C Contracts in the UK excluding London

C
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 97 164 281
Rank change year-on-year +67 +117 -87
Contract jobs citing C 427 338 246
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.08% 1.45% 0.81%
As % of the Programming Languages category 8.90% 5.00% 2.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 155 150 93
10th Percentile £404 £335 £391
25th Percentile £500 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% - +23.46%
75th Percentile £619 £575 £588
90th Percentile £706 £653 £629
UK median daily rate £535 £561 £575
% change year-on-year -4.63% -2.43% +35.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 177 93 75
10th Percentile £46.25 £37.80 £45.31
25th Percentile £60.00 £47.50 £51.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £56.50
Median % change year-on-year - +15.04% +24.18%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £77.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £60.00 £56.00
% change year-on-year +8.33% +7.14% +24.44%

All Programming Languages
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 4,797 6,763 8,788
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 23.42% 28.95% 28.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,229 4,783 6,123
10th Percentile £318 £350 £337
25th Percentile £400 £413 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £500 £490
Median % change year-on-year -2.20% +2.04% +15.29%
75th Percentile £588 £594 £575
90th Percentile £650 £676 £650
UK median daily rate £530 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.64% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 405 340 339
10th Percentile £38.00 £22.50 £17.00
25th Percentile £52.50 £49.92 £30.38
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £50.20
Median % change year-on-year - +24.50% +22.44%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £76.00 £67.99
UK median hourly rate £62.43 £62.50 £50.64
% change year-on-year -0.12% +23.43% +17.08%

C
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing C as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for C in the UK excluding London

C
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing C in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for C in the UK excluding London

C
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing C in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for C in the UK excluding London

C
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing C in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for C in the UK excluding London

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing C in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for C in the UK excluding London

C
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing C within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 11 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
East of England +27 143 £550 +10.00% 108
South East +14 98 £540 +2.86% 146
South West +29 89 £600 +14.29% 111
Midlands +82 64 £535 +33.75% 60
West Midlands +67 57 £535 +42.67% 25
North of England +17 21 £525 +3.96% 60
Scotland +40 17 £494 +4.50% 40
North West +6 11 £525 -2.33% 37
East Midlands +22 7 £445 -1.11% 35
North East - 6 - - 8
Yorkshire +5 4 £425 -11.46% 16
C
UK

