C Job Trends in the West Midlands

C
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring C skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 167 167 106
Rank change year-on-year 0 -61 -15
Permanent jobs citing C 14 49 64
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.30% 0.98% 1.95%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.03% 3.95% 5.69%
Number of salaries quoted 11 36 53
10th Percentile £39,000 £31,250 £44,000
25th Percentile £45,250 £47,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% -4.00% +27.55%
75th Percentile £57,500 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £65,000 £71,125 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

All Programming Languages
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 688 1,241 1,124
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 14.74% 24.89% 34.30%
Number of salaries quoted 559 657 931
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,500 £41,580
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £68,750 £70,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £76,250
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% - -

C
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing C relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

C job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

C
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing C.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing C

C
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing C in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 12 December 2025.

Salary histogram for C in the West Midlands

C
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing C within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 12 December 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
Worcestershire 0 6 £52,500 -41.67% 1
Staffordshire -13 3 £65,000 +36.84% 3
Herefordshire -3 2 £45,500 -39.33% 1
Warwickshire +23 1 £60,000 -7.69% 2
Birmingham +19 1 - - 4
Coventry -3 1 £67,500 +12.50% 5
C
England

C
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 2 (14.29%) GitHub
1 2 (14.29%) SaaS
2 1 (7.14%) AWS
2 1 (7.14%) Azure
2 1 (7.14%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (7.14%) GCP
2 1 (7.14%) Power Platform
2 1 (7.14%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (28.57%) 3G
1 4 (28.57%) GPRS
1 4 (28.57%) GSM
1 4 (28.57%) Modbus
1 4 (28.57%) RS-232
1 4 (28.57%) RS-485
1 4 (28.57%) SSL
1 4 (28.57%) TCP/IP
2 1 (7.14%) PuTTY
2 1 (7.14%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) SQL Server
2 1 (7.14%) InfluxDB
2 1 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (7.14%) Power BI
2 1 (7.14%) Redis
2 1 (7.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (7.14%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Git
2 1 (7.14%) GitLab
2 1 (7.14%) JIRA
2 1 (7.14%) Rational DOORS
General
1 4 (28.57%) Manufacturing
2 3 (21.43%) Electronics
2 3 (21.43%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Advertising
3 1 (7.14%) Aerospace
3 1 (7.14%) Automotive
3 1 (7.14%) Back Office
3 1 (7.14%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Finance
Job Titles
1 7 (50.00%) Developer
2 4 (28.57%) Embedded Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) Firmware Developer
3 3 (21.43%) Embedded C Engineer
3 3 (21.43%) Embedded Software Engineer
3 3 (21.43%) Software Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) C Software Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) C/C++ Embedded Software Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) C/C++ Software Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) C++ Software Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Embedded C Software Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Embedded C/C++ Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Embedded C/C++ Software Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Embedded C++ Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Embedded C++ Software Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Embedded Developer
4 2 (14.29%) Embedded Linux Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Embedded Linux Software Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Linux Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) .NET
1 1 (7.14%) GraphQL
1 1 (7.14%) Node.js
1 1 (7.14%) React
1 1 (7.14%) RESTful
1 1 (7.14%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Driving Licence
1 2 (14.29%) Embedded Systems
1 2 (14.29%) Fibre Optics
2 1 (7.14%) Management Information System
2 1 (7.14%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 4 (28.57%) Embedded Linux
1 4 (28.57%) FreeRTOS
1 4 (28.57%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 5 (35.71%) Test Automation
3 4 (28.57%) Agile
3 4 (28.57%) Embedded Software Development
3 4 (28.57%) Secure Coding
4 3 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (14.29%) Computer Science
5 2 (14.29%) Data Acquisition
5 2 (14.29%) DevOps
6 1 (7.14%) Data Extraction
6 1 (7.14%) Data Integration
6 1 (7.14%) Data Privacy
6 1 (7.14%) Mentoring
6 1 (7.14%) OOP
6 1 (7.14%) Quality Management
6 1 (7.14%) Requirements Management
6 1 (7.14%) System Testing
6 1 (7.14%) Time Management
6 1 (7.14%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 6 (42.86%) C++
2 3 (21.43%) Python
3 2 (14.29%) Embedded C
3 2 (14.29%) Embedded C++
3 2 (14.29%) Java
4 1 (7.14%) C#
4 1 (7.14%) MATLAB
4 1 (7.14%) SQL
4 1 (7.14%) TypeScript
4 1 (7.14%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 2 (14.29%) Degree
1 2 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 2 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (7.14%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (28.57%) MISRA
2 1 (7.14%) ISO 9001
2 1 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 7 (50.00%) Firmware
2 5 (35.71%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (7.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (7.14%) Kubernetes
1 1 (7.14%) Nagios
1 1 (7.14%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft