C Contracts in Middlesex
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for C skills in IT contracts advertised for the Middlesex region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited C over the 3 months to 17 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 Middlesex 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
17 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
C
Rank 17 26 27
Rank change year-on-year
+9 +1
Contract jobs citing C 11 8 11
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Middlesex 5.263% 2.469% 3.125%
As % of the Programming Languages category 22.92% 13.56% 11.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 3 3
Average daily rate £308 £250 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+23.00% -16.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £304 £250 £288
10% offered a daily rate of more than £354 £350 £440
UK excluding London average daily rate £348 £400 £300
% change year-on-year
-13.12% +33.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 4
Average hourly rate £40.00 £39.00 £32.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+2.56% +20.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £36.50 £36.50
% change year-on-year
-4.10% -
All Programming Languages
Middlesex
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category		 48 59 95
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Middlesex 22.97% 18.21% 26.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 23 43
Average daily rate £316 £363 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-12.75% -14.70%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £263 £282
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £425 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 7 7
Average hourly rate £37.50 £39.00 £29.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-3.84% +34.48%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £35.00
C
South East

C
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Middlesex 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 Middlesex region.

Middlesex C Daily Rate Trend

C
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Middlesex C Hourly Rate Trend

C
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Middlesex 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 11 (64.71%) C++
2 9 (52.94%) Linux
2 9 (52.94%) Electronics
3 6 (35.29%) 3D Graphics
4 5 (29.41%) Military
4 5 (29.41%) OpenGL
4 5 (29.41%) Embedded Software Development
5 4 (23.53%) GLSL
5 4 (23.53%) Software Engineering
5 4 (23.53%) Software Testing
5 4 (23.53%) TDMA
5 4 (23.53%) Subversion
5 4 (23.53%) Degree
5 4 (23.53%) Computer Science
5 4 (23.53%) Eclipse
5 4 (23.53%) Java
6 3 (17.65%) Telecoms
6 3 (17.65%) Mathematics
6 3 (17.65%) Android
7 2 (11.76%) Qt
7 2 (11.76%) Embedded Systems
7 2 (11.76%) OpenGL ES
7 2 (11.76%) Animation
7 2 (11.76%) Embedded Linux
7 2 (11.76%) Device Driver
7 2 (11.76%) Games
7 2 (11.76%) Intel
8 1 (5.882%) Windows Server 2003
8 1 (5.882%) DTV
8 1 (5.882%) POSIX

C
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Middlesex 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 5 (29.41%) OpenGL
2 2 (11.76%) Qt
2 2 (11.76%) OpenGL ES
3 1 (5.882%) Cocoa
3 1 (5.882%) JSON
3 1 (5.882%) SOAP
3 1 (5.882%) XML
3 1 (5.882%) POSIX
Application Platforms
1 1 (5.882%) CM System
Communications & Networking
1 4 (23.53%) TDMA
2 1 (5.882%) DHCP
2 1 (5.882%) DNS
Development Applications
1 4 (23.53%) Eclipse
1 4 (23.53%) Subversion
2 1 (5.882%) ClearCase
General
1 9 (52.94%) Electronics
2 5 (29.41%) Military
3 3 (17.65%) Telecoms
4 2 (11.76%) Games
5 1 (5.882%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 9 (52.94%) Software Engineer
2 4 (23.53%) Real Time Software Engineer
2 4 (23.53%) Real Time Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Designer
3 2 (11.76%) Developer
3 2 (11.76%) Author
3 2 (11.76%) Technical Author
3 2 (11.76%) Instructional Designer
4 1 (5.882%) Software Design Engineer
4 1 (5.882%) Design Engineer
4 1 (5.882%) Test Engineer
4 1 (5.882%) Infrastructure Specialist
4 1 (5.882%) Graphics Developer
4 1 (5.882%) iOS Developer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (35.29%) 3D Graphics
2 4 (23.53%) Computer Science
3 3 (17.65%) Mathematics
4 2 (11.76%) Animation
4 2 (11.76%) Device Driver
4 2 (11.76%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (5.882%) DTV
5 1 (5.882%) CCTV
5 1 (5.882%) iPhone
5 1 (5.882%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 9 (52.94%) Linux
2 3 (17.65%) Android
3 2 (11.76%) Embedded Linux
4 1 (5.882%) Windows
4 1 (5.882%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (5.882%) Windows 7
4 1 (5.882%) Apple iOS
4 1 (5.882%) Windows XP
4 1 (5.882%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (5.882%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (29.41%) Embedded Software Development
2 4 (23.53%) Software Engineering
2 4 (23.53%) Software Testing
3 1 (5.882%) Web Development
3 1 (5.882%) Change Management
3 1 (5.882%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (5.882%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 11 (64.71%) C++
2 4 (23.53%) Java
2 4 (23.53%) GLSL
3 1 (5.882%) JavaScript
3 1 (5.882%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 4 (23.53%) Degree
2 1 (5.882%) PhD
System Software
1 1 (5.882%) VMware ESX
1 1 (5.882%) Xen
1 1 (5.882%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (5.882%) OpenView
1 1 (5.882%) SCCM
1 1 (5.882%) HP SIM
Vendors
1 2 (11.76%) Intel
2 1 (5.882%) VMware
2 1 (5.882%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.882%) HP
Platform Senior Graphics Engineer
Middlesex
Expertise in Graphics with experience in design and development of Graphic stacks for embedded systems including low-level graphics acceleration, OpenGL and its extensions, and GLSL programming... A...
Proteus Europe
Rate: Negotiable
Posted: 17 May 2013
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