C Contracts in the West Midlands
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for C skills in IT contracts advertised for the West Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited C over the 3 months to 20 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 of the Programming Languages category for the West Midlands region.

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
20 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
C
Rank 68 48 62
Rank change year-on-year
-20 +14
Contract jobs citing C 27 58 31
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 1.625% 2.577% 1.662%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.243% 7.682% 5.074%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 8 12
Average daily rate £294 £300 £265
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.08% +13.20%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £275 £210
10% offered a daily rate of more than £413 £388 £280
UK excluding London average daily rate £348 £400 £300
% change year-on-year
-13.12% +33.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 7 5
Average hourly rate £37.00 £35.00 £37.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+5.71% -6.66%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £36.50 £36.50
% change year-on-year
-4.10% -
All Programming Languages
West Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category		 515 755 611
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 30.99% 33.54% 32.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 250 386 313
Average daily rate £325 £320 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.56% +6.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £225 £206
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £425 £410
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 31 31
Average hourly rate £36.25 £32.00 £20.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+13.28% +56.09%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £20.10 £12.50 £13.13
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.80 £37.50 £34.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
C
England

C
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing C across the West Midlands region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

West Midlands C Jobs Demand Trend

C
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing C across the West Midlands region.

West Midlands C Daily Rate Trend

C
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing C across the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

West Midlands C Daily Rate Histogram

C
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing C across the West Midlands region.

West Midlands C Hourly Rate Trend

C
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 West Midlands region over the 3 months to 20 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
Warwickshire -3 8 £250 -12.28%
Birmingham -2 6 £425 +6.91%
Coventry -1 5 - -
Worcestershire -13 3 £263 -
Dudley - 1 £325 -
Solihull - 1 £400 -
C
England

C
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands region 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.

1 25 (38.46%) C++
2 21 (32.31%) Finance
3 16 (24.62%) SQL
3 16 (24.62%) UNIX
4 14 (21.54%) Automotive
5 13 (20.00%) Microsoft
6 12 (18.46%) .NET
7 10 (15.38%) Oracle
7 10 (15.38%) MS Excel
8 9 (13.85%) Shell Script
9 8 (12.31%) J2EE
9 8 (12.31%) VB
10 7 (10.77%) Windows
10 7 (10.77%) AIX
10 7 (10.77%) Oracle Forms
10 7 (10.77%) Embedded C
10 7 (10.77%) C#
11 6 (9.231%) RDBMS
11 6 (9.231%) Solaris
11 6 (9.231%) VMware
11 6 (9.231%) ProC
11 6 (9.231%) Software Testing
11 6 (9.231%) Data Analysis
11 6 (9.231%) VMware Infrastructure
12 5 (7.692%) Degree
12 5 (7.692%) Mathematics
12 5 (7.692%) QA
12 5 (7.692%) MS Office
12 5 (7.692%) CGI
12 5 (7.692%) Data Warehouse

C
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands region 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.

