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

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 107 172 116
Rank change year-on-year +65 -56 +50
Permanent jobs citing C 1,862 1,155 2,204
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.45% 2.04% 2.98%
As % of the Programming Languages category 8.09% 5.26% 6.56%
Number of salaries quoted 1,455 637 709
10th Percentile £37,500 £34,324 £34,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £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 £72,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £81,250 £75,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -12.00% +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 23,016 21,974 33,588
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 30.29% 38.86% 45.41%
Number of salaries quoted 16,658 12,979 20,973
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 1 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 1 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 +25 556 £55,000 -4.35% 135
South West +61 292 £57,500 -17.86% 104
East of England +38 262 £60,000 -7.69% 97
North of England +71 249 £55,000 +1.85% 65
Scotland -11 223 £52,500 -4.55% 46
Midlands +41 213 £52,500 -4.55% 56
North West +72 138 £55,000 -8.33% 39
West Midlands -16 107 £60,000 - 24
East Midlands +61 106 £47,500 - 32
Yorkshire +31 89 £50,000 +17.65% 22
Wales +49 54 £50,000 -9.09% 15
North East +5 22 £60,000 -4.00% 5
Northern Ireland +33 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 (1.34%) Apache
2 14 (0.75%) Confluence
3 11 (0.59%) nginx
4 6 (0.32%) CMS
4 6 (0.32%) IIS
4 6 (0.32%) Kinematics
4 6 (0.32%) Sitecore CMS
5 5 (0.27%) Umbraco
6 4 (0.21%) Apache Spark
6 4 (0.21%) Headless CMS
6 4 (0.21%) Kentico
7 2 (0.11%) IBM Domino
7 2 (0.11%) Liferay
7 2 (0.11%) Magnolia
Applications
1 122 (6.55%) Simulink
2 33 (1.77%) Stateflow
3 11 (0.59%) CANalyzer
3 11 (0.59%) GNU Octave
4 7 (0.38%) Microsoft Office
5 5 (0.27%) Doxygen
6 3 (0.16%) Microsoft Excel
6 3 (0.16%) TargetLink
7 2 (0.11%) Fusion 360
7 2 (0.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 1 (0.054%) OrCAD
8 1 (0.054%) SOLIDWORKS
8 1 (0.054%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (0.48%) Dynamics NAV
2 3 (0.16%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.16%) Oracle Applications
3 2 (0.11%) SAP MII
4 1 (0.054%) SAP Business One
4 1 (0.054%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 61 (3.28%) Azure
2 60 (3.22%) AWS
3 34 (1.83%) GitHub
4 28 (1.50%) SaaS
5 18 (0.97%) Azure DevOps
6 17 (0.91%) Power Platform
7 7 (0.38%) AWS IoT
7 7 (0.38%) Cloud Computing
8 6 (0.32%) Dynamics 365
8 6 (0.32%) Serverless
9 5 (0.27%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (0.21%) GCP
10 4 (0.21%) Kontent
11 3 (0.16%) WhatsApp
12 2 (0.11%) AWS CloudFormation
12 2 (0.11%) Azure Machine Learning
12 2 (0.11%) npm
12 2 (0.11%) PaaS
13 1 (0.054%) Azure Stack
13 1 (0.054%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 151 (8.11%) Wireless
2 74 (3.97%) Wi-Fi
3 68 (3.65%) Ethernet
4 59 (3.17%) RS-232
5 56 (3.01%) Bluetooth
5 56 (3.01%) TCP/IP
6 45 (2.42%) RS-485
7 37 (1.99%) Internet
8 36 (1.93%) Network Security
9 22 (1.18%) J1939
10 21 (1.13%) MQTT
11 19 (1.02%) ZigBee
12 17 (0.91%) 5G
12 17 (0.91%) Wireshark
13 15 (0.81%) 4G
14 14 (0.75%) Firewall
15 13 (0.70%) 3G
16 12 (0.64%) Modbus
17 11 (0.59%) HTTP
18 10 (0.54%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (2.58%) SQL Server
2 41 (2.20%) PostgreSQL
3 27 (1.45%) MongoDB
