C Jobs in the UK excluding London

C
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 241 109 174
Rank change year-on-year -132 +65 -57
Permanent jobs citing C 484 1,842 1,198
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.23% 2.47% 2.06%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.64% 8.06% 5.22%
Number of salaries quoted 347 1,448 647
10th Percentile £42,500 £37,500 £34,324
25th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.64% -8.33% +14.29%
75th Percentile £67,500 £66,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £81,625 £81,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,571 £62,500
% change year-on-year +7.97% -11.09% +8.70%

All Programming Languages
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 10,434 22,861 22,951
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 26.50% 30.66% 39.56%
Number of salaries quoted 6,760 16,543 13,080
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £53,635 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.54% -2.48% +4.76%
75th Percentile £66,307 £67,500 £71,194
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £83,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%

C
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing C as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for C in the UK excluding London

C
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for C in the UK excluding London

C
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing C in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for C in the UK excluding London

C
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 within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 30 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
South East -86 156 £60,000 +9.09% 810
North of England -90 72 £55,000 - 668
East of England -68 67 £55,000 -8.33% 604
Scotland +8 61 £65,000 +23.81% 211
South West -39 60 £46,500 -19.13% 411
North West -76 48 £56,418 +2.58% 297
Midlands -59 47 £52,500 - 592
East Midlands -31 24 £52,500 +10.53% 248
West Midlands -29 23 £65,000 +8.33% 306
Wales +16 21 £65,000 +30.00% 101
Yorkshire -5 20 £46,000 -8.00% 270
North East +28 4 £61,000 +1.67% 102
Northern Ireland +31 1 £50,000 -9.09% 59
C
UK

C
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:

