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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 141 229 191
Rank change year-on-year +88 -38 +31
Permanent jobs citing C 1,773 1,447 2,937
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 2.05% 1.64% 2.14%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.41% 3.77% 4.02%
Number of salaries quoted 1,382 752 957
10th Percentile £38,750 £35,073 £34,990
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 £78,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £88,750
UK median annual salary £55,571 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -11.09% +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 27,671 38,352 73,136
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 32.00% 43.35% 53.39%
Number of salaries quoted 22,367 24,763 39,036
10th Percentile £35,000 £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 20 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 20 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 +41 529 £55,000 -8.33% 189
South West +65 288 £57,500 -17.86% 118
East of England +36 262 £60,000 -7.69% 146
North of England +53 238 £55,000 +4.76% 63
London +40 236 £82,500 +18.80% 144
Midlands +12 215 £52,500 -4.55% 70
North West +53 133 £55,000 - 37
West Midlands -11 115 £60,000 -17.24% 32
East Midlands +50 100 £47,500 -5.00% 38
Yorkshire +33 81 £50,000 +17.65% 21
North East +16 24 £60,000 -4.00% 6
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 (1.86%) Apache
2 25 (1.41%) Apache Spark
3 14 (0.79%) 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 (0.056%) WordPress
Applications
1 116 (6.54%) Simulink
2 33 (1.86%) Stateflow
3 13 (0.73%) CANalyzer
4 11 (0.62%) GNU Octave
5 7 (0.39%) Microsoft Office
6 5 (0.28%) Doxygen
7 3 (0.17%) TargetLink
8 2 (0.11%) Fusion 360
9 1 (0.056%) Microsoft Excel
9 1 (0.056%) OrCAD
9 1 (0.056%) SOLIDWORKS
9 1 (0.056%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (0.51%) Dynamics NAV
2 3 (0.17%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.17%) Oracle Applications
2 3 (0.17%) Teamcenter
3 2 (0.11%) SAP MII
4 1 (0.056%) MIS ActiveH
4 1 (0.056%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 91 (5.13%) AWS
2 65 (3.67%) Azure
3 37 (2.09%) GitHub
4 32 (1.80%) SaaS
5 19 (1.07%) Azure DevOps
6 17 (0.96%) Power Platform
7 11 (0.62%) Serverless
8 10 (0.56%) AWS Lambda
9 9 (0.51%) AWS IoT
9 9 (0.51%) GCP
10 7 (0.39%) 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 87 (4.91%) Wireless
2 82 (4.62%) TCP/IP
3 55 (3.10%) Wi-Fi
4 51 (2.88%) Bluetooth
5 44 (2.48%) RS-232
6 40 (2.26%) Ethernet
7 39 (2.20%) Internet
7 39 (2.20%) RS-485
8 24 (1.35%) J1939
9 21 (1.18%) MQTT
10 19 (1.07%) Network Security
11 17 (0.96%) 5G
11 17 (0.96%) ZigBee
12 16 (0.90%) Firewall
13 14 (0.79%) 4G
13 14 (0.79%) HTTP
14 12 (0.68%) 3G
14 12 (0.68%) DNS
15 10 (0.56%) LoRaWAN
16 9 (0.51%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (3.10%) PostgreSQL
2 41 (2.31%) MongoDB
3 39 (2.20%) SQL Server
4 22 (1.24%) MySQL
5 18 (1.02%) Relational Database
6 16 (0.90%) Big Data
7 14 (0.79%) Power BI
8 9 (0.51%) Apache Cassandra
8 9 (0.51%) Data Mining
9 7 (0.39%) 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
1 146 (8.23%) Git
