Gloucestershire C Contracts

The first part of the 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 22 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Programming Languages category for the Gloucestershire region.

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Location Aberdeen Aldershot Aylesbury Barnet Barnsley Barry Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Bingley Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckingham Buckinghamshire Burnley Burton-upon-Trent Bury St Edmunds Caerphilly Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham Chorley City of London Colchester Corsham County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dundee Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Enfield England Essex Exeter Fareham Felixstowe Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hampshire Harrogate Havant Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Highlands Hitchin Home Counties Horsham Hull Inverness Ipswich Kent King's Lynn Kingswinford Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Luton Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton Abbot Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Penrith Peterborough Plymouth Pontypool Poole Portsmouth Preston Pudsey Reading Redhill Romsey Runcorn Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Skelmersdale Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Swansea Swindon Tadworth Taunton Thame Torfaen Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Vale of Glamorgan Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Waterlooville Wells Welwyn Garden City West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Witham Woking Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 22 Mar 2010	Same period 2009	Same period 2008
Rank	4	7	34
Rank change year-on-year	+3 +27
Matching contract IT job ads	41	42	16
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Gloucestershire	15.83 %	10.55 %	2.867 %
As % of the Programming Languages category	46.59 %	35.59 %	10.53 %
Daily rates quoted	10	22	3
Average daily rate	£350	£550	£350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year	-36.36 % +57.14 %
UK excluding London average daily rate	£293	£340	£350
% change year-on-year	-13.97 % -2.850 %
Hourly rates quoted	8	4	0
Average hourly rate	£34.00	£36.80	-
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year	-7.600 % -
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.97	£34.25	£35.00
% change year-on-year	-24.17 % -2.140 %
All Programming Languages Gloucestershire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the Programming Languages category	88	118	152
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Gloucestershire	33.98 %	29.65 %	27.24 %
Daily rates quoted	25	44	33
Average daily rate	£375	£400	£350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year	-6.250 % +14.28 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than	£250	£275	£274
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than	£450	£550	£500
UK excluding London average daily rate	£300	£300	£325
% change year-on-year	- -7.690 %
Hourly rates quoted	14	10	40
Average hourly rate	£20.50	£30.00	£35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year	-31.66 % -14.28 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than	£15.00	£17.00	£32.50
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than	£38.00	£45.00	£50.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.50	£30.00	£35.00
% change year-on-year	-5.000 % -14.28 %
C South West

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.

C
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.

C
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.

C
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 22 March 2010.

C
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.

C
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 22 March 2010.

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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 22 March 2010. 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	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	+22	12	£375	+28.42 %
Gloucester	+2	6	£363	-

C South West

C
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 March 2010, 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 50 (76.92 %) Security Cleared 2 40 (61.54 %) DV Cleared 3 27 (41.54 %) C++ 4 20 (30.77 %) Perl 5 18 (27.69 %) Java 6 13 (20.00 %) Government 7 12 (18.46 %) Software Engineering 7 12 (18.46 %) Software Testing 7 12 (18.46 %) UNIX 8 11 (16.92 %) UML 8 11 (16.92 %) RUP 8 11 (16.92 %) Configuration Management 9 10 (15.38 %) Requirements Analysis 10 9 (13.85 %) Linux 10 9 (13.85 %) Windows

10 9 (13.85 %) J2EE 10 9 (13.85 %) SC Cleared 11 7 (10.77 %) Software Architecture 12 6 (9.231 %) ITIL 12 6 (9.231 %) ClearCase 13 4 (6.154 %) Change Management 13 4 (6.154 %) SWT 13 4 (6.154 %) Subversion 13 4 (6.154 %) SMTP 13 4 (6.154 %) TCP/IP 13 4 (6.154 %) Active Directory 13 4 (6.154 %) Swing 13 4 (6.154 %) Information Assurance 14 3 (4.615 %) Windows Server 2008 14 3 (4.615 %) OO

