C Job Trends in Tyne and Wear

C
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear requiring C skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 88 54 81
Rank change year-on-year -34 +27 +10
Permanent jobs citing C 3 1 15
As % of all permanent jobs in Tyne and Wear 0.19% 0.24% 1.11%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.87% 0.71% 4.42%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 15
10th Percentile £47,075 - £48,250
25th Percentile £47,938 - £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,750 - £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.00%
75th Percentile £59,438 - £84,964
90th Percentile £60,225 - -
North East median annual salary £53,750 £61,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.89% +1.67% -4.00%

All Programming Languages
Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 344 140 339
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 21.76% 33.98% 25.00%
Number of salaries quoted 286 122 312
10th Percentile £33,750 £29,485 £33,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,468 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £71,106 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £85,000 £83,759
North East median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000

C
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

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

C job vacancy trend in Tyne and Wear

C
Salary Trend in Tyne and Wear

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing C.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing C

C
Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing C within the Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 19 May 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
Newcastle upon Tyne -29 2 £51,000 - 9
C
North East

C
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) GCP
1 1 (33.33%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Cucumber
1 1 (33.33%) Cypress.io
1 1 (33.33%) Gatling
1 1 (33.33%) GitLab
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
1 1 (33.33%) JMeter
1 1 (33.33%) REST Assured
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Embedded Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Embedded Software Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Software Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) SEO Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Gherkin
1 1 (33.33%) Playwright
1 1 (33.33%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Embedded Systems
2 1 (33.33%) ARM Cortex
2 1 (33.33%) IoT
2 1 (33.33%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Mentoring
1 2 (66.67%) Software Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Acceptance Criteria
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Code Quality
2 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Culture
2 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 1 (33.33%) Data Management
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (33.33%) Non-Functional Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Scenario Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Scrum
2 1 (33.33%) SEO
2 1 (33.33%) Software Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Sprint Retrospective
2 1 (33.33%) TDD
2 1 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) C++
1 1 (33.33%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) ISTQB
1 1 (33.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Accessibility
1 1 (33.33%) GDPR
1 1 (33.33%) QA
1 1 (33.33%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Firmware
2 1 (33.33%) Docker
2 1 (33.33%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Grafana