The first table below looks at the demand for C skills in IT contracts advertised for the Portsmouth 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 Portsmouth 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 11 5 29
Rank change year-on-year
-6 +24
Contract jobs citing C 6 15 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Portsmouth 7.317% 14.85% 1.899%
As % of the Programming Languages category 13.04% 39.47% 6.122%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 9 2
Average daily rate £450 £360 £250
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+25.00% +44.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £400 £300
% change year-on-year
-12.50% +33.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 1
Average hourly rate £35.00 £36.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-4.10% +82.50%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £34.50 £36.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year
-5.47% +1.38%
All Programming Languages
Portsmouth
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
46 38 49
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Portsmouth 56.10% 37.62% 31.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 15 12
Average daily rate £363 £350 £260
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.57% +34.61%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £298 £208
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £400 £312
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 11 21
Average hourly rate £27.50 £27.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+1.85% -22.85%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
C
Hampshire

C
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Portsmouth 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 Portsmouth region.

Portsmouth 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 Portsmouth region.

Portsmouth C Hourly Rate Trend

C
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Portsmouth 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%) C++
2 5 (50.00%) C#
2 5 (50.00%) Degree
2 5 (50.00%) VB
2 5 (50.00%) SC Cleared
2 5 (50.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (20.00%) SCOM
3 2 (20.00%) Network Management
3 2 (20.00%) UNIX
3 2 (20.00%) Ethernet
3 2 (20.00%) SNMP
3 2 (20.00%) VPN
3 2 (20.00%) SSL
3 2 (20.00%) IPv4
3 2 (20.00%) IPv6
3 2 (20.00%) Juniper
3 2 (20.00%) OSPF
3 2 (20.00%) BGP
3 2 (20.00%) VLAN
3 2 (20.00%) Firewall
3 2 (20.00%) IPsec
3 2 (20.00%) Electronics
3 2 (20.00%) Manufacturing
4 1 (10.00%) Device Driver
4 1 (10.00%) Computer Science
4 1 (10.00%) Automated Testing
4 1 (10.00%) Software Engineering
4 1 (10.00%) CMMI
4 1 (10.00%) Firmware
4 1 (10.00%) Shell Script

C
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Portsmouth 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.

Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) Ethernet
1 2 (20.00%) SNMP
1 2 (20.00%) VPN
1 2 (20.00%) SSL
1 2 (20.00%) IPv4
1 2 (20.00%) IPv6
1 2 (20.00%) OSPF
1 2 (20.00%) BGP
1 2 (20.00%) VLAN
1 2 (20.00%) Firewall
1 2 (20.00%) IPsec
General
1 2 (20.00%) Electronics
1 2 (20.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) Team Leader
2 5 (50.00%) Development Team Leader
3 2 (20.00%) Software Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Network Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Design Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Test Team Leader
4 1 (10.00%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Software Design Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Team Leader
4 1 (10.00%) Firmware Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Device Driver
1 1 (10.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (10.00%) Firmware
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) UNIX
2 1 (10.00%) Windows
2 1 (10.00%) Linux
2 1 (10.00%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (20.00%) Network Management
2 1 (10.00%) Automated Testing
2 1 (10.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (10.00%) CMMI
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) C++
2 5 (50.00%) C#
2 5 (50.00%) VB
3 1 (10.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (50.00%) Degree
1 5 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 5 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) SCOM
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Juniper
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft