C Contracts in Birmingham
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for C skills in IT contracts advertised for the Birmingham region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited C over the 3 months to 24 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 Birmingham 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
24 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
C
Rank 37 38 40
Rank change year-on-year
+1 +2
Contract jobs citing C 6 18 9
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 1.367% 2.899% 1.754%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.511% 7.377% 6.207%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 3
Average daily rate £425 £398 £280
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.91% +41.96%
UK excluding London average daily rate £345 £400 £300
% change year-on-year
-13.75% +33.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 0
Average hourly rate £37.00 £31.00 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+19.35% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.50 £36.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
-9.72% -1.36%
Search 1 C jobs in Birmingham
All Programming Languages
Birmingham
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category		 133 244 145
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 30.30% 39.29% 28.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 137 90
Average daily rate £325 £300 £280
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+8.33% +7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £231 £225 £178
10% offered a daily rate of more than £434 £425 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 6 0
Average hourly rate £37.00 £31.00 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+19.35% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
C
West Midlands

C
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Birmingham 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 Birmingham region.

Birmingham 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 Birmingham region.

Birmingham C Hourly Rate Trend

C
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham 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 12 (50.00%) C++
1 12 (50.00%) Finance
2 9 (37.50%) UNIX
3 8 (33.33%) J2EE
3 8 (33.33%) Oracle
3 8 (33.33%) Shell Script
4 7 (29.17%) Microsoft
4 7 (29.17%) Oracle Forms
5 6 (25.00%) AIX
5 6 (25.00%) SQL
6 5 (20.83%) MS Excel
6 5 (20.83%) Solaris
6 5 (20.83%) CGI
6 5 (20.83%) RDBMS
6 5 (20.83%) ProC
7 4 (16.67%) Clustering
7 4 (16.67%) Active Directory
7 4 (16.67%) VB
8 3 (12.50%) SAP
8 3 (12.50%) Windows 2000
8 3 (12.50%) Windows
8 3 (12.50%) ITIL
8 3 (12.50%) HP
8 3 (12.50%) Citrix
8 3 (12.50%) NetApp
8 3 (12.50%) DHCP
8 3 (12.50%) TCP/IP
8 3 (12.50%) DNS
8 3 (12.50%) Windows Server 2003
8 3 (12.50%) Investment Banking

C
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham 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 (33.33%) J2EE
2 5 (20.83%) CGI
3 1 (4.167%) EJB
3 1 (4.167%) Servlets
3 1 (4.167%) Web Services
3 1 (4.167%) .NET
3 1 (4.167%) Cocoa
3 1 (4.167%) Web Dynpro
3 1 (4.167%) OpenGL
3 1 (4.167%) JMX
3 1 (4.167%) JSF
3 1 (4.167%) JTA
3 1 (4.167%) Java EE
3 1 (4.167%) JSTL
3 1 (4.167%) Core Animation
3 1 (4.167%) Cocoa Touch
3 1 (4.167%) UIKit
3 1 (4.167%) Java EE 5
3 1 (4.167%) JPA
3 1 (4.167%) EJB 3.0
Application Platforms
1 2 (8.333%) SAP Portal
2 1 (4.167%) CMS
2 1 (4.167%) NetWeaver
2 1 (4.167%) SAP EP
Applications
1 5 (20.83%) MS Excel
2 2 (8.333%) MS Visio
3 1 (4.167%) Photoshop
3 1 (4.167%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 1 (4.167%) SAP cProjects
Communications & Networking
1 3 (12.50%) DHCP
1 3 (12.50%) TCP/IP
1 3 (12.50%) DNS
2 1 (4.167%) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (20.83%) RDBMS
2 2 (8.333%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 7 (29.17%) Oracle Forms
2 5 (20.83%) ProC
3 1 (4.167%) Xcode
3 1 (4.167%) Subversion
3 1 (4.167%) NWDI
3 1 (4.167%) NWDS
General
1 12 (50.00%) Finance
2 3 (12.50%) Investment Banking
2 3 (12.50%) Banking
2 3 (12.50%) Corporate Banking
3 2 (8.333%) Automotive
3 2 (8.333%) Games
Job Titles
1 8 (33.33%) Developer
2 5 (20.83%) C Developer
2 5 (20.83%) UNIX Developer
3 3 (12.50%) Software Engineer
4 2 (8.333%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 2 (8.333%) Systems Tester
4 2 (8.333%) Tester
4 2 (8.333%) Analyst
5 1 (4.167%) Systems Analyst
5 1 (4.167%) Web Developer
5 1 (4.167%) Consultant
5 1 (4.167%) Customer Engineer
5 1 (4.167%) Architect
5 1 (4.167%) Business Analyst
5 1 (4.167%) JavaScript Developer
5 1 (4.167%) Applications Manager
5 1 (4.167%) Infrastructure Architect
5 1 (4.167%) Enterprise Architect
5 1 (4.167%) SAP Developer
5 1 (4.167%) QA Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.67%) Clustering
2 2 (8.333%) Mathematics
3 1 (4.167%) Computer Science
3 1 (4.167%) Animation
3 1 (4.167%) CAN bus
3 1 (4.167%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 9 (37.50%) UNIX
2 6 (25.00%) AIX
3 5 (20.83%) Solaris
4 3 (12.50%) Windows 2000
4 3 (12.50%) Windows
4 3 (12.50%) Windows Server 2003
4 3 (12.50%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (4.167%) OpenVMS
5 1 (4.167%) HPUX
5 1 (4.167%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (12.50%) ITIL
1 3 (12.50%) Fund Management
1 3 (12.50%) Wealth Management
1 3 (12.50%) Problem Management
1 3 (12.50%) User Acceptance Testing
1 3 (12.50%) System Testing
1 3 (12.50%) Business Transformation
2 2 (8.333%) Test Automation
2 2 (8.333%) Integration Testing
2 2 (8.333%) Software Testing
3 1 (4.167%) UML
3 1 (4.167%) OOA/OOD
3 1 (4.167%) OO
3 1 (4.167%) Migration
3 1 (4.167%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (4.167%) B2B
3 1 (4.167%) Automated Testing
3 1 (4.167%) Information Security
3 1 (4.167%) Manual Testing
3 1 (4.167%) SAP Implementation
Programming Languages
1 12 (50.00%) C++
2 8 (33.33%) Shell Script
3 6 (25.00%) SQL
4 4 (16.67%) VB
5 2 (8.333%) C#
6 1 (4.167%) VB.NET
6 1 (4.167%) ABAP
6 1 (4.167%) COBOL
6 1 (4.167%) Java
6 1 (4.167%) JavaScript
6 1 (4.167%) Objective-C
6 1 (4.167%) Embedded C
6 1 (4.167%) Embedded C++
6 1 (4.167%) Pascal
6 1 (4.167%) PowerHouse
6 1 (4.167%) GLSL
6 1 (4.167%) HLSL
Qualifications
1 1 (4.167%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.333%) QA
System Software
1 4 (16.67%) Active Directory
2 3 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 8 (33.33%) Oracle
2 7 (29.17%) Microsoft
3 3 (12.50%) SAP
3 3 (12.50%) HP
3 3 (12.50%) Citrix
3 3 (12.50%) NetApp
3 3 (12.50%) VMware
4 1 (4.167%) Sybase
4 1 (4.167%) NEC
4 1 (4.167%) Apple
4 1 (4.167%) Fujitsu
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