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

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 107 166 118
Rank change year-on-year +59 -48 +50
Permanent jobs citing C 1,813 1,243 2,135
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.53% 2.10% 2.94%
As % of the Programming Languages category 8.06% 5.25% 6.43%
Number of salaries quoted 1,442 671 718
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 £81,250 £81,250 £73,750
UK median annual salary £55,571 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -11.09% +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 22,500 23,662 33,185
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 31.41% 40.01% 45.71%
Number of salaries quoted 16,335 13,344 21,181
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 £71,250 £68,275
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £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 20 May 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 20 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
South East +41 529 £55,000 -8.33% 183
South West +65 288 £57,500 -17.86% 121
East of England +36 262 £60,000 -7.69% 146
North of England +53 238 £55,000 +4.76% 63
Scotland -11 219 £52,500 -4.55% 38
Midlands +12 215 £52,500 -4.55% 68
North West +53 133 £55,000 - 37
West Midlands -11 115 £60,000 -17.24% 31
East Midlands +50 100 £47,500 -5.00% 37
Yorkshire +33 81 £50,000 +17.65% 21
Wales +43 50 £50,000 -9.09% 11
North East +16 24 £60,000 -4.00% 6
Northern Ireland +42 13 £55,000 +12.24%
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 (1.38%) Apache
2 14 (0.77%) Confluence
3 11 (0.61%) nginx
4 6 (0.33%) CMS
4 6 (0.33%) IIS
4 6 (0.33%) Kinematics
4 6 (0.33%) Sitecore CMS
5 5 (0.28%) Umbraco
6 4 (0.22%) Apache Spark
6 4 (0.22%) Headless CMS
6 4 (0.22%) Kentico
7 2 (0.11%) IBM Domino
7 2 (0.11%) Liferay
7 2 (0.11%) Magnolia
Applications
1 122 (6.73%) Simulink
2 33 (1.82%) Stateflow
3 13 (0.72%) CANalyzer
4 11 (0.61%) GNU Octave
5 7 (0.39%) Microsoft Office
6 5 (0.28%) Doxygen
7 3 (0.17%) Microsoft Excel
7 3 (0.17%) TargetLink
8 2 (0.11%) Fusion 360
8 2 (0.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
9 1 (0.055%) OrCAD
9 1 (0.055%) SOLIDWORKS
9 1 (0.055%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (0.50%) Dynamics NAV
2 3 (0.17%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.17%) Oracle Applications
3 2 (0.11%) SAP MII
4 1 (0.055%) SAP Business One
4 1 (0.055%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 62 (3.42%) AWS
2 58 (3.20%) Azure
3 35 (1.93%) GitHub
4 31 (1.71%) SaaS
5 17 (0.94%) Azure DevOps
5 17 (0.94%) Power Platform
6 9 (0.50%) AWS IoT
7 7 (0.39%) Cloud Computing
8 6 (0.33%) Dynamics 365
8 6 (0.33%) Serverless
9 5 (0.28%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (0.22%) GCP
10 4 (0.22%) Kontent
11 3 (0.17%) 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 (0.055%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 152 (8.38%) Wireless
2 74 (4.08%) Wi-Fi
3 69 (3.81%) Ethernet
4 58 (3.20%) RS-232
5 57 (3.14%) Bluetooth
6 56 (3.09%) TCP/IP
7 41 (2.26%) RS-485
8 37 (2.04%) Internet
9 36 (1.99%) Network Security
10 24 (1.32%) J1939
11 21 (1.16%) MQTT
12 17 (0.94%) 5G
12 17 (0.94%) ZigBee
13 15 (0.83%) Firewall
13 15 (0.83%) Wireshark
14 14 (0.77%) 4G
15 12 (0.66%) 3G
16 11 (0.61%) HTTP
16 11 (0.61%) Modbus
17 10 (0.55%) LoRaWAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (2.65%) SQL Server
2 41 (2.26%) PostgreSQL
3 28 (1.54%) MySQL
4 27 (1.49%) MongoDB
5 17 (0.94%) Relational Database
