C Contracts in the Thames Valley

C
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 107 125 145
Rank change year-on-year +18 +20 -29
Contract jobs citing C 29 27 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.09% 0.93% 0.54%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.47% 3.83% 2.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 14 11
10th Percentile £425 £336 £390
25th Percentile £444 £425 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +9.76% -2.38% +10.53%
75th Percentile £675 £589 £580
90th Percentile £688 £697 £588
South East median daily rate £531 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +1.19% +5.00% +29.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 3 0
10th Percentile £46.25 £43.25 -
25th Percentile £47.50 £46.25 -
Median hourly rate £58.30 £52.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +11.05% - -
75th Percentile £63.30 £54.38 -
90th Percentile £65.00 £54.75 -
South East median hourly rate £58.30 £48.08 £51.50
% change year-on-year +21.26% -6.64% +19.34%

All Programming Languages
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 530 705 802
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 19.94% 24.33% 22.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 363 523 588
10th Percentile £352 £325 £350
25th Percentile £425 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £608 £601 £588
90th Percentile £669 £680 £639
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 20 5
10th Percentile £35.00 £25.64 £31.30
25th Percentile £46.25 £32.30 £62.50
Median hourly rate £58.30 £56.88 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.51% -13.17% +63.75%
75th Percentile £65.00 £76.61 £80.40
90th Percentile £68.75 £79.41 £81.66
South East median hourly rate £60.14 £55.00 £40.92
% change year-on-year +9.35% +34.41% -3.72%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing C as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for C in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing C in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for C in the Thames Valley

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing C in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for C in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing C in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for C in the Thames Valley

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing C in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for C in the Thames Valley

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Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing C within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 5 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
Berkshire -4 15 £650 +30.00% 16
Oxfordshire +4 8 £450 -14.29% 25
Buckinghamshire +30 6 - - 23
C
South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Business Applications
1 5 (17.24%) Teamcenter
2 4 (13.79%) LabWindows
Cloud Services
1 16 (55.17%) Azure
2 3 (10.34%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 3 (10.34%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (10.34%) Azure Monitor
3 2 (6.90%) Azure Data Factory
3 2 (6.90%) Azure Functions
3 2 (6.90%) Entra ID
3 2 (6.90%) GitHub
3 2 (6.90%) Serverless
4 1 (3.45%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (3.45%) Azure Cognitive Search
4 1 (3.45%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 4 (13.79%) RS-232
1 4 (13.79%) Wireless
2 2 (6.90%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.90%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (27.59%) Subversion
2 7 (24.14%) Git
3 4 (13.79%) JIRA
3 4 (13.79%) Visual Studio
General
1 8 (27.59%) Public Sector
2 5 (17.24%) Aerospace
3 4 (13.79%) Telecoms
4 3 (10.34%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (6.90%) Aviation
6 1 (3.45%) Automotive
6 1 (3.45%) Manufacturing
6 1 (3.45%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (34.48%) Administrator
1 10 (34.48%) Systems Administrator
2 9 (31.03%) Senior
2 9 (31.03%) Senior Systems Administrator
3 8 (27.59%) Developer
4 7 (24.14%) Embedded Engineer
4 7 (24.14%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 7 (24.14%) Software Engineer
5 5 (17.24%) Software Developer
6 2 (6.90%) Azure Developer
6 2 (6.90%) Firmware Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) Full Stack Developer
6 2 (6.90%) Full Stack Python Developer
6 2 (6.90%) Python Developer
6 2 (6.90%) Software Verification Engineer
7 1 (3.45%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 1 (3.45%) Azure Engineer
7 1 (3.45%) DevOps Engineer
7 1 (3.45%) Embedded Developer
7 1 (3.45%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (34.48%) Itk
2 2 (6.90%) .NET
2 2 (6.90%) 802.1X
2 2 (6.90%) ASP.NET
2 2 (6.90%) React
3 1 (3.45%) AngularJS
3 1 (3.45%) CSS
3 1 (3.45%) HTML
3 1 (3.45%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 4 (13.79%) Algorithms
1 4 (13.79%) Device Driver
2 2 (6.90%) FMCG
2 2 (6.90%) IoT
2 2 (6.90%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 8 (27.59%) Windows
2 4 (13.79%) Windows 10
2 4 (13.79%) Windows Server
2 4 (13.79%) Windows Server 2016
2 4 (13.79%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (55.17%) DevOps
2 10 (34.48%) PLM
3 8 (27.59%) Agile
4 6 (20.69%) Change Management
4 6 (20.69%) Software Engineering
4 6 (20.69%) Validation
5 5 (17.24%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (13.79%) CI/CD
6 4 (13.79%) Computer Science
6 4 (13.79%) Data Acquisition
6 4 (13.79%) Defect Tracking
6 4 (13.79%) Root Cause Analysis
6 4 (13.79%) Signal Processing
6 4 (13.79%) Software Optimisation
7 3 (10.34%) Embedded Software Development
7 3 (10.34%) Product Backlog
7 3 (10.34%) Unit Testing
8 2 (6.90%) Full Stack Development
8 2 (6.90%) SOLID
8 2 (6.90%) Verification and Validation
Programming Languages
1 12 (41.38%) C++
2 7 (24.14%) Python
3 6 (20.69%) C#
4 4 (13.79%) Assembly Language
4 4 (13.79%) MATLAB
4 4 (13.79%) Shell Script
5 2 (6.90%) Embedded C
5 2 (6.90%) JavaScript
6 1 (3.45%) Go
6 1 (3.45%) Java
6 1 (3.45%) PHP
6 1 (3.45%) Rust
Qualifications
1 10 (34.48%) Security Cleared
2 9 (31.03%) DV Cleared
3 4 (13.79%) Degree
3 4 (13.79%) Master's Degree
3 4 (13.79%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (13.79%) JTAG
2 1 (3.45%) AUTOSAR
System Software
1 6 (20.69%) Firmware
2 4 (13.79%) Embedded Firmware
3 2 (6.90%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (3.45%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (44.83%) Microsoft
2 2 (6.90%) Atmel
3 1 (3.45%) QNX