C Contracts in Somerset
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for C skills in IT contracts advertised for the Somerset 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 Somerset 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 20 35 30
Rank change year-on-year
+15 -5
Contract jobs citing C 12 2 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Somerset 6.557% 1.170% 1.899%
As % of the Programming Languages category 17.39% 2.273% 4.412%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 3
Average daily rate £442 £400 £290
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.37% +37.93%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £268 £360 £278
10% offered a daily rate of more than £458 £440 £342
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 £12.42 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £36.50 £36.50
% change year-on-year
-4.10% -
All Programming Languages
Somerset
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category		 69 88 68
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Somerset 37.70% 51.46% 43.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 53 36
Average daily rate £310 £333 £290
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.76% +14.65%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £248 £215
10% offered a daily rate of more than £458 £450 £355
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 2
Average hourly rate £19.00 - £32.50
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.05 - £30.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 - £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £35.00
C
South West

C
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Somerset 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 Somerset region.

Somerset 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 Somerset region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Somerset 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 Somerset region.

Somerset C Hourly Rate Trend

C
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing C within the Somerset region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)		 Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads		 Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months		 Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Taunton - 5 £458 -
Bath +7 4 - -
Street - 1 - -
Weston-super-Mare - 1 - -
C
South West

C
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Somerset 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 9 (50.00%) .NET
1 9 (50.00%) Visual Studio
2 8 (44.44%) ISEB
2 8 (44.44%) Microsoft
3 7 (38.89%) C#
4 6 (33.33%) HTML
4 6 (33.33%) JavaScript
4 6 (33.33%) SQL
4 6 (33.33%) ASP
4 6 (33.33%) VB
4 6 (33.33%) ITIL
4 6 (33.33%) XML
4 6 (33.33%) SharePoint
4 6 (33.33%) Subversion
4 6 (33.33%) .NET Framework
5 5 (27.78%) VB6
5 5 (27.78%) Security Cleared
5 5 (27.78%) Waterfall
5 5 (27.78%) XSL
5 5 (27.78%) UML
5 5 (27.78%) RAD
5 5 (27.78%) VBScript
5 5 (27.78%) Java
5 5 (27.78%) ISO 9000
5 5 (27.78%) CSS
6 4 (22.22%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (22.22%) ITSM
6 4 (22.22%) Service Management
6 4 (22.22%) TickIT
6 4 (22.22%) C++

C
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Somerset 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 9 (50.00%) .NET
2 6 (33.33%) ASP
2 6 (33.33%) HTML
2 6 (33.33%) .NET Framework
2 6 (33.33%) XML
3 5 (27.78%) XSL
3 5 (27.78%) CSS
4 4 (22.22%) ASP.NET
4 4 (22.22%) WCF
4 4 (22.22%) WPF
5 3 (16.67%) WF
5 3 (16.67%) LAMP
6 1 (5.556%) Silverlight
Application Platforms
1 6 (33.33%) SharePoint
2 4 (22.22%) SharePoint 2010
3 2 (11.11%) nginx
3 2 (11.11%) Apache
4 1 (5.556%) IIS
4 1 (5.556%) OpenROAD
4 1 (5.556%) Windows Azure
Communications & Networking
1 3 (16.67%) TCP/IP
2 2 (11.11%) Internet
2 2 (11.11%) DHCP
3 1 (5.556%) LAN
3 1 (5.556%) VoIP
3 1 (5.556%) WAN
3 1 (5.556%) 3G
3 1 (5.556%) Wireless
3 1 (5.556%) Unified Communications
3 1 (5.556%) 4G
3 1 (5.556%) PABX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (22.22%) SQL Server
2 3 (16.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 3 (16.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (11.11%) MySQL
4 1 (5.556%) Ingres
4 1 (5.556%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 9 (50.00%) Visual Studio
2 6 (33.33%) Subversion
3 2 (11.11%) Git (software)
4 1 (5.556%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (5.556%) MSTest
4 1 (5.556%) Jenkins
4 1 (5.556%) TeamCity
4 1 (5.556%) NUnit
General
1 3 (16.67%) Military
2 1 (5.556%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (22.22%) Analyst
2 3 (16.67%) Test Analyst
2 3 (16.67%) Tester
2 3 (16.67%) Developer
2 3 (16.67%) Customer Engineer
2 3 (16.67%) Software Tester
3 2 (11.11%) Systems Support Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Systems Support
3 2 (11.11%) Support Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Systems Engineer
4 1 (5.556%) Development Manager
4 1 (5.556%) Senior Developer
4 1 (5.556%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (5.556%) Support Technician
4 1 (5.556%) Senior Analyst Developer
4 1 (5.556%) Voice Support Technician
4 1 (5.556%) C# Developer
4 1 (5.556%) Analyst Developer
4 1 (5.556%) Software Developer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) Mathematics
1 3 (16.67%) Mobile App
2 2 (11.11%) Open Source
3 1 (5.556%) Management Information System
3 1 (5.556%) Handset
3 1 (5.556%) IVR
Operating Systems
1 3 (16.67%) UNIX
1 3 (16.67%) Windows
2 2 (11.11%) Solaris
2 2 (11.11%) Linux
2 2 (11.11%) FreeBSD
2 2 (11.11%) Mac OS X Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (33.33%) ITIL
2 5 (27.78%) UML
2 5 (27.78%) RAD
2 5 (27.78%) Waterfall
3 4 (22.22%) Performance Management
3 4 (22.22%) PRINCE2
3 4 (22.22%) SOA
3 4 (22.22%) Service Management
3 4 (22.22%) ITSM
3 4 (22.22%) Scrum
4 3 (16.67%) Agile Software Development
4 3 (16.67%) Pair Programming
4 3 (16.67%) TOGAF
4 3 (16.67%) Automated Testing
4 3 (16.67%) Software Testing
4 3 (16.67%) Change Management
4 3 (16.67%) E-Commerce
4 3 (16.67%) Release Management
4 3 (16.67%) Test Scripting
5 2 (11.11%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 7 (38.89%) C#
2 6 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 6 (33.33%) VB
2 6 (33.33%) SQL
3 5 (27.78%) VBScript
3 5 (27.78%) Java
3 5 (27.78%) VB6
4 4 (22.22%) C++
5 2 (11.11%) Perl
6 1 (5.556%) VB.NET
6 1 (5.556%) Embedded C
6 1 (5.556%) Embedded C++
Qualifications
1 8 (44.44%) ISEB
2 5 (27.78%) Security Cleared
3 4 (22.22%) MCSD
3 4 (22.22%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
3 4 (22.22%) SC Cleared
3 4 (22.22%) Microsoft Certification
3 4 (22.22%) ISEB Practitioner
4 3 (16.67%) ISTQB
5 1 (5.556%) BC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (27.78%) ISO 9000
2 4 (22.22%) TickIT
2 4 (22.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (16.67%) COBIT
3 3 (16.67%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (11.11%) Puppet
Vendors
1 8 (44.44%) Microsoft
2 4 (22.22%) Oracle
3 1 (5.556%) Siemens
3 1 (5.556%) BT
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