Job Vacancy Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Hourly Rate Histogram Job Locations Skill Sets
Period
to 25 September 2018

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 25 September 2018 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

C
UK
6 months to
25 Sep 2018		 Same period 2017 Same period 2016
Rank 166 160 128
Rank change year-on-year -6 -32 +12
Contract jobs citing C 1,705 1,596 2,096
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 1.66% 1.62% 1.98%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.73% 3.88% 4.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 916 827 1,091
UK median daily rate £475 £433 £415
Median daily rate % change year-on-year +9.83% +4.22% +9.21%
10th Percentile £313 £300 £270
90th Percentile £650 £663 £607
UK excluding London median daily rate £416 £400 £375
% change year-on-year +4.06% +6.67% +2.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 216 181 256
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £42.50 £40.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year - +6.25% +4.58%
10th Percentile £22.25 £30.50 £15.54
90th Percentile £50.13 £52.50 £53.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.50 £42.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year - +6.25% +5.26%

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 with a requirement for coding skills.

All Programming Languages
UK
Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 45,748 41,144 42,184
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 44.50% 41.88% 39.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 32,179 28,407 28,998
UK median daily rate £475 £450 £425
Median daily rate % change year-on-year +5.56% +5.88% +6.25%
10th Percentile £313 £306 £280
90th Percentile £638 £625 £588
UK excluding London median daily rate £415 £400 £375
% change year-on-year +3.75% +6.67% +3.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 716 768 908
UK median hourly rate £41.53 £40.00 £37.50
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year +3.83% +6.67% +2.74%
10th Percentile £16.25 £15.79 £14.00
90th Percentile £52.50 £53.75 £51.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.00 £40.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year +5.00% +6.67% +1.35%

C
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing C as a percentage of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for C in the UK

C
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing C.

Contractor daily rate trend for C in the UK

C
Contractor Daily Rate Histogram

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing C over the 6 months to 25 September 2018.

Contractor daily rate histogram for C in the UK

C
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for contractor hourly rates quoted in IT jobs citing C.

Contractor hourly rate trend for C in the UK

C
Contractor Hourly Rate Histogram

The hourly rate distribution of IT jobs citing C over the 6 months to 25 September 2018.

Contractor hourly rate histogram for C in the UK

C
Top 17 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 25 September 2018. 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
Job
Vacancies
England +1 1,579 £475 +8.57% 1,530
UK excluding London -4 1,072 £416 +4.06% 1,298
London 0 601 £535 +7.00% 323
South East +6 342 £425 +11.84% 310
South West +13 236 £410 +9.33% 190
East of England -23 167 £450 +11.80% 221
North of England +18 155 £375 -16.67% 254
North West -15 71 £375 -16.67% 155
Midlands -57 70 £400 +14.14% 234
Wales +11 57 £400 -1.23% 30
Yorkshire -12 45 £400 -4.76% 74
West Midlands -44 41 £438 +34.62% 184
North East +18 39 £364 -14.41% 25
Scotland -36 30 £400 +23.08% 36
East Midlands -11 29 £365 -8.86% 50
Northern Ireland +27 11 £380 -7.88% 25
Channel Islands - 5 - -

For the 6 months to 25 September 2018, IT contractor jobs citing C also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads with a requirement for C.

1 634 (37.18%) C++
2 432 (25.34%) Linux
3 425 (24.93%) Python
4 411 (24.11%) Software Engineering
5 379 (22.23%) Java
6 359 (21.06%) Security Cleared
7 345 (20.23%) Agile Software Development
8 286 (16.77%) Finance
9 256 (15.01%) SQL
10 240 (14.08%) Windows
11 233 (13.67%) SC Cleared
12 224 (13.14%) C#
13 198 (11.61%) Degree
14 183 (10.73%) Embedded C
14 183 (10.73%) Git (software)
15 174 (10.21%) JavaScript
16 170 (9.97%) Test Automation
17 168 (9.85%) Microsoft
18 151 (8.86%) Problem-Solving
19 146 (8.56%) Unix
20 138 (8.09%) Analytical Skills
21 136 (7.98%) DevOps
21 136 (7.98%) Project Management
22 135 (7.92%) Amazon AWS
23 124 (7.27%) Oracle
24 123 (7.21%) Microsoft Azure
25 122 (7.16%) Configuration Management
26 117 (6.86%) .NET
27 116 (6.80%) Perl
28 114 (6.69%) Computer Science

