C Contracts in the North of England

C
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for C skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited C over the 6 months to 24 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 153 176 220
Rank change year-on-year +23 +44 -58
Contract jobs citing C 25 37 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.54% 0.66% 0.46%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.08% 2.31% 1.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 25 25
10th Percentile £429 £368 £393
25th Percentile £445 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +84.62%
75th Percentile £550 £625 £625
90th Percentile £638 £638 £634
England median daily rate £538 £577 £575
% change year-on-year -6.76% +0.35% +27.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 6 4
10th Percentile £44.68 £37.80 £28.80
25th Percentile £46.25 £39.01 £33.75
Median hourly rate £47.50 £45.96 £41.84
Median % change year-on-year +3.35% +9.85% -7.02%
75th Percentile £48.75 £49.30 £44.68
90th Percentile £70.50 £50.77 £44.69
England median hourly rate £65.00 £61.25 £56.00
% change year-on-year +6.12% +9.38% +21.74%

All Programming Languages
North of England

C is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 1,200 1,599 2,220
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 25.81% 28.64% 31.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 845 1,166 1,690
10th Percentile £325 £363 £325
25th Percentile £404 £425 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £575
90th Percentile £625 £688 £650
England median daily rate £549 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -2.40% +2.27% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 29 52
10th Percentile £37.56 £29.42 £14.25
25th Percentile £41.25 £37.80 £21.71
Median hourly rate £47.50 £49.00 £43.59
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% +12.41% +67.65%
75th Percentile £68.75 £63.75 £66.25
90th Percentile £74.30 £70.00 £77.50
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £51.50
% change year-on-year - +21.36% +21.18%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing C as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for C in the North of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing C in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for C in the North of England

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing C in the North of England over the 6 months to 24 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for C in the North of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing C in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for C in the North of England

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing C in the North of England over the 6 months to 24 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for C in the North of England

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Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing C within the North of England region over the 6 months to 24 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North West +26 13 £525 -8.10% 38
Yorkshire +2 6 £500 -16.67% 19
North East - 6 - - 10
C
England

C
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (4.00%) Apache
1 1 (4.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (4.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (4.00%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 9 (36.00%) AWS
2 7 (28.00%) Azure
3 3 (12.00%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (12.00%) SaaS
4 2 (8.00%) GCP
4 2 (8.00%) GitHub
5 1 (4.00%) Azure Batch
Communications & Networking
1 3 (12.00%) J1939
2 1 (4.00%) RS-422
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.00%) DB2
1 3 (12.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.00%) Flink
Development Applications
1 2 (8.00%) Git
2 1 (4.00%) Bitbucket
2 1 (4.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (4.00%) JIRA
General
1 8 (32.00%) Automotive
2 6 (24.00%) Electronics
2 6 (24.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (12.00%) Banking
3 3 (12.00%) Finance
4 2 (8.00%) German Language
4 2 (8.00%) Manufacturing
4 2 (8.00%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (4.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 11 (44.00%) Software Engineer
2 6 (24.00%) Embedded Engineer
2 6 (24.00%) Embedded Software Engineer
3 3 (12.00%) Architect
3 3 (12.00%) Developer
3 3 (12.00%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (8.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Security Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Automation Tester
5 1 (4.00%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) FPGA Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Java Developer
5 1 (4.00%) Java Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Research Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Research Software Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Senior
5 1 (4.00%) Senior Software Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Software Developer
5 1 (4.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (28.00%) .NET
2 4 (16.00%) HTML
3 3 (12.00%) J2EE
3 3 (12.00%) JSP
3 3 (12.00%) React
3 3 (12.00%) SOAP
3 3 (12.00%) XML
4 2 (8.00%) Playwright
4 2 (8.00%) REST
4 2 (8.00%) RESTful
4 2 (8.00%) Spring Boot
5 1 (4.00%) Apache NiFi
5 1 (4.00%) ASP.NET
5 1 (4.00%) ASP.NET Core
5 1 (4.00%) ASP.NET Web API
5 1 (4.00%) CSS
5 1 (4.00%) CSS3
5 1 (4.00%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (4.00%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.00%) CAN bus
1 3 (12.00%) Data Protection Act
1 3 (12.00%) Enterprise Software
1 3 (12.00%) Mainframe
1 3 (12.00%) Public Cloud
2 1 (4.00%) Device Driver
2 1 (4.00%) Embedded Systems
2 1 (4.00%) FPGA
2 1 (4.00%) Verilog
2 1 (4.00%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 4 (16.00%) Android
2 3 (12.00%) Apple iOS
2 3 (12.00%) Linux
2 3 (12.00%) Unix
2 3 (12.00%) Windows
3 1 (4.00%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (64.00%) Software Engineering
2 9 (36.00%) Agile
3 7 (28.00%) SDLC
4 6 (24.00%) Waterfall
5 5 (20.00%) Project Management
6 4 (16.00%) DevOps
6 4 (16.00%) Product Requirements
7 3 (12.00%) Analytics
7 3 (12.00%) API Design
7 3 (12.00%) Architectural Design
7 3 (12.00%) Containerisation
7 3 (12.00%) Data Modelling
7 3 (12.00%) Data Protection
7 3 (12.00%) Domain-Driven Design
7 3 (12.00%) ERP
7 3 (12.00%) Microservices
7 3 (12.00%) TDD
8 2 (8.00%) Architectural Patterns
8 2 (8.00%) Computer Science
8 2 (8.00%) Requirements Engineering
Programming Languages
1 9 (36.00%) Java
2 7 (28.00%) Embedded C
3 6 (24.00%) C++
3 6 (24.00%) JavaScript
4 3 (12.00%) Bash
4 3 (12.00%) PowerShell
4 3 (12.00%) SQL
5 2 (8.00%) C#
5 2 (8.00%) TypeScript
6 1 (4.00%) Fortran
6 1 (4.00%) Python
6 1 (4.00%) Rust
6 1 (4.00%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 4 (16.00%) Degree
1 4 (16.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (12.00%) DV Cleared
3 1 (4.00%) Master's Degree
3 1 (4.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.00%) AUTOSAR
System Software
1 2 (8.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (12.00%) Ansible
1 3 (12.00%) Functional Safety
1 3 (12.00%) Terraform
2 2 (8.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (8.00%) Google
1 2 (8.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.00%) Intel
2 1 (4.00%) Microsemi
2 1 (4.00%) SAP
2 1 (4.00%) Xilinx