C Software Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

C Software Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median C Software Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £55,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 664 697 775
Rank change year-on-year +33 +78 -153
Permanent jobs requiring a C Software Engineer 100 35 75
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.14% 0.059% 0.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.066% 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 80 26 59
10th Percentile £38,750 - £32,500
25th Percentile £46,875 £41,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £42,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +29.41% -5.56% -5.26%
75th Percentile £60,000 £51,250 £56,250
90th Percentile £68,875 £58,750 £63,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% +5.56% -5.26%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 67,294 52,879 68,547
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.85% 89.14% 95.76%
Number of salaries quoted 47,576 30,026 42,521
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,173
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +5.64% +5.63%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

C Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured C Software Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for C Software Engineer in the UK excluding London

C Software Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing C Software Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for C Software Engineer in the UK excluding London

C Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing C Software Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

Salary histogram for C Software Engineer in the UK excluding London

C Software Engineer
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing C Software Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 15 May 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
Scotland -31 31 £60,000 +26.32% 1
North of England +51 25 £55,000 +29.41% 1
North West - 17 £55,000 -
South West - 16 £48,750 - 3
East of England +5 10 £60,000 -7.69%
Midlands +3 9 £50,000 -9.09% 5
South East +9 7 £67,500 +12.50% 1
East Midlands -12 6 £50,000 -9.09% 1
North East - 6 £60,000 -
West Midlands - 3 - - 4
Yorkshire +76 2 £45,000 +5.88% 1
Wales - 2 £55,000 - 1
C Software Engineer
UK

C Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 15 May 2024, C Software Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring C Software Engineer in the job title.

1 100 (100.00%) C
1 100 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 59 (59.00%) C++
3 47 (47.00%) Linux
4 36 (36.00%) Embedded C
5 24 (24.00%) Network Security
5 24 (24.00%) Embedded Systems
6 22 (22.00%) Degree
6 22 (22.00%) Python
7 18 (18.00%) Computer Science
7 18 (18.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 16 (16.00%) Computer Science Degree
9 14 (14.00%) Social Skills
9 14 (14.00%) Manufacturing
10 12 (12.00%) Open Source
11 11 (11.00%) Java
12 10 (10.00%) Embedded C++
12 10 (10.00%) Aerospace
12 10 (10.00%) Embedded Linux
13 9 (9.00%) Requirements Gathering
13 9 (9.00%) Problem-Solving
14 8 (8.00%) Renewable Energy
14 8 (8.00%) Distributed Systems
14 8 (8.00%) Mathematics
14 8 (8.00%) C#
15 7 (7.00%) Logistics
15 7 (7.00%) Multithreading
15 7 (7.00%) Rust
15 7 (7.00%) Code Quality
16 6 (6.00%) Mentoring

C Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Applications
1 3 (3.00%) Simulink
2 2 (2.00%) CANalyzer
2 2 (2.00%) Stateflow
Communications & Networking
1 24 (24.00%) Network Security
2 3 (3.00%) Wireless
3 2 (2.00%) J1939
3 2 (2.00%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.00%) 5G
Development Applications
1 3 (3.00%) JIRA
2 2 (2.00%) ClearCase
2 2 (2.00%) ClearQuest
2 2 (2.00%) Plastic SCM
3 1 (1.00%) Git
3 1 (1.00%) Jenkins
General
1 18 (18.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 14 (14.00%) Manufacturing
2 14 (14.00%) Social Skills
3 10 (10.00%) Aerospace
4 4 (4.00%) Electronics
5 2 (2.00%) Automotive
6 1 (1.00%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.00%) FFmpeg
1 5 (5.00%) GStreamer
1 5 (5.00%) OpenEmbedded
1 5 (5.00%) Yocto
2 3 (3.00%) DPDK
Miscellaneous
1 24 (24.00%) Embedded Systems
2 8 (8.00%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (8.00%) Renewable Energy
3 6 (6.00%) Algorithms
4 4 (4.00%) CCTV
5 1 (1.00%) SIMD
Operating Systems
1 47 (47.00%) Linux
2 10 (10.00%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 18 (18.00%) Computer Science
3 12 (12.00%) Open Source
4 9 (9.00%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (9.00%) Requirements Gathering
5 8 (8.00%) Mathematics
6 7 (7.00%) Code Quality
6 7 (7.00%) Logistics
6 7 (7.00%) Multithreading
7 6 (6.00%) Mentoring
8 4 (4.00%) Agile
8 4 (4.00%) Artificial Intelligence
8 4 (4.00%) Computer Vision
8 4 (4.00%) DevOps
8 4 (4.00%) Embedded Software Development
8 4 (4.00%) Value Proposition
9 3 (3.00%) SDLC
9 3 (3.00%) Software Testing
10 2 (2.00%) Data Acquisition
10 2 (2.00%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 100 (100.00%) C
2 59 (59.00%) C++
3 36 (36.00%) Embedded C
4 22 (22.00%) Python
5 11 (11.00%) Java
6 10 (10.00%) Embedded C++
7 8 (8.00%) C#
8 7 (7.00%) Rust
9 6 (6.00%) Perl
10 4 (4.00%) Bash
11 3 (3.00%) MATLAB
12 1 (1.00%) Assembly Language
12 1 (1.00%) Ruby
12 1 (1.00%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 22 (22.00%) Degree
2 16 (16.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (4.00%) Security Cleared
4 2 (2.00%) HND
4 2 (2.00%) PhD
5 1 (1.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.00%) Automotive SPICE
1 2 (2.00%) AUTOSAR
1 2 (2.00%) ISO 26262
1 2 (2.00%) MISRA
1 2 (2.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (2.00%) Firmware
Vendors
1 2 (2.00%) IBM
1 2 (2.00%) Lauterbach
2 1 (1.00%) Intel