Job Vacancy Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Hourly Rate Histogram Job Locations Skill Sets
Period
to 20 July 2018

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hertfordshire 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 20 July 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 > Hertfordshire
6 months to
20 Jul 2018		 Same period 2017 Same period 2016
Rank 54 53 63
Rank change year-on-year -1 +10 -7
Contract jobs citing C 45 41 26
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 2.85% 3.21% 1.85%
As % of the Programming Languages category 8.36% 8.51% 6.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 14 5
Hertfordshire median daily rate £328 £525 £375
Median daily rate % change year-on-year -37.62% +40.00% +7.14%
10th Percentile £141 £325 £310
90th Percentile £439 £875 £436
East of England median daily rate £475 £425 £400
% change year-on-year +11.76% +6.25% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 13 11
Hertfordshire median hourly rate £42.00 £45.00 £45.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year -6.67% - +26.76%
10th Percentile £13.00 £30.75 £36.25
90th Percentile £45.75 £52.80 £53.75
East of England median hourly rate £42.50 £42.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year - +13.33% -

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 Hertfordshire with a requirement for coding skills.

All Programming Languages
Hertfordshire
Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 538 482 391
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 34.03% 37.77% 27.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 325 283 223
Hertfordshire median daily rate £400 £413 £388
Median daily rate % change year-on-year -3.03% +6.45% +6.90%
10th Percentile £214 £258 £261
90th Percentile £556 £585 £514
East of England median daily rate £425 £400 £375
% change year-on-year +6.25% +6.67% +2.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 29 21
Hertfordshire median hourly rate £31.25 £42.50 £44.40
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year -26.47% -4.28% +36.62%
10th Percentile £12.25 £15.00 £11.62
90th Percentile £51.00 £53.15 £53.75
East of England median hourly rate £41.00 £40.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year +2.50% +6.67% -

C
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for C in Hertfordshire

C
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Contractor daily rate trend for C in Hertfordshire

C
Contractor Daily Rate Histogram in Hertfordshire

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing C in Hertfordshire over the 6 months to 20 July 2018.

Contractor daily rate histogram for C in Hertfordshire

C
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Contractor hourly rate trend for C in Hertfordshire

C
Contractor Hourly Rate Histogram in Hertfordshire

The hourly rate distribution of IT jobs citing C in Hertfordshire over the 6 months to 20 July 2018.

Contractor hourly rate histogram for C in Hertfordshire

C
Contract Job Locations in Hertfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing C within the Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 20 July 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
Stevenage +3 30 £145 - 19
Hemel Hempstead -8 4 £350 - 1
Welwyn Garden City - 3 £408 - 3
Hatfield - 3 - - 3
Watford -12 1 - - 1
C
East of England

For the 6 months to 20 July 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 Hertfordshire region with a requirement for C.

1 26 (57.78%) Software Engineering
2 21 (46.67%) C++
3 17 (37.78%) Security Cleared
4 15 (33.33%) SC Cleared
5 14 (31.11%) Configuration Management
5 14 (31.11%) Linux
6 12 (26.67%) UML
6 12 (26.67%) Rational Rhapsody
6 12 (26.67%) Rational DOORS
6 12 (26.67%) Rational Team Concert
7 11 (24.44%) Degree
8 10 (22.22%) Validation
8 10 (22.22%) Wireshark
8 10 (22.22%) Java
8 10 (22.22%) GDB
9 8 (17.78%) SQL
9 8 (17.78%) Mathematics
10 7 (15.56%) Python
11 5 (11.11%) MATLAB
11 5 (11.11%) Electronics
11 5 (11.11%) Signal Processing
11 5 (11.11%) Mathematical Modelling
12 4 (8.89%) Problem-Solving
12 4 (8.89%) Analytical Skills
12 4 (8.89%) JIRA
12 4 (8.89%) Agile Software Development
12 4 (8.89%) Telecoms
12 4 (8.89%) Simulink
12 4 (8.89%) Microsoft
12 4 (8.89%) Microsoft Excel

