C Jobs in the UK excluding London

C
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 106 174 116
Rank change year-on-year +68 -58 +51
Permanent jobs citing C 1,928 1,123 2,250
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.44% 2.02% 2.97%
As % of the Programming Languages category 8.26% 5.24% 6.60%
Number of salaries quoted 1,484 623 705
10th Percentile £37,500 £34,324 £34,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,125 £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 £65,500
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% +4.55%

All Programming Languages
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 23,352 21,449 34,091
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 29.56% 38.54% 44.96%
Number of salaries quoted 16,842 12,866 21,023
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £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 9 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 9 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 +32 581 £55,000 -0.18% 146
South West +65 300 £57,500 -16.36% 98
East of England +34 270 £60,000 -7.69% 109
North of England +71 253 £55,000 - 68
Scotland +1 229 £52,500 -4.55% 41
Midlands +39 222 £52,500 -2.33% 63
North West +72 139 £55,000 -10.20% 45
East Midlands +52 113 £47,500 +5.56% 37
West Midlands -7 109 £60,000 +9.09% 26
Yorkshire +37 92 £50,000 +17.65% 18
Wales +60 60 £50,000 -9.09% 15
North East -1 22 £60,000 -4.00% 7
Northern Ireland +30 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 (1.30%) Apache
2 14 (0.73%) Confluence
3 10 (0.52%) nginx
4 6 (0.31%) CMS
4 6 (0.31%) IIS
4 6 (0.31%) Kinematics
4 6 (0.31%) Sitecore CMS
5 5 (0.26%) Umbraco
6 4 (0.21%) Apache Spark
6 4 (0.21%) Headless CMS
6 4 (0.21%) Kentico
7 2 (0.10%) IBM Domino
7 2 (0.10%) Liferay
7 2 (0.10%) Magnolia
Applications
1 125 (6.48%) Simulink
2 33 (1.71%) Stateflow
3 11 (0.57%) CANalyzer
3 11 (0.57%) GNU Octave
4 7 (0.36%) Microsoft Office
5 5 (0.26%) Doxygen
6 3 (0.16%) Microsoft Excel
6 3 (0.16%) TargetLink
7 2 (0.10%) Fusion 360
7 2 (0.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 1 (0.052%) OrCAD
8 1 (0.052%) SOLIDWORKS
8 1 (0.052%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (0.47%) Dynamics NAV
2 3 (0.16%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.16%) Oracle Applications
3 2 (0.10%) SAP MII
4 1 (0.052%) Infor M3
4 1 (0.052%) SAP Business One
4 1 (0.052%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 62 (3.22%) Azure
2 61 (3.16%) AWS
3 35 (1.82%) GitHub
4 27 (1.40%) SaaS
5 18 (0.93%) Azure DevOps
6 17 (0.88%) Power Platform
7 7 (0.36%) AWS IoT
7 7 (0.36%) Cloud Computing
8 6 (0.31%) Dynamics 365
8 6 (0.31%) Serverless
9 5 (0.26%) GCP
9 5 (0.26%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (0.21%) Kontent
11 3 (0.16%) WhatsApp
12 2 (0.10%) AWS CloudFormation
12 2 (0.10%) Azure Machine Learning
12 2 (0.10%) npm
12 2 (0.10%) PaaS
13 1 (0.052%) Azure Stack
13 1 (0.052%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 149 (7.73%) Wireless
2 75 (3.89%) Wi-Fi
3 72 (3.73%) Ethernet
4 62 (3.22%) RS-232
5 59 (3.06%) TCP/IP
6 57 (2.96%) Bluetooth
7 48 (2.49%) RS-485
8 38 (1.97%) Internet
9 37 (1.92%) Network Security
10 22 (1.14%) J1939
11 21 (1.09%) MQTT
12 20 (1.04%) ZigBee
13 18 (0.93%) 5G
14 17 (0.88%) Wireshark
15 16 (0.83%) 4G
16 14 (0.73%) Modbus
17 13 (0.67%) 3G
17 13 (0.67%) Firewall
18 11 (0.57%) HTTP
19 10 (0.52%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (2.49%) SQL Server
2 40 (2.07%) PostgreSQL
3 27 (1.40%) MongoDB
4 26 (1.35%) MySQL
5 16 (0.83%) Relational Database
6 15 (0.78%) Big Data
7 14 (0.73%) Power BI
8 7 (0.36%) SQLite
9 6 (0.31%) Data Mining
10 5 (0.26%) Azure SQL Database
11 4 (0.21%) DynamoDB
11 4 (0.21%) Hadoop
12 3 (0.16%) Data Lake
12 3 (0.16%) Data Warehouse
12 3 (0.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 3 (0.16%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 2 (0.10%) Crystal Reports
13 2 (0.10%) DB2
13 2 (0.10%) DTS
14 1 (0.052%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 152 (7.88%) Git
2 88 (4.56%) JIRA
3 86 (4.46%) Visual Studio
4 85 (4.41%) Jenkins
5 57 (2.96%) Subversion
6 45 (2.33%) LabVIEW
7 28 (1.45%) Rational Rhapsody
8 21 (1.09%) ClearCase
8 21 (1.09%) Plastic SCM
9 19 (0.99%) Bitbucket
10 18 (0.93%) GitLab
11 16 (0.83%) Eclipse
12 14 (0.73%) ClearQuest
13 11 (0.57%) Team Foundation Server
14 10 (0.52%) Rational DOORS
15 9 (0.47%) GNU Toolchain
16 8 (0.41%) CMake
16 8 (0.41%) TestRail
17 7 (0.36%) GDB
17 7 (0.36%) IDA Disassembler
General
1 446 (23.13%) Electronics
2 364 (18.88%) Social Skills
3 210 (10.89%) Manufacturing
4 180 (9.34%) Analytical Skills
5 167 (8.66%) Automotive
6 100 (5.19%) Aerospace
7 97 (5.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 94 (4.88%) Telecoms
9 93 (4.82%) Marketing
10 86 (4.46%) Finance
11 49 (2.54%) Public Sector
12 33 (1.71%) Retail
13 32 (1.66%) Military
14 28 (1.45%) Legal
15 27 (1.40%) Presentation Skills
16 20 (1.04%) Law
17 16 (0.83%) Pharmaceutical
18 14 (0.73%) Brand Awareness
18 14 (0.73%) Mandarin Language
19 13 (0.67%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 988 (51.24%) Software Engineer
2 636 (32.99%) Embedded Engineer
3 457 (23.70%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 435 (22.56%) Senior
5 258 (13.38%) Senior Software Engineer
6 244 (12.66%) Developer
7 167 (8.66%) Senior Embedded Engineer
8 149 (7.73%) Lead
9 121 (6.28%) Software Developer
10 120 (6.22%) C++ Software Engineer
11 113 (5.86%) C Software Engineer
12 109 (5.65%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
13 85 (4.41%) Systems Engineer
14 81 (4.20%) Firmware Engineer
15 79 (4.10%) Junior
16 76 (3.94%) Embedded Developer
17 71 (3.68%) C/C++ Software Engineer
18 69 (3.58%) Graduate
19 66 (3.42%) Electronics Engineer
20 64 (3.32%) Embedded C Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 125 (6.48%) .NET
2 73 (3.79%) HTML
3 66 (3.42%) WPF
4 64 (3.32%) Yocto
5 53 (2.75%) Qt
6 47 (2.44%) REST
7 38 (1.97%) .NET Framework
8 37 (1.92%) Node.js
9 35 (1.82%) CSS
9 35 (1.82%) SOAP
10 33 (1.71%) Web Services
11 30 (1.56%) React
12 24 (1.24%) WinForms
13 23 (1.19%) ASP.NET
13 23 (1.19%) HTML5
13 23 (1.19%) JSON
13 23 (1.19%) Middleware
14 20 (1.04%) .NET Core
14 20 (1.04%) OpenMP
15 19 (0.99%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 223 (11.57%) Embedded Systems
2 219 (11.36%) Algorithms
3 144 (7.47%) IoT
4 104 (5.39%) FPGA
5 74 (3.84%) VHDL
6 65 (3.37%) Device Driver
7 63 (3.27%) Self-Motivation
8 54 (2.80%) Robotics
9 49 (2.54%) Analogue Electronics
10 36 (1.87%) CUDA
10 36 (1.87%) Data Structures
11 33 (1.71%) Product Ownership
12 32 (1.66%) Distributed Systems
12 32 (1.66%) Verilog
13 31 (1.61%) Analytical Mindset
14 30 (1.56%) ARM Cortex
14 30 (1.56%) Raspberry Pi
15 29 (1.50%) Mobile App
16 24 (1.24%) Enterprise Software
17 22 (1.14%) GNSS
Operating Systems
1 740 (38.38%) Linux
2 228 (11.83%) Embedded Linux
3 181 (9.39%) Windows
4 75 (3.89%) Unix
5 52 (2.70%) Android
6 47 (2.44%) FreeRTOS
7 28 (1.45%) Ubuntu
8 21 (1.09%) AIX
9 16 (0.83%) Apple iOS
