung
3 2 (1.05%) EMC
3 2 (1.05%) Thales
4 1 (0.53%) Optimizely
4 1 (0.53%) SAP
4 1 (0.53%) Sitecore