The first table below looks at the demand for C skills in IT contracts advertised for the North East region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited C over the 3 months to 23 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 North East 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
C
Rank 36 45 36
Rank change year-on-year
+9 -9
Contract jobs citing C 1 5 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North East 0.360% 1.010% 1.810%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.613% 2.924% 5.195%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 4
Average daily rate £350 £300 £278
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+16.66% +7.91%
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £400 £300
% change year-on-year
-12.50% +33.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £34.50 £36.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year
-5.47% +1.38%
All Programming Languages
North East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
62 171 154
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North East 22.30% 34.55% 34.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 97 79
Average daily rate £275 £350 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-21.42% +16.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £238 £238 £238
10% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £550 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 2
Average hourly rate £42.50 £42.50 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +70.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
C
England

C
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North East 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 North East region.

North East 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 North East region.

North East C Hourly Rate Trend

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 North East region over the 3 months to 23 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
Tyne and Wear +10 1 £350 +16.66%
C
England

C
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North East 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 6 (60.00%) Mathematics
2 2 (20.00%) VC++
2 2 (20.00%) C++
2 2 (20.00%) .NET
2 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (10.00%) Core Animation
3 1 (10.00%) Apple iOS
3 1 (10.00%) GLSL
3 1 (10.00%) HLSL
3 1 (10.00%) Cocoa Touch
3 1 (10.00%) UIKit
3 1 (10.00%) Subversion
3 1 (10.00%) Project Planning
3 1 (10.00%) Degree
3 1 (10.00%) Animation
3 1 (10.00%) Photoshop
3 1 (10.00%) MS Office
3 1 (10.00%) GSM
3 1 (10.00%) UMTS
3 1 (10.00%) SLA
3 1 (10.00%) Apple
3 1 (10.00%) OpenGL
3 1 (10.00%) 3G
3 1 (10.00%) Project Management
3 1 (10.00%) 2G
3 1 (10.00%) Finance
3 1 (10.00%) Cocoa
3 1 (10.00%) Xcode
3 1 (10.00%) Objective-C
3 1 (10.00%) Amdocs

C
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North East 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 2 (20.00%) .NET
2 1 (10.00%) Core Animation
2 1 (10.00%) Cocoa Touch
2 1 (10.00%) UIKit
2 1 (10.00%) OpenGL
2 1 (10.00%) Cocoa
Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Photoshop
1 1 (10.00%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) GSM
1 1 (10.00%) UMTS
1 1 (10.00%) 3G
1 1 (10.00%) 2G
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Subversion
1 1 (10.00%) Xcode
General
1 1 (10.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Customer Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Developer
3 2 (20.00%) C++ Developer
4 1 (10.00%) iOS Developer
4 1 (10.00%) C Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (60.00%) Mathematics
2 1 (10.00%) Animation
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (10.00%) Project Planning
1 1 (10.00%) Project Management
1 1 (10.00%) Data Cleansing
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) VC++
1 2 (20.00%) C++
2 1 (10.00%) GLSL
2 1 (10.00%) HLSL
2 1 (10.00%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) Degree
2 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) SLA
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) Apple
1 1 (10.00%) Amdocs
Newcastle Upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear
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