C Jobs in England

C
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England 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 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 136 224 190
Rank change year-on-year +88 -34 +29
Permanent jobs citing C 1,762 1,475 2,850
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 2.06% 1.65% 2.11%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.39% 3.82% 3.95%
Number of salaries quoted 1,375 764 953
10th Percentile £39,500 £35,000 £34,992
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £72,500 £77,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £88,750
UK median annual salary £56,500 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -9.60% +8.70% +4.55%

All Programming Languages
England

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 England with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 27,557 38,648 72,121
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 32.14% 43.28% 53.49%
Number of salaries quoted 22,388 24,885 39,102
10th Percentile £35,250 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
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 England

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

Job vacancy trend for C in England

C
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for C in England

C
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing C in England over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Salary histogram for C in England

C
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing C within the England region over the 6 months to 14 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 +33 526 £55,000 -8.33% 152
South West +63 287 £57,500 -17.86% 109
East of England +30 258 £60,000 -7.69% 100
North of England +50 238 £55,000 +4.76% 59
London +36 231 £82,500 +22.22% 111
Midlands +23 217 £52,500 -4.55% 61
North West +63 133 £55,000 - 35
West Midlands -16 118 £60,750 -6.54% 28
East Midlands +45 99 £47,500 -9.52% 33
Yorkshire +37 81 £50,000 +17.65% 17
North East +11 24 £60,000 -4.00% 8
C
UK

