Devon C Contracts

This section looks at the demand for C skills within the Devon region with a comparison to our Programming Languages category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited C over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

C
Location Aberdeen Alderley Edge Avon Aylesbury Barrow-in-Furness Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bexley Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Cheadle Cheltenham Cheshire Chesterfield Chippenham City of London Colchester Corsham County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Crawley Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorchester Dorset East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Feltham Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Grays Guildford Hampshire Havant Hemel Hempstead Hendon Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Horsham Hounslow Ilford Ipswich Jersey Kent Kidderminster Lancashire Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Louth Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Malvern Manchester Mansfield Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Pontypool Portsmouth Prescot Preston Reading Redditch Redhill Rochester Romsey Salisbury Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shrewsbury Shropshire Skelmersdale Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Swansea Swindon Teesside Thames Valley Thurrock Torfaen Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warminster Warrington Warwickshire Watford Wells West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weybridge Whyteleafe Wilmslow Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	25	28
Rank change on same period last year	+3
Matching contract IT job ads	2	4
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.003 %	0.004 %
As % of the category below	4.545 %	4.040 %
Daily rates quoted	1	1
Average minimum daily rate	£350	£400
Average daily rate	£375	£400
% change on same period last year	-6.25 %
Average maximum daily rate	£400	£400
UK excluding London average daily rate	£356	£348
% change on same period last year	+2.21 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£30.00
Average hourly rate	-	£37.50
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£34.70	£34.72
% change on same period last year	-0.07 %
Programming Languages Devon
Matching contract IT job ads	44	99
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.058 %	0.105 %
Daily rates quoted	9	20
Average minimum daily rate	£295	£327
Average daily rate	£322	£340
% change on same period last year	-5.29 %
Average maximum daily rate	£349	£353
UK excluding London average daily rate	£337	£332
% change on same period last year	+1.57 %
Hourly rates quoted	14	19
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.74	£21.89
Average hourly rate	£33.94	£24.32
% change on same period last year	+39.56 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£37.15	£26.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.13	£33.16
% change on same period last year	-0.07 %
C South West

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

C
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing C across the Devon region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing C within the Devon region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Exeter	+6	2	£375	-6.25 %

C South West

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Devon 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 11 (73.33 %) Java 2 10 (66.67 %) WebServices 3 9 (60.00 %) Security Cleared 4 8 (53.33 %) SC Cleared 4 8 (53.33 %) JNI 5 6 (40.00 %) Stress Testing 6 4 (26.67 %) Government 7 3 (20.00 %) Degree 8 2 (13.33 %) DV Cleared 9 1 (6.667 %) C++ 9 1 (6.667 %) PL/SQL 9 1 (6.667 %) SQL 9 1 (6.667 %) Oracle 9 1 (6.667 %) Windows 9 1 (6.667 %) Oracle Reports

9 1 (6.667 %) HTTPS 9 1 (6.667 %) Oracle Discoverer 9 1 (6.667 %) Embedded C 9 1 (6.667 %) Embedded C++ 9 1 (6.667 %) ISEB 9 1 (6.667 %) Intranet 9 1 (6.667 %) Internet 9 1 (6.667 %) Project Management 9 1 (6.667 %) User Acceptance Testing 9 1 (6.667 %) Load Testing 9 1 (6.667 %) Test Scripting 9 1 (6.667 %) Manual Testing 9 1 (6.667 %) Software Testing 9 1 (6.667 %) Automated Testing 9 1 (6.667 %) Oracle HRMS

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Devon 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 10 (66.67 %) WebServices 2 8 (53.33 %) JNI	Business Applications 1 1 (6.667 %) Oracle HRMS 1 1 (6.667 %) Summit
Communications & Networking 1 1 (6.667 %) HTTPS 1 1 (6.667 %) Intranet 1 1 (6.667 %) Internet 1 1 (6.667 %) SSH	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (6.667 %) Oracle Reports 1 1 (6.667 %) Oracle Discoverer
General 1 4 (26.67 %) Government	Job Titles 1 8 (53.33 %) Programmer 2 7 (46.67 %) C Programmer 3 4 (26.67 %) Java Programmer 4 3 (20.00 %) Analyst 5 2 (13.33 %) Developer 6 1 (6.667 %) Test Analyst 6 1 (6.667 %) Analyst Programmer 6 1 (6.667 %) Software Developer 6 1 (6.667 %) Business Analyst 6 1 (6.667 %) Tester 6 1 (6.667 %) Oracle Developer 6 1 (6.667 %) SQL Developer 6 1 (6.667 %) PL/SQL Developer
Operating Systems 1 1 (6.667 %) Windows	Processes & Methodologies 1 9 (60.00 %) Security Cleared 2 8 (53.33 %) SC Cleared 3 6 (40.00 %) Stress Testing 4 2 (13.33 %) DV Cleared 5 1 (6.667 %) Test Scripting 5 1 (6.667 %) Manual Testing 5 1 (6.667 %) Project Management 5 1 (6.667 %) Regression Testing 5 1 (6.667 %) Automated Testing 5 1 (6.667 %) Software Testing 5 1 (6.667 %) User Acceptance Testing 5 1 (6.667 %) Load Testing
Programming Languages 1 11 (73.33 %) Java 2 1 (6.667 %) PL/SQL 2 1 (6.667 %) SQL 2 1 (6.667 %) Embedded C 2 1 (6.667 %) Embedded C++ 2 1 (6.667 %) C++	Qualifications 1 3 (20.00 %) Degree 2 1 (6.667 %) ISEB
Vendors 1 1 (6.667 %) Oracle