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 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 168 221 346
Rank change year-on-year +53 +125 -56
Contract jobs citing C 512 580 533
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.40% 1.18% 0.75%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.73% 3.37% 2.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 217 292 255
10th Percentile £340 £375 £413
25th Percentile £450 £499 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% - +35.29%
75th Percentile £600 £688 £644
90th Percentile £706 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £535 £560 £575
% change year-on-year -4.46% -2.61% +27.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 182 106 93
10th Percentile £46.25 £40.00 £45.00
25th Percentile £59.25 £50.00 £48.58
Median hourly rate £65.00 £60.00 £56.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +7.14% +23.08%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.56 £60.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £77.00 £66.75
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £60.00 £56.00
% change year-on-year +8.33% +7.14% +23.76%

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 10,816 17,235 26,034
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 29.59% 35.04% 36.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,855 12,595 19,239
10th Percentile £350 £385 £381
25th Percentile £425 £463 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £564 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.48% +2.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £659 £688 £675
90th Percentile £775 £798 £768
UK median daily rate £530 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.64% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 441 424 456
10th Percentile £38.39 £26.09 £20.13
25th Percentile £50.75 £49.92 £35.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £50.77
Median % change year-on-year - +23.10% +18.59%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £61.56
90th Percentile £80.00 £78.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £61.84 £50.00
% change year-on-year +1.07% +23.68% +16.63%

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 13 May 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 13 May 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 13 May 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 +23 143 £550 +10.00% 103
South East +11 98 £540 +2.86% 159
London -42 93 £475 -25.69% 112
South West +31 88 £600 +14.29% 112
Midlands +85 64 £535 +33.75% 62
West Midlands +74 57 £535 +42.67% 28
North of England +5 21 £525 +3.96% 63
North West +13 11 £525 -2.33% 37
East Midlands +26 7 £445 -1.11% 34
North East - 6 - - 9
Yorkshire +8 4 £425 -11.46% 18
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 14 (2.73%) Confluence
2 6 (1.17%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.78%) OpenStack
4 3 (0.59%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.59%) nginx
4 3 (0.59%) SAS
5 1 (0.20%) IBM Domino
5 1 (0.20%) IBM Notes
5 1 (0.20%) JBoss
Applications
1 37 (7.23%) Simulink
2 7 (1.37%) Stateflow
3 5 (0.98%) TargetLink
4 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.20%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 6 (1.17%) Teamcenter
2 5 (0.98%) Endur
2 5 (0.98%) OpenLink RightAngle
3 4 (0.78%) LabWindows
3 4 (0.78%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 3 (0.59%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.20%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 68 (13.28%) AWS
2 55 (10.74%) Azure
3 16 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (1.95%) Microsoft 365
5 9 (1.76%) SaaS
6 8 (1.56%) Cloud Computing
7 7 (1.37%) Amazon EC2
7 7 (1.37%) Serverless
8 5 (0.98%) GCP
8 5 (0.98%) GitHub