C
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 33 (1.87%) Apache
2 22 (1.25%) Apache Spark
3 13 (0.74%) Confluence
4 12 (0.68%) nginx
5 8 (0.45%) CMS
5 8 (0.45%) Jupyter
6 6 (0.34%) IIS
6 6 (0.34%) Kinematics
6 6 (0.34%) Sitecore CMS
7 5 (0.28%) Umbraco
8 4 (0.23%) Headless CMS
8 4 (0.23%) Kentico
9 3 (0.17%) Apache Airflow
10 2 (0.11%) IBM Domino
10 2 (0.11%) Liferay
10 2 (0.11%) Magnolia
11 1 (0.057%) WordPress
Applications
1 114 (6.47%) Simulink
2 33 (1.87%) Stateflow
3 13 (0.74%) CANalyzer
4 11 (0.62%) GNU Octave
5 7 (0.40%) Microsoft Office
6 5 (0.28%) Doxygen
7 3 (0.17%) TargetLink
8 2 (0.11%) Fusion 360
9 1 (0.057%) Microsoft Excel
9 1 (0.057%) OrCAD
9 1 (0.057%) SOLIDWORKS
9 1 (0.057%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (0.51%) Dynamics NAV
2 4 (0.23%) Teamcenter
3 3 (0.17%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.17%) Oracle Applications
4 2 (0.11%) SAP MII
5 1 (0.057%) MIS ActiveH
5 1 (0.057%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 90 (5.11%) AWS
2 64 (3.63%) Azure
3 37 (2.10%) GitHub
4 32 (1.82%) SaaS
5 19 (1.08%) Azure DevOps
6 17 (0.96%) Power Platform
7 11 (0.62%) Serverless
8 10 (0.57%) AWS Lambda
9 9 (0.51%) AWS IoT
9 9 (0.51%) GCP
10 7 (0.40%) Dynamics 365
11 5 (0.28%) GitHub Actions
11 5 (0.28%) WhatsApp
12 4 (0.23%) Amazon EKS
12 4 (0.23%) AWS CloudFormation
12 4 (0.23%) Kontent
13 3 (0.17%) Amazon EC2
13 3 (0.17%) Cloud Computing
13 3 (0.17%) dbt
14 2 (0.11%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 89 (5.05%) Wireless
2 84 (4.77%) TCP/IP
3 56 (3.18%) Wi-Fi
4 52 (2.95%) Bluetooth
5 44 (2.50%) RS-232
6 40 (2.27%) Ethernet
7 39 (2.21%) Internet
7 39 (2.21%) RS-485
8 25 (1.42%) J1939
9 21 (1.19%) MQTT
10 19 (1.08%) Network Security
11 17 (0.96%) 5G
11 17 (0.96%) ZigBee
12 15 (0.85%) Firewall
13 14 (0.79%) 4G
13 14 (0.79%) HTTP
14 12 (0.68%) 3G
14 12 (0.68%) DNS
15 10 (0.57%) LoRaWAN
16 9 (0.51%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (3.12%) PostgreSQL
2 41 (2.33%) MongoDB
3 39 (2.21%) SQL Server
4 22 (1.25%) MySQL
5 18 (1.02%) Relational Database
6 16 (0.91%) Big Data
7 14 (0.79%) Power BI
8 9 (0.51%) Data Mining
9 7 (0.40%) Apache Cassandra
9 7 (0.40%) SQLite
10 6 (0.34%) Amazon Aurora
10 6 (0.34%) RDBMS
11 5 (0.28%) NoSQL
12 4 (0.23%) Data Lake
12 4 (0.23%) DynamoDB
12 4 (0.23%) Hadoop
12 4 (0.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 4 (0.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 3 (0.17%) Amazon RDS
13 3 (0.17%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 144 (8.17%) Git
2 96 (5.45%) JIRA
3 92 (5.22%) Jenkins
4 85 (4.82%) Visual Studio
5 50 (2.84%) Subversion
6 35 (1.99%) GitLab
7 31 (1.76%) Rational Rhapsody
8 21 (1.19%) ClearCase
8 21 (1.19%) LabVIEW
8 21 (1.19%) Plastic SCM
9 17 (0.96%) Bitbucket
10 16 (0.91%) Eclipse
11 14 (0.79%) ClearQuest
11 14 (0.79%) GDB
12 10 (0.57%) GNU Toolchain
12 10 (0.57%) Rational DOORS
13 9 (0.51%) Team Foundation Server
14 7 (0.40%) CMake
14 7 (0.40%) TestRail
15 6 (0.34%) CANoe
General
1 386 (21.91%) Electronics
2 320 (18.16%) Social Skills
3 174 (9.88%) Automotive
4 167 (9.48%) Analytical Skills
5 163 (9.25%) Manufacturing
6 130 (7.38%) Finance
7 98 (5.56%) Marketing
8 91 (5.16%) Telecoms
9 87 (4.94%) Aerospace
10 61 (3.46%) Public Sector
11 34 (1.93%) Law
12 33 (1.87%) Retail
13 28 (1.59%) Military
14 27 (1.53%) Presentation Skills
15 17 (0.96%) Games
15 17 (0.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 16 (0.91%) Legal
17 15 (0.85%) Pharmaceutical
18 14 (0.79%) Brand Awareness
19 13 (0.74%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 839 (47.62%) Software Engineer
2 489 (27.75%) Embedded Engineer
3 362 (20.54%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 360 (20.43%) Senior
5 239 (13.56%) Developer
6 187 (10.61%) Senior Software Engineer
7 160 (9.08%) Lead
8 130 (7.38%) Senior Embedded Engineer
9 108 (6.13%) Software Developer
10 107 (6.07%) C++ Software Engineer
11 81 (4.60%) Systems Engineer
12 75 (4.26%) C++ Developer
13 73 (4.14%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
14 68 (3.86%) C Software Engineer
14 68 (3.86%) Linux Engineer
15 66 (3.75%) Architect
15 66 (3.75%) Embedded Developer
16 57 (3.23%) Firmware Engineer
17 52 (2.95%) Electronics Engineer
18 44 (2.50%) Embedded C Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 122 (6.92%) .NET
2 66 (3.75%) HTML
3 58 (3.29%) Yocto
4 53 (3.01%) Qt
5 47 (2.67%) WPF
6 45 (2.55%) REST
7 38 (2.16%) React
8 36 (2.04%) CSS
9 34 (1.93%) SOAP
9 34 (1.93%) Web Services
10 33 (1.87%) .NET Framework
