C Contracts in the South West
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Hourly Rate Histogram Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for C skills in IT contracts advertised for the South West region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited C over the 3 months to 21 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 South West 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
21 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
C
Rank 23 19 46
Rank change year-on-year
-4 +27
Contract jobs citing C 138 245 88
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 6.622% 7.504% 3.199%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.33% 19.48% 9.352%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 107 30
Average daily rate £450 £475 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.26% +58.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £150 £265
10% offered a daily rate of more than £528 £500 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £400 £300
% change year-on-year
-12.50% +33.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 35 23
Average hourly rate £32.50 £32.00 £36.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+1.56% -11.11%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.42 £25.00 £29.10
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.00 £50.00 £39.20
UK excluding London average hourly rate £34.00 £36.75 £36.50
% change year-on-year
-7.48% +0.68%
All Programming Languages
South West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category		 753 1258 941
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 36.13% 38.53% 34.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 440 729 416
Average daily rate £325 £375 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-13.33% +25.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £250 £213
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £500 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 76 93
Average hourly rate £36.75 £32.50 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+13.07% -7.14%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.00 £16.90 £20.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £47.20 £40.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
C
England

C
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South West 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 South West region.

South West 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 South West region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

South West 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 South West region.

South West C Hourly Rate Trend

C
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing C across the South West region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

South West C Hourly Rate Histogram

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 South West region over the 3 months to 21 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
Gloucestershire 0 69 £463 -2.63%
Wiltshire +3 28 £240 -31.42%
Somerset +13 12 £442 +10.37%
Bristol -5 9 £350 -24.32%
Devon +5 6 £350 -24.73%
Dorset +2 6 - -
Cornwall +2 1 - -
C
England

C
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West 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.

1 269 (64.20%) Security Cleared
2 238 (56.80%) DV Cleared
3 170 (40.57%) Linux
4 107 (25.54%) Java
5 94 (22.43%) Windows
6 89 (21.24%) C++
7 78 (18.62%) UNIX
8 63 (15.04%) Oracle
9 57 (13.60%) UML
10 50 (11.93%) Finance
11 46 (10.98%) Service Management
12 41 (9.785%) JBoss
12 41 (9.785%) Red Hat
13 40 (9.547%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 39 (9.308%) SC Cleared
15 38 (9.069%) Shell Script
15 38 (9.069%) SAN
15 38 (9.069%) OO
16 37 (8.831%) Perl
17 36 (8.592%) HP
17 36 (8.592%) Agile Software Development
18 34 (8.115%) NetApp
19 32 (7.637%) VMware
19 32 (7.637%) Maven
19 32 (7.637%) Degree
19 32 (7.637%) Mathematics
20 31 (7.399%) VMware Infrastructure
20 31 (7.399%) C#
20 31 (7.399%) ITIL
21 29 (6.921%) JavaScript

