C Contracts in the North West

C
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 129 128 161
Rank change year-on-year -1 +33 -36
Contract jobs citing C 8 25 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.29% 0.78% 0.52%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.16% 2.66% 1.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 16 16
10th Percentile - £350 £350
25th Percentile £513 £422 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £505 £600
Median % change year-on-year +3.96% -15.83% +48.15%
75th Percentile £594 £638 £625
90th Percentile £628 £706 £630
England median daily rate £536 £600 £566
% change year-on-year -10.67% +6.05% +33.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 2
10th Percentile £43.80 £37.80 £27.42
25th Percentile £51.92 £37.97 £30.30
Median hourly rate £68.12 £40.59 £35.34
Median % change year-on-year +67.81% +14.86% -25.60%
75th Percentile £84.14 £46.47 £40.14
90th Percentile £92.16 £48.13 £42.86
England median hourly rate £65.00 £58.91 £55.00
% change year-on-year +10.35% +7.10% +22.22%

All Programming Languages
North West

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 West with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 687 939 1,407
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 24.86% 29.23% 34.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 515 711 1,089
10th Percentile £325 £325 £315
25th Percentile £400 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +21.21%
75th Percentile £539 £589 £588
90th Percentile £612 £650 £663
England median daily rate £540 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -4.42% +2.73% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 14 33
10th Percentile £41.25 £20.46 £14.25
25th Percentile £44.72 £37.80 £20.00
Median hourly rate £48.43 £40.59 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year +19.32% -2.19% +22.06%
75th Percentile £69.53 £51.93 £53.75
90th Percentile £80.15 £62.95 £60.00
England median hourly rate £62.50 £61.84 £50.00
% change year-on-year +1.07% +23.68% +14.94%

C
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for C in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for C in the North West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing C in the North West over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for C in the North West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for C in the North West

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the North West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing C in the North West over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for C in the North West

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Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
Manchester 0 6 £525 +8.25% 26
Cheshire - 1 - - 11
Cumbria - 1 - -
C
England

C
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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:

Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (12.50%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) Azure
2 3 (37.50%) AWS
2 3 (37.50%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Batch
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) RS-422
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Git
2 1 (12.50%) Bitbucket
2 1 (12.50%) GitLab
2 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
2 1 (12.50%) JIRA
General
1 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Manufacturing
3 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Software Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Developer
2 1 (12.50%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) FPGA Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Research Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Research Software Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Senior
2 1 (12.50%) Senior Software Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) SOAP
2 2 (25.00%) RESTful
3 1 (12.50%) .NET
3 1 (12.50%) ASP.NET
3 1 (12.50%) ASP.NET Core
3 1 (12.50%) ASP.NET Web API
3 1 (12.50%) CSS
3 1 (12.50%) CSS3
3 1 (12.50%) HTML
3 1 (12.50%) HTML5
3 1 (12.50%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Algorithms
1 1 (12.50%) Embedded Systems
1 1 (12.50%) FPGA
1 1 (12.50%) Management Information System
1 1 (12.50%) Verilog
1 1 (12.50%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Linux
2 1 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Software Engineering
2 4 (50.00%) DevOps
3 3 (37.50%) ERP
4 2 (25.00%) Analytics
4 2 (25.00%) Architectural Patterns
4 2 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
4 2 (25.00%) SDLC
5 1 (12.50%) CI/CD
5 1 (12.50%) Cloud Operations
5 1 (12.50%) Complexity Analysis
5 1 (12.50%) Customer Service
5 1 (12.50%) Cyber Resilience
5 1 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
5 1 (12.50%) FPGA Design
5 1 (12.50%) Information Governance
5 1 (12.50%) Open Source
5 1 (12.50%) Parallel Programming
5 1 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (12.50%) Systems Engineering
5 1 (12.50%) UVM
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 3 (37.50%) JavaScript
3 2 (25.00%) C#
3 2 (25.00%) C++
3 2 (25.00%) Java
3 2 (25.00%) Python
4 1 (12.50%) Bash
4 1 (12.50%) Embedded C
4 1 (12.50%) Fortran
4 1 (12.50%) Go
4 1 (12.50%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (25.00%) DV Cleared
2 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (12.50%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Ansible
1 2 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Intel
2 1 (12.50%) Microsemi
2 1 (12.50%) SAP
2 1 (12.50%) Xilinx