C Contracts in England

C
UK > England

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

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 172 235 346
Rank change year-on-year +63 +111 -39
Contract jobs citing C 499 601 545
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.35% 1.19% 0.77%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.61% 3.36% 2.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 205 297 256
10th Percentile £325 £375 £400
25th Percentile £450 £500 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £600 £566
Median % change year-on-year -10.67% +6.05% +33.12%
75th Percentile £588 £688 £650
90th Percentile £706 £775 £781
UK median daily rate £535 £564 £575
% change year-on-year -5.10% -1.96% +35.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 182 111 97
10th Percentile £46.25 £40.00 £44.31
25th Percentile £60.00 £50.00 £47.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £58.91 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.35% +7.10% +22.22%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £76.25 £70.20
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £58.20 £55.00
% change year-on-year +11.68% +5.82% +22.22%

All Programming Languages
England

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 England with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 10,821 17,871 26,221
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 29.28% 35.36% 36.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,859 13,059 19,322
10th Percentile £350 £388 £381
25th Percentile £425 £463 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £565 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.42% +2.73% +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £670
90th Percentile £775 £798 £763
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 434 434 455
10th Percentile £35.51 £26.25 £20.00
25th Percentile £47.63 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £61.84 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.07% +23.68% +14.94%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £77.00 £69.05
UK median hourly rate £60.07 £60.70 £50.00
% change year-on-year -1.04% +21.40% +13.64%

C
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for C in England

C
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for C in England

C
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for C in England

C
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for C in England

C
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing C in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for C in England

C
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing C within the England region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
Jobs
East of England +34 150 £550 +10.00% 130
South East +13 97 £500 -4.76% 161
South West +33 89 £600 +17.07% 116
London -58 79 £450 -29.60% 86
Midlands +71 60 £535 +33.75% 72
West Midlands +80 57 £535 +42.67% 35
North of England +10 15 £525 +8.25% 63
North West -1 8 £525 +3.96% 41
North East - 6 - - 5
East Midlands +16 3 £590 +31.11% 37
Yorkshire +8 1 - - 17
C
UK

