The first table below looks at the demand for C skills in IT contracts advertised for the Gloucestershire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited C over the 3 months to 24 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 Gloucestershire 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
C
Rank 5 4 26
Rank change year-on-year
-1 +22
Contract jobs citing C 63 150 21
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Gloucestershire 23.25% 23.29% 4.817%
As % of the Programming Languages category 44.37% 40.21% 10.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 69 4
Average daily rate £463 £500 £293
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.50% +70.94%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £403 £288 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £573 £520 £420
UK excluding London average daily rate £345 £400 £300
% change year-on-year
-13.75% +33.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 17 9
Average hourly rate £33.75 £25.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+35.00% -28.57%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £29.00 £25.00 £34.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £50.00 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.50 £36.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
-9.72% -1.36%
All Programming Languages
Gloucestershire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
142 373 207
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Gloucestershire 52.40% 57.92% 47.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 210 90
Average daily rate £400 £425 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.88% +41.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £300 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 25 39
Average hourly rate £39.00 £32.50 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+20.00% -7.14%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £24.50 £25.00 £17.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £50.00 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
C
South West

C
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Gloucestershire 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 Gloucestershire region.

Gloucestershire 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 Gloucestershire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Gloucestershire 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 Gloucestershire region.

Gloucestershire 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 Gloucestershire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Gloucestershire 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 Gloucestershire region over the 3 months to 24 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
Cheltenham -13 2 - -
C
South West

C
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, 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.

1 226 (92.62%) Security Cleared
2 218 (89.34%) DV Cleared
3 116 (47.54%) Linux
4 91 (37.30%) Java
5 73 (29.92%) Windows
6 70 (28.69%) UNIX
7 50 (20.49%) Oracle
8 40 (16.39%) UML
9 39 (15.98%) Red Hat
9 39 (15.98%) Service Management
10 38 (15.57%) JBoss
11 37 (15.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 36 (14.75%) SAN
13 34 (13.93%) NetApp
13 34 (13.93%) Shell Script
13 34 (13.93%) HP
14 30 (12.30%) VMware
14 30 (12.30%) Agile Software Development
14 30 (12.30%) Maven
14 30 (12.30%) VMware Infrastructure
15 26 (10.66%) OO
15 26 (10.66%) Perl
16 25 (10.25%) Cisco
17 23 (9.426%) Finance
17 23 (9.426%) Stakeholder Management
17 23 (9.426%) JPA
18 22 (9.016%) Clustering
18 22 (9.016%) Configuration Management
18 22 (9.016%) DHCP
18 22 (9.016%) DNS

