C Jobs in the UK excluding London

C
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 100 176 119
Rank change year-on-year +76 -57 +51
Permanent jobs citing C 1,961 1,129 2,281
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.45% 2.04% 2.99%
As % of the Programming Languages category 8.32% 5.30% 6.66%
Number of salaries quoted 1,497 624 706
10th Percentile £37,500 £34,324 £34,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,438 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +14.29% +5.00%
75th Percentile £66,250 £71,250 £65,375
90th Percentile £82,500 £81,250 £75,000
UK median annual salary £56,500 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -9.60% +8.70% +6.48%

All Programming Languages
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 23,571 21,319 34,264
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 29.43% 38.58% 44.87%
Number of salaries quoted 16,991 12,850 20,984
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £66,500 £71,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £82,500
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 the UK excluding London

Job postings citing C as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for C in the UK excluding London

C
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing C in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for C in the UK excluding London

C
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing C in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Salary histogram for C in the UK excluding London

C
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing C within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 12 June 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 +24 591 £55,000 -0.18% 140
South West +57 307 £57,500 -16.36% 97
East of England +30 277 £60,000 -7.69% 100
North of England +70 261 £55,000 - 58
Scotland -3 228 £52,500 -4.55% 41
Midlands +40 223 £52,500 -2.33% 66
North West +66 144 £55,000 -10.20% 37
East Midlands +58 115 £46,250 +2.78% 36
West Midlands -4 108 £60,000 +9.09% 30
Yorkshire +42 94 £50,000 +17.65% 16
Wales +61 61 £50,000 -9.09% 13
North East -2 23 £60,000 -4.00% 6
Northern Ireland +32 13 £55,000 -5.17% 1
C
UK

