C Contracts in Reading
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for C skills in IT contracts advertised for the Reading 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 Reading 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 55 38 59
Rank change year-on-year
-17 +21
Contract jobs citing C 10 41 23
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 1.192% 3.677% 2.158%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.132% 15.41% 6.216%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 23 8
Average daily rate £350 £365 £295
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.10% +23.72%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £280 £245 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £508 £447 £300
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £400 £300
% change year-on-year
-12.50% +33.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 5
Average hourly rate £21.50 £44.00 £16.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-51.13% +175.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £34.50 £36.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year
-5.47% +1.38%
All Programming Languages
Reading
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category		 242 266 370
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 28.84% 23.86% 34.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 105 166
Average daily rate £360 £370 £340
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.70% +8.82%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £235 £235
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £480 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 4 17
Average hourly rate £17.00 £44.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-61.36% +120.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.00 £17.20 £12.35
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £31.50 £44.00 £37.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
C
Berkshire

C
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading 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 Reading region.

Reading C Daily Rate Trend

C
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing C across the Reading region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Reading C Daily Rate Histogram

C
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing C across the Reading region.

Reading C Hourly Rate Trend

C
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 8 (47.06%) SQL
2 6 (35.29%) Linux
2 6 (35.29%) 3G
2 6 (35.29%) Telecoms
2 6 (35.29%) 2G
2 6 (35.29%) Continuous Improvement
2 6 (35.29%) Radio Access Network
3 5 (29.41%) Windows
4 4 (23.53%) ITIL
4 4 (23.53%) ASP.NET
4 4 (23.53%) .NET
4 4 (23.53%) Oracle
4 4 (23.53%) C++
4 4 (23.53%) Java
4 4 (23.53%) Perl
4 4 (23.53%) Business Objects
4 4 (23.53%) ATM
4 4 (23.53%) NEC
4 4 (23.53%) IPv4
4 4 (23.53%) Citrix
4 4 (23.53%) Ericsson
4 4 (23.53%) Big Data
4 4 (23.53%) Nokia Siemens Networks
4 4 (23.53%) NoSQL
4 4 (23.53%) LTE
4 4 (23.53%) Open Source
4 4 (23.53%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (23.53%) eTOM
4 4 (23.53%) Huawei
4 4 (23.53%) Degree

C
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 4 (23.53%) ASP.NET
1 4 (23.53%) .NET
2 2 (11.76%) Web Services
2 2 (11.76%) REST
2 2 (11.76%) WCF
3 1 (5.882%) COM
Application Platforms
1 2 (11.76%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (11.76%) MS Visio
1 2 (11.76%) MS Excel
2 1 (5.882%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 6 (35.29%) 3G
1 6 (35.29%) 2G
1 6 (35.29%) Radio Access Network
2 4 (23.53%) ATM
2 4 (23.53%) IPv4
2 4 (23.53%) LTE
3 2 (11.76%) GSM
3 2 (11.76%) UMTS
4 1 (5.882%) Internet
4 1 (5.882%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (23.53%) Big Data
1 4 (23.53%) NoSQL
1 4 (23.53%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (11.76%) Data Mining
2 2 (11.76%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (11.76%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Visual Studio
General
1 6 (35.29%) Telecoms
2 2 (11.76%) Games
2 2 (11.76%) Military
3 1 (5.882%) Marketing
3 1 (5.882%) Finance
3 1 (5.882%) Legal
3 1 (5.882%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 4 (23.53%) Developer
2 3 (17.65%) Technical Leader
3 2 (11.76%) Administrator
3 2 (11.76%) Software Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Analyst
3 2 (11.76%) Test Analyst
3 2 (11.76%) Architect
3 2 (11.76%) Customer Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Development Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Automation Analyst
3 2 (11.76%) Software Development Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Project Administrator
3 2 (11.76%) Analyst Developer
3 2 (11.76%) Automation Test Analyst
4 1 (5.882%) Marketing Executive
4 1 (5.882%) SAP Architect
4 1 (5.882%) Team Leader
4 1 (5.882%) SQL Developer
4 1 (5.882%) Perl Developer
4 1 (5.882%) C++ Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (23.53%) Open Source
2 2 (11.76%) Management Information System
2 2 (11.76%) Cloud Computing
2 2 (11.76%) Kinect
2 2 (11.76%) Mathematics
2 2 (11.76%) Computer Science
3 1 (5.882%) PDA
3 1 (5.882%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 6 (35.29%) Linux
2 5 (29.41%) Windows
3 2 (11.76%) VMS
4 1 (5.882%) Windows 7
4 1 (5.882%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (35.29%) Continuous Improvement
2 4 (23.53%) ITIL
2 4 (23.53%) eTOM
3 3 (17.65%) Fault Management
3 3 (17.65%) Process Architecture
3 3 (17.65%) Network Management
3 3 (17.65%) Disaster Recovery
3 3 (17.65%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (17.65%) ETL
4 2 (11.76%) GAP Analysis
4 2 (11.76%) Validation
4 2 (11.76%) Code Coverage
4 2 (11.76%) Analytics
4 2 (11.76%) Software Architecture
4 2 (11.76%) Test Automation
4 2 (11.76%) Game Development
4 2 (11.76%) Test Strategy
4 2 (11.76%) Automated Testing
4 2 (11.76%) Load Testing
4 2 (11.76%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (47.06%) SQL
2 4 (23.53%) C++
2 4 (23.53%) Java
2 4 (23.53%) Perl
3 2 (11.76%) Python
3 2 (11.76%) C#
3 2 (11.76%) Shell Script
4 1 (5.882%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 4 (23.53%) Degree
2 2 (11.76%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (17.65%) SLA
Vendors
1 4 (23.53%) Oracle
1 4 (23.53%) Business Objects
1 4 (23.53%) NEC
1 4 (23.53%) Citrix
1 4 (23.53%) Ericsson
1 4 (23.53%) Nokia Siemens Networks
1 4 (23.53%) Huawei
1 4 (23.53%) Greenplum
2 3 (17.65%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.882%) SAP
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