C Contracts in the South West

C
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 72 102 134
Rank change year-on-year +30 +32 -42
Contract jobs citing C 87 70 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 2.76% 1.97% 1.08%
As % of the Programming Languages category 13.96% 6.80% 3.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 24 17
10th Percentile - £375 £385
25th Percentile £525 £427 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +17.07% -2.38% +16.67%
75th Percentile £706 £656 £569
90th Percentile £735 £718 £585
England median daily rate £538 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -6.52% - +35.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 23 13
10th Percentile £55.13 £52.00 £54.00
25th Percentile £67.13 - £65.00
Median hourly rate £70.00 £65.00 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -13.33% +50.00%
75th Percentile - £65.75 -
90th Percentile £85.00 - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £59.45 £56.00
% change year-on-year +9.33% +6.17% +23.76%

All Programming Languages
South West

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 the South West with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 623 1,030 1,122
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 19.75% 29.03% 30.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 420 738 773
10th Percentile £325 £350 £363
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% +2.50% +8.11%
75th Percentile £628 £625 £575
90th Percentile £700 £700 £638
England median daily rate £550 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -2.28% +2.33% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 93 70
10th Percentile £48.40 £48.72 £46.66
25th Percentile £56.00 £53.75 £53.81
Median hourly rate £67.25 £65.00 £61.25
Median % change year-on-year +3.46% +6.12% +34.62%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.90 £75.50 £75.00
England median hourly rate £62.50 £61.18 £50.10
% change year-on-year +2.17% +22.11% +15.84%

C
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing C as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for C in the South West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing C in the South West.

Daily rate trend for C in the South West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing C in the South West over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for C in the South West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing C in the South West.

Hourly rate trend for C in the South West

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the South West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing C in the South West over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for C in the South West

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Contract Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing C within the South West region over the 6 months to 7 May 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
Gloucestershire +24 39 £563 -13.46% 27
Bristol +23 34 - - 44
Wiltshire 0 8 £725 +52.63% 12
Cornwall - 1 £396 - 7
C
England

