C Contracts in the UK excluding London

C
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 98 174 275
Rank change year-on-year +76 +101 -81
Contract jobs citing C 425 350 251
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.07% 1.49% 0.82%
As % of the Programming Languages category 8.86% 5.13% 2.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 154 159 95
10th Percentile £403 £325 £393
25th Percentile £500 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £541 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +8.25% - +23.46%
75th Percentile £622 £575 £580
90th Percentile £706 £675 £625
UK median daily rate £535 £560 £575
% change year-on-year -4.46% -2.61% +35.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 178 95 76
10th Percentile £46.25 £37.72 £44.69
25th Percentile £59.25 £46.88 £50.76
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year - +15.56% +23.63%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £86.13 £77.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £58.91 £55.50
% change year-on-year +10.35% +6.14% +23.33%

All Programming Languages
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 4,798 6,820 8,829
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 23.38% 29.02% 28.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,224 4,850 6,148
10th Percentile £315 £350 £336
25th Percentile £400 £413 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -2.20% +2.56% +14.71%
75th Percentile £588 £594 £575
90th Percentile £650 £678 £646
UK median daily rate £530 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.64% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 405 338 330
10th Percentile £38.00 £22.50 £17.00
25th Percentile £52.50 £49.76 £26.98
Median hourly rate £62.50 £60.94 £49.75
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% +22.49% +19.88%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.58 £65.03
UK median hourly rate £62.00 £60.63 £50.00
% change year-on-year +2.27% +21.25% +14.94%

C
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing C as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for C in the UK excluding London

C
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing C in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for C in the UK excluding London

C
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing C in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for C in the UK excluding London

C
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing C in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for C in the UK excluding London

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing C in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for C in the UK excluding London

C
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing C within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 8 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
East of England +23 144 £550 +10.00% 114
South East -2 97 £540 +2.86% 145
South West +34 87 £600 +17.07% 107
Midlands +83 64 £535 +33.75% 64
West Midlands +76 57 £535 +42.67% 25
North of England +10 20 £525 +3.96% 62
Scotland +37 17 £494 +2.86% 41
North West +13 11 £525 -2.33% 40
East Midlands +21 7 £445 -1.11% 39
North East - 6 - - 8
Yorkshire +13 3 £425 -11.46% 15
Wales +14 1 - - 8
C
UK

