The first table below looks at the demand for C skills in IT contracts advertised for the Tyne and Wear 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 Tyne and Wear 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 27 37 31
Rank change year-on-year
+10 -6
Contract jobs citing C 1 2 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Tyne and Wear 0.565% 0.627% 1.894%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.439% 1.770% 4.587%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 3
Average daily rate £350 £250 £278
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+40.00% -10.07%
UK excluding London average daily rate £348 £400 £300
% change year-on-year
-13.12% +33.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £36.50 £36.50
% change year-on-year
-4.10% -
All Programming Languages
Tyne and Wear
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
41 113 109
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Tyne and Wear 23.16% 35.42% 41.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 66 62
Average daily rate £275 £338 £310
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-18.51% +8.87%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £230 £235 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £395 £423 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 0
Average hourly rate £42.50 £50.00 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-15.00% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £35.00
C
North East

C
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Tyne and Wear 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 Tyne and Wear region.

Tyne and Wear C Daily Rate Trend

C
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing C across the Tyne and Wear region.

Tyne and Wear 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 Tyne and Wear 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
Newcastle upon Tyne +7 1 £350 +40.00%
C
North East

C
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Tyne and Wear 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 5 (55.56%) Mathematics
2 2 (22.22%) VC++
2 2 (22.22%) C++
2 2 (22.22%) .NET
2 2 (22.22%) Security Cleared
3 1 (11.11%) Core Animation
3 1 (11.11%) Apple iOS
3 1 (11.11%) GLSL
3 1 (11.11%) HLSL
3 1 (11.11%) Cocoa Touch
3 1 (11.11%) UIKit
3 1 (11.11%) Subversion
3 1 (11.11%) Project Planning
3 1 (11.11%) Degree
3 1 (11.11%) Animation
3 1 (11.11%) Photoshop
3 1 (11.11%) MS Office
3 1 (11.11%) GSM
3 1 (11.11%) UMTS
3 1 (11.11%) SLA
3 1 (11.11%) Apple
3 1 (11.11%) OpenGL
3 1 (11.11%) 3G
3 1 (11.11%) Project Management
3 1 (11.11%) 2G
3 1 (11.11%) Finance
3 1 (11.11%) Cocoa
3 1 (11.11%) Xcode
3 1 (11.11%) Objective-C
3 1 (11.11%) Amdocs

C
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Tyne and Wear 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 2 (22.22%) .NET
2 1 (11.11%) OpenGL
2 1 (11.11%) Cocoa
2 1 (11.11%) Core Animation
2 1 (11.11%) Cocoa Touch
2 1 (11.11%) UIKit
Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Photoshop
1 1 (11.11%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) GSM
1 1 (11.11%) UMTS
1 1 (11.11%) 3G
1 1 (11.11%) 2G
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Xcode
1 1 (11.11%) Subversion
General
1 1 (11.11%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Customer Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Developer
3 2 (22.22%) C++ Developer
4 1 (11.11%) C Developer
4 1 (11.11%) iOS Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (55.56%) Mathematics
2 1 (11.11%) Animation
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (11.11%) Project Management
1 1 (11.11%) Project Planning
1 1 (11.11%) Data Cleansing
Programming Languages
1 2 (22.22%) C++
1 2 (22.22%) VC++
2 1 (11.11%) Objective-C
2 1 (11.11%) GLSL
2 1 (11.11%) HLSL
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) Degree
2 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) SLA
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) Apple
1 1 (11.11%) Amdocs
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