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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 135 234 193
Rank change year-on-year +99 -41 +25
Permanent jobs citing C 1,822 1,365 3,051
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 2.00% 1.62% 2.16%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.41% 3.83% 4.02%
Number of salaries quoted 1,399 722 928
10th Percentile £38,750 £35,733 £34,990
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,444 £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 £80,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £91,125 £90,000
UK median annual salary £56,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -10.40% +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 28,419 35,659 75,821
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 31.14% 42.31% 53.60%
Number of salaries quoted 22,739 23,985 38,638
10th Percentile £35,000 £39,943 £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 2 June 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 2 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 +28 559 £55,000 -4.35% 140
South West +65 293 £57,500 -17.86% 102
East of England +31 263 £60,000 -7.69% 108
North of England +71 249 £55,000 +3.29% 65
London +35 240 £82,500 +18.80% 111
Midlands +44 213 £52,500 -4.55% 56
North West +67 138 £55,000 -8.33% 39
West Midlands -13 107 £60,000 - 24
East Midlands +61 106 £47,500 - 32
Yorkshire +30 89 £50,000 +17.65% 22
North East +4 22 £60,000 -4.00% 5
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 (1.81%) Apache
2 25 (1.37%) Apache Spark
3 14 (0.77%) Confluence
4 12 (0.66%) nginx
5 8 (0.44%) CMS
5 8 (0.44%) Jupyter
6 6 (0.33%) IIS
6 6 (0.33%) Kinematics
6 6 (0.33%) Sitecore CMS
7 5 (0.27%) Umbraco
8 4 (0.22%) Headless CMS
8 4 (0.22%) Kentico
9 3 (0.16%) Apache Airflow
10 2 (0.11%) IBM Domino
10 2 (0.11%) Liferay
10 2 (0.11%) Magnolia
11 1 (0.055%) WordPress
Applications
1 116 (6.37%) Simulink
2 33 (1.81%) Stateflow
3 11 (0.60%) CANalyzer
3 11 (0.60%) GNU Octave
4 7 (0.38%) Microsoft Office
5 5 (0.27%) Doxygen
6 3 (0.16%) TargetLink
7 2 (0.11%) Fusion 360
8 1 (0.055%) Microsoft Excel
8 1 (0.055%) OrCAD
8 1 (0.055%) SOLIDWORKS
8 1 (0.055%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (0.49%) Dynamics NAV
2 3 (0.16%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.16%) Oracle Applications
2 3 (0.16%) Teamcenter
3 2 (0.11%) SAP MII
4 1 (0.055%) MIS ActiveH
4 1 (0.055%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 89 (4.88%) AWS
2 68 (3.73%) Azure
3 36 (1.98%) GitHub
4 29 (1.59%) SaaS
5 20 (1.10%) Azure DevOps
6 17 (0.93%) Power Platform
7 11 (0.60%) Serverless
8 10 (0.55%) AWS Lambda
8 10 (0.55%) GCP
9 7 (0.38%) AWS IoT
9 7 (0.38%) Dynamics 365
10 5 (0.27%) GitHub Actions
10 5 (0.27%) WhatsApp
11 4 (0.22%) Amazon EKS
11 4 (0.22%) AWS CloudFormation
11 4 (0.22%) Kontent
12 3 (0.16%) Amazon EC2
12 3 (0.16%) Cloud Computing
12 3 (0.16%) dbt
13 2 (0.11%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 84 (4.61%) Wireless
2 80 (4.39%) TCP/IP
3 53 (2.91%) Wi-Fi
4 48 (2.63%) Bluetooth
5 44 (2.41%) RS-232
6 42 (2.31%) RS-485
7 39 (2.14%) Internet
8 38 (2.09%) Ethernet
9 22 (1.21%) J1939
10 21 (1.15%) MQTT
11 19 (1.04%) Network Security
12 17 (0.93%) 5G
12 17 (0.93%) ZigBee
13 15 (0.82%) 4G
13 15 (0.82%) Firewall
14 14 (0.77%) HTTP
15 13 (0.71%) 3G
16 12 (0.66%) DNS
17 11 (0.60%) Wireshark
18 9 (0.49%) OFDM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (3.07%) PostgreSQL
2 41 (2.25%) MongoDB
3 39 (2.14%) SQL Server