Application Platforms
1 12 (2.48%) Kinematics
2 3 (0.62%) OpenStack
3 2 (0.41%) Apache
4 1 (0.21%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.21%) CMS
4 1 (0.21%) NetWeaver
4 1 (0.21%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.21%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.21%) Umbraco
Applications
1 16 (3.31%) Simulink
2 6 (1.24%) GNU Octave
3 5 (1.03%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (0.83%) SOLIDWORKS
5 2 (0.41%) OrCAD
6 1 (0.21%) CANalyzer
Business Applications
1 1 (0.21%) LabWindows
1 1 (0.21%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
1 1 (0.21%) Sage 200
1 1 (0.21%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 26 (5.37%) Azure
2 10 (2.07%) AWS
3 6 (1.24%) Dynamics 365
3 6 (1.24%) GitHub
4 4 (0.83%) Power Platform
5 3 (0.62%) SaaS
6 2 (0.41%) Azure Pipelines
6 2 (0.41%) GCP
7 1 (0.21%) AWS IoT
7 1 (0.21%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (0.21%) Datadog
7 1 (0.21%) IaaS
7 1 (0.21%) PaaS
7 1 (0.21%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 44 (9.09%) Wireless
2 32 (6.61%) TCP/IP
3 31 (6.40%) Modbus
4 18 (3.72%) Software-Defined Radio
5 15 (3.10%) Bluetooth
6 13 (2.69%) Network Security
6 13 (2.69%) RS-232
6 13 (2.69%) RS-485
7 12 (2.48%) MQTT
7 12 (2.48%) ZigBee
8 9 (1.86%) Ethernet
9 8 (1.65%) Wi-Fi
10 7 (1.45%) Profibus
10 7 (1.45%) WAN
11 6 (1.24%) GSM
11 6 (1.24%) HTTP
12 4 (0.83%) 5G
12 4 (0.83%) HTTPS
12 4 (0.83%) SD-WAN
13 3 (0.62%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (1.45%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (1.24%) RDBMS
2 6 (1.24%) Relational Database
2 6 (1.24%) SQL Server
3 4 (0.83%) MySQL
3 4 (0.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (0.41%) Geospatial Data
4 2 (0.41%) GIS
4 2 (0.41%) Metadata
4 2 (0.41%) MongoDB
4 2 (0.41%) Scylla
4 2 (0.41%) SQLite
5 1 (0.21%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (0.21%) Big Data
5 1 (0.21%) CockroachDB
5 1 (0.21%) Couchbase
5 1 (0.21%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.21%) Redis
5 1 (0.21%) SAP Data Services
5 1 (0.21%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 50 (10.33%) JIRA
2 49 (10.12%) Git
3 48 (9.92%) Visual Studio
4 23 (4.75%) Rational DOORS
5 16 (3.31%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 16 (3.31%) Bitbucket
6 15 (3.10%) Subversion
7 9 (1.86%) Jenkins
8 6 (1.24%) LabVIEW
9 5 (1.03%) GDB
10 4 (0.83%) CppUnit
10 4 (0.83%) Eclipse
10 4 (0.83%) GitLab
10 4 (0.83%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 3 (0.62%) CMake
11 3 (0.62%) IDA Disassembler
12 2 (0.41%) Fiddler
12 2 (0.41%) Rational Rhapsody
12 2 (0.41%) Visual Studio Code
13 1 (0.21%) Android Studio
General
1 98 (20.25%) Electronics
2 93 (19.21%) Social Skills
3 48 (9.92%) Aerospace
4 47 (9.71%) Finance
5 45 (9.30%) Manufacturing
6 28 (5.79%) Avionics
7 27 (5.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 20 (4.13%) Telecoms
9 18 (3.72%) Analytical Skills
9 18 (3.72%) Automotive
10 13 (2.69%) Marketing
11 10 (2.07%) Military
12 9 (1.86%) Presentation Skills
13 7 (1.45%) Aviation
14 6 (1.24%) Law
14 6 (1.24%) Organisational Skills
14 6 (1.24%) Public Sector
15 5 (1.03%) Retail
15 5 (1.03%) Wearables
16 3 (0.62%) Legal
Job Titles
1 179 (36.98%) Software Engineer
2 161 (33.26%) Senior
3 123 (25.41%) Embedded Engineer
4 92 (19.01%) Embedded Software Engineer
5 73 (15.08%) Lead
6 71 (14.67%) Senior Software Engineer
7 40 (8.26%) Developer
7 40 (8.26%) Senior Embedded Engineer
8 27 (5.58%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
8 27 (5.58%) Systems Engineer
9 26 (5.37%) Firmware Engineer
10 17 (3.51%) Electronics Engineer
10 17 (3.51%) Embedded Firmware Engineer
11 16 (3.31%) Principal Engineer
11 16 (3.31%) Senior Firmware Engineer
12 15 (3.10%) Junior
12 15 (3.10%) Lead Systems Engineer
12 15 (3.10%) Principal Software Engineer
12 15 (3.10%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
12 15 (3.10%) Software Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (15.70%) HTML