9 4 (0.78%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (0.78%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 4 (0.78%) Azure Monitor
9 4 (0.78%) Datadog
9 4 (0.78%) Entra ID
9 4 (0.78%) OpenShift
9 4 (0.78%) PaaS
9 4 (0.78%) Power Automate
9 4 (0.78%) Power Platform
9 4 (0.78%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 36 (7.03%) RS-422
2 35 (6.84%) Modbus
2 35 (6.84%) RS-485
3 19 (3.71%) Wi-Fi
4 9 (1.76%) 5G
4 9 (1.76%) 802.11
4 9 (1.76%) TCP/IP
5 6 (1.17%) RS-232
6 5 (0.98%) DHCP
6 5 (0.98%) DNS
6 5 (0.98%) J1939
6 5 (0.98%) Network Security
6 5 (0.98%) Wireless
7 4 (0.78%) AMQP
7 4 (0.78%) Firewall
7 4 (0.78%) NAS
7 4 (0.78%) Radio Access Network
7 4 (0.78%) Wireshark
8 3 (0.59%) Reverse Proxy
8 3 (0.59%) Software-Defined Radio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (4.10%) SQL Server
2 13 (2.54%) NoSQL
3 12 (2.34%) Relational Database
4 7 (1.37%) Amazon RDS
4 7 (1.37%) Oracle Database
5 6 (1.17%) Data Mining
5 6 (1.17%) DB2
6 5 (0.98%) MySQL
6 5 (0.98%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (0.78%) Amazon Redshift
7 4 (0.78%) Elasticsearch
7 4 (0.78%) Geospatial Data
7 4 (0.78%) InfluxDB
7 4 (0.78%) RDBMS
8 3 (0.59%) Data Lake
8 3 (0.59%) DynamoDB
8 3 (0.59%) MongoDB
8 3 (0.59%) SAP HANA
9 2 (0.39%) Apache Cassandra
9 2 (0.39%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 50 (9.77%) Git
2 48 (9.38%) Visual Studio
3 46 (8.98%) PVCS
4 29 (5.66%) JIRA
5 21 (4.10%) Rational DOORS
6 20 (3.91%) Subversion
7 17 (3.32%) Bitbucket
7 17 (3.32%) Jenkins
8 14 (2.73%) Rational Rhapsody
9 8 (1.56%) Gradle
10 5 (0.98%) GCC
11 4 (0.78%) ClearCase
11 4 (0.78%) ClearQuest
11 4 (0.78%) gcov
11 4 (0.78%) GDB
11 4 (0.78%) Karma Test Runner
11 4 (0.78%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 3 (0.59%) LoadRunner
12 3 (0.59%) Octopus Deploy
12 3 (0.59%) Rational Team Concert
General
1 82 (16.02%) Social Skills
2 67 (13.09%) Electronics
3 38 (7.42%) Public Sector
4 25 (4.88%) Automotive
5 22 (4.30%) Telecoms
6 21 (4.10%) Aerospace
7 20 (3.91%) Analytical Skills
8 17 (3.32%) Finance
9 11 (2.15%) Banking
10 7 (1.37%) Manufacturing
11 6 (1.17%) Aviation
11 6 (1.17%) Law
11 6 (1.17%) Multimedia
12 5 (0.98%) Billing
12 5 (0.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 3 (0.59%) Military
14 2 (0.39%) Presentation Skills
14 2 (0.39%) Retail
14 2 (0.39%) Wearables
15 1 (0.20%) Games
Job Titles
1 175 (34.18%) Software Engineer
2 95 (18.55%) Developer
3 82 (16.02%) Embedded Engineer
4 78 (15.23%) Embedded Software Engineer
5 55 (10.74%) Programmer
6 51 (9.96%) C Programmer
7 46 (8.98%) C++ Software Engineer
8 34 (6.64%) Senior
9 29 (5.66%) C Software Engineer
10 26 (5.08%) Architect
11 22 (4.30%) FPGA Engineer
12 20 (3.91%) C Developer
12 20 (3.91%) C++ Developer
13 19 (3.71%) Design Engineer
13 19 (3.71%) FPGA Design Engineer
13 19 (3.71%) Full Stack Developer
14 18 (3.52%) Lead
15 16 (3.13%) C/C++ Software Engineer
16 15 (2.93%) DevOps Engineer
17 13 (2.54%) Software Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (5.08%) .NET
1 26 (5.08%) React
2 21 (4.10%) AngularJS
3 20 (3.91%) Yocto
4 18 (3.52%) Spring
5 16 (3.13%) HTML
6 13 (2.54%) REST
7 12 (2.34%) Node.js
8 11 (2.15%) 802.1X
8 11 (2.15%) DirectX
8 11 (2.15%) OpenGL
8 11 (2.15%) RESTful
8 11 (2.15%) Vulkan
9 10 (1.95%) CSS
9 10 (1.95%) Itk
9 10 (1.95%) OpenGL ES
9 10 (1.95%) Spring Boot
10 9 (1.76%) Middleware
10 9 (1.76%) XML
11 7 (1.37%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 29 (5.66%) Self-Motivation
2 28 (5.47%) VHDL
3 27 (5.27%) Algorithms
4 26 (5.08%) Verilog
5 25 (4.88%) FPGA
6 19 (3.71%) ARM Cortex
7 13 (2.54%) Device Driver
8 11 (2.15%) Management Information System
8 11 (2.15%) Public Cloud
8 11 (2.15%) STB
9 10 (1.95%) Product Ownership
10 9 (1.76%) 3D Graphics
10 9 (1.76%) Data Structures
10 9 (1.76%) Embedded Systems
