C Contracts in the South East

C
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 102 116 197
Rank change year-on-year +14 +81 -49
Contract jobs citing C 98 103 63
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.78% 1.82% 0.82%
As % of the Programming Languages category 8.07% 6.58% 3.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 57 24
10th Percentile £400 £228 £392
25th Percentile £425 £413 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% +5.00% +29.03%
75th Percentile £605 £590 £561
90th Percentile £688 £688 £588
England median daily rate £538 £583 £575
% change year-on-year -7.84% +1.43% +35.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 21 15
10th Percentile - £19.00 £44.75
25th Percentile £46.25 £22.23 £46.88
Median hourly rate £58.30 £48.08 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +21.26% -8.42% +21.65%
75th Percentile £61.60 £53.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £65.00 £60.00 £55.15
England median hourly rate £65.00 £60.00 £56.00
% change year-on-year +8.33% +7.14% +23.76%

All Programming Languages
South East

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 South East with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 1,214 1,566 2,034
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 22.00% 27.69% 26.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 843 1,109 1,322
10th Percentile £325 £325 £350
25th Percentile £412 £417 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £608 £613 £588
90th Percentile £686 £688 £650
England median daily rate £550 £564 £550
% change year-on-year -2.48% +2.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 89 85
10th Percentile £35.00 £18.85 £16.25
25th Percentile £46.25 £26.08 £20.00
Median hourly rate £60.14 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.35% +57.14% -14.63%
75th Percentile £66.01 £67.50 £55.00
90th Percentile £76.50 £75.00 £62.15
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £51.25
% change year-on-year - +21.95% +19.19%

C
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for C in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for C in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing C in the South East over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for C in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for C in the South East

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing C in the South East over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for C in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing C within the South East region over the 6 months to 11 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
Hampshire -24 40 £550 +4.76% 25
Thames Valley +9 31 £625 +15.26% 55
Berkshire -8 16 £625 +11.71% 10
Surrey +24 14 £400 -20.00% 33
Middlesex - 10 - -
Oxfordshire +3 8 £450 -14.29% 24
Buckinghamshire +30 7 - - 21
Kent +5 1 - - 6
West Sussex +5 1 - - 15
C
England