6 15 (0.83%) Big Data
7 14 (0.77%) Power BI
8 7 (0.39%) SQLite
9 6 (0.33%) Data Mining
10 5 (0.28%) Azure SQL Database
11 4 (0.22%) DynamoDB
11 4 (0.22%) Hadoop
12 3 (0.17%) Data Lake
12 3 (0.17%) Data Warehouse
12 3 (0.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 3 (0.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 2 (0.11%) Crystal Reports
13 2 (0.11%) DB2
13 2 (0.11%) DTS
13 2 (0.11%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 144 (7.94%) Git
2 89 (4.91%) JIRA
3 84 (4.63%) Jenkins
4 83 (4.58%) Visual Studio
5 55 (3.03%) Subversion
6 42 (2.32%) LabVIEW
7 30 (1.65%) Rational Rhapsody
8 21 (1.16%) ClearCase
8 21 (1.16%) Plastic SCM
9 19 (1.05%) Bitbucket
10 16 (0.88%) Eclipse
10 16 (0.88%) GitLab
11 14 (0.77%) ClearQuest
12 10 (0.55%) GNU Toolchain
12 10 (0.55%) Rational DOORS
13 9 (0.50%) GDB
13 9 (0.50%) Team Foundation Server
14 7 (0.39%) CMake
14 7 (0.39%) TestRail
15 6 (0.33%) CANoe
General
1 420 (23.17%) Electronics
2 353 (19.47%) Social Skills
3 201 (11.09%) Manufacturing
4 182 (10.04%) Analytical Skills
5 172 (9.49%) Automotive
6 97 (5.35%) Aerospace
7 95 (5.24%) Marketing
8 94 (5.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 94 (5.18%) Telecoms
9 89 (4.91%) Finance
10 51 (2.81%) Public Sector
11 34 (1.88%) Retail
12 30 (1.65%) Military
13 27 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
14 26 (1.43%) Legal
15 23 (1.27%) Law
16 16 (0.88%) Pharmaceutical
17 14 (0.77%) Brand Awareness
18 12 (0.66%) Mandarin Language
18 12 (0.66%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 897 (49.48%) Software Engineer
2 582 (32.10%) Embedded Engineer
3 412 (22.72%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 409 (22.56%) Senior
5 238 (13.13%) Developer
6 231 (12.74%) Senior Software Engineer
7 155 (8.55%) Senior Embedded Engineer
8 141 (7.78%) Lead
9 122 (6.73%) Software Developer
10 117 (6.45%) C++ Software Engineer
11 100 (5.52%) C Software Engineer
12 97 (5.35%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
13 83 (4.58%) Firmware Engineer
14 81 (4.47%) Systems Engineer
15 71 (3.92%) Embedded Developer
16 69 (3.81%) Junior
17 66 (3.64%) Electronics Engineer
18 65 (3.59%) Graduate
19 59 (3.25%) C/C++ Software Engineer
20 58 (3.20%) Embedded C Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 117 (6.45%) .NET
2 72 (3.97%) HTML
3 67 (3.70%) Yocto
4 61 (3.36%) WPF
5 49 (2.70%) Qt
6 46 (2.54%) REST
7 38 (2.10%) Node.js
8 36 (1.99%) .NET Framework
9 35 (1.93%) SOAP
10 33 (1.82%) CSS
10 33 (1.82%) Web Services
11 30 (1.65%) React
12 24 (1.32%) HTML5
13 23 (1.27%) ASP.NET
13 23 (1.27%) JSON
13 23 (1.27%) Middleware
14 22 (1.21%) WinForms
15 20 (1.10%) .NET Core
15 20 (1.10%) OpenMP
16 19 (1.05%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 215 (11.86%) Embedded Systems
2 203 (11.20%) Algorithms
3 143 (7.89%) IoT
4 100 (5.52%) FPGA
5 71 (3.92%) VHDL
6 66 (3.64%) Device Driver
7 57 (3.14%) Self-Motivation
8 49 (2.70%) Robotics
9 48 (2.65%) Analogue Electronics
10 39 (2.15%) Data Structures
11 35 (1.93%) CUDA
12 34 (1.88%) Analytical Mindset
13 32 (1.77%) Product Ownership
13 32 (1.77%) Verilog
14 30 (1.65%) Raspberry Pi
15 29 (1.60%) Mobile App
16 27 (1.49%) Distributed Systems
17 26 (1.43%) Enterprise Software
18 22 (1.21%) ARM Cortex
18 22 (1.21%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 696 (38.39%) Linux
2 207 (11.42%) Embedded Linux
3 173 (9.54%) Windows
4 63 (3.47%) Unix
5 44 (2.43%) Android
6 38 (2.10%) FreeRTOS
7 26 (1.43%) Ubuntu
8 21 (1.16%) AIX
9 16 (0.88%) Apple iOS
