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

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 69 102 133
Rank change year-on-year +33 +31 -40
Contract jobs citing C 88 71 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 2.77% 2.01% 1.04%
As % of the Programming Languages category 13.92% 6.89% 3.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 25 15
10th Percentile - £375 £371
25th Percentile £525 £431 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% - +16.67%
75th Percentile £706 £650 £572
90th Percentile £735 £717 £590
England median daily rate £538 £577 £575
% change year-on-year -6.85% +0.35% +35.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 23 13
10th Percentile £56.00 £52.00 £54.00
25th Percentile £67.13 - £65.00
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 - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £60.00 £56.00
% change year-on-year +8.33% +7.14% +23.76%

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 632 1,030 1,115
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 19.86% 29.13% 30.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 425 736 765
10th Percentile £325 £350 £363
25th Percentile £406 £418 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.96% +4.00% +8.11%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £575
90th Percentile £700 £700 £635
England median daily rate £550 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -2.65% +2.73% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 97 93 70
10th Percentile £49.20 £48.72 £46.66
25th Percentile £61.25 £53.75 £53.81
Median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £61.25
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +6.12% +34.62%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.70 £75.50 £75.00
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £50.85
% change year-on-year - +22.91% +18.26%

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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 10 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 10 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 10 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 +19 39 £563 -13.46% 18
Bristol +19 35 - - 43
Wiltshire -4 8 £725 +48.72% 9
Cornwall - 1 £396 - 5
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England

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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 (6.82%) SharePoint
2 5 (5.68%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (2.27%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 17 (19.32%) AWS
2 16 (18.18%) Azure
3 8 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (6.82%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (4.55%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (4.55%) Amazon S3
5 4 (4.55%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (4.55%) OpenShift
5 4 (4.55%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.55%) AMQP
1 4 (4.55%) Network Security
1 4 (4.55%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (7.95%) SQL Server
2 4 (4.55%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (4.55%) InfluxDB
2 4 (4.55%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (7.95%) Jenkins
2 5 (5.68%) Bitbucket
2 5 (5.68%) JIRA
3 4 (4.55%) Git
4 3 (3.41%) Rational Rhapsody
5 1 (1.14%) Rational DOORS
5 1 (1.14%) Rational Team Concert
5 1 (1.14%) Visual Studio
General
1 7 (7.95%) Aerospace
2 5 (5.68%) Social Skills
2 5 (5.68%) Telecoms
3 4 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (3.41%) Electronics
5 1 (1.14%) Aviation
5 1 (1.14%) Banking
5 1 (1.14%) Billing
5 1 (1.14%) Law
Job Titles
1 34 (38.64%) Software Engineer
2 28 (31.82%) Embedded Engineer
3 27 (30.68%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 15 (17.05%) Developer
5 12 (13.64%) Full Stack Developer
6 11 (12.50%) Architect
7 7 (7.95%) DevOps Engineer
8 6 (6.82%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
8 6 (6.82%) SharePoint Architect
8 6 (6.82%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 5 (5.68%) Senior
9 5 (5.68%) Software Architect
10 4 (4.55%) Integration Engineer
10 4 (4.55%) Python Software Architect
10 4 (4.55%) Senior Integration Engineer
10 4 (4.55%) Senior Test and Integration Engineer
10 4 (4.55%) Senior Test Engineer
10 4 (4.55%) Test and Integration Engineer
10 4 (4.55%) Test Engineer
11 3 (3.41%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (19.32%) Spring
2 16 (18.18%) React
3 12 (13.64%) AngularJS
4 9 (10.23%) RESTful
5 7 (7.95%) .NET
6 5 (5.68%) Spring Boot
6 5 (5.68%) XML
7 4 (4.55%) Node.js
7 4 (4.55%) RabbitMQ
8 1 (1.14%) Apache NiFi
8 1 (1.14%) ASP.NET
8 1 (1.14%) ASP.NET Core
8 1 (1.14%) ASP.NET Web API
8 1 (1.14%) CSS
8 1 (1.14%) CSS3
8 1 (1.14%) HTML
8 1 (1.14%) HTML5
8 1 (1.14%) Kafka
8 1 (1.14%) REST
8 1 (1.14%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 18 (20.45%) ARM Cortex
2 5 (5.68%) IoT
2 5 (5.68%) Product Ownership
2 5 (5.68%) Verilog
2 5 (5.68%) VHDL
3 4 (4.55%) Embedded Systems
3 4 (4.55%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (3.41%) Device Driver
5 2 (2.27%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.14%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.14%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (1.14%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 38 (43.18%) Linux
2 22 (25.00%) FreeRTOS
3 4 (4.55%) SafeRTOS
3 4 (4.55%) Windows
4 2 (2.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.14%) CentOS
5 1 (1.14%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (43.18%) Software Engineering
2 37 (42.05%) DevOps
3 31 (35.23%) Agile
4 23 (26.14%) Configuration Management
5 19 (21.59%) Software Architecture
6 16 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
7 13 (14.77%) Full Stack Development
8 12 (13.64%) Change Management
8 12 (13.64%) OO
8 12 (13.64%) OOP
8 12 (13.64%) Programme Management
8 12 (13.64%) Project Management
8 12 (13.64%) Secure Coding
8 12 (13.64%) Unit Testing
9 11 (12.50%) SDLC
10 7 (7.95%) CI/CD
10 7 (7.95%) Scrum
11 6 (6.82%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 6 (6.82%) Validation
12 5 (5.68%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 36 (40.91%) Python
2 29 (32.95%) Java
3 20 (22.73%) C++
4 18 (20.45%) Embedded C
5 12 (13.64%) C#
5 12 (13.64%) JavaScript
6 9 (10.23%) SQL
7 6 (6.82%) Shell Script
8 5 (5.68%) Go
9 4 (4.55%) Bash
9 4 (4.55%) PL/SQL
9 4 (4.55%) PowerShell
9 4 (4.55%) TypeScript
10 2 (2.27%) Perl
11 1 (1.14%) Assembly Language
11 1 (1.14%) Fortran
11 1 (1.14%) MATLAB
11 1 (1.14%) ProC
11 1 (1.14%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 59 (67.05%) Security Cleared
2 37 (42.05%) DV Cleared
3 22 (25.00%) SC Cleared
4 5 (5.68%) Degree
5 4 (4.55%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.14%) CREST Certified
6 1 (1.14%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (14.77%) QA
2 4 (4.55%) DO-178B
3 3 (3.41%) Def Stans
3 3 (3.41%) MISRA
4 2 (2.27%) JTAG
5 1 (1.14%) IEC 61508
5 1 (1.14%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 23 (26.14%) Docker
2 4 (4.55%) VMware ESXi
2 4 (4.55%) VMware NSX
2 4 (4.55%) vSphere
3 3 (3.41%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 16 (18.18%) Ansible
1 16 (18.18%) Terraform
2 11 (12.50%) Kubernetes
3 6 (6.82%) Grafana
3 6 (6.82%) Prometheus
4 5 (5.68%) Progress Chef
5 4 (4.55%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 21 (23.86%) IBM
2 18 (20.45%) Lauterbach
3 4 (4.55%) Atlassian
4 1 (1.14%) CA Agile Central
4 1 (1.14%) Oracle
4 1 (1.14%) Red Hat
4 1 (1.14%) Wind River