C
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 8 (1.87%) Confluence
2 6 (1.41%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.23%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 37 (8.67%) Simulink
2 7 (1.64%) Stateflow
3 5 (1.17%) TargetLink
4 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (1.41%) Teamcenter
2 4 (0.94%) LabWindows
3 3 (0.70%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 44 (10.30%) Azure
2 33 (7.73%) AWS
3 15 (3.51%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (2.34%) Microsoft 365
5 8 (1.87%) Serverless
6 5 (1.17%) Amazon EC2
6 5 (1.17%) Amazon S3
6 5 (1.17%) AWS Lambda
6 5 (1.17%) OpenShift
7 4 (0.94%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 4 (0.94%) Azure Monitor
7 4 (0.94%) GitHub
7 4 (0.94%) Power Automate
7 4 (0.94%) Power Platform
7 4 (0.94%) PowerApps
7 4 (0.94%) SaaS
8 3 (0.70%) Azure Data Factory
8 3 (0.70%) Azure Functions
8 3 (0.70%) Entra ID
8 3 (0.70%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 37 (8.67%) Modbus
2 36 (8.43%) RS-422
3 35 (8.20%) RS-485
4 9 (2.11%) 802.11
4 9 (2.11%) Wi-Fi
5 7 (1.64%) 5G
6 6 (1.41%) Kerberos
6 6 (1.41%) RS-232
6 6 (1.41%) TCP/IP
7 5 (1.17%) J1939
7 5 (1.17%) Wireless
8 4 (0.94%) AMQP
8 4 (0.94%) Internet
8 4 (0.94%) NAS
8 4 (0.94%) Network Security
8 4 (0.94%) Radio Access Network
8 4 (0.94%) Wireshark
9 3 (0.70%) Software-Defined Radio
10 2 (0.47%) 5G NR
11 1 (0.23%) RTMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (3.51%) SQL Server
2 6 (1.41%) Relational Database
3 5 (1.17%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (1.17%) NoSQL
4 4 (0.94%) DB2
4 4 (0.94%) InfluxDB
5 3 (0.70%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (0.70%) Geospatial Data
5 3 (0.70%) Oracle Database
6 2 (0.47%) Data Lake
6 2 (0.47%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.23%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.23%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 47 (11.01%) Visual Studio
2 45 (10.54%) PVCS
3 40 (9.37%) Git
4 21 (4.92%) JIRA
5 20 (4.68%) Jenkins
5 20 (4.68%) Rational DOORS
5 20 (4.68%) Subversion
6 18 (4.22%) Bitbucket
7 14 (3.28%) Rational Rhapsody
8 5 (1.17%) GCC
8 5 (1.17%) Gradle
9 4 (0.94%) gcov
9 4 (0.94%) GDB
9 4 (0.94%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 3 (0.70%) ClearCase
10 3 (0.70%) ClearQuest
10 3 (0.70%) CMake
10 3 (0.70%) CppUnit
10 3 (0.70%) Rational Team Concert
11 2 (0.47%) LabVIEW
General
1 71 (16.63%) Social Skills
2 70 (16.39%) Electronics
3 32 (7.49%) Public Sector
4 25 (5.85%) Automotive
5 21 (4.92%) Aerospace
6 17 (3.98%) Telecoms
7 16 (3.75%) Analytical Skills
8 9 (2.11%) Finance
9 6 (1.41%) Aviation
9 6 (1.41%) Banking
9 6 (1.41%) Law
9 6 (1.41%) Manufacturing
10 5 (1.17%) Billing
10 5 (1.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (1.17%) Multimedia
11 3 (0.70%) Military
12 2 (0.47%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.47%) Wearables
13 1 (0.23%) German Language
13 1 (0.23%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 170 (39.81%) Software Engineer
2 84 (19.67%) Embedded Engineer
3 81 (18.97%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 65 (15.22%) Developer
5 53 (12.41%) Programmer
6 50 (11.71%) C Programmer
7 46 (10.77%) C++ Software Engineer
8 29 (6.79%) C Software Engineer
9 27 (6.32%) Senior
10 23 (5.39%) Architect
11 22 (5.15%) FPGA Engineer
12 19 (4.45%) Design Engineer
12 19 (4.45%) FPGA Design Engineer
13 16 (3.75%) C/C++ Software Engineer
14 15 (3.51%) C Developer
14 15 (3.51%) Full Stack Developer
15 13 (3.04%) DevOps Engineer
15 13 (3.04%) Software Architect
16 12 (2.81%) Linux Engineer
17 11 (2.58%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (5.85%) React
2 19 (4.45%) .NET
3 18 (4.22%) Spring
4 17 (3.98%) RESTful
4 17 (3.98%) Yocto
5 13 (3.04%) AngularJS
6 12 (2.81%) XML
7 11 (2.58%) 802.1X
8 10 (2.34%) DirectX
8 10 (2.34%) Itk
8 10 (2.34%) OpenGL
8 10 (2.34%) Vulkan
9 9 (2.11%) JSON
9 9 (2.11%) OpenGL ES
10 7 (1.64%) Spring Boot