11 32 (1.82%) Node.js
12 29 (1.65%) RESTful
13 25 (1.42%) ASP.NET
14 24 (1.36%) Django
15 23 (1.31%) HTML5
15 23 (1.31%) Middleware
16 22 (1.25%) JSON
16 22 (1.25%) OpenGL
16 22 (1.25%) OpenMP
Miscellaneous
1 217 (12.32%) Embedded Systems
2 209 (11.86%) Algorithms
3 159 (9.02%) IoT
4 117 (6.64%) FPGA
5 71 (4.03%) VHDL
6 61 (3.46%) Self-Motivation
7 55 (3.12%) Device Driver
8 52 (2.95%) Distributed Systems
9 49 (2.78%) Analogue Electronics
10 47 (2.67%) Robotics
11 46 (2.61%) Data Structures
12 43 (2.44%) Greenfield Project
13 38 (2.16%) CUDA
14 34 (1.93%) Analytical Mindset
14 34 (1.93%) Verilog
15 33 (1.87%) Product Ownership
16 32 (1.82%) PKI
17 30 (1.70%) Raspberry Pi
18 29 (1.65%) Mobile App
19 28 (1.59%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 735 (41.71%) Linux
2 189 (10.73%) Embedded Linux
3 180 (10.22%) Windows
4 74 (4.20%) Unix
5 58 (3.29%) Android
6 44 (2.50%) Ubuntu
7 34 (1.93%) FreeRTOS
8 31 (1.76%) Apple iOS
9 18 (1.02%) AIX
9 18 (1.02%) Debian
10 12 (0.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 12 (0.68%) Windows 10
11 6 (0.34%) ThreadX
12 5 (0.28%) Mac OS
13 4 (0.23%) Kali Linux
14 3 (0.17%) CentOS
14 3 (0.17%) Windows Embedded Compact
15 1 (0.057%) VxWorks
15 1 (0.057%) Windows Server
15 1 (0.057%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,111 (63.05%) Software Engineering
2 339 (19.24%) Agile
2 339 (19.24%) Problem-Solving
3 290 (16.46%) Computer Science
4 165 (9.36%) Mathematics
5 156 (8.85%) DevOps
6 148 (8.40%) Software Testing
7 145 (8.23%) Test Automation
8 130 (7.38%) Cybersecurity
9 120 (6.81%) Open Source
10 119 (6.75%) Physics
11 115 (6.53%) Mentoring
12 108 (6.13%) Embedded Software Development
13 103 (5.85%) Artificial Intelligence
14 99 (5.62%) Multithreading
15 98 (5.56%) Software Architecture
16 97 (5.51%) OO
17 96 (5.45%) Machine Learning
18 94 (5.33%) Validation
19 91 (5.16%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 799 (45.35%) C++
2 640 (36.32%) Python
3 328 (18.62%) C#
4 284 (16.12%) Embedded C
5 257 (14.59%) Java
6 132 (7.49%) Bash
6 132 (7.49%) MATLAB
6 132 (7.49%) SQL
7 121 (6.87%) JavaScript
8 110 (6.24%) Rust
9 60 (3.41%) Ada
10 59 (3.35%) Fortran
11 54 (3.06%) Go
12 52 (2.95%) Perl
12 52 (2.95%) VB
13 49 (2.78%) Embedded C++
14 38 (2.16%) PHP
15 32 (1.82%) Assembly Language
15 32 (1.82%) COBOL
15 32 (1.82%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 591 (33.54%) Degree
2 268 (15.21%) Security Cleared
3 107 (6.07%) Computer Science Degree
4 92 (5.22%) Master's Degree
5 90 (5.11%) PhD
6 82 (4.65%) SC Cleared
7 54 (3.06%) BPSS Clearance
7 54 (3.06%) DV Cleared
8 17 (0.96%) HND
9 9 (0.51%) HNC
10 7 (0.40%) PMI Certification
11 6 (0.34%) Microsoft Certification
11 6 (0.34%) SANS
12 5 (0.28%) CISA
12 5 (0.28%) CISM
12 5 (0.28%) CISSP
12 5 (0.28%) CRISC
13 4 (0.23%) CESG Certified Professional
14 3 (0.17%) CCNA
14 3 (0.17%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 71 (4.03%) QA
2 53 (3.01%) MISRA
3 37 (2.10%) ISO 26262
4 27 (1.53%) Automotive SPICE
4 27 (1.53%) AUTOSAR
5 21 (1.19%) Software Quality Assurance
6 18 (1.02%) GDPR
7 16 (0.91%) ISO 13485
8 15 (0.85%) Def Stans
9 11 (0.62%) MISRA C
10 9 (0.51%) IEC 62304
11 8 (0.45%) Data Quality
11 8 (0.45%) IEC 61508
11 8 (0.45%) JTAG
12 7 (0.40%) ISO 9001
13 6 (0.34%) NIST
14 5 (0.28%) DO-178B
15 4 (0.23%) NCSC
16 3 (0.17%) TickIT
17 2 (0.11%) HL7
System Software
1 273 (15.49%) Firmware
2 153 (8.68%) Embedded Firmware
3 63 (3.58%) Docker
4 4 (0.23%) Ceph
4 4 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.23%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
6 2 (0.11%) Kamailio
7 1 (0.057%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.057%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 1 (0.057%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 70 (3.97%) Kubernetes
2 35 (1.99%) Ansible
3 21 (1.19%) Terraform
4 20 (1.14%) Progress Chef
5 14 (0.79%) Functional Safety
6 5 (0.28%) Grafana
7 4 (0.23%) Knative
7 4 (0.23%) Nagios
7 4 (0.23%) Prometheus
7 4 (0.23%) Puppet
8 3 (0.17%) logstash
8 3 (0.17%) Podman
9 1 (0.057%) Kibana
9 1 (0.057%) Packer
9 1 (0.057%) SCCM
Vendors
1 106 (6.02%) Microsoft
2 48 (2.72%) SAP
3 31 (1.76%) Xilinx
4 30 (1.70%) IBM
5 29 (1.65%) Micro Focus
6 28 (1.59%) Oracle
7 27 (1.53%) Red Hat
8 21 (1.19%) Lauterbach
9 19 (1.08%) EMC
9 19 (1.08%) Google
10 10 (0.57%) Atlassian
11 8 (0.45%) Altera
11 8 (0.45%) Green Hills
11 8 (0.45%) Motorola
11 8 (0.45%) Sitecore
12 7 (0.40%) Facebook
12 7 (0.40%) Instagram
12 7 (0.40%) NVIDIA
13 6 (0.34%) Renesas
13 6 (0.34%) Samsung