C
Co-occurring IT Skills by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 49 (2.87%) SharePoint
2 36 (2.11%) Confluence
3 31 (1.82%) Apache
4 30 (1.76%) CMS
5 25 (1.47%) MS Exchange
6 23 (1.35%) Apache Spark
6 23 (1.35%) WebSphere
7 18 (1.06%) JBoss
8 15 (0.88%) Elasticsearch
8 15 (0.88%) Skype for Business
9 13 (0.76%) OpenStack
10 11 (0.65%) Ethereum
10 11 (0.65%) IIS
11 9 (0.53%) Hyperledger
12 8 (0.47%) SAS
13 7 (0.41%) Amazon Alexa
13 7 (0.41%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 7 (0.41%) WebLogic
14 6 (0.35%) Apache Solr
14 6 (0.35%) IBM Notes
Applications
1 69 (4.05%) Microsoft Office
2 54 (3.17%) Microsoft Excel
3 33 (1.94%) Simulink
4 17 (1.00%) Microsoft Project
5 16 (0.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 15 (0.88%) MS Visio
7 7 (0.41%) SPSS
8 6 (0.35%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 5 (0.29%) Stateflow
10 3 (0.18%) Maya
11 2 (0.12%) AutoCAD
11 2 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
12 1 (0.059%) EPLAN
12 1 (0.059%) EViews
12 1 (0.059%) GNU Octave
12 1 (0.059%) Photoshop
12 1 (0.059%) Shockwave
Business Applications
1 21 (1.23%) Dynamics NAV
2 9 (0.53%) Oracle BPM
3 7 (0.41%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (0.35%) ION MarketView
4 6 (0.35%) Primavera
5 3 (0.18%) Distributed Ledger
5 3 (0.18%) LabWindows
5 3 (0.18%) Sage 200
5 3 (0.18%) Sage CRM
5 3 (0.18%) SAP ERP
6 2 (0.12%) AquaLogic BPM
6 2 (0.12%) Cerner Millennium
6 2 (0.12%) Lorenzo
6 2 (0.12%) Magento
6 2 (0.12%) Markit EDM
6 2 (0.12%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
7 1 (0.059%) Adobe Campaign
7 1 (0.059%) Oracle Retail
7 1 (0.059%) Sage 300 ERP
Cloud Services
1 135 (7.92%) Amazon AWS
2 123 (7.21%) Microsoft Azure
3 51 (2.99%) Office 365
4 34 (1.99%) Cloud Computing
5 32 (1.88%) Datadog
6 29 (1.70%) Google Cloud Platform
7 28 (1.64%) PaaS
8 24 (1.41%) SaaS
9 23 (1.35%) GitHub
10 21 (1.23%) NuGet
11 16 (0.94%) IaaS
12 9 (0.53%) Amazon EC2
12 9 (0.53%) Amazon EMR
13 8 (0.47%) Amazon S3
13 8 (0.47%) Dynamics 365
14 6 (0.35%) Serverless
15 4 (0.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 4 (0.23%) Force.com
15 4 (0.23%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
15 4 (0.23%) Yammer
Communications & Networking
1 67 (3.93%) TCP/IP
2 66 (3.87%) DNS
3 65 (3.81%) Firewall
4 52 (3.05%) Wireless
5 48 (2.82%) Internet
6 43 (2.52%) DHCP
7 41 (2.40%) VoIP
8 38 (2.23%) Wi-Fi
9 36 (2.11%) HTTP
10 34 (1.99%) Network Security
11 33 (1.94%) WAN
12 28 (1.64%) Wireshark
13 27 (1.58%) Bluetooth
13 27 (1.58%) LAN
14 25 (1.47%) Ethernet
15 22 (1.29%) BIG-IP
15 22 (1.29%) SAN
16 21 (1.23%) VPN
17 19 (1.11%) SSL