C
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 13 (2.61%) Confluence
2 6 (1.20%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.80%) OpenStack
4 3 (0.60%) nginx
5 2 (0.40%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.20%) JBoss
Applications
1 39 (7.82%) Simulink
2 7 (1.40%) Stateflow
3 5 (1.00%) TargetLink
4 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (1.20%) Teamcenter
2 4 (0.80%) LabWindows
2 4 (0.80%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 3 (0.60%) Endur
3 3 (0.60%) OpenLink RightAngle
4 2 (0.40%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.20%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 55 (11.02%) AWS
2 50 (10.02%) Azure
3 15 (3.01%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (2.00%) Microsoft 365
5 7 (1.40%) Amazon EC2
6 6 (1.20%) Cloud Computing
6 6 (1.20%) Serverless
7 4 (0.80%) Amazon S3
7 4 (0.80%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (0.80%) Datadog
7 4 (0.80%) OpenShift
7 4 (0.80%) PaaS
7 4 (0.80%) Power Automate
7 4 (0.80%) Power Platform
7 4 (0.80%) PowerApps
7 4 (0.80%) SaaS
8 3 (0.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (0.60%) Amazon ELB
8 3 (0.60%) GCP
8 3 (0.60%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 37 (7.41%) RS-422
2 36 (7.21%) Modbus
2 36 (7.21%) RS-485
3 22 (4.41%) Wi-Fi
4 13 (2.61%) 802.11
5 8 (1.60%) TCP/IP
6 7 (1.40%) 5G
6 7 (1.40%) Wireless
7 6 (1.20%) RS-232
8 5 (1.00%) DHCP
8 5 (1.00%) DNS
8 5 (1.00%) J1939
8 5 (1.00%) Network Security
9 4 (0.80%) AMQP
9 4 (0.80%) Firewall
9 4 (0.80%) NAS
9 4 (0.80%) Radio Access Network
9 4 (0.80%) Wireshark
10 3 (0.60%) IPv4
10 3 (0.60%) Software-Defined Radio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (3.21%) SQL Server
2 12 (2.40%) NoSQL
2 12 (2.40%) Relational Database
3 7 (1.40%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (1.00%) Data Mining
4 5 (1.00%) MySQL
4 5 (1.00%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (0.80%) Amazon Redshift
5 4 (0.80%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (0.80%) Geospatial Data
5 4 (0.80%) InfluxDB
5 4 (0.80%) Oracle Database
5 4 (0.80%) RDBMS
6 3 (0.60%) Data Lake
6 3 (0.60%) DynamoDB
6 3 (0.60%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.40%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (0.40%) Oracle Database 12c
7 2 (0.40%) SAP HANA
8 1 (0.20%) Redis
Development Applications
1 49 (9.82%) Visual Studio
2 48 (9.62%) Git
3 47 (9.42%) PVCS
4 29 (5.81%) JIRA
5 23 (4.61%) Rational DOORS
6 19 (3.81%) Subversion
7 18 (3.61%) Jenkins
8 17 (3.41%) Bitbucket
9 16 (3.21%) Rational Rhapsody
10 8 (1.60%) Gradle
11 7 (1.40%) GCC
12 4 (0.80%) ClearCase
12 4 (0.80%) ClearQuest
12 4 (0.80%) CppUnit
12 4 (0.80%) gcov
12 4 (0.80%) GDB
12 4 (0.80%) GitLab
12 4 (0.80%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 3 (0.60%) LoadRunner
13 3 (0.60%) Rational Team Concert
General
1 84 (16.83%) Social Skills
2 69 (13.83%) Electronics
3 40 (8.02%) Public Sector
4 23 (4.61%) Automotive
5 22 (4.41%) Aerospace
6 19 (3.81%) Telecoms
7 17 (3.41%) Analytical Skills
8 11 (2.20%) Finance
9 10 (2.00%) Law
10 7 (1.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 7 (1.40%) Manufacturing
11 6 (1.20%) Aviation
11 6 (1.20%) Banking
12 5 (1.00%) Billing
12 5 (1.00%) Multimedia
13 3 (0.60%) Military
14 2 (0.40%) Retail
14 2 (0.40%) Wearables
15 1 (0.20%) Games
15 1 (0.20%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 174 (34.87%) Software Engineer
2 96 (19.24%) Developer
3 81 (16.23%) Embedded Engineer
4 76 (15.23%) Embedded Software Engineer
5 54 (10.82%) Programmer
6 51 (10.22%) C Programmer
7 48 (9.62%) C++ Software Engineer
8 32 (6.41%) Senior
9 30 (6.01%) C Software Engineer
10 22 (4.41%) FPGA Engineer
11 20 (4.01%) C Developer
11 20 (4.01%) C++ Developer
11 20 (4.01%) Full Stack Developer
12 19 (3.81%) Architect
12 19 (3.81%) Design Engineer
12 19 (3.81%) FPGA Design Engineer
13 16 (3.21%) C/C++ Software Engineer
14 14 (2.81%) DevOps Engineer
14 14 (2.81%) Lead
15 13 (2.61%) Software Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (4.41%) React
2 21 (4.21%) AngularJS
2 21 (4.21%) Yocto
3 20 (4.01%) .NET
3 20 (4.01%) Spring
4 15 (3.01%) 802.1X
5 12 (2.40%) Node.js
6 11 (2.20%) DirectX
6 11 (2.20%) HTML
6 11 (2.20%) OpenGL
6 11 (2.20%) REST
6 11 (2.20%) RESTful
6 11 (2.20%) Vulkan
