The first table below looks at the demand for the C Software Engineer role in IT contracts advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited C Software Engineer in their job title 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 Job Titles advertised for the England 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 Software Engineer
Rank 522 529 551
Rank change year-on-year
+7 +22
Contract jobs requiring a C Software Engineer 10 16 29
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.023% 0.030% 0.051%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.025% 0.033% 0.055%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 10
Average daily rate £310 £308 £293
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+0.81% +5.12%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £302 £262 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £318 £308 £366
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £308 £293
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +5.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 8 14
Average hourly rate - £37.50 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £40.00 £37.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year
+6.66% -
All Job Titles
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
40014 49001 53004
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 92.47% 92.53% 92.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 23687 27821 29587
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £240 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 1959 2399 2806
Average hourly rate £19.00 £18.68 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+1.74% -6.62%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £11.25 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.20 £40.00 £41.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £19.94
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -9.72%
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C Software Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing C Software Engineer across the England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

England C Software Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

C Software Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

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

England C Software Engineer Daily Rate Trend

C Software Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England C Software Engineer Hourly Rate Trend

C Software Engineer
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing C Software Engineer within the England region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Find
Job
Vacancies
South East +28 5 - - 3
East of England +18 3 £320 +4.06% 6
Yorkshire +5 1 £300 -
North West - 1 - -
London - - - -
East Midlands - - - -
North East - - - -
South West - - - - 6
West Midlands - - - -
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C Software Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region that cited C Software Engineer 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 Software Engineer in their job title.

1 20 (100.00%) C
2 15 (75.00%) Embedded C
3 8 (40.00%) C++
4 5 (25.00%) Electronics
4 5 (25.00%) UML
5 4 (20.00%) Linux
5 4 (20.00%) MS Office
5 4 (20.00%) Embedded C++
5 4 (20.00%) TCP/IP
6 3 (15.00%) Signal Processing
6 3 (15.00%) Embedded Systems
6 3 (15.00%) Freescale
6 3 (15.00%) Ethernet
6 3 (15.00%) Device Driver
6 3 (15.00%) Software Engineering
6 3 (15.00%) Flash
7 2 (10.00%) HND
7 2 (10.00%) Visual Studio
7 2 (10.00%) VSS/SourceSafe
7 2 (10.00%) C#
7 2 (10.00%) Subversion
7 2 (10.00%) Firmware
7 2 (10.00%) Embedded Software Development
7 2 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 2 (10.00%) Change Control
7 2 (10.00%) Unit Testing
7 2 (10.00%) SCADA
7 2 (10.00%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
7 2 (10.00%) Software Testing
7 2 (10.00%) Embedded Linux

C Software Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region that cited C Software Engineer 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 Software Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (15.00%) Flash
2 1 (5.000%) Qt
2 1 (5.000%) OpenCL
2 1 (5.000%) DirectCompute
2 1 (5.000%) OpenGL
2 1 (5.000%) MFC
2 1 (5.000%) XML
Applications
1 4 (20.00%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 4 (20.00%) TCP/IP
2 3 (15.00%) Ethernet
3 1 (5.000%) ZigBee
3 1 (5.000%) Modbus
3 1 (5.000%) Internet
3 1 (5.000%) 802.15
3 1 (5.000%) PSTN
Development Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Visual Studio
1 2 (10.00%) VSS/SourceSafe
1 2 (10.00%) Subversion
General
1 5 (25.00%) Electronics
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.00%) Embedded Systems
1 3 (15.00%) Device Driver
2 2 (10.00%) Firmware
2 2 (10.00%) SCADA
2 2 (10.00%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
3 1 (5.000%) Smartphone
3 1 (5.000%) CUDA
3 1 (5.000%) STB
Operating Systems
1 4 (20.00%) Linux
2 2 (10.00%) Embedded Linux
3 1 (5.000%) Android
3 1 (5.000%) Tizen
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (25.00%) UML
2 3 (15.00%) Signal Processing
2 3 (15.00%) Software Engineering
3 2 (10.00%) Embedded Software Development
3 2 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (10.00%) Change Control
3 2 (10.00%) Unit Testing
3 2 (10.00%) Software Testing
4 1 (5.000%) Multithreading
4 1 (5.000%) Agile Software Development
4 1 (5.000%) Scrum
4 1 (5.000%) OO
4 1 (5.000%) OOD
Programming Languages
1 20 (100.00%) C
2 15 (75.00%) Embedded C
3 8 (40.00%) C++
4 4 (20.00%) Embedded C++
5 2 (10.00%) C#
6 1 (5.000%) Java
6 1 (5.000%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (10.00%) HND
Vendors
1 3 (15.00%) Freescale
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