The first table below looks at the demand for C skills in IT contracts advertised for the Manchester 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 Manchester 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 60 64 66
Rank change year-on-year
+4 +2
Contract jobs citing C 15 19 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 1.608% 1.471% 0.576%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.505% 4.069% 1.935%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 10 2
Average daily rate £404 £301 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+34.35% -39.90%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £365 £291 £400
10% offered a daily rate of more than £717 £339 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £345 £400 £300
% change year-on-year
-13.75% +33.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
Average hourly rate £16.67 £38.50 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-56.70% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.50 £36.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
-9.72% -1.36%
All Programming Languages
Manchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
333 467 310
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 35.69% 36.15% 29.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 169 271 175
Average daily rate £295 £300 £265
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.66% +13.20%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £230 £150
10% offered a daily rate of more than £370 £400 £440
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 29 15
Average hourly rate £33.00 £27.50 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+20.00% +10.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.57 £15.00 £11.25
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £131.70 £39.10 £35.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
C
North West

C
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester 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 Manchester region.

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

Manchester 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 Manchester region.

Manchester C Hourly Rate Trend

C
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 12 (30.00%) LDAP
2 9 (22.50%) UNIX
3 8 (20.00%) Active Directory
3 8 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 7 (17.50%) Banking
4 7 (17.50%) IBM
4 7 (17.50%) Linux
4 7 (17.50%) Wiki
5 6 (15.00%) Puppet
5 6 (15.00%) Apache
5 6 (15.00%) C#
5 6 (15.00%) JavaScript
5 6 (15.00%) Perl
5 6 (15.00%) SQL
5 6 (15.00%) SQL Server
5 6 (15.00%) WebSphere Application Server
5 6 (15.00%) Microsoft
5 6 (15.00%) Red Hat
5 6 (15.00%) Netcool
5 6 (15.00%) Nagios
5 6 (15.00%) Telecoms
5 6 (15.00%) Ruby
5 6 (15.00%) WebSphere
5 6 (15.00%) Project Planning
5 6 (15.00%) Middleware
5 6 (15.00%) Firewall
6 5 (12.50%) MVC
6 5 (12.50%) .NET
6 5 (12.50%) MS Visio
6 5 (12.50%) Web Services