C
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 25 (1.27%) Apache
2 14 (0.71%) Confluence
3 10 (0.51%) nginx
4 6 (0.31%) CMS
4 6 (0.31%) IIS
4 6 (0.31%) Kinematics
4 6 (0.31%) Sitecore CMS
5 5 (0.25%) Umbraco
6 4 (0.20%) Apache Spark
6 4 (0.20%) Headless CMS
6 4 (0.20%) Kentico
7 2 (0.10%) IBM Domino
7 2 (0.10%) Liferay
7 2 (0.10%) Magnolia
Applications
1 130 (6.63%) Simulink
2 34 (1.73%) Stateflow
3 11 (0.56%) CANalyzer
3 11 (0.56%) GNU Octave
4 7 (0.36%) Microsoft Office
5 5 (0.25%) Doxygen
6 3 (0.15%) Microsoft Excel
6 3 (0.15%) TargetLink
7 2 (0.10%) Fusion 360
7 2 (0.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 1 (0.051%) OrCAD
8 1 (0.051%) SOLIDWORKS
8 1 (0.051%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (0.46%) Dynamics NAV
2 3 (0.15%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.15%) Oracle Applications
3 2 (0.10%) SAP MII
4 1 (0.051%) Infor M3
4 1 (0.051%) SAP Business One
4 1 (0.051%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 63 (3.21%) Azure
2 61 (3.11%) AWS
3 35 (1.78%) GitHub
4 26 (1.33%) SaaS
5 18 (0.92%) Azure DevOps
6 17 (0.87%) Power Platform
7 10 (0.51%) Cloud Computing
8 7 (0.36%) AWS IoT
9 6 (0.31%) Dynamics 365
9 6 (0.31%) GCP
9 6 (0.31%) Serverless
10 5 (0.25%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (0.20%) Kontent
12 3 (0.15%) WhatsApp
13 2 (0.10%) AWS CloudFormation
13 2 (0.10%) Azure Machine Learning
13 2 (0.10%) npm
13 2 (0.10%) PaaS
14 1 (0.051%) Azure Stack
14 1 (0.051%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 150 (7.65%) Wireless
2 75 (3.82%) Wi-Fi
3 73 (3.72%) Ethernet
4 62 (3.16%) RS-232
5 61 (3.11%) TCP/IP
6 58 (2.96%) Bluetooth
7 48 (2.45%) RS-485
8 39 (1.99%) Internet
9 38 (1.94%) Network Security
10 22 (1.12%) J1939
11 21 (1.07%) MQTT
12 20 (1.02%) ZigBee
13 19 (0.97%) 5G
13 19 (0.97%) Wireshark
14 17 (0.87%) 4G
15 14 (0.71%) Modbus
16 13 (0.66%) 3G
16 13 (0.66%) Firewall
17 12 (0.61%) HTTP
18 10 (0.51%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (2.45%) SQL Server
2 39 (1.99%) PostgreSQL
3 27 (1.38%) MongoDB
3 27 (1.38%) MySQL
4 16 (0.82%) Relational Database
5 15 (0.76%) Big Data
6 14 (0.71%) Power BI
7 8 (0.41%) SQLite
8 6 (0.31%) Data Mining
9 5 (0.25%) Azure SQL Database
10 4 (0.20%) DynamoDB
10 4 (0.20%) Hadoop
11 3 (0.15%) Data Lake
11 3 (0.15%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (0.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 3 (0.15%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 2 (0.10%) Crystal Reports
12 2 (0.10%) DB2
12 2 (0.10%) DTS
13 1 (0.051%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 155 (7.90%) Git
2 88 (4.49%) JIRA
3 87 (4.44%) Visual Studio
4 85 (4.33%) Jenkins
5 59 (3.01%) Subversion
6 45 (2.29%) LabVIEW
7 29 (1.48%) Rational Rhapsody
8 21 (1.07%) ClearCase
8 21 (1.07%) Plastic SCM
9 19 (0.97%) Bitbucket
10 18 (0.92%) GitLab
11 16 (0.82%) Eclipse
12 14 (0.71%) ClearQuest
13 11 (0.56%) Team Foundation Server
14 10 (0.51%) Rational DOORS
15 9 (0.46%) GNU Toolchain
15 9 (0.46%) IDA Disassembler
16 8 (0.41%) CMake
16 8 (0.41%) TestRail
17 7 (0.36%) GDB
General
1 452 (23.05%) Electronics
2 371 (18.92%) Social Skills
3 213 (10.86%) Manufacturing
4 183 (9.33%) Analytical Skills
5 170 (8.67%) Automotive
6 103 (5.25%) Aerospace
7 98 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 95 (4.84%) Telecoms
9 93 (4.74%) Marketing
10 86 (4.39%) Finance
11 49 (2.50%) Public Sector
12 33 (1.68%) Retail
13 32 (1.63%) Military
14 28 (1.43%) Legal
15 26 (1.33%) Presentation Skills
16 20 (1.02%) Law
17 16 (0.82%) Pharmaceutical
18 14 (0.71%) Brand Awareness
18 14 (0.71%) Mandarin Language
19 13 (0.66%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 1,012 (51.61%) Software Engineer
2 646 (32.94%) Embedded Engineer
3 466 (23.76%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 436 (22.23%) Senior
5 258 (13.16%) Senior Software Engineer
6 248 (12.65%) Developer
7 168 (8.57%) Senior Embedded Engineer
8 152 (7.75%) Lead
9 125 (6.37%) C++ Software Engineer
10 123 (6.27%) Software Developer
11 119 (6.07%) C Software Engineer
12 110 (5.61%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
13 85 (4.33%) Systems Engineer
14 84 (4.28%) Firmware Engineer
15 78 (3.98%) Embedded Developer
15 78 (3.98%) Junior
16 75 (3.82%) C/C++ Software Engineer
16 75 (3.82%) Graduate
17 67 (3.42%) Embedded C Engineer
18 66 (3.37%) Electronics Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 126 (6.43%) .NET
2 73 (3.72%) HTML
3 67 (3.42%) WPF
4 61 (3.11%) Yocto
5 53 (2.70%) Qt
6 47 (2.40%) REST
7 38 (1.94%) .NET Framework
8 37 (1.89%) Node.js
9 35 (1.78%) CSS
