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

The first table below looks at the demand for C skills in IT contracts advertised for the Cheshire 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 Cheshire 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 47 57 56
Rank change year-on-year
+10 -1
Contract jobs citing C 14 10 17
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 1.939% 1.238% 1.709%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.763% 3.968% 5.363%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 10 9
Average daily rate £371 £370 £255
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+0.33% +45.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £84 £178
10% offered a daily rate of more than £495 £437 £267
UK excluding London average daily rate £348 £400 £300
% change year-on-year
-13.12% +33.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £36.50 £36.50
% change year-on-year
-4.10% -
All Programming Languages
Cheshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category		 207 252 317
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 28.67% 31.19% 31.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 136 178
Average daily rate £350 £313 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+12.00% -10.71%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £260 £259
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 7 9
Average hourly rate £50.00 £30.00 £19.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+66.66% +57.89%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £20.00 £13.50 £15.60
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £51.39 £36.00 £30.80
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £35.00
C
North West

C
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cheshire 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 Cheshire region.

Cheshire 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 Cheshire region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Cheshire 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 Cheshire region.

Cheshire 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 Cheshire 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
Knutsford - 4 £475 -
Chester - 3 - -
C
North West

C
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire 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 16 (53.33%) Windows
2 14 (46.67%) Microsoft
3 13 (43.33%) Active Directory
3 13 (43.33%) SLA
3 13 (43.33%) MS Exchange
3 13 (43.33%) ISO 9000
3 13 (43.33%) VPN
3 13 (43.33%) Citrix
3 13 (43.33%) MS Excel
3 13 (43.33%) Windows NT
3 13 (43.33%) Incident Management
3 13 (43.33%) Statistics
3 13 (43.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 13 (43.33%) SC Cleared
3 13 (43.33%) DV Cleared
3 13 (43.33%) Security Cleared
4 8 (26.67%) Java
5 5 (16.67%) C++
6 4 (13.33%) SQL
6 4 (13.33%) .NET
6 4 (13.33%) MFC
6 4 (13.33%) ASP.NET
6 4 (13.33%) PhD
6 4 (13.33%) Servlets
6 4 (13.33%) Web Services
6 4 (13.33%) XSL
6 4 (13.33%) XSLT
6 4 (13.33%) C#
6 4 (13.33%) MVC
6 4 (13.33%) Data Analysis

C
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire 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 4 (13.33%) .NET
1 4 (13.33%) MFC
1 4 (13.33%) ASP.NET
1 4 (13.33%) Servlets
1 4 (13.33%) Web Services
1 4 (13.33%) XSL
1 4 (13.33%) XSLT
1 4 (13.33%) WCF
1 4 (13.33%) HTML5
2 3 (10.00%) jQuery
2 3 (10.00%) JSON
2 3 (10.00%) CSS
3 1 (3.333%) J2EE
3 1 (3.333%) SAP Basis
3 1 (3.333%) XML
3 1 (3.333%) HTML
3 1 (3.333%) RESTful
3 1 (3.333%) REST
Application Platforms
1 13 (43.33%) MS Exchange
2 1 (3.333%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 13 (43.33%) MS Excel
2 1 (3.333%) MS Visio
2 1 (3.333%) MS Project
Communications & Networking
1 13 (43.33%) VPN
2 2 (6.667%) Ethernet
2 2 (6.667%) TCP/IP
3 1 (3.333%) LAN
3 1 (3.333%) WAN
3 1 (3.333%) SAN
3 1 (3.333%) Wireless
3 1 (3.333%) NFC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.00%) SQLite
2 1 (3.333%) DB2
2 1 (3.333%) TOAD
2 1 (3.333%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 3 (10.00%) VSS/SourceSafe
1 3 (10.00%) Subversion
General
1 4 (13.33%) Banking
2 3 (10.00%) Retail
2 3 (10.00%) Retail Banking
2 3 (10.00%) Finance
3 1 (3.333%) Military
Job Titles
1 13 (43.33%) Help Desk Support
2 10 (33.33%) IT Support
2 10 (33.33%) Analyst
2 10 (33.33%) Help Desk Analyst
3 4 (13.33%) Web Developer
3 4 (13.33%) Developer
4 3 (10.00%) Software Engineer
4 3 (10.00%) Architect
4 3 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
4 3 (10.00%) Applications Developer
4 3 (10.00%) .NET Developer
4 3 (10.00%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 3 (10.00%) .NET Applications Developer
4 3 (10.00%) Web Applications Developer
4 3 (10.00%) .NET Web Developer
5 2 (6.667%) Embedded C Engineer
5 2 (6.667%) C Software Engineer
5 2 (6.667%) Embedded C Software Engineer
6 1 (3.333%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
6 1 (3.333%) Data Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 13 (43.33%) Statistics
2 3 (10.00%) SCADA
2 3 (10.00%) Embedded Systems
2 3 (10.00%) Mainframe
2 3 (10.00%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
3 2 (6.667%) Mathematics
4 1 (3.333%) Mobile App
4 1 (3.333%) Cryptography
4 1 (3.333%) Client/Server
4 1 (3.333%) EMV
4 1 (3.333%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 16 (53.33%) Windows
2 13 (43.33%) Windows NT
3 3 (10.00%) Windows CE
3 3 (10.00%) Linux
4 2 (6.667%) UNIX
5 1 (3.333%) Solaris
5 1 (3.333%) Android
5 1 (3.333%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (43.33%) Incident Management
2 4 (13.33%) Web Application Development
2 4 (13.33%) MVC
2 4 (13.33%) Data Analysis
3 3 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (10.00%) Agile Software Development
3 3 (10.00%) Web Development
4 2 (6.667%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (6.667%) Software Engineering
5 1 (3.333%) OO
5 1 (3.333%) CRM
5 1 (3.333%) ETL
5 1 (3.333%) Data Management
5 1 (3.333%) Network Design
5 1 (3.333%) Test Management
5 1 (3.333%) Test Strategy
5 1 (3.333%) Embedded Software Development
Programming Languages
1 8 (26.67%) Java
2 5 (16.67%) C++
3 4 (13.33%) C#
3 4 (13.33%) SQL
3 4 (13.33%) XPath
4 3 (10.00%) JavaScript
5 2 (6.667%) Embedded C
6 1 (3.333%) ABAP
6 1 (3.333%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (43.33%) SC Cleared
1 13 (43.33%) DV Cleared
1 13 (43.33%) Security Cleared
2 4 (13.33%) PhD
3 3 (10.00%) HND
4 1 (3.333%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (43.33%) ISO 9000
1 13 (43.33%) SLA
1 13 (43.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 13 (43.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (3.333%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 14 (46.67%) Microsoft
2 13 (43.33%) Citrix
3 2 (6.667%) Oracle
4 1 (3.333%) SAP
4 1 (3.333%) IBM
4 1 (3.333%) Informatica
4 1 (3.333%) MicroStrategy
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