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 7 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 91 168 277
Rank change year-on-year +77 +109 -101
Contract jobs citing C 447 333 253
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.12% 1.46% 0.82%
As % of the Programming Languages category 8.97% 5.25% 2.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 169 153 109
10th Percentile £408 £350 £387
25th Percentile £500 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +8.50% - +23.46%
75th Percentile £625 £588 £600
90th Percentile £688 £650 £634
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -2.73% -4.35% +27.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 173 92 70
10th Percentile £46.25 £37.80 £46.09
25th Percentile £57.50 £49.69 £51.94
Median hourly rate £65.00 £63.75 £57.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.96% +11.84% +20.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £87.50 £70.75
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £59.45 £56.00
% change year-on-year +9.33% +6.17% +17.89%

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 4,984 6,340 8,853
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 23.60% 27.86% 28.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,322 4,424 6,202
10th Percentile £319 £350 £338
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £580 £593 £575
90th Percentile £650 £678 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 436 327 324
10th Percentile £37.55 £28.84 £17.00
25th Percentile £52.50 £51.25 £31.25
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year - +19.05% +25.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.59 £78.00 £67.46
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £52.00
% change year-on-year - +20.19% +15.56%

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 7 June 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

C
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 7 June 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 7 June 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 +22 136 £550 +12.82% 107
South East +24 114 £550 +4.76% 141
South West +29 92 £563 +9.76% 96
Midlands +70 64 £535 +33.75% 59
West Midlands +64 57 £535 +42.67% 24
North of England +12 30 £523 -12.92% 67
North West +18 17 £525 -8.10% 43
Scotland +36 16 £656 +36.36% 40
East Midlands +9 7 £445 -1.11% 35
Yorkshire +3 7 £510 -15.00% 18
North East - 6 - - 8
Wales +17 1 - - 14
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 (1.79%) Confluence
1 8 (1.79%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.22%) Apache
2 1 (0.22%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 38 (8.50%) Simulink
2 7 (1.57%) Stateflow
3 5 (1.12%) TargetLink
Business Applications
1 5 (1.12%) Teamcenter
2 4 (0.89%) LabWindows
3 3 (0.67%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 2 (0.45%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.45%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 42 (9.40%) Azure
2 41 (9.17%) AWS
3 17 (3.80%) Azure DevOps
4 12 (2.68%) Microsoft 365
5 8 (1.79%) Serverless
6 5 (1.12%) GitHub
6 5 (1.12%) OpenShift
7 4 (0.89%) Amazon EC2
7 4 (0.89%) Amazon S3
7 4 (0.89%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (0.89%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 4 (0.89%) Azure Monitor
7 4 (0.89%) GCP
7 4 (0.89%) Power Automate
7 4 (0.89%) Power Platform
7 4 (0.89%) PowerApps
7 4 (0.89%) SaaS
8 3 (0.67%) Azure Data Factory
8 3 (0.67%) Azure Functions
8 3 (0.67%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 36 (8.05%) Modbus
