The first table below looks at the demand for C skills in IT contracts advertised for the Essex region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited C over the 3 months to 23 May 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 Essex 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
C
Rank 21 36 43
Rank change year-on-year
+15 +7
Contract jobs citing C 26 12 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Essex 6.549% 2.941% 1.737%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.48% 8.955% 5.385%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 0 0
Average daily rate £325 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £400 £300
% change year-on-year
-12.50% +33.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 2
Average hourly rate £50.00 £45.00 £24.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+11.11% +83.67%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £34.50 £36.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year
-5.47% +1.38%
All Programming Languages
Essex
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
168 134 130
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Essex 42.32% 32.84% 32.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 60 57
Average daily rate £263 £265 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-0.94% -11.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £190 £172 £213
10% offered a daily rate of more than £413 £425 £495
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 16 21
Average hourly rate £27.50 £27.50 £30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -8.33%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £22.66 £26.00 £25.55
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £50.00 £40.00 £33.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
C
East of England

C
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Essex 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 Essex region.

Essex 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 Essex region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Essex 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 Essex region.

Essex C Hourly Rate Trend

C
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing C across the Essex region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Essex C Hourly Rate Histogram

C
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing C within the Essex region over the 3 months to 23 May 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
Brentwood - 10 £325 -
Colchester +5 5 £413 -
Chelmsford -5 2 - -
Basildon 0 1 £300 -
Southend-on-Sea - 1 - -
C
East of England

C
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Essex 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 21 (72.41%) Linux
2 10 (34.48%) DHCP
2 10 (34.48%) DNS
2 10 (34.48%) Firewall
3 8 (27.59%) Project Management
3 8 (27.59%) UNIX
4 7 (24.14%) Solaris
4 7 (24.14%) Embedded C
4 7 (24.14%) Embedded Linux
4 7 (24.14%) Multithreading
5 6 (20.69%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (20.69%) Agile Software Development
5 6 (20.69%) Electronics
5 6 (20.69%) VMware
5 6 (20.69%) Cisco
5 6 (20.69%) Citrix
5 6 (20.69%) TCP/IP
5 6 (20.69%) Juniper
5 6 (20.69%) Configuration Management
6 5 (17.24%) HP
6 5 (17.24%) Thin Client
6 5 (17.24%) CheckPoint
6 5 (17.24%) OSPF
6 5 (17.24%) VoIP
6 5 (17.24%) WAN
6 5 (17.24%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (17.24%) CCIE
6 5 (17.24%) CCNP
6 5 (17.24%) E-Commerce
6 5 (17.24%) Blue Coat