C
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 8 (1.88%) Confluence
2 6 (1.41%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.24%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 37 (8.71%) Simulink
2 7 (1.65%) Stateflow
3 5 (1.18%) TargetLink
4 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (1.41%) Teamcenter
2 4 (0.94%) LabWindows
3 3 (0.71%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 43 (10.12%) Azure
2 32 (7.53%) AWS
3 14 (3.29%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (2.35%) Microsoft 365
5 8 (1.88%) Serverless
6 5 (1.18%) Amazon EC2
6 5 (1.18%) Amazon S3
6 5 (1.18%) AWS Lambda
6 5 (1.18%) OpenShift
7 4 (0.94%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 4 (0.94%) Azure Monitor
7 4 (0.94%) GitHub
7 4 (0.94%) Power Automate
7 4 (0.94%) Power Platform
7 4 (0.94%) PowerApps
7 4 (0.94%) SaaS
8 3 (0.71%) Azure Data Factory
8 3 (0.71%) Azure Functions
8 3 (0.71%) Datadog
8 3 (0.71%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 37 (8.71%) Modbus
2 36 (8.47%) RS-422
3 35 (8.24%) RS-485
4 9 (2.12%) 802.11
4 9 (2.12%) Wi-Fi
5 7 (1.65%) 5G
6 6 (1.41%) Kerberos
6 6 (1.41%) RS-232
6 6 (1.41%) TCP/IP
7 5 (1.18%) J1939
7 5 (1.18%) Wireless
8 4 (0.94%) AMQP
8 4 (0.94%) Internet
8 4 (0.94%) NAS
8 4 (0.94%) Network Security
8 4 (0.94%) Radio Access Network
8 4 (0.94%) Wireshark
9 3 (0.71%) Software-Defined Radio
10 2 (0.47%) 5G NR
11 1 (0.24%) Diameter Protocol
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (3.53%) SQL Server
2 6 (1.41%) Relational Database
3 5 (1.18%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (1.18%) NoSQL
4 4 (0.94%) DB2
4 4 (0.94%) InfluxDB
5 3 (0.71%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (0.71%) Geospatial Data
5 3 (0.71%) Oracle Database
6 2 (0.47%) Data Lake
6 2 (0.47%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.24%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.24%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 47 (11.06%) Visual Studio
2 46 (10.82%) PVCS
3 40 (9.41%) Git
4 21 (4.94%) JIRA
4 21 (4.94%) Rational DOORS
5 20 (4.71%) Jenkins
5 20 (4.71%) Subversion
6 18 (4.24%) Bitbucket
7 14 (3.29%) Rational Rhapsody
8 5 (1.18%) GCC
8 5 (1.18%) Gradle
9 4 (0.94%) CppUnit
9 4 (0.94%) gcov
9 4 (0.94%) GDB
9 4 (0.94%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 3 (0.71%) ClearCase
10 3 (0.71%) ClearQuest
10 3 (0.71%) CMake
10 3 (0.71%) Rational Team Concert
11 2 (0.47%) LabVIEW
General
1 70 (16.47%) Electronics
1 70 (16.47%) Social Skills
2 32 (7.53%) Public Sector
3 25 (5.88%) Automotive
4 23 (5.41%) Aerospace
5 17 (4.00%) Telecoms
6 15 (3.53%) Analytical Skills
7 9 (2.12%) Finance
8 6 (1.41%) Aviation
8 6 (1.41%) Banking
8 6 (1.41%) Law
8 6 (1.41%) Manufacturing
9 5 (1.18%) Billing
9 5 (1.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (1.18%) Multimedia
10 3 (0.71%) Military
11 2 (0.47%) Wearables
12 1 (0.24%) German Language
12 1 (0.24%) Marketing
12 1 (0.24%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 169 (39.76%) Software Engineer
2 84 (19.76%) Embedded Engineer
3 81 (19.06%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 65 (15.29%) Developer
5 53 (12.47%) Programmer
6 50 (11.76%) C Programmer
7 45 (10.59%) C++ Software Engineer
8 28 (6.59%) C Software Engineer
9 27 (6.35%) Senior
10 23 (5.41%) Architect
11 22 (5.18%) FPGA Engineer
12 19 (4.47%) Design Engineer
12 19 (4.47%) FPGA Design Engineer
13 15 (3.53%) C Developer
13 15 (3.53%) C/C++ Software Engineer
13 15 (3.53%) Full Stack Developer
14 13 (3.06%) DevOps Engineer
14 13 (3.06%) Software Architect
15 12 (2.82%) Linux Engineer
16 11 (2.59%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (5.88%) React
2 18 (4.24%) .NET
2 18 (4.24%) Spring
3 17 (4.00%) RESTful
3 17 (4.00%) Yocto
4 13 (3.06%) AngularJS
5 11 (2.59%) 802.1X
5 11 (2.59%) XML
6 10 (2.35%) DirectX
6 10 (2.35%) Itk
6 10 (2.35%) OpenGL
6 10 (2.35%) Vulkan
7 9 (2.12%) JSON
7 9 (2.12%) OpenGL ES
8 6 (1.41%) LDAP
8 6 (1.41%) Node.js
