Job Vacancy Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Hourly Rate Histogram Job Locations Skill Sets
Period
to 18 October 2018

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cambridgeshire 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 18 October 2018 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

C
East of England > Cambridgeshire
6 months to
18 Oct 2018		 Same period 2017 Same period 2016
Rank 24 10 27
Rank change year-on-year -14 +17 +23
Contract jobs citing C 71 131 63
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 5.92% 9.60% 5.61%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.58% 22.39% 11.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 50 11
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £450 £375 £400
Median daily rate % change year-on-year +20.00% -6.25% +6.67%
10th Percentile £284 £325 £288
90th Percentile £600 £469 £575
East of England median daily rate £450 £419 £425
% change year-on-year +7.46% -1.47% +21.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 37 23
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £45.00 £42.00 £40.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year +7.14% +5.00% -3.03%
10th Percentile £35.50 £37.00 £32.50
90th Percentile £52.50 £52.50 £77.50
East of England median hourly rate £45.50 £42.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year +8.33% -1.18% +7.59%

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 Cambridgeshire with a requirement for coding skills.

All Programming Languages
Cambridgeshire
Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 487 585 552
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 40.62% 42.89% 49.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 269 285 282
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £425 £363 £375
Median daily rate % change year-on-year +17.24% -3.33% +0.67%
10th Percentile £300 £263 £254
90th Percentile £538 £475 £488
East of England median daily rate £425 £400 £375
% change year-on-year +6.25% +6.67% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 69 49
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £44.00 £41.50 £40.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year +6.02% +3.75% -
10th Percentile £33.38 £33.65 £30.50
90th Percentile £52.50 £51.50 £50.50
East of England median hourly rate £45.00 £40.00 £39.75
% change year-on-year +12.50% +0.63% +6.00%

C
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

Job postings citing C as a percentage of all IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire.

Job vacancy trend for C in Cambridgeshire

C
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing C in Cambridgeshire.

Contractor daily rate trend for C in Cambridgeshire

C
Contractor Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridgeshire

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing C in Cambridgeshire over the 6 months to 18 October 2018.

Contractor daily rate histogram for C in Cambridgeshire

C
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Contractor hourly rate trend for C in Cambridgeshire

C
Contractor Hourly Rate Histogram in Cambridgeshire

The hourly rate distribution of IT jobs citing C in Cambridgeshire over the 6 months to 18 October 2018.

Contractor hourly rate histogram for C in Cambridgeshire

C
Contract Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing C within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 18 October 2018. 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
Job
Vacancies
Cambridge -13 55 £425 +13.33% 150
Peterborough +17 8 £600 -40.00% 3
C
East of England

For the 6 months to 18 October 2018, IT contractor jobs citing C also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Cambridgeshire region with a requirement for C.

1 36 (50.70%) C++
2 33 (46.48%) Python
3 31 (43.66%) Software Engineering
4 23 (32.39%) Embedded C
5 22 (30.99%) Linux
6 15 (21.13%) Degree
6 15 (21.13%) Perl
7 14 (19.72%) Java
8 11 (15.49%) Unix
8 11 (15.49%) Electronics
8 11 (15.49%) Computer Science
9 10 (14.08%) Ruby
10 9 (12.68%) Law
10 9 (12.68%) Problem-Solving
11 8 (11.27%) Computer Science Degree
11 8 (11.27%) DevOps
11 8 (11.27%) Mathematics
12 7 (9.86%) JavaScript
12 7 (9.86%) Go
12 7 (9.86%) Embedded Systems
12 7 (9.86%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 6 (8.45%) Test Automation
13 6 (8.45%) Firmware
13 6 (8.45%) Statistics
14 5 (7.04%) Wireless
14 5 (7.04%) Nucleus RTOS
14 5 (7.04%) SQL
14 5 (7.04%) Computer Architecture
14 5 (7.04%) Algorithms
14 5 (7.04%) MISRA

