Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for C skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited C over the 3 months to 9 February 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Programming Languages category.

LinkC
Location
3 months to
9 Feb 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank284351
Rank change year-on-year
Up+15Up+8
Matching contract IT job ads200913392280
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK4.589 %2.911 %2.785 %
As % of the Programming Languages category12.12 %9.344 %7.993 %
Daily rates quoted825362476
Average daily rate£350£357£395
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.960 %-9.620 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£204£211£250
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£550£550£550
UK excluding London average daily rate£300£350£353
% change year-on-year
-14.28 %-0.770 %
Hourly rates quoted319276431
Average hourly rate£26.50£34.00£35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-22.05 %-2.850 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£10.50£15.00£19.00
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£40.00£45.00£42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate£25.97£33.68£35.00
% change year-on-year
-22.89 %-3.770 %
IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryAll Programming Languages
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
165781433028524
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK37.87 %31.16 %34.85 %
Daily rates quoted807247888851
Average daily rate£401£350£400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+14.57 %-12.50 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£225£225£250
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£600£525£600
UK excluding London average daily rate£300£305£325
% change year-on-year
-1.630 %-6.150 %
Hourly rates quoted83212302017
Average hourly rate£30.00£32.50£33.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-7.690 %-1.510 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£13.88£16.00£19.50
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£40.00£42.50£44.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£28.00£32.50£33.50
% change year-on-year
-13.84 %-2.980 %

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.

C
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing C within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

C Demand Trend

C
Daily Rate Trend

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

C Daily Rate Trend

C
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing C within the UK over the 3 months to 9 February 2010.

C Daily Rate Histogram

C
Hourly Rate Trend

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

C Hourly Rate Trend

C
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing C within the UK over the 3 months to 9 February 2010.

C Hourly Rate Histogram

C
Top 30 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 UK over the 3 months to 9 February 2010. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank 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
EnglandUp+151835£350-4.10 %
LondonUp+62749£439+20.61 %
South EastDown-4313£300-20.00 %
City of LondonUp+24215£425+6.25 %
South WestUp+7204£325-31.57 %
YorkshireUp+34148£301-6.09 %
East of EnglandUp+15132£277-18.67 %
North WestUp+10130£306-18.33 %
ScotlandUp+28102£220-4.86 %
West YorkshireUp+4099£312-2.50 %
HampshireDown-185£298-23.71 %
BerkshireUp+1681£325+0.30 %
EdinburghUp+2170£215+7.50 %
East MidlandsUp+2062£400-11.11 %
CambridgeshireUp+1262£263-4.54 %
BuckinghamshireUp+2450£300-10.71 %
West MidlandsUp+1150£310+10.71 %
LeedsUp+3545£333+3.90 %
Milton KeynesUp+2443£300-10.71 %
WalesUp+1941£340-26.16 %
CambridgeUp+1641£190-24.00 %
SurreyDown-941£350+8.27 %
GloucestershireUp+340£363-34.09 %
BristolDown-939£265-13.11 %
WiltshireUp+1537£325-10.34 %
CheshireUp+735£331-8.62 %
HertfordshireUp+131£225-39.18 %
NorthamptonshireUp+2327£425-
BracknellUp+1326£194-40.20 %
South WalesUp+1325£340-26.16 %

C
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 9 February 2010, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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.

1666 (18.10 %)Finance
2662 (17.99 %)C++
3584 (15.87 %)Security Cleared
4549 (14.92 %)Java
5548 (14.89 %)SQL
6542 (14.73 %)Windows
7472 (12.83 %)UNIX
8446 (12.12 %)Oracle
9436 (11.85 %)Banking
10342 (9.293 %)Linux
11322 (8.750 %).NET
12311 (8.451 %)C#
13299 (8.125 %)SC Cleared
14293 (7.962 %)Microsoft
15283 (7.690 %)SQL Server
16239 (6.495 %)Investment Banking
17218 (5.924 %)Project Management
17218 (5.924 %)XML
18189 (5.136 %)OO
19184 (5.000 %)DV Cleared
20157 (4.266 %)PL/SQL
20157 (4.266 %)Active Directory
20157 (4.266 %)HP
21155 (4.212 %)JavaScript
21155 (4.212 %)Government
22152 (4.130 %)UML
23148 (4.022 %)Perl
23148 (4.022 %)HTML
24143 (3.886 %)Telecoms
25139 (3.777 %)Migration

C
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 9 February 2010, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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.

IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
1322 (8.750 %).NET
2218 (5.924 %)XML
3148 (4.022 %)HTML
4129 (3.505 %)ASP.NET
5121 (3.288 %)CSS
6104 (2.826 %)J2EE
790 (2.446 %)Web Services
858 (1.576 %)Spring
858 (1.576 %)XHTML
953 (1.440 %)ASP
1052 (1.413 %)Flash
1148 (1.304 %)Hibernate
1240 (1.087 %)AJAX
1334 (0.924 %)SOAP
1433 (0.897 %).NET Framework
1433 (0.897 %)Middleware
1532 (0.870 %)XSLT
1630 (0.815 %)JSP
1630 (0.815 %)OpenGL
1726 (0.707 %)WinForms
IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
184 (2.283 %)SharePoint
270 (1.902 %)MS Exchange
336 (0.978 %)Apache
432 (0.870 %)SAS
531 (0.842 %)IIS
629 (0.788 %)WebLogic
728 (0.761 %)SharePoint Server 2007
728 (0.761 %)Exchange Server 2003
827 (0.734 %)CMS
926 (0.707 %)Exchange Server 2007
1024 (0.652 %)Rendezvous
1121 (0.571 %)Tomcat
1220 (0.543 %)OpenROAD
1318 (0.489 %)Lotus Domino
1416 (0.435 %)Lotus Notes
1511 (0.299 %)WebSphere Application Server
1511 (0.299 %)Tuxedo
169 (0.245 %)MQSeries
178 (0.217 %)SAP Portal
178 (0.217 %)Oracle Workflow
IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
1133 (3.614 %)MS Office
1133 (3.614 %)MS Excel
253 (1.440 %)MS Project
337 (1.005 %)MS Visio
433 (0.897 %)MATLAB
523 (0.625 %)MS PowerPoint
622 (0.598 %)Spreadsheet
622 (0.598 %)Photoshop
717 (0.462 %)Simulink
89 (0.245 %)SPSS
89 (0.245 %)CA Clarity
98 (0.217 %)Adobe Illustrator
103 (0.082 %)Fireworks
103 (0.082 %)CATIA
112 (0.054 %)InfoPath
112 (0.054 %)Vensim
121 (0.027 %)Acrobat
121 (0.027 %)Quicktime
121 (0.027 %)FrameMaker
121 (0.027 %)XMetaL
IT Contractor Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
135 (0.951 %)Summit
221 (0.571 %)ADP Wilco Gloss
315 (0.408 %)Endur
414 (0.380 %)Oracle EBS
59 (0.245 %)Oracle ERP
59 (0.245 %)SoftGrid
59 (0.245 %)RMDS
68 (0.217 %)Oracle Applications
68 (0.217 %)SAP CRM
68 (0.217 %)BusinessWorks
77 (0.190 %)SAP xRPM
77 (0.190 %)Dynamics CRM
86 (0.163 %)Cognos Business Intelligence
86 (0.163 %)Oracle HRMS
95 (0.136 %)SAP FI
95 (0.136 %)SAP HR
95 (0.136 %)Oracle 11i
95 (0.136 %)Microsoft CRM
95 (0.136 %)Oracle CRM
95 (0.136 %)Oracle EBS R12
IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
1107 (2.908 %)SAN
290 (2.446 %)TCP/IP
372 (1.957 %)Internet
465 (1.766 %)Wireless
563 (1.712 %)Firewall
563 (1.712 %)DNS
657 (1.549 %)DHCP
753 (1.440 %)WAN
850 (1.359 %)LAN
949 (1.332 %)3G
1043 (1.168 %)VoIP
1134 (0.924 %)VPN
1233 (0.897 %)NAS
1332 (0.870 %)Intranet
1426 (0.707 %)DVB
1525 (0.679 %)HTTP
1623 (0.625 %)Ethernet
1722 (0.598 %)UMTS
1821 (0.571 %)SMS
1918 (0.489 %)LTE
IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
1283 (7.690 %)SQL Server
295 (2.582 %)SQL Server 2005
371 (1.929 %)Datawarehouse
465 (1.766 %)Oracle 10g
546 (1.250 %)ETL
644 (1.196 %)Ingres
743 (1.168 %)MySQL
743 (1.168 %)BusinessObjects
838 (1.033 %)SQL Server 2000
838 (1.033 %)MS Access
934 (0.924 %)Oracle Reports
934 (0.924 %)DB2
1032 (0.870 %)SQL Server Integration Services
1125 (0.679 %)RDBMS
1224 (0.652 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
1224 (0.652 %)Oracle 8/8i
1323 (0.625 %)Oracle 9i
1323 (0.625 %)Crystal Reports
1422 (0.598 %)SQL Server 2008
1519 (0.516 %)OLAP
IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
184 (2.283 %)ClearCase
248 (1.304 %)Visual Studio
