C Contracts in the East of England

C
England > East of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England with a requirement for C skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited C over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 16 46 67
Rank change year-on-year +30 +21 +1
Contract jobs citing C 150 85 79
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 7.89% 4.11% 3.07%
As % of the Programming Languages category 36.06% 14.29% 10.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 19 16
10th Percentile £300 £403 £406
25th Percentile £375 £440 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £588 £560 £541
90th Percentile £735 £563 £569
England median daily rate £536 £600 £569
% change year-on-year -10.67% +5.45% +33.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 33 43
10th Percentile £60.00 £54.05 £47.75
25th Percentile £62.50 - £56.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year - +13.04% +24.32%
75th Percentile £85.00 £77.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £89.50 -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £58.70 £55.00
% change year-on-year +10.73% +6.73% +22.22%

All Programming Languages
East of England

C is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 416 595 776
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 21.89% 28.79% 30.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 184 344 453
10th Percentile £302 £289 £300
25th Percentile £405 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% +2.63% +5.56%
75th Percentile £563 £575 £574
90th Percentile £634 £684 £631
England median daily rate £540 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -4.42% +2.73% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 142 99 88
10th Percentile £52.50 £48.50 £26.98
25th Percentile £60.00 £53.75 £47.19
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £56.00
Median % change year-on-year - +16.07% +24.44%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £88.75 £77.00 £61.33
England median hourly rate £62.50 £61.84 £50.00
% change year-on-year +1.07% +23.68% +13.64%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing C as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for C in the East of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing C in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for C in the East of England

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Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing C in the East of England over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for C in the East of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing C in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for C in the East of England

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the East of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing C in the East of England over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for C in the East of England

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Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing C within the East of England region over the 6 months to 28 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Hertfordshire +20 94 - - 24
Cambridgeshire +3 31 £550 +10.00% 100
Essex +20 24 £308 - 7
Norfolk - 1 £375 - 3
C
England