8 6 (1.41%) OpenID
8 6 (1.41%) REST
8 6 (1.41%) Spring Boot
8 6 (1.41%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 32 (7.53%) VHDL
2 29 (6.82%) Self-Motivation
2 29 (6.82%) Verilog
3 25 (5.88%) FPGA
4 18 (4.24%) Algorithms
5 17 (4.00%) ARM Cortex
6 12 (2.82%) Device Driver
7 11 (2.59%) IoT
8 9 (2.12%) Management Information System
8 9 (2.12%) Ray Tracing
9 8 (1.88%) 3D Graphics
9 8 (1.88%) Embedded Systems
9 8 (1.88%) Product Ownership
9 8 (1.88%) Public Cloud
10 7 (1.65%) Linux Command Line
10 7 (1.65%) STB
11 6 (1.41%) Enterprise Cloud
11 6 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
12 5 (1.18%) CAN bus
13 4 (0.94%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 102 (24.00%) Linux
2 21 (4.94%) FreeRTOS
3 15 (3.53%) Unix
3 15 (3.53%) Windows
4 7 (1.65%) Embedded Linux
4 7 (1.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (1.41%) Android
6 5 (1.18%) VxWorks
7 4 (0.94%) Apple iOS
7 4 (0.94%) SafeRTOS
7 4 (0.94%) Windows 10
7 4 (0.94%) Windows Server
7 4 (0.94%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (0.94%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.24%) CentOS
8 1 (0.24%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 193 (45.41%) Software Engineering
2 123 (28.94%) Agile
3 100 (23.53%) DevOps
4 72 (16.94%) Problem-Solving
5 55 (12.94%) Unit Testing
6 53 (12.47%) Validation
7 50 (11.76%) Software Testing
8 47 (11.06%) Continuous Integration
9 40 (9.41%) TDD
10 39 (9.18%) Continuous Improvement
11 36 (8.47%) OO
11 36 (8.47%) Pair Programming
12 35 (8.24%) Customer Requirements
13 29 (6.82%) Configuration Management
14 28 (6.59%) Scrum
14 28 (6.59%) Test Automation
15 27 (6.35%) Software Architecture
16 26 (6.12%) Project Management
16 26 (6.12%) SDLC
17 25 (5.88%) Verification and Validation
Programming Languages
1 185 (43.53%) C++
2 74 (17.41%) Python
3 69 (16.24%) Embedded C
4 60 (14.12%) C#
5 53 (12.47%) PL/SQL
6 48 (11.29%) Java
7 28 (6.59%) SQL
8 24 (5.65%) MATLAB
9 22 (5.18%) JavaScript
10 20 (4.71%) SystemVerilog
11 19 (4.47%) Bash
11 19 (4.47%) Shell Script
12 17 (4.00%) Embedded C++
12 17 (4.00%) Perl
13 12 (2.82%) Ada
13 12 (2.82%) Go
13 12 (2.82%) Tcl
14 10 (2.35%) PowerShell
15 9 (2.12%) Assembly Language
15 9 (2.12%) ProC
Qualifications
1 147 (34.59%) Security Cleared
2 94 (22.12%) SC Cleared
3 52 (12.24%) Degree
4 51 (12.00%) DV Cleared
5 26 (6.12%) Master's Degree
6 18 (4.24%) PhD
7 5 (1.18%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (0.71%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.24%) CCIE
9 1 (0.24%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.24%) CREST Certified
9 1 (0.24%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (3.06%) AUTOSAR
1 13 (3.06%) MISRA
1 13 (3.06%) QA
2 10 (2.35%) MISRA C
3 6 (1.41%) JTAG
4 5 (1.18%) DO-178B
4 5 (1.18%) ISO 26262
5 4 (0.94%) Def Stans
6 3 (0.71%) IEC 61508
7 1 (0.24%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 28 (6.59%) Docker
2 21 (4.94%) Firmware
3 9 (2.12%) Active Directory
4 6 (1.41%) Embedded Firmware
5 4 (0.94%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.94%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (0.94%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.94%) VMware NSX
5 4 (0.94%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 22 (5.18%) Ansible
1 22 (5.18%) Terraform
2 15 (3.53%) Kubernetes
3 8 (1.88%) Grafana
3 8 (1.88%) Progress Chef
4 6 (1.41%) Prometheus
5 5 (1.18%) Functional Safety
6 4 (0.94%) Docker Swarm
7 3 (0.71%) HP ALM
7 3 (0.71%) Nagios
7 3 (0.71%) Puppet
8 2 (0.47%) Kibana
Vendors
1 31 (7.29%) IBM
2 24 (5.65%) Xilinx
3 21 (4.94%) Intel
4 18 (4.24%) Microsoft
5 17 (4.00%) Lauterbach
5 17 (4.00%) Microsemi
6 11 (2.59%) Oracle
7 9 (2.12%) Cadence
8 8 (1.88%) Atlassian
9 5 (1.18%) HP
10 4 (0.94%) Klocwork
10 4 (0.94%) Perforce
10 4 (0.94%) VMware
11 3 (0.71%) Google
11 3 (0.71%) New Relic
11 3 (0.71%) Sparx
11 3 (0.71%) Splunk
11 3 (0.71%) Synopsys
12 2 (0.47%) Atmel
12 2 (0.47%) Twitter