339 (1.060 %)Subversion
339 (1.060 %)TestDirector
438 (1.033 %)LoadRunner
535 (0.951 %)ProC
535 (0.951 %)Oracle Forms
625 (0.679 %)Eclipse
625 (0.679 %)ClearQuest
724 (0.652 %)JUnit
818 (0.489 %)QuickTest Pro
916 (0.435 %)Maven
916 (0.435 %)Ant
1014 (0.380 %)VSS/SourceSafe
1111 (0.299 %)PowerBuilder
128 (0.217 %)Team Foundation Server
128 (0.217 %)JDeveloper
128 (0.217 %)PVCS
136 (0.163 %)NCover
136 (0.163 %)NUnit
IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
1666 (18.10 %)Finance
2436 (11.85 %)Banking
3239 (6.495 %)Investment Banking
4155 (4.212 %)Government
5143 (3.886 %)Telecoms
6131 (3.560 %)Front Office
764 (1.739 %)Back Office
861 (1.658 %)Retail
957 (1.549 %)Games
1053 (1.440 %)Insurance
1143 (1.168 %)Health
1240 (1.087 %)Aerospace
1240 (1.087 %)Electronics
1336 (0.978 %)Manufacturing
1433 (0.897 %)Military
1531 (0.842 %)Education
1629 (0.788 %)Marketing
1723 (0.625 %)Local Government
1821 (0.571 %)Multimedia
1821 (0.571 %)Electric
IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
11001 (27.20 %)Developer
2568 (15.43 %)Analyst
3261 (7.092 %)Software Engineer
4203 (5.516 %)Consultant
5200 (5.435 %)Business Analyst
6190 (5.163 %)Project Manager
7141 (3.832 %)Java Developer
8118 (3.207 %)Architect
9105 (2.853 %)C++ Developer
10103 (2.799 %)C Developer
1199 (2.690 %)Administrator
1282 (2.228 %)Support Analyst
1378 (2.120 %)Software Developer
1473 (1.984 %)Oracle Developer
1570 (1.902 %)Senior Developer
1665 (1.766 %)Designer
1764 (1.739 %)C# Developer
1857 (1.549 %).NET Developer
1954 (1.467 %)Tester
2052 (1.413 %)Systems Engineer
IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
1107 (2.908 %)Derivative
2100 (2.717 %)NHS
367 (1.821 %)Fixed Income
464 (1.739 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
551 (1.386 %)Firmware
551 (1.386 %)Mathematics
639 (1.060 %)Clustering
738 (1.033 %)Credit Risk
738 (1.033 %)Computer Science
836 (0.978 %)Multithreading
935 (0.951 %)Client/Server
1033 (0.897 %)Blackberry
1132 (0.870 %)Equity Derivative
1231 (0.842 %)Equities
1330 (0.815 %)Device Driver
1330 (0.815 %)N-Tier
1429 (0.788 %)Management Information System
1527 (0.734 %)IPTV
1624 (0.652 %)VHDL
1722 (0.598 %)Field-Programmable Gate Array
IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
1542 (14.73 %)Windows
2472 (12.83 %)UNIX
3342 (9.293 %)Linux
4138 (3.750 %)Windows Server 2003
5130 (3.533 %)Solaris
6116 (3.152 %)Windows XP
759 (1.603 %)Windows Server 2008
857 (1.549 %)AIX
947 (1.277 %)Windows Vista
1041 (1.114 %)Red Hat Linux
1041 (1.114 %)VMS
1133 (0.897 %)Windows 2000
1231 (0.842 %)HPUX
1321 (0.571 %)Windows CE
1420 (0.543 %)Windows 2000 Server
1518 (0.489 %)Windows Mobile
1617 (0.462 %)Windows NT
1714 (0.380 %)Embedded Linux
1813 (0.353 %)Windows 7
1912 (0.326 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
1218 (5.924 %)Project Management
2189 (5.136 %)OO
3152 (4.130 %)UML
4139 (3.777 %)Migration
5124 (3.370 %)PRINCE2
6107 (2.908 %)Configuration Management
7106 (2.880 %)ITIL
883 (2.255 %)Business Analysis
978 (2.120 %)Agile Software Development
1077 (2.092 %)Stakeholder Management
1168 (1.848 %)Software Engineering
1267 (1.821 %)E-Commerce
1360 (1.630 %)Business Intelligence
1455 (1.495 %)OOD
1455 (1.495 %)CRM
1554 (1.467 %)Change Management