2 34 (7.61%) RS-422
2 34 (7.61%) RS-485
3 8 (1.79%) 5G
4 6 (1.34%) 802.11
4 6 (1.34%) Kerberos
4 6 (1.34%) RS-232
4 6 (1.34%) TCP/IP
4 6 (1.34%) Wi-Fi
4 6 (1.34%) Wireless
5 5 (1.12%) J1939
6 4 (0.89%) AMQP
6 4 (0.89%) Firewall
6 4 (0.89%) Internet
6 4 (0.89%) NAS
6 4 (0.89%) Network Security
6 4 (0.89%) Radio Access Network
6 4 (0.89%) Wireshark
7 3 (0.67%) Software-Defined Radio
8 2 (0.45%) 4G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (3.80%) SQL Server
2 6 (1.34%) Relational Database
3 5 (1.12%) NoSQL
4 4 (0.89%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (0.89%) DB2
4 4 (0.89%) InfluxDB
5 3 (0.67%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (0.67%) Geospatial Data
6 2 (0.45%) Data Lake
6 2 (0.45%) Oracle Database
6 2 (0.45%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.22%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.22%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.22%) Flink
7 1 (0.22%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 47 (10.51%) Visual Studio
2 44 (9.84%) PVCS
3 43 (9.62%) Git
4 21 (4.70%) Jenkins
4 21 (4.70%) JIRA
5 20 (4.47%) Subversion
6 18 (4.03%) Bitbucket
7 17 (3.80%) Rational DOORS
8 14 (3.13%) Rational Rhapsody
9 6 (1.34%) Gradle
10 4 (0.89%) ClearCase
10 4 (0.89%) ClearQuest
10 4 (0.89%) gcov
10 4 (0.89%) GDB
10 4 (0.89%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 3 (0.67%) CMake
11 3 (0.67%) GCC
11 3 (0.67%) Rational Team Concert
12 2 (0.45%) CppUnit
12 2 (0.45%) JUnit
General
1 79 (17.67%) Social Skills
2 70 (15.66%) Electronics
3 34 (7.61%) Public Sector
4 28 (6.26%) Automotive
5 24 (5.37%) Aerospace
6 22 (4.92%) Analytical Skills
7 19 (4.25%) Telecoms
8 14 (3.13%) Finance
9 10 (2.24%) Aviation
10 6 (1.34%) Banking
10 6 (1.34%) Law
11 5 (1.12%) Billing
11 5 (1.12%) Manufacturing
11 5 (1.12%) Multimedia
12 4 (0.89%) German Language
12 4 (0.89%) Marketing
13 3 (0.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 3 (0.67%) Military
13 3 (0.67%) Presentation Skills
14 2 (0.45%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 173 (38.70%) Software Engineer
2 89 (19.91%) Embedded Engineer
3 87 (19.46%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 64 (14.32%) Developer
5 53 (11.86%) Programmer
6 50 (11.19%) C Programmer
7 43 (9.62%) C++ Software Engineer
8 32 (7.16%) Architect
9 30 (6.71%) Senior
10 25 (5.59%) C Software Engineer
11 23 (5.15%) FPGA Engineer
12 19 (4.25%) Design Engineer
12 19 (4.25%) FPGA Design Engineer
13 15 (3.36%) C Developer
13 15 (3.36%) C/C++ Software Engineer
14 14 (3.13%) Lead
15 13 (2.91%) DevOps Engineer
15 13 (2.91%) Software Architect
16 10 (2.24%) Systems Administrator
16 10 (2.24%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (5.37%) .NET
2 20 (4.47%) React
2 20 (4.47%) Spring Boot
3 17 (3.80%) RESTful
4 14 (3.13%) J2EE
4 14 (3.13%) Spring
4 14 (3.13%) XML
5 12 (2.68%) Yocto
6 11 (2.46%) JSON
7 10 (2.24%) DirectX
7 10 (2.24%) Itk
7 10 (2.24%) OpenGL
7 10 (2.24%) Vulkan
8 9 (2.01%) OpenGL ES
9 8 (1.79%) 802.1X
9 8 (1.79%) AngularJS
10 7 (1.57%) REST
10 7 (1.57%) Web Services
11 6 (1.34%) HTML
11 6 (1.34%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 33 (7.38%) VHDL
2 30 (6.71%) Self-Motivation
2 30 (6.71%) Verilog
3 26 (5.82%) FPGA
4 25 (5.59%) ARM Cortex
5 20 (4.47%) Algorithms
6 13 (2.91%) Device Driver
7 10 (2.24%) IoT
8 9 (2.01%) Management Information System
8 9 (2.01%) Ray Tracing
9 8 (1.79%) 3D Graphics
9 8 (1.79%) Embedded Systems
9 8 (1.79%) Product Ownership
9 8 (1.79%) Public Cloud