C
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 6 (15.00%) WebSphere
1 6 (15.00%) Middleware
2 5 (12.50%) .NET
2 5 (12.50%) Web Services
3 3 (7.500%) WCF
4 2 (5.000%) OLE
5 1 (2.500%) XSD
5 1 (2.500%) Cocoa
5 1 (2.500%) Regular Expression
5 1 (2.500%) Cocoa Touch
Application Platforms
1 6 (15.00%) Apache
1 6 (15.00%) WebSphere Application Server
2 2 (5.000%) MS Exchange
3 1 (2.500%) Exchange Server 2003
3 1 (2.500%) Exchange Server 2010
3 1 (2.500%) Confluence
3 1 (2.500%) Exchange Server 2007
Applications
1 5 (12.50%) MS Visio
2 2 (5.000%) MS Office
3 1 (2.500%) Photoshop
3 1 (2.500%) MS Excel
3 1 (2.500%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (5.000%) Remedy ITSM
1 2 (5.000%) Remedy AR System
Communications & Networking
1 12 (30.00%) LDAP
2 6 (15.00%) Firewall
3 4 (10.00%) GSM
3 4 (10.00%) TCP/IP
4 3 (7.500%) GPRS
4 3 (7.500%) ZigBee
5 2 (5.000%) DNS
6 1 (2.500%) VPN
6 1 (2.500%) UMTS
6 1 (2.500%) DHCP
6 1 (2.500%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (15.00%) SQL Server
2 5 (12.50%) SQL Server 2008
3 3 (7.500%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (5.000%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 2 (5.000%) SAP BI
4 2 (5.000%) Crystal Reports
4 2 (5.000%) SAP BW
5 1 (2.500%) Star Schema
5 1 (2.500%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (2.500%) IBM InfoSphere
5 1 (2.500%) Oracle 11g
Development Applications
1 3 (7.500%) Visual Studio
1 3 (7.500%) Subversion
1 3 (7.500%) TeamCity
2 1 (2.500%) ERwin
2 1 (2.500%) JIRA
General
1 7 (17.50%) Banking
2 6 (15.00%) Telecoms
3 2 (5.000%) Finance
4 1 (2.500%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 7 (17.50%) Developer
1 7 (17.50%) Systems Engineer
2 6 (15.00%) Systems Support Engineer
2 6 (15.00%) Support Engineer
2 6 (15.00%) Systems Support
3 3 (7.500%) .NET Developer
3 3 (7.500%) Firmware Engineer
4 2 (5.000%) Technical Leader
4 2 (5.000%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 2 (5.000%) Remedy Developer
4 2 (5.000%) Customer Engineer
4 2 (5.000%) Architect
4 2 (5.000%) Software Engineer
5 1 (2.500%) Data Analyst
5 1 (2.500%) Senior Systems Engineer
5 1 (2.500%) Development Manager
5 1 (2.500%) Analyst
5 1 (2.500%) Technical Architect
5 1 (2.500%) Consultant
5 1 (2.500%) Data Architect
Miscellaneous
1 7 (17.50%) Wiki
2 4 (10.00%) Firmware
3 3 (7.500%) N-Tier
3 3 (7.500%) Mathematics
4 2 (5.000%) CMDB
5 1 (2.500%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.500%) Mainframe
5 1 (2.500%) Blackberry
5 1 (2.500%) DTV
5 1 (2.500%) Statistics
5 1 (2.500%) STB
5 1 (2.500%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (2.500%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 9 (22.50%) UNIX
2 7 (17.50%) Linux
3 3 (7.500%) Windows
4 2 (5.000%) Apple iOS
4 2 (5.000%) Windows 2000
5 1 (2.500%) VxWorks
5 1 (2.500%) Embedded Linux
5 1 (2.500%) Android
5 1 (2.500%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 6 (15.00%) Project Planning
3 5 (12.50%) MVC
4 3 (7.500%) Data Modelling
4 3 (7.500%) ITIL
5 2 (5.000%) Demand Management
5 2 (5.000%) Logistics
5 2 (5.000%) Workflow
5 2 (5.000%) Knowledge Management
5 2 (5.000%) ITSM
5 2 (5.000%) Business Intelligence
6 1 (2.500%) ETL
6 1 (2.500%) UML
6 1 (2.500%) E-Commerce
6 1 (2.500%) GAP Analysis
6 1 (2.500%) Service Management
6 1 (2.500%) Service Delivery
6 1 (2.500%) Change Management
6 1 (2.500%) Project Management
6 1 (2.500%) Supplier Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (15.00%) C#
1 6 (15.00%) JavaScript
1 6 (15.00%) Perl
1 6 (15.00%) SQL
1 6 (15.00%) Ruby
2 4 (10.00%) C++
3 3 (7.500%) Embedded C
3 3 (7.500%) Shell Script
3 3 (7.500%) Java
4 2 (5.000%) Bourne shell
4 2 (5.000%) Bash shell
4 2 (5.000%) Korn
5 1 (2.500%) Assembly Language
5 1 (2.500%) T-SQL
5 1 (2.500%) COBOL
5 1 (2.500%) PL/SQL
5 1 (2.500%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 3 (7.500%) Degree
2 1 (2.500%) CCDA
2 1 (2.500%) CCDP
2 1 (2.500%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (2.500%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (2.500%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (2.500%) MCP
2 1 (2.500%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.500%) SLA
1 1 (2.500%) Solvency II
1 1 (2.500%) QA
System Software
1 8 (20.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (15.00%) Puppet
1 6 (15.00%) Netcool
1 6 (15.00%) Nagios
Vendors
1 7 (17.50%) IBM
2 6 (15.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (15.00%) Red Hat
3 3 (7.500%) Oracle
4 2 (5.000%) Remedy
4 2 (5.000%) SAP
4 2 (5.000%) BMC
4 2 (5.000%) HP
5 1 (2.500%) Cisco
5 1 (2.500%) Unisys
5 1 (2.500%) Citrix
5 1 (2.500%) Avaya
5 1 (2.500%) Motorola
5 1 (2.500%) QNX
5 1 (2.500%) Renesas
5 1 (2.500%) Atlassian
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