3 27 (1.45%) MySQL
4 17 (0.91%) Relational Database
5 15 (0.81%) Big Data
6 14 (0.75%) Power BI
7 7 (0.38%) SQLite
8 6 (0.32%) Data Mining
9 5 (0.27%) Azure SQL Database
10 4 (0.21%) DynamoDB
10 4 (0.21%) Hadoop
11 3 (0.16%) Data Lake
11 3 (0.16%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (0.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 3 (0.16%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 2 (0.11%) Crystal Reports
12 2 (0.11%) DB2
12 2 (0.11%) DTS
12 2 (0.11%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 149 (8.00%) Git
2 88 (4.73%) JIRA
3 85 (4.56%) Jenkins
4 84 (4.51%) Visual Studio
5 55 (2.95%) Subversion
6 42 (2.26%) LabVIEW
7 28 (1.50%) Rational Rhapsody
8 21 (1.13%) ClearCase
8 21 (1.13%) Plastic SCM
9 19 (1.02%) Bitbucket
10 18 (0.97%) GitLab
11 16 (0.86%) Eclipse
12 14 (0.75%) ClearQuest
13 10 (0.54%) GNU Toolchain
13 10 (0.54%) Rational DOORS
13 10 (0.54%) Team Foundation Server
14 8 (0.43%) CMake
14 8 (0.43%) GDB
14 8 (0.43%) TestRail
15 7 (0.38%) IDA Disassembler
General
1 427 (22.93%) Electronics
2 358 (19.23%) Social Skills
3 203 (10.90%) Manufacturing
4 178 (9.56%) Analytical Skills
5 165 (8.86%) Automotive
6 99 (5.32%) Aerospace
7 95 (5.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 92 (4.94%) Marketing
8 92 (4.94%) Telecoms
9 86 (4.62%) Finance
10 48 (2.58%) Public Sector
11 34 (1.83%) Retail
12 31 (1.66%) Military
13 27 (1.45%) Legal
13 27 (1.45%) Presentation Skills
14 21 (1.13%) Law
15 16 (0.86%) Pharmaceutical
16 14 (0.75%) Brand Awareness
17 13 (0.70%) Mandarin Language
17 13 (0.70%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 938 (50.38%) Software Engineer
2 608 (32.65%) Embedded Engineer
3 434 (23.31%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 419 (22.50%) Senior
5 244 (13.10%) Senior Software Engineer
6 243 (13.05%) Developer
7 159 (8.54%) Senior Embedded Engineer
8 144 (7.73%) Lead
9 121 (6.50%) Software Developer
10 116 (6.23%) C++ Software Engineer
11 107 (5.75%) C Software Engineer
12 103 (5.53%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
13 83 (4.46%) Systems Engineer
14 82 (4.40%) Firmware Engineer
15 75 (4.03%) Junior
16 74 (3.97%) Embedded Developer
17 66 (3.54%) C/C++ Software Engineer
17 66 (3.54%) Electronics Engineer
17 66 (3.54%) Graduate
18 62 (3.33%) Embedded C Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 123 (6.61%) .NET
2 74 (3.97%) HTML
3 65 (3.49%) WPF
4 64 (3.44%) Yocto
5 51 (2.74%) Qt
6 47 (2.52%) REST
7 38 (2.04%) Node.js
8 37 (1.99%) .NET Framework
9 35 (1.88%) CSS
9 35 (1.88%) SOAP
10 33 (1.77%) Web Services
11 30 (1.61%) React
12 24 (1.29%) HTML5
12 24 (1.29%) WinForms
13 23 (1.24%) ASP.NET
13 23 (1.24%) JSON
13 23 (1.24%) Middleware
14 20 (1.07%) .NET Core
14 20 (1.07%) OpenMP
15 19 (1.02%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 216 (11.60%) Embedded Systems
2 212 (11.39%) Algorithms
3 140 (7.52%) IoT
4 101 (5.42%) FPGA
5 72 (3.87%) VHDL
6 65 (3.49%) Device Driver
7 61 (3.28%) Self-Motivation
8 52 (2.79%) Robotics
9 48 (2.58%) Analogue Electronics
10 39 (2.09%) Data Structures
11 36 (1.93%) CUDA
12 33 (1.77%) Analytical Mindset
12 33 (1.77%) Product Ownership
13 32 (1.72%) Verilog
14 30 (1.61%) Raspberry Pi
15 29 (1.56%) Distributed Systems
15 29 (1.56%) Mobile App
16 26 (1.40%) ARM Cortex
17 24 (1.29%) Enterprise Software
18 22 (1.18%) GNSS
Operating Systems
1 718 (38.56%) Linux
2 219 (11.76%) Embedded Linux
3 177 (9.51%) Windows
4 72 (3.87%) Unix
5 48 (2.58%) Android
6 41 (2.20%) FreeRTOS