9 35 (1.78%) SOAP
10 33 (1.68%) Web Services
11 30 (1.53%) React
12 25 (1.27%) WinForms
13 23 (1.17%) ASP.NET
13 23 (1.17%) HTML5
13 23 (1.17%) JSON
13 23 (1.17%) Middleware
14 20 (1.02%) .NET Core
15 19 (0.97%) MFC
15 19 (0.97%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 227 (11.58%) Embedded Systems
2 220 (11.22%) Algorithms
3 146 (7.45%) IoT
4 107 (5.46%) FPGA
5 77 (3.93%) VHDL
6 64 (3.26%) Device Driver
7 63 (3.21%) Self-Motivation
8 54 (2.75%) Robotics
9 51 (2.60%) Analogue Electronics
10 36 (1.84%) Data Structures
11 33 (1.68%) Analytical Mindset
11 33 (1.68%) CUDA
11 33 (1.68%) Verilog
12 32 (1.63%) Distributed Systems
12 32 (1.63%) Product Ownership
13 30 (1.53%) ARM Cortex
14 29 (1.48%) Mobile App
14 29 (1.48%) Raspberry Pi
15 25 (1.27%) Greenfield Project
16 24 (1.22%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 744 (37.94%) Linux
2 228 (11.63%) Embedded Linux
3 184 (9.38%) Windows
4 72 (3.67%) Unix
5 54 (2.75%) Android
6 48 (2.45%) FreeRTOS
7 29 (1.48%) Ubuntu
8 21 (1.07%) AIX
9 15 (0.76%) Apple iOS
10 14 (0.71%) Windows 10
11 11 (0.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 9 (0.46%) Kali Linux
13 6 (0.31%) ThreadX
14 5 (0.25%) VxWorks
15 4 (0.20%) Debian
15 4 (0.20%) Mac OS
16 3 (0.15%) CentOS
16 3 (0.15%) Windows Embedded Compact
17 2 (0.10%) Solaris
18 1 (0.051%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,335 (68.08%) Software Engineering
2 368 (18.77%) Problem-Solving
3 365 (18.61%) Computer Science
4 328 (16.73%) Agile
5 211 (10.76%) Mathematics
6 186 (9.48%) Software Testing
7 164 (8.36%) Physics
8 155 (7.90%) SDLC
9 145 (7.39%) Test Automation
10 139 (7.09%) DevOps
11 127 (6.48%) Open Source
12 122 (6.22%) Mentoring
13 113 (5.76%) Embedded Software Development
14 108 (5.51%) Artificial Intelligence
15 107 (5.46%) Cybersecurity
16 99 (5.05%) OO
16 99 (5.05%) Validation
17 97 (4.95%) Multithreading
18 94 (4.79%) Software Architecture
19 93 (4.74%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 947 (48.29%) C++
2 647 (32.99%) Python
3 422 (21.52%) Embedded C
4 409 (20.86%) C#
5 284 (14.48%) Java
6 145 (7.39%) Bash
7 136 (6.94%) MATLAB
8 122 (6.22%) JavaScript
9 111 (5.66%) Rust
10 97 (4.95%) SQL
11 70 (3.57%) Embedded C++
11 70 (3.57%) Fortran
12 63 (3.21%) Perl
13 60 (3.06%) Ada
14 58 (2.96%) VB
15 42 (2.14%) PHP
16 36 (1.84%) Assembly Language
17 33 (1.68%) Go
17 33 (1.68%) XAML
18 31 (1.58%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 700 (35.70%) Degree
2 294 (14.99%) Security Cleared
3 126 (6.43%) Computer Science Degree
4 101 (5.15%) Master's Degree
5 99 (5.05%) PhD
6 79 (4.03%) SC Cleared
7 71 (3.62%) DV Cleared
8 55 (2.80%) BPSS Clearance
9 29 (1.48%) HND
10 15 (0.76%) HNC
11 9 (0.46%) PMI Certification
12 6 (0.31%) SANS
13 5 (0.25%) CISA
13 5 (0.25%) CISM
13 5 (0.25%) CISSP
13 5 (0.25%) CRISC
14 4 (0.20%) CESG Certified Professional
14 4 (0.20%) DBS Check
14 4 (0.20%) Microsoft Certification
15 3 (0.15%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (3.57%) QA
2 61 (3.11%) MISRA
3 37 (1.89%) ISO 26262
4 24 (1.22%) ISO 13485
5 22 (1.12%) Automotive SPICE
5 22 (1.12%) AUTOSAR
6 18 (0.92%) GDPR
7 16 (0.82%) Software Quality Assurance
8 15 (0.76%) Def Stans
9 12 (0.61%) IEC 62304
10 11 (0.56%) JTAG
10 11 (0.56%) MISRA C
11 8 (0.41%) 21 CFR Part 11
11 8 (0.41%) IEC 61508
11 8 (0.41%) ISO 9001
12 6 (0.31%) DO-178B
12 6 (0.31%) NIST
13 5 (0.25%) TickIT
14 2 (0.10%) HL7
14 2 (0.10%) PMO
System Software
1 360 (18.36%) Firmware
2 191 (9.74%) Embedded Firmware
3 33 (1.68%) Docker
4 4 (0.20%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.15%) Active Directory
6 2 (0.10%) Kamailio
7 1 (0.051%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.051%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 1 (0.051%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.051%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 32 (1.63%) Ansible
2 21 (1.07%) Kubernetes
3 18 (0.92%) Progress Chef
4 14 (0.71%) Functional Safety
5 10 (0.51%) Terraform
6 3 (0.15%) Nagios
6 3 (0.15%) Podman
7 2 (0.10%) Grafana
7 2 (0.10%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.10%) Puppet
8 1 (0.051%) SCCM
Vendors
1 100 (5.10%) Microsoft
2 47 (2.40%) SAP
3 39 (1.99%) Xilinx
4 30 (1.53%) IBM
5 29 (1.48%) Micro Focus
6 28 (1.43%) Oracle
7 21 (1.07%) EMC
7 21 (1.07%) Lauterbach
8 20 (1.02%) Red Hat
9 12 (0.61%) Atlassian
9 12 (0.61%) Google
10 10 (0.51%) Altera
10 10 (0.51%) Renesas
11 9 (0.46%) Twitter
12 8 (0.41%) Green Hills
12 8 (0.41%) Intel
12 8 (0.41%) Motorola
12 8 (0.41%) Sitecore
13 7 (0.36%) Facebook
13 7 (0.36%) Instagram