C Contracts with Work from Home Options

C
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for C skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited C over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 180 227 349
Rank change year-on-year +47 +122 -55
Contract jobs citing C 167 267 290
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.11% 1.06% 0.66%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.31% 2.85% 1.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 118 158
10th Percentile £325 £391 £400
25th Percentile £463 £457 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £578
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% -4.76% +42.59%
75th Percentile £553 £694 £648
90th Percentile £625 £810 £727
UK median daily rate £535 £560 £575
% change year-on-year -4.46% -2.61% +31.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 57 59 26
10th Percentile - £20.18 £45.63
25th Percentile £46.25 £46.25 £47.50
Median hourly rate £70.00 £57.50 £54.25
Median % change year-on-year +21.74% +5.99% +20.56%
75th Percentile £85.00 £64.38 £55.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £75.60 £57.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £58.91 £55.50
% change year-on-year +10.35% +6.14% +23.33%

All Programming Languages
Work from Home

C is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 5,048 9,374 16,677
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 33.49% 37.36% 38.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,662 6,862 12,375
10th Percentile £350 £390 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £650 £663 £638
90th Percentile £788 £775 £725
UK median daily rate £528 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.00% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 140 203 185
10th Percentile £34.38 £31.60 £20.75
25th Percentile £46.25 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £60.00 £62.50 £49.75
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +25.63% +10.56%
75th Percentile £72.50 £70.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £85.38 £82.00 £66.60
UK median hourly rate £62.18 £60.94 £50.00
% change year-on-year +2.03% +21.88% +14.94%

C
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing C as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

C trend for jobs with a WFH option

C
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing C.

C daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

C
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing C over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

C daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

C
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing C.

C hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

C
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing C over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

C hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

C
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 6 (3.59%) Confluence
2 1 (0.60%) nginx
2 1 (0.60%) Oracle HTTP Server
2 1 (0.60%) WebLogic
Applications
1 17 (10.18%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 4 (2.40%) Academy Housing
1 4 (2.40%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
2 2 (1.20%) Endur
2 2 (1.20%) OpenLink RightAngle
2 2 (1.20%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.60%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 24 (14.37%) AWS
2 11 (6.59%) Azure
3 4 (2.40%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (2.40%) Power Automate
3 4 (2.40%) Power Platform
3 4 (2.40%) PowerApps
4 3 (1.80%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (1.80%) Amazon EKS
4 3 (1.80%) Cloud Computing
4 3 (1.80%) Datadog
4 3 (1.80%) Dynamics 365
4 3 (1.80%) SaaS
5 2 (1.20%) Amazon S3
5 2 (1.20%) Amazon SQS
5 2 (1.20%) GitHub
5 2 (1.20%) Snowflake
6 1 (0.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (0.60%) Azure Batch
6 1 (0.60%) GCP
6 1 (0.60%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 9 (5.39%) 802.11
1 9 (5.39%) Wi-Fi
2 6 (3.59%) TCP/IP
3 5 (2.99%) J1939
4 4 (2.40%) Diameter Protocol
4 4 (2.40%) Wireless
5 2 (1.20%) Bluetooth
5 2 (1.20%) HTTP
6 1 (0.60%) DHCP
6 1 (0.60%) DNS
6 1 (0.60%) Internet
6 1 (0.60%) IPv4
6 1 (0.60%) Modbus
6 1 (0.60%) Reverse Proxy
6 1 (0.60%) RTSP
6 1 (0.60%) Software-Defined Radio
6 1 (0.60%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (4.79%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.80%) Amazon Redshift
2 3 (1.80%) DB2
3 2 (1.20%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (1.20%) MySQL
3 2 (1.20%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (1.20%) SAP HANA
4 1 (0.60%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.60%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (0.60%) CouchDB
4 1 (0.60%) Data Mining
4 1 (0.60%) DynamoDB
4 1 (0.60%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.60%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.60%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.60%) Oracle Database 11g
4 1 (0.60%) Oracle Database 12c
4 1 (0.60%) Redis
4 1 (0.60%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 32 (19.16%) PVCS
2 31 (18.56%) Visual Studio
3 11 (6.59%) JIRA
4 10 (5.99%) Git
4 10 (5.99%) Rational DOORS
5 7 (4.19%) Jenkins
6 4 (2.40%) Bitbucket
6 4 (2.40%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 4 (2.40%) Subversion
7 3 (1.80%) JMeter
8 2 (1.20%) Cucumber
8 2 (1.20%) Cypress.io
8 2 (1.20%) Gradle
8 2 (1.20%) JUnit
8 2 (1.20%) Maven
8 2 (1.20%) Mocha
8 2 (1.20%) Selenium
8 2 (1.20%) SoapUI
8 2 (1.20%) TestNG
8 2 (1.20%) WebDriver
General
1 17 (10.18%) Social Skills
2 14 (8.38%) Automotive
2 14 (8.38%) Electronics
3 13 (7.78%) Public Sector
4 11 (6.59%) Telecoms
5 5 (2.99%) Finance
6 4 (2.40%) Aerospace
6 4 (2.40%) Local Government
6 4 (2.40%) Military
7 3 (1.80%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (1.80%) Banking
8 1 (0.60%) Billing
8 1 (0.60%) Law
8 1 (0.60%) Multimedia
8 1 (0.60%) Retail
Job Titles
1 50 (29.94%) Software Engineer
2 31 (18.56%) Programmer
3 30 (17.96%) C Programmer
4 29 (17.37%) Embedded Engineer
4 29 (17.37%) Embedded Software Engineer
5 21 (12.57%) Developer
6 17 (10.18%) FPGA Engineer
7 16 (9.58%) Design Engineer
7 16 (9.58%) FPGA Design Engineer
8 12 (7.19%) C Software Engineer
9 10 (5.99%) C++ Software Engineer
9 10 (5.99%) Embedded C Engineer
9 10 (5.99%) Embedded C Software Engineer
10 9 (5.39%) Senior
11 8 (4.79%) Architect
11 8 (4.79%) DevOps Engineer
12 7 (4.19%) C Developer
12 7 (4.19%) C++ Developer
12 7 (4.19%) Consultant
13 6 (3.59%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (5.39%) .NET
1 9 (5.39%) 802.1X
2 8 (4.79%) React
3 7 (4.19%) REST
3 7 (4.19%) RESTful
4 6 (3.59%) Node.js
