The first table below looks at the demand for C skills in IT contracts advertised for the Berkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited C over the 3 months to 17 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 Berkshire 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
C
Rank 70 79 62
Rank change year-on-year
+9 -17
Contract jobs citing C 55 61 65
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 2.273% 2.001% 2.186%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.294% 9.050% 6.937%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 34 25
Average daily rate £400 £359 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+11.57% +19.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £303 £247 £210
10% offered a daily rate of more than £558 £432 £440
UK excluding London average daily rate £348 £400 £300
% change year-on-year
-13.12% +33.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 13
Average hourly rate £18.72 £42.50 £36.60
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-55.95% +16.12%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £16.50 £18.50 £16.60
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £20.94 £43.70 £52.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £36.50 £36.50
% change year-on-year
-4.10% -
All Programming Languages
Berkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
754 674 937
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 31.16% 22.11% 31.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 298 319 372
Average daily rate £363 £350 £315
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.57% +11.11%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £250 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £480 £450 £434
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 63 12 92
Average hourly rate £34.50 £42.50 £42.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-18.82% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £16.20 £18.50 £32.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £35.00 £45.00 £47.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £35.00
C
South East

C
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Berkshire 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 Berkshire region.

Berkshire C Daily Rate Trend

C
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing C across the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Berkshire C Daily Rate Histogram

C
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Berkshire 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 Berkshire region over the 3 months to 17 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
Reading -15 10 £350 -4.10%
Slough -8 5 £550 +84.87%
Bracknell - 4 - -
Newbury +1 3 - -
Maidenhead -6 1 - -
C
South East

C
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire 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 31 (34.83%) Telecoms
2 22 (24.72%) C++
3 20 (22.47%) SQL
4 17 (19.10%) Degree
5 16 (17.98%) Oracle
5 16 (17.98%) Perl
6 15 (16.85%) 3G
6 15 (16.85%) LTE
7 14 (15.73%) Windows
7 14 (15.73%) Linux
7 14 (15.73%) Radio Access Network
8 13 (14.61%) UNIX
8 13 (14.61%) Java
8 13 (14.61%) Microsoft
9 11 (12.36%) Shell Script
9 11 (12.36%) 2G
10 10 (11.24%) Disaster Recovery
10 10 (11.24%) SLA
10 10 (11.24%) ATM
10 10 (11.24%) Continuous Improvement
11 9 (10.11%) Python
11 9 (10.11%) ITIL
12 8 (8.989%) IPv4
12 8 (8.989%) ASP.NET
12 8 (8.989%) .NET
12 8 (8.989%) eTOM
12 8 (8.989%) Big Data
12 8 (8.989%) Nokia Siemens Networks
12 8 (8.989%) Network Management
12 8 (8.989%) NoSQL

