C Contracts in England

C
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 177 221 338
Rank change year-on-year +44 +117 -32
Contract jobs citing C 505 606 546
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.36% 1.20% 0.77%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.63% 3.38% 2.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 205 301 257
10th Percentile £325 £375 £400
25th Percentile £450 £500 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £600 £569
Median % change year-on-year -10.67% +5.45% +33.88%
75th Percentile £588 £688 £650
90th Percentile £706 £775 £780
UK median daily rate £535 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -6.96% - +35.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 187 111 97
10th Percentile £46.25 £40.00 £44.31
25th Percentile £60.00 £50.00 £47.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% +4.55% +22.22%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £86.50 £75.00 £70.20
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +13.04% +4.55% +22.22%

All Programming Languages
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 England with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 10,896 17,934 26,192
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 29.31% 35.39% 36.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,910 13,104 19,309
10th Percentile £350 £385 £381
25th Percentile £425 £463 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £564 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.26% +2.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £670
90th Percentile £775 £798 £763
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 441 439 456
10th Percentile £35.52 £26.12 £20.00
25th Percentile £48.00 £49.46 £35.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £60.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +20.00% +14.94%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £77.00 £69.05
UK median hourly rate £60.50 £60.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +0.83% +20.00% +14.29%

C
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for C in England

C
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for C in England

C
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing C in England over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for C in England

C
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for C in England

C
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing C in England over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for C in England

C
Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 26 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
East of England +35 154 £550 +10.00% 128
South East +10 97 £500 -5.66% 160
South West +36 90 £600 +17.07% 116
London -53 79 £450 -29.63% 89
Midlands +77 60 £535 +33.75% 72
West Midlands +80 57 £535 +42.67% 35
North of England +5 16 £525 +8.25% 64
North West +3 8 £525 +3.96% 41
North East - 6 - - 5
East Midlands +20 3 £590 +31.11% 37
Yorkshire +9 2 - - 18
C
UK

C
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 13 (2.57%) Confluence
2 6 (1.19%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.79%) OpenStack
4 3 (0.59%) nginx
5 2 (0.40%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.20%) JBoss
Applications
1 40 (7.92%) Simulink
2 7 (1.39%) Stateflow
3 5 (0.99%) TargetLink
4 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (1.19%) Teamcenter
2 4 (0.79%) LabWindows
2 4 (0.79%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 3 (0.59%) Endur
3 3 (0.59%) OpenLink RightAngle
4 2 (0.40%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.20%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 55 (10.89%) AWS
2 50 (9.90%) Azure
3 15 (2.97%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (1.98%) Microsoft 365
5 7 (1.39%) Amazon EC2
6 6 (1.19%) Cloud Computing
6 6 (1.19%) Serverless
7 4 (0.79%) Amazon S3
7 4 (0.79%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (0.79%) Datadog
7 4 (0.79%) OpenShift
7 4 (0.79%) PaaS
7 4 (0.79%) Power Automate
7 4 (0.79%) Power Platform
7 4 (0.79%) PowerApps
7 4 (0.79%) SaaS
8 3 (0.59%) Amazon ELB
8 3 (0.59%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 3 (0.59%) Azure Monitor
8 3 (0.59%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 39 (7.72%) RS-422
2 38 (7.52%) Modbus
2 38 (7.52%) RS-485
3 22 (4.36%) Wi-Fi
4 13 (2.57%) 802.11
5 8 (1.58%) TCP/IP
6 7 (1.39%) 5G
6 7 (1.39%) Wireless
7 6 (1.19%) RS-232
8 5 (0.99%) DHCP
8 5 (0.99%) DNS
8 5 (0.99%) J1939
8 5 (0.99%) Network Security
9 4 (0.79%) AMQP
9 4 (0.79%) Firewall
9 4 (0.79%) NAS
9 4 (0.79%) Radio Access Network
9 4 (0.79%) Wireshark
10 3 (0.59%) Reverse Proxy
10 3 (0.59%) Software-Defined Radio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (3.17%) SQL Server
2 12 (2.38%) NoSQL
2 12 (2.38%) Relational Database
3 7 (1.39%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (0.99%) Data Mining
4 5 (0.99%) MySQL
4 5 (0.99%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (0.79%) Amazon Redshift
5 4 (0.79%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (0.79%) Geospatial Data
5 4 (0.79%) InfluxDB
5 4 (0.79%) Oracle Database
5 4 (0.79%) RDBMS
6 3 (0.59%) Data Lake
6 3 (0.59%) DynamoDB
6 3 (0.59%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.40%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (0.40%) Oracle Database 12c
7 2 (0.40%) SAP HANA
8 1 (0.20%) Redis
Development Applications
1 49 (9.70%) Visual Studio
2 48 (9.50%) Git
3 47 (9.31%) PVCS
4 29 (5.74%) JIRA
5 24 (4.75%) Rational DOORS
6 19 (3.76%) Subversion
7 18 (3.56%) Jenkins
8 17 (3.37%) Bitbucket
9 16 (3.17%) Rational Rhapsody
10 8 (1.58%) Gradle
11 7 (1.39%) GCC
12 4 (0.79%) ClearCase
12 4 (0.79%) ClearQuest
12 4 (0.79%) CppUnit
12 4 (0.79%) gcov
12 4 (0.79%) GDB
12 4 (0.79%) GitLab
12 4 (0.79%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 3 (0.59%) LoadRunner
13 3 (0.59%) Rational Team Concert
General
1 85 (16.83%) Social Skills
2 71 (14.06%) Electronics
3 40 (7.92%) Public Sector
4 23 (4.55%) Automotive
5 22 (4.36%) Aerospace
6 19 (3.76%) Telecoms
7 17 (3.37%) Analytical Skills
8 11 (2.18%) Finance
9 10 (1.98%) Law
10 7 (1.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 7 (1.39%) Manufacturing
11 6 (1.19%) Aviation
11 6 (1.19%) Banking
12 5 (0.99%) Billing
12 5 (0.99%) Multimedia
13 3 (0.59%) Military
14 2 (0.40%) Retail
14 2 (0.40%) Wearables
15 1 (0.20%) Investment Banking
15 1 (0.20%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 178 (35.25%) Software Engineer
2 97 (19.21%) Developer
3 83 (16.44%) Embedded Engineer
4 78 (15.45%) Embedded Software Engineer
5 54 (10.69%) Programmer
6 51 (10.10%) C Programmer
7 50 (9.90%) C++ Software Engineer
8 32 (6.34%) C Software Engineer
8 32 (6.34%) Senior
9 23 (4.55%) FPGA Engineer
10 20 (3.96%) C Developer
10 20 (3.96%) C++ Developer
10 20 (3.96%) Design Engineer
10 20 (3.96%) FPGA Design Engineer
10 20 (3.96%) Full Stack Developer
11 19 (3.76%) Architect
12 17 (3.37%) C/C++ Software Engineer
13 14 (2.77%) DevOps Engineer
13 14 (2.77%) Lead
14 13 (2.57%) Software Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (4.36%) React
2 21 (4.16%) .NET
2 21 (4.16%) AngularJS
2 21 (4.16%) Yocto
3 20 (3.96%) Spring
4 15 (2.97%) 802.1X
5 12 (2.38%) HTML
5 12 (2.38%) Node.js
6 11 (2.18%) DirectX
6 11 (2.18%) OpenGL
6 11 (2.18%) REST
6 11 (2.18%) RESTful
6 11 (2.18%) Vulkan
7 10 (1.98%) Itk