10 7 (1.57%) Linux Command Line
11 6 (1.34%) Data Structures
11 6 (1.34%) Enterprise Cloud
11 6 (1.34%) PCIe
12 5 (1.12%) CAN bus
12 5 (1.12%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 109 (24.38%) Linux
2 27 (6.04%) FreeRTOS
3 19 (4.25%) Windows
4 16 (3.58%) Unix
5 7 (1.57%) Embedded Linux
5 7 (1.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (1.34%) Android
7 5 (1.12%) VxWorks
8 4 (0.89%) Apple iOS
8 4 (0.89%) SafeRTOS
8 4 (0.89%) Windows 10
8 4 (0.89%) Windows Server
8 4 (0.89%) Windows Server 2016
8 4 (0.89%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (0.67%) ThreadX
10 1 (0.22%) CentOS
10 1 (0.22%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 202 (45.19%) Software Engineering
2 119 (26.62%) Agile
3 109 (24.38%) DevOps
4 68 (15.21%) Problem-Solving
5 49 (10.96%) Software Testing
6 48 (10.74%) Continuous Integration
6 48 (10.74%) Validation
7 47 (10.51%) Unit Testing
8 42 (9.40%) TDD
9 38 (8.50%) Continuous Improvement
10 37 (8.28%) Configuration Management
11 35 (7.83%) Pair Programming
12 34 (7.61%) Customer Requirements
13 31 (6.94%) OO
14 28 (6.26%) SDLC
14 28 (6.26%) Test Automation
15 25 (5.59%) CI/CD
15 25 (5.59%) Scrum
16 24 (5.37%) Project Management
17 23 (5.15%) FPGA Design
Programming Languages
1 196 (43.85%) C++
2 84 (18.79%) Python
3 76 (17.00%) Embedded C
4 65 (14.54%) Java
5 57 (12.75%) C#
6 52 (11.63%) PL/SQL
7 28 (6.26%) SQL
8 24 (5.37%) MATLAB
9 21 (4.70%) Bash
9 21 (4.70%) SystemVerilog
10 20 (4.47%) JavaScript
10 20 (4.47%) Shell Script
11 14 (3.13%) Embedded C++
12 13 (2.91%) Perl
13 12 (2.68%) Ada
13 12 (2.68%) Go
14 10 (2.24%) PowerShell
15 9 (2.01%) Assembly Language
15 9 (2.01%) ProC
15 9 (2.01%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 149 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 97 (21.70%) SC Cleared
3 63 (14.09%) Degree
4 50 (11.19%) DV Cleared
5 26 (5.82%) Master's Degree
6 16 (3.58%) PhD
7 8 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (0.67%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.22%) CCIE
9 1 (0.22%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.22%) CREST Certified
9 1 (0.22%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (2.91%) AUTOSAR
1 13 (2.91%) MISRA
2 12 (2.68%) QA
3 10 (2.24%) MISRA C
4 5 (1.12%) DO-178B
4 5 (1.12%) ISO 26262
4 5 (1.12%) JTAG
5 4 (0.89%) Def Stans
6 3 (0.67%) IEC 61508
7 2 (0.45%) GDPR
7 2 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.45%) NIST
8 1 (0.22%) ISO 13485
8 1 (0.22%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 30 (6.71%) Docker
2 21 (4.70%) Firmware
3 9 (2.01%) Active Directory
4 6 (1.34%) Embedded Firmware
5 4 (0.89%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (0.89%) VMware NSX
5 4 (0.89%) vSphere
6 2 (0.45%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.45%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 33 (7.38%) Terraform
2 23 (5.15%) Ansible
3 18 (4.03%) Kubernetes
4 8 (1.79%) Progress Chef
5 6 (1.34%) Grafana
6 5 (1.12%) Functional Safety
6 5 (1.12%) Prometheus
7 4 (0.89%) Docker Swarm
8 3 (0.67%) HP ALM
8 3 (0.67%) Nagios
8 3 (0.67%) Puppet
9 1 (0.22%) Kibana
Vendors
1 39 (8.72%) IBM
2 25 (5.59%) Lauterbach
2 25 (5.59%) Xilinx
3 23 (5.15%) Microsoft
4 22 (4.92%) Intel
5 18 (4.03%) Microsemi
6 10 (2.24%) Oracle
7 9 (2.01%) Atlassian
7 9 (2.01%) Cadence
8 5 (1.12%) SAP
9 4 (0.89%) Google
9 4 (0.89%) HP
9 4 (0.89%) Klocwork
9 4 (0.89%) Micro Focus
9 4 (0.89%) Perforce
10 3 (0.67%) New Relic
10 3 (0.67%) Sparx
10 3 (0.67%) Splunk
10 3 (0.67%) Synopsys
11 2 (0.45%) Atmel