2 97 (5.47%) JIRA
3 93 (5.25%) Jenkins
4 86 (4.85%) Visual Studio
5 51 (2.88%) Subversion
6 35 (1.97%) GitLab
7 30 (1.69%) Rational Rhapsody
8 22 (1.24%) LabVIEW
9 21 (1.18%) ClearCase
9 21 (1.18%) Plastic SCM
10 17 (0.96%) Bitbucket
11 16 (0.90%) Eclipse
12 14 (0.79%) ClearQuest
12 14 (0.79%) GDB
13 10 (0.56%) GNU Toolchain
13 10 (0.56%) Rational DOORS
14 9 (0.51%) Team Foundation Server
15 7 (0.39%) CMake
15 7 (0.39%) TestRail
16 6 (0.34%) CANoe
General
1 386 (21.77%) Electronics
2 324 (18.27%) Social Skills
3 171 (9.64%) Automotive
4 165 (9.31%) Analytical Skills
5 161 (9.08%) Manufacturing
6 130 (7.33%) Finance
7 99 (5.58%) Marketing
8 90 (5.08%) Telecoms
9 87 (4.91%) Aerospace
10 60 (3.38%) Public Sector
11 34 (1.92%) Law
12 33 (1.86%) Retail
13 28 (1.58%) Military
14 27 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
15 17 (0.96%) Games
15 17 (0.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 16 (0.90%) Legal
17 15 (0.85%) Pharmaceutical
18 14 (0.79%) Brand Awareness
19 13 (0.73%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 841 (47.43%) Software Engineer
2 485 (27.35%) Embedded Engineer
3 363 (20.47%) Senior
4 360 (20.30%) Embedded Software Engineer
5 244 (13.76%) Developer
6 190 (10.72%) Senior Software Engineer
7 162 (9.14%) Lead
8 127 (7.16%) Senior Embedded Engineer
9 111 (6.26%) Software Developer
10 107 (6.03%) C++ Software Engineer
11 80 (4.51%) Systems Engineer
12 75 (4.23%) C++ Developer
13 73 (4.12%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
14 69 (3.89%) C Software Engineer
15 68 (3.84%) Embedded Developer
16 67 (3.78%) Architect
16 67 (3.78%) Linux Engineer
17 58 (3.27%) Firmware Engineer
18 51 (2.88%) Electronics Engineer
19 45 (2.54%) Embedded Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 122 (6.88%) .NET
2 66 (3.72%) HTML
3 55 (3.10%) Yocto
4 53 (2.99%) Qt
5 47 (2.65%) WPF
6 45 (2.54%) REST
7 38 (2.14%) React
8 36 (2.03%) CSS
9 34 (1.92%) SOAP
9 34 (1.92%) Web Services
10 33 (1.86%) .NET Framework
11 32 (1.80%) Node.js
12 29 (1.64%) RESTful
13 25 (1.41%) ASP.NET
14 24 (1.35%) Django
15 23 (1.30%) HTML5
15 23 (1.30%) Middleware
16 22 (1.24%) JSON
16 22 (1.24%) OpenGL
16 22 (1.24%) OpenMP
Miscellaneous
1 218 (12.30%) Embedded Systems
2 209 (11.79%) Algorithms
3 156 (8.80%) IoT
4 116 (6.54%) FPGA
5 70 (3.95%) VHDL
6 60 (3.38%) Self-Motivation
7 56 (3.16%) Distributed Systems
8 55 (3.10%) Device Driver
9 50 (2.82%) Analogue Electronics
10 49 (2.76%) Robotics
11 46 (2.59%) Data Structures
12 42 (2.37%) Greenfield Project
13 38 (2.14%) CUDA
14 34 (1.92%) Verilog
15 33 (1.86%) Product Ownership
16 32 (1.80%) Analytical Mindset
16 32 (1.80%) PKI
17 30 (1.69%) Raspberry Pi
18 29 (1.64%) Mobile App
19 28 (1.58%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 743 (41.91%) Linux
2 191 (10.77%) Embedded Linux
3 182 (10.27%) Windows
4 74 (4.17%) Unix
5 59 (3.33%) Android
6 44 (2.48%) Ubuntu
7 34 (1.92%) FreeRTOS
8 31 (1.75%) 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%) Kali Linux
12 5 (0.28%) Mac OS
13 3 (0.17%) CentOS
13 3 (0.17%) Windows Embedded Compact
14 1 (0.056%) VxWorks
14 1 (0.056%) Windows Server
14 1 (0.056%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,116 (62.94%) Software Engineering
