C Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

C
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work 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 4 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 200 141 212
Rank change year-on-year -59 +71 +70
Permanent jobs citing C 257 772 695
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.68% 2.28% 1.63%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.19% 5.60% 3.32%
Number of salaries quoted 174 634 416
10th Percentile £44,125 £38,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £45,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,000 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.91% -12.00% +7.30%
75th Percentile £73,886 £72,500 £76,563
90th Percentile £92,269 £84,964 £85,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £56,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +6.19% -9.60% +8.70%

All Programming Languages
Work from Home

C falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 6,136 13,776 20,916
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 40.05% 40.72% 49.20%
Number of salaries quoted 4,866 11,415 15,392
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £41,000
25th Percentile £47,683 £46,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £83,750 £78,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £111,250 £100,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%

C
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing C as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

C trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

C
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing C.

C salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

C
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing C over the 6 months to 4 May 2025.

C salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

C
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 5 (1.95%) NetWeaver
1 5 (1.95%) Tomcat
2 3 (1.17%) Apache
3 1 (0.39%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (1.95%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.56%) SOLIDWORKS
3 2 (0.78%) Zemax
4 1 (0.39%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.39%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 5 (1.95%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 2 (0.78%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 1 (0.39%) Sage 200
3 1 (0.39%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 26 (10.12%) Azure
2 25 (9.73%) GitHub
3 12 (4.67%) AWS
4 11 (4.28%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (2.72%) AWS Lambda
5 7 (2.72%) Serverless
6 6 (2.33%) Amazon S3
6 6 (2.33%) SaaS
7 5 (1.95%) Dynamics 365
7 5 (1.95%) IaaS
7 5 (1.95%) PaaS
7 5 (1.95%) Power Platform
8 3 (1.17%) Azure Machine Learning
9 2 (0.78%) Microsoft 365
10 1 (0.39%) CloudAMQP
10 1 (0.39%) GCP
10 1 (0.39%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 40 (15.56%) TCP/IP
2 21 (8.17%) Wireless
3 20 (7.78%) Bluetooth
4 17 (6.61%) Modbus
5 16 (6.23%) WAN
6 12 (4.67%) 5G
6 12 (4.67%) HTTP
6 12 (4.67%) RS-485
6 12 (4.67%) SD-WAN
7 10 (3.89%) RS-232
7 10 (3.89%) ZigBee
8 8 (3.11%) Wi-Fi
9 7 (2.72%) Profibus
10 6 (2.33%) DNS
11 5 (1.95%) Ethernet
11 5 (1.95%) Internet
12 4 (1.56%) Firewall
12 4 (1.56%) LAN
12 4 (1.56%) SMTP
12 4 (1.56%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (8.56%) SQL Server
2 15 (5.84%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (1.95%) Azure SQL Database
3 5 (1.95%) BusinessObjects
3 5 (1.95%) SAP BW
3 5 (1.95%) SAP Data Services
3 5 (1.95%) SAP HANA
3 5 (1.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 4 (1.56%) RDBMS
4 4 (1.56%) Relational Database
5 3 (1.17%) Metadata
5 3 (1.17%) MySQL
6 2 (0.78%) KDB
6 2 (0.78%) Kdb+
6 2 (0.78%) Oracle Reports
6 2 (0.78%) SQLite
7 1 (0.39%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.39%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 54 (21.01%) Git
2 24 (9.34%) Visual Studio
3 15 (5.84%) Jenkins
4 6 (2.33%) Eclipse
4 6 (2.33%) GitLab
4 6 (2.33%) Subversion
5 5 (1.95%) Bitbucket
5 5 (1.95%) JIRA
5 5 (1.95%) Oracle Forms
5 5 (1.95%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 4 (1.56%) CppUnit
6 4 (1.56%) GDB
6 4 (1.56%) LabVIEW
6 4 (1.56%) Rational DOORS
6 4 (1.56%) Spinnaker
7 2 (0.78%) CMake
8 1 (0.39%) GCC
8 1 (0.39%) gcov
8 1 (0.39%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.39%) WiX
General
1 59 (22.96%) Finance
2 57 (22.18%) Social Skills
3 49 (19.07%) Electronics
4 28 (10.89%) Aerospace
5 25 (9.73%) Banking
6 24 (9.34%) Manufacturing
7 23 (8.95%) Analytical Skills
8 21 (8.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 15 (5.84%) Automotive
9 15 (5.84%) Investment Banking
10 12 (4.67%) Telecoms
11 11 (4.28%) Presentation Skills
12 9 (3.50%) Marketing
13 8 (3.11%) Legal
14 7 (2.72%) Games