C
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West 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 25 (5.967%) JPA
2 24 (5.728%) .NET
3 22 (5.251%) EJB
3 22 (5.251%) HTML
4 21 (5.012%) Web Services
5 19 (4.535%) jQuery
6 17 (4.057%) Drools
6 17 (4.057%) J2EE
7 15 (3.580%) EJB 3.0
7 15 (3.580%) GWT
7 15 (3.580%) JMS
8 13 (3.103%) XML
8 13 (3.103%) ASP.NET
9 12 (2.864%) CSS
9 12 (2.864%) RESTful
10 11 (2.625%) .NET Framework
11 9 (2.148%) Hibernate
12 8 (1.909%) REST
12 8 (1.909%) WCF
13 7 (1.671%) SOAP
Application Platforms
1 16 (3.819%) Apache
2 10 (2.387%) SharePoint
3 8 (1.909%) SharePoint 2010
4 4 (0.955%) MS Project Server
5 3 (0.716%) Windows Azure
5 3 (0.716%) IIS
6 2 (0.477%) MS Exchange
6 2 (0.477%) nginx
7 1 (0.239%) ESB
7 1 (0.239%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (0.239%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.239%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 17 (4.057%) MS Excel
2 8 (1.909%) MS Project
3 7 (1.671%) MS Office
4 2 (0.477%) NASTRAN
5 1 (0.239%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (0.477%) Oracle Applications
1 2 (0.477%) Sentinel
2 1 (0.239%) AWD
Communications & Networking
1 38 (9.069%) SAN
2 26 (6.205%) DHCP
3 25 (5.967%) DNS
4 21 (5.012%) Ethernet
5 19 (4.535%) LAN
5 19 (4.535%) WAN
6 17 (4.057%) Internet
7 14 (3.341%) Firewall
8 8 (1.909%) VPN
9 7 (1.671%) 4G
9 7 (1.671%) 3G
9 7 (1.671%) TCP/IP
10 6 (1.432%) ASN.1
10 6 (1.432%) DVB
11 5 (1.193%) Wireless
11 5 (1.193%) HTTP
12 3 (0.716%) Broadband
13 2 (0.477%) VoIP
13 2 (0.477%) FTP
13 2 (0.477%) 2G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (6.444%) MySQL
2 20 (4.773%) QlikView
3 15 (3.580%) RDBMS
4 13 (3.103%) SQL Server
5 7 (1.671%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 7 (1.671%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 7 (1.671%) Oracle 11g
6 5 (1.193%) Oracle BI EE
6 5 (1.193%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (0.955%) OLAP
7 4 (0.955%) Essbase
7 4 (0.955%) SQL Server 2008
7 4 (0.955%) Oracle OLAP
8 2 (0.477%) TOAD
9 1 (0.239%) SQLPlus
9 1 (0.239%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (0.239%) Oracle 10g
9 1 (0.239%) Star Schema
9 1 (0.239%) Ingres
9 1 (0.239%) IBM InfoSphere
Development Applications
1 32 (7.637%) Maven
2 24 (5.728%) Visual Studio
3 12 (2.864%) Eclipse
4 11 (2.625%) Git (software)
5 10 (2.387%) Subversion
6 8 (1.909%) Ant
6 8 (1.909%) JUnit
6 8 (1.909%) Hudson
7 7 (1.671%) JIRA
8 6 (1.432%) GCC
9 5 (1.193%) Eclipse RCP
10 4 (0.955%) Dreamweaver
11 2 (0.477%) LoadRunner
11 2 (0.477%) NetBeans
12 1 (0.239%) NUnit
12 1 (0.239%) TeamCity
12 1 (0.239%) Team Foundation Server
12 1 (0.239%) MSTest
12 1 (0.239%) GDB
12 1 (0.239%) JProfiler
General
1 50 (11.93%) Finance
2 17 (4.057%) Telecoms
3 15 (3.580%) Military
4 12 (2.864%) Electronics
5 11 (2.625%) Aerospace
6 6 (1.432%) Avionics
6 6 (1.432%) Banking
7 5 (1.193%) Retail
8 4 (0.955%) Legal
9 3 (0.716%) Back Office
10 2 (0.477%) Automotive
10 2 (0.477%) Law
10 2 (0.477%) Games
10 2 (0.477%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 121 (28.88%) Developer
2 77 (18.38%) Software Engineer
3 39 (9.308%) Java Developer
4 31 (7.399%) Architect
5 26 (6.205%) Linux Engineer
6 25 (5.967%) Customer Engineer
7 24 (5.728%) UNIX Engineer
8 19 (4.535%) Analyst
8 19 (4.535%) Software Developer
9 17 (4.057%) Storage Engineer
9 17 (4.057%) Technical Architect
9 17 (4.057%) Support Engineer
10 16 (3.819%) Systems Engineer
11 15 (3.580%) Project Manager
12 13 (3.103%) C++ Developer
13 11 (2.625%) Project Officer
13 11 (2.625%) Project Support Officer
13 11 (2.625%) Embedded Software Engineer
14 10 (2.387%) C++ Software Engineer
15 9 (2.148%) HTML Developer
Miscellaneous
1 32 (7.637%) Mathematics
2 28 (6.683%) Embedded Systems
3 24 (5.728%) Clustering
4 17 (4.057%) Computer Science
5 15 (3.580%) RIA
6 12 (2.864%) EPoS
6 12 (2.864%) APACS
7 11 (2.625%) Management Information System
7 11 (2.625%) EMV
8 9 (2.148%) Fat Client
8 9 (2.148%) Thin Client
9 7 (1.671%) Firmware
10 6 (1.432%) Mobile App
11 5 (1.193%) STB
12 4 (0.955%) Chip and PIN
12 4 (0.955%) DTV
12 4 (0.955%) Open Source
12 4 (0.955%) Data Integration
13 3 (0.716%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
13 3 (0.716%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 170 (40.57%) Linux
2 94 (22.43%) Windows
3 78 (18.62%) UNIX
4 40 (9.547%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 23 (5.489%) Android
6 22 (5.251%) Solaris
