C Jobs in the UK excluding London

C
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 108 161 117
Rank change year-on-year +53 -44 +57
Permanent jobs citing C 1,812 1,279 2,061
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.55% 2.13% 2.91%
As % of the Programming Languages category 8.07% 5.33% 6.30%
Number of salaries quoted 1,445 681 715
10th Percentile £38,750 £34,324 £34,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,000 £40,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +14.29% +5.00%
75th Percentile £66,250 £72,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,750 £82,500 £73,225
UK median annual salary £57,500 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.00% +13.64% -

All Programming Languages
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 22,464 23,997 32,691
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 31.65% 40.04% 46.10%
Number of salaries quoted 16,379 13,518 21,111
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £71,250 £68,063
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +13.64%

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 10 May 2024.

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 10 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
South East +36 528 £56,500 -5.83% 150
South West +58 286 £57,500 -17.86% 110
East of England +34 258 £60,000 -7.69% 114
North of England +60 238 £55,000 +4.76% 61
Scotland 0 228 £52,500 -4.55% 40
Midlands +7 215 £52,500 -4.55% 57
North West +61 133 £55,000 - 38
West Midlands -24 117 £60,750 -24.06% 21
East Midlands +43 98 £47,500 -9.52% 36
Yorkshire +38 81 £50,000 +17.65% 16
Wales +37 48 £50,000 -9.09% 11
North East +11 24 £60,000 -4.00% 8
Northern Ireland +32 13 £55,000 +37.50% 1
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 25 (1.38%) Apache
2 12 (0.66%) Confluence
3 11 (0.61%) nginx
4 6 (0.33%) CMS
4 6 (0.33%) IIS
4 6 (0.33%) Kinematics
4 6 (0.33%) Sitecore CMS
5 5 (0.28%) Umbraco
6 4 (0.22%) Apache Spark
6 4 (0.22%) Headless CMS
6 4 (0.22%) Kentico
7 2 (0.11%) IBM Domino
7 2 (0.11%) Liferay
7 2 (0.11%) Magnolia
Applications
1 119 (6.57%) Simulink
2 33 (1.82%) Stateflow
3 13 (0.72%) CANalyzer
4 10 (0.55%) GNU Octave
5 7 (0.39%) Microsoft Office
6 5 (0.28%) Doxygen
7 3 (0.17%) Microsoft Excel
7 3 (0.17%) TargetLink
8 2 (0.11%) Fusion 360
8 2 (0.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
9 1 (0.055%) OrCAD
9 1 (0.055%) SOLIDWORKS
9 1 (0.055%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (0.50%) Dynamics NAV
2 3 (0.17%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.17%) Oracle Applications
3 2 (0.11%) SAP MII
3 2 (0.11%) Teamcenter
4 1 (0.055%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 61 (3.37%) AWS
2 57 (3.15%) Azure
3 35 (1.93%) GitHub
4 31 (1.71%) SaaS
5 17 (0.94%) Azure DevOps
5 17 (0.94%) Power Platform
6 9 (0.50%) AWS IoT
7 7 (0.39%) Cloud Computing
8 6 (0.33%) Dynamics 365
8 6 (0.33%) Serverless
9 5 (0.28%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (0.22%) GCP
10 4 (0.22%) Kontent
11 3 (0.17%) WhatsApp
12 2 (0.11%) AWS CloudFormation
12 2 (0.11%) Azure Machine Learning
12 2 (0.11%) npm
12 2 (0.11%) PaaS
13 1 (0.055%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 159 (8.77%) Wireless
2 76 (4.19%) Wi-Fi
3 69 (3.81%) Ethernet
4 59 (3.26%) RS-232
4 59 (3.26%) TCP/IP
5 58 (3.20%) Bluetooth
6 41 (2.26%) RS-485
7 36 (1.99%) Internet
8 35 (1.93%) Network Security
9 25 (1.38%) J1939
10 21 (1.16%) MQTT
11 17 (0.94%) 5G
11 17 (0.94%) ZigBee
12 14 (0.77%) 4G
12 14 (0.77%) Firewall
12 14 (0.77%) Wireshark
13 12 (0.66%) 3G
14 11 (0.61%) Modbus