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 March 2010, 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 9 (13.85 %) J2EE 2 4 (6.154 %) SWT 2 4 (6.154 %) Swing 3 1 (1.538 %) Flash 3 1 (1.538 %) XHTML 3 1 (1.538 %) STL 3 1 (1.538 %) XML 3 1 (1.538 %) HTML 3 1 (1.538 %) AJAX 3 1 (1.538 %) Application Packaging 3 1 (1.538 %) Grails	Applications 1 1 (1.538 %) MS Excel 1 1 (1.538 %) MS Visio 1 1 (1.538 %) Photoshop 1 1 (1.538 %) MS Office
Business Applications 1 1 (1.538 %) Oracle EBS R12 1 1 (1.538 %) SoftGrid 1 1 (1.538 %) Oracle EBS	Communications & Networking 1 4 (6.154 %) SMTP 1 4 (6.154 %) TCP/IP 2 3 (4.615 %) LDAP 2 3 (4.615 %) X.400 2 3 (4.615 %) X.500 2 3 (4.615 %) Firewall 3 2 (3.077 %) Wi-Fi 3 2 (3.077 %) Wireless 3 2 (3.077 %) Ethernet 3 2 (3.077 %) HTTP 3 2 (3.077 %) CDMA 3 2 (3.077 %) GSM 4 1 (1.538 %) WAN 4 1 (1.538 %) POP3 4 1 (1.538 %) Internet 4 1 (1.538 %) Network Security
Development Applications 1 6 (9.231 %) ClearCase 2 4 (6.154 %) Subversion 3 3 (4.615 %) JUnit 4 2 (3.077 %) Eclipse 5 1 (1.538 %) TestDirector	General 1 13 (20.00 %) Government 2 2 (3.077 %) Electronics 3 1 (1.538 %) Electric 3 1 (1.538 %) Military 3 1 (1.538 %) Law
Job Titles 1 24 (36.92 %) Developer 2 13 (20.00 %) Software Engineer 3 11 (16.92 %) Java Developer 4 8 (12.31 %) C++ Developer 5 5 (7.692 %) Architect 5 5 (7.692 %) C++ Software Engineer 6 4 (6.154 %) Project Manager 7 3 (4.615 %) Software Developer 7 3 (4.615 %) Solutions Architect 8 2 (3.077 %) Systems Support 8 2 (3.077 %) J2EE Developer 8 2 (3.077 %) C Developer 8 2 (3.077 %) Consultant 8 2 (3.077 %) Java/J2EE Developer 8 2 (3.077 %) Designer 9 1 (1.538 %) Applications Engineer 9 1 (1.538 %) Development Engineer 9 1 (1.538 %) Service Desk Technician 9 1 (1.538 %) Systems Engineer 9 1 (1.538 %) DBA	Miscellaneous 1 3 (4.615 %) Mathematics 2 2 (3.077 %) VHDL 2 2 (3.077 %) Robotics 3 1 (1.538 %) PMI 3 1 (1.538 %) W3C 3 1 (1.538 %) Field-Programmable Gate Array 3 1 (1.538 %) PKI 3 1 (1.538 %) Statistics
Operating Systems 1 12 (18.46 %) UNIX 2 9 (13.85 %) Linux 2 9 (13.85 %) Windows 3 3 (4.615 %) Windows Server 2008 3 3 (4.615 %) HPUX 3 3 (4.615 %) Solaris 3 3 (4.615 %) Windows Server 2003 3 3 (4.615 %) Windows Vista 4 1 (1.538 %) Windows 2000 4 1 (1.538 %) Windows NT 4 1 (1.538 %) Windows XP	Processes & Methodologies 1 12 (18.46 %) Software Engineering 1 12 (18.46 %) Software Testing 2 11 (16.92 %) UML 2 11 (16.92 %) RUP 2 11 (16.92 %) Configuration Management 3 10 (15.38 %) Requirements Analysis 4 7 (10.77 %) Software Architecture 5 6 (9.231 %) ITIL 6 4 (6.154 %) Change Management 6 4 (6.154 %) Information Assurance 7 3 (4.615 %) OO 7 3 (4.615 %) Service Delivery 8 2 (3.077 %) Service Management 8 2 (3.077 %) ITSM 8 2 (3.077 %) Unified Process 8 2 (3.077 %) Logistics 8 2 (3.077 %) Project Management 8 2 (3.077 %) PRINCE2 9 1 (1.538 %) ERP 9 1 (1.538 %) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages 1 27 (41.54 %) C++ 2 20 (30.77 %) Perl 3 18 (27.69 %) Java 4 2 (3.077 %) Assembly Language 4 2 (3.077 %) VB 4 2 (3.077 %) Python 5 1 (1.538 %) SQL 5 1 (1.538 %) C# 5 1 (1.538 %) Embedded C 5 1 (1.538 %) Embedded C++ 5 1 (1.538 %) Groovy 5 1 (1.538 %) AWK	Qualifications 1 50 (76.92 %) Security Cleared 2 40 (61.54 %) DV Cleared 3 9 (13.85 %) SC Cleared 4 2 (3.077 %) Degree 5 1 (1.538 %) ISEB 5 1 (1.538 %) Sun Certification 5 1 (1.538 %) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (3.077 %) QA 2 1 (1.538 %) SLA 2 1 (1.538 %) ISO27001	System Software 1 4 (6.154 %) Active Directory 2 1 (1.538 %) MailMarshal 2 1 (1.538 %) Citrix Presentation Server
Systems Management 1 1 (1.538 %) HP Quality Center 1 1 (1.538 %) OVPA	Vendors 1 2 (3.077 %) HP 1 2 (3.077 %) Microsoft 1 2 (3.077 %) Sun 2 1 (1.538 %) Oracle 2 1 (1.538 %) Citrix 2 1 (1.538 %) Altiris 2 1 (1.538 %) FileNet