C
Co-occurring IT Skills in Cambridgeshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Applications
1 2 (2.82%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (2.82%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (2.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.41%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 2 (2.82%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 5 (7.04%) Wireless
2 2 (2.82%) 802.11
2 2 (2.82%) Internet
2 2 (2.82%) LTE
2 2 (2.82%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (1.41%) 3GPP
3 1 (1.41%) 5G
3 1 (1.41%) Bluetooth
3 1 (1.41%) Broadband
3 1 (1.41%) Ethernet
3 1 (1.41%) Firewall
3 1 (1.41%) FlexRay
3 1 (1.41%) OpenVPN
3 1 (1.41%) RS-232
3 1 (1.41%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.82%) MySQL
1 2 (2.82%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (5.63%) Git (software)
2 3 (4.23%) GCC
3 1 (1.41%) Bugzilla
3 1 (1.41%) Eclipse
3 1 (1.41%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.41%) LabVIEW
3 1 (1.41%) Subversion
3 1 (1.41%) TeamCity
3 1 (1.41%) Visual Studio
General
1 11 (15.49%) Electronics
2 9 (12.68%) Law
3 3 (4.23%) Finance
4 2 (2.82%) Automotive
4 2 (2.82%) Manufacturing
4 2 (2.82%) Military
5 1 (1.41%) Aerospace
5 1 (1.41%) Banking
5 1 (1.41%) Billing
5 1 (1.41%) Investment Banking
5 1 (1.41%) Multimedia
5 1 (1.41%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 23 (32.39%) Software Engineer
2 19 (26.76%) Embedded Engineer
3 17 (23.94%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 11 (15.49%) Developer
5 8 (11.27%) C Software Engineer
5 8 (11.27%) DevOps Engineer
6 6 (8.45%) Embedded C Engineer
6 6 (8.45%) Embedded C Software Engineer
7 5 (7.04%) Author
7 5 (7.04%) Site Engineer
7 5 (7.04%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 5 (7.04%) Technical Author
8 4 (5.63%) Embedded Developer
8 4 (5.63%) Embedded Software Developer
8 4 (5.63%) Linux Engineer
8 4 (5.63%) Software Developer
9 3 (4.23%) C++ Software Engineer
9 3 (4.23%) Python Developer
9 3 (4.23%) Senior C Software Engineer
9 3 (4.23%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.63%) Node.js
2 3 (4.23%) HTML
3 2 (2.82%) 802.1X
3 2 (2.82%) Flask
3 2 (2.82%) Kafka
3 2 (2.82%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (2.82%) React
3 2 (2.82%) REST
3 2 (2.82%) RESTful
3 2 (2.82%) XML
4 1 (1.41%) LDAP
4 1 (1.41%) OAuth
4 1 (1.41%) SAML
4 1 (1.41%) STL
4 1 (1.41%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 11 (15.49%) Computer Science
2 7 (9.86%) Embedded Systems
3 5 (7.04%) Algorithms
4 4 (5.63%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (4.23%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
5 3 (4.23%) LIMS
5 3 (4.23%) Linux Command Line
5 3 (4.23%) Private Cloud
5 3 (4.23%) Raspberry Pi
6 2 (2.82%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (2.82%) CMDB
6 2 (2.82%) Data Structures
6 2 (2.82%) Device Driver
6 2 (2.82%) Life Science
6 2 (2.82%) Management Information System
6 2 (2.82%) VHDL
7 1 (1.41%) CESG
7 1 (1.41%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 1 (1.41%) State Machine
7 1 (1.41%) Verilog
Operating Systems
1 22 (30.99%) Linux
2 11 (15.49%) Unix
3 5 (7.04%) Nucleus RTOS
4 3 (4.23%) Embedded Linux
4 3 (4.23%) VxWorks
5 2 (2.82%) SafeRTOS
5 2 (2.82%) Windows
6 1 (1.41%) FreeRTOS
6 1 (1.41%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (43.66%) Software Engineering
2 9 (12.68%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (11.27%) DevOps
3 8 (11.27%) Mathematics
4 7 (9.86%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 6 (8.45%) Statistics
5 6 (8.45%) Test Automation
6 5 (7.04%) Computer Architecture
7 4 (5.63%) Continuous Integration
7 4 (5.63%) Multithreading
8 3 (4.23%) Bioinformatics
8 3 (4.23%) Biology
8 3 (4.23%) Configuration Management
8 3 (4.23%) Physics
9 2 (2.82%) Change Management
9 2 (2.82%) Informatics
9 2 (2.82%) Information Management
9 2 (2.82%) ITIL
9 2 (2.82%) OOP
9 2 (2.82%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 36 (50.70%) C++
2 33 (46.48%) Python
3 23 (32.39%) Embedded C
4 15 (21.13%) Perl
5 14 (19.72%) Java
6 10 (14.08%) Ruby
7 7 (9.86%) Go
7 7 (9.86%) JavaScript
8 5 (7.04%) SQL
9 4 (5.63%) Bash Shell
10 3 (4.23%) Assembly Language
11 2 (2.82%) Embedded C++
11 2 (2.82%) JSX
12 1 (1.41%) C#
12 1 (1.41%) Fortran
12 1 (1.41%) MATLAB
12 1 (1.41%) PHP
12 1 (1.41%) R
Qualifications
1 15 (21.13%) Degree
2 8 (11.27%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (5.63%) Numerate Degree
4 3 (4.23%) PhD
5 1 (1.41%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.41%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.04%) MISRA
2 2 (2.82%) Def Stans
2 2 (2.82%) IEC 62304
2 2 (2.82%) ISO 9001
3 1 (1.41%) COBIT
3 1 (1.41%) IEC 61508
3 1 (1.41%) ISO 13485
3 1 (1.41%) MISRA C
3 1 (1.41%) QA
System Software
1 6 (8.45%) Firmware
2 2 (2.82%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (2.82%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.41%) Ansible
2 1 (1.41%) Opscode Chef
2 1 (1.41%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (2.82%) Microsoft
2 1 (1.41%) EMC
2 1 (1.41%) Xilinx