C
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 234 215 239
Rank change year-on-year -19 +24 -28
Permanent jobs citing C 779 2,160 1,999
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.49% 1.77% 1.57%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.66% 3.85% 3.03%
Number of salaries quoted 529 969 1,029
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £77,715 £71,250
90th Percentile £92,500 £87,500 £81,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% +4.76% +5.00%

All Programming Languages
UK

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 with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 21,309 56,138 66,040
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 40.76% 45.93% 51.97%
Number of salaries quoted 16,539 35,840 45,476
10th Percentile £39,740 £38,443 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,845 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £106,250 £102,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +10.00% -

C
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing C as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for C in the UK

C
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for C in the UK

C
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing C over the 6 months to 10 December 2023.

Salary histogram for C in the UK

C
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing C within the UK over the 6 months to 10 December 2023. 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
England -14 681 £60,000 - 867
UK excluding London -9 645 £57,500 +4.55% 780
Work from Home +26 313 £60,000 -1.64% 336
South East +24 207 £55,000 -2.22% 212
East of England +22 103 £60,000 -7.69% 198
London -12 103 £80,674 +7.57% 151
Midlands -36 93 £60,000 +20.00% 92
South West -10 88 £55,000 - 116
North of England +81 74 £55,000 - 103
Scotland -2 74 £60,000 - 61
West Midlands -24 62 £62,500 +27.55% 55
North West +94 37 £59,500 +8.18% 51
East Midlands +25 31 £50,000 -9.09% 37
Yorkshire +43 29 £55,000 +4.76% 40
North East +44 8 £55,000 +12.82% 12
Wales +8 6 £50,000 +35.14% 18
Northern Ireland +33 2 £80,000 +100.00% 3