18 17 (1.00%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 94 (5.51%) SQL Server
2 55 (3.23%) MySQL
3 50 (2.93%) Relational Database
4 46 (2.70%) PostgreSQL
5 39 (2.29%) Big Data
5 39 (2.29%) Hadoop
6 38 (2.23%) Oracle Database
7 33 (1.94%) Amazon Redshift
7 33 (1.94%) Blockchain
8 32 (1.88%) NoSQL
9 28 (1.64%) HBase
10 26 (1.52%) Data Warehouse
11 24 (1.41%) Apache Cassandra
12 21 (1.23%) MongoDB
13 20 (1.17%) RDBMS
14 15 (0.88%) Cosmos DB
14 15 (0.88%) MariaDB
15 14 (0.82%) Apache Hive
16 13 (0.76%) Azure SQL Database
16 13 (0.76%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 183 (10.73%) Git (software)
2 111 (6.51%) Jenkins
3 100 (5.87%) JIRA
4 64 (3.75%) Subversion
5 62 (3.64%) TeamCity
6 56 (3.28%) Rational DOORS
7 54 (3.17%) Selenium
8 53 (3.11%) Visual Studio
9 38 (2.23%) GDB
9 38 (2.23%) JUnit
10 31 (1.82%) Rational Rhapsody
11 29 (1.70%) Rational Team Concert
12 27 (1.58%) ProC
13 25 (1.47%) MSBuild
14 23 (1.35%) Eclipse
14 23 (1.35%) GCC
15 22 (1.29%) PVCS
16 21 (1.23%) Gradle
17 20 (1.17%) JMeter
18 17 (1.00%) LoadRunner
General
1 286 (16.77%) Finance
2 101 (5.92%) Banking
3 72 (4.22%) Electronics
4 57 (3.34%) Telecoms
5 38 (2.23%) Front Office
6 34 (1.99%) Automotive
6 34 (1.99%) Law
7 30 (1.76%) Aerospace
8 29 (1.70%) Retail
9 26 (1.52%) Games
9 26 (1.52%) Manufacturing
10 22 (1.29%) Legal
11 21 (1.23%) Marketing
12 20 (1.17%) Military
13 16 (0.94%) Investment Banking
14 14 (0.82%) Mandarin Language
15 12 (0.70%) Avionics
16 11 (0.65%) Back Office
17 9 (0.53%) Financial Institution
18 6 (0.35%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 457 (26.80%) Developer
2 278 (16.30%) Software Engineer
3 136 (7.98%) Embedded Engineer
4 129 (7.57%) Analyst
5 120 (7.04%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 88 (5.16%) Architect
7 79 (4.63%) C++ Developer
8 70 (4.11%) Java Developer
9 62 (3.64%) C++ Software Engineer
10 58 (3.40%) Project Manager
11 55 (3.23%) DevOps Engineer
12 54 (3.17%) C Developer
13 52 (3.05%) Consultant
14 47 (2.76%) C Software Engineer
15 43 (2.52%) Senior Software Engineer
16 42 (2.46%) Test Engineer
17 40 (2.35%) Python Developer
18 39 (2.29%) Software Developer
19 38 (2.23%) Embedded C Engineer
20 37 (2.17%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 117 (6.86%) .NET
2 105 (6.16%) XML
3 86 (5.04%) Web Services
4 80 (4.69%) HTML
5 69 (4.05%) AngularJS
6 68 (3.99%) REST
7 62 (3.64%) CSS
8 42 (2.46%) JSON
9 41 (2.40%) J2EE
10 40 (2.35%) React
11 39 (2.29%) SOAP
12 37 (2.17%) HTML5
13 36 (2.11%) Node.js
14 33 (1.94%) Middleware
15 32 (1.88%) CSS3
16 30 (1.76%) Elastic Stack
16 30 (1.76%) STL
17 28 (1.64%) RESTful
18 27 (1.58%) OpenGL