C
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Applications
1 26 (17.33%) Simulink
2 2 (1.33%) Stateflow
Cloud Services
1 4 (2.67%) Microsoft 365
1 4 (2.67%) Power Automate
1 4 (2.67%) Power Platform
1 4 (2.67%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 36 (24.00%) Modbus
1 36 (24.00%) RS-422
1 36 (24.00%) RS-485
2 6 (4.00%) 5G
3 4 (2.67%) NAS
3 4 (2.67%) Radio Access Network
3 4 (2.67%) Wireshark
4 2 (1.33%) 5G NR
4 2 (1.33%) Software-Defined Radio
5 1 (0.67%) 802.11
5 1 (0.67%) Bluetooth
5 1 (0.67%) Broadband
5 1 (0.67%) RTMP
5 1 (0.67%) RTP
5 1 (0.67%) RTSP
5 1 (0.67%) VoIP
5 1 (0.67%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.67%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 16 (10.67%) Rational DOORS
2 10 (6.67%) Rational Rhapsody
3 7 (4.67%) GCC
3 7 (4.67%) Git
4 6 (4.00%) JIRA
4 6 (4.00%) Subversion
5 4 (2.67%) CppUnit
5 4 (2.67%) gcov
5 4 (2.67%) GDB
5 4 (2.67%) Gradle
5 4 (2.67%) PVCS
5 4 (2.67%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 2 (1.33%) Rational Team Concert
7 1 (0.67%) CMake
7 1 (0.67%) VTune
General
1 50 (33.33%) Electronics
2 43 (28.67%) Social Skills
3 9 (6.00%) Aerospace
4 8 (5.33%) Law
5 7 (4.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (3.33%) Multimedia
6 5 (3.33%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.33%) Automotive
7 2 (1.33%) Aviation
7 2 (1.33%) Military
7 2 (1.33%) Public Sector
7 2 (1.33%) Wearables
8 1 (0.67%) Finance
8 1 (0.67%) Games
8 1 (0.67%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.67%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 84 (56.00%) Software Engineer
2 35 (23.33%) C++ Software Engineer
3 29 (19.33%) C Software Engineer
4 28 (18.67%) Embedded Engineer
4 28 (18.67%) Embedded Software Engineer
5 18 (12.00%) Developer
6 17 (11.33%) FPGA Engineer
7 16 (10.67%) C/C++ Software Engineer
7 16 (10.67%) Design Engineer
7 16 (10.67%) FPGA Design Engineer
8 11 (7.33%) Embedded C Engineer
8 11 (7.33%) Embedded C Software Engineer
9 10 (6.67%) Ada Engineer
9 10 (6.67%) Ada Software Engineer
10 9 (6.00%) Linux Engineer
11 8 (5.33%) Architect
11 8 (5.33%) Software Architect
12 7 (4.67%) Compiler Engineer
12 7 (4.67%) Real Time Engineer
12 7 (4.67%) Real Time Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (9.33%) Yocto
2 9 (6.00%) DirectX
2 9 (6.00%) OpenGL
2 9 (6.00%) Vulkan
3 8 (5.33%) OpenGL ES
4 7 (4.67%) LLVM
5 4 (2.67%) .NET
5 4 (2.67%) REST
6 2 (1.33%) JSON
6 2 (1.33%) YAML
7 1 (0.67%) 802.1X
7 1 (0.67%) FFmpeg
7 1 (0.67%) GStreamer
7 1 (0.67%) NumPy
7 1 (0.67%) Unity (Game Engine)
7 1 (0.67%) Unreal Engine
Miscellaneous
1 28 (18.67%) Self-Motivation
2 20 (13.33%) FPGA
2 20 (13.33%) Verilog
3 17 (11.33%) VHDL
4 9 (6.00%) Ray Tracing
5 8 (5.33%) 3D Graphics
5 8 (5.33%) STB
6 5 (3.33%) Digital TV
7 4 (2.67%) Legacy Applications
8 3 (2.00%) ASIC
9 2 (1.33%) Embedded Systems
9 2 (1.33%) Linux Command Line
10 1 (0.67%) Data Centre
10 1 (0.67%) Data Structures
10 1 (0.67%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.67%) MPEG
Operating Systems
1 31 (20.67%) Linux
2 3 (2.00%) Unix
3 1 (0.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (56.00%) Software Engineering
2 49 (32.67%) Agile
3 40 (26.67%) Unit Testing
4 38 (25.33%) Software Testing
5 36 (24.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 36 (24.00%) Continuous Integration
5 36 (24.00%) Customer Requirements
5 36 (24.00%) DevOps
5 36 (24.00%) Pair Programming
5 36 (24.00%) TDD
6 30 (20.00%) Validation
7 25 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
8 19 (12.67%) UVM
9 17 (11.33%) FPGA Design
9 17 (11.33%) Open Source
10 16 (10.67%) Signal Processing
10 16 (10.67%) Verification and Validation
11 12 (8.00%) Embedded Software Development
11 12 (8.00%) Multithreading
12 10 (6.67%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 93 (62.00%) C++
2 41 (27.33%) C#
3 20 (13.33%) SystemVerilog
4 18 (12.00%) Embedded C
5 11 (7.33%) Python
6 10 (6.67%) Ada
7 9 (6.00%) MATLAB
8 8 (5.33%) Embedded C++
9 7 (4.67%) Bash
10 6 (4.00%) SQL
11 2 (1.33%) Assembly Language
11 2 (1.33%) Fortran
11 2 (1.33%) Java
11 2 (1.33%) Shell Script
11 2 (1.33%) Tcl
11 2 (1.33%) VB
12 1 (0.67%) GLSL
12 1 (0.67%) HLSL
12 1 (0.67%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 33 (22.00%) Degree
2 16 (10.67%) PhD
3 12 (8.00%) Master's Degree
4 6 (4.00%) SC Cleared
4 6 (4.00%) Security Cleared
5 3 (2.00%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.67%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.67%) CCNP
6 1 (0.67%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 4 (2.67%) Firmware
1 4 (2.67%) Virtual Machines
1 4 (2.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 19 (12.67%) Xilinx
2 17 (11.33%) Intel
2 17 (11.33%) Microsemi
3 10 (6.67%) IBM
4 4 (2.67%) Klocwork
4 4 (2.67%) Perforce
4 4 (2.67%) VMware
5 2 (1.33%) Broadcom
5 2 (1.33%) Cadence
5 2 (1.33%) MathWorks
5 2 (1.33%) Synopsys
5 2 (1.33%) Twitter
6 1 (0.67%) Cisco
6 1 (0.67%) Extreme Networks
6 1 (0.67%) Fortinet
6 1 (0.67%) Juniper
6 1 (0.67%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.67%) SAP