Gloucestershire C Contracts

This section looks at the demand for C skills within the Gloucestershire region with a comparison to our Programming Languages category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited C over the 3 months to 7 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Alderley Edge Avon Aylesbury Barrow-in-Furness Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bexley Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Cheadle Cheltenham Cheshire Chesterfield Chippenham City of London Colchester Corsham County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Crawley Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorchester Dorset East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Feltham Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Grays Guildford Hampshire Havant Hemel Hempstead Hendon Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Horsham Hounslow Ilford Ipswich Jersey Kent Kidderminster Lancashire Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Louth Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Malvern Manchester Mansfield Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Pontypool Portsmouth Prescot Preston Reading Redhill Rochester Romsey Salisbury Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shrewsbury Shropshire Skelmersdale Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Swansea Swindon Teesside Thames Valley Thurrock Torfaen Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warminster Warrington Warwickshire Watford Wells West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weybridge Whyteleafe Wilmslow Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Yorkshire	3 months to 7 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	12	16
Rank change on same period last year	+4
Matching contract IT job ads	42	44
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.055 %	0.047 %
As % of the category below	30.00 %	33.85 %
Daily rates quoted	3	11
Average minimum daily rate	£341	£431
Average daily rate	£341	£447
% change on same period last year	-23.60 %
Average maximum daily rate	£341	£463
UK excluding London average daily rate	£356	£349
% change on same period last year	+2.05 %
Hourly rates quoted	14	21
Average minimum hourly rate	£27.36	£32.76
Average hourly rate	£33.71	£33.60
% change on same period last year	+0.35 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£40.07	£34.43
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£34.78	£34.75
% change on same period last year	+0.09 %
Programming Languages Gloucestershire
Matching contract IT job ads	140	130
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.184 %	0.138 %
Daily rates quoted	26	18
Average minimum daily rate	£312	£369
Average daily rate	£327	£392
% change on same period last year	-16.64 %
Average maximum daily rate	£343	£416
UK excluding London average daily rate	£337	£332
% change on same period last year	+1.52 %
Hourly rates quoted	27	34
Average minimum hourly rate	£33.23	£30.67
Average hourly rate	£36.24	£31.73
% change on same period last year	+14.21 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£39.25	£32.79
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.23	£33.20
% change on same period last year	+0.10 %
C South West

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.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing C across the Gloucestershire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing C across the Gloucestershire region over the 3 months to 7 July 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing C across the Gloucestershire region over the 3 months to 7 July 2008.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing C within the Gloucestershire region over the 3 months to 7 July 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
Cheltenham	+4	9	£337	-
Gloucester	+3	1	-	-

C South West

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 7 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucestershire 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 53 (84.13 %) Security Cleared 2 47 (74.60 %) DV Cleared 3 23 (36.51 %) PRINCE2 4 16 (25.40 %) Configuration Management 5 15 (23.81 %) RUP 6 14 (22.22 %) C++ 7 13 (20.63 %) SC Cleared 7 13 (20.63 %) Unified Process 8 11 (17.46 %) Project Management 9 10 (15.87 %) Java 10 9 (14.29 %) Government 11 8 (12.70 %) OO 11 8 (12.70 %) ClearCase 12 7 (11.11 %) J2EE 12 7 (11.11 %) VB

12 7 (11.11 %) Sun 12 7 (11.11 %) Sun Certification 13 6 (9.524 %) Unix 13 6 (9.524 %) Oracle 14 5 (7.937 %) Linux 15 4 (6.349 %) Requirements Management 15 4 (6.349 %) Marketing 15 4 (6.349 %) Use Case 15 4 (6.349 %) Service Management 15 4 (6.349 %) Oracle 9i 15 4 (6.349 %) Oracle 10g 15 4 (6.349 %) PL/SQL 15 4 (6.349 %) SQL 15 4 (6.349 %) Windows 15 4 (6.349 %) Solaris