7 10 (2.00%) Itk
7 10 (2.00%) OpenGL ES
8 8 (1.60%) CSS
9 7 (1.40%) ASP.NET
9 7 (1.40%) LLVM
9 7 (1.40%) XML
10 6 (1.20%) iOS SDK
Miscellaneous
1 29 (5.81%) Algorithms
1 29 (5.81%) Self-Motivation
2 28 (5.61%) VHDL
3 26 (5.21%) Verilog
4 25 (5.01%) FPGA
5 18 (3.61%) ARM Cortex
6 14 (2.81%) Management Information System
7 13 (2.61%) Device Driver
8 12 (2.40%) STB
9 9 (1.80%) 3D Graphics
9 9 (1.80%) Data Structures
9 9 (1.80%) Product Ownership
9 9 (1.80%) Ray Tracing
10 8 (1.60%) Data Centre
10 8 (1.60%) Embedded Systems
11 7 (1.40%) Distributed Systems
11 7 (1.40%) IoT
12 6 (1.20%) Linux Command Line
12 6 (1.20%) Public Cloud
13 5 (1.00%) CAN bus
Operating Systems
1 122 (24.45%) Linux
2 21 (4.21%) FreeRTOS
2 21 (4.21%) Windows
3 12 (2.40%) Unix
4 8 (1.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (1.20%) Apple iOS
6 5 (1.00%) Android
6 5 (1.00%) Windows 10
6 5 (1.00%) Windows Server
7 4 (0.80%) SafeRTOS
7 4 (0.80%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (0.80%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.20%) CentOS
8 1 (0.20%) Debian
8 1 (0.20%) Embedded Linux
8 1 (0.20%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.20%) VMS
8 1 (0.20%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 211 (42.28%) Software Engineering
2 132 (26.45%) Agile
3 109 (21.84%) DevOps
4 82 (16.43%) Problem-Solving
5 65 (13.03%) Unit Testing
6 57 (11.42%) Software Testing
7 56 (11.22%) Validation
8 46 (9.22%) TDD
9 41 (8.22%) Continuous Integration
10 40 (8.02%) Continuous Improvement
11 38 (7.62%) OO
11 38 (7.62%) Scrum
12 36 (7.21%) Customer Requirements
12 36 (7.21%) Pair Programming
13 33 (6.61%) Software Architecture
13 33 (6.61%) Test Automation
14 31 (6.21%) Full Stack Development
14 31 (6.21%) Multithreading
15 27 (5.41%) Open Source
16 26 (5.21%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 246 (49.30%) C++
2 110 (22.04%) Python
3 76 (15.23%) C#
4 71 (14.23%) Java
5 67 (13.43%) Embedded C
6 54 (10.82%) PL/SQL
7 43 (8.62%) SQL
8 32 (6.41%) Bash
9 30 (6.01%) JavaScript
10 27 (5.41%) MATLAB
11 26 (5.21%) Shell Script
12 21 (4.21%) Perl
12 21 (4.21%) SystemVerilog
13 20 (4.01%) Go
14 17 (3.41%) Embedded C++
14 17 (3.41%) PowerShell
15 15 (3.01%) Ada
15 15 (3.01%) Tcl
16 9 (1.80%) ProC
17 8 (1.60%) Assembly Language
Qualifications
1 160 (32.06%) Security Cleared
2 108 (21.64%) SC Cleared
3 65 (13.03%) Degree
4 52 (10.42%) DV Cleared
5 30 (6.01%) Master's Degree
6 23 (4.61%) PhD
7 15 (3.01%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (0.60%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.40%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.40%) CREST Certified
9 2 (0.40%) OSCP
9 2 (0.40%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 1 (0.20%) CCIE
10 1 (0.20%) CCNP
10 1 (0.20%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (3.81%) QA
2 12 (2.40%) AUTOSAR
3 9 (1.80%) MISRA
4 7 (1.40%) JTAG
5 6 (1.20%) DO-178B
5 6 (1.20%) MISRA C
6 5 (1.00%) ISO 26262
7 4 (0.80%) Def Stans
7 4 (0.80%) IEC 61508
8 3 (0.60%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.40%) ISO 20022
9 2 (0.40%) MiFID
10 1 (0.20%) NIST
10 1 (0.20%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 35 (7.01%) Docker
2 20 (4.01%) Firmware
3 6 (1.20%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (1.20%) VMware NSX
3 6 (1.20%) vSphere
4 5 (1.00%) Embedded Firmware
5 4 (0.80%) Active Directory
5 4 (0.80%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.80%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 31 (6.21%) Kubernetes
2 27 (5.41%) Terraform
3 25 (5.01%) Ansible
4 10 (2.00%) Progress Chef
5 7 (1.40%) Grafana
5 7 (1.40%) Prometheus
6 5 (1.00%) Functional Safety
6 5 (1.00%) Puppet
7 4 (0.80%) Docker Swarm
7 4 (0.80%) HP ALM
7 4 (0.80%) Kibana
7 4 (0.80%) Nagios
8 3 (0.60%) Consul
8 3 (0.60%) Packer
9 1 (0.20%) logstash
9 1 (0.20%) SCOM
9 1 (0.20%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.20%) VxRail
Vendors
1 31 (6.21%) IBM
2 25 (5.01%) Microsoft
3 23 (4.61%) Xilinx
4 22 (4.41%) Oracle
5 17 (3.41%) Intel
5 17 (3.41%) Lauterbach
5 17 (3.41%) Microsemi
6 8 (1.60%) Splunk
7 6 (1.20%) VMware
8 5 (1.00%) HP
8 5 (1.00%) SAP
9 4 (0.80%) AppDynamics
9 4 (0.80%) Atlassian
9 4 (0.80%) BT
9 4 (0.80%) Cisco
9 4 (0.80%) Dynatrace
9 4 (0.80%) Klocwork
9 4 (0.80%) New Relic
9 4 (0.80%) Perforce
9 4 (0.80%) Sparx