C Contracts in Aberdeen
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Hourly Rate Histogram Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for C skills in IT contracts advertised for the Aberdeen region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited C over the 3 months to 22 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Programming Languages category for the Aberdeen region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
 3 months to
22 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
C
Rank 20 27 22
Rank change year-on-year
+7 -5
Contract jobs citing C 6 1 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Aberdeen 3.896% 0.521% 3.226%
As % of the Programming Languages category 17.65% 4.167% 15.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 0
Average daily rate - £300 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £345 £400 £300
% change year-on-year
-13.75% +33.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 4
Average hourly rate £36.00 - £31.44
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.14 - £19.93
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £39.20 - £40.83
UK excluding London average hourly rate £33.25 £36.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year
-8.90% +1.38%
All Programming Languages
Aberdeen
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category		 34 24 40
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Aberdeen 22.08% 12.50% 21.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 7 16
Average daily rate £350 £300 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+16.66% -14.28%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £173 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £408 £371 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 6
Average hourly rate £36.00 - £22.50
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.14 - £13.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £39.20 - £32.78
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+2.94% -2.85%
C
Scotland

C
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing C across the Aberdeen region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

Aberdeen C Jobs Demand Trend

C
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing C across the Aberdeen region.

Aberdeen C Daily Rate Trend

C
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing C across the Aberdeen region.

Aberdeen C Hourly Rate Trend

C
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing C across the Aberdeen region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Aberdeen C Hourly Rate Histogram

C
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Aberdeen region citing C also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited C.

1 9 (56.25%) Cisco
2 6 (37.50%) Firewall
3 5 (31.25%) Telecoms
3 5 (31.25%) IP Telephony
3 5 (31.25%) CCTV
3 5 (31.25%) SCADA
3 5 (31.25%) Video Conferencing
3 5 (31.25%) PABX
4 4 (25.00%) NetScreen
4 4 (25.00%) Juniper
4 4 (25.00%) VPN
5 3 (18.75%) Finance
5 3 (18.75%) CMDB
5 3 (18.75%) Problem Management
5 3 (18.75%) Release Management
5 3 (18.75%) CCSP
5 3 (18.75%) HP
5 3 (18.75%) CISSP
5 3 (18.75%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (18.75%) Configuration Management
5 3 (18.75%) ITIL
5 3 (18.75%) LAN
5 3 (18.75%) WAN
6 2 (12.50%) TCP/IP
6 2 (12.50%) MS Excel
6 2 (12.50%) PhD
6 2 (12.50%) C++
6 2 (12.50%) MATLAB
6 2 (12.50%) Assembly Language
6 2 (12.50%) Signal Processing

C
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Aberdeen region citing C also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited C. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (6.250%) J2EE
Application Platforms
1 1 (6.250%) Documentum
Applications
1 2 (12.50%) MS Excel
2 1 (6.250%) MS Project
2 1 (6.250%) MS Office
2 1 (6.250%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Maximo
Communications & Networking
1 6 (37.50%) Firewall
2 5 (31.25%) IP Telephony
2 5 (31.25%) PABX
3 4 (25.00%) NetScreen
3 4 (25.00%) VPN
4 3 (18.75%) LAN
4 3 (18.75%) WAN
5 2 (12.50%) TCP/IP
General
1 5 (31.25%) Telecoms
2 3 (18.75%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (31.25%) Network Engineer
2 4 (25.00%) Security Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Project Manager
3 2 (12.50%) Analyst
4 1 (6.250%) Senior Project Manager
4 1 (6.250%) Applications Support Analyst
4 1 (6.250%) Analyst Developer
4 1 (6.250%) Software Analyst
4 1 (6.250%) Developer
4 1 (6.250%) Applications Developer
4 1 (6.250%) Senior Manager
4 1 (6.250%) Customer Engineer
4 1 (6.250%) Support Analyst
4 1 (6.250%) Support Engineer
4 1 (6.250%) Applications Support
Miscellaneous
1 5 (31.25%) CCTV
1 5 (31.25%) SCADA
1 5 (31.25%) Video Conferencing
2 3 (18.75%) CMDB
3 2 (12.50%) Mathematics
4 1 (6.250%) Economics
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (18.75%) Problem Management
1 3 (18.75%) Release Management
1 3 (18.75%) Configuration Management
1 3 (18.75%) ITIL
2 2 (12.50%) Signal Processing
3 1 (6.250%) Risk Management
3 1 (6.250%) Content Management
3 1 (6.250%) Infrastructure Management
3 1 (6.250%) Project Management
3 1 (6.250%) Data Modelling
3 1 (6.250%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 2 (12.50%) C++
1 2 (12.50%) MATLAB
1 2 (12.50%) Assembly Language
2 1 (6.250%) Java
2 1 (6.250%) SQL
2 1 (6.250%) VBA
Qualifications
1 3 (18.75%) CCSP
1 3 (18.75%) CISSP
1 3 (18.75%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (12.50%) PhD
2 2 (12.50%) Degree
Vendors
1 9 (56.25%) Cisco
2 4 (25.00%) Juniper
3 3 (18.75%) HP
4 1 (6.250%) Microsoft
4 1 (6.250%) Oracle
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