4 6 (3.59%) Spring
4 6 (3.59%) Spring Boot
5 5 (2.99%) XML
6 4 (2.40%) HTML
6 4 (2.40%) Middleware
7 3 (1.80%) iOS SDK
7 3 (1.80%) Yocto
8 2 (1.20%) AngularJS
8 2 (1.20%) Chai
8 2 (1.20%) IDoc
8 2 (1.20%) JAX-RS
8 2 (1.20%) Kafka
8 2 (1.20%) OpenGL ES
8 2 (1.20%) Vulkan
Miscellaneous
1 21 (12.57%) Verilog
2 20 (11.98%) VHDL
3 17 (10.18%) FPGA
4 9 (5.39%) Device Driver
5 7 (4.19%) Algorithms
6 5 (2.99%) CAN bus
6 5 (2.99%) Public Cloud
7 4 (2.40%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (2.40%) Housing Association
7 4 (2.40%) Legacy Applications
8 3 (1.80%) iPad
8 3 (1.80%) iPhone
8 3 (1.80%) Mainframe
8 3 (1.80%) Product Ownership
9 2 (1.20%) 3D Graphics
9 2 (1.20%) Data Centre
9 2 (1.20%) Embedded Systems
9 2 (1.20%) Private Cloud
9 2 (1.20%) Ray Tracing
9 2 (1.20%) STB
Operating Systems
1 23 (13.77%) Linux
2 6 (3.59%) Apple iOS
2 6 (3.59%) Windows
3 3 (1.80%) Android
4 2 (1.20%) Embedded Linux
4 2 (1.20%) Unix
5 1 (0.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.60%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.60%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.60%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.60%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (34.73%) Software Engineering
2 32 (19.16%) Problem-Solving
3 20 (11.98%) Signal Processing
4 18 (10.78%) Agile
4 18 (10.78%) UVM
4 18 (10.78%) Validation
5 17 (10.18%) FPGA Design
6 16 (9.58%) Test Automation
7 14 (8.38%) Verification and Validation
8 13 (7.78%) DevOps
9 11 (6.59%) Configuration Management
10 9 (5.39%) Software Architecture
10 9 (5.39%) Test Scripting
11 7 (4.19%) Computer Science
12 6 (3.59%) API Design
12 6 (3.59%) Microservices
13 5 (2.99%) CI/CD
13 5 (2.99%) Multithreading
13 5 (2.99%) Requirements Analysis
13 5 (2.99%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 69 (41.32%) C++
2 33 (19.76%) PL/SQL
3 26 (15.57%) Python
4 24 (14.37%) Embedded C
5 18 (10.78%) Java
5 18 (10.78%) SystemVerilog
6 14 (8.38%) Perl
6 14 (8.38%) SQL
7 13 (7.78%) Bash
8 10 (5.99%) C#
8 10 (5.99%) Tcl
9 8 (4.79%) PowerShell
10 7 (4.19%) Embedded C++
10 7 (4.19%) JavaScript
10 7 (4.19%) Shell Script
11 4 (2.40%) Ada
11 4 (2.40%) Assembly Language
11 4 (2.40%) MATLAB
11 4 (2.40%) TypeScript
12 3 (1.80%) Swift
Qualifications
1 55 (32.93%) Security Cleared
2 41 (24.55%) SC Cleared
3 26 (15.57%) Degree
4 12 (7.19%) DV Cleared
5 7 (4.19%) Master's Degree
5 7 (4.19%) PhD
6 4 (2.40%) DBS Check
7 2 (1.20%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.60%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.99%) AUTOSAR
2 4 (2.40%) DO-178B
2 4 (2.40%) IEC 61508
2 4 (2.40%) JTAG
2 4 (2.40%) QA
3 1 (0.60%) ISO 20022
3 1 (0.60%) NIST
System Software
1 16 (9.58%) Docker
2 6 (3.59%) Firmware
3 4 (2.40%) Embedded Firmware
3 4 (2.40%) VMware ESXi
3 4 (2.40%) VMware NSX
3 4 (2.40%) vSphere
4 1 (0.60%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.60%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 13 (7.78%) Ansible
1 13 (7.78%) Terraform
2 11 (6.59%) Kubernetes
3 5 (2.99%) Functional Safety
4 4 (2.40%) Progress Chef
4 4 (2.40%) Puppet
5 3 (1.80%) Nagios
6 2 (1.20%) Kibana
7 1 (0.60%) Consul
7 1 (0.60%) Data Guard
7 1 (0.60%) Grafana
7 1 (0.60%) logstash
7 1 (0.60%) Oracle Flashback
7 1 (0.60%) Oracle RMAN
7 1 (0.60%) Packer
7 1 (0.60%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 17 (10.18%) Intel
1 17 (10.18%) Microsemi
1 17 (10.18%) Xilinx
2 10 (5.99%) Microsoft
3 8 (4.79%) Oracle
4 5 (2.99%) Splunk
5 4 (2.40%) Atlassian
5 4 (2.40%) Capita
5 4 (2.40%) SAP
6 3 (1.80%) New Relic
7 2 (1.20%) MuleSoft
7 2 (1.20%) OpenLink
7 2 (1.20%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.20%) Triple Point
7 2 (1.20%) webMethods
8 1 (0.60%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.60%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.60%) Google
8 1 (0.60%) VMware