The first table below looks at the demand for C skills in IT contracts advertised for the Edinburgh region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited C over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Edinburgh 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
C
Rank 49 52 60
Rank change year-on-year
+3 +8
Contract jobs citing C 13 12 12
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 1.432% 1.126% 0.901%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.417% 5.797% 3.987%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 5 8
Average daily rate £300 £390 £419
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-23.07% -6.86%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £157 £305 £296
10% offered a daily rate of more than £490 £400 £533
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £360 £325
% change year-on-year
-2.77% +10.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 1
Average hourly rate £12.42 £37.00 £12.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-66.43% +196.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £37.50 £36.50
% change year-on-year
-20.00% +2.73%
All Programming Languages
Edinburgh
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
240 207 301
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 26.43% 19.42% 22.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 72 111
Average daily rate £325 £325 £325
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £240 £195
10% offered a daily rate of more than £441 £425 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 5 3
Average hourly rate £24.00 £32.00 £31.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-25.00% +1.58%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.25 £16.00 £18.20
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.80 £37.60 £32.20
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £35.00
C
Scotland

C
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh C Hourly Rate Trend

C
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh 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 (29.41%) Mathematics
2 3 (17.65%) Finance
2 3 (17.65%) Banking
2 3 (17.65%) Wireless
2 3 (17.65%) C++
2 3 (17.65%) MATLAB
3 2 (11.76%) Change Management
3 2 (11.76%) Windows
3 2 (11.76%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
4 1 (5.882%) Degree
4 1 (5.882%) Electronics
4 1 (5.882%) C#
4 1 (5.882%) Retail
4 1 (5.882%) Subversion
4 1 (5.882%) Data Analysis
4 1 (5.882%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (5.882%) Computer Science
4 1 (5.882%) ZigBee
4 1 (5.882%) Time Management
4 1 (5.882%) Data Mapping
4 1 (5.882%) Data Architecture
4 1 (5.882%) Windows 7
4 1 (5.882%) xDSL
4 1 (5.882%) Signal Processing
4 1 (5.882%) Solvency II
4 1 (5.882%) IBM InfoSphere
4 1 (5.882%) Linux
4 1 (5.882%) UML
4 1 (5.882%) OOP
4 1 (5.882%) OO

C
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh 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 1 (5.882%) Middleware
1 1 (5.882%) .NET
1 1 (5.882%) XSD
Application Platforms
1 1 (5.882%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 1 (5.882%) MS Excel
1 1 (5.882%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 3 (17.65%) Wireless
2 1 (5.882%) ZigBee
2 1 (5.882%) xDSL
2 1 (5.882%) Bluetooth
2 1 (5.882%) GPRS
2 1 (5.882%) PSTN
2 1 (5.882%) PPP
2 1 (5.882%) TCP/IP
2 1 (5.882%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.882%) IBM InfoSphere
1 1 (5.882%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (5.882%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 1 (5.882%) Subversion
1 1 (5.882%) ERwin
General
1 3 (17.65%) Finance
1 3 (17.65%) Banking
2 1 (5.882%) Electronics
2 1 (5.882%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (17.65%) Communications Engineer
1 3 (17.65%) Support Engineer
2 2 (11.76%) Customer Engineer
2 2 (11.76%) Developer
2 2 (11.76%) Architect
2 2 (11.76%) Project Manager
3 1 (5.882%) Embedded C Developer
3 1 (5.882%) C Developer
3 1 (5.882%) Change Manager
3 1 (5.882%) Hardware Engineer
3 1 (5.882%) Data Modeller
3 1 (5.882%) Break Fix Engineer
3 1 (5.882%) Firmware Engineer
3 1 (5.882%) Trainer
3 1 (5.882%) Software Developer
3 1 (5.882%) Analyst
3 1 (5.882%) Data Architect
3 1 (5.882%) Software Architect
3 1 (5.882%) Systems Engineer
3 1 (5.882%) Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (29.41%) Mathematics
2 2 (11.76%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
3 1 (5.882%) Computer Science
3 1 (5.882%) Firmware
3 1 (5.882%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.76%) Windows
2 1 (5.882%) Windows 7
2 1 (5.882%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (11.76%) Change Management
2 1 (5.882%) Data Analysis
2 1 (5.882%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (5.882%) Time Management
2 1 (5.882%) Data Mapping
2 1 (5.882%) Data Architecture
2 1 (5.882%) Signal Processing
2 1 (5.882%) UML
2 1 (5.882%) OOP
2 1 (5.882%) OO
2 1 (5.882%) Data Modelling
2 1 (5.882%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 3 (17.65%) C++
1 3 (17.65%) MATLAB
2 1 (5.882%) C#
2 1 (5.882%) Embedded C
2 1 (5.882%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (5.882%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.882%) Solvency II
System Software
1 1 (5.882%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (5.882%) IBM
1 1 (5.882%) Microsoft
1 1 (5.882%) EMC