10 9 (1.76%) Ray Tracing
11 7 (1.37%) Data Centre
11 7 (1.37%) Distributed Systems
11 7 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
11 7 (1.37%) IoT
11 7 (1.37%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 118 (23.05%) Linux
2 22 (4.30%) FreeRTOS
3 19 (3.71%) Windows
4 14 (2.73%) Unix
5 12 (2.34%) Apple iOS
6 11 (2.15%) Android
7 7 (1.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 5 (0.98%) Windows 10
8 5 (0.98%) Windows Server
9 4 (0.78%) SafeRTOS
9 4 (0.78%) Windows Server 2016
9 4 (0.78%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.39%) Embedded Linux
11 1 (0.20%) CentOS
11 1 (0.20%) Solaris
11 1 (0.20%) VMS
11 1 (0.20%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 212 (41.41%) Software Engineering
2 136 (26.56%) Agile
3 110 (21.48%) DevOps
4 77 (15.04%) Problem-Solving
5 64 (12.50%) Unit Testing
6 55 (10.74%) Software Testing
6 55 (10.74%) Validation
7 46 (8.98%) TDD
8 40 (7.81%) Continuous Improvement
8 40 (7.81%) Continuous Integration
9 39 (7.62%) OO
10 38 (7.42%) Scrum
11 35 (6.84%) Customer Requirements
11 35 (6.84%) Pair Programming
12 34 (6.64%) Test Automation
13 31 (6.05%) Multithreading
13 31 (6.05%) Software Architecture
14 30 (5.86%) Full Stack Development
15 29 (5.66%) SDLC
16 27 (5.27%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 251 (49.02%) C++
2 117 (22.85%) Python
3 79 (15.43%) Java
4 75 (14.65%) C#
5 67 (13.09%) Embedded C
6 54 (10.55%) PL/SQL
7 49 (9.57%) SQL
8 35 (6.84%) Bash
9 30 (5.86%) JavaScript
10 28 (5.47%) Shell Script
11 25 (4.88%) MATLAB
12 21 (4.10%) SystemVerilog
13 18 (3.52%) Go
13 18 (3.52%) Perl
14 17 (3.32%) Embedded C++
15 15 (2.93%) PowerShell
16 13 (2.54%) Tcl
17 12 (2.34%) Ada
18 11 (2.15%) TypeScript
19 9 (1.76%) Swift
Qualifications
1 158 (30.86%) Security Cleared
2 105 (20.51%) SC Cleared
3 65 (12.70%) Degree
4 51 (9.96%) DV Cleared
5 29 (5.66%) Master's Degree
6 20 (3.91%) PhD
7 15 (2.93%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (0.59%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.39%) CREST Certified
9 2 (0.39%) OSCP
9 2 (0.39%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 1 (0.20%) CCIE
10 1 (0.20%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.20%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (3.32%) QA
2 13 (2.54%) AUTOSAR
3 9 (1.76%) MISRA
4 7 (1.37%) JTAG
5 6 (1.17%) MISRA C
6 5 (0.98%) DO-178B
6 5 (0.98%) ISO 26262
7 4 (0.78%) Def Stans
8 3 (0.59%) IEC 61508
8 3 (0.59%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.39%) Accessibility
9 2 (0.39%) ISO 20022
9 2 (0.39%) MiFID
10 1 (0.20%) Data Quality
10 1 (0.20%) NIST
10 1 (0.20%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 36 (7.03%) Docker
2 21 (4.10%) Firmware
3 6 (1.17%) Embedded Firmware
3 6 (1.17%) VMware NSX
3 6 (1.17%) vSphere
4 5 (0.98%) Active Directory
4 5 (0.98%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.78%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (0.59%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 31 (6.05%) Terraform
2 29 (5.66%) Kubernetes
3 26 (5.08%) Ansible
4 10 (1.95%) Progress Chef
5 7 (1.37%) Grafana
5 7 (1.37%) Prometheus
6 5 (0.98%) Functional Safety
6 5 (0.98%) Puppet
7 4 (0.78%) Docker Swarm
7 4 (0.78%) HP ALM
7 4 (0.78%) Kibana
7 4 (0.78%) Nagios
8 3 (0.59%) Consul
8 3 (0.59%) Packer
9 1 (0.20%) logstash
9 1 (0.20%) SCOM
9 1 (0.20%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.20%) VxRail
Vendors
1 32 (6.25%) IBM
2 26 (5.08%) Microsoft
2 26 (5.08%) Oracle
3 24 (4.69%) Xilinx
4 18 (3.52%) Lauterbach
5 17 (3.32%) Intel
5 17 (3.32%) Microsemi
6 8 (1.56%) Splunk
7 7 (1.37%) SAP
8 5 (0.98%) Google
8 5 (0.98%) HP
8 5 (0.98%) OpenLink
8 5 (0.98%) Triple Point
8 5 (0.98%) VMware
9 4 (0.78%) AppDynamics
9 4 (0.78%) Atlassian
9 4 (0.78%) BT
9 4 (0.78%) Dynatrace
9 4 (0.78%) Klocwork
9 4 (0.78%) Perforce