7 20 (4.773%) Apple iOS
8 8 (1.909%) Embedded Linux
9 6 (1.432%) VxWorks
10 4 (0.955%) Windows XP
11 3 (0.716%) Windows 7
12 2 (0.477%) HPUX
12 2 (0.477%) FreeBSD
12 2 (0.477%) Mac OS X Server
12 2 (0.477%) CentOS
12 2 (0.477%) Windows Server 2008
12 2 (0.477%) Ubuntu
12 2 (0.477%) Windows XP Embedded
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (13.60%) UML
2 46 (10.98%) Service Management
3 38 (9.069%) OO
4 36 (8.592%) Agile Software Development
5 31 (7.399%) ITIL
6 29 (6.921%) Stakeholder Management
7 28 (6.683%) PRINCE2
8 26 (6.205%) Configuration Management
8 26 (6.205%) Software Engineering
9 23 (5.489%) Data Modelling
10 19 (4.535%) Release Management
11 18 (4.296%) OOA/OOD
11 18 (4.296%) Root Cause Analysis
11 18 (4.296%) Enterprise Architecture
12 17 (4.057%) Change Control
12 17 (4.057%) Data Protection
12 17 (4.057%) Benchmarking
13 16 (3.819%) Risk Management
13 16 (3.819%) Document Management
14 15 (3.580%) Requirements Management
Programming Languages
1 107 (25.54%) Java
2 89 (21.24%) C++
3 38 (9.069%) Shell Script
4 37 (8.831%) Perl
5 31 (7.399%) C#
6 29 (6.921%) JavaScript
7 28 (6.683%) Embedded C
8 18 (4.296%) SQL
9 17 (4.057%) Scala
10 13 (3.103%) Python
11 12 (2.864%) VB
12 10 (2.387%) Embedded C++
13 8 (1.909%) Assembly Language
14 6 (1.432%) VBScript
15 5 (1.193%) VB6
15 5 (1.193%) Ruby
16 4 (0.955%) VB.NET
16 4 (0.955%) Bash shell
17 3 (0.716%) IronRuby
17 3 (0.716%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 269 (64.20%) Security Cleared
2 238 (56.80%) DV Cleared
3 39 (9.308%) SC Cleared
4 32 (7.637%) Degree
5 13 (3.103%) PRINCE2 Certification
6 9 (2.148%) ISEB
7 7 (1.671%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 7 (1.671%) Microsoft Certification
8 6 (1.432%) MCSD
9 4 (0.955%) ISTQB
9 4 (0.955%) ISEB Practitioner
10 2 (0.477%) MCAD
10 2 (0.477%) APMP
10 2 (0.477%) BC Cleared
11 1 (0.239%) Six Sigma Black Belt
11 1 (0.239%) CIPD
11 1 (0.239%) NVQ Level 3
11 1 (0.239%) MCSE
11 1 (0.239%) HNC
11 1 (0.239%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (3.819%) JTAG
2 9 (2.148%) QA
2 9 (2.148%) DO-178B
3 5 (1.193%) ISO 9000
4 4 (0.955%) TickIT
4 4 (0.955%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.716%) COBIT
6 2 (0.477%) IEC 61508
7 1 (0.239%) JSP 440
7 1 (0.239%) Solvency II
7 1 (0.239%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 31 (7.399%) VMware Infrastructure
2 17 (4.057%) Hyper-V
3 2 (0.477%) NFS
3 2 (0.477%) VMware ESX
4 1 (0.239%) XenApp
4 1 (0.239%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.239%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (0.239%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 17 (4.057%) NetBackup
2 3 (0.716%) HP Quality Center
3 2 (0.477%) BMC PATROL
3 2 (0.477%) Puppet
3 2 (0.477%) SCOM
3 2 (0.477%) WSUS
4 1 (0.239%) WhatsUp Gold
4 1 (0.239%) HP SiteScope
Vendors
1 63 (15.04%) Oracle
2 41 (9.785%) JBoss
2 41 (9.785%) Red Hat
3 36 (8.592%) HP
4 34 (8.115%) NetApp
5 32 (7.637%) VMware
6 27 (6.444%) Cisco
7 20 (4.773%) Microsoft
8 18 (4.296%) IBM
9 17 (4.057%) Symantec
10 11 (2.625%) Citrix
11 8 (1.909%) Juniper
11 8 (1.909%) Sophos
11 8 (1.909%) VeriFone
11 8 (1.909%) Lumension
12 7 (1.671%) Green Hills
12 7 (1.671%) Hyperion
13 5 (1.193%) Perforce
14 4 (0.955%) Palantir
15 3 (0.716%) CheckPoint
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Bath, South West
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Electronics Design Engineer - Contract
South West
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Rate: £30.00 - £40.00 per hour
Posted: 16 May 2013
Embedded Software - Medical Experience
South West England
Our Medical client is currently seeking an embedded software engineer on an initial 8 week contract. You will be working on various microcontrollers and will be required to...
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Software Test Engineer x 4 - Urgent
Bath, South West
You will be testing low level C code to ensure it measures up to the rigorous safety standards required in the sector where they operate. The role: + Experience...
Progressive Recruitment
Rate: £25 - £28 per annum
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Embedded C Engineer
South West England
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Bath, South West
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Rate: £25 - £28 per hour
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Embedded C - 1 Month
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