4 21 (1.15%) MySQL
5 18 (0.99%) Relational Database
6 16 (0.88%) Big Data
7 14 (0.77%) Power BI
8 9 (0.49%) Apache Cassandra
8 9 (0.49%) Data Mining
9 7 (0.38%) SQLite
10 6 (0.33%) Amazon Aurora
10 6 (0.33%) NoSQL
10 6 (0.33%) RDBMS
11 4 (0.22%) Data Lake
11 4 (0.22%) DynamoDB
11 4 (0.22%) Hadoop
11 4 (0.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 4 (0.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 3 (0.16%) Amazon RDS
12 3 (0.16%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 151 (8.29%) Git
2 95 (5.21%) JIRA
3 94 (5.16%) Jenkins
4 87 (4.77%) Visual Studio
5 51 (2.80%) Subversion
6 37 (2.03%) GitLab
7 28 (1.54%) Rational Rhapsody
8 22 (1.21%) LabVIEW
9 21 (1.15%) ClearCase
9 21 (1.15%) Plastic SCM
10 17 (0.93%) Bitbucket
11 16 (0.88%) Eclipse
12 14 (0.77%) ClearQuest
13 13 (0.71%) GDB
14 10 (0.55%) GNU Toolchain
14 10 (0.55%) Rational DOORS
14 10 (0.55%) Team Foundation Server
15 8 (0.44%) CMake
15 8 (0.44%) TestRail
16 7 (0.38%) IDA Disassembler
General
1 389 (21.35%) Electronics
2 331 (18.17%) Social Skills
3 163 (8.95%) Automotive
3 163 (8.95%) Manufacturing
4 162 (8.89%) Analytical Skills
5 125 (6.86%) Finance
6 96 (5.27%) Marketing
7 89 (4.88%) Aerospace
8 88 (4.83%) Telecoms
9 57 (3.13%) Public Sector
10 34 (1.87%) Retail
11 33 (1.81%) Law
12 29 (1.59%) Military
13 27 (1.48%) Presentation Skills
14 17 (0.93%) Games
14 17 (0.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 16 (0.88%) Legal
16 15 (0.82%) Pharmaceutical
17 14 (0.77%) Brand Awareness
17 14 (0.77%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 880 (48.30%) Software Engineer
2 504 (27.66%) Embedded Engineer
3 376 (20.64%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 371 (20.36%) Senior
5 252 (13.83%) Developer
6 203 (11.14%) Senior Software Engineer
7 164 (9.00%) Lead
8 128 (7.03%) Senior Embedded Engineer
9 112 (6.15%) Software Developer
10 108 (5.93%) C++ Software Engineer
11 82 (4.50%) Systems Engineer
12 77 (4.23%) C Software Engineer
13 76 (4.17%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
14 75 (4.12%) C++ Developer
15 73 (4.01%) Embedded Developer
16 70 (3.84%) Architect
17 63 (3.46%) Linux Engineer
18 57 (3.13%) Firmware Engineer
19 51 (2.80%) Electronics Engineer
20 49 (2.69%) C/C++ Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 128 (7.03%) .NET
2 69 (3.79%) HTML
3 55 (3.02%) Qt
4 52 (2.85%) Yocto
5 51 (2.80%) WPF
6 46 (2.52%) REST
7 39 (2.14%) CSS
8 38 (2.09%) React
9 34 (1.87%) .NET Framework
9 34 (1.87%) SOAP
9 34 (1.87%) Web Services
10 33 (1.81%) Node.js
11 29 (1.59%) RESTful
12 25 (1.37%) ASP.NET
13 24 (1.32%) Django
14 23 (1.26%) HTML5
14 23 (1.26%) Middleware
14 23 (1.26%) OpenGL
15 22 (1.21%) JSON
15 22 (1.21%) OpenMP
Miscellaneous
1 219 (12.02%) Algorithms
2 218 (11.96%) Embedded Systems
3 153 (8.40%) IoT
4 114 (6.26%) FPGA
5 71 (3.90%) VHDL
6 64 (3.51%) Self-Motivation
7 60 (3.29%) Distributed Systems
8 54 (2.96%) Device Driver
9 52 (2.85%) Robotics
10 50 (2.74%) Analogue Electronics
11 46 (2.52%) Data Structures
12 41 (2.25%) Greenfield Project
13 39 (2.14%) CUDA
14 34 (1.87%) Product Ownership
14 34 (1.87%) Verilog
15 32 (1.76%) PKI
16 31 (1.70%) Analytical Mindset
17 30 (1.65%) Raspberry Pi
18 29 (1.59%) Cloud Native
18 29 (1.59%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 769 (42.21%) Linux
2 206 (11.31%) Embedded Linux
3 185 (10.15%) Windows
4 83 (4.56%) Unix
5 64 (3.51%) Android
6 46 (2.52%) Ubuntu
7 37 (2.03%) FreeRTOS
8 31 (1.70%) Apple iOS
9 18 (0.99%) AIX
9 18 (0.99%) Debian
10 13 (0.71%) Windows 10