C
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Essex 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 4 (13.79%) HTML
1 4 (13.79%) CGI
2 1 (3.448%) POSIX
2 1 (3.448%) JMS
2 1 (3.448%) J2EE
2 1 (3.448%) EJB
2 1 (3.448%) JSP
2 1 (3.448%) Servlets
2 1 (3.448%) XML
2 1 (3.448%) XSD
2 1 (3.448%) XSLT
2 1 (3.448%) XML Schema
2 1 (3.448%) JAXB
2 1 (3.448%) Qt
2 1 (3.448%) JPA
2 1 (3.448%) EJB 3.0
Application Platforms
1 1 (3.448%) Tuxedo
1 1 (3.448%) WebLogic
1 1 (3.448%) IIS
1 1 (3.448%) Oracle Service Bus
Applications
1 1 (3.448%) MS Office
1 1 (3.448%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 1 (3.448%) VisionPLUS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (34.48%) DHCP
1 10 (34.48%) DNS
1 10 (34.48%) Firewall
2 6 (20.69%) TCP/IP
3 5 (17.24%) OSPF
3 5 (17.24%) VoIP
3 5 (17.24%) WAN
3 5 (17.24%) BIG-IP
3 5 (17.24%) Wireless
3 5 (17.24%) NetScreen
3 5 (17.24%) Cisco ASA
3 5 (17.24%) Network Security
3 5 (17.24%) Cisco IOS
3 5 (17.24%) DMVPN
4 4 (13.79%) DLNA
4 4 (13.79%) 4G
4 4 (13.79%) Wi-Fi
4 4 (13.79%) UPnP
4 4 (13.79%) Broadband
4 4 (13.79%) FTP
Development Applications
1 4 (13.79%) Trac
1 4 (13.79%) JIRA
1 4 (13.79%) ClearCase
2 1 (3.448%) PVCS
General
1 6 (20.69%) Electronics
2 2 (6.897%) Automotive
3 1 (3.448%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 10 (34.48%) Developer
2 5 (17.24%) Security Specialist
2 5 (17.24%) Network Specialist
2 5 (17.24%) Software Developer
2 5 (17.24%) Network Security Specialist
2 5 (17.24%) E-Commerce Specialist
3 3 (10.34%) C Developer
4 2 (6.897%) Analyst
5 1 (3.448%) Payments Business Analyst
5 1 (3.448%) Systems Engineer
5 1 (3.448%) Support Analyst
5 1 (3.448%) 2nd Line Support
5 1 (3.448%) Architect
5 1 (3.448%) Business Analyst
5 1 (3.448%) Software Engineer
5 1 (3.448%) Applications Architect
5 1 (3.448%) Senior Software Engineer
5 1 (3.448%) Technical Leader
5 1 (3.448%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
5 1 (3.448%) Linux Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.24%) Thin Client
1 5 (17.24%) Fat Client
2 3 (10.34%) Streaming Media
3 2 (6.897%) Telematics
3 2 (6.897%) NHS
3 2 (6.897%) SystemC
4 1 (3.448%) DTV
4 1 (3.448%) Mainframe
4 1 (3.448%) Device Driver
4 1 (3.448%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
Operating Systems
1 21 (72.41%) Linux
2 8 (27.59%) UNIX
3 7 (24.14%) Solaris
3 7 (24.14%) Embedded Linux
4 1 (3.448%) Windows
4 1 (3.448%) VME
4 1 (3.448%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (27.59%) Project Management
2 7 (24.14%) Multithreading
3 6 (20.69%) Agile Software Development
3 6 (20.69%) Configuration Management
4 5 (17.24%) E-Commerce
5 4 (13.79%) Migration
6 2 (6.897%) OO
7 1 (3.448%) Change Control
7 1 (3.448%) RUP
7 1 (3.448%) UML
7 1 (3.448%) SOA
7 1 (3.448%) ITIL
7 1 (3.448%) Workflow
7 1 (3.448%) GAP Analysis
7 1 (3.448%) Service Delivery
7 1 (3.448%) Change Management
7 1 (3.448%) Software Engineering
7 1 (3.448%) Software Architecture
7 1 (3.448%) User Acceptance Testing
7 1 (3.448%) Performance Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (24.14%) Embedded C
2 4 (13.79%) Java
2 4 (13.79%) JavaScript
3 1 (3.448%) C#
3 1 (3.448%) C++
3 1 (3.448%) PL/SQL
3 1 (3.448%) SQL
3 1 (3.448%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 5 (17.24%) Cisco Certification
1 5 (17.24%) CCIE
1 5 (17.24%) CCNP
1 5 (17.24%) CCSE
2 1 (3.448%) MCSE
2 1 (3.448%) MCSA
2 1 (3.448%) MCP
2 1 (3.448%) HNC
2 1 (3.448%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (3.448%) BC Cleared
2 1 (3.448%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.448%) Degree
System Software
1 6 (20.69%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (17.24%) ProxySG
3 1 (3.448%) Active Directory
3 1 (3.448%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 5 (17.24%) Cisco UCCX
1 5 (17.24%) Cisco CUCM
2 1 (3.448%) McAfee ePO
Vendors
1 6 (20.69%) VMware
1 6 (20.69%) Cisco
1 6 (20.69%) Citrix
1 6 (20.69%) Juniper
2 5 (17.24%) HP
2 5 (17.24%) CheckPoint
2 5 (17.24%) Blue Coat
2 5 (17.24%) Infoblox
2 5 (17.24%) Imperva
2 5 (17.24%) F5
3 2 (6.897%) BT
4 1 (3.448%) Oracle
4 1 (3.448%) BEA
4 1 (3.448%) McKesson
4 1 (3.448%) McAfee
4 1 (3.448%) MathWorks
4 1 (3.448%) Microsoft
4 1 (3.448%) LANDesk
4 1 (3.448%) Fujitsu
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