15 10 (0.55%) DNS
15 10 (0.55%) LoRaWAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (2.65%) SQL Server
2 41 (2.26%) PostgreSQL
3 28 (1.55%) MySQL
4 27 (1.49%) MongoDB
5 18 (0.99%) Relational Database
6 15 (0.83%) Big Data
7 14 (0.77%) Power BI
8 7 (0.39%) SQLite
9 6 (0.33%) Data Mining
10 5 (0.28%) Azure SQL Database
11 4 (0.22%) DynamoDB
11 4 (0.22%) Hadoop
12 3 (0.17%) Data Lake
12 3 (0.17%) Data Warehouse
12 3 (0.17%) RDBMS
12 3 (0.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 3 (0.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 2 (0.11%) Crystal Reports
13 2 (0.11%) DB2
13 2 (0.11%) DTS
Development Applications
1 143 (7.89%) Git
2 87 (4.80%) JIRA
3 84 (4.64%) Visual Studio
4 82 (4.53%) Jenkins
5 54 (2.98%) Subversion
6 41 (2.26%) LabVIEW
7 31 (1.71%) Rational Rhapsody
8 21 (1.16%) ClearCase
8 21 (1.16%) Plastic SCM
9 18 (0.99%) Bitbucket
10 15 (0.83%) Eclipse
11 14 (0.77%) ClearQuest
11 14 (0.77%) GitLab
12 10 (0.55%) GNU Toolchain
13 9 (0.50%) GDB
13 9 (0.50%) Rational DOORS
13 9 (0.50%) Team Foundation Server
14 7 (0.39%) CMake
14 7 (0.39%) TestRail
15 6 (0.33%) CANoe
General
1 417 (23.01%) Electronics
2 352 (19.43%) Social Skills
3 202 (11.15%) Manufacturing
4 183 (10.10%) Analytical Skills
5 174 (9.60%) Automotive
6 102 (5.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 97 (5.35%) Aerospace
8 95 (5.24%) Telecoms
9 93 (5.13%) Marketing
10 89 (4.91%) Finance
11 52 (2.87%) Public Sector
12 34 (1.88%) Retail
13 30 (1.66%) Military
14 27 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
15 26 (1.43%) Legal
16 23 (1.27%) Law
17 15 (0.83%) Pharmaceutical
18 14 (0.77%) Brand Awareness
19 12 (0.66%) Mandarin Language
19 12 (0.66%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 901 (49.72%) Software Engineer
2 585 (32.28%) Embedded Engineer
3 415 (22.90%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 412 (22.74%) Senior
5 237 (13.08%) Developer
6 230 (12.69%) Senior Software Engineer
7 159 (8.77%) Senior Embedded Engineer
8 141 (7.78%) Lead
9 121 (6.68%) Software Developer
10 117 (6.46%) C++ Software Engineer
11 98 (5.41%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
12 97 (5.35%) C Software Engineer
13 86 (4.75%) Firmware Engineer
14 82 (4.53%) Systems Engineer
15 70 (3.86%) Embedded Developer
16 68 (3.75%) Junior
17 67 (3.70%) Electronics Engineer
18 64 (3.53%) Graduate
19 57 (3.15%) C++ Developer
19 57 (3.15%) Embedded C Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 119 (6.57%) .NET
2 74 (4.08%) HTML
3 71 (3.92%) Yocto
4 61 (3.37%) WPF
5 49 (2.70%) Qt
6 46 (2.54%) REST
7 38 (2.10%) .NET Framework
7 38 (2.10%) Node.js
8 35 (1.93%) CSS
8 35 (1.93%) SOAP
9 33 (1.82%) Web Services
10 30 (1.66%) React
11 24 (1.32%) HTML5
12 23 (1.27%) ASP.NET
12 23 (1.27%) JSON
12 23 (1.27%) Middleware
13 22 (1.21%) WinForms
14 20 (1.10%) .NET Core
14 20 (1.10%) OpenMP
15 19 (1.05%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 215 (11.87%) Embedded Systems
2 203 (11.20%) Algorithms
3 147 (8.11%) IoT
4 100 (5.52%) FPGA
5 70 (3.86%) VHDL
6 67 (3.70%) Device Driver
7 57 (3.15%) Self-Motivation
8 46 (2.54%) Analogue Electronics
8 46 (2.54%) Robotics
9 39 (2.15%) Data Structures
10 35 (1.93%) Analytical Mindset
10 35 (1.93%) CUDA
11 32 (1.77%) Product Ownership
11 32 (1.77%) Raspberry Pi
11 32 (1.77%) Verilog
12 29 (1.60%) Mobile App
13 27 (1.49%) Distributed Systems
14 26 (1.43%) Enterprise Software
15 24 (1.32%) Greenfield Project
16 22 (1.21%) GNSS
Operating Systems
1 695 (38.36%) Linux
2 203 (11.20%) Embedded Linux
3 171 (9.44%) Windows
4 63 (3.48%) Unix
5 42 (2.32%) Android
