C Contracts in the South West

C
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 72 105 133
Rank change year-on-year +33 +28 -36
Contract jobs citing C 89 71 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 2.81% 1.95% 1.13%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.42% 6.67% 3.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 22 18
10th Percentile - £375 £392
25th Percentile £525 £436 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +17.07% -2.38% +16.67%
75th Percentile £706 £669 £567
90th Percentile £735 £719 £583
England median daily rate £536 £600 £566
% change year-on-year -10.67% +6.05% +33.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 26 12
10th Percentile £56.00 £53.13 £53.25
25th Percentile £66.06 - £63.94
Median hourly rate £70.00 £65.00 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -13.33% +50.00%
75th Percentile - £65.75 -
90th Percentile £85.00 £72.50 -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £58.91 £55.00
% change year-on-year +10.35% +7.10% +22.22%

All Programming Languages
South West

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 West with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 617 1,065 1,137
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 19.48% 29.25% 30.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 414 764 774
10th Percentile £325 £350 £363
25th Percentile £406 £414 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% +2.50% +7.53%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £575
90th Percentile £700 £700 £629
England median daily rate £540 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -4.42% +2.73% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 88 99 69
10th Percentile £44.47 £49.94 £46.62
25th Percentile £54.38 £57.33 £53.75
Median hourly rate £67.14 £65.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.28% +4.00% +37.36%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.10 £75.50 £75.00
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 South West

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

Job vacancy trend for C in the South West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for C in the South West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing C in the South West over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for C in the South West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for C in the South West

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the South West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing C in the South West over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for C in the South West

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Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 27 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
Gloucestershire +23 39 £563 -13.46% 18
Bristol +25 36 - - 50
Wiltshire -9 8 £725 +48.72% 8
Cornwall - 1 £396 - 4
C
England