C
Co-occurring IT Skills in Hertfordshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (2.22%) Apache Spark
1 1 (2.22%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (8.89%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (8.89%) Simulink
2 3 (6.67%) Stateflow
3 2 (4.44%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (2.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (2.22%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (6.67%) LabWindows
Cloud Services
1 2 (4.44%) Microsoft Azure
Communications & Networking
1 10 (22.22%) Wireshark
2 3 (6.67%) VPN
3 1 (2.22%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (2.22%) Firewall
3 1 (2.22%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.67%) Relational Database
2 1 (2.22%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 12 (26.67%) Rational DOORS
1 12 (26.67%) Rational Rhapsody
1 12 (26.67%) Rational Team Concert
2 10 (22.22%) GDB
3 4 (8.89%) JIRA
4 3 (6.67%) JMeter
4 3 (6.67%) Rational Statemate
4 3 (6.67%) Selenium
5 2 (4.44%) Git (software)
6 1 (2.22%) CMake
6 1 (2.22%) Gerrit
6 1 (2.22%) LoadRunner
6 1 (2.22%) Subversion
6 1 (2.22%) Trac
General
1 5 (11.11%) Electronics
2 4 (8.89%) Telecoms
3 2 (4.44%) Advertising
4 1 (2.22%) Law
4 1 (2.22%) Legal
4 1 (2.22%) Marketing
4 1 (2.22%) Retail
Job Titles
1 20 (44.44%) Software Engineer
2 11 (24.44%) C++ Software Engineer
3 7 (15.56%) Test Engineer
4 5 (11.11%) Software Test Engineer
5 4 (8.89%) Support Engineer
6 3 (6.67%) Agile Tester
6 3 (6.67%) Automation Tester
6 3 (6.67%) Design Engineer
6 3 (6.67%) Embedded Engineer
6 3 (6.67%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 3 (6.67%) Software Design Engineer
6 3 (6.67%) Tester
7 2 (4.44%) Angular Developer
7 2 (4.44%) ASP.NET MVC Developer
7 2 (4.44%) Azure Developer
7 2 (4.44%) C# .NET Developer
7 2 (4.44%) Desktop Engineer
7 2 (4.44%) Senior .NET Developer
7 2 (4.44%) Senior C# .NET Developer
7 2 (4.44%) Senior C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.44%) .NET
1 2 (4.44%) AngularJS
1 2 (4.44%) ASP.NET Web API
1 2 (4.44%) CSS
1 2 (4.44%) HTML
1 2 (4.44%) HTML5
1 2 (4.44%) Kafka
1 2 (4.44%) RabbitMQ
1 2 (4.44%) REST
1 2 (4.44%) Twitter Bootstrap
2 1 (2.22%) CSS3
2 1 (2.22%) LESS
2 1 (2.22%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.89%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (6.67%) ASIC
2 3 (6.67%) Computer Science
2 3 (6.67%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
2 3 (6.67%) iPad
3 2 (4.44%) Device Driver
4 1 (2.22%) Blog
4 1 (2.22%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.22%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.22%) PMI
4 1 (2.22%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 14 (31.11%) Linux
2 4 (8.89%) Windows
3 2 (4.44%) Windows Server
4 1 (2.22%) FreeBSD
4 1 (2.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (2.22%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (57.78%) Software Engineering
2 14 (31.11%) Configuration Management
3 12 (26.67%) UML
4 10 (22.22%) Validation
5 8 (17.78%) Mathematics
6 5 (11.11%) Mathematical Modelling
6 5 (11.11%) Signal Processing
7 4 (8.89%) Agile Software Development
7 4 (8.89%) Problem-Solving
8 3 (6.67%) Functional Testing
8 3 (6.67%) ITIL
8 3 (6.67%) Non-Functional Testing
8 3 (6.67%) Scenario Testing
8 3 (6.67%) Schematic Capture
8 3 (6.67%) Test Automation
8 3 (6.67%) Test Scripting
8 3 (6.67%) Test Strategy
9 2 (4.44%) Continuous Integration
9 2 (4.44%) PRINCE2
9 2 (4.44%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 21 (46.67%) C++
2 10 (22.22%) Java
3 8 (17.78%) SQL
4 7 (15.56%) Python
5 5 (11.11%) MATLAB
6 3 (6.67%) Ada
6 3 (6.67%) PL/SQL
6 3 (6.67%) VB
7 2 (4.44%) C#
7 2 (4.44%) Embedded C
7 2 (4.44%) JavaScript
8 1 (2.22%) R
Qualifications
1 17 (37.78%) Security Cleared
2 15 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 11 (24.44%) Degree
4 2 (4.44%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (2.22%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.22%) DBS Check
5 1 (2.22%) ISTQB
5 1 (2.22%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (2.22%) Master's Degree
5 1 (2.22%) MCP
5 1 (2.22%) MCSE
5 1 (2.22%) OCP
5 1 (2.22%) Oracle Certification
5 1 (2.22%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.67%) SLA
2 1 (2.22%) ECSS
2 1 (2.22%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 1 (2.22%) FortiGate
1 1 (2.22%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 4 (8.89%) Microsoft
2 3 (6.67%) Citrix
2 3 (6.67%) MathWorks
3 1 (2.22%) Cisco
3 1 (2.22%) ConnectWise
3 1 (2.22%) Fortinet
3 1 (2.22%) HP
3 1 (2.22%) MKS
3 1 (2.22%) Oracle
3 1 (2.22%) Palo Alto
3 1 (2.22%) Red Hat
3 1 (2.22%) ServiceNow