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 7 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucestershire 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 7 (11.11 %) J2EE 2 2 (3.175 %) .NET 3 1 (1.587 %) ASP.NET	Applications 1 4 (6.349 %) Simulink 2 2 (3.175 %) MS Visio 3 1 (1.587 %) MATLAB
Communications & Networking 1 3 (4.762 %) TCP/IP 2 2 (3.175 %) Ethernet 3 1 (1.587 %) DHCP 3 1 (1.587 %) DNS 3 1 (1.587 %) SAN	Database & Business Intelligence 1 4 (6.349 %) Oracle 9i 1 4 (6.349 %) Oracle 10g 2 1 (1.587 %) SQL Server 2000 2 1 (1.587 %) SQL Server 2005 2 1 (1.587 %) SQL Server
Development Applications 1 8 (12.70 %) ClearCase 2 1 (1.587 %) TestDirector 2 1 (1.587 %) LoadRunner	General 1 9 (14.29 %) Government 2 4 (6.349 %) Marketing 3 3 (4.762 %) Aerospace 4 1 (1.587 %) Electric 4 1 (1.587 %) Pharmaceutical 4 1 (1.587 %) Electronics 4 1 (1.587 %) Law 4 1 (1.587 %) Military
Job Titles 1 13 (20.63 %) Developer 2 11 (17.46 %) Project Support Officer 2 11 (17.46 %) Project Officer 3 10 (15.87 %) Consultant 4 8 (12.70 %) Java Developer 4 8 (12.70 %) Business Consultant 5 7 (11.11 %) Software Engineer 6 5 (7.937 %) Java/J2EE Developer 7 4 (6.349 %) Requirements Engineer 7 4 (6.349 %) Oracle Developer 8 3 (4.762 %) Systems Engineer 9 2 (3.175 %) Coordinator 9 2 (3.175 %) Analyst 9 2 (3.175 %) Test Manager 10 1 (1.587 %) Test Analyst 10 1 (1.587 %) IT Manager 10 1 (1.587 %) Architect 10 1 (1.587 %) Tester 10 1 (1.587 %) Systems Administrator 10 1 (1.587 %) Analyst Programmer	Miscellaneous 1 1 (1.587 %) Clustering 1 1 (1.587 %) PDA 1 1 (1.587 %) Physics 1 1 (1.587 %) Computer Science
Operating Systems 1 6 (9.524 %) Unix 2 5 (7.937 %) Linux 3 4 (6.349 %) Windows 3 4 (6.349 %) Solaris 4 3 (4.762 %) HPUX 5 2 (3.175 %) Windows CE 5 2 (3.175 %) VxWorks 6 1 (1.587 %) Windows Mobile 6 1 (1.587 %) Windows 2000	Processes & Methodologies 1 53 (84.13 %) Security Cleared 2 47 (74.60 %) DV Cleared 3 23 (36.51 %) PRINCE2 4 16 (25.40 %) Configuration Management 5 15 (23.81 %) RUP 6 13 (20.63 %) Unified Process 6 13 (20.63 %) SC Cleared 7 11 (17.46 %) Project Management 8 8 (12.70 %) OO 9 4 (6.349 %) Service Management 9 4 (6.349 %) Use Case 9 4 (6.349 %) Requirements Management 10 3 (4.762 %) Integration Testing 10 3 (4.762 %) Test Scripting 10 3 (4.762 %) Quality Management 10 3 (4.762 %) Service Delivery 10 3 (4.762 %) UML 11 2 (3.175 %) QMS 11 2 (3.175 %) Software Engineering 11 2 (3.175 %) Validation
Programming Languages 1 14 (22.22 %) C++ 2 10 (15.87 %) Java 3 7 (11.11 %) VB 4 4 (6.349 %) PL/SQL 4 4 (6.349 %) SQL 5 3 (4.762 %) Perl 5 3 (4.762 %) Ada 5 3 (4.762 %) Embedded C 5 3 (4.762 %) Embedded C++ 5 3 (4.762 %) Shell Script 6 2 (3.175 %) C# 7 1 (1.587 %) VC++	Qualifications 1 7 (11.11 %) Sun Certification 2 3 (4.762 %) ISEB 2 3 (4.762 %) PRINCE2 Certification 3 2 (3.175 %) Degree
System Software 1 1 (1.587 %) NFS 1 1 (1.587 %) Active Directory	Vendors 1 7 (11.11 %) Sun 2 6 (9.524 %) Oracle 3 1 (1.587 %) Citrix