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

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 69 94 138
Rank change year-on-year +25 +44 -53
Contract jobs citing C 94 69 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 2.90% 2.03% 0.92%
As % of the Programming Languages category 13.97% 7.28% 3.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 28 12
10th Percentile £518 £375 £351
25th Percentile £525 £406 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £581 £513 £506
Median % change year-on-year +13.41% +1.23% +12.50%
75th Percentile £706 £625 £570
90th Percentile £730 £675 £598
England median daily rate £538 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -6.43% - +27.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 19 13
10th Percentile £56.00 £54.25 £54.00
25th Percentile £67.13 - £65.00
Median hourly rate £70.00 £65.00 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -0.76% +31.00%
75th Percentile - £65.75 £75.00
90th Percentile £85.00 - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £60.00 £56.00
% change year-on-year +8.33% +7.14% +17.89%

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 673 948 1,091
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 20.77% 27.90% 29.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 450 668 758
10th Percentile £325 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £416 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - +8.40%
75th Percentile £625 £621 £588
90th Percentile £700 £700 £638
England median daily rate £545 £564 £550
% change year-on-year -3.37% +2.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 87 67
10th Percentile £50.75 £49.87 £46.90
25th Percentile £61.25 £58.57 £54.23
Median hourly rate £68.75 £65.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.77% +8.33% +26.32%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £78.00 £69.05
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year - +19.05% +21.39%

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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 28 May 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 28 May 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 28 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
Gloucestershire +14 40 £563 -13.46% 15
Bristol +29 38 £500 - 38
Wiltshire -6 8 £725 +45.00% 11
Dorset +6 2 - - 15
Cornwall - 1 £396 - 3
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 7 (7.45%) SharePoint
2 5 (5.32%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (2.13%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 17 (18.09%) AWS
2 16 (17.02%) Azure
3 9 (9.57%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (7.45%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (4.26%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (4.26%) Amazon S3
5 4 (4.26%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (4.26%) OpenShift
5 4 (4.26%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.26%) AMQP
1 4 (4.26%) Network Security
1 4 (4.26%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (8.51%) SQL Server
2 4 (4.26%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (4.26%) InfluxDB
2 4 (4.26%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (8.51%) Jenkins
2 5 (5.32%) Bitbucket
2 5 (5.32%) JIRA
3 4 (4.26%) Git
4 3 (3.19%) Rational Rhapsody
5 1 (1.06%) Rational DOORS
5 1 (1.06%) Rational Team Concert
5 1 (1.06%) Visual Studio
General
1 7 (7.45%) Aerospace
2 5 (5.32%) Social Skills
2 5 (5.32%) Telecoms
3 4 (4.26%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (3.19%) Electronics
5 1 (1.06%) Aviation
5 1 (1.06%) Banking
5 1 (1.06%) Billing
5 1 (1.06%) Law
Job Titles
1 40 (42.55%) Software Engineer
2 30 (31.91%) Embedded Engineer
3 29 (30.85%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 14 (14.89%) Developer
5 12 (12.77%) Architect
6 11 (11.70%) Full Stack Developer
7 7 (7.45%) DevOps Engineer
7 7 (7.45%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
7 7 (7.45%) SharePoint Architect
8 6 (6.38%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 5 (5.32%) Senior
9 5 (5.32%) Software Architect
10 4 (4.26%) Integration Engineer
10 4 (4.26%) Python Software Architect
10 4 (4.26%) Senior Integration Engineer
10 4 (4.26%) Senior Test and Integration Engineer
10 4 (4.26%) Senior Test Engineer
10 4 (4.26%) Test and Integration Engineer
10 4 (4.26%) Test Engineer
11 3 (3.19%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (18.09%) Spring
2 15 (15.96%) React
3 11 (11.70%) AngularJS
4 9 (9.57%) RESTful
5 8 (8.51%) .NET
6 6 (6.38%) Spring Boot
7 5 (5.32%) XML
8 4 (4.26%) Node.js
8 4 (4.26%) RabbitMQ
9 1 (1.06%) ASP.NET
9 1 (1.06%) ASP.NET Core
9 1 (1.06%) ASP.NET Web API
9 1 (1.06%) CSS
9 1 (1.06%) CSS3
9 1 (1.06%) DPDK
9 1 (1.06%) HTML
9 1 (1.06%) HTML5
9 1 (1.06%) Kafka
9 1 (1.06%) REST
9 1 (1.06%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 20 (21.28%) ARM Cortex
2 5 (5.32%) IoT
2 5 (5.32%) Product Ownership
2 5 (5.32%) Verilog
2 5 (5.32%) VHDL
3 4 (4.26%) Embedded Systems
3 4 (4.26%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (3.19%) Device Driver
5 2 (2.13%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.06%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.06%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (1.06%) PCIe
6 1 (1.06%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.06%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 41 (43.62%) Linux
2 24 (25.53%) FreeRTOS
3 4 (4.26%) SafeRTOS
3 4 (4.26%) Windows
4 2 (2.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.06%) CentOS
5 1 (1.06%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (46.81%) Software Engineering
2 37 (39.36%) DevOps
3 31 (32.98%) Agile
4 25 (26.60%) Configuration Management
5 18 (19.15%) Software Architecture
6 15 (15.96%) Problem-Solving
7 12 (12.77%) Full Stack Development
8 11 (11.70%) Change Management
8 11 (11.70%) OO
8 11 (11.70%) OOP
8 11 (11.70%) Programme Management
8 11 (11.70%) Project Management
8 11 (11.70%) Secure Coding
8 11 (11.70%) Unit Testing
9 10 (10.64%) SDLC
10 8 (8.51%) CI/CD
11 7 (7.45%) Scrum
12 6 (6.38%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 6 (6.38%) UML
12 6 (6.38%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 36 (38.30%) Python
2 30 (31.91%) Java
3 23 (24.47%) C++
4 20 (21.28%) Embedded C
5 12 (12.77%) C#
6 11 (11.70%) JavaScript
7 9 (9.57%) SQL
8 6 (6.38%) Shell Script
9 5 (5.32%) Bash
9 5 (5.32%) Go
10 4 (4.26%) PL/SQL
10 4 (4.26%) PowerShell
10 4 (4.26%) TypeScript
11 3 (3.19%) Perl
12 1 (1.06%) Assembly Language
12 1 (1.06%) Fortran
12 1 (1.06%) MATLAB
12 1 (1.06%) ProC
12 1 (1.06%) Ruby
12 1 (1.06%) Rust
Qualifications
1 62 (65.96%) Security Cleared
2 38 (40.43%) DV Cleared
3 24 (25.53%) SC Cleared
4 6 (6.38%) Degree
5 4 (4.26%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.06%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.06%) CREST Certified
6 1 (1.06%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (12.77%) QA
2 4 (4.26%) DO-178B
3 3 (3.19%) Def Stans
3 3 (3.19%) MISRA
4 2 (2.13%) JTAG
5 1 (1.06%) IEC 61508
5 1 (1.06%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 24 (25.53%) Docker
2 4 (4.26%) VMware ESXi
2 4 (4.26%) VMware NSX
2 4 (4.26%) vSphere
3 3 (3.19%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 16 (17.02%) Ansible
1 16 (17.02%) Terraform
2 12 (12.77%) Kubernetes
3 6 (6.38%) Grafana
3 6 (6.38%) Prometheus
4 5 (5.32%) Progress Chef
5 4 (4.26%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 23 (24.47%) IBM
2 20 (21.28%) Lauterbach
3 4 (4.26%) Atlassian
4 1 (1.06%) CA Agile Central
4 1 (1.06%) Oracle
4 1 (1.06%) Red Hat
4 1 (1.06%) Wind River