The first table below looks at the demand for C skills in IT contracts advertised for the Nottingham 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 Nottingham 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 32 27 14
Rank change year-on-year
-5 -13
Contract jobs citing C 6 2 15
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Nottingham 2.135% 0.889% 6.224%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.895% 2.273% 19.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 2
Average daily rate £350 £350 £283
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +23.89%
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £400 £300
% change year-on-year
-12.50% +33.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
Average hourly rate £12.42 - £26.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £34.50 £36.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year
-5.47% +1.38%
All Programming Languages
Nottingham
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
76 88 76
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Nottingham 27.05% 39.11% 31.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 53 28
Average daily rate £325 £300 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+8.33% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £252 £230 £215
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £428 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 7 6
Average hourly rate £20.00 £17.50 £30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+14.28% -41.66%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.94 £8.50 £25.10
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £27.60 £26.25 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
C
Nottinghamshire

C
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Nottingham 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 Nottingham region.

Nottingham 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 Nottingham region.

Nottingham C Hourly Rate Trend

C
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Nottingham 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 13 (56.52%) C++
1 13 (56.52%) Java
1 13 (56.52%) Linux
1 13 (56.52%) Bluetooth
1 13 (56.52%) Wi-Fi
1 13 (56.52%) Device Driver
1 13 (56.52%) Streaming Video
1 13 (56.52%) JNI
1 13 (56.52%) Embedded Linux
1 13 (56.52%) Android
2 5 (21.74%) Mathematics
3 2 (8.696%) Embedded C
3 2 (8.696%) Ethernet
3 2 (8.696%) .NET
3 2 (8.696%) Freescale
4 1 (4.348%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (4.348%) Change Control
4 1 (4.348%) Scrum
4 1 (4.348%) InterSystems
4 1 (4.348%) Finance
4 1 (4.348%) Migration
4 1 (4.348%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (4.348%) Agile Software Development
4 1 (4.348%) Subversion
4 1 (4.348%) InterSystems Cache
4 1 (4.348%) ESB
4 1 (4.348%) Business Analysis
4 1 (4.348%) Web Services
4 1 (4.348%) XML
4 1 (4.348%) PRINCE2

C
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Nottingham 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 13 (56.52%) JNI
2 2 (8.696%) .NET
3 1 (4.348%) Web Services
3 1 (4.348%) XML
3 1 (4.348%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 1 (4.348%) ESB
Communications & Networking
1 13 (56.52%) Bluetooth
1 13 (56.52%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (8.696%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.348%) InterSystems Cache
Development Applications
1 1 (4.348%) Subversion
General
1 1 (4.348%) Finance
Job Titles
1 16 (69.57%) Developer
2 13 (56.52%) Android Developer
3 3 (13.04%) 1st Line Support
3 3 (13.04%) Analyst
4 2 (8.696%) Software Developer
4 2 (8.696%) IT Support Analyst
4 2 (8.696%) Customer Engineer
4 2 (8.696%) Support Analyst
4 2 (8.696%) 1st Line Support Analyst
4 2 (8.696%) IT Support
5 1 (4.348%) SOA Developer
5 1 (4.348%) Infrastructure Manager
5 1 (4.348%) Project Manager
5 1 (4.348%) Business Analyst
5 1 (4.348%) Infrastructure Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 13 (56.52%) Device Driver
1 13 (56.52%) Streaming Video
2 5 (21.74%) Mathematics
3 1 (4.348%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 13 (56.52%) Linux
1 13 (56.52%) Embedded Linux
1 13 (56.52%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (4.348%) Change Control
1 1 (4.348%) Scrum
1 1 (4.348%) Migration
1 1 (4.348%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (4.348%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (4.348%) Business Analysis
1 1 (4.348%) PRINCE2
1 1 (4.348%) B2B
1 1 (4.348%) SOA
1 1 (4.348%) Configuration Management
1 1 (4.348%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (56.52%) C++
1 13 (56.52%) Java
2 2 (8.696%) Embedded C
Vendors
1 2 (8.696%) Freescale
2 1 (4.348%) InterSystems
2 1 (4.348%) TIBCO