11 11 (0.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 7 (0.38%) Kali Linux
13 6 (0.33%) ThreadX
14 5 (0.27%) Mac OS
15 3 (0.16%) CentOS
15 3 (0.16%) Windows Embedded Compact
16 1 (0.055%) VxWorks
16 1 (0.055%) Windows Server
16 1 (0.055%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,154 (63.34%) Software Engineering
2 343 (18.83%) Agile
3 339 (18.61%) Problem-Solving
4 307 (16.85%) Computer Science
5 179 (9.82%) Mathematics
6 168 (9.22%) DevOps
7 165 (9.06%) Software Testing
8 142 (7.79%) Test Automation
9 134 (7.35%) Open Source
10 130 (7.14%) Cybersecurity
10 130 (7.14%) Physics
11 117 (6.42%) Mentoring
12 115 (6.31%) Artificial Intelligence
13 110 (6.04%) SDLC
14 106 (5.82%) Machine Learning
15 105 (5.76%) Embedded Software Development
16 100 (5.49%) Multithreading
17 97 (5.32%) OO
18 93 (5.10%) Validation
19 91 (4.99%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 854 (46.87%) C++
2 663 (36.39%) Python
3 343 (18.83%) C#
4 297 (16.30%) Embedded C
5 269 (14.76%) Java
6 146 (8.01%) Bash
7 134 (7.35%) SQL
8 130 (7.14%) MATLAB
9 128 (7.03%) JavaScript
10 119 (6.53%) Rust
11 70 (3.84%) Fortran
12 60 (3.29%) Go
13 57 (3.13%) Perl
14 56 (3.07%) Ada
15 54 (2.96%) VB
16 52 (2.85%) Embedded C++
17 38 (2.09%) PHP
18 33 (1.81%) Assembly Language
19 32 (1.76%) Shell Script
20 31 (1.70%) XAML
Qualifications
1 610 (33.48%) Degree
2 286 (15.70%) Security Cleared
3 115 (6.31%) Computer Science Degree
4 103 (5.65%) Master's Degree
5 101 (5.54%) PhD
6 80 (4.39%) SC Cleared
7 64 (3.51%) DV Cleared
8 53 (2.91%) BPSS Clearance
9 17 (0.93%) HND
10 10 (0.55%) HNC
11 7 (0.38%) PMI Certification
12 6 (0.33%) Microsoft Certification
12 6 (0.33%) SANS
13 5 (0.27%) CISA
13 5 (0.27%) CISM
13 5 (0.27%) CISSP
13 5 (0.27%) CRISC
14 4 (0.22%) CESG Certified Professional
15 3 (0.16%) CCNA
15 3 (0.16%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (3.57%) QA
2 47 (2.58%) MISRA
3 31 (1.70%) ISO 26262
4 24 (1.32%) AUTOSAR
5 22 (1.21%) Automotive SPICE
6 19 (1.04%) GDPR
7 18 (0.99%) Software Quality Assurance
8 16 (0.88%) ISO 13485
9 15 (0.82%) Def Stans
10 9 (0.49%) IEC 62304
10 9 (0.49%) MISRA C
11 8 (0.44%) Data Quality
11 8 (0.44%) IEC 61508
11 8 (0.44%) JTAG
12 6 (0.33%) ISO 9001
12 6 (0.33%) NIST
13 4 (0.22%) DO-178B
13 4 (0.22%) NCSC
14 3 (0.16%) TickIT
15 2 (0.11%) PMO
System Software
1 270 (14.82%) Firmware
2 155 (8.51%) Embedded Firmware
3 63 (3.46%) Docker
4 7 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.33%) Ceph
6 4 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
6 4 (0.22%) VMware Infrastructure
7 2 (0.11%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.11%) Kamailio
7 2 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.055%) KVM
8 1 (0.055%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 76 (4.17%) Kubernetes
2 40 (2.20%) Ansible
3 23 (1.26%) Terraform
4 21 (1.15%) Progress Chef
5 14 (0.77%) Functional Safety
6 6 (0.33%) Knative
7 5 (0.27%) Grafana
7 5 (0.27%) Puppet
8 4 (0.22%) Nagios
8 4 (0.22%) Prometheus
9 3 (0.16%) logstash
9 3 (0.16%) Podman
10 1 (0.055%) Kibana
10 1 (0.055%) Packer
10 1 (0.055%) SCCM
Vendors
1 117 (6.42%) Microsoft
2 44 (2.41%) SAP
3 37 (2.03%) Xilinx
4 31 (1.70%) IBM
5 29 (1.59%) Micro Focus
6 28 (1.54%) Oracle
7 26 (1.43%) Red Hat
8 21 (1.15%) Lauterbach
9 20 (1.10%) Google
10 18 (0.99%) EMC
11 10 (0.55%) Atlassian
12 8 (0.44%) Altera
12 8 (0.44%) Green Hills
12 8 (0.44%) Motorola
12 8 (0.44%) Sitecore
13 7 (0.38%) Facebook
13 7 (0.38%) Instagram
13 7 (0.38%) NVIDIA
14 6 (0.33%) Renesas
14 6 (0.33%) Samsung