The first table below looks at the demand for C skills in IT contracts advertised for the West Wales region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited C 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 of the Programming Languages category for the West Wales 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
C
Rank 5 14 30
Rank change year-on-year
+9 +16
Contract jobs citing C 7 5 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Wales 15.56% 5.814% 1.685%
As % of the Programming Languages category 41.18% 14.71% 4.918%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 2
Average daily rate £420 £560 £343
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-25.00% +63.50%
UK excluding London average daily rate £348 £400 £300
% change year-on-year
-13.12% +33.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £12.42 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £36.50 £36.50
% change year-on-year
-4.10% -
All Programming Languages
West Wales
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
17 34 61
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Wales 37.78% 39.53% 34.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 11 26
Average daily rate £314 £410 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-23.53% +9.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £263 £155 £291
10% offered a daily rate of more than £420 £537 £513
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Average hourly rate £40.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £35.00
C
Wales

C
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Wales 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 Wales region.

West Wales C Daily Rate Trend

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 Wales region.

West Wales 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 Wales region 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
Swansea +12 6 £420 -25.00%
Carmarthenshire - 1 - -
C
Wales

C
Top 20 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Wales 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 6 (75.00%) SQL
1 6 (75.00%) LoadRunner
1 6 (75.00%) SQLPlus
1 6 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (62.50%) SC Cleared
3 4 (50.00%) TestDirector
3 4 (50.00%) Test Management
3 4 (50.00%) Test Scripting
3 4 (50.00%) HP Quality Center
4 2 (25.00%) Web Development
4 2 (25.00%) Mathematics
4 2 (25.00%) UNIX
5 1 (12.50%) Python
5 1 (12.50%) Shell Script
5 1 (12.50%) SOAP
5 1 (12.50%) XML
5 1 (12.50%) HTML
5 1 (12.50%) Java
5 1 (12.50%) Perl
5 1 (12.50%) Jython

C
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Wales 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 1 (12.50%) HTML
1 1 (12.50%) SOAP
1 1 (12.50%) XML
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (75.00%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 6 (75.00%) LoadRunner
2 4 (50.00%) TestDirector
Job Titles
1 6 (75.00%) Tester
1 6 (75.00%) Performance Tester
2 1 (12.50%) Customer Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Mathematics
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Test Management
1 4 (50.00%) Test Scripting
2 2 (25.00%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) SQL
2 1 (12.50%) Python
2 1 (12.50%) Shell Script
2 1 (12.50%) Jython
2 1 (12.50%) Java
2 1 (12.50%) Perl
Qualifications
1 6 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (62.50%) SC Cleared
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) HP Quality Center