C Contracts in the Midlands

C
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 78 155 188
Rank change year-on-year +77 +33 -61
Contract jobs citing C 60 11 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 2.18% 0.32% 0.38%
As % of the Programming Languages category 9.71% 1.18% 1.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 6 12
10th Percentile £486 - £402
25th Percentile £507 £363 £442
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £400 £488
Median % change year-on-year +33.75% -17.95% +20.37%
75th Percentile £538 £484 £504
90th Percentile £539 £519 £517
England median daily rate £535 £600 £569
% change year-on-year -10.83% +5.45% +33.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 0
10th Percentile £48.38 - -
25th Percentile £56.25 £45.00 -
Median hourly rate £57.50 £50.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% - -
75th Percentile £58.75 £55.00 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £58.70 £55.00
% change year-on-year +10.73% +6.73% +22.22%

All Programming Languages
Midlands

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 the Midlands with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 618 932 1,327
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 22.46% 27.07% 26.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 449 697 993
10th Percentile £260 £313 £314
25th Percentile £350 £385 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £480 £450
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% +13.92%
75th Percentile £550 £563 £538
90th Percentile £638 £650 £613
England median daily rate £540 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -4.42% +2.73% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 15 18
10th Percentile £22.42 £20.24 £16.97
25th Percentile £27.38 £24.31 £20.06
Median hourly rate £51.78 £33.39 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +55.10% -4.61% -9.68%
75th Percentile £58.75 £57.50 -
90th Percentile £60.13 £86.00 £45.50
England median hourly rate £62.50 £61.84 £50.00
% change year-on-year +1.07% +23.68% +14.94%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for C in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for C in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing C in the Midlands over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for C in the Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for C in the Midlands

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing C in the Midlands over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for C in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing C within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 29 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
West Midlands +79 57 £535 +42.67% 34
East Midlands +20 3 £590 +31.11% 38
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 1 (1.67%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 7 (11.67%) Simulink
2 5 (8.33%) Stateflow
2 5 (8.33%) TargetLink
Cloud Services
1 1 (1.67%) AWS
1 1 (1.67%) Azure
1 1 (1.67%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.33%) Data Lake
1 2 (3.33%) NoSQL
1 2 (3.33%) RDBMS
1 2 (3.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 42 (70.00%) PVCS
1 42 (70.00%) Visual Studio
2 5 (8.33%) Bitbucket
2 5 (8.33%) Git
2 5 (8.33%) Subversion
3 1 (1.67%) Ant
3 1 (1.67%) Gradle
3 1 (1.67%) JUnit
3 1 (1.67%) Maven
General
1 16 (26.67%) Public Sector
2 7 (11.67%) Automotive
3 3 (5.00%) Finance
4 1 (1.67%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (1.67%) Banking
4 1 (1.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 49 (81.67%) Programmer
2 46 (76.67%) C Programmer
3 5 (8.33%) Control Systems Engineer
3 5 (8.33%) Principal Engineer
3 5 (8.33%) Principal Systems Engineer
3 5 (8.33%) Systems Engineer
4 3 (5.00%) C++ Programmer
4 3 (5.00%) Embedded Engineer
5 2 (3.33%) Data Engineer
5 2 (3.33%) Embedded C Programmer
5 2 (3.33%) Software Programmer
6 1 (1.67%) Analytics Developer
6 1 (1.67%) C++ Developer
6 1 (1.67%) Developer
6 1 (1.67%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 1 (1.67%) PL/SQL Programmer
6 1 (1.67%) Rust Developer
6 1 (1.67%) Senior
6 1 (1.67%) Senior Data Engineer
6 1 (1.67%) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (11.67%) Algorithms
2 5 (8.33%) Management Information System
3 3 (5.00%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (18.33%) Software Engineering
2 8 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (11.67%) Validation
4 5 (8.33%) Agile
4 5 (8.33%) Black-Box Testing
4 5 (8.33%) Functional Testing
4 5 (8.33%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
4 5 (8.33%) Integration Testing
4 5 (8.33%) Line Management
4 5 (8.33%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
4 5 (8.33%) Project Management
4 5 (8.33%) QMS
4 5 (8.33%) Quality Management
4 5 (8.33%) Software Audit
4 5 (8.33%) Software Testing
4 5 (8.33%) UML
4 5 (8.33%) Verification and Validation
4 5 (8.33%) White-Box Testing
5 2 (3.33%) Data Modelling
6 1 (1.67%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 42 (70.00%) PL/SQL
2 18 (30.00%) C++
3 7 (11.67%) MATLAB
4 3 (5.00%) Python
5 2 (3.33%) Embedded C
5 2 (3.33%) Embedded C++
5 2 (3.33%) Java
6 1 (1.67%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.67%) Rust
6 1 (1.67%) Scala
6 1 (1.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 50 (83.33%) SC Cleared
1 50 (83.33%) Security Cleared
2 6 (10.00%) Degree
3 5 (8.33%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (11.67%) AUTOSAR
2 5 (8.33%) ISO 26262
2 5 (8.33%) MISRA
2 5 (8.33%) MISRA C
Vendors
1 2 (3.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (1.67%) Google