The first table below looks at the demand for C skills in IT contracts advertised for the Docklands, London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited C over the 3 months to 22 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 Docklands, London 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
C
Rank 25 27 41
Rank change year-on-year
+2 +14
Contract jobs citing C 6 5 19
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Docklands, London 3.488% 2.315% 3.231%
As % of the Programming Languages category 9.231% 7.463% 6.643%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 5
Average daily rate £450 £510 £435
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-11.76% +17.24%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £510 £413
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £510 £449
UK excluding London average daily rate £345 £400 £300
% change year-on-year
-13.75% +33.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £33.25 £36.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year
-8.90% +1.38%
All Programming Languages
Docklands, London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
65 67 286
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Docklands, London 37.79% 31.02% 48.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 38 126
Average daily rate £450 £488 £506
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.69% -3.70%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £236 £355 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £503 £600 £625
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 1
Average hourly rate £45.00 £40.00 £37.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+12.50% +6.66%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+2.94% -2.85%
C
London

C
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Docklands, London 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 Docklands, London region.

Docklands, London 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 Docklands, London region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Docklands, London 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 Docklands, London region.

Docklands, London C Hourly Rate Trend

C
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, 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 5 (71.43%) C++
1 5 (71.43%) Banking
1 5 (71.43%) Investment Banking
2 3 (42.86%) SUSE
2 3 (42.86%) Equities
2 3 (42.86%) Shell Script
2 3 (42.86%) Perl
2 3 (42.86%) Solaris
2 3 (42.86%) Linux
2 3 (42.86%) LDAP
2 3 (42.86%) UNIX
2 3 (42.86%) NFS
2 3 (42.86%) DNS
2 3 (42.86%) SAN
2 3 (42.86%) Red Hat
2 3 (42.86%) Veritas Volume Manager
3 2 (28.57%) R
3 2 (28.57%) Degree
3 2 (28.57%) Mathematics
3 2 (28.57%) Monte Carlo Method
3 2 (28.57%) Statistics
3 2 (28.57%) Credit Risk
3 2 (28.57%) Stochastic Calculus
3 2 (28.57%) Postgraduate
3 2 (28.57%) Java
4 1 (14.29%) MS Office
4 1 (14.29%) MCP
4 1 (14.29%) Python
4 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (14.29%) Windows

C
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, 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 Platforms
1 1 (14.29%) MS Exchange
1 1 (14.29%) Exchange Server 2003
1 1 (14.29%) Exchange Server 2007
1 1 (14.29%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 3 (42.86%) LDAP
1 3 (42.86%) DNS
1 3 (42.86%) SAN
2 1 (14.29%) SDH
2 1 (14.29%) SONET
2 1 (14.29%) DWDM
General
1 5 (71.43%) Banking
1 5 (71.43%) Investment Banking
2 1 (14.29%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) UNIX Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Support Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) 3rd Line Support
2 1 (14.29%) Analyst Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Quantitative Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Quantitative Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Provisioning Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Equities
2 2 (28.57%) Mathematics
2 2 (28.57%) Statistics
2 2 (28.57%) Credit Risk
3 1 (14.29%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 3 (42.86%) SUSE
1 3 (42.86%) Solaris
1 3 (42.86%) Linux
1 3 (42.86%) UNIX
2 1 (14.29%) Windows
2 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (28.57%) Monte Carlo Method
1 2 (28.57%) Stochastic Calculus
2 1 (14.29%) Data Modelling
2 1 (14.29%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) C++
2 3 (42.86%) Shell Script
2 3 (42.86%) Perl
3 2 (28.57%) R
3 2 (28.57%) Java
4 1 (14.29%) Python
4 1 (14.29%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) Degree
1 2 (28.57%) Postgraduate
2 1 (14.29%) MCP
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (14.29%) PhD
2 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) NFS
1 3 (42.86%) Veritas Volume Manager
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Red Hat
2 1 (14.29%) Huawei