MISRA C
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for MISRA C skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited MISRA C over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 576 696 819
Rank change year-on-year +120 +123 -140
Contract jobs citing MISRA C 10 26 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.023% 0.043% 0.014%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.16% 0.32% 0.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 3 2
10th Percentile - £330 £385
25th Percentile - £356 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -10.00% -
75th Percentile - £538 £594
90th Percentile - £560 £635
UK excluding London median daily rate - £450 £500
% change year-on-year - -10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 14 0
10th Percentile - £50.00 -
25th Percentile £56.25 £50.31 -
Median hourly rate £59.00 £64.88 -
Median % change year-on-year -9.06% - -
75th Percentile £60.75 £67.50 -
90th Percentile £62.43 £68.90 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £59.00 £64.88 -
% change year-on-year -9.06% - -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK

MISRA C is in the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 6,264 8,008 11,771
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.35% 13.34% 13.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,961 5,483 8,038
10th Percentile £297 £275 £294
25th Percentile £405 £410 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £513
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% +2.44% +7.89%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £618
90th Percentile £750 £738 £706
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +3.16% +5.56% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 378 234 300
10th Percentile £10.95 £13.16 £11.75
25th Percentile £13.05 £18.50 £17.19
Median hourly rate £20.49 £37.75 £28.25
Median % change year-on-year -45.74% +33.63% +34.36%
75th Percentile £43.75 £62.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.71 £77.44 £67.37
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.72 £35.00 £21.05
% change year-on-year -49.37% +66.27% +0.24%

MISRA C
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing MISRA C as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for MISRA C in the UK

MISRA C
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing MISRA C.

Daily rate trend for MISRA C in the UK

MISRA C
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing MISRA C.

Hourly rate trend for MISRA C in the UK

MISRA C
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing MISRA C over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for MISRA C in the UK

MISRA C
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MISRA C within the UK over the 6 months to 25 April 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
UK excluding London +54 10 - - 3
England +101 6 - - 2
West Midlands +32 5 - - 1
Midlands +29 5 - - 1
Scotland +28 4 - - 1
South East -7 1 - -

MISRA C
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 1 (10.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (60.00%) Simulink
2 5 (50.00%) Stateflow
2 5 (50.00%) TargetLink
Communications & Networking
1 4 (40.00%) Internet
Development Applications
1 6 (60.00%) Bitbucket
1 6 (60.00%) Git
2 5 (50.00%) Subversion
3 1 (10.00%) GitLab
3 1 (10.00%) JIRA
3 1 (10.00%) MagicDraw
3 1 (10.00%) Rational DOORS
3 1 (10.00%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 5 (50.00%) Automotive
2 4 (40.00%) Electronics
3 1 (10.00%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Control Systems Engineer
1 5 (50.00%) Principal Engineer
1 5 (50.00%) Principal Systems Engineer
1 5 (50.00%) Systems Engineer
2 4 (40.00%) Embedded Engineer
2 4 (40.00%) Embedded Software Engineer
2 4 (40.00%) Software Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Developer
3 1 (10.00%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) Node.js
1 1 (10.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 5 (50.00%) Algorithms
1 5 (50.00%) Management Information System
2 4 (40.00%) Device Driver
2 4 (40.00%) IoT
2 4 (40.00%) PCIe
2 4 (40.00%) Verilog
2 4 (40.00%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 5 (50.00%) Linux
1 5 (50.00%) VxWorks
2 4 (40.00%) Embedded Linux
3 1 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) Agile
1 10 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 6 (60.00%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
2 6 (60.00%) UML
3 5 (50.00%) Black-Box Testing
3 5 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
3 5 (50.00%) Functional Testing
3 5 (50.00%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
3 5 (50.00%) Integration Testing
3 5 (50.00%) Line Management
3 5 (50.00%) Project Management
3 5 (50.00%) QMS
3 5 (50.00%) Quality Management
3 5 (50.00%) Requirements Management
3 5 (50.00%) Software Audit
3 5 (50.00%) Software Testing
3 5 (50.00%) Validation
3 5 (50.00%) Verification and Validation
3 5 (50.00%) White-Box Testing
4 4 (40.00%) Defect Tracking
Programming Languages
1 10 (100.00%) C
2 6 (60.00%) MATLAB
3 4 (40.00%) Embedded C
4 1 (10.00%) Assembly Language
4 1 (10.00%) C++
4 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
4 1 (10.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (50.00%) Degree
1 5 (50.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (100.00%) MISRA
2 5 (50.00%) AUTOSAR
2 5 (50.00%) ISO 26262
3 1 (10.00%) IEC 61508
System Software
1 4 (40.00%) Firmware
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Atlassian
1 4 (40.00%) Intel