C
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (6.90%) SharePoint
2 5 (5.75%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (2.30%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 17 (19.54%) AWS
2 16 (18.39%) Azure
3 8 (9.20%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (6.90%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (4.60%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (4.60%) Amazon S3
5 4 (4.60%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (4.60%) OpenShift
5 4 (4.60%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.60%) AMQP
1 4 (4.60%) Network Security
1 4 (4.60%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (8.05%) SQL Server
2 4 (4.60%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (4.60%) InfluxDB
2 4 (4.60%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (8.05%) Jenkins
2 5 (5.75%) Bitbucket
2 5 (5.75%) JIRA
3 4 (4.60%) Git
4 3 (3.45%) Rational Rhapsody
5 1 (1.15%) Rational DOORS
5 1 (1.15%) Rational Team Concert
5 1 (1.15%) Visual Studio
General
1 7 (8.05%) Aerospace
2 5 (5.75%) Social Skills
2 5 (5.75%) Telecoms
3 4 (4.60%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (3.45%) Electronics
5 1 (1.15%) Aviation
5 1 (1.15%) Banking
5 1 (1.15%) Billing
5 1 (1.15%) Law
Job Titles
1 33 (37.93%) Software Engineer
2 27 (31.03%) Embedded Engineer
3 26 (29.89%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 15 (17.24%) Developer
5 12 (13.79%) Full Stack Developer
6 11 (12.64%) Architect
7 7 (8.05%) DevOps Engineer
8 6 (6.90%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
8 6 (6.90%) SharePoint Architect
8 6 (6.90%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 5 (5.75%) Senior
9 5 (5.75%) Software Architect
10 4 (4.60%) Integration Engineer
10 4 (4.60%) Python Software Architect
10 4 (4.60%) Senior Integration Engineer
10 4 (4.60%) Senior Test and Integration Engineer
10 4 (4.60%) Senior Test Engineer
10 4 (4.60%) Test and Integration Engineer
10 4 (4.60%) Test Engineer
11 3 (3.45%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (19.54%) Spring
2 16 (18.39%) React
3 12 (13.79%) AngularJS
4 9 (10.34%) RESTful
5 7 (8.05%) .NET
6 5 (5.75%) Spring Boot
6 5 (5.75%) XML
7 4 (4.60%) Node.js
7 4 (4.60%) RabbitMQ
8 1 (1.15%) Apache NiFi
8 1 (1.15%) ASP.NET
8 1 (1.15%) ASP.NET Core
8 1 (1.15%) ASP.NET Web API
8 1 (1.15%) CSS
8 1 (1.15%) CSS3
8 1 (1.15%) HTML
8 1 (1.15%) HTML5
8 1 (1.15%) Kafka
8 1 (1.15%) REST
8 1 (1.15%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 17 (19.54%) ARM Cortex
2 5 (5.75%) IoT
2 5 (5.75%) Product Ownership
2 5 (5.75%) Verilog
2 5 (5.75%) VHDL
3 4 (4.60%) Embedded Systems
3 4 (4.60%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (3.45%) Device Driver
5 2 (2.30%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.15%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.15%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (1.15%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 37 (42.53%) Linux
2 21 (24.14%) FreeRTOS
3 4 (4.60%) SafeRTOS
3 4 (4.60%) Windows
4 2 (2.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.15%) CentOS
5 1 (1.15%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (42.53%) DevOps
1 37 (42.53%) Software Engineering
2 31 (35.63%) Agile
3 22 (25.29%) Configuration Management
4 19 (21.84%) Software Architecture
5 16 (18.39%) Problem-Solving
6 13 (14.94%) Full Stack Development
7 12 (13.79%) Change Management
7 12 (13.79%) OO
7 12 (13.79%) OOP
7 12 (13.79%) Programme Management
7 12 (13.79%) Project Management
7 12 (13.79%) Secure Coding
7 12 (13.79%) Unit Testing
8 11 (12.64%) SDLC
9 7 (8.05%) CI/CD
9 7 (8.05%) Scrum
10 6 (6.90%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 6 (6.90%) Validation
11 5 (5.75%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 36 (41.38%) Python
2 29 (33.33%) Java
3 20 (22.99%) C++
4 17 (19.54%) Embedded C
5 12 (13.79%) C#
5 12 (13.79%) JavaScript
6 9 (10.34%) SQL
7 6 (6.90%) Shell Script
8 5 (5.75%) Go
9 4 (4.60%) Bash
9 4 (4.60%) PL/SQL
9 4 (4.60%) PowerShell
9 4 (4.60%) TypeScript
10 2 (2.30%) Perl
11 1 (1.15%) Assembly Language
11 1 (1.15%) Fortran
11 1 (1.15%) MATLAB
11 1 (1.15%) ProC
11 1 (1.15%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 59 (67.82%) Security Cleared
2 37 (42.53%) DV Cleared
3 22 (25.29%) SC Cleared
4 5 (5.75%) Degree
5 4 (4.60%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.15%) CREST Certified
6 1 (1.15%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (14.94%) QA
2 4 (4.60%) DO-178B
3 3 (3.45%) Def Stans
3 3 (3.45%) MISRA
4 2 (2.30%) JTAG
5 1 (1.15%) IEC 61508
5 1 (1.15%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 23 (26.44%) Docker
2 4 (4.60%) VMware ESXi
2 4 (4.60%) VMware NSX
2 4 (4.60%) vSphere
3 3 (3.45%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 16 (18.39%) Ansible
1 16 (18.39%) Terraform
2 11 (12.64%) Kubernetes
3 6 (6.90%) Grafana
3 6 (6.90%) Prometheus
4 5 (5.75%) Progress Chef
5 4 (4.60%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 20 (22.99%) IBM
2 17 (19.54%) Lauterbach
3 4 (4.60%) Atlassian
4 1 (1.15%) CA Agile Central
4 1 (1.15%) Oracle
4 1 (1.15%) Red Hat
4 1 (1.15%) Wind River