C
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 (1.02%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (2.04%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 5 (5.10%) Teamcenter
2 4 (4.08%) LabWindows
3 3 (3.06%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 19 (19.39%) Azure
2 4 (4.08%) AWS
2 4 (4.08%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 4 (4.08%) Azure DevOps
2 4 (4.08%) Azure Monitor
3 3 (3.06%) Azure Data Factory
3 3 (3.06%) Azure Functions
3 3 (3.06%) Datadog
3 3 (3.06%) Entra ID
3 3 (3.06%) Serverless
4 2 (2.04%) GitHub
5 1 (1.02%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (1.02%) Azure Cognitive Search
5 1 (1.02%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (1.02%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 9 (9.18%) 802.11
1 9 (9.18%) Wi-Fi
2 6 (6.12%) RS-232
3 5 (5.10%) Wireless
4 2 (2.04%) J1939
4 2 (2.04%) TCP/IP
5 1 (1.02%) Diameter Protocol
5 1 (1.02%) MPLS
5 1 (1.02%) Software-Defined Radio
5 1 (1.02%) VPN
5 1 (1.02%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.06%) Amazon Redshift
1 3 (3.06%) Geospatial Data
1 3 (3.06%) NoSQL
2 2 (2.04%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 12 (12.24%) Git
2 8 (8.16%) Subversion
3 5 (5.10%) JIRA
3 5 (5.10%) Rational DOORS
4 4 (4.08%) Visual Studio
5 3 (3.06%) ClearCase
5 3 (3.06%) ClearQuest
5 3 (3.06%) Jenkins
6 2 (2.04%) LabVIEW
7 1 (1.02%) Bitbucket
7 1 (1.02%) GitLab
7 1 (1.02%) MagicDraw
7 1 (1.02%) Rational Rhapsody
7 1 (1.02%) Selenium
General
1 18 (18.37%) Social Skills
2 15 (15.31%) Public Sector
3 12 (12.24%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (9.18%) Automotive
4 9 (9.18%) Electronics
5 6 (6.12%) Aerospace
6 5 (5.10%) Billing
6 5 (5.10%) Telecoms
7 3 (3.06%) Aviation
7 3 (3.06%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.02%) Military
8 1 (1.02%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 38 (38.78%) Software Engineer
2 24 (24.49%) Developer
3 17 (17.35%) Senior
4 15 (15.31%) Embedded Engineer
4 15 (15.31%) Embedded Software Engineer
5 12 (12.24%) C Developer
6 11 (11.22%) C++ Software Engineer
7 10 (10.20%) Administrator
7 10 (10.20%) Systems Administrator
8 9 (9.18%) Senior Systems Administrator
9 7 (7.14%) Senior Software Engineer
10 5 (5.10%) FPGA Engineer
10 5 (5.10%) Lead
10 5 (5.10%) Software Developer
10 5 (5.10%) Systems Engineer
11 4 (4.08%) C/C++ Developer
11 4 (4.08%) C++ Developer
11 4 (4.08%) DevOps Engineer
12 3 (3.06%) Analyst Developer
12 3 (3.06%) Oracle Analyst Programmer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (11.22%) 802.1X
2 10 (10.20%) Itk
3 4 (4.08%) React
4 2 (2.04%) .NET
4 2 (2.04%) ASP.NET
4 2 (2.04%) Node.js
5 1 (1.02%) AngularJS
5 1 (1.02%) CSS
5 1 (1.02%) DirectX
5 1 (1.02%) HTML
5 1 (1.02%) Middleware
5 1 (1.02%) OpenGL
5 1 (1.02%) OpenGL ES
5 1 (1.02%) Vulkan
Miscellaneous
1 10 (10.20%) Algorithms
2 6 (6.12%) VHDL
3 5 (5.10%) FPGA
4 4 (4.08%) Device Driver
4 4 (4.08%) Public Cloud
5 3 (3.06%) Data Centre
5 3 (3.06%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (3.06%) Management Information System
5 3 (3.06%) Private Cloud
5 3 (3.06%) Product Ownership
6 2 (2.04%) CAN bus
6 2 (2.04%) FMCG
6 2 (2.04%) GNSS
6 2 (2.04%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 24 (24.49%) Linux
2 9 (9.18%) Windows
3 8 (8.16%) Unix
4 6 (6.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (4.08%) Windows 10
5 4 (4.08%) Windows Server
5 4 (4.08%) Windows Server 2016
5 4 (4.08%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (1.02%) Android
6 1 (1.02%) Solaris
6 1 (1.02%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (44.90%) Software Engineering
2 25 (25.51%) Agile
3 22 (22.45%) DevOps
3 22 (22.45%) Problem-Solving
4 15 (15.31%) OO
5 13 (13.27%) Kanban
5 13 (13.27%) Scrum
6 10 (10.20%) PLM
6 10 (10.20%) Validation
7 9 (9.18%) Change Management
7 9 (9.18%) Full Stack Development
8 6 (6.12%) Mentoring
8 6 (6.12%) Signal Processing
8 6 (6.12%) Software Testing
8 6 (6.12%) Test Automation
9 5 (5.10%) Computer Science
9 5 (5.10%) Embedded Software Development
9 5 (5.10%) Open Source
9 5 (5.10%) Performance Improvement
9 5 (5.10%) QMS
Programming Languages
1 52 (53.06%) C++
2 20 (20.41%) Python
3 18 (18.37%) Embedded C
4 13 (13.27%) SQL
5 12 (12.24%) Perl
6 10 (10.20%) Shell Script
7 9 (9.18%) Java
7 9 (9.18%) ProC
7 9 (9.18%) Tcl
8 8 (8.16%) PL/SQL
9 7 (7.14%) Embedded C++
9 7 (7.14%) MATLAB
10 6 (6.12%) C#
11 5 (5.10%) Assembly Language
12 3 (3.06%) Bash
12 3 (3.06%) JavaScript
12 3 (3.06%) PowerShell
12 3 (3.06%) Ruby
13 2 (2.04%) Ada
14 1 (1.02%) PHP
Qualifications
1 30 (30.61%) Security Cleared
2 16 (16.33%) SC Cleared
3 12 (12.24%) DV Cleared
4 6 (6.12%) Degree
5 4 (4.08%) Master's Degree
5 4 (4.08%) PhD
6 2 (2.04%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.02%) CCIE
7 1 (1.02%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.02%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.08%) JTAG
2 3 (3.06%) AUTOSAR
3 2 (2.04%) IEC 61508
4 1 (1.02%) Def Stans
4 1 (1.02%) DO-178B
4 1 (1.02%) MISRA
4 1 (1.02%) MISRA C
System Software
1 10 (10.20%) Firmware
2 5 (5.10%) Embedded Firmware
3 3 (3.06%) Active Directory
3 3 (3.06%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (4.08%) Ansible
1 4 (4.08%) Terraform
2 3 (3.06%) HP ALM
2 3 (3.06%) Kubernetes
2 3 (3.06%) Nagios
2 3 (3.06%) Progress Chef
2 3 (3.06%) Puppet
3 2 (2.04%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 14 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 10 (10.20%) Oracle
3 4 (4.08%) Xilinx
4 3 (3.06%) HP
4 3 (3.06%) New Relic
4 3 (3.06%) Sparx
4 3 (3.06%) Splunk
5 2 (2.04%) Atmel
6 1 (1.02%) CheckPoint
6 1 (1.02%) Cisco
6 1 (1.02%) Citrix
6 1 (1.02%) F5
6 1 (1.02%) Fortinet
6 1 (1.02%) IBM
6 1 (1.02%) QinetiQ
6 1 (1.02%) QNX
6 1 (1.02%) Zscaler