Home Counties Embedded C Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Embedded C skills within the Home Counties region with a comparison to our Programming Languages category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Embedded C over the 3 months to 7 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Embedded C
Location Aberdeen Basildon Basingstoke Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Bradford Bristol Cambridge Cambridgeshire Chelmsford Cheltenham City of London Derby Derbyshire East Anglia East Midlands East of England England Essex Gloucester Gloucestershire Hampshire Harrow Home Counties Lancashire Leeds London Luton M4 Corridor Manchester Middlesex Midlands Newbury Newcastle North East North West Northern Ireland Oldham Oxfordshire Reigate Scotland South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Surrey Swindon Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales West Midlands West Yorkshire Wiltshire Woking Yorkshire	3 months to 7 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	33
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	1
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.001 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	0.847 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£332	-
% change on same period last year	-
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£36.51	£36.62
% change on same period last year	-0.30 %
Programming Languages Home Counties
Matching contract IT job ads	27	118
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.038 %	0.119 %
Daily rates quoted	3	29
Average minimum daily rate	£273	£358
Average daily rate	£290	£363
% change on same period last year	-20.11 %
Average maximum daily rate	£307	£368
UK excluding London average daily rate	£324	£334
% change on same period last year	-3.07 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	12
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£36.00
Average hourly rate	-	£36.63
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£37.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.32	£32.74
% change on same period last year	-1.29 %
Embedded C South East

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.

Embedded C
Demand Trend

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

Embedded C
Hourly Rate Trend

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