6 38 (2.10%) FreeRTOS
7 26 (1.43%) Ubuntu
8 21 (1.16%) AIX
9 16 (0.88%) Apple iOS
10 13 (0.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 12 (0.66%) Windows 10
12 6 (0.33%) ThreadX
13 5 (0.28%) VxWorks
14 4 (0.22%) Debian
14 4 (0.22%) Kali Linux
14 4 (0.22%) Mac OS
15 3 (0.17%) CentOS
15 3 (0.17%) Windows Embedded Compact
16 2 (0.11%) Solaris
17 1 (0.055%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,212 (66.89%) Software Engineering
2 362 (19.98%) Problem-Solving
3 344 (18.98%) Computer Science
4 317 (17.49%) Agile
5 197 (10.87%) Mathematics
6 156 (8.61%) Physics
7 148 (8.17%) Software Testing
8 146 (8.06%) Test Automation
9 124 (6.84%) DevOps
9 124 (6.84%) SDLC
10 120 (6.62%) Mentoring
11 114 (6.29%) Embedded Software Development
12 111 (6.13%) Open Source
13 102 (5.63%) Cybersecurity
14 99 (5.46%) OO
15 95 (5.24%) Software Architecture
16 94 (5.19%) Validation
17 92 (5.08%) Multithreading
18 88 (4.86%) Artificial Intelligence
19 81 (4.47%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 819 (45.20%) C++
2 600 (33.11%) Python
3 382 (21.08%) Embedded C
4 381 (21.03%) C#
5 254 (14.02%) Java
6 126 (6.95%) MATLAB
7 124 (6.84%) Bash
8 112 (6.18%) JavaScript
9 103 (5.68%) Rust
10 92 (5.08%) SQL
11 62 (3.42%) Ada
12 59 (3.26%) Fortran
13 55 (3.04%) VB
14 52 (2.87%) Embedded C++
14 52 (2.87%) Perl
15 43 (2.37%) PHP
16 33 (1.82%) Assembly Language
16 33 (1.82%) Go
17 32 (1.77%) COBOL
18 29 (1.60%) Micro Focus COBOL
Qualifications
1 647 (35.71%) Degree
2 259 (14.29%) Security Cleared
3 110 (6.07%) Computer Science Degree
4 95 (5.24%) Master's Degree
5 90 (4.97%) PhD
6 77 (4.25%) SC Cleared
7 54 (2.98%) BPSS Clearance
8 52 (2.87%) DV Cleared
9 25 (1.38%) HND
10 12 (0.66%) HNC
11 7 (0.39%) PMI Certification
12 6 (0.33%) SANS
13 5 (0.28%) CISA
13 5 (0.28%) CISM
13 5 (0.28%) CISSP
13 5 (0.28%) CRISC
14 4 (0.22%) CESG Certified Professional
14 4 (0.22%) Microsoft Certification
15 3 (0.17%) CCNA
15 3 (0.17%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (4.30%) QA
2 57 (3.15%) MISRA
3 37 (2.04%) ISO 26262
4 27 (1.49%) Automotive SPICE
5 25 (1.38%) AUTOSAR
6 24 (1.32%) ISO 13485
7 21 (1.16%) Software Quality Assurance
8 17 (0.94%) GDPR
9 15 (0.83%) Def Stans
10 10 (0.55%) IEC 62304
10 10 (0.55%) JTAG
10 10 (0.55%) MISRA C
11 8 (0.44%) 21 CFR Part 11
11 8 (0.44%) IEC 61508
12 7 (0.39%) DO-178B
12 7 (0.39%) ISO 9001
13 6 (0.33%) NIST
14 3 (0.17%) TickIT
15 2 (0.11%) HL7
15 2 (0.11%) PMO
System Software
1 346 (19.09%) Firmware
2 185 (10.21%) Embedded Firmware
3 33 (1.82%) Docker
4 4 (0.22%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.17%) Active Directory
6 2 (0.11%) Kamailio
7 1 (0.055%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.055%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 1 (0.055%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.055%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 28 (1.55%) Ansible
2 21 (1.16%) Kubernetes
3 17 (0.94%) Progress Chef
4 14 (0.77%) Functional Safety
5 10 (0.55%) Terraform
6 3 (0.17%) Nagios
6 3 (0.17%) Podman
7 2 (0.11%) Grafana
7 2 (0.11%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.055%) Puppet
8 1 (0.055%) SCCM
Vendors
1 86 (4.75%) Microsoft
2 50 (2.76%) SAP
3 31 (1.71%) Xilinx
4 29 (1.60%) IBM
4 29 (1.60%) Micro Focus
5 27 (1.49%) Oracle
6 22 (1.21%) EMC
6 22 (1.21%) Red Hat
7 21 (1.16%) Lauterbach
8 11 (0.61%) Google
9 10 (0.55%) Altera
9 10 (0.55%) Atlassian
10 9 (0.50%) Renesas
10 9 (0.50%) Twitter
11 8 (0.44%) Green Hills
11 8 (0.44%) Motorola
11 8 (0.44%) Sitecore
12 7 (0.39%) Facebook
12 7 (0.39%) Instagram
13 6 (0.33%) Samsung