14 7 (2.72%) Organisational Skills
15 5 (1.95%) General Ledger
15 5 (1.95%) Wearables
16 4 (1.56%) Influencing Skills
17 3 (1.17%) Retail
Job Titles
1 130 (50.58%) Senior
2 95 (36.96%) Software Engineer
3 65 (25.29%) Embedded Engineer
4 51 (19.84%) Developer
4 51 (19.84%) Senior Software Engineer
5 44 (17.12%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 40 (15.56%) Senior Embedded Engineer
7 26 (10.12%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
8 23 (8.95%) Senior Developer
9 21 (8.17%) C++ Developer
10 20 (7.78%) Firmware Engineer
11 19 (7.39%) Linux Developer
11 19 (7.39%) Low Latency C++ Developer
12 17 (6.61%) C++ Software Engineer
12 17 (6.61%) Senior Firmware Engineer
13 15 (5.84%) Embedded Firmware Engineer
14 14 (5.45%) Investment Banking C++ Developer
14 14 (5.45%) Linux Scripter
15 13 (5.06%) C Software Engineer
15 13 (5.06%) C/C++ Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (13.62%) .NET
1 35 (13.62%) HTML
2 28 (10.89%) .NET Framework
3 26 (10.12%) CSS
4 14 (5.45%) Qt
5 12 (4.67%) WebSockets
5 12 (4.67%) Yocto
6 10 (3.89%) HTML5
6 10 (3.89%) React
7 9 (3.50%) Sass
8 8 (3.11%) XML
9 6 (2.33%) .NET Core
9 6 (2.33%) AngularJS
9 6 (2.33%) Django
9 6 (2.33%) Flutter
9 6 (2.33%) Middleware
9 6 (2.33%) REST
9 6 (2.33%) Web Services
10 5 (1.95%) ASP.NET Core
10 5 (1.95%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 50 (19.46%) Embedded Systems
2 45 (17.51%) Algorithms
3 37 (14.40%) FPGA
4 18 (7.00%) Device Driver
5 17 (6.61%) IoT
6 15 (5.84%) GNSS
7 13 (5.06%) Life Science
8 12 (4.67%) Self-Driving Car
8 12 (4.67%) Self-Motivation
9 10 (3.89%) Analogue Electronics
9 10 (3.89%) Product Ownership
10 9 (3.50%) Data Structures
11 7 (2.72%) Client/Server
11 7 (2.72%) Mobile App
11 7 (2.72%) VHDL
12 6 (2.33%) Verilog
12 6 (2.33%) Virtual Team
13 5 (1.95%) Distributed Systems
13 5 (1.95%) Greenfield Project
13 5 (1.95%) MicroBlaze
Operating Systems
1 112 (43.58%) Linux
2 26 (10.12%) Unix
3 20 (7.78%) Embedded Linux
4 12 (4.67%) FreeRTOS
5 10 (3.89%) Windows
6 7 (2.72%) AIX
7 6 (2.33%) Ubuntu
8 5 (1.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 5 (1.95%) Windows Server
9 2 (0.78%) Android
9 2 (0.78%) CentOS
9 2 (0.78%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.78%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (0.39%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.39%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (47.47%) Software Engineering
2 44 (17.12%) Agile
2 44 (17.12%) Test Automation
3 38 (14.79%) Computer Science
4 37 (14.40%) Problem-Solving
5 35 (13.62%) Multithreading
6 34 (13.23%) DevOps
7 33 (12.84%) Mentoring
7 33 (12.84%) Validation
8 28 (10.89%) Software Architecture
9 27 (10.51%) Collaborative Working
9 27 (10.51%) Software Testing
10 26 (10.12%) SDLC
11 25 (9.73%) OO
12 23 (8.95%) Verification and Validation
13 22 (8.56%) Unit Testing
14 21 (8.17%) CI/CD
14 21 (8.17%) Mathematics
15 20 (7.78%) Low Latency
16 19 (7.39%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 196 (76.26%) C++
2 104 (40.47%) Python
3 58 (22.57%) Java
4 44 (17.12%) C#
5 40 (15.56%) SQL
6 31 (12.06%) JavaScript
7 24 (9.34%) Embedded C
8 20 (7.78%) Bash
9 18 (7.00%) Perl
9 18 (7.00%) Rust
10 14 (5.45%) Go
11 11 (4.28%) TypeScript
12 10 (3.89%) Fortran
12 10 (3.89%) PHP
13 8 (3.11%) Embedded C++
14 6 (2.33%) Ladder Logic
14 6 (2.33%) Objective-C
14 6 (2.33%) Ruby
14 6 (2.33%) Shell Script
15 5 (1.95%) X++
Qualifications
1 69 (26.85%) Degree
2 27 (10.51%) Security Cleared
3 17 (6.61%) SC Cleared
4 16 (6.23%) Computer Science Degree
5 15 (5.84%) PhD
6 12 (4.67%) Master's Degree
7 8 (3.11%) DV Cleared
8 5 (1.95%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.11%) PMO
1 8 (3.11%) QA
2 6 (2.33%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.56%) ISO 9001
3 4 (1.56%) MISRA
3 4 (1.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 3 (1.17%) ECSS
4 3 (1.17%) IEC 62304
4 3 (1.17%) ISO 13485
4 3 (1.17%) JTAG
5 1 (0.39%) AUTOSAR
5 1 (0.39%) ISO 26262
5 1 (0.39%) MISRA C
System Software
1 47 (18.29%) Firmware
2 26 (10.12%) Embedded Firmware
3 16 (6.23%) Docker
4 2 (0.78%) KVM
4 2 (0.78%) Postfix
4 2 (0.78%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 17 (6.61%) Kubernetes
2 9 (3.50%) Terraform
3 5 (1.95%) Tivoli Storage Manager
4 3 (1.17%) Ansible
4 3 (1.17%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.78%) Grafana
5 2 (0.78%) Nagios
5 2 (0.78%) Nessus
Vendors
1 17 (6.61%) Microsoft
2 10 (3.89%) EMC
3 8 (3.11%) IBM
3 8 (3.11%) Oracle
3 8 (3.11%) SAP
4 6 (2.33%) Siemens
4 6 (2.33%) Xamarin
5 5 (1.95%) Cadence
5 5 (1.95%) Intel
6 4 (1.56%) Dynatrace
6 4 (1.56%) VMware
7 2 (0.78%) Red Hat
7 2 (0.78%) Tenable
8 1 (0.39%) Genesys
8 1 (0.39%) Google
8 1 (0.39%) QNX
8 1 (0.39%) Renesas
8 1 (0.39%) Sage
8 1 (0.39%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.39%) Xilinx