Reading C Contracts

This section looks at the demand for C skills within the Reading region with a comparison to our Programming Languages category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited C over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Alderley Edge Avon Aylesbury Barrow-in-Furness Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bexley Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Cheadle Cheltenham Cheshire Chesterfield Chippenham City of London Colchester Corsham County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Crawley Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorchester Dorset East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Feltham Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Grays Guildford Hampshire Havant Hemel Hempstead Hendon Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Horsham Hounslow Ilford Ipswich Jersey Kent Kidderminster Lancashire Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Louth Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Malvern Manchester Mansfield Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Pontypool Portsmouth Prescot Preston Reading Redditch Redhill Rochester Romsey Salisbury Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shrewsbury Shropshire Skelmersdale Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Swansea Swindon Teesside Thames Valley Thurrock Torfaen Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warminster Warrington Warwickshire Watford Wells West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weybridge Whyteleafe Wilmslow Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	53	36
Rank change on same period last year	-17
Matching contract IT job ads	21	32
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.028 %	0.034 %
As % of the category below	6.402 %	9.357 %
Daily rates quoted	6	7
Average minimum daily rate	£329	£251
Average daily rate	£333	£288
% change on same period last year	+15.79 %
Average maximum daily rate	£338	£324
UK excluding London average daily rate	£356	£348
% change on same period last year	+2.21 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	6
Average minimum hourly rate	£15.00	£37.83
Average hourly rate	£15.00	£38.25
% change on same period last year	-60.78 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£15.00	£38.67
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£34.70	£34.72
% change on same period last year	-0.07 %
Programming Languages Reading
Matching contract IT job ads	328	342
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.433 %	0.363 %
Daily rates quoted	84	105
Average minimum daily rate	£326	£303
Average daily rate	£342	£328
% change on same period last year	+4.16 %
Average maximum daily rate	£359	£354
UK excluding London average daily rate	£337	£332
% change on same period last year	+1.57 %
Hourly rates quoted	29	23
Average minimum hourly rate	£29.75	£30.67
Average hourly rate	£32.32	£31.36
% change on same period last year	+3.06 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£34.90	£32.06
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.13	£33.16
% change on same period last year	-0.07 %
C Berkshire

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing C across the Reading region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

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Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing C across the Reading region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing C across the Reading region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, 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 13 (31.71 %) C# 1 13 (31.71 %) Microsoft 2 12 (29.27 %) Java 2 12 (29.27 %) Windows 2 12 (29.27 %) Finance 3 11 (26.83 %) .NET 4 10 (24.39 %) MS Office 5 9 (21.95 %) SQL 5 9 (21.95 %) DNS 5 9 (21.95 %) Microsoft Certification 5 9 (21.95 %) Network Load Balancing 6 8 (19.51 %) HTML 6 8 (19.51 %) ASP.NET 7 7 (17.07 %) IIS 7 7 (17.07 %) Oracle

7 7 (17.07 %) SQL Server 7 7 (17.07 %) MSDE 7 7 (17.07 %) SharePoint 7 7 (17.07 %) Linux 7 7 (17.07 %) Windows 2000 7 7 (17.07 %) SharePoint Portal Server 8 6 (14.63 %) JavaScript 9 5 (12.20 %) VB 9 5 (12.20 %) C++ 9 5 (12.20 %) XML 9 5 (12.20 %) HTTP 9 5 (12.20 %) QuickTest Pro 9 5 (12.20 %) SharePoint Server 2007 10 4 (9.756 %) Mainframe 10 4 (9.756 %) WebSphere