10 14 (0.73%) Windows 10
11 11 (0.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 7 (0.36%) Kali Linux
13 6 (0.31%) ThreadX
14 5 (0.26%) VxWorks
15 4 (0.21%) Debian
15 4 (0.21%) Mac OS
16 3 (0.16%) CentOS
16 3 (0.16%) Windows Embedded Compact
17 2 (0.10%) Solaris
18 1 (0.052%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,307 (67.79%) Software Engineering
2 362 (18.78%) Computer Science
2 362 (18.78%) Problem-Solving
3 328 (17.01%) Agile
4 208 (10.79%) Mathematics
5 179 (9.28%) Software Testing
6 164 (8.51%) Physics
7 150 (7.78%) SDLC
8 143 (7.42%) Test Automation
9 138 (7.16%) DevOps
10 125 (6.48%) Open Source
11 121 (6.28%) Mentoring
12 111 (5.76%) Embedded Software Development
13 104 (5.39%) Artificial Intelligence
13 104 (5.39%) Cybersecurity
14 98 (5.08%) OO
15 97 (5.03%) Multithreading
16 96 (4.98%) Validation
17 91 (4.72%) Software Architecture
18 90 (4.67%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 923 (47.87%) C++
2 636 (32.99%) Python
3 418 (21.68%) Embedded C
4 406 (21.06%) C#
5 271 (14.06%) Java
6 142 (7.37%) Bash
7 132 (6.85%) MATLAB
8 120 (6.22%) JavaScript
9 107 (5.55%) Rust
10 95 (4.93%) SQL
11 72 (3.73%) Fortran
12 68 (3.53%) Embedded C++
13 60 (3.11%) Perl
14 58 (3.01%) Ada
14 58 (3.01%) VB
15 42 (2.18%) PHP
16 35 (1.82%) Assembly Language
17 32 (1.66%) Go
17 32 (1.66%) XAML
18 31 (1.61%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 691 (35.84%) Degree
2 285 (14.78%) Security Cleared
3 123 (6.38%) Computer Science Degree
4 103 (5.34%) Master's Degree
5 100 (5.19%) PhD
6 76 (3.94%) SC Cleared
7 63 (3.27%) DV Cleared
8 55 (2.85%) BPSS Clearance
9 28 (1.45%) HND
10 14 (0.73%) HNC
11 8 (0.41%) PMI Certification
12 6 (0.31%) SANS
13 5 (0.26%) CISA
13 5 (0.26%) CISM
13 5 (0.26%) CISSP
13 5 (0.26%) CRISC
14 4 (0.21%) CESG Certified Professional
14 4 (0.21%) DBS Check
14 4 (0.21%) Microsoft Certification
15 3 (0.16%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 71 (3.68%) QA
2 60 (3.11%) MISRA
3 37 (1.92%) ISO 26262
4 24 (1.24%) ISO 13485
5 22 (1.14%) Automotive SPICE
5 22 (1.14%) AUTOSAR
6 18 (0.93%) GDPR
7 17 (0.88%) Software Quality Assurance
8 15 (0.78%) Def Stans
9 12 (0.62%) IEC 62304
10 11 (0.57%) JTAG
11 10 (0.52%) MISRA C
12 8 (0.41%) 21 CFR Part 11
12 8 (0.41%) IEC 61508
13 7 (0.36%) ISO 9001
14 6 (0.31%) DO-178B
14 6 (0.31%) NIST
15 4 (0.21%) TickIT
16 2 (0.10%) HL7
16 2 (0.10%) PMO
System Software
1 353 (18.31%) Firmware
2 186 (9.65%) Embedded Firmware
3 33 (1.71%) Docker
4 4 (0.21%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.16%) Active Directory
6 2 (0.10%) Kamailio
7 1 (0.052%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.052%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 1 (0.052%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.052%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 32 (1.66%) Ansible
2 21 (1.09%) Kubernetes
3 18 (0.93%) Progress Chef
4 14 (0.73%) Functional Safety
5 10 (0.52%) Terraform
6 3 (0.16%) Nagios
6 3 (0.16%) Podman
7 2 (0.10%) Grafana
7 2 (0.10%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.10%) Puppet
8 1 (0.052%) SCCM
Vendors
1 100 (5.19%) Microsoft
2 47 (2.44%) SAP
3 37 (1.92%) Xilinx
4 30 (1.56%) IBM
5 29 (1.50%) Micro Focus
6 27 (1.40%) Oracle
7 21 (1.09%) EMC
7 21 (1.09%) Lauterbach
8 20 (1.04%) Red Hat
9 12 (0.62%) Google
10 11 (0.57%) Atlassian
11 10 (0.52%) Altera
11 10 (0.52%) Renesas
12 9 (0.47%) Twitter
13 8 (0.41%) Green Hills
13 8 (0.41%) Motorola
13 8 (0.41%) Sitecore
14 7 (0.36%) Facebook
14 7 (0.36%) Instagram
14 7 (0.36%) Intel