Application Development
1 12 (18.46%) .NET
2 8 (12.31%) J2EE
3 5 (7.692%) CGI
4 3 (4.615%) .NET Framework
5 2 (3.077%) Java EE
6 1 (1.538%) JSTL
6 1 (1.538%) Java EE 5
6 1 (1.538%) JPA
6 1 (1.538%) EJB 3.0
6 1 (1.538%) Core Animation
6 1 (1.538%) Cocoa Touch
6 1 (1.538%) UIKit
6 1 (1.538%) OpenGL
6 1 (1.538%) JMX
6 1 (1.538%) Web Dynpro
6 1 (1.538%) Cocoa
6 1 (1.538%) JSF
6 1 (1.538%) JTA
6 1 (1.538%) EJB
6 1 (1.538%) Servlets
Application Platforms
1 2 (3.077%) SAP Portal
2 1 (1.538%) WebLogic
2 1 (1.538%) MS Exchange
2 1 (1.538%) NetWeaver
2 1 (1.538%) CMS
2 1 (1.538%) SAP EP
Applications
1 10 (15.38%) MS Excel
2 5 (7.692%) MS Office
3 2 (3.077%) MS Visio
4 1 (1.538%) Simulink
4 1 (1.538%) CATIA
4 1 (1.538%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 2 (3.077%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (1.538%) SAP cProjects
2 1 (1.538%) Oracle HRMS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.615%) DHCP
1 3 (4.615%) TCP/IP
1 3 (4.615%) DNS
2 2 (3.077%) Ethernet
2 2 (3.077%) Radio Access Network
3 1 (1.538%) Modbus
3 1 (1.538%) HTTP
3 1 (1.538%) LDAP
3 1 (1.538%) PSTN
3 1 (1.538%) LTE
3 1 (1.538%) 4G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (9.231%) RDBMS
2 5 (7.692%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (3.077%) Data Mining
3 2 (3.077%) SQL Server
3 2 (3.077%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 7 (10.77%) Oracle Forms
2 6 (9.231%) ProC
3 3 (4.615%) Subversion
4 1 (1.538%) NWDI
4 1 (1.538%) NWDS
4 1 (1.538%) Visual Studio
4 1 (1.538%) LabVIEW
4 1 (1.538%) Xcode
4 1 (1.538%) ClearCase
4 1 (1.538%) QuickTest Pro
General
1 21 (32.31%) Finance
2 14 (21.54%) Automotive
3 3 (4.615%) Advertising
3 3 (4.615%) Electronics
3 3 (4.615%) Banking
3 3 (4.615%) Investment Banking
3 3 (4.615%) Corporate Banking
4 2 (3.077%) Telecoms
4 2 (3.077%) Games
4 2 (3.077%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.538%) Aerospace
5 1 (1.538%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 17 (26.15%) Developer
2 13 (20.00%) Software Engineer
3 9 (13.85%) C Developer
4 8 (12.31%) Embedded Software Engineer
5 6 (9.231%) Tester
6 5 (7.692%) UNIX Developer
7 4 (6.154%) Service Manager
7 4 (6.154%) Analyst
7 4 (6.154%) IT Manager
7 4 (6.154%) Business Manager
7 4 (6.154%) Head of IT
7 4 (6.154%) IT Services Manager
8 3 (4.615%) Test Engineer
8 3 (4.615%) Software Tester
9 2 (3.077%) Systems Engineer
9 2 (3.077%) Project Manager
9 2 (3.077%) Business Analyst
9 2 (3.077%) Senior Software Engineer
9 2 (3.077%) Systems Tester
9 2 (3.077%) SQL Developer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.692%) Mathematics
2 4 (6.154%) Clustering
3 3 (4.615%) Embedded Systems
4 2 (3.077%) CAN bus
4 2 (3.077%) Computer Science
5 1 (1.538%) iPhone
5 1 (1.538%) iPad
5 1 (1.538%) Animation
5 1 (1.538%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 16 (24.62%) UNIX
2 7 (10.77%) Windows
2 7 (10.77%) AIX
3 6 (9.231%) Solaris
4 3 (4.615%) Windows 2000
4 3 (4.615%) Windows XP
4 3 (4.615%) Windows Server 2003
4 3 (4.615%) Windows Server 2008
4 3 (4.615%) Windows 7
5 1 (1.538%) Apple iOS
5 1 (1.538%) OpenVMS
5 1 (1.538%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (9.231%) Software Testing
1 6 (9.231%) Data Analysis
2 4 (6.154%) Requirements Analysis
2 4 (6.154%) ITIL
2 4 (6.154%) PRINCE2
2 4 (6.154%) Project Management
2 4 (6.154%) Validation
3 3 (4.615%) Change Management
3 3 (4.615%) Configuration Management
3 3 (4.615%) Fund Management
3 3 (4.615%) Wealth Management
3 3 (4.615%) Problem Management
3 3 (4.615%) User Acceptance Testing
3 3 (4.615%) System Testing
3 3 (4.615%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (4.615%) Business Transformation
4 2 (3.077%) Business Analysis
4 2 (3.077%) Embedded Software Development
4 2 (3.077%) Test Automation
4 2 (3.077%) Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 25 (38.46%) C++
2 16 (24.62%) SQL
3 9 (13.85%) Shell Script
4 8 (12.31%) VB
5 7 (10.77%) Embedded C
5 7 (10.77%) C#
6 3 (4.615%) Embedded C++
6 3 (4.615%) Java
7 2 (3.077%) T-SQL
7 2 (3.077%) Perl
8 1 (1.538%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.538%) JavaScript
8 1 (1.538%) COBOL
8 1 (1.538%) VB.NET
8 1 (1.538%) ABAP
8 1 (1.538%) VC++
8 1 (1.538%) PowerHouse
8 1 (1.538%) MATLAB
8 1 (1.538%) Objective-C
8 1 (1.538%) GLSL
Qualifications
1 5 (7.692%) Degree
2 2 (3.077%) SC Cleared
2 2 (3.077%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.538%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.692%) QA
2 3 (4.615%) ISO 9001
2 3 (4.615%) TickIT
System Software
1 6 (9.231%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (6.154%) Active Directory
3 3 (4.615%) VMware ESX
Vendors
1 13 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 10 (15.38%) Oracle
3 6 (9.231%) VMware
4 4 (6.154%) HP
5 3 (4.615%) Fujitsu
5 3 (4.615%) SAP
5 3 (4.615%) Citrix
5 3 (4.615%) NetApp
6 2 (3.077%) Apple
6 2 (3.077%) MKS
7 1 (1.538%) Renesas
7 1 (1.538%) EMC
7 1 (1.538%) Green Hills
7 1 (1.538%) webMethods
7 1 (1.538%) NEC
7 1 (1.538%) Progress
7 1 (1.538%) Sybase
Embedded Software Engineer
Coventry, West Midlands (County)
My client is looking for an embedded software engineer to take part in the first part of an Audio based project. This will be based in there offices...
GCS IT Recruitment Specialists
Rate: Negotiable
Posted: 17 May 2013
Embedded Software - Ethernet - UML - Contract
West Midlands
To develop software designs and architectures that they and/or their colleagues will implementCompetencies/Skills required:* At least 5 years experience in real-time software development using C/...
Progressive Recruitment
Posted: 15 May 2013
Senior Software Engineer, C#, C/C++, CAD
Dudley, West Midlands (County)
Leading Engineering Company now requires a Senior Software Engineer to lead a team of Engineers through full life-cycle application development using C/C++ in a Windows environment.....
JM
Rate: £300 - £350 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013
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