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, 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 11 (26.83 %) .NET 2 8 (19.51 %) HTML 2 8 (19.51 %) ASP.NET 3 5 (12.20 %) XML 4 4 (9.756 %) WebSphere 5 3 (7.317 %) ASP 5 3 (7.317 %) Hibernate 5 3 (7.317 %) Spring 5 3 (7.317 %) AJAX 5 3 (7.317 %) CSS 5 3 (7.317 %) Struts 6 2 (4.878 %) ATL 6 2 (4.878 %) MFC 7 1 (2.439 %) J2EE 7 1 (2.439 %) LAMP	Application Platforms 1 7 (17.07 %) IIS 1 7 (17.07 %) SharePoint 1 7 (17.07 %) SharePoint Portal Server 2 5 (12.20 %) SharePoint Server 2007 3 3 (7.317 %) WebSphere Application Server 4 2 (4.878 %) Office Project Server 5 1 (2.439 %) MS Exchange
Applications 1 10 (24.39 %) MS Office 2 3 (7.317 %) MS Project 3 1 (2.439 %) MS Excel	Business Applications 1 1 (2.439 %) Great Plains 1 1 (2.439 %) SAP FI
Communications & Networking 1 9 (21.95 %) DNS 2 5 (12.20 %) HTTP 3 1 (2.439 %) DHCP 3 1 (2.439 %) Ethernet 3 1 (2.439 %) 802.11 3 1 (2.439 %) Wireless 3 1 (2.439 %) VLAN	Database & Business Intelligence 1 7 (17.07 %) SQL Server 1 7 (17.07 %) MSDE 2 4 (9.756 %) DB2 3 3 (7.317 %) Informix 3 3 (7.317 %) PostgreSQL 3 3 (7.317 %) MySQL 4 2 (4.878 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 5 1 (2.439 %) Oracle 11g 5 1 (2.439 %) Oracle 9i
Development Applications 1 5 (12.20 %) QuickTest Pro 2 4 (9.756 %) TestDirector 3 1 (2.439 %) WinRunner 3 1 (2.439 %) ProC 3 1 (2.439 %) LabVIEW	General 1 12 (29.27 %) Finance 2 2 (4.878 %) Government 3 1 (2.439 %) Insurance 3 1 (2.439 %) Aerospace
Job Titles 1 9 (21.95 %) Developer 2 5 (12.20 %) Analyst 2 5 (12.20 %) Architect 2 5 (12.20 %) Tester 3 3 (7.317 %) Business Analyst 3 3 (7.317 %) Applications Developer 3 3 (7.317 %) Java Developer 3 3 (7.317 %) PHP Developer 3 3 (7.317 %) Sharepoint Specialist 4 2 (4.878 %) Consultant 4 2 (4.878 %) Project Engineer 4 2 (4.878 %) Server Engineer 4 2 (4.878 %) Functional Tester 4 2 (4.878 %) Project Consultant 4 2 (4.878 %) Systems Tester 4 2 (4.878 %) Support Specialist 5 1 (2.439 %) Applications Support 5 1 (2.439 %) Senior Project Manager 5 1 (2.439 %) Systems Analyst 5 1 (2.439 %) Senior Manager	Miscellaneous 1 4 (9.756 %) Mainframe 2 3 (7.317 %) AS400 3 2 (4.878 %) Device Driver 3 2 (4.878 %) French Language 4 1 (2.439 %) German Language 4 1 (2.439 %) Replication 4 1 (2.439 %) Clustering
Operating Systems 1 12 (29.27 %) Windows 2 7 (17.07 %) Linux 2 7 (17.07 %) Windows 2000 3 4 (9.756 %) MVS 3 4 (9.756 %) Unix 4 2 (4.878 %) Windows XP 4 2 (4.878 %) AIX 5 1 (2.439 %) HPUX 5 1 (2.439 %) Solaris 5 1 (2.439 %) Debian 5 1 (2.439 %) Embedded Linux	Processes & Methodologies 1 9 (21.95 %) Network Load Balancing 2 4 (9.756 %) Security Cleared 3 3 (7.317 %) SC Cleared 3 3 (7.317 %) CRM 3 3 (7.317 %) Project Management 4 2 (4.878 %) Regression Testing 5 1 (2.439 %) Workflow 5 1 (2.439 %) Migration 5 1 (2.439 %) Risk Assessment 5 1 (2.439 %) Load Balancing 5 1 (2.439 %) Change Management 5 1 (2.439 %) ITIL 5 1 (2.439 %) PRINCE2 5 1 (2.439 %) SOA 5 1 (2.439 %) Business Intelligence 5 1 (2.439 %) Configuration Management
Programming Languages 1 13 (31.71 %) C# 2 12 (29.27 %) Java 3 9 (21.95 %) SQL 4 6 (14.63 %) JavaScript 5 5 (12.20 %) VB 5 5 (12.20 %) C++ 6 4 (9.756 %) Perl 7 3 (7.317 %) PHP 7 3 (7.317 %) VBA 7 3 (7.317 %) VC++ 7 3 (7.317 %) DHTML 8 2 (4.878 %) Shell Script 8 2 (4.878 %) J# 9 1 (2.439 %) Embedded C 9 1 (2.439 %) Embedded C++ 9 1 (2.439 %) Assembly Language 9 1 (2.439 %) PL/SQL	Qualifications 1 9 (21.95 %) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (2.439 %) JSP 440	System Software 1 1 (2.439 %) Oracle RAC
Systems Management 1 1 (2.439 %) Tivoli 1 1 (2.439 %) Tivoli Monitoring	Vendors 1 13 (31.71 %) Microsoft 2 7 (17.07 %) Oracle 3 2 (4.878 %) SAP 4 1 (2.439 %) Siebel 4 1 (2.439 %) PeopleSoft 4 1 (2.439 %) Red Hat 4 1 (2.439 %) TIBCO