2 27 (5.58%) .NET
3 16 (3.31%) CSS
3 16 (3.31%) Middleware
4 15 (3.10%) XML
5 14 (2.89%) Qt
6 13 (2.69%) .NET Framework
6 13 (2.69%) Yocto
7 6 (1.24%) React
7 6 (1.24%) REST
8 4 (0.83%) WebSockets
9 3 (0.62%) .NET Core
9 3 (0.62%) HTML5
9 3 (0.62%) Node.js
9 3 (0.62%) OpenCL
9 3 (0.62%) OpenEmbedded
10 2 (0.41%) jQuery
10 2 (0.41%) LAMP
10 2 (0.41%) Web Services
10 2 (0.41%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 102 (21.07%) Embedded Systems
2 55 (11.36%) Algorithms
3 36 (7.44%) Device Driver
4 25 (5.17%) FPGA
5 23 (4.75%) Self-Motivation
6 22 (4.55%) e-Learning
6 22 (4.55%) IoT
7 19 (3.93%) MicroBlaze
8 17 (3.51%) RISC-V
8 17 (3.51%) Robotics
9 15 (3.10%) Management Information System
10 14 (2.89%) Analogue Electronics
11 13 (2.69%) VHDL
12 9 (1.86%) Mobile App
12 9 (1.86%) Product Ownership
12 9 (1.86%) Verilog
13 7 (1.45%) GNSS
14 6 (1.24%) Greenfield Project
15 5 (1.03%) Acoustics
15 5 (1.03%) ARM Cortex
Operating Systems
1 155 (32.02%) Linux
2 38 (7.85%) Embedded Linux
3 24 (4.96%) Windows
4 23 (4.75%) Unix
5 18 (3.72%) Android
6 11 (2.27%) Apple iOS
7 10 (2.07%) FreeRTOS
8 5 (1.03%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.41%) VxWorks
10 1 (0.21%) AIX
10 1 (0.21%) Debian
10 1 (0.21%) Rocky
10 1 (0.21%) SafeRTOS
10 1 (0.21%) ThreadX
10 1 (0.21%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 268 (55.37%) Software Engineering
2 103 (21.28%) Agile
3 102 (21.07%) Computer Science
4 73 (15.08%) Mathematics
5 66 (13.64%) Mentoring
6 63 (13.02%) Physics
7 59 (12.19%) Artificial Intelligence
8 53 (10.95%) Validation
9 52 (10.74%) OO
10 51 (10.54%) Machine Learning
10 51 (10.54%) Problem-Solving
10 51 (10.54%) UML
11 48 (9.92%) Data Privacy
12 42 (8.68%) Quality Management
13 40 (8.26%) SDLC
13 40 (8.26%) Test Automation
14 38 (7.85%) Verification and Validation
15 37 (7.64%) Software Architecture
15 37 (7.64%) Software Testing
16 36 (7.44%) Signal Processing
Programming Languages
1 311 (64.26%) C++
2 153 (31.61%) Python
3 139 (28.72%) C#
4 116 (23.97%) Java
5 78 (16.12%) SQL
6 76 (15.70%) MATLAB
7 72 (14.88%) JavaScript
8 58 (11.98%) PHP
9 57 (11.78%) Rust
10 54 (11.16%) TypeScript
11 49 (10.12%) Ruby
12 48 (9.92%) Dart
12 48 (9.92%) R
13 46 (9.50%) Ada
14 39 (8.06%) Embedded C
15 20 (4.13%) VB
16 17 (3.51%) Bash
17 12 (2.48%) Objective-C
18 11 (2.27%) Embedded C++
18 11 (2.27%) Fortran
Qualifications
1 223 (46.07%) Degree
2 60 (12.40%) Computer Science Degree
2 60 (12.40%) Security Cleared
3 40 (8.26%) SC Cleared
4 38 (7.85%) BPSS Clearance
5 25 (5.17%) PhD
6 20 (4.13%) Master's Degree
7 16 (3.31%) DV Cleared
8 15 (3.10%) HND
9 4 (0.83%) Chartered Engineer
10 1 (0.21%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.21%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (1.86%) QA
2 4 (0.83%) IEC 61508
2 4 (0.83%) ISO 9001
2 4 (0.83%) PMO
3 3 (0.62%) AUTOSAR
3 3 (0.62%) Def Stans
4 2 (0.41%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.41%) DO-178B
4 2 (0.41%) ECSS
4 2 (0.41%) ISO 13485
4 2 (0.41%) ISO 26262
4 2 (0.41%) JTAG
5 1 (0.21%) Automotive SPICE
5 1 (0.21%) IEC 62304
5 1 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.21%) MISRA
5 1 (0.21%) MISRA C
System Software
1 96 (19.83%) Firmware
2 56 (11.57%) Embedded Firmware
3 16 (3.31%) Virtual Machines
4 12 (2.48%) Docker
5 1 (0.21%) Xen
Systems Management
1 11 (2.27%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.41%) Terraform
3 1 (0.21%) Ansible
3 1 (0.21%) Functional Safety
3 1 (0.21%) Grafana
3 1 (0.21%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 35 (7.23%) Microsoft
2 13 (2.69%) EMC
3 6 (1.24%) Intel
3 6 (1.24%) SAP
3 6 (1.24%) Xilinx
4 5 (1.03%) Siemens
5 4 (0.83%) Agilent
5 4 (0.83%) IBM
6 3 (0.62%) Atmel
6 3 (0.62%) Cadence
6 3 (0.62%) Graphcore
6 3 (0.62%) NVIDIA
7 2 (0.41%) Allen-Bradley
7 2 (0.41%) Altera
7 2 (0.41%) Green Hills
7 2 (0.41%) Microsemi
7 2 (0.41%) Oracle
7 2 (0.41%) QNX
7 2 (0.41%) Red Hat
7 2 (0.41%) Xamarin