C
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, 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 23 (9.426%) JPA
2 22 (9.016%) EJB
3 19 (7.787%) jQuery
4 15 (6.148%) GWT
4 15 (6.148%) Drools
4 15 (6.148%) EJB 3.0
4 15 (6.148%) JMS
4 15 (6.148%) J2EE
5 12 (4.918%) HTML
6 11 (4.508%) Web Services
7 8 (3.279%) REST
8 7 (2.869%) RESTful
8 7 (2.869%) SOAP
8 7 (2.869%) JavaBeans
8 7 (2.869%) Swing
8 7 (2.869%) Hibernate
9 5 (2.049%) SWT
9 5 (2.049%) CSS
10 4 (1.639%) ASP.NET
10 4 (1.639%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 12 (4.918%) Apache
2 4 (1.639%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.639%) MS Project Server
2 4 (1.639%) SharePoint 2010
3 2 (0.820%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 10 (4.098%) MS Excel
2 8 (3.279%) MS Project
3 1 (0.410%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 36 (14.75%) SAN
2 22 (9.016%) DHCP
2 22 (9.016%) DNS
3 17 (6.967%) LAN
3 17 (6.967%) WAN
3 17 (6.967%) Ethernet
4 15 (6.148%) Internet
5 12 (4.918%) Firewall
6 8 (3.279%) VPN
7 6 (2.459%) ASN.1
8 2 (0.820%) TCP/IP
8 2 (0.820%) Network Security
9 1 (0.410%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (9.016%) MySQL
2 18 (7.377%) QlikView
3 15 (6.148%) RDBMS
4 6 (2.459%) SQL Server
5 5 (2.049%) Oracle 11g
6 4 (1.639%) SQL Server 2008
6 4 (1.639%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 4 (1.639%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 3 (1.230%) Oracle BI EE
7 3 (1.230%) Oracle OLAP
7 3 (1.230%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (1.230%) OLAP
7 3 (1.230%) Essbase
Development Applications
1 30 (12.30%) Maven
2 11 (4.508%) Eclipse
3 10 (4.098%) Visual Studio
4 8 (3.279%) Ant
4 8 (3.279%) JUnit
4 8 (3.279%) Git (software)
4 8 (3.279%) Hudson
5 6 (2.459%) GCC
6 5 (2.049%) Eclipse RCP
6 5 (2.049%) JIRA
7 4 (1.639%) Dreamweaver
8 1 (0.410%) TestDirector
8 1 (0.410%) LoadRunner
General
1 23 (9.426%) Finance
2 7 (2.869%) Aerospace
3 6 (2.459%) Electronics
4 4 (1.639%) Avionics
5 2 (0.820%) Military
5 2 (0.820%) Telecoms
5 2 (0.820%) Games
5 2 (0.820%) Legal
5 2 (0.820%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 78 (31.97%) Developer
2 37 (15.16%) Java Developer
3 35 (14.34%) Software Engineer
4 27 (11.07%) Architect
5 22 (9.016%) Linux Engineer
5 22 (9.016%) UNIX Engineer
6 17 (6.967%) Technical Architect
6 17 (6.967%) Storage Engineer
7 12 (4.918%) Systems Engineer
8 11 (4.508%) Project Officer
8 11 (4.508%) Project Support Officer
8 11 (4.508%) Support Engineer
8 11 (4.508%) Analyst
9 8 (3.279%) Build Engineer
10 7 (2.869%) Storage Support Engineer
10 7 (2.869%) HTML Developer
10 7 (2.869%) Applications Manager
10 7 (2.869%) Software Manager
10 7 (2.869%) Software Developer
10 7 (2.869%) Senior Developer
Miscellaneous
1 22 (9.016%) Clustering
2 15 (6.148%) RIA
3 9 (3.689%) Fat Client
3 9 (3.689%) Thin Client
4 7 (2.869%) Management Information System
5 6 (2.459%) Embedded Systems
6 4 (1.639%) Data Integration
7 2 (0.820%) Mathematics
8 1 (0.410%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 116 (47.54%) Linux
2 73 (29.92%) Windows
3 70 (28.69%) UNIX
4 37 (15.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 19 (7.787%) Solaris
6 6 (2.459%) VxWorks
6 6 (2.459%) Android
7 2 (0.820%) HPUX
7 2 (0.820%) Windows 7
8 1 (0.410%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.410%) CentOS
8 1 (0.410%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (16.39%) UML
2 39 (15.98%) Service Management
3 30 (12.30%) Agile Software Development
4 26 (10.66%) OO
5 23 (9.426%) Stakeholder Management
6 22 (9.016%) Configuration Management
7 18 (7.377%) Software Engineering
7 18 (7.377%) ITIL
7 18 (7.377%) PRINCE2
7 18 (7.377%) Data Modelling
8 17 (6.967%) Enterprise Architecture
8 17 (6.967%) Data Protection
8 17 (6.967%) Root Cause Analysis
9 16 (6.557%) Release Management
10 15 (6.148%) Customer Engagement
10 15 (6.148%) Requirements Management
10 15 (6.148%) Document Management
10 15 (6.148%) Benchmarking
10 15 (6.148%) Risk Management
10 15 (6.148%) OOA/OOD
Programming Languages
1 91 (37.30%) Java
2 34 (13.93%) Shell Script
3 26 (10.66%) Perl
4 21 (8.607%) JavaScript
5 19 (7.787%) C++
6 15 (6.148%) Scala
7 12 (4.918%) C#
8 10 (4.098%) Python
9 9 (3.689%) Embedded C
10 6 (2.459%) SQL
11 5 (2.049%) Assembly Language
12 4 (1.639%) Ruby
13 3 (1.230%) IronRuby
13 3 (1.230%) Bash shell
13 3 (1.230%) PHP
14 2 (0.820%) Ada
15 1 (0.410%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.410%) VB
15 1 (0.410%) Embedded C++
Qualifications
1 226 (92.62%) Security Cleared
2 218 (89.34%) DV Cleared
3 11 (4.508%) PRINCE2 Certification
4 10 (4.098%) Degree
5 9 (3.689%) SC Cleared
6 3 (1.230%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 1 (0.410%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.279%) DO-178B
2 4 (1.639%) QA
System Software
1 30 (12.30%) VMware Infrastructure
2 17 (6.967%) Hyper-V
3 2 (0.820%) VMware ESX
3 2 (0.820%) NFS
4 1 (0.410%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (0.410%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 17 (6.967%) NetBackup
2 2 (0.820%) WSUS
3 1 (0.410%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 50 (20.49%) Oracle
2 39 (15.98%) Red Hat
3 38 (15.57%) JBoss
4 34 (13.93%) NetApp
4 34 (13.93%) HP
5 30 (12.30%) VMware
6 25 (10.25%) Cisco
7 17 (6.967%) IBM
7 17 (6.967%) Symantec
8 11 (4.508%) Citrix
9 8 (3.279%) Sophos
9 8 (3.279%) Juniper
9 8 (3.279%) Lumension
10 6 (2.459%) Microsoft
10 6 (2.459%) Green Hills
11 5 (2.049%) Perforce
12 4 (1.639%) Palantir
13 3 (1.230%) Hyperion
13 3 (1.230%) CheckPoint
14 2 (0.820%) Google
Gloucestershire, South West
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