7 10 (1.98%) OpenGL ES
8 8 (1.58%) CSS
8 8 (1.58%) XML
9 7 (1.39%) ASP.NET
9 7 (1.39%) LLVM
9 7 (1.39%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 30 (5.94%) Self-Motivation
2 29 (5.74%) Algorithms
2 29 (5.74%) VHDL
3 27 (5.35%) Verilog
4 26 (5.15%) FPGA
5 19 (3.76%) ARM Cortex
6 14 (2.77%) Management Information System
7 13 (2.57%) Device Driver
8 12 (2.38%) STB
9 9 (1.78%) 3D Graphics
9 9 (1.78%) Data Structures
9 9 (1.78%) Product Ownership
9 9 (1.78%) Ray Tracing
10 8 (1.58%) Data Centre
10 8 (1.58%) Embedded Systems
11 7 (1.39%) Distributed Systems
11 7 (1.39%) IoT
12 6 (1.19%) Linux Command Line
12 6 (1.19%) Public Cloud
13 5 (0.99%) CAN bus
Operating Systems
1 123 (24.36%) Linux
2 22 (4.36%) FreeRTOS
2 22 (4.36%) Windows
3 13 (2.57%) Unix
4 8 (1.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (1.19%) Apple iOS
6 5 (0.99%) Android
6 5 (0.99%) Windows 10
6 5 (0.99%) Windows Server
7 4 (0.79%) SafeRTOS
7 4 (0.79%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (0.79%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.20%) CentOS
8 1 (0.20%) Debian
8 1 (0.20%) Embedded Linux
8 1 (0.20%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.20%) VMS
8 1 (0.20%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 216 (42.77%) Software Engineering
2 135 (26.73%) Agile
3 111 (21.98%) DevOps
4 83 (16.44%) Problem-Solving
5 67 (13.27%) Unit Testing
6 59 (11.68%) Software Testing
7 57 (11.29%) Validation
8 49 (9.70%) TDD
9 43 (8.51%) Continuous Integration
10 42 (8.32%) Continuous Improvement
11 39 (7.72%) Scrum
12 38 (7.52%) Customer Requirements
12 38 (7.52%) OO
12 38 (7.52%) Pair Programming
13 34 (6.73%) Test Automation
14 33 (6.53%) Software Architecture
15 31 (6.14%) Full Stack Development
15 31 (6.14%) Multithreading
16 27 (5.35%) Configuration Management
16 27 (5.35%) Verification and Validation
Programming Languages
1 250 (49.50%) C++
2 110 (21.78%) Python
3 78 (15.45%) C#
4 72 (14.26%) Java
5 69 (13.66%) Embedded C
6 54 (10.69%) PL/SQL
7 44 (8.71%) SQL
8 32 (6.34%) Bash
9 31 (6.14%) JavaScript
10 27 (5.35%) MATLAB
11 26 (5.15%) Shell Script
12 22 (4.36%) SystemVerilog
13 21 (4.16%) Perl
14 20 (3.96%) Go
15 18 (3.56%) Embedded C++
16 17 (3.37%) PowerShell
17 15 (2.97%) Ada
17 15 (2.97%) Tcl
18 9 (1.78%) ProC
19 8 (1.58%) Assembly Language
Qualifications
1 161 (31.88%) Security Cleared
2 109 (21.58%) SC Cleared
3 66 (13.07%) Degree
4 52 (10.30%) DV Cleared
5 30 (5.94%) Master's Degree
6 23 (4.55%) PhD
7 15 (2.97%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (0.59%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.40%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.40%) CREST Certified
9 2 (0.40%) OSCP
9 2 (0.40%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 1 (0.20%) CCIE
10 1 (0.20%) CCNP
10 1 (0.20%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (3.76%) QA
2 12 (2.38%) AUTOSAR
3 9 (1.78%) MISRA
4 7 (1.39%) JTAG
5 6 (1.19%) DO-178B
5 6 (1.19%) MISRA C
6 5 (0.99%) ISO 26262
7 4 (0.79%) Def Stans
7 4 (0.79%) IEC 61508
8 3 (0.59%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.40%) ISO 20022
9 2 (0.40%) MiFID
10 1 (0.20%) NIST
10 1 (0.20%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 35 (6.93%) Docker
2 20 (3.96%) Firmware
3 6 (1.19%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (1.19%) VMware NSX
3 6 (1.19%) vSphere
4 5 (0.99%) Embedded Firmware
5 4 (0.79%) Active Directory
5 4 (0.79%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.79%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 31 (6.14%) Kubernetes
2 27 (5.35%) Terraform
3 25 (4.95%) Ansible
4 10 (1.98%) Progress Chef
5 7 (1.39%) Grafana
5 7 (1.39%) Prometheus
6 5 (0.99%) Functional Safety
6 5 (0.99%) Puppet
7 4 (0.79%) Docker Swarm
7 4 (0.79%) HP ALM
7 4 (0.79%) Kibana
7 4 (0.79%) Nagios
8 3 (0.59%) Consul
8 3 (0.59%) Packer
9 1 (0.20%) logstash
9 1 (0.20%) SCOM
9 1 (0.20%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.20%) VxRail
Vendors
1 32 (6.34%) IBM
2 25 (4.95%) Microsoft
3 24 (4.75%) Xilinx
4 22 (4.36%) Oracle
5 18 (3.56%) Intel
5 18 (3.56%) Lauterbach
5 18 (3.56%) Microsemi
6 8 (1.58%) Splunk
7 6 (1.19%) VMware
8 5 (0.99%) HP
8 5 (0.99%) SAP
9 4 (0.79%) AppDynamics
9 4 (0.79%) Atlassian
9 4 (0.79%) BT
9 4 (0.79%) Cisco
9 4 (0.79%) Dynatrace
9 4 (0.79%) Klocwork
9 4 (0.79%) New Relic
9 4 (0.79%) Perforce
9 4 (0.79%) Sparx