C Contracts in the Thames Valley

C
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 112 123 148
Rank change year-on-year +11 +25 -37
Contract jobs citing C 31 23 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.17% 0.81% 0.58%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.90% 3.35% 2.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 12 12
10th Percentile £425 £425 £391
25th Percentile £463 £434 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £542 £475
Median % change year-on-year +15.26% +14.16% +5.56%
75th Percentile £663 £611 £580
90th Percentile £688 £703 £587
South East median daily rate £540 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +2.86% +5.00% +29.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 3 0
10th Percentile £46.25 £43.25 -
25th Percentile £47.50 £46.25 -
Median hourly rate £58.30 £52.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +11.05% - -
75th Percentile £63.30 £54.38 -
90th Percentile £65.00 £54.75 -
South East median hourly rate £58.30 £48.08 £51.50
% change year-on-year +21.26% -6.64% +19.34%

All Programming Languages
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 525 686 766
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 19.86% 24.30% 22.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 361 508 560
10th Percentile £350 £325 £350
25th Percentile £425 £419 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £608 £600 £575
90th Percentile £669 £675 £638
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 20 4
10th Percentile £33.94 £25.64 £26.10
25th Percentile £46.25 £32.30 £49.50
Median hourly rate £58.30 £56.88 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.51% -21.55% +93.33%
75th Percentile £65.00 £76.61 £80.93
90th Percentile £67.63 £79.41 £81.87
South East median hourly rate £60.14 £55.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +9.35% +57.14% -17.65%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing C as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for C in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing C in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for C in the Thames Valley

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing C in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for C in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing C in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for C in the Thames Valley

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing C in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for C in the Thames Valley

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Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing C within the Thames Valley 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
Berkshire -4 16 £625 +11.71% 12
Oxfordshire +3 8 £450 -14.29% 26
Buckinghamshire +31 7 - - 23
C
South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Business Applications
1 5 (16.13%) Teamcenter
2 4 (12.90%) LabWindows
Cloud Services
1 18 (58.06%) Azure
2 4 (12.90%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 4 (12.90%) Azure DevOps
2 4 (12.90%) Azure Monitor
3 3 (9.68%) Azure Data Factory
3 3 (9.68%) Azure Functions
3 3 (9.68%) Entra ID
3 3 (9.68%) Serverless
4 2 (6.45%) GitHub
5 1 (3.23%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (3.23%) Azure Cognitive Search
5 1 (3.23%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 4 (12.90%) RS-232
1 4 (12.90%) Wireless
2 2 (6.45%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (9.68%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (25.81%) Git
1 8 (25.81%) Subversion
2 4 (12.90%) JIRA
2 4 (12.90%) Visual Studio
3 1 (3.23%) Selenium
General
1 8 (25.81%) Public Sector
2 5 (16.13%) Aerospace
2 5 (16.13%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (12.90%) Telecoms
4 2 (6.45%) Aviation
4 2 (6.45%) Social Skills
5 1 (3.23%) Automotive
5 1 (3.23%) Manufacturing
5 1 (3.23%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (32.26%) Administrator
1 10 (32.26%) Systems Administrator
2 9 (29.03%) Developer
2 9 (29.03%) Senior
2 9 (29.03%) Senior Systems Administrator
3 7 (22.58%) Embedded Engineer
3 7 (22.58%) Embedded Software Engineer
3 7 (22.58%) Software Engineer
4 5 (16.13%) Software Developer
5 3 (9.68%) Azure Developer
5 3 (9.68%) Full Stack Developer
5 3 (9.68%) Full Stack Python Developer
5 3 (9.68%) Python Developer
6 2 (6.45%) Firmware Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) Software Verification Engineer
7 1 (3.23%) .NET Developer
7 1 (3.23%) Designer
7 1 (3.23%) Embedded Developer
7 1 (3.23%) Embedded Software Developer
7 1 (3.23%) Lead Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (32.26%) Itk
2 3 (9.68%) React
3 2 (6.45%) .NET
3 2 (6.45%) 802.1X
3 2 (6.45%) ASP.NET
4 1 (3.23%) AngularJS
4 1 (3.23%) CSS
4 1 (3.23%) HTML
4 1 (3.23%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.90%) Algorithms
1 4 (12.90%) Device Driver
2 3 (9.68%) Product Ownership
3 2 (6.45%) FMCG
3 2 (6.45%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 8 (25.81%) Windows
2 4 (12.90%) Windows 10
2 4 (12.90%) Windows Server
2 4 (12.90%) Windows Server 2016
2 4 (12.90%) Windows Server 2019
3 1 (3.23%) Linux
3 1 (3.23%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (58.06%) DevOps
2 10 (32.26%) PLM
3 9 (29.03%) Agile
4 7 (22.58%) Change Management
5 6 (19.35%) Software Engineering
5 6 (19.35%) Validation
6 5 (16.13%) CI/CD
6 5 (16.13%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (12.90%) Computer Science
7 4 (12.90%) Data Acquisition
7 4 (12.90%) Defect Tracking
7 4 (12.90%) Product Backlog
7 4 (12.90%) Root Cause Analysis
7 4 (12.90%) Signal Processing
7 4 (12.90%) Software Optimisation
7 4 (12.90%) Unit Testing
8 3 (9.68%) Continuous Improvement
8 3 (9.68%) Embedded Software Development
8 3 (9.68%) Microservices
8 3 (9.68%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 12 (38.71%) C++
2 8 (25.81%) Python
3 6 (19.35%) C#
4 4 (12.90%) Assembly Language
4 4 (12.90%) MATLAB
4 4 (12.90%) Shell Script
5 2 (6.45%) Embedded C
5 2 (6.45%) Java
5 2 (6.45%) JavaScript
6 1 (3.23%) Go
6 1 (3.23%) PHP
6 1 (3.23%) Rust
Qualifications
1 10 (32.26%) Security Cleared
2 9 (29.03%) DV Cleared
3 4 (12.90%) Degree
3 4 (12.90%) Master's Degree
3 4 (12.90%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.90%) JTAG
2 1 (3.23%) AUTOSAR
System Software
1 6 (19.35%) Firmware
2 4 (12.90%) Embedded Firmware
3 3 (9.68%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (3.23%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (41.94%) Microsoft
2 2 (6.45%) Atmel
3 1 (3.23%) QNX