C
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 136 228 210
Rank change year-on-year +92 -18 +10
Permanent jobs citing C 2,109 1,643 3,218
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.11% 1.66% 2.00%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.35% 3.83% 3.70%
Number of salaries quoted 1,687 891 1,054
10th Percentile £38,750 £34,875 £34,647
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.40% +8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £71,250 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £91,250 £88,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +14.29% +5.00%

All Programming Languages
UK

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 with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 33,216 42,952 86,858
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.25% 43.31% 54.04%
Number of salaries quoted 24,896 27,477 43,381
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £49,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £77,500 £86,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -1.82% +4.76% +5.00%

C
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for C in the UK

C
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for C in the UK

C
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing C over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Salary histogram for C in the UK

C
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing C within the UK over the 6 months to 18 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
UK excluding London +59 1,817 £55,000 -8.33% 571
England +86 1,773 £57,500 -8.00% 670
Work from Home +78 776 £55,000 -12.00% 275
South East +37 530 £55,000 -8.33% 174
South West +55 288 £57,500 -17.86% 113
East of England +34 262 £60,000 -7.69% 129
North of England +63 238 £55,000 +4.76% 56
London +42 235 £82,500 +18.80% 135
Scotland -12 223 £52,500 -4.55% 33
Midlands +19 215 £52,500 -4.55% 63
North West +64 133 £55,000 - 36
West Midlands -12 115 £60,000 -17.24% 28
East Midlands +55 100 £47,500 -5.00% 35
Yorkshire +36 81 £50,000 +17.65% 16
Wales +38 49 £50,000 -9.09% 13
North East +11 24 £60,000 -4.00% 5
Northern Ireland +32 13 £55,000 +12.24%

