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 16 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 139 227 222
Rank change year-on-year +88 -5 -8
Permanent jobs citing C 2,033 1,814 2,789
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.09% 1.68% 1.83%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.13% 3.87% 3.43%
Number of salaries quoted 1,635 954 1,026
10th Percentile £38,750 £34,875 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £44,813 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £60,590 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.58% +10.16% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £76,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £88,125
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +14.29% +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 33,162 46,882 81,314
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.13% 43.48% 53.45%
Number of salaries quoted 25,165 29,740 44,603
10th Percentile £35,250 £38,750 £37,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £49,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £77,500 £86,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,000 £55,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year -1.82% +2.80% +7.00%

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 16 April 2024.

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 16 April 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
UK excluding London +52 1,758 £55,000 -8.33% 618
England +73 1,695 £57,500 -8.00% 650
Work from Home +61 761 £55,000 -12.00% 292
South East +30 512 £56,500 -1.74% 160
South West +60 263 £57,500 -8.00% 136
East of England +27 257 £60,000 -7.69% 123
North of England +50 227 £55,000 +4.76% 68
Scotland +10 227 £52,500 -4.55% 56
London +46 221 £82,500 +17.86% 80
Midlands +11 211 £52,500 -12.50% 79
North West +72 123 £55,000 - 44
West Midlands -1 118 £60,750 -24.06% 43
East Midlands +30 93 £50,000 -13.04% 36
Yorkshire +26 80 £50,000 +17.65% 21
Wales +33 50 £50,000 +21.95% 8
North East +13 24 £60,000 -4.00% 5
Northern Ireland +36 13 £55,000 +37.50% 1

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 34 (1.67%) Apache
2 16 (0.79%) Apache Spark
3 12 (0.59%) nginx
4 10 (0.49%) Confluence
5 8 (0.39%) Jupyter
6 7 (0.34%) CMS
7 5 (0.25%) IIS
7 5 (0.25%) Sitecore CMS
8 4 (0.20%) Umbraco
9 3 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
9 3 (0.15%) Headless CMS
9 3 (0.15%) Kentico
9 3 (0.15%) SharePoint
10 2 (0.098%) IBM Domino
10 2 (0.098%) Kinematics
10 2 (0.098%) Liferay
10 2 (0.098%) Magnolia
10 2 (0.098%) SAS
11 1 (0.049%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
11 1 (0.049%) WordPress
Applications
1 113 (5.56%) Simulink
2 33 (1.62%) Stateflow
3 13 (0.64%) CANalyzer
4 7 (0.34%) GNU Octave
4 7 (0.34%) Microsoft Office
5 5 (0.25%) Doxygen
6 3 (0.15%) Microsoft Excel
6 3 (0.15%) TargetLink
7 2 (0.098%) Fusion 360
7 2 (0.098%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 1 (0.049%) OrCAD
8 1 (0.049%) SOLIDWORKS
8 1 (0.049%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (0.49%) Dynamics NAV
2 7 (0.34%) Teamcenter
3 6 (0.30%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.15%) Dynamics AX
4 3 (0.15%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.049%) JDE EnterpriseOne
5 1 (0.049%) JDE OneWorld
5 1 (0.049%) MIS ActiveH
5 1 (0.049%) SAP Business One
5 1 (0.049%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 106 (5.21%) AWS
2 80 (3.94%) Azure
3 43 (2.12%) GitHub
4 29 (1.43%) SaaS
5 23 (1.13%) Azure DevOps
5 23 (1.13%) Serverless
6 21 (1.03%) Power Platform
7 16 (0.79%) AWS Lambda
8 14 (0.69%) GCP
9 10 (0.49%) AWS IoT
9 10 (0.49%) Dynamics 365
10 6 (0.30%) Cloud Computing
11 5 (0.25%) GitHub Actions
12 4 (0.20%) AWS CloudFormation
12 4 (0.20%) PowerApps
13 3 (0.15%) Amazon EC2
13 3 (0.15%) Amazon EKS