C
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire 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 8 (8.989%) .NET
1 8 (8.989%) ASP.NET
2 3 (3.371%) Flash
2 3 (3.371%) Middleware
3 2 (2.247%) WCF
3 2 (2.247%) Web Services
3 2 (2.247%) REST
4 1 (1.124%) HTML
4 1 (1.124%) XML
4 1 (1.124%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (1.124%) WebCenter
4 1 (1.124%) COM
4 1 (1.124%) SOAP
4 1 (1.124%) J2EE
Application Platforms
1 2 (2.247%) IIS
2 1 (1.124%) Apache
2 1 (1.124%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.124%) MS Project Server
2 1 (1.124%) Windows Azure
2 1 (1.124%) WebLogic
Applications
1 7 (7.865%) MS Excel
2 4 (4.494%) MS Office
3 3 (3.371%) MS Visio
4 2 (2.247%) MS PowerPoint
5 1 (1.124%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (1.124%) Simulink
5 1 (1.124%) MS Project
Business Applications
1 4 (4.494%) Oracle Applications
Communications & Networking
1 15 (16.85%) 3G
1 15 (16.85%) LTE
2 14 (15.73%) Radio Access Network
3 11 (12.36%) 2G
4 10 (11.24%) ATM
5 8 (8.989%) IPv4
6 6 (6.742%) Broadband
7 5 (5.618%) TCP/IP
8 4 (4.494%) FTP
8 4 (4.494%) 4G
9 3 (3.371%) DNS
9 3 (3.371%) GSM
9 3 (3.371%) UMTS
9 3 (3.371%) GGSN
9 3 (3.371%) SGSN
10 2 (2.247%) SS7
10 2 (2.247%) Packet Switching
10 2 (2.247%) SDH
10 2 (2.247%) Ethernet
10 2 (2.247%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (8.989%) NoSQL
1 8 (8.989%) Big Data
2 7 (7.865%) Oracle 11g
3 4 (4.494%) SQL Server
3 4 (4.494%) Oracle 10g
3 4 (4.494%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (2.247%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (2.247%) Data Mining
4 2 (2.247%) SQLite
4 2 (2.247%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 7 (7.865%) ProC
2 6 (6.742%) VSS/SourceSafe
3 5 (5.618%) Visual Studio
4 2 (2.247%) Oracle Forms
4 2 (2.247%) Subversion
5 1 (1.124%) ClearCase
5 1 (1.124%) Ant
General
1 31 (34.83%) Telecoms
2 5 (5.618%) Finance
2 5 (5.618%) Electronics
3 4 (4.494%) Manufacturing
3 4 (4.494%) Marketing
4 3 (3.371%) Games
5 2 (2.247%) Military
5 2 (2.247%) Legal
6 1 (1.124%) Back Office
6 1 (1.124%) Law
Job Titles
1 13 (14.61%) Developer
2 9 (10.11%) Software Engineer
3 8 (8.989%) Architect
4 7 (7.865%) Solutions Architect
4 7 (7.865%) Technical Leader
5 5 (5.618%) Oracle Developer
6 4 (4.494%) DBA
6 4 (4.494%) Oracle DBA
7 3 (3.371%) Administrator
7 3 (3.371%) Customer Engineer
7 3 (3.371%) Software Development Engineer
7 3 (3.371%) Development Engineer
8 2 (2.247%) Automation Analyst
8 2 (2.247%) Marketing Executive
8 2 (2.247%) Databuild Engineer
8 2 (2.247%) Automation Test Analyst
8 2 (2.247%) Sales Manager
8 2 (2.247%) Head of Operations
8 2 (2.247%) Applications Developer
8 2 (2.247%) Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 7 (7.865%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
1 7 (7.865%) Computer Science
2 6 (6.742%) Embedded Systems
3 5 (5.618%) Open Source
3 5 (5.618%) Device Driver
4 4 (4.494%) Client/Server
4 4 (4.494%) STB
5 3 (3.371%) Mathematics
5 3 (3.371%) Verilog
5 3 (3.371%) Cloud Computing
5 3 (3.371%) SystemC
6 2 (2.247%) Management Information System
6 2 (2.247%) Kinect
6 2 (2.247%) Flash Lite
6 2 (2.247%) PKI
7 1 (1.124%) IPTV
7 1 (1.124%) PDA
7 1 (1.124%) PMI
7 1 (1.124%) NHS
7 1 (1.124%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 14 (15.73%) Windows
1 14 (15.73%) Linux
2 13 (14.61%) UNIX
3 5 (5.618%) Solaris
4 4 (4.494%) Windows Vista
5 2 (2.247%) HPUX
5 2 (2.247%) VMS
6 1 (1.124%) CentOS
6 1 (1.124%) Windows 7
6 1 (1.124%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (11.24%) Disaster Recovery
1 10 (11.24%) Continuous Improvement
2 9 (10.11%) ITIL
3 8 (8.989%) eTOM
3 8 (8.989%) Network Management
4 7 (7.865%) Fault Management
5 5 (5.618%) Network Architecture
6 4 (4.494%) Time Management
6 4 (4.494%) Migration
6 4 (4.494%) Agile Software Development
6 4 (4.494%) OO
6 4 (4.494%) Business Intelligence
6 4 (4.494%) Configuration Management
6 4 (4.494%) Project Management
7 3 (3.371%) ETL
7 3 (3.371%) Logistics
7 3 (3.371%) Load Testing
7 3 (3.371%) Test Management
7 3 (3.371%) Test Automation
7 3 (3.371%) Video Processing
Programming Languages
1 22 (24.72%) C++
2 20 (22.47%) SQL
3 16 (17.98%) Perl
4 13 (14.61%) Java
5 11 (12.36%) Shell Script
6 9 (10.11%) Python
7 5 (5.618%) C#
7 5 (5.618%) PL/SQL
8 3 (3.371%) Embedded C
9 2 (2.247%) ActionScript 2.0
9 2 (2.247%) ActionScript
9 2 (2.247%) PHP
10 1 (1.124%) JavaScript
10 1 (1.124%) Bash shell
10 1 (1.124%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 17 (19.10%) Degree
2 5 (5.618%) Security Cleared
3 3 (3.371%) ISTQB
3 3 (3.371%) SC Cleared
4 2 (2.247%) CCNP
4 2 (2.247%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.124%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.124%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (11.24%) SLA
2 5 (5.618%) QA
System Software
1 6 (6.742%) Oracle RAC
2 4 (4.494%) NFS
3 2 (2.247%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.124%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.124%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (1.124%) Control-M
1 1 (1.124%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 16 (17.98%) Oracle
2 13 (14.61%) Microsoft
3 8 (8.989%) Nokia Siemens Networks
4 6 (6.742%) Huawei
4 6 (6.742%) Business Objects
4 6 (6.742%) Ericsson
4 6 (6.742%) NEC
5 4 (4.494%) Citrix
5 4 (4.494%) Greenplum
5 4 (4.494%) Nokia
6 3 (3.371%) Cisco
7 2 (2.247%) Adobe
7 2 (2.247%) VMware
8 1 (1.124%) Amdocs
8 1 (1.124%) Juniper
8 1 (1.124%) Polycom
8 1 (1.124%) Tandberg
8 1 (1.124%) SolarWinds
8 1 (1.124%) SAP
8 1 (1.124%) Symantec
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