C Contracts in Cambridge

C
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cambridge with 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 27 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 12 11 22
Rank change year-on-year -1 +11 -3
Contract jobs citing C 20 25 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridge 10.05% 9.09% 6.31%
As % of the Programming Languages category 27.78% 21.74% 14.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 20 11
10th Percentile £525 £425 £450
25th Percentile £538 £481 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £506 £525
Median % change year-on-year +23.46% -3.57% +20.00%
75th Percentile £719 £560 £575
90th Percentile £800 £562 £588
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £550 £506 £525
% change year-on-year +8.64% -3.57% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 8
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52.50 £47.50 £56.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £50.00 £57.25
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -12.66% +10.10%
75th Percentile £57.50 £52.50 £58.75
90th Percentile - - -
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £36.00 £37.50 £57.00
% change year-on-year -4.00% -34.21% +16.33%

All Programming Languages
Cambridge

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 advertised in Cambridge with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 72 115 147
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridge 36.18% 41.82% 44.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 79 91
10th Percentile £405 - £408
25th Percentile £410 £425 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.05% -2.50% +17.65%
75th Percentile £569 £550 £575
90th Percentile £638 £575 £675
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £498 £475 £469
% change year-on-year +4.74% +1.33% +10.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 6 8
10th Percentile £51.88 £49.38 -
25th Percentile £54.06 £51.25 £56.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £52.50 £57.25
Median % change year-on-year +19.05% -8.30% +18.65%
75th Percentile £66.25 £53.75 £58.75
90th Percentile £68.75 - -
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £55.00 £50.00 £57.00
% change year-on-year +10.00% -12.28% +91.60%

C
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

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

Job vacancy trend for C in Cambridge

C
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cambridge

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

Daily rate trend for C in Cambridge

C
Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridge

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing C in Cambridge over the 6 months to 27 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for C in Cambridge

C
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridge

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

Hourly rate trend for C in Cambridge

C
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridge 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.00%) 4G
1 1 (5.00%) 5G
Development Applications
1 4 (20.00%) GCC
2 3 (15.00%) Git
2 3 (15.00%) JIRA
2 3 (15.00%) Subversion
3 1 (5.00%) VTune
General
1 4 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 3 (15.00%) Electronics
3 2 (10.00%) Telecoms
3 2 (10.00%) Wearables
4 1 (5.00%) Finance
4 1 (5.00%) Games
4 1 (5.00%) Manufacturing
4 1 (5.00%) Marketing
4 1 (5.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (40.00%) Architect
1 8 (40.00%) Software Architect
1 8 (40.00%) Software Engineer
2 4 (20.00%) Compiler Engineer
3 3 (15.00%) Embedded Engineer
3 3 (15.00%) Embedded Software Engineer
3 3 (15.00%) Verification Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) C Programmer
4 1 (5.00%) C/C++ Programmer
4 1 (5.00%) C++ Programmer
4 1 (5.00%) Development Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Games Programmer
4 1 (5.00%) Graphics Programmer
4 1 (5.00%) Programmer
4 1 (5.00%) Research Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Research Software Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Senior
4 1 (5.00%) Senior Development Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Senior Software Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Software Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (45.00%) DirectX
1 9 (45.00%) OpenGL
1 9 (45.00%) Vulkan
2 8 (40.00%) OpenGL ES
3 4 (20.00%) LLVM
4 3 (15.00%) JSON
4 3 (15.00%) YAML
5 1 (5.00%) NumPy
5 1 (5.00%) Unity (Game Engine)
5 1 (5.00%) Unreal Engine
Miscellaneous
1 9 (45.00%) Ray Tracing
2 8 (40.00%) 3D Graphics
3 3 (15.00%) ASIC
3 3 (15.00%) FPGA
3 3 (15.00%) Linux Command Line
3 3 (15.00%) Verilog
4 1 (5.00%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 3 (15.00%) Linux
1 3 (15.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (55.00%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (40.00%) Software Architecture
2 8 (40.00%) Software Engineering
3 5 (25.00%) Open Source
4 4 (20.00%) Performance Analysis
5 3 (15.00%) OO
5 3 (15.00%) Project Management
5 3 (15.00%) Software Testing
5 3 (15.00%) UVM
5 3 (15.00%) Validation
6 2 (10.00%) SDLC
7 1 (5.00%) Agile
7 1 (5.00%) Business Intelligence
7 1 (5.00%) Computer Science
7 1 (5.00%) Digital Marketing
7 1 (5.00%) Image Processing
7 1 (5.00%) Linear Algebra
7 1 (5.00%) Programme Management
7 1 (5.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 18 (90.00%) C++
2 6 (30.00%) Python
3 3 (15.00%) Assembly Language
3 3 (15.00%) Bash
3 3 (15.00%) Shell Script
3 3 (15.00%) SystemVerilog
3 3 (15.00%) Tcl
4 1 (5.00%) C#
4 1 (5.00%) Embedded C
4 1 (5.00%) GLSL
4 1 (5.00%) HLSL
Qualifications
1 13 (65.00%) PhD
2 11 (55.00%) Degree
3 9 (45.00%) Master's Degree
Vendors
1 3 (15.00%) Cadence
1 3 (15.00%) Synopsys
1 3 (15.00%) Xilinx
2 1 (5.00%) SAP