C Contracts in the North of England

C
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 173 178 216
Rank change year-on-year +5 +38 -65
Contract jobs citing C 16 38 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.33% 0.65% 0.40%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.32% 2.23% 1.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 24 22
10th Percentile - £345 £330
25th Percentile £513 £431 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £485 £495
Median % change year-on-year +8.25% -2.02% +52.31%
75th Percentile £594 £625 £625
90th Percentile £628 £638 -
England median daily rate £536 £600 £569
% change year-on-year -10.67% +5.45% +33.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 10 4
10th Percentile £44.68 £37.78 £28.80
25th Percentile £46.25 £37.97 £33.75
Median hourly rate £47.50 £42.80 £41.84
Median % change year-on-year +10.99% +2.28% -7.02%
75th Percentile £48.75 £48.92 £44.68
90th Percentile £70.50 £49.68 £44.69
England median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +13.04% +4.55% +22.22%

All Programming Languages
North of 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 the North of England with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 1,215 1,701 2,258
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 25.38% 29.13% 31.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 867 1,270 1,738
10th Percentile £320 £350 £325
25th Percentile £400 £415 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £513 £498
Median % change year-on-year -7.32% +3.02% +17.06%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £575
90th Percentile £625 £680 £650
England median daily rate £540 £564 £550
% change year-on-year -4.26% +2.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 28 44
10th Percentile £37.63 £28.60 £14.25
25th Percentile £44.72 £37.80 £19.66
Median hourly rate £47.50 £46.80 £39.73
Median % change year-on-year +1.49% +17.81% +52.80%
75th Percentile £65.00 £63.75 £50.18
90th Percentile £72.50 £70.00 £59.63
England median hourly rate £62.50 £60.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +4.17% +20.00% +14.94%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for C in the North of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for C in the North of England

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing C in the North of England over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for C in the North of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for C in the North of England

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing C in the North of England over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for C in the North of England

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Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 26 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
North West +3 8 £525 +3.96% 42
North East - 6 - - 5
Yorkshire +9 2 - - 18
C
England

C
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 1 (6.25%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (6.25%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 5 (31.25%) Azure
2 3 (18.75%) AWS
2 3 (18.75%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (6.25%) Azure Batch
Communications & Networking
1 3 (18.75%) J1939
2 1 (6.25%) RS-422
Development Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Git
1 2 (12.50%) JIRA
2 1 (6.25%) Bitbucket
2 1 (6.25%) GitLab
2 1 (6.25%) Jenkins
General
1 6 (37.50%) Automotive
1 6 (37.50%) Electronics
2 3 (18.75%) Social Skills
3 2 (12.50%) Manufacturing
4 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 11 (68.75%) Software Engineer
2 6 (37.50%) Embedded Engineer
2 6 (37.50%) Embedded Software Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) FPGA Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Java Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Research Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Research Software Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Senior
4 1 (6.25%) Senior Software Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (18.75%) SOAP
2 2 (12.50%) .NET
2 2 (12.50%) HTML
2 2 (12.50%) RESTful
3 1 (6.25%) ASP.NET
3 1 (6.25%) ASP.NET Core
3 1 (6.25%) ASP.NET Web API
3 1 (6.25%) CSS
3 1 (6.25%) CSS3
3 1 (6.25%) HTML5
3 1 (6.25%) J2EE
3 1 (6.25%) JSP
3 1 (6.25%) REST
3 1 (6.25%) Spring Boot
3 1 (6.25%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) CAN bus
2 1 (6.25%) Algorithms
2 1 (6.25%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (6.25%) Device Driver
2 1 (6.25%) Embedded Systems
2 1 (6.25%) FPGA
2 1 (6.25%) Management Information System
2 1 (6.25%) Verilog
2 1 (6.25%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 3 (18.75%) Linux
2 2 (12.50%) Windows
3 1 (6.25%) Android
3 1 (6.25%) Embedded Linux
3 1 (6.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (75.00%) Software Engineering
2 4 (25.00%) DevOps
3 3 (18.75%) ERP
4 2 (12.50%) Agile
4 2 (12.50%) Analytics
4 2 (12.50%) Architectural Patterns
4 2 (12.50%) Performance Tuning
4 2 (12.50%) SDLC
5 1 (6.25%) Android Development
5 1 (6.25%) CI/CD
5 1 (6.25%) Cloud Operations
5 1 (6.25%) Complexity Analysis
5 1 (6.25%) Cyber Resilience
5 1 (6.25%) Cybersecurity
5 1 (6.25%) FPGA Design
5 1 (6.25%) Information Governance
5 1 (6.25%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (6.25%) Product Requirements
5 1 (6.25%) Systems Engineering
5 1 (6.25%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 7 (43.75%) Embedded C
2 4 (25.00%) Java
2 4 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 4 (25.00%) PowerShell
3 3 (18.75%) C++
4 2 (12.50%) C#
4 2 (12.50%) Python
5 1 (6.25%) Bash
5 1 (6.25%) Fortran
5 1 (6.25%) Go
5 1 (6.25%) Rust
5 1 (6.25%) SQL
5 1 (6.25%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 4 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (12.50%) Degree
2 2 (12.50%) DV Cleared
2 2 (12.50%) SC Cleared
3 1 (6.25%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (18.75%) AUTOSAR
System Software
1 1 (6.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (18.75%) Functional Safety
2 2 (12.50%) Ansible
2 2 (12.50%) Kubernetes
2 2 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.25%) Intel
2 1 (6.25%) Microsemi
2 1 (6.25%) SAP
2 1 (6.25%) Xilinx