C
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 28 (3.59%) Confluence
2 21 (2.70%) SharePoint
3 12 (1.54%) SAS
4 5 (0.64%) Apache Spark
5 4 (0.51%) nginx
6 3 (0.39%) Apache
7 2 (0.26%) IBM HTTP Server
7 2 (0.26%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.13%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.13%) IIS
8 1 (0.13%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.13%) Luigi
8 1 (0.13%) OpenStack
Applications
1 37 (4.75%) Simulink
2 8 (1.03%) OrCAD
3 5 (0.64%) SOLIDWORKS
4 4 (0.51%) LibreOffice
5 3 (0.39%) CANalyzer
6 2 (0.26%) CATIA
6 2 (0.26%) Mathcad
6 2 (0.26%) TargetLink
7 1 (0.13%) Adobe Illustrator
7 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
7 1 (0.13%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.13%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 4 (0.51%) JDE EnterpriseOne
1 4 (0.51%) JDE OneWorld
2 3 (0.39%) Dynamics NAV
3 2 (0.26%) Oracle Cash Management
3 2 (0.26%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.13%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.13%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 53 (6.80%) AWS
2 33 (4.24%) Azure
3 23 (2.95%) GitHub
4 20 (2.57%) BlazeMeter
5 18 (2.31%) SaaS
6 12 (1.54%) Amazon SQS
6 12 (1.54%) AWS CodeCommit
7 10 (1.28%) GCP
8 6 (0.77%) GitHub Actions
9 5 (0.64%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (0.64%) Datadog
10 4 (0.51%) AWS IoT
10 4 (0.51%) Cloud Computing
10 4 (0.51%) Dynamics 365
11 3 (0.39%) AWS CloudFormation
11 3 (0.39%) Power Platform
12 2 (0.26%) Adobe Creative Cloud
12 2 (0.26%) Azure Data Factory
12 2 (0.26%) PowerApps
12 2 (0.26%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 61 (7.83%) Wireless
2 60 (7.70%) TCP/IP
3 37 (4.75%) Internet
4 36 (4.62%) HTTP
5 26 (3.34%) Ethernet
6 17 (2.18%) Wi-Fi
7 15 (1.93%) RS-232
8 12 (1.54%) AMQP
9 10 (1.28%) Bluetooth
9 10 (1.28%) Firewall
10 9 (1.16%) Network Security
10 9 (1.16%) Software-Defined Radio
11 8 (1.03%) GSM
11 8 (1.03%) Modbus
12 7 (0.90%) 4G
12 7 (0.90%) SAN
13 6 (0.77%) 5G
13 6 (0.77%) MQTT
13 6 (0.77%) RS-485
13 6 (0.77%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (4.88%) SQL Server
2 22 (2.82%) Oracle Database
3 20 (2.57%) Oracle Database 10g
3 20 (2.57%) Oracle Database 11g
4 17 (2.18%) Relational Database
5 14 (1.80%) MongoDB
6 13 (1.67%) RDBMS
7 12 (1.54%) MySQL
8 10 (1.28%) PostgreSQL
9 8 (1.03%) Hadoop
10 6 (0.77%) Data Mining
11 5 (0.64%) Amazon Redshift
11 5 (0.64%) Big Data
11 5 (0.64%) Tick Data
12 4 (0.51%) DB2
12 4 (0.51%) GIS
12 4 (0.51%) NoSQL
13 3 (0.39%) Elasticsearch
13 3 (0.39%) SAP HANA
14 2 (0.26%) Redis
Development Applications
1 85 (10.91%) Git
2 48 (6.16%) JIRA
3 38 (4.88%) Jenkins
4 23 (2.95%) GitLab
5 22 (2.82%) eggPlant
5 22 (2.82%) Subversion
6 21 (2.70%) Cucumber
6 21 (2.70%) JMeter
6 21 (2.70%) Visual Studio
7 20 (2.57%) Postman
7 20 (2.57%) REST Assured
7 20 (2.57%) SoapUI
7 20 (2.57%) The Grinder
8 18 (2.31%) LoadRunner
9 15 (1.93%) Maven
10 14 (1.80%) JUnit
11 13 (1.67%) ClearCase
12 12 (1.54%) Mockito
12 12 (1.54%) TeamCity
13 9 (1.16%) Rational DOORS
General
1 161 (20.67%) Electronics
2 147 (18.87%) Social Skills
3 112 (14.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 99 (12.71%) Finance
5 88 (11.30%) Manufacturing
6 85 (10.91%) Marketing
7 74 (9.50%) Analytical Skills
8 66 (8.47%) Automotive
9 57 (7.32%) Telecoms
10 47 (6.03%) Public Sector
11 28 (3.59%) Games
12 26 (3.34%) Aerospace
13 24 (3.08%) Military
14 20 (2.57%) Banking
15 19 (2.44%) Multimedia
16 18 (2.31%) Retail
17 13 (1.67%) Influencing Skills
18 12 (1.54%) Retail Finance
19 6 (0.77%) Avionics
20 5 (0.64%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 311 (39.92%) Software Engineer
2 191 (24.52%) Embedded Engineer
3 173 (22.21%) Senior
4 131 (16.82%) Embedded Software Engineer
5 84 (10.78%) Developer
6 67 (8.60%) Senior Software Engineer
7 60 (7.70%) C++ Software Engineer
8 44 (5.65%) Senior Embedded Engineer
9 43 (5.52%) Graduate
10 40 (5.13%) Lead
11 38 (4.88%) Architect
12 36 (4.62%) Electronics Engineer
12 36 (4.62%) Junior
12 36 (4.62%) Software Developer
13 35 (4.49%) Firmware Engineer
14 31 (3.98%) C++ Developer
15 30 (3.85%) Embedded Firmware Engineer
15 30 (3.85%) Graphics Engineer
16 27 (3.47%) Systems Engineer
17 26 (3.34%) Junior Embedded Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (5.26%) OpenGL
2 40 (5.13%) Vulkan
3 38 (4.88%) OpenGL ES
4 35 (4.49%) .NET
5 33 (4.24%) Protocol Buffers
6 27 (3.47%) Yocto
7 26 (3.34%) HTML
7 26 (3.34%) XML
8 23 (2.95%) Unreal Engine
9 22 (2.82%) Middleware
9 22 (2.82%) Unity (Game Engine)
10 21 (2.70%) React
11 20 (2.57%) Gherkin
11 20 (2.57%) JSON
12 19 (2.44%) Direct3D
13 18 (2.31%) WebAssembly