10 12 (0.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 12 (0.66%) Windows 10
11 6 (0.33%) ThreadX
12 5 (0.28%) Kali Linux
12 5 (0.28%) VxWorks
13 4 (0.22%) Debian
13 4 (0.22%) Mac OS
14 3 (0.17%) CentOS
14 3 (0.17%) Windows Embedded Compact
15 2 (0.11%) Solaris
16 1 (0.055%) OpenWrt
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,208 (66.63%) Software Engineering
2 363 (20.02%) Problem-Solving
3 342 (18.86%) Computer Science
4 322 (17.76%) Agile
5 192 (10.59%) Mathematics
6 150 (8.27%) Physics
6 150 (8.27%) Software Testing
7 146 (8.05%) Test Automation
8 127 (7.00%) DevOps
9 126 (6.95%) SDLC
10 119 (6.56%) Mentoring
11 114 (6.29%) Embedded Software Development
12 111 (6.12%) Open Source
13 104 (5.74%) Cybersecurity
14 97 (5.35%) OO
15 94 (5.18%) Artificial Intelligence
15 94 (5.18%) Validation
16 91 (5.02%) Multithreading
17 90 (4.96%) Software Architecture
18 83 (4.58%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 823 (45.39%) C++
2 603 (33.26%) Python
3 383 (21.13%) Embedded C
4 380 (20.96%) C#
5 254 (14.01%) Java
6 129 (7.12%) MATLAB
7 125 (6.89%) Bash
8 112 (6.18%) JavaScript
9 102 (5.63%) Rust
10 90 (4.96%) SQL
11 61 (3.36%) Ada
12 59 (3.25%) Fortran
13 55 (3.03%) Embedded C++
13 55 (3.03%) VB
14 54 (2.98%) Perl
15 43 (2.37%) PHP
16 33 (1.82%) Assembly Language
16 33 (1.82%) Go
17 32 (1.77%) COBOL
18 29 (1.60%) Micro Focus COBOL
Qualifications
1 650 (35.85%) Degree
2 265 (14.62%) Security Cleared
3 113 (6.23%) Computer Science Degree
4 95 (5.24%) Master's Degree
5 89 (4.91%) PhD
6 78 (4.30%) SC Cleared
7 55 (3.03%) DV Cleared
8 53 (2.92%) BPSS Clearance
9 25 (1.38%) HND
10 12 (0.66%) HNC
11 7 (0.39%) PMI Certification
12 6 (0.33%) SANS
13 5 (0.28%) CISA
13 5 (0.28%) CISM
13 5 (0.28%) CISSP
13 5 (0.28%) CRISC
14 4 (0.22%) CCNA
14 4 (0.22%) CESG Certified Professional
14 4 (0.22%) Cisco Certification
14 4 (0.22%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 77 (4.25%) QA
2 58 (3.20%) MISRA
3 37 (2.04%) ISO 26262
4 25 (1.38%) Automotive SPICE
5 24 (1.32%) AUTOSAR
5 24 (1.32%) ISO 13485
6 21 (1.16%) Software Quality Assurance
7 17 (0.94%) GDPR
8 15 (0.83%) Def Stans
9 11 (0.61%) MISRA C
10 10 (0.55%) IEC 62304
10 10 (0.55%) JTAG
11 8 (0.44%) 21 CFR Part 11
11 8 (0.44%) IEC 61508
12 7 (0.39%) ISO 9001
13 6 (0.33%) DO-178B
13 6 (0.33%) NIST
14 3 (0.17%) TickIT
15 2 (0.11%) HL7
15 2 (0.11%) PMO
System Software
1 345 (19.03%) Firmware
2 184 (10.15%) Embedded Firmware
3 33 (1.82%) Docker
4 4 (0.22%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.17%) Active Directory
6 2 (0.11%) Kamailio
7 1 (0.055%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.055%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 1 (0.055%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.055%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 29 (1.60%) Ansible
2 21 (1.16%) Kubernetes
3 17 (0.94%) Progress Chef
4 14 (0.77%) Functional Safety
5 10 (0.55%) Terraform
6 4 (0.22%) Nagios
7 3 (0.17%) Podman
8 2 (0.11%) Grafana
8 2 (0.11%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.055%) Puppet
9 1 (0.055%) SCCM
Vendors
1 86 (4.74%) Microsoft
2 49 (2.70%) SAP
3 33 (1.82%) Xilinx
4 29 (1.60%) IBM
4 29 (1.60%) Micro Focus
5 27 (1.49%) Oracle
6 21 (1.16%) EMC
6 21 (1.16%) Lauterbach
6 21 (1.16%) Red Hat
7 11 (0.61%) Google
8 10 (0.55%) Altera
8 10 (0.55%) Atlassian
8 10 (0.55%) Renesas
9 9 (0.50%) Twitter
10 8 (0.44%) Green Hills
10 8 (0.44%) Motorola
10 8 (0.44%) Sitecore
11 7 (0.39%) Facebook
11 7 (0.39%) Instagram
12 6 (0.33%) Samsung