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

6 months to
25 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 69 149 184
Rank change year-on-year +80 +35 -62
Contract jobs citing C 64 13 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 2.34% 0.40% 0.40%
As % of the Programming Languages category 9.98% 1.54% 1.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 6 13
10th Percentile £445 - £404
25th Percentile £505 £363 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £400 £488
Median % change year-on-year +33.75% -17.95% +20.37%
75th Percentile £538 £484 £500
90th Percentile - £519 £517
England median daily rate £538 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -6.43% - +27.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 3 0
10th Percentile £48.38 £46.25 -
25th Percentile £56.25 £48.13 -
Median hourly rate £57.50 £52.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% - -
75th Percentile £58.75 £54.38 -
90th Percentile - £54.75 -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £60.00 £56.00
% change year-on-year +8.33% +7.14% +19.15%

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 641 844 1,321
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 23.45% 26.06% 26.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 465 614 962
10th Percentile £260 £313 £319
25th Percentile £350 £375 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% +12.50%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £540
90th Percentile £637 £675 £625
England median daily rate £549 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -2.40% +2.27% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 16 16
10th Percentile £22.50 £20.74 £16.77
25th Percentile £27.75 £24.47 £19.83
Median hourly rate £55.00 £41.69 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +31.92% +19.12% +25.00%
75th Percentile £58.75 £54.06 -
90th Percentile £72.50 £83.75 -
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £51.75
% change year-on-year - +20.77% +20.71%

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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 25 May 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 25 May 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 25 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
West Midlands +61 57 £535 +42.67% 30
East Midlands +14 7 £445 -1.11% 35
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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 (1.56%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 7 (10.94%) Simulink
2 5 (7.81%) Stateflow
2 5 (7.81%) TargetLink
Cloud Services
1 5 (7.81%) AWS
1 5 (7.81%) Azure
2 4 (6.25%) SaaS
3 1 (1.56%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.25%) DB2
1 4 (6.25%) SQL Server
2 2 (3.13%) Data Lake
2 2 (3.13%) NoSQL
2 2 (3.13%) RDBMS
2 2 (3.13%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 42 (65.63%) PVCS
1 42 (65.63%) Visual Studio
2 5 (7.81%) Bitbucket
2 5 (7.81%) Git
2 5 (7.81%) Subversion
3 1 (1.56%) Ant
3 1 (1.56%) Gradle
3 1 (1.56%) JUnit
3 1 (1.56%) Maven
General
1 16 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 7 (10.94%) Automotive
2 7 (10.94%) Finance
3 5 (7.81%) Banking
4 1 (1.56%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (1.56%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 49 (76.56%) Programmer
2 46 (71.88%) C Programmer
3 5 (7.81%) Control Systems Engineer
3 5 (7.81%) Principal Engineer
3 5 (7.81%) Principal Systems Engineer
3 5 (7.81%) Systems Engineer
4 4 (6.25%) Architect
4 4 (6.25%) Solutions Architect
5 3 (4.69%) C++ Programmer
5 3 (4.69%) Embedded Engineer
6 2 (3.13%) Data Engineer
6 2 (3.13%) Embedded C Programmer
6 2 (3.13%) Software Programmer
7 1 (1.56%) Analytics Developer
7 1 (1.56%) C++ Developer
7 1 (1.56%) Developer
7 1 (1.56%) Embedded Software Engineer
7 1 (1.56%) Rust Developer
7 1 (1.56%) Senior Data Engineer
7 1 (1.56%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (6.25%) .NET
1 4 (6.25%) React
Miscellaneous
1 7 (10.94%) Algorithms
2 5 (7.81%) Management Information System
3 4 (6.25%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (6.25%) Mainframe
3 4 (6.25%) Public Cloud
4 3 (4.69%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.25%) Android
1 4 (6.25%) Apple iOS
2 3 (4.69%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (17.19%) Software Engineering
2 9 (14.06%) Agile
2 9 (14.06%) Project Management
3 8 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (10.94%) Validation
5 5 (7.81%) Black-Box Testing
5 5 (7.81%) Functional Testing
5 5 (7.81%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
5 5 (7.81%) Integration Testing
5 5 (7.81%) Line Management
5 5 (7.81%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
5 5 (7.81%) QMS
5 5 (7.81%) Quality Management
5 5 (7.81%) Software Audit
5 5 (7.81%) Software Testing
5 5 (7.81%) UML
5 5 (7.81%) Verification and Validation
5 5 (7.81%) White-Box Testing
6 4 (6.25%) Containerisation
6 4 (6.25%) Domain-Driven Design
Programming Languages
1 42 (65.63%) PL/SQL
2 18 (28.13%) C++
3 7 (10.94%) MATLAB
4 6 (9.38%) Java
5 3 (4.69%) Python
6 2 (3.13%) Embedded C
6 2 (3.13%) Embedded C++
7 1 (1.56%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.56%) Rust
7 1 (1.56%) Scala
7 1 (1.56%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 50 (78.13%) SC Cleared
1 50 (78.13%) Security Cleared
2 6 (9.38%) Degree
3 5 (7.81%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (10.94%) AUTOSAR
2 5 (7.81%) ISO 26262
2 5 (7.81%) MISRA
2 5 (7.81%) MISRA C
Vendors
1 2 (3.13%) Microsoft
2 1 (1.56%) Google