C Contracts in Scotland

C
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for C skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited C over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 115 140 162
Rank change year-on-year +25 +22 -30
Contract jobs citing C 16 24 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.72% 0.84% 0.14%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.39% 2.42% 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 13 0
10th Percentile £462 £414 -
25th Percentile £470 £456 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £480 -
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% - -
75th Percentile £520 £495 -
90th Percentile £531 £559 -
UK median daily rate £535 £564 £575
% change year-on-year -5.10% -1.96% +35.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 1
10th Percentile - £42.68 -
25th Percentile £60.25 £48.19 £51.25
Median hourly rate £60.50 £58.75 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.98% +11.90% -
75th Percentile £60.75 £67.50 £53.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £58.20 £55.00
% change year-on-year +11.68% +5.82% +22.22%

All Programming Languages
Scotland

C is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 670 993 955
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 30.36% 34.79% 27.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 441 723 647
10th Percentile £369 £406 £363
25th Percentile £415 £438 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £486 £493 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.32% +3.68% +11.76%
75th Percentile £588 £556 £550
90th Percentile £655 £675 £638
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 15 21
10th Percentile £29.60 £49.14 £17.50
25th Percentile £41.31 £53.75 £37.50
Median hourly rate £57.50 £60.55 £47.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.04% +28.83% +4.44%
75th Percentile £60.75 £67.50 £53.75
90th Percentile £62.50 £69.50 £55.75
UK median hourly rate £60.07 £60.70 £50.00
% change year-on-year -1.04% +21.40% +13.64%

C
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing C as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for C in Scotland

C
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing C in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for C in Scotland

C
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing C in Scotland.

Hourly rate trend for C in Scotland

C
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing C within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Glasgow -1 9 - - 14
Edinburgh +39 4 - - 26
C
UK

C
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 1 (6.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (6.25%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (6.25%) Amazon S3
1 1 (6.25%) AWS
1 1 (6.25%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (6.25%) IaaS
1 1 (6.25%) OpenShift
1 1 (6.25%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (37.50%) Kerberos
2 4 (25.00%) Internet
3 1 (6.25%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (6.25%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (6.25%) Oracle Database
1 1 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (62.50%) Jenkins
2 9 (56.25%) Git
3 6 (37.50%) Bitbucket
4 1 (6.25%) CMake
4 1 (6.25%) JIRA
General
1 4 (25.00%) Electronics
2 1 (6.25%) Finance
2 1 (6.25%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (43.75%) Developer
2 4 (25.00%) Embedded Engineer
2 4 (25.00%) Embedded Software Engineer
2 4 (25.00%) Software Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) Linux Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Hardware Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Linux DevOps Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Linux/Unix DevOps
4 2 (12.50%) Python Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Unix Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Unix Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Unix Linux Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Linux Scripter
5 1 (6.25%) Linux Server Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Server Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Windows DevOps Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (37.50%) JSON
1 6 (37.50%) LDAP
1 6 (37.50%) OpenID
1 6 (37.50%) RESTful
1 6 (37.50%) Web Services
1 6 (37.50%) XML
2 2 (12.50%) Redfish
3 1 (6.25%) AWS CDK
3 1 (6.25%) OAuth
3 1 (6.25%) OAuth2
3 1 (6.25%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (6.25%) React
3 1 (6.25%) Spring
3 1 (6.25%) Spring Boot
3 1 (6.25%) Spring Security
3 1 (6.25%) YAML
3 1 (6.25%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 6 (37.50%) Enterprise Cloud
2 4 (25.00%) Device Driver
2 4 (25.00%) IoT
2 4 (25.00%) PCIe
2 4 (25.00%) Verilog
2 4 (25.00%) VHDL
3 2 (12.50%) Virtual Team
4 1 (6.25%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (6.25%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (6.25%) Management Information System
4 1 (6.25%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 9 (56.25%) Linux
2 5 (31.25%) Embedded Linux
3 4 (25.00%) VxWorks
4 3 (18.75%) Unix
5 1 (6.25%) Oracle Linux
5 1 (6.25%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (68.75%) Continuous Integration
2 10 (62.50%) Agile
3 9 (56.25%) Test Automation
4 6 (37.50%) CI/CD
4 6 (37.50%) Data Modelling
4 6 (37.50%) OO
5 5 (31.25%) Continuous Deployment
5 5 (31.25%) Software Engineering
6 4 (25.00%) Code Optimisation
6 4 (25.00%) Configuration Management
6 4 (25.00%) Defect Tracking
6 4 (25.00%) Device Driver Development
6 4 (25.00%) DevOps
6 4 (25.00%) Memory Management
6 4 (25.00%) Requirements Management
7 3 (18.75%) Server Management
8 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
8 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 2 (12.50%) Kanban
9 1 (6.25%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 6 (37.50%) Go
2 5 (31.25%) Embedded C
3 3 (18.75%) Perl
3 3 (18.75%) Python
4 2 (12.50%) JavaScript
5 1 (6.25%) Java
5 1 (6.25%) SQL
5 1 (6.25%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (25.00%) MISRA
1 4 (25.00%) MISRA C
System Software
1 6 (37.50%) Active Directory
2 4 (25.00%) Firmware
3 1 (6.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (12.50%) Grafana
1 2 (12.50%) Kibana
Vendors
1 6 (37.50%) Cadence
2 4 (25.00%) Atlassian
2 4 (25.00%) Intel
3 2 (12.50%) HP
4 1 (6.25%) Commvault
4 1 (6.25%) Dell
4 1 (6.25%) Oracle