7 27 (1.45%) Ubuntu
8 21 (1.13%) AIX
9 16 (0.86%) Apple iOS
10 13 (0.70%) Windows 10
11 11 (0.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 7 (0.38%) Kali Linux
13 6 (0.32%) ThreadX
14 5 (0.27%) 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 (0.11%) Solaris
18 1 (0.054%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,247 (66.97%) Software Engineering
2 359 (19.28%) Problem-Solving
3 353 (18.96%) Computer Science
4 323 (17.35%) Agile
5 204 (10.96%) Mathematics
6 167 (8.97%) Software Testing
7 163 (8.75%) Physics
8 143 (7.68%) Test Automation
9 141 (7.57%) SDLC
10 134 (7.20%) DevOps
11 123 (6.61%) Open Source
12 120 (6.44%) Mentoring
13 109 (5.85%) Embedded Software Development
14 101 (5.42%) Cybersecurity
15 98 (5.26%) Artificial Intelligence
15 98 (5.26%) OO
16 94 (5.05%) Validation
17 93 (4.99%) Multithreading
18 87 (4.67%) Software Architecture
19 85 (4.56%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 870 (46.72%) C++
2 618 (33.19%) Python
3 399 (21.43%) Embedded C
4 393 (21.11%) C#
5 261 (14.02%) Java
6 137 (7.36%) Bash
7 128 (6.87%) MATLAB
8 117 (6.28%) JavaScript
9 104 (5.59%) Rust
10 92 (4.94%) SQL
11 70 (3.76%) Fortran
12 61 (3.28%) Embedded C++
13 58 (3.11%) Ada
14 57 (3.06%) VB
15 56 (3.01%) Perl
16 42 (2.26%) PHP
17 34 (1.83%) Assembly Language
18 32 (1.72%) Go
19 31 (1.66%) COBOL
19 31 (1.66%) XAML
Qualifications
1 667 (35.82%) Degree
2 276 (14.82%) Security Cleared
3 115 (6.18%) Computer Science Degree
4 104 (5.59%) Master's Degree
5 99 (5.32%) PhD
6 75 (4.03%) SC Cleared
7 60 (3.22%) DV Cleared
8 53 (2.85%) BPSS Clearance
9 25 (1.34%) HND
10 13 (0.70%) HNC
11 7 (0.38%) PMI Certification
12 6 (0.32%) SANS
13 5 (0.27%) CISA
13 5 (0.27%) CISM
13 5 (0.27%) CISSP
13 5 (0.27%) CRISC
14 4 (0.21%) CESG Certified Professional
14 4 (0.21%) Microsoft Certification
15 3 (0.16%) CCNA
15 3 (0.16%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (3.87%) QA
2 55 (2.95%) MISRA
3 33 (1.77%) ISO 26262
4 24 (1.29%) ISO 13485
5 22 (1.18%) Automotive SPICE
5 22 (1.18%) AUTOSAR
6 18 (0.97%) GDPR
6 18 (0.97%) Software Quality Assurance
7 15 (0.81%) Def Stans
8 10 (0.54%) IEC 62304
8 10 (0.54%) JTAG
9 9 (0.48%) MISRA C
10 8 (0.43%) 21 CFR Part 11
10 8 (0.43%) IEC 61508
11 6 (0.32%) DO-178B
11 6 (0.32%) ISO 9001
11 6 (0.32%) NIST
12 3 (0.16%) TickIT
13 2 (0.11%) HL7
13 2 (0.11%) PMO
System Software
1 344 (18.47%) Firmware
2 184 (9.88%) Embedded Firmware
3 32 (1.72%) Docker
4 4 (0.21%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.16%) Active Directory
6 2 (0.11%) Kamailio
7 1 (0.054%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.054%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 1 (0.054%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.054%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 31 (1.66%) Ansible
2 21 (1.13%) Kubernetes
3 18 (0.97%) Progress Chef
4 14 (0.75%) Functional Safety
5 10 (0.54%) Terraform
6 3 (0.16%) Nagios
6 3 (0.16%) Podman
7 2 (0.11%) Grafana
7 2 (0.11%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.11%) Puppet
8 1 (0.054%) SCCM
Vendors
1 97 (5.21%) Microsoft
2 46 (2.47%) SAP
3 35 (1.88%) Xilinx
4 30 (1.61%) IBM
5 29 (1.56%) Micro Focus
6 27 (1.45%) Oracle
7 21 (1.13%) Lauterbach
8 20 (1.07%) EMC
8 20 (1.07%) Red Hat
9 11 (0.59%) Google
10 10 (0.54%) Altera
10 10 (0.54%) Atlassian
10 10 (0.54%) Renesas
11 9 (0.48%) Twitter
12 8 (0.43%) Green Hills
12 8 (0.43%) Motorola
12 8 (0.43%) Sitecore
13 7 (0.38%) Facebook
13 7 (0.38%) Instagram
14 6 (0.32%) Samsung