C
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 37 (1.75%) Apache
2 24 (1.14%) Apache Spark
3 16 (0.76%) Confluence
4 12 (0.57%) nginx
5 8 (0.38%) CMS
5 8 (0.38%) Jupyter
6 6 (0.28%) IIS
6 6 (0.28%) Kinematics
6 6 (0.28%) Sitecore CMS
7 5 (0.24%) Umbraco
8 4 (0.19%) Headless CMS
8 4 (0.19%) Kentico
9 3 (0.14%) Apache Airflow
9 3 (0.14%) SharePoint
10 2 (0.095%) IBM Domino
10 2 (0.095%) Liferay
10 2 (0.095%) Magnolia
11 1 (0.047%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
11 1 (0.047%) WordPress
Applications
1 122 (5.78%) Simulink
2 33 (1.56%) Stateflow
3 13 (0.62%) CANalyzer
4 11 (0.52%) GNU Octave
5 7 (0.33%) Microsoft Office
6 5 (0.24%) Doxygen
7 3 (0.14%) Microsoft Excel
7 3 (0.14%) TargetLink
8 2 (0.095%) Fusion 360
8 2 (0.095%) Microsoft PowerPoint
9 1 (0.047%) OrCAD
9 1 (0.047%) SOLIDWORKS
9 1 (0.047%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (0.43%) Dynamics NAV
2 6 (0.28%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.28%) Teamcenter
3 3 (0.14%) Dynamics AX
3 3 (0.14%) Oracle Applications
4 2 (0.095%) SAP MII
5 1 (0.047%) MIS ActiveH
5 1 (0.047%) SAP Business One
5 1 (0.047%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 111 (5.26%) AWS
2 81 (3.84%) Azure
3 43 (2.04%) GitHub
4 32 (1.52%) SaaS
5 23 (1.09%) Azure DevOps
5 23 (1.09%) Serverless
6 20 (0.95%) Power Platform
7 16 (0.76%) AWS Lambda
8 11 (0.52%) GCP
9 10 (0.47%) Dynamics 365
10 9 (0.43%) AWS IoT
11 8 (0.38%) Cloud Computing
12 5 (0.24%) GitHub Actions
12 5 (0.24%) WhatsApp
13 4 (0.19%) Amazon EKS
13 4 (0.19%) AWS CloudFormation
13 4 (0.19%) Kontent
14 3 (0.14%) Amazon EC2
14 3 (0.14%) dbt
14 3 (0.14%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 155 (7.35%) Wireless
2 94 (4.46%) TCP/IP
3 74 (3.51%) Wi-Fi
4 70 (3.32%) Ethernet
5 59 (2.80%) RS-232
6 57 (2.70%) Bluetooth
7 41 (1.94%) RS-485
8 40 (1.90%) Internet
9 39 (1.85%) Network Security
10 24 (1.14%) J1939
11 22 (1.04%) MQTT
12 17 (0.81%) 5G
12 17 (0.81%) ZigBee
13 16 (0.76%) Firewall
14 15 (0.71%) Wireshark
15 14 (0.66%) 4G
15 14 (0.66%) HTTP
16 12 (0.57%) 3G
16 12 (0.57%) DNS
16 12 (0.57%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (2.84%) PostgreSQL
2 54 (2.56%) SQL Server
3 45 (2.13%) MongoDB
4 28 (1.33%) MySQL
4 28 (1.33%) Relational Database
5 16 (0.76%) Big Data
6 14 (0.66%) Power BI
7 10 (0.47%) DynamoDB
7 10 (0.47%) RDBMS
8 9 (0.43%) Data Mining
9 8 (0.38%) Apache Cassandra
10 7 (0.33%) SQLite
11 6 (0.28%) Amazon Aurora
12 5 (0.24%) Azure SQL Database
12 5 (0.24%) Metadata
12 5 (0.24%) NoSQL
13 4 (0.19%) Data Lake
13 4 (0.19%) Hadoop
13 4 (0.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 4 (0.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 169 (8.01%) Git
2 102 (4.84%) Jenkins
3 99 (4.69%) JIRA
4 94 (4.46%) Visual Studio
5 55 (2.61%) Subversion
6 42 (1.99%) LabVIEW
7 35 (1.66%) GitLab
8 30 (1.42%) Rational Rhapsody
9 21 (1.00%) ClearCase
9 21 (1.00%) Plastic SCM
10 20 (0.95%) Bitbucket
11 16 (0.76%) Eclipse
12 14 (0.66%) ClearQuest
12 14 (0.66%) GDB
13 10 (0.47%) GNU Toolchain
13 10 (0.47%) Rational DOORS
14 9 (0.43%) Team Foundation Server
15 7 (0.33%) CMake
15 7 (0.33%) TestRail
16 6 (0.28%) CANoe
General
1 440 (20.86%) Electronics
2 420 (19.91%) Social Skills
3 217 (10.29%) Manufacturing
4 197 (9.34%) Analytical Skills
5 181 (8.58%) Automotive
6 139 (6.59%) Finance
7 107 (5.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 103 (4.88%) Aerospace
9 102 (4.84%) Telecoms
10 101 (4.79%) Marketing
11 62 (2.94%) Public Sector
12 39 (1.85%) Law
12 39 (1.85%) Retail
13 35 (1.66%) Legal
13 35 (1.66%) Military
14 27 (1.28%) Presentation Skills
15 19 (0.90%) Games
16 18 (0.85%) Pharmaceutical
17 14 (0.66%) Brand Awareness
18 13 (0.62%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 1,002 (47.51%) Software Engineer
2 600 (28.45%) Embedded Engineer
3 479 (22.71%) Senior
4 421 (19.96%) Embedded Software Engineer
5 290 (13.75%) Developer
6 258 (12.23%) Senior Software Engineer
7 163 (7.73%) Lead
8 162 (7.68%) Senior Embedded Engineer
9 135 (6.40%) Software Developer
10 133 (6.31%) C++ Software Engineer
11 110 (5.22%) C Software Engineer
12 98 (4.65%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
13 87 (4.13%) Firmware Engineer
14 86 (4.08%) Architect
15 83 (3.94%) C++ Developer
16 81 (3.84%) Systems Engineer
17 78 (3.70%) Linux Engineer
18 75 (3.56%) Embedded Developer
19 71 (3.37%) Junior
20 67 (3.18%) Electronics Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 144 (6.83%) .NET
2 80 (3.79%) HTML
3 70 (3.32%) Yocto
4 62 (2.94%) WPF
5 53 (2.51%) Qt
6 50 (2.37%) Node.js
7 49 (2.32%) REST
8 45 (2.13%) CSS
9 44 (2.09%) Web Services
10 43 (2.04%) React
11 39 (1.85%) .NET Framework
12 38 (1.80%) SOAP
13 32 (1.52%) RESTful
14 27 (1.28%) XML
15 25 (1.19%) ASP.NET
15 25 (1.19%) Django
15 25 (1.19%) HTML5
15 25 (1.19%) JSON
16 23 (1.09%) Middleware
17 22 (1.04%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 233 (11.05%) Embedded Systems
2 223 (10.57%) Algorithms
3 158 (7.49%) IoT
4 120 (5.69%) FPGA
5 73 (3.46%) VHDL
6 70 (3.32%) Device Driver
7 66 (3.13%) Distributed Systems
8 61 (2.89%) Self-Motivation
9 51 (2.42%) Data Structures
10 50 (2.37%) Analogue Electronics
11 49 (2.32%) Robotics
12 42 (1.99%) Greenfield Project
13 38 (1.80%) CUDA
14 36 (1.71%) Analytical Mindset
15 35 (1.66%) PKI
16 34 (1.61%) Product Ownership
16 34 (1.61%) Verilog
17 30 (1.42%) Raspberry Pi
18 29 (1.38%) Mobile App
19 28 (1.33%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 844 (40.02%) Linux
2 212 (10.05%) Embedded Linux
3 185 (8.77%) Windows
4 76 (3.60%) Unix
5 64 (3.03%) Android
6 48 (2.28%) Ubuntu
7 39 (1.85%) FreeRTOS
8 32 (1.52%) Apple iOS
9 22 (1.04%) AIX
9 22 (1.04%) Debian
10 12 (0.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 12 (0.57%) Windows 10
11 6 (0.28%) ThreadX
12 5 (0.24%) Kali Linux
12 5 (0.24%) Mac OS
12 5 (0.24%) VxWorks
13 3 (0.14%) CentOS
13 3 (0.14%) Windows Embedded Compact
14 2 (0.095%) Solaris
15 1 (0.047%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,362 (64.58%) Software Engineering
2 405 (19.20%) Problem-Solving
3 395 (18.73%) Computer Science
4 377 (17.88%) Agile
5 218 (10.34%) Mathematics
6 171 (8.11%) DevOps
7 165 (7.82%) Software Testing
8 163 (7.73%) Test Automation
9 156 (7.40%) Physics
10 134 (6.35%) Cybersecurity
10 134 (6.35%) Mentoring
11 131 (6.21%) Open Source
12 130 (6.16%) SDLC
13 116 (5.50%) Embedded Software Development
14 114 (5.41%) Artificial Intelligence
15 112 (5.31%) OO
16 108 (5.12%) Machine Learning
17 105 (4.98%) Multithreading
18 101 (4.79%) Validation
19 99 (4.69%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 946 (44.86%) C++
2 722 (34.23%) Python
3 420 (19.91%) C#
4 391 (18.54%) Embedded C
5 322 (15.27%) Java
6 150 (7.11%) Bash
7 143 (6.78%) SQL
8 138 (6.54%) MATLAB
9 131 (6.21%) Rust
10 130 (6.16%) JavaScript
11 65 (3.08%) Go
12 61 (2.89%) Ada
12 61 (2.89%) Perl
13 59 (2.80%) Fortran
14 56 (2.66%) VB
15 54 (2.56%) Embedded C++
16 44 (2.09%) PHP
17 38 (1.80%) Shell Script
18 33 (1.56%) Assembly Language
18 33 (1.56%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 713 (33.81%) Degree
2 273 (12.94%) Security Cleared
3 125 (5.93%) Computer Science Degree
4 106 (5.03%) Master's Degree
5 101 (4.79%) PhD
6 83 (3.94%) SC Cleared
7 57 (2.70%) DV Cleared
8 53 (2.51%) BPSS Clearance
9 25 (1.19%) HND
10 13 (0.62%) HNC
11 9 (0.43%) Microsoft Certification
12 7 (0.33%) PMI Certification
13 6 (0.28%) SANS
14 5 (0.24%) CISA
14 5 (0.24%) CISM
14 5 (0.24%) CISSP
14 5 (0.24%) CRISC
14 5 (0.24%) MCAD
15 4 (0.19%) CCNA
15 4 (0.19%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (3.70%) QA
2 57 (2.70%) MISRA
3 36 (1.71%) ISO 26262
4 26 (1.23%) AUTOSAR
5 25 (1.19%) Automotive SPICE
6 24 (1.14%) ISO 13485
7 21 (1.00%) Software Quality Assurance
8 18 (0.85%) GDPR
9 15 (0.71%) Def Stans
10 14 (0.66%) JTAG
11 11 (0.52%) MISRA C
12 10 (0.47%) IEC 62304
13 9 (0.43%) ISO 9001
14 8 (0.38%) 21 CFR Part 11
14 8 (0.38%) Data Quality
14 8 (0.38%) IEC 61508
15 6 (0.28%) DO-178B
15 6 (0.28%) NIST
16 5 (0.24%) NCSC
17 3 (0.14%) TickIT
System Software
1 359 (17.02%) Firmware
2 194 (9.20%) Embedded Firmware
3 66 (3.13%) Docker
4 5 (0.24%) Ceph
4 5 (0.24%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.19%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (0.14%) Active Directory
6 3 (0.14%) Virtual Servers
7 2 (0.095%) Kamailio
8 1 (0.047%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.047%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (0.047%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 76 (3.60%) Kubernetes
2 37 (1.75%) Ansible
3 22 (1.04%) Terraform
4 20 (0.95%) Progress Chef
5 14 (0.66%) Functional Safety
6 5 (0.24%) Grafana
6 5 (0.24%) Knative
6 5 (0.24%) Nagios
7 4 (0.19%) Prometheus
7 4 (0.19%) Puppet
8 3 (0.14%) logstash
8 3 (0.14%) Podman
9 1 (0.047%) Kibana
9 1 (0.047%) Packer
9 1 (0.047%) SCCM
Vendors
1 111 (5.26%) Microsoft
2 53 (2.51%) SAP
3 35 (1.66%) Oracle
4 33 (1.56%) Xilinx
5 30 (1.42%) IBM
6 29 (1.38%) Micro Focus
7 27 (1.28%) Red Hat
8 21 (1.00%) EMC
8 21 (1.00%) Google
8 21 (1.00%) Lauterbach
9 10 (0.47%) Altera
9 10 (0.47%) Atlassian
9 10 (0.47%) Renesas
10 9 (0.43%) Twitter
11 8 (0.38%) Green Hills
11 8 (0.38%) Motorola
11 8 (0.38%) Sitecore
12 7 (0.33%) Cadence
12 7 (0.33%) Facebook
12 7 (0.33%) NVIDIA