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

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 98 111 196
Rank change year-on-year +13 +85 -51
Contract jobs citing C 97 110 65
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.76% 1.93% 0.85%
As % of the Programming Languages category 8.01% 6.94% 3.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 63 24
10th Percentile £400 £228 £392
25th Percentile £425 £409 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% +5.00% +29.03%
75th Percentile £605 £601 £561
90th Percentile £688 £706 £588
England median daily rate £538 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -6.52% - +35.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 21 16
10th Percentile - £19.00 £43.56
25th Percentile £46.25 £22.23 £46.25
Median hourly rate £58.30 £48.08 £51.50
Median % change year-on-year +21.26% -6.64% +19.34%
75th Percentile £61.60 £53.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £65.00 £60.00 £55.13
England median hourly rate £65.00 £59.45 £56.00
% change year-on-year +9.33% +6.17% +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 1,211 1,584 2,041
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 21.99% 27.84% 26.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 843 1,123 1,316
10th Percentile £325 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £608 £617 £588
90th Percentile £686 £694 £650
England median daily rate £550 £564 £550
% change year-on-year -2.54% +2.60% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 89 86
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% -17.65%
75th Percentile £66.01 £67.50 £55.00
90th Percentile £76.50 £75.00 £62.15
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £50.35
% change year-on-year - +24.13% +17.09%

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 9 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 9 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 9 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 -26 40 £550 +4.76% 21
Thames Valley +14 30 £625 +21.95% 56
Berkshire -1 16 £625 +25.00% 11
Surrey +30 14 £400 -20.00% 33
Middlesex - 10 - -
Oxfordshire +2 8 £450 -14.29% 24
Buckinghamshire +28 6 - - 21
West Sussex +5 1 - - 14
Kent +4 1 - - 6
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 (1.03%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (2.06%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 5 (5.15%) Teamcenter
2 4 (4.12%) LabWindows
3 3 (3.09%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 18 (18.56%) Azure
2 4 (4.12%) AWS
2 4 (4.12%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 4 (4.12%) Azure Monitor
3 3 (3.09%) Azure Data Factory
3 3 (3.09%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (3.09%) Azure Functions
3 3 (3.09%) Datadog
3 3 (3.09%) Entra ID
3 3 (3.09%) Serverless
4 2 (2.06%) GitHub
5 1 (1.03%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (1.03%) Azure Cognitive Search
5 1 (1.03%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (1.03%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 9 (9.28%) 802.11
1 9 (9.28%) Wi-Fi
2 6 (6.19%) RS-232
3 5 (5.15%) Wireless
4 2 (2.06%) J1939
4 2 (2.06%) TCP/IP
5 1 (1.03%) Diameter Protocol
5 1 (1.03%) MPLS
5 1 (1.03%) Software-Defined Radio
5 1 (1.03%) VPN
5 1 (1.03%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.09%) Amazon Redshift
1 3 (3.09%) Geospatial Data
1 3 (3.09%) NoSQL
2 2 (2.06%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 12 (12.37%) Git
2 8 (8.25%) Subversion
3 5 (5.15%) JIRA
3 5 (5.15%) Rational DOORS
4 4 (4.12%) Visual Studio
5 3 (3.09%) ClearCase
5 3 (3.09%) ClearQuest
5 3 (3.09%) Jenkins
6 2 (2.06%) LabVIEW
7 1 (1.03%) Bitbucket
7 1 (1.03%) GitLab
7 1 (1.03%) MagicDraw
7 1 (1.03%) Rational Rhapsody
7 1 (1.03%) Selenium
General
1 17 (17.53%) Social Skills
2 15 (15.46%) Public Sector
3 11 (11.34%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (9.28%) Automotive
4 9 (9.28%) Electronics
5 6 (6.19%) Aerospace
6 5 (5.15%) Billing
6 5 (5.15%) Telecoms
7 3 (3.09%) Aviation
7 3 (3.09%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.03%) Military
Job Titles
1 38 (39.18%) Software Engineer
2 24 (24.74%) Developer
3 17 (17.53%) Senior
4 15 (15.46%) Embedded Engineer
4 15 (15.46%) Embedded Software Engineer
5 12 (12.37%) C Developer
6 11 (11.34%) C++ Software Engineer
7 10 (10.31%) Administrator
7 10 (10.31%) Systems Administrator
8 9 (9.28%) Senior Systems Administrator
9 7 (7.22%) Senior Software Engineer
10 5 (5.15%) FPGA Engineer
10 5 (5.15%) Lead
10 5 (5.15%) Software Developer
10 5 (5.15%) Systems Engineer
11 4 (4.12%) C/C++ Developer
11 4 (4.12%) C++ Developer
11 4 (4.12%) DevOps Engineer
12 3 (3.09%) Firmware Engineer
12 3 (3.09%) Full Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (11.34%) 802.1X
2 10 (10.31%) Itk
3 4 (4.12%) React
4 2 (2.06%) .NET
4 2 (2.06%) ASP.NET
4 2 (2.06%) Node.js
5 1 (1.03%) AngularJS
5 1 (1.03%) CSS
5 1 (1.03%) DirectX
5 1 (1.03%) HTML
5 1 (1.03%) Middleware
5 1 (1.03%) OpenGL
5 1 (1.03%) OpenGL ES
5 1 (1.03%) Vulkan
Miscellaneous
1 10 (10.31%) Algorithms
2 6 (6.19%) VHDL
3 5 (5.15%) FPGA
4 4 (4.12%) Device Driver
4 4 (4.12%) Public Cloud
5 3 (3.09%) Data Centre
5 3 (3.09%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (3.09%) Management Information System
5 3 (3.09%) Private Cloud
5 3 (3.09%) Product Ownership
6 2 (2.06%) CAN bus
6 2 (2.06%) FMCG
6 2 (2.06%) GNSS
6 2 (2.06%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 23 (23.71%) Linux
2 9 (9.28%) Windows
3 8 (8.25%) Unix
4 6 (6.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (4.12%) Windows 10
5 4 (4.12%) Windows Server
5 4 (4.12%) Windows Server 2016
5 4 (4.12%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (1.03%) Android
6 1 (1.03%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (45.36%) Software Engineering
2 25 (25.77%) Agile
3 22 (22.68%) Problem-Solving
4 21 (21.65%) DevOps
5 15 (15.46%) OO
6 13 (13.40%) Kanban
6 13 (13.40%) Scrum
7 10 (10.31%) PLM
7 10 (10.31%) Validation
8 9 (9.28%) Change Management
8 9 (9.28%) Full Stack Development
9 6 (6.19%) Mentoring
9 6 (6.19%) Signal Processing
9 6 (6.19%) Software Testing
9 6 (6.19%) Test Automation
10 5 (5.15%) Acceptance Criteria
10 5 (5.15%) Embedded Software Development
10 5 (5.15%) FPGA Design
10 5 (5.15%) Performance Improvement
10 5 (5.15%) Reverse Engineering
Programming Languages
1 52 (53.61%) C++
2 20 (20.62%) Python
3 18 (18.56%) Embedded C
4 13 (13.40%) SQL
5 12 (12.37%) Perl
6 10 (10.31%) Shell Script
7 9 (9.28%) Java
7 9 (9.28%) ProC
7 9 (9.28%) Tcl
8 8 (8.25%) PL/SQL
9 7 (7.22%) Embedded C++
9 7 (7.22%) MATLAB
10 6 (6.19%) C#
11 5 (5.15%) Assembly Language
12 3 (3.09%) Bash
12 3 (3.09%) JavaScript
12 3 (3.09%) PowerShell
12 3 (3.09%) Ruby
13 2 (2.06%) Ada
14 1 (1.03%) PHP
Qualifications
1 30 (30.93%) Security Cleared
2 16 (16.49%) SC Cleared
3 12 (12.37%) DV Cleared
4 6 (6.19%) Degree
5 4 (4.12%) Master's Degree
5 4 (4.12%) PhD
6 2 (2.06%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.03%) CCIE
7 1 (1.03%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.03%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.12%) JTAG
2 3 (3.09%) AUTOSAR
3 2 (2.06%) IEC 61508
4 1 (1.03%) Def Stans
4 1 (1.03%) DO-178B
4 1 (1.03%) MISRA
4 1 (1.03%) MISRA C
System Software
1 10 (10.31%) Firmware
2 5 (5.15%) Embedded Firmware
3 3 (3.09%) Active Directory
3 3 (3.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (4.12%) Ansible
1 4 (4.12%) Terraform
2 3 (3.09%) HP ALM
2 3 (3.09%) Kubernetes
2 3 (3.09%) Nagios
2 3 (3.09%) Progress Chef
2 3 (3.09%) Puppet
3 2 (2.06%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 14 (14.43%) Microsoft
2 10 (10.31%) Oracle
3 4 (4.12%) Xilinx
4 3 (3.09%) HP
4 3 (3.09%) New Relic
4 3 (3.09%) Sparx
4 3 (3.09%) Splunk
5 2 (2.06%) Atmel
6 1 (1.03%) CheckPoint
6 1 (1.03%) Cisco
6 1 (1.03%) Citrix
6 1 (1.03%) F5
6 1 (1.03%) Fortinet
6 1 (1.03%) IBM
6 1 (1.03%) QinetiQ
6 1 (1.03%) QNX
6 1 (1.03%) Zscaler