13 3 (0.15%) dbt
13 3 (0.15%) Kontent
13 3 (0.15%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 160 (7.87%) Wireless
2 94 (4.62%) TCP/IP
3 76 (3.74%) Wi-Fi
4 72 (3.54%) Ethernet
5 59 (2.90%) Bluetooth
6 58 (2.85%) RS-232
7 40 (1.97%) RS-485
8 33 (1.62%) Internet
9 31 (1.52%) Network Security
10 25 (1.23%) J1939
11 23 (1.13%) MQTT
12 17 (0.84%) ZigBee
13 16 (0.79%) 4G
14 15 (0.74%) 3G
15 14 (0.69%) 5G
15 14 (0.69%) Firewall
16 13 (0.64%) Modbus
17 11 (0.54%) HTTP
17 11 (0.54%) LoRaWAN
18 10 (0.49%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (3.00%) PostgreSQL
2 57 (2.80%) SQL Server
3 46 (2.26%) MongoDB
4 33 (1.62%) MySQL
5 31 (1.52%) Relational Database
6 14 (0.69%) Power BI
7 13 (0.64%) RDBMS
8 12 (0.59%) Big Data
9 10 (0.49%) DynamoDB
10 9 (0.44%) Data Mining
11 7 (0.34%) SQLite
12 6 (0.30%) Amazon Aurora
12 6 (0.30%) NoSQL
13 5 (0.25%) Azure SQL Database
13 5 (0.25%) Data Lake
13 5 (0.25%) Metadata
14 4 (0.20%) Hadoop
14 4 (0.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 4 (0.20%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 3 (0.15%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 156 (7.67%) Git
2 91 (4.48%) JIRA
3 90 (4.43%) Visual Studio
4 89 (4.38%) Jenkins
5 53 (2.61%) Subversion
6 42 (2.07%) LabVIEW
7 33 (1.62%) GitLab
8 32 (1.57%) Rational Rhapsody
9 21 (1.03%) ClearCase
9 21 (1.03%) Plastic SCM
10 16 (0.79%) Bitbucket
11 15 (0.74%) Eclipse
12 14 (0.69%) ClearQuest
13 13 (0.64%) GDB
14 10 (0.49%) GNU Toolchain
15 9 (0.44%) Rational DOORS
15 9 (0.44%) Team Foundation Server
16 7 (0.34%) CMake
16 7 (0.34%) TestRail
17 6 (0.30%) CANoe
General
1 425 (20.91%) Electronics
2 400 (19.68%) Social Skills
3 212 (10.43%) Manufacturing
4 183 (9.00%) Analytical Skills
5 180 (8.85%) Automotive
6 140 (6.89%) Finance
7 114 (5.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 108 (5.31%) Telecoms
9 104 (5.12%) Marketing
10 103 (5.07%) Aerospace
11 69 (3.39%) Public Sector
12 42 (2.07%) Retail
13 35 (1.72%) Legal
14 33 (1.62%) Military
15 32 (1.57%) Law
16 22 (1.08%) Presentation Skills
17 17 (0.84%) Pharmaceutical
18 15 (0.74%) Games
19 14 (0.69%) Brand Awareness
20 13 (0.64%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 971 (47.76%) Software Engineer
2 587 (28.87%) Embedded Engineer
3 455 (22.38%) Senior
4 414 (20.36%) Embedded Software Engineer
5 265 (13.03%) Developer
6 243 (11.95%) Senior Software Engineer
7 159 (7.82%) Senior Embedded Engineer
8 149 (7.33%) Lead
9 126 (6.20%) Software Developer
10 124 (6.10%) C++ Software Engineer
11 97 (4.77%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
12 96 (4.72%) C Software Engineer
13 92 (4.53%) Firmware Engineer
14 79 (3.89%) C++ Developer
15 78 (3.84%) Linux Engineer
16 77 (3.79%) Systems Engineer
17 75 (3.69%) Architect
18 73 (3.59%) Junior
19 66 (3.25%) Graduate
20 65 (3.20%) Electronics Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 141 (6.94%) .NET
2 76 (3.74%) Yocto
3 75 (3.69%) HTML
4 56 (2.75%) WPF
5 51 (2.51%) Qt
6 47 (2.31%) REST
7 45 (2.21%) Node.js
7 45 (2.21%) Web Services
8 42 (2.07%) CSS
9 37 (1.82%) React
10 36 (1.77%) .NET Framework
11 34 (1.67%) SOAP
12 32 (1.57%) RESTful
13 25 (1.23%) XML
14 24 (1.18%) ASP.NET
14 24 (1.18%) HTML5
14 24 (1.18%) JSON
14 24 (1.18%) Middleware
15 23 (1.13%) OpenGL
16 22 (1.08%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 230 (11.31%) Embedded Systems
2 217 (10.67%) Algorithms
3 158 (7.77%) IoT
4 110 (5.41%) FPGA
5 75 (3.69%) Device Driver
6 63 (3.10%) VHDL
7 55 (2.71%) Distributed Systems
8 53 (2.61%) Self-Motivation
9 51 (2.51%) Data Structures
10 50 (2.46%) Analogue Electronics
11 47 (2.31%) Greenfield Project
12 41 (2.02%) Robotics
13 39 (1.92%) Analytical Mindset
14 36 (1.77%) CUDA
15 35 (1.72%) PKI
16 34 (1.67%) Raspberry Pi
17 33 (1.62%) Verilog
18 32 (1.57%) Product Ownership
19 29 (1.43%) Mobile App
