The first table below looks at the demand for Embedded 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 Embedded C over the 3 months to 20 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Embedded C
Rank 117 129 123
Rank change year-on-year
+12 -6
Contract jobs citing Embedded C 2 8 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 0.082% 0.261% 0.171%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.264% 1.189% 0.541%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £550 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £310 £305 £300
% change year-on-year
+1.63% +1.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 2
Average hourly rate - £43.25 £34.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +27.20%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £37.00 £36.25
% change year-on-year
+1.35% +2.06%
All Programming Languages
Berkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
758 673 925
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 31.15% 21.96% 31.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 299 323 366
Average daily rate £375 £350 £320
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% +9.37%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £215 £250 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £480 £450 £431
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 12 92
Average hourly rate £34.00 £42.50 £42.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-20.00% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £16.80 £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 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
Embedded C
South East

Embedded C
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Berkshire Embedded C Jobs Demand Trend

Embedded C
Daily Rate Trend

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

Berkshire Embedded C Daily Rate Trend

Embedded C
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Berkshire Embedded C Hourly Rate Trend

Embedded C
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Embedded C within the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 20 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
Slough - 2 £550 -
Embedded C
South East

Embedded C
Top 23 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing Embedded 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 Embedded C.

1 3 (100.00%) C
2 2 (66.67%) C++
2 2 (66.67%) Middleware
2 2 (66.67%) STB
2 2 (66.67%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (33.33%) Embedded Software Development
3 1 (33.33%) VLAN
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (33.33%) DVB
3 1 (33.33%) Project Management
3 1 (33.33%) Telecoms
3 1 (33.33%) HTML
3 1 (33.33%) Java
3 1 (33.33%) Perl
3 1 (33.33%) PHP
3 1 (33.33%) SQL
3 1 (33.33%) Ant
3 1 (33.33%) Linux
3 1 (33.33%) Flash
3 1 (33.33%) ClearCase
3 1 (33.33%) LAN
3 1 (33.33%) Cisco
3 1 (33.33%) Shell Script

Embedded C
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing Embedded 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 Embedded C. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (66.67%) Middleware
2 1 (33.33%) HTML
2 1 (33.33%) Flash
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) LAN
1 1 (33.33%) DVB
1 1 (33.33%) VLAN
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Ant
1 1 (33.33%) ClearCase
General
1 1 (33.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Project Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Software Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Programmer
1 1 (33.33%) Integration Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Software Project Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Embedded C Programmer
1 1 (33.33%) Embedded C Developer
1 1 (33.33%) C Developer
1 1 (33.33%) C Programmer
1 1 (33.33%) Software Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) STB
1 2 (66.67%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Project Management
1 1 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (33.33%) Embedded Software Development
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) C
2 2 (66.67%) C++
3 1 (33.33%) Java
3 1 (33.33%) Perl
3 1 (33.33%) PHP
3 1 (33.33%) SQL
3 1 (33.33%) Shell Script
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco