Docklands, London C Contracts

This section looks at the demand for C skills within the Docklands, London 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.

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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	57	80
Rank change on same period last year	+23
Matching contract IT job ads	14	12
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.018 %	0.013 %
As % of the category below	4.082 %	1.655 %
Daily rates quoted	6	8
Average minimum daily rate	£352	£385
Average daily rate	£352	£419
% change on same period last year	-16.14 %
Average maximum daily rate	£352	£454
UK excluding London average daily rate	£356	£348
% change on same period last year	+2.21 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£34.70	£34.72
% change on same period last year	-0.07 %
Programming Languages Docklands, London
Matching contract IT job ads	343	725
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.452 %	0.769 %
Daily rates quoted	219	365
Average minimum daily rate	£457	£469
Average daily rate	£486	£505
% change on same period last year	-3.78 %
Average maximum daily rate	£515	£541
UK excluding London average daily rate	£337	£332
% change on same period last year	+1.57 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£26.40	£35.00
Average hourly rate	£27.60	£35.00
% change on same period last year	-21.14 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.80	£35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.13	£33.16
% change on same period last year	-0.07 %
C London

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.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing C across the Docklands, London 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 Docklands, London region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing C across the Docklands, London region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008.

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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 Docklands, London region.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Docklands, London 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 34 (53.13 %) SQL 1 34 (53.13 %) Banking 2 31 (48.44 %) Investment Banking 3 30 (46.88 %) Oracle 4 27 (42.19 %) Java 5 26 (40.63 %) Perl 6 20 (31.25 %) Unix 6 20 (31.25 %) Windows 7 19 (29.69 %) C++ 8 18 (28.13 %) C# 8 18 (28.13 %) Solaris 8 18 (28.13 %) XML 9 17 (26.56 %) Linux 10 15 (23.44 %) PL/SQL 11 12 (18.75 %) J2EE

11 12 (18.75 %) VB 11 12 (18.75 %) Derivative 12 10 (15.63 %) Red Hat 12 10 (15.63 %) W3C 12 10 (15.63 %) JavaScript 12 10 (15.63 %) XSL 12 10 (15.63 %) ODBC 12 10 (15.63 %) EJB 12 10 (15.63 %) CSS 12 10 (15.63 %) JDBC 12 10 (15.63 %) IIS 12 10 (15.63 %) OOA/OOD 12 10 (15.63 %) Swing 12 10 (15.63 %) Apache 12 10 (15.63 %) Eclipse

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Docklands, London 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 18 (28.13 %) XML 2 12 (18.75 %) J2EE 3 10 (15.63 %) EJB 3 10 (15.63 %) CSS 3 10 (15.63 %) JDBC 3 10 (15.63 %) XSL 3 10 (15.63 %) ODBC 3 10 (15.63 %) Swing 3 10 (15.63 %) CGI 4 9 (14.06 %) HTML 4 9 (14.06 %) JSP 5 7 (10.94 %) CORBA 5 7 (10.94 %) Struts 5 7 (10.94 %) WebServices 5 7 (10.94 %) Middleware 5 7 (10.94 %) WebSphere 6 6 (9.375 %) SOAP	Application Platforms 1 10 (15.63 %) IIS 1 10 (15.63 %) Apache 2 9 (14.06 %) Tomcat 3 1 (1.563 %) MS Exchange 3 1 (1.563 %) Documentum
Applications 1 6 (9.375 %) MS Project	Business Applications 1 3 (4.688 %) Summit
Communications & Networking 1 10 (15.63 %) TCP/IP 2 7 (10.94 %) IIOP 3 3 (4.688 %) HTTP 4 2 (3.125 %) LDAP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 9 (14.06 %) Oracle 9i 1 9 (14.06 %) Oracle 10g 2 7 (10.94 %) TOAD 2 7 (10.94 %) MS Access 3 5 (7.813 %) SQL Server 4 3 (4.688 %) Oracle Reports 5 2 (3.125 %) RDBMS 6 1 (1.563 %) Sybase ASE 6 1 (1.563 %) Datawarehouse
Development Applications 1 10 (15.63 %) Eclipse 2 8 (12.50 %) PowerBuilder 2 8 (12.50 %) ProC 3 1 (1.563 %) TestDirector 3 1 (1.563 %) RequisitePro 3 1 (1.563 %) Rational Rose	General 1 34 (53.13 %) Banking 2 31 (48.44 %) Investment Banking 3 9 (14.06 %) Finance 4 4 (6.250 %) Back Office 5 3 (4.688 %) Front Office 5 3 (4.688 %) Law 6 1 (1.563 %) Telecoms 6 1 (1.563 %) Construction
Job Titles 1 28 (43.75 %) Analyst 2 24 (37.50 %) Developer 3 12 (18.75 %) Project Manager 3 12 (18.75 %) Systems Analyst 4 11 (17.19 %) Analyst Programmer 4 11 (17.19 %) Programmer 5 8 (12.50 %) Analyst Developer 6 7 (10.94 %) Systems Developer 6 7 (10.94 %) SQL Developer 6 7 (10.94 %) Oracle Developer 6 7 (10.94 %) PL/SQL Developer 6 7 (10.94 %) Senior Oracle Developer 6 7 (10.94 %) Senior Developer 6 7 (10.94 %) C Programmer 7 5 (7.813 %) Senior Systems Analyst 7 5 (7.813 %) Senior Analyst 7 5 (7.813 %) DBA 8 4 (6.250 %) Systems Support 8 4 (6.250 %) SQL DBA 9 3 (4.688 %) Java Developer	Miscellaneous 1 12 (18.75 %) Derivative 2 10 (15.63 %) W3C 3 7 (10.94 %) Foreign Exchange (FX) 3 7 (10.94 %) Equities 3 7 (10.94 %) Tandem 3 7 (10.94 %) Credit Derivative 4 5 (7.813 %) Asset Management 5 3 (4.688 %) PMI 6 2 (3.125 %) Interest Rate Derivative 7 1 (1.563 %) Credit Risk 7 1 (1.563 %) Fixed Income 7 1 (1.563 %) Cryptography
Operating Systems 1 20 (31.25 %) Unix 1 20 (31.25 %) Windows 2 18 (28.13 %) Solaris 3 17 (26.56 %) Linux 4 5 (7.813 %) VMS	Processes & Methodologies 1 10 (15.63 %) OOA/OOD 2 9 (14.06 %) UML 2 9 (14.06 %) RUP 3 7 (10.94 %) Problem Management 4 5 (7.813 %) Project Management 4 5 (7.813 %) OO 5 4 (6.250 %) Unified Process 5 4 (6.250 %) Risk Analysis 5 4 (6.250 %) PRINCE2 6 2 (3.125 %) Agile Software Development 6 2 (3.125 %) SOA 6 2 (3.125 %) OOP 7 1 (1.563 %) Econometrics 7 1 (1.563 %) Automated Testing 7 1 (1.563 %) Business Analysis 7 1 (1.563 %) User Acceptance Testing 7 1 (1.563 %) Volume Testing 7 1 (1.563 %) Integration Testing 7 1 (1.563 %) System Testing
Programming Languages 1 34 (53.13 %) SQL 2 27 (42.19 %) Java 3 26 (40.63 %) Perl 4 19 (29.69 %) C++ 5 18 (28.13 %) C# 6 15 (23.44 %) PL/SQL 7 12 (18.75 %) VB 8 10 (15.63 %) JavaScript 9 8 (12.50 %) VBA 10 7 (10.94 %) COBOL 11 6 (9.375 %) VB6 12 5 (7.813 %) DCL 12 5 (7.813 %) Pascal 13 4 (6.250 %) Shell Script 14 3 (4.688 %) Korn 15 2 (3.125 %) AWK 15 2 (3.125 %) Transact-SQL	Qualifications 1 3 (4.688 %) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 7 (10.94 %) ISO9001 2 1 (1.563 %) Basel II	Systems Management 1 2 (3.125 %) AutoSys
Vendors 1 30 (46.88 %) Oracle 2 10 (15.63 %) Red Hat 2 10 (15.63 %) Altova 3 9 (14.06 %) Sybase 4 7 (10.94 %) IBM 4 7 (10.94 %) Macromedia 4 7 (10.94 %) HP 5 4 (6.250 %) Sun 6 2 (3.125 %) Microsoft 6 2 (3.125 %) VERITAS 7 1 (1.563 %) GL TRADE 7 1 (1.563 %) Intel