11 6 (1.41%) LDAP
11 6 (1.41%) Node.js
11 6 (1.41%) OpenID
11 6 (1.41%) REST
11 6 (1.41%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 32 (7.49%) VHDL
2 29 (6.79%) Self-Motivation
2 29 (6.79%) Verilog
3 25 (5.85%) FPGA
4 18 (4.22%) Algorithms
4 18 (4.22%) ARM Cortex
5 12 (2.81%) Device Driver
6 11 (2.58%) IoT
7 9 (2.11%) Management Information System
7 9 (2.11%) Ray Tracing
8 8 (1.87%) 3D Graphics
8 8 (1.87%) Embedded Systems
8 8 (1.87%) Product Ownership
8 8 (1.87%) Public Cloud
9 7 (1.64%) Linux Command Line
9 7 (1.64%) STB
10 6 (1.41%) Enterprise Cloud
10 6 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
11 5 (1.17%) CAN bus
12 4 (0.94%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 104 (24.36%) Linux
2 22 (5.15%) FreeRTOS
3 16 (3.75%) Unix
3 16 (3.75%) Windows
4 7 (1.64%) Embedded Linux
4 7 (1.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (1.41%) Android
6 5 (1.17%) VxWorks
7 4 (0.94%) Apple iOS
7 4 (0.94%) SafeRTOS
7 4 (0.94%) Windows 10
7 4 (0.94%) Windows Server
7 4 (0.94%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (0.94%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.23%) CentOS
8 1 (0.23%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (0.23%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 195 (45.67%) Software Engineering
2 124 (29.04%) Agile
3 101 (23.65%) DevOps
4 72 (16.86%) Problem-Solving
5 54 (12.65%) Unit Testing
6 52 (12.18%) Validation
7 50 (11.71%) Software Testing
8 47 (11.01%) Continuous Integration
9 41 (9.60%) TDD
10 39 (9.13%) Continuous Improvement
11 36 (8.43%) OO
11 36 (8.43%) Pair Programming
12 35 (8.20%) Customer Requirements
13 30 (7.03%) Configuration Management
14 28 (6.56%) Scrum
14 28 (6.56%) Test Automation
15 27 (6.32%) Software Architecture
16 26 (6.09%) Project Management
16 26 (6.09%) SDLC
17 24 (5.62%) Verification and Validation
Programming Languages
1 185 (43.33%) C++
2 74 (17.33%) Python
3 69 (16.16%) Embedded C
4 60 (14.05%) C#
5 53 (12.41%) PL/SQL
6 50 (11.71%) Java
7 29 (6.79%) SQL
8 24 (5.62%) MATLAB
9 23 (5.39%) JavaScript
10 20 (4.68%) SystemVerilog
11 19 (4.45%) Bash
11 19 (4.45%) Shell Script
12 17 (3.98%) Embedded C++
12 17 (3.98%) Perl
13 12 (2.81%) Ada
13 12 (2.81%) Go
13 12 (2.81%) Tcl
14 10 (2.34%) PowerShell
15 9 (2.11%) Assembly Language
15 9 (2.11%) ProC
Qualifications
1 147 (34.43%) Security Cleared
2 94 (22.01%) SC Cleared
3 52 (12.18%) Degree
4 51 (11.94%) DV Cleared
5 26 (6.09%) Master's Degree
6 18 (4.22%) PhD
7 5 (1.17%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (0.70%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.23%) CCIE
9 1 (0.23%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.23%) CREST Certified
9 1 (0.23%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (3.04%) AUTOSAR
1 13 (3.04%) MISRA
1 13 (3.04%) QA
2 10 (2.34%) MISRA C
3 6 (1.41%) JTAG
4 5 (1.17%) DO-178B
4 5 (1.17%) ISO 26262
5 4 (0.94%) Def Stans
6 3 (0.70%) IEC 61508
7 1 (0.23%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 28 (6.56%) Docker
2 21 (4.92%) Firmware
3 9 (2.11%) Active Directory
4 6 (1.41%) Embedded Firmware
5 4 (0.94%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (0.94%) VMware NSX
5 4 (0.94%) vSphere
6 3 (0.70%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.70%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 22 (5.15%) Ansible
1 22 (5.15%) Terraform
2 15 (3.51%) Kubernetes
3 8 (1.87%) Grafana
3 8 (1.87%) Progress Chef
4 6 (1.41%) Prometheus
5 5 (1.17%) Functional Safety
6 4 (0.94%) Docker Swarm
7 3 (0.70%) HP ALM
7 3 (0.70%) Nagios
7 3 (0.70%) Puppet
8 2 (0.47%) Kibana
Vendors
1 32 (7.49%) IBM
2 24 (5.62%) Xilinx
3 21 (4.92%) Intel
4 18 (4.22%) Lauterbach
4 18 (4.22%) Microsoft
5 17 (3.98%) Microsemi
6 11 (2.58%) Oracle
7 9 (2.11%) Cadence
8 8 (1.87%) Atlassian
9 5 (1.17%) HP
10 4 (0.94%) Klocwork
10 4 (0.94%) Perforce
11 3 (0.70%) Google
11 3 (0.70%) New Relic
11 3 (0.70%) Sparx
11 3 (0.70%) Splunk
11 3 (0.70%) Synopsys
11 3 (0.70%) VMware
12 2 (0.47%) Atmel
12 2 (0.47%) Twitter