C Software Engineer Contracts
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for the C Software Engineer role in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited C Software Engineer in their job title 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 Job Titles currently tracked.

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 Software Engineer
Rank 514 551 549
Rank change year-on-year
+37 -2
Contract jobs requiring a C Software Engineer 16 27 39
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.034% 0.046% 0.064%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.037% 0.050% 0.069%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 4 14
Average daily rate £300 £279 £280
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.62% -0.44%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £285 £233 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £332 £308 £309
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £279 £280
% change year-on-year
+7.62% -0.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 14 16
Average hourly rate £40.00 £40.00 £37.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +6.66%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £40.00 £40.00 £38.25
% change year-on-year
- +4.57%
All Job Titles
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 42797 53993 56874
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 92.24% 92.65% 92.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 24561 29781 30909
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £240 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 2134 2552 2929
Average hourly rate £18.50 £19.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.63% -5.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.50 £40.00 £41.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.40% -7.50%

C Software Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing C Software Engineer within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

C Software Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

C Software Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing C Software Engineer within the UK.

C Software Engineer Daily Rate Trend

C Software Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing C Software Engineer within the UK.

C Software Engineer Hourly Rate Trend

C Software Engineer
Top 17 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing C Software Engineer within the UK 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
England +34 10 £300 +7.62%
Yorkshire +1 3 £300 -
East Yorkshire - 3 £300 -
North West - 3 - -
Hull - 3 £300 -
Cheshire - 2 - -
Chester - 2 - -
Cheltenham +28 1 - -
Gloucestershire +27 1 - -
South West +21 1 - -
South East +16 1 - -
Cambridgeshire +10 1 £320 +4.06%
East of England +8 1 £320 +4.06%
West Midlands +8 1 - -
Cambridge +6 1 £320 +4.06%
East Sussex - 1 - -
Brighton - 1 - -

C Software Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited C Software Engineer in their job title 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 with C Software Engineer in their job title.

1 26 (100.00%) C
2 17 (65.38%) C++
3 14 (53.85%) Embedded C
4 11 (42.31%) Linux
5 9 (34.62%) Software Engineering
5 9 (34.62%) Security Cleared
6 8 (30.77%) SC Cleared
6 8 (30.77%) UML
7 7 (26.92%) OO
7 7 (26.92%) Configuration Management
8 6 (23.08%) OOD
8 6 (23.08%) Multithreading
9 5 (19.23%) wxWidgets
9 5 (19.23%) PyUnit
9 5 (19.23%) CppUnit
9 5 (19.23%) GDB
9 5 (19.23%) GoogleTest
9 5 (19.23%) ClearCase
9 5 (19.23%) Motif
9 5 (19.23%) UNIX
9 5 (19.23%) Ant
9 5 (19.23%) NUnit
10 4 (15.38%) PostgreSQL
10 4 (15.38%) XML
10 4 (15.38%) Embedded C++
10 4 (15.38%) TCP/IP
11 3 (11.54%) Continuous Integration
11 3 (11.54%) Coverity
11 3 (11.54%) Signal Processing
11 3 (11.54%) Hudson

C Software Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited C Software Engineer in their job title 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 with C Software Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 5 (19.23%) Motif
1 5 (19.23%) wxWidgets
2 4 (15.38%) XML
3 3 (11.54%) Flash
4 1 (3.846%) HTML
4 1 (3.846%) MFC
4 1 (3.846%) Qt
4 1 (3.846%) GStreamer
4 1 (3.846%) Django
4 1 (3.846%) jQuery
Applications
1 1 (3.846%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 2 (7.692%) LabWindows
Communications & Networking
1 4 (15.38%) TCP/IP
2 3 (11.54%) Ethernet
3 1 (3.846%) PSTN
3 1 (3.846%) Internet
3 1 (3.846%) 802.15
3 1 (3.846%) ASN.1
3 1 (3.846%) ZigBee
3 1 (3.846%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (15.38%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (11.54%) Ingres
Development Applications
1 5 (19.23%) Ant
1 5 (19.23%) ClearCase
1 5 (19.23%) NUnit
1 5 (19.23%) CppUnit
1 5 (19.23%) PyUnit
1 5 (19.23%) GDB
1 5 (19.23%) GoogleTest
2 3 (11.54%) Jenkins
2 3 (11.54%) Hudson
2 3 (11.54%) CruiseControl
3 2 (7.692%) Subversion
3 2 (7.692%) VSS/SourceSafe
3 2 (7.692%) LabVIEW
4 1 (3.846%) Eclipse
4 1 (3.846%) Visual Studio
4 1 (3.846%) GCC
General
1 3 (11.54%) Electronics
2 1 (3.846%) Telecoms
2 1 (3.846%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 3 (11.54%) Device Driver
2 2 (7.692%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
2 2 (7.692%) SCADA
2 2 (7.692%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 11 (42.31%) Linux
2 5 (19.23%) UNIX
3 1 (3.846%) Windows
3 1 (3.846%) VxWorks
3 1 (3.846%) SUSE
3 1 (3.846%) Embedded Linux
3 1 (3.846%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (34.62%) Software Engineering
2 8 (30.77%) UML
3 7 (26.92%) OO
3 7 (26.92%) Configuration Management
4 6 (23.08%) OOD
4 6 (23.08%) Multithreading
5 3 (11.54%) Signal Processing
5 3 (11.54%) Continuous Integration
5 3 (11.54%) Analytics
5 3 (11.54%) Code Coverage
6 2 (7.692%) Integration Testing
7 1 (3.846%) Scrum
7 1 (3.846%) Agile Software Development
7 1 (3.846%) Embedded Software Development
Programming Languages
1 26 (100.00%) C
2 17 (65.38%) C++
3 14 (53.85%) Embedded C
4 4 (15.38%) Embedded C++
5 3 (11.54%) SQL
6 2 (7.692%) Python
7 1 (3.846%) Shell Script
7 1 (3.846%) Java
7 1 (3.846%) C#
Qualifications
1 9 (34.62%) Security Cleared
2 8 (30.77%) SC Cleared
3 2 (7.692%) HND
3 2 (7.692%) Degree
Vendors
1 3 (11.54%) Coverity
1 3 (11.54%) Freescale
2 2 (7.692%) Serena
3 1 (3.846%) Green Hills
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