England C Developer Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the C Developer role in IT contracts within the England region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited C Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 3 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

C Developer
Location Basingstoke Berkshire Bristol Buckinghamshire Cheshire Chester City of London Croydon East Anglia East Midlands East of England England Farnborough Guildford Hampshire Hertfordshire Kent Leamington Spa London Macclesfield Manchester Midlands Newcastle North East North West Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Portsmouth Reading Scotland Sheffield South Coast South East South West South Yorkshire Stockport Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Swindon Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Warwickshire West Midlands Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 3 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	422	402
Rank change on same period last year	-20
Matching contract IT job ads	91	235
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.147 %	0.256 %
As % of the category below	0.179 %	0.301 %
Daily rates quoted	12	63
Average minimum daily rate	£342	£428
Average daily rate	£379	£454
% change on same period last year	-16.63 %
Average maximum daily rate	£416	£480
UK excluding London average daily rate	£321	£366
% change on same period last year	-12.26 %
Hourly rates quoted	15	28
Average minimum hourly rate	£34.63	£34.71
Average hourly rate	£36.56	£36.41
% change on same period last year	+0.41 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£38.50	£38.11
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£36.25	£37.48
% change on same period last year	-3.27 %
Job Titles England
Matching contract IT job ads	50933	78171
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	82.24 %	85.27 %
Daily rates quoted	16364	24078
Average minimum daily rate	£364	£387
Average daily rate	£389	£411
% change on same period last year	-5.40 %
Average maximum daily rate	£414	£436
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£352
% change on same period last year	+0.12 %
Hourly rates quoted	4987	7076
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.93	£23.32
Average hourly rate	£23.38	£24.88
% change on same period last year	-6.03 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£24.82	£26.43
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.16	£23.97
% change on same period last year	-3.40 %
C Developer UK

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.

C Developer
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing C Developer across the England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

C Developer
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing C Developer across the England region.

C Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing C Developer across the England region over the 3 months to 3 December 2008.

C Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing C Developer across the England region.

C Developer
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing C Developer across the England region over the 3 months to 3 December 2008.

C Developer
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing C Developer within the England region over the 3 months to 3 December 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
South East	-2	30	£319	-23.19 %
London	+20	26	£398	-19.44 %
North West	+25	11	-	-
South West	+3	9	£325	-18.75 %
Midlands	+26	5	-	-
East of England	-10	3	-	-
North East	+14	2	-	-
Yorkshire	+35	2	-	-
East Midlands	+22	2	-	-
West Midlands	+19	1	-	-
South Coast	-	1	-	-

C Developer UK

C Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 3 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the England region that cited C Developer in their job title 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 with C Developer in their job title.

1 163 (100.00 %) C 2 94 (57.67 %) C++ 3 53 (32.52 %) UNIX 4 48 (29.45 %) Linux 5 39 (23.93 %) Embedded C 6 35 (21.47 %) SQL 7 28 (17.18 %) Windows 8 23 (14.11 %) Java 8 23 (14.11 %) Banking 9 22 (13.50 %) Perl 10 18 (11.04 %) XML 11 17 (10.43 %) Finance 12 16 (9.816 %) ClearCase 12 16 (9.816 %) VMS 12 16 (9.816 %) Sybase

13 15 (9.202 %) UML 13 15 (9.202 %) C# 13 15 (9.202 %) Telecoms 13 15 (9.202 %) Security Cleared 14 13 (7.975 %) Shell Script 14 13 (7.975 %) Python 15 12 (7.362 %) Embedded C++ 16 10 (6.135 %) Credit Risk 16 10 (6.135 %) Middleware 16 10 (6.135 %) .NET 17 9 (5.521 %) VB 17 9 (5.521 %) Mac OS X 17 9 (5.521 %) Aerospace 18 8 (4.908 %) STB 18 8 (4.908 %) Investment Banking

C Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 3 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the England region that cited C Developer in their job title 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 with C Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 18 (11.04 %) XML 2 10 (6.135 %) Middleware 2 10 (6.135 %) .NET 3 8 (4.908 %) Motif 4 6 (3.681 %) OpenGL 5 5 (3.067 %) ASP.NET 6 4 (2.454 %) Servlets 7 3 (1.840 %) HTML 7 3 (1.840 %) J2EE 7 3 (1.840 %) X-Windows 8 2 (1.227 %) AJAX 8 2 (1.227 %) .NET Framework 8 2 (1.227 %) CSS 8 2 (1.227 %) WebServices 8 2 (1.227 %) POSIX 9 1 (0.613 %) WAP 9 1 (0.613 %) J2ME 9 1 (0.613 %) JMS 9 1 (0.613 %) DirectX 9 1 (0.613 %) MHP	Application Platforms 1 5 (3.067 %) Tuxedo 2 1 (0.613 %) MQSeries 2 1 (0.613 %) BizTalk Server 2 1 (0.613 %) JBoss
Applications 1 3 (1.840 %) Photoshop 1 3 (1.840 %) CATIA 2 1 (0.613 %) MS Office 2 1 (0.613 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 8 (4.908 %) GSM 1 8 (4.908 %) UMTS 2 6 (3.681 %) DVB 3 5 (3.067 %) TCP/IP 4 4 (2.454 %) CDMA 4 4 (2.454 %) TETRA 5 2 (1.227 %) VoIP 5 2 (1.227 %) 3G 5 2 (1.227 %) SS7 6 1 (0.613 %) Wi-Fi 6 1 (0.613 %) Wireless 6 1 (0.613 %) 802.11 6 1 (0.613 %) CDMA2000 6 1 (0.613 %) Internet 6 1 (0.613 %) WCDMA 6 1 (0.613 %) SNMP 6 1 (0.613 %) DECT 6 1 (0.613 %) GPRS 6 1 (0.613 %) Bluetooth 6 1 (0.613 %) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence 1 8 (4.908 %) GIS 2 6 (3.681 %) SQL Server 3 5 (3.067 %) Ingres 4 3 (1.840 %) SQL Server 2005 4 3 (1.840 %) MySQL 5 2 (1.227 %) RDBMS 5 2 (1.227 %) SQL Server 2000 6 1 (0.613 %) Oracle 8/8i	Development Applications 1 16 (9.816 %) ClearCase 2 6 (3.681 %) Visual Studio 3 3 (1.840 %) PowerBuilder 3 3 (1.840 %) ProC 4 1 (0.613 %) ClearQuest 4 1 (0.613 %) Subversion 4 1 (0.613 %) Ant 4 1 (0.613 %) JUnit
General 1 23 (14.11 %) Banking 2 17 (10.43 %) Finance 3 15 (9.202 %) Telecoms 4 9 (5.521 %) Aerospace 5 8 (4.908 %) Investment Banking 6 7 (4.294 %) Games 7 6 (3.681 %) Automotive 8 5 (3.067 %) Military 9 4 (2.454 %) 3D Graphics 10 3 (1.840 %) Government 11 2 (1.227 %) Manufacturing 11 2 (1.227 %) Insurance 11 2 (1.227 %) Pensions 12 1 (0.613 %) Animation 12 1 (0.613 %) Retail 12 1 (0.613 %) Multimedia 12 1 (0.613 %) Financial Institution 12 1 (0.613 %) Front Office 12 1 (0.613 %) Electronics 12 1 (0.613 %) Health	Miscellaneous 1 10 (6.135 %) Credit Risk 2 8 (4.908 %) STB 3 7 (4.294 %) iPhone 4 4 (2.454 %) Device Driver 5 3 (1.840 %) Client/Server 5 3 (1.840 %) DTV 6 2 (1.227 %) Multithreading 6 2 (1.227 %) Field-Programmable Gate Array 6 2 (1.227 %) iDTV 7 1 (0.613 %) Firmware 7 1 (0.613 %) MPEG 7 1 (0.613 %) Handset 7 1 (0.613 %) Fixed Income 7 1 (0.613 %) Grid Computing 7 1 (0.613 %) Equities 7 1 (0.613 %) Mathematics 7 1 (0.613 %) Market Risk
Operating Systems 1 53 (32.52 %) UNIX 2 48 (29.45 %) Linux 3 28 (17.18 %) Windows 4 16 (9.816 %) VMS 5 9 (5.521 %) Mac OS X 6 6 (3.681 %) Solaris 7 3 (1.840 %) VxWorks 7 3 (1.840 %) Embedded Linux 8 2 (1.227 %) Red Hat Linux 8 2 (1.227 %) pSOS 9 1 (0.613 %) Windows Mobile 9 1 (0.613 %) Windows NT 9 1 (0.613 %) Windows Vista	Processes & Methodologies 1 15 (9.202 %) UML 1 15 (9.202 %) Security Cleared 2 7 (4.294 %) SC Cleared 3 6 (3.681 %) Unit Testing 3 6 (3.681 %) Integration Testing 4 5 (3.067 %) Agile Software Development 4 5 (3.067 %) OO 5 3 (1.840 %) Configuration Management 5 3 (1.840 %) Data Management 6 2 (1.227 %) Software Engineering 6 2 (1.227 %) Migration 6 2 (1.227 %) Extreme Programming 6 2 (1.227 %) OOD 6 2 (1.227 %) OOA/OOD 7 1 (0.613 %) Yourdon 7 1 (0.613 %) Identity Management 7 1 (0.613 %) Risk Management 7 1 (0.613 %) Software Testing 7 1 (0.613 %) BC Cleared
Programming Languages 1 163 (100.00 %) C 2 94 (57.67 %) C++ 3 39 (23.93 %) Embedded C 4 35 (21.47 %) SQL 5 23 (14.11 %) Java 6 22 (13.50 %) Perl 7 15 (9.202 %) C# 8 13 (7.975 %) Python 8 13 (7.975 %) Shell Script 9 12 (7.362 %) Embedded C++ 10 9 (5.521 %) VB 11 7 (4.294 %) Objective-C 12 4 (2.454 %) VC++ 12 4 (2.454 %) PHP 13 3 (1.840 %) JavaScript 13 3 (1.840 %) VB.NET 13 3 (1.840 %) Transact-SQL 14 2 (1.227 %) Assembly Language 14 2 (1.227 %) PL/SQL 14 2 (1.227 %) VB6	Qualifications 1 1 (0.613 %) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (0.613 %) JTAG	Systems Management 1 1 (0.613 %) AutoSys
Vendors 1 16 (9.816 %) Sybase 2 5 (3.067 %) Oracle 3 4 (2.454 %) Apple 4 3 (1.840 %) Perforce 5 2 (1.227 %) telerik 5 2 (1.227 %) Red Hat 5 2 (1.227 %) QNX 5 2 (1.227 %) BEA 5 2 (1.227 %) Informatica 6 1 (0.613 %) Siemens 6 1 (0.613 %) Hyperion 6 1 (0.613 %) Symbian 6 1 (0.613 %) IBM 6 1 (0.613 %) Microsoft 6 1 (0.613 %) HP 6 1 (0.613 %) Telelogic 6 1 (0.613 %) Tangosol 6 1 (0.613 %) DataSynapse