The first table below looks at the demand for C skills in IT contracts advertised for the Peterborough 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 Peterborough 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 16 18 -
Rank change year-on-year
+2 -
Contract jobs citing C 1 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Peterborough 1.064% 1.190% -
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.000% 4.545% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £348 £400 £300
% change year-on-year
-13.12% +33.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £32.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £36.50 £36.50
% change year-on-year
-4.10% -
All Programming Languages
Peterborough
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
25 22 41
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Peterborough 26.60% 26.19% 36.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 12 21
Average daily rate £325 £313 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.00% -10.71%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £275 £255
10% offered a daily rate of more than £388 £500 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
Average hourly rate £32.00 £30.50 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+4.91% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £35.00
C
Cambridgeshire

C
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Peterborough 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 Peterborough region.

Peterborough 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 Peterborough region.

Peterborough C Hourly Rate Trend

C
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Peterborough 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 5 (83.33%) Java
1 5 (83.33%) PL/SQL
1 5 (83.33%) SQL
1 5 (83.33%) T-SQL
1 5 (83.33%) .NET
1 5 (83.33%) C#
1 5 (83.33%) Oracle OWB
1 5 (83.33%) Hibernate
1 5 (83.33%) Spring
1 5 (83.33%) Oracle BI EE
1 5 (83.33%) Apache Flex
1 5 (83.33%) GWT
1 5 (83.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 4 (66.67%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 4 (66.67%) Team Foundation Server
2 4 (66.67%) Confluence
2 4 (66.67%) Waterfall
2 4 (66.67%) JIRA
2 4 (66.67%) Subversion
2 4 (66.67%) Scrum
2 4 (66.67%) Microsoft
3 2 (33.33%) Finance
4 1 (16.67%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
4 1 (16.67%) Embedded C
4 1 (16.67%) C++
4 1 (16.67%) COM
4 1 (16.67%) HTTP
4 1 (16.67%) VHDL
4 1 (16.67%) Financial Institution
4 1 (16.67%) Electronics

C
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Peterborough 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 (83.33%) Hibernate
1 5 (83.33%) Spring
1 5 (83.33%) Apache Flex
1 5 (83.33%) GWT
1 5 (83.33%) .NET
2 1 (16.67%) COM
Application Platforms
1 4 (66.67%) Confluence
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (83.33%) Oracle OWB
1 5 (83.33%) Oracle BI EE
Development Applications
1 4 (66.67%) Subversion
1 4 (66.67%) JIRA
1 4 (66.67%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 4 (66.67%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 2 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Financial Institution
2 1 (16.67%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Development Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Software Development Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Electronics Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) IT Development Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Software Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) VHDL
1 1 (16.67%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 4 (66.67%) Scrum
2 4 (66.67%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) Java
1 5 (83.33%) PL/SQL
1 5 (83.33%) SQL
1 5 (83.33%) T-SQL
1 5 (83.33%) C#
2 1 (16.67%) C++
2 1 (16.67%) Embedded C
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft