The first table below looks at the demand for C skills in IT contracts advertised for the Gloucester 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 Gloucester 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 - 15 9
Contract jobs citing C 0 16 13
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Gloucester - 10.53% 12.62%
As % of the Programming Languages category - 21.33% 26.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 8 4
Average daily rate - £500 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +25.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £360 £325
% change year-on-year
-2.77% +10.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 7
Average hourly rate - - £37.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £37.50 £36.50
% change year-on-year
-20.00% +2.73%
All Programming Languages
Gloucester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
24 75 49
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Gloucester 32.43% 49.34% 47.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 58 26
Average daily rate £400 £400 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +23.07%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £305 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £445 £500 £410
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 9
Average hourly rate £54.50 £21.00 £36.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+159.52% -41.66%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £35.00
C
Gloucestershire

C
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Gloucester 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 Gloucester region.

Gloucester C Daily Rate Trend

C
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Gloucester C Hourly Rate Trend

C
Top 2 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucester 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 2 (66.67%) Embedded C
2 1 (33.33%) Mathematics

C
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucester 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.

Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Embedded Software Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Embedded C Software Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Embedded C Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) C Software Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Real Time Software Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Real Time Embedded Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Real Time Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Software Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Customer Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Embedded C