2 343 (19.35%) Agile
3 338 (19.06%) Problem-Solving
4 292 (16.47%) Computer Science
5 165 (9.31%) Mathematics
6 159 (8.97%) DevOps
7 149 (8.40%) Software Testing
8 145 (8.18%) Test Automation
9 132 (7.45%) Cybersecurity
10 122 (6.88%) Open Source
11 117 (6.60%) Physics
12 116 (6.54%) Mentoring
13 109 (6.15%) Artificial Intelligence
14 108 (6.09%) Embedded Software Development
15 99 (5.58%) Machine Learning
16 98 (5.53%) Multithreading
17 96 (5.41%) OO
18 94 (5.30%) Software Architecture
18 94 (5.30%) Validation
19 93 (5.25%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 806 (45.46%) C++
2 644 (36.32%) Python
3 329 (18.56%) C#
4 287 (16.19%) Embedded C
5 260 (14.66%) Java
6 133 (7.50%) Bash
6 133 (7.50%) MATLAB
7 132 (7.45%) SQL
8 121 (6.82%) JavaScript
9 114 (6.43%) Rust
10 59 (3.33%) Ada
10 59 (3.33%) Fortran
11 58 (3.27%) Go
12 54 (3.05%) Perl
13 52 (2.93%) VB
14 49 (2.76%) Embedded C++
15 38 (2.14%) PHP
16 32 (1.80%) Assembly Language
16 32 (1.80%) COBOL
16 32 (1.80%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 593 (33.45%) Degree
2 273 (15.40%) Security Cleared
3 109 (6.15%) Computer Science Degree
4 92 (5.19%) Master's Degree
5 89 (5.02%) PhD
6 83 (4.68%) SC Cleared
7 57 (3.21%) DV Cleared
8 53 (2.99%) BPSS Clearance
9 17 (0.96%) HND
10 9 (0.51%) HNC
11 7 (0.39%) PMI Certification
12 6 (0.34%) Microsoft Certification
12 6 (0.34%) SANS
13 5 (0.28%) CISA
13 5 (0.28%) CISM
13 5 (0.28%) CISSP
13 5 (0.28%) CRISC
14 4 (0.23%) CCNA
14 4 (0.23%) CESG Certified Professional
14 4 (0.23%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (3.95%) QA
2 52 (2.93%) MISRA
3 36 (2.03%) ISO 26262
4 26 (1.47%) AUTOSAR
5 25 (1.41%) Automotive SPICE
6 21 (1.18%) Software Quality Assurance
7 18 (1.02%) GDPR
8 16 (0.90%) ISO 13485
9 15 (0.85%) Def Stans
10 11 (0.62%) MISRA C
11 9 (0.51%) IEC 62304
12 8 (0.45%) Data Quality
12 8 (0.45%) IEC 61508
12 8 (0.45%) JTAG
13 7 (0.39%) ISO 9001
14 6 (0.34%) NIST
15 4 (0.23%) DO-178B
15 4 (0.23%) NCSC
16 3 (0.17%) TickIT
17 2 (0.11%) PMO
System Software
1 275 (15.51%) Firmware
2 156 (8.80%) Embedded Firmware
3 63 (3.55%) Docker
4 6 (0.34%) Ceph
4 6 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.23%) Virtual Servers
5 4 (0.23%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.11%) Kamailio
7 1 (0.056%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.056%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 1 (0.056%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 74 (4.17%) Kubernetes
2 38 (2.14%) Ansible
3 23 (1.30%) Terraform
4 20 (1.13%) Progress Chef
5 14 (0.79%) Functional Safety
6 6 (0.34%) Knative
7 5 (0.28%) Grafana
7 5 (0.28%) Nagios
8 4 (0.23%) Prometheus
8 4 (0.23%) Puppet
9 3 (0.17%) logstash
9 3 (0.17%) Podman
10 1 (0.056%) Kibana
10 1 (0.056%) Packer
10 1 (0.056%) SCCM
Vendors
1 106 (5.98%) Microsoft
2 47 (2.65%) SAP
3 33 (1.86%) Xilinx
4 30 (1.69%) IBM
5 29 (1.64%) Micro Focus
6 28 (1.58%) Oracle
7 27 (1.52%) Red Hat
8 21 (1.18%) Lauterbach
9 19 (1.07%) EMC
9 19 (1.07%) Google
10 10 (0.56%) Atlassian
11 8 (0.45%) Altera
11 8 (0.45%) Green Hills
11 8 (0.45%) Motorola
11 8 (0.45%) Sitecore
12 7 (0.39%) Facebook
12 7 (0.39%) Instagram
12 7 (0.39%) NVIDIA
13 6 (0.34%) Renesas
13 6 (0.34%) Samsung