C Contracts in Bedfordshire
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for C skills in IT contracts advertised for the Bedfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited C over the 3 months to 21 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 Bedfordshire 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
21 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
C
Rank 28 22 40
Rank change year-on-year
-6 +18
Contract jobs citing C 2 11 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 1.058% 3.943% 0.683%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.704% 16.92% 2.174%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 0
Average daily rate - £340 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £400 £300
% change year-on-year
-12.50% +33.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 0
Average hourly rate £12.42 £40.75 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-69.52% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £34.00 £36.75 £36.50
% change year-on-year
-7.48% +0.68%
All Programming Languages
Bedfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category		 54 65 92
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 28.57% 23.30% 31.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 30 40
Average daily rate £338 £325 £213
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.84% +52.94%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £225 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £403 £398 £403
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 10 8
Average hourly rate £24.38 £40.00 £47.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-39.06% -15.78%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
C
East of England

C
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bedfordshire 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 Bedfordshire region.

Bedfordshire 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 Bedfordshire region.

Bedfordshire C Hourly Rate Trend

C
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing C within the Bedfordshire region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)		 Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads		 Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months		 Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Luton -3 2 - -
C
East of England

C
Top 11 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bedfordshire 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 2 (50.00%) Mathematics
2 1 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Test Scripting
2 1 (25.00%) Manual Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Data Migration
2 1 (25.00%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (25.00%) Test Strategy
2 1 (25.00%) NHS
2 1 (25.00%) Regression Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Migration
2 1 (25.00%) Data Analysis

C
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bedfordshire 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.

Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Spreadsheet
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Tester
1 1 (25.00%) Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Customer Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Support Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Excel Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Mathematics
2 1 (25.00%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 1 (25.00%) Test Scripting
1 1 (25.00%) Manual Testing
1 1 (25.00%) Data Migration
1 1 (25.00%) Test Strategy
1 1 (25.00%) Regression Testing
1 1 (25.00%) Migration
1 1 (25.00%) Data Analysis
Microsoft Dynamics NAV Test Analyst
Bedfordshire
The primary responsibility of the role is to assist in carrying out user acceptance testing on a new custom built data cleansing tool and on customisations within the...
Nigel Frank International Ltd
Rate: £250 - £300 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013
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