20 26 (1.28%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 796 (39.15%) Linux
2 196 (9.64%) Embedded Linux
3 158 (7.77%) Windows
4 68 (3.34%) Unix
5 64 (3.15%) Android
6 44 (2.16%) Ubuntu
7 40 (1.97%) FreeRTOS
8 33 (1.62%) Apple iOS
9 22 (1.08%) AIX
9 22 (1.08%) Debian
10 14 (0.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 10 (0.49%) Windows 10
12 6 (0.30%) ThreadX
13 5 (0.25%) Mac OS
13 5 (0.25%) VxWorks
14 2 (0.098%) Solaris
14 2 (0.098%) Windows Server
14 2 (0.098%) Windows Server 2019
15 1 (0.049%) Fedora
15 1 (0.049%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,324 (65.13%) Software Engineering
2 390 (19.18%) Problem-Solving
3 383 (18.84%) Computer Science
4 359 (17.66%) Agile
5 225 (11.07%) Mathematics
6 163 (8.02%) Physics
7 160 (7.87%) DevOps
8 159 (7.82%) Software Testing
9 155 (7.62%) Test Automation
10 132 (6.49%) Mentoring
11 125 (6.15%) Open Source
12 122 (6.00%) Cybersecurity
13 119 (5.85%) SDLC
14 116 (5.71%) OO
15 113 (5.56%) Embedded Software Development
16 98 (4.82%) Multithreading
16 98 (4.82%) Validation
17 95 (4.67%) Software Architecture
18 87 (4.28%) Machine Learning
19 84 (4.13%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 891 (43.83%) C++
2 703 (34.58%) Python
3 413 (20.31%) C#
4 379 (18.64%) Embedded C
5 299 (14.71%) Java
6 149 (7.33%) Bash
7 134 (6.59%) SQL
8 131 (6.44%) MATLAB
9 124 (6.10%) Rust
10 117 (5.76%) JavaScript
11 66 (3.25%) Ada
12 59 (2.90%) Fortran
13 58 (2.85%) Go
14 56 (2.75%) Perl
15 51 (2.51%) Embedded C++
16 50 (2.46%) VB
17 46 (2.26%) PHP
18 38 (1.87%) Shell Script
19 34 (1.67%) PowerShell
20 33 (1.62%) Assembly Language
Qualifications
1 699 (34.38%) Degree
2 250 (12.30%) Security Cleared
3 115 (5.66%) Computer Science Degree
4 110 (5.41%) PhD
5 106 (5.21%) Master's Degree
6 80 (3.94%) SC Cleared
7 55 (2.71%) BPSS Clearance
8 41 (2.02%) DV Cleared
9 25 (1.23%) HND
10 13 (0.64%) HNC
11 9 (0.44%) Microsoft Certification
12 7 (0.34%) PMI Certification
13 5 (0.25%) MCAD
14 4 (0.20%) CESG Certified Professional
15 3 (0.15%) ITIL Certification
16 2 (0.098%) CCNA
16 2 (0.098%) Chartered Engineer
16 2 (0.098%) Cisco Certification
16 2 (0.098%) DBS Check
17 1 (0.049%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 76 (3.74%) QA
2 59 (2.90%) MISRA
3 38 (1.87%) ISO 26262
4 28 (1.38%) Automotive SPICE
4 28 (1.38%) AUTOSAR
5 24 (1.18%) ISO 13485
6 21 (1.03%) Software Quality Assurance
7 18 (0.89%) GDPR
8 15 (0.74%) Def Stans
9 13 (0.64%) JTAG
10 10 (0.49%) IEC 62304
10 10 (0.49%) MISRA C
11 8 (0.39%) 21 CFR Part 11
11 8 (0.39%) IEC 61508
11 8 (0.39%) ISO 9001
12 7 (0.34%) DO-178B
13 6 (0.30%) Data Quality
14 5 (0.25%) NCSC
15 3 (0.15%) TickIT
16 2 (0.098%) HL7
System Software
1 347 (17.07%) Firmware
2 188 (9.25%) Embedded Firmware
3 65 (3.20%) Docker
4 4 (0.20%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.15%) Active Directory
6 2 (0.098%) OpenSIPS
7 1 (0.049%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.049%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 1 (0.049%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.049%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 71 (3.49%) Kubernetes
2 30 (1.48%) Ansible
3 20 (0.98%) Progress Chef
4 16 (0.79%) Terraform
5 15 (0.74%) Functional Safety
6 5 (0.25%) Grafana
7 4 (0.20%) Prometheus
7 4 (0.20%) Puppet
8 3 (0.15%) logstash
8 3 (0.15%) Nagios
8 3 (0.15%) Podman
9 2 (0.098%) Packer
10 1 (0.049%) Consul
10 1 (0.049%) Kibana
10 1 (0.049%) SCCM
Vendors
1 109 (5.36%) Microsoft
2 58 (2.85%) SAP
3 36 (1.77%) Oracle
4 31 (1.52%) IBM
5 29 (1.43%) Micro Focus
6 27 (1.33%) Red Hat
7 24 (1.18%) Google
8 23 (1.13%) Xilinx
9 21 (1.03%) Lauterbach
10 19 (0.93%) EMC
11 9 (0.44%) Renesas
11 9 (0.44%) Twitter
12 7 (0.34%) Altera
12 7 (0.34%) Atlassian
12 7 (0.34%) Facebook
12 7 (0.34%) Instagram
12 7 (0.34%) NVIDIA
12 7 (0.34%) QNX
13 6 (0.30%) ANSYS
13 6 (0.30%) Cadence