13 18 (2.31%) WebGPU
14 14 (1.80%) CSS
14 14 (1.80%) Flask
14 14 (1.80%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 102 (13.09%) Embedded Systems
2 54 (6.93%) Mali
3 50 (6.42%) IoT
4 48 (6.16%) Smartphone
5 46 (5.91%) Algorithms
6 41 (5.26%) FPGA
7 28 (3.59%) VHDL
8 25 (3.21%) Device Driver
8 25 (3.21%) Greenfield Project
8 25 (3.21%) Self-Motivation
9 23 (2.95%) Distributed Systems
10 20 (2.57%) Raspberry Pi
11 18 (2.31%) 3D Graphics
11 18 (2.31%) Analytical Mindset
11 18 (2.31%) Augmented Reality
11 18 (2.31%) Handset
11 18 (2.31%) Ray Tracing
11 18 (2.31%) SIMD
11 18 (2.31%) Verilog
11 18 (2.31%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 304 (39.02%) Linux
2 81 (10.40%) Android
3 61 (7.83%) Windows
4 35 (4.49%) Embedded Linux
5 32 (4.11%) Unix
6 17 (2.18%) Apple iOS
7 14 (1.80%) FreeRTOS
8 13 (1.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 7 (0.90%) Mac OS
9 7 (0.90%) Windows Server
10 4 (0.51%) Data ONTAP
11 3 (0.39%) Ubuntu
11 3 (0.39%) VxWorks
11 3 (0.39%) Windows Server 2012
12 2 (0.26%) Debian
12 2 (0.26%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
13 1 (0.13%) CentOS
13 1 (0.13%) QNX Neutrino
Processes & Methodologies
1 421 (54.04%) Software Engineering
2 168 (21.57%) Computer Science
3 166 (21.31%) Problem-Solving
4 160 (20.54%) Agile
5 115 (14.76%) Software Testing
6 111 (14.25%) Mathematics
7 74 (9.50%) Mentoring
8 71 (9.11%) DevOps
9 68 (8.73%) Scrum
10 64 (8.22%) Test Automation
11 60 (7.70%) SDLC
12 57 (7.32%) Physics
12 57 (7.32%) Signal Processing
13 55 (7.06%) Software Architecture
14 53 (6.80%) Performance Analysis
15 52 (6.68%) Digital Marketing
16 50 (6.42%) Embedded Software Development
16 50 (6.42%) Machine Learning
17 48 (6.16%) Programme Management
17 48 (6.16%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 500 (64.18%) C++
2 277 (35.56%) Python
3 140 (17.97%) Java
4 139 (17.84%) C#
5 80 (10.27%) Embedded C
6 65 (8.34%) SQL
7 55 (7.06%) Rust
8 53 (6.80%) MATLAB
9 47 (6.03%) JavaScript
10 45 (5.78%) R
11 35 (4.49%) Bash
12 34 (4.36%) Ada
13 27 (3.47%) Embedded C++
13 27 (3.47%) Perl
14 26 (3.34%) PHP
15 24 (3.08%) Fortran
16 22 (2.82%) PowerShell
17 19 (2.44%) Go
18 18 (2.31%) Groovy
19 16 (2.05%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 289 (37.10%) Degree
2 136 (17.46%) Security Cleared
3 80 (10.27%) SC Cleared
4 64 (8.22%) Computer Science Degree
5 58 (7.45%) PhD
6 50 (6.42%) Master's Degree
7 26 (3.34%) DV Cleared
8 9 (1.16%) BPSS Clearance
8 9 (1.16%) DBS Check
9 7 (0.90%) HND
9 7 (0.90%) ITIL Certification
10 6 (0.77%) Postgraduate
11 5 (0.64%) Chartered Engineer
12 4 (0.51%) AWS Certification
12 4 (0.51%) CCNA
12 4 (0.51%) Cisco Certification
13 2 (0.26%) OSCP
14 1 (0.13%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (4.24%) QA
2 27 (3.47%) MISRA
3 21 (2.70%) ISO 26262
4 15 (1.93%) Automotive SPICE
5 14 (1.80%) AUTOSAR
6 12 (1.54%) Software Quality Assurance
7 9 (1.16%) Data Quality
7 9 (1.16%) DO-178B
8 7 (0.90%) MISRA C
9 6 (0.77%) IEC 61508
10 5 (0.64%) Accessibility
11 3 (0.39%) ISO 9001
11 3 (0.39%) JTAG
12 2 (0.26%) Def Stans
12 2 (0.26%) DO-160
12 2 (0.26%) DO-254
12 2 (0.26%) PMO
13 1 (0.13%) IFRS
13 1 (0.13%) IFRS 9
13 1 (0.13%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 143 (18.36%) Firmware
2 71 (9.11%) Embedded Firmware
3 27 (3.47%) Docker
4 4 (0.51%) Active Directory
5 3 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.39%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.26%) GPFS
6 2 (0.26%) Lustre
6 2 (0.26%) NFS
6 2 (0.26%) OpenSIPS
7 1 (0.13%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 1 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.13%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.13%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 36 (4.62%) Kubernetes
2 18 (2.31%) HP Quality Center
3 10 (1.28%) Terraform
4 9 (1.16%) Ansible
4 9 (1.16%) Nagios
5 7 (0.90%) Functional Safety
5 7 (0.90%) Packer
5 7 (0.90%) Puppet
6 6 (0.77%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.26%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.13%) Consul
8 1 (0.13%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (0.13%) HP ALM
8 1 (0.13%) Kustomize
8 1 (0.13%) Mesos
8 1 (0.13%) Oozie
8 1 (0.13%) SCCM
8 1 (0.13%) SCOM
8 1 (0.13%) SCOrch
8 1 (0.13%) SELinux
Vendors
1 55 (7.06%) SAP
2 30 (3.85%) Oracle
3 27 (3.47%) Microsoft
4 19 (2.44%) HP
5 18 (2.31%) Xilinx
6 12 (1.54%) MKS
7 11 (1.41%) EMC
7 11 (1.41%) Red Hat
8 8 (1.03%) ANSYS
9 7 (0.90%) Google
9 7 (0.90%) IBM
9 7 (0.90%) Intel
9 7 (0.90%) Splunk
9 7 (0.90%) Sun
10 6 (0.77%) QNX
10 6 (0.77%) VMware
11 5 (0.64%) Cisco
11 5 (0.64%) NetApp
11 5 (0.64%) New Relic
11 5 (0.64%) Veeam