C
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 6 (6.74%) SharePoint
2 5 (5.62%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (4.49%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 18 (20.22%) AWS
2 17 (19.10%) Azure
3 8 (8.99%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (6.74%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (4.49%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (4.49%) Amazon S3
5 4 (4.49%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (4.49%) OpenShift
5 4 (4.49%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.49%) AMQP
1 4 (4.49%) Network Security
1 4 (4.49%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (7.87%) SQL Server
2 4 (4.49%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (4.49%) InfluxDB
2 4 (4.49%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (7.87%) Jenkins
2 5 (5.62%) Bitbucket
2 5 (5.62%) JIRA
2 5 (5.62%) Rational Rhapsody
3 4 (4.49%) Git
4 1 (1.12%) Rational DOORS
4 1 (1.12%) Rational Team Concert
4 1 (1.12%) Visual Studio
General
1 7 (7.87%) Aerospace
2 5 (5.62%) Social Skills
2 5 (5.62%) Telecoms
3 4 (4.49%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (3.37%) Electronics
5 2 (2.25%) Law
6 1 (1.12%) Aviation
6 1 (1.12%) Banking
6 1 (1.12%) Billing
Job Titles
1 33 (37.08%) Software Engineer
2 27 (30.34%) Embedded Engineer
3 26 (29.21%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 16 (17.98%) Developer
5 13 (14.61%) Full Stack Developer
6 11 (12.36%) Architect
7 6 (6.74%) DevOps Engineer
7 6 (6.74%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
7 6 (6.74%) Integration Engineer
7 6 (6.74%) SharePoint Architect
7 6 (6.74%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 6 (6.74%) Test and Integration Engineer
7 6 (6.74%) Test Engineer
8 5 (5.62%) Senior
8 5 (5.62%) Software Architect
9 4 (4.49%) Python Software Architect
9 4 (4.49%) Senior Integration Engineer
9 4 (4.49%) Senior Test and Integration Engineer
9 4 (4.49%) Senior Test Engineer
10 3 (3.37%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (20.22%) Spring
2 17 (19.10%) React
3 13 (14.61%) AngularJS
4 9 (10.11%) RESTful
5 7 (7.87%) .NET
6 5 (5.62%) Spring Boot
6 5 (5.62%) XML
7 4 (4.49%) Node.js
7 4 (4.49%) RabbitMQ
8 1 (1.12%) Apache NiFi
8 1 (1.12%) ASP.NET
8 1 (1.12%) ASP.NET Core
8 1 (1.12%) ASP.NET Web API
8 1 (1.12%) CSS
8 1 (1.12%) CSS3
8 1 (1.12%) HTML
8 1 (1.12%) HTML5
8 1 (1.12%) Kafka
8 1 (1.12%) REST
8 1 (1.12%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 17 (19.10%) ARM Cortex
2 5 (5.62%) IoT
2 5 (5.62%) Product Ownership
2 5 (5.62%) Verilog
2 5 (5.62%) VHDL
3 4 (4.49%) Embedded Systems
3 4 (4.49%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (3.37%) Device Driver
5 2 (2.25%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.12%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.12%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (1.12%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 36 (40.45%) Linux
2 21 (23.60%) FreeRTOS
3 4 (4.49%) SafeRTOS
3 4 (4.49%) Windows
4 2 (2.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.12%) CentOS
5 1 (1.12%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (41.57%) DevOps
1 37 (41.57%) Software Engineering
2 32 (35.96%) Agile
3 22 (24.72%) Configuration Management
4 20 (22.47%) Software Architecture
5 17 (19.10%) Problem-Solving
6 14 (15.73%) Full Stack Development
7 13 (14.61%) Change Management
7 13 (14.61%) OO
7 13 (14.61%) OOP
7 13 (14.61%) Programme Management
7 13 (14.61%) Project Management
7 13 (14.61%) Secure Coding
7 13 (14.61%) Unit Testing
8 12 (13.48%) SDLC
9 7 (7.87%) CI/CD
9 7 (7.87%) Scrum
9 7 (7.87%) UML
10 6 (6.74%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 6 (6.74%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 37 (41.57%) Python
2 30 (33.71%) Java
3 20 (22.47%) C++
4 17 (19.10%) Embedded C
5 13 (14.61%) C#
5 13 (14.61%) JavaScript
6 9 (10.11%) SQL
7 6 (6.74%) Shell Script
8 5 (5.62%) Go
9 4 (4.49%) Bash
9 4 (4.49%) PL/SQL
9 4 (4.49%) PowerShell
9 4 (4.49%) TypeScript
10 3 (3.37%) MATLAB
11 2 (2.25%) Ada
11 2 (2.25%) Ada 95
11 2 (2.25%) Perl
12 1 (1.12%) Assembly Language
12 1 (1.12%) Fortran
12 1 (1.12%) ProC
Qualifications
1 59 (66.29%) Security Cleared
2 37 (41.57%) DV Cleared
3 22 (24.72%) SC Cleared
4 5 (5.62%) Degree
5 4 (4.49%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.12%) CREST Certified
6 1 (1.12%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (15.73%) QA
2 4 (4.49%) DO-178B
3 3 (3.37%) Def Stans
3 3 (3.37%) MISRA
4 2 (2.25%) JTAG
5 1 (1.12%) IEC 61508
5 1 (1.12%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 22 (24.72%) Docker
2 4 (4.49%) VMware ESXi
2 4 (4.49%) VMware NSX
2 4 (4.49%) vSphere
3 3 (3.37%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 15 (16.85%) Ansible
1 15 (16.85%) Terraform
2 11 (12.36%) Kubernetes
3 6 (6.74%) Grafana
3 6 (6.74%) Prometheus
4 5 (5.62%) Progress Chef
5 4 (4.49%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 20 (22.47%) IBM
2 17 (19.10%) Lauterbach
3 4 (4.49%) Atlassian
4 1 (1.12%) CA Agile Central
4 1 (1.12%) Oracle
4 1 (1.12%) Red Hat
4 1 (1.12%) Wind River