The first table below looks at the demand for C skills in IT contracts advertised for the Devon 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 Devon 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 24 28 25
Rank change year-on-year
+4 -3
Contract jobs citing C 5 3 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Devon 2.959% 1.639% 3.268%
As % of the Programming Languages category 8.333% 3.750% 5.556%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 3
Average daily rate £350 £465 £280
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-24.73% +66.07%
UK excluding London average daily rate £345 £400 £300
% change year-on-year
-13.75% +33.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
Average hourly rate £40.00 - £31.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.50 £36.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
-9.72% -1.36%
All Programming Languages
Devon
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
60 80 90
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Devon 35.50% 43.72% 58.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 43 49
Average daily rate £325 £315 £290
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.17% +8.62%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £220 £200 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £353 £450 £423
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 11 9
Average hourly rate £40.00 £15.50 £29.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+158.06% -47.45%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
C
South West

C
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Devon 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 Devon region.

Devon 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 Devon region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Devon 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 Devon region.

Devon 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 Devon region over the 3 months to 24 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
Exeter -4 3 £443 -4.83%
Plymouth - 1 £350 -
C
South West

C
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, 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 4 (36.36%) Oracle
2 3 (27.27%) ASP.NET
2 3 (27.27%) C#
2 3 (27.27%) Telecoms
2 3 (27.27%) VHDL
2 3 (27.27%) Mathematics
2 3 (27.27%) .NET Framework
2 3 (27.27%) .NET
3 2 (18.18%) Waterfall
3 2 (18.18%) XPath
3 2 (18.18%) Degree
3 2 (18.18%) SC Cleared
3 2 (18.18%) Security Cleared
3 2 (18.18%) Agile Software Development
3 2 (18.18%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
3 2 (18.18%) Oracle Applications
3 2 (18.18%) Back Office
3 2 (18.18%) HTML
3 2 (18.18%) JavaScript
3 2 (18.18%) PL/SQL
3 2 (18.18%) SQL
3 2 (18.18%) CSS
3 2 (18.18%) Web Services
3 2 (18.18%) XML
3 2 (18.18%) XSLT
3 2 (18.18%) MCAD
3 2 (18.18%) MCSD
3 2 (18.18%) VB
3 2 (18.18%) VB.NET
3 2 (18.18%) OO

C
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, 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 3 (27.27%) ASP.NET
1 3 (27.27%) .NET Framework
1 3 (27.27%) .NET
2 2 (18.18%) HTML
2 2 (18.18%) CSS
2 2 (18.18%) Web Services
2 2 (18.18%) XML
2 2 (18.18%) XSLT
3 1 (9.091%) ASP.NET MVC
Business Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Oracle Applications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.091%) TOAD
1 1 (9.091%) Oracle 10g
1 1 (9.091%) Oracle Reports
1 1 (9.091%) Oracle 11g
1 1 (9.091%) Oracle BI EE
Development Applications
1 1 (9.091%) Git (software)
General
1 3 (27.27%) Telecoms
2 2 (18.18%) Back Office
3 1 (9.091%) Electronics
3 1 (9.091%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Developer
2 3 (27.27%) Customer Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Digital Design Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) .NET Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Design Engineer
4 1 (9.091%) Consultant
4 1 (9.091%) Programmer
4 1 (9.091%) ASP.NET Developer
4 1 (9.091%) Oracle Developer
4 1 (9.091%) Continuous Improvement Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) VHDL
1 3 (27.27%) Mathematics
2 2 (18.18%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
3 1 (9.091%) Firmware
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.091%) Windows
1 1 (9.091%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (18.18%) Waterfall
1 2 (18.18%) Agile Software Development
1 2 (18.18%) OO
1 2 (18.18%) B2B
1 2 (18.18%) B2C
1 2 (18.18%) SOA
1 2 (18.18%) Configuration Management
2 1 (9.091%) Six Sigma
2 1 (9.091%) Data Modelling
2 1 (9.091%) PRINCE2
2 1 (9.091%) UML
2 1 (9.091%) MVC
2 1 (9.091%) Quality Management
2 1 (9.091%) Data Security
2 1 (9.091%) Test Scripting
2 1 (9.091%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (9.091%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 3 (27.27%) C#
2 2 (18.18%) XPath
2 2 (18.18%) JavaScript
2 2 (18.18%) PL/SQL
2 2 (18.18%) SQL
2 2 (18.18%) VB
2 2 (18.18%) VB.NET
2 2 (18.18%) XQuery
3 1 (9.091%) MATLAB
3 1 (9.091%) Tcl
3 1 (9.091%) VBScript
3 1 (9.091%) Perl
3 1 (9.091%) Java
3 1 (9.091%) C++
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) Degree
1 2 (18.18%) SC Cleared
1 2 (18.18%) Security Cleared
1 2 (18.18%) MCAD
1 2 (18.18%) MCSD
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (9.091%) Six Sigma Black Belt
2 1 (9.091%) BC Cleared
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) Oracle
2 1 (9.091%) Motorola
2 1 (9.091%) Microsoft
2 1 (9.091%) Xilinx
2 1 (9.091%) Green Hills
2 1 (9.091%) Altera
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