1652 (1.413 %)Unit Testing
1751 (1.386 %)Workflow
1751 (1.386 %)Test Scripting
1845 (1.223 %)Risk Management
IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
1662 (17.99 %)C++
2549 (14.92 %)Java
3548 (14.89 %)SQL
4311 (8.451 %)C#
5157 (4.266 %)PL/SQL
6155 (4.212 %)JavaScript
7148 (4.022 %)Perl
8122 (3.315 %)Embedded C
9119 (3.234 %)VB
1080 (2.174 %)Python
1179 (2.147 %)Assembly Language
1274 (2.011 %)Shell Script
1358 (1.576 %)VBA
1454 (1.467 %)T-SQL
1553 (1.440 %)VB.NET
1651 (1.386 %)PHP
1738 (1.033 %)Embedded C++
1835 (0.951 %)Ada
1931 (0.842 %)VBScript
2024 (0.652 %)DCL
IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
1584 (15.87 %)Security Cleared
2299 (8.125 %)SC Cleared
3184 (5.000 %)DV Cleared
4113 (3.071 %)Degree
558 (1.576 %)ISEB
636 (0.978 %)Cisco Certification
735 (0.951 %)Microsoft Certification
828 (0.761 %)MCSE
924 (0.652 %)CCNA
1022 (0.598 %)PRINCE2 Certification
1118 (0.489 %)ISTQB
1118 (0.489 %)BC Cleared
1118 (0.489 %)ITIL Certification
1217 (0.462 %)MCP
1315 (0.408 %)CCNP
1414 (0.380 %)PRINCE2 Practitioner
1513 (0.353 %)PMI Certification
1610 (0.272 %)CTC Cleared
1610 (0.272 %)CISSP
1610 (0.272 %)PMP
IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
152 (1.413 %)SLA
241 (1.114 %)QA
38 (0.217 %)ISO27001
46 (0.163 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
46 (0.163 %)Basel II
55 (0.136 %)PCI DSS
64 (0.109 %)WAI
64 (0.109 %)COBIT
64 (0.109 %)BS7799
73 (0.082 %)ISO9001
73 (0.082 %)TickIT
73 (0.082 %)JTAG
73 (0.082 %)WCAG
82 (0.054 %)HMG Infosec
82 (0.054 %)ISO9000
91 (0.027 %)BS25999
91 (0.027 %)SNOMED CT
91 (0.027 %)HL7
IT Contractor Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
1157 (4.266 %)Active Directory
250 (1.359 %)VMware Infrastructure
325 (0.679 %)VMware ESX
416 (0.435 %)NFS
515 (0.408 %)Hyper-V
614 (0.380 %)XenApp
614 (0.380 %)Terminal Services
712 (0.326 %)Citrix Presentation Server
810 (0.272 %)Oracle RAC
98 (0.217 %)NetBackup
106 (0.163 %)vSphere
106 (0.163 %)Backup Exec
115 (0.136 %)Samba
115 (0.136 %)Veritas Volume Manager
124 (0.109 %)AquaLogic
124 (0.109 %)XenServer
124 (0.109 %)Oracle RMAN
124 (0.109 %)ISA Server
133 (0.082 %)RACF
133 (0.082 %)Sendmail
IT Contractor Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
135 (0.951 %)Tivoli
223 (0.625 %)OpenView
322 (0.598 %)SCCM
416 (0.435 %)Tivoli Storage Manager
513 (0.353 %)OpenView Configuration Management
513 (0.353 %)HP Quality Center
611 (0.299 %)OVSD
710 (0.272 %)MSI
89 (0.245 %)OVOW
89 (0.245 %)EMC NetWorker
98 (0.217 %)HP Data Protector
106 (0.163 %)SCOM
106 (0.163 %)Unicenter
106 (0.163 %)Legato
106 (0.163 %)CONTROL-M
115 (0.136 %)AutoSys
115 (0.136 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
124 (0.109 %)WSUS
124 (0.109 %)ServiceCenter
124 (0.109 %)Data Guard
IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
1446 (12.12 %)Oracle
2293 (7.962 %)Microsoft
3157 (4.266 %)HP
498 (2.663 %)Cisco
597 (2.636 %)Sybase
693 (2.527 %)SAP
785 (2.310 %)Citrix
883 (2.255 %)VMware
971 (1.929 %)IBM
1043 (1.168 %)Business Objects
1043 (1.168 %)Sun
1136 (0.978 %)TIBCO
1136 (0.978 %)Red Hat
1235 (0.951 %)EMC
1327 (0.734 %)CheckPoint
1426 (0.707 %)Cognos
1524 (0.652 %)Veritas
1621 (0.571 %)Remedy
1720 (0.543 %)Lotus
1818 (0.489 %)Perforce