19 25 (1.47%) CGI
Miscellaneous
1 138 (8.09%) Analytical Skills
2 114 (6.69%) Computer Science
3 77 (4.52%) Self-Motivation
4 76 (4.46%) Data Centre
5 57 (3.34%) Algorithms
6 54 (3.17%) Embedded Systems
7 53 (3.11%) Greenfield Project
8 41 (2.40%) Management Information System
9 40 (2.35%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
10 38 (2.23%) Fixed Income
11 32 (1.88%) Fintech
12 30 (1.76%) User Experience
13 21 (1.23%) Device Driver
14 17 (1.00%) Data Structures
14 17 (1.00%) Equities
14 17 (1.00%) Linux Command Line
14 17 (1.00%) Mobile App
14 17 (1.00%) PKI
15 16 (0.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 16 (0.94%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 432 (25.34%) Linux
2 240 (14.08%) Windows
3 146 (8.56%) Unix
4 82 (4.81%) Android
5 47 (2.76%) Windows Server
6 35 (2.05%) Apple iOS
7 34 (1.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 32 (1.88%) Solaris
9 28 (1.64%) Windows Server 2008
10 27 (1.58%) Embedded Linux
11 25 (1.47%) OpenVMS
12 20 (1.17%) Windows 7
13 19 (1.11%) Windows Server 2012
14 16 (0.94%) AIX
14 16 (0.94%) SUSE
14 16 (0.94%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
14 16 (0.94%) VMS
15 15 (0.88%) Windows 10
16 13 (0.76%) CentOS
17 9 (0.53%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 411 (24.11%) Software Engineering
2 345 (20.23%) Agile Software Development
3 170 (9.97%) Test Automation
4 151 (8.86%) Problem-Solving
5 136 (7.98%) DevOps
5 136 (7.98%) Project Management
6 122 (7.16%) Configuration Management
7 113 (6.63%) SDLC
8 110 (6.45%) Scrum
9 107 (6.28%) Migration
10 104 (6.10%) Unit Testing
11 99 (5.81%) Continuous Integration
12 92 (5.40%) TDD
13 90 (5.28%) UML
14 84 (4.93%) Open Source
15 82 (4.81%) Stakeholder Management
16 80 (4.69%) ITIL
17 79 (4.63%) OO
18 72 (4.22%) Mathematics
19 71 (4.16%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 634 (37.18%) C++
2 425 (24.93%) Python
3 379 (22.23%) Java
4 256 (15.01%) SQL
5 224 (13.14%) C#
6 183 (10.73%) Embedded C
7 174 (10.21%) JavaScript
8 116 (6.80%) Perl
9 108 (6.33%) Ruby
10 89 (5.22%) Bash Shell
11 76 (4.46%) PowerShell
12 66 (3.87%) MATLAB
13 63 (3.70%) Go
14 60 (3.52%) Embedded C++
15 53 (3.11%) Shell Script
16 49 (2.87%) PL/SQL
17 48 (2.82%) PHP
18 31 (1.82%) Ada
19 28 (1.64%) Scala
20 22 (1.29%) R
Qualifications
1 359 (21.06%) Security Cleared
2 233 (13.67%) SC Cleared
3 198 (11.61%) Degree
4 107 (6.28%) DV Cleared
5 38 (2.23%) Computer Science Degree
6 36 (2.11%) Cisco Certification
7 23 (1.35%) CCNP
8 22 (1.29%) CCNA
8 22 (1.29%) ISTQB
9 19 (1.11%) Microsoft Certification
10 13 (0.76%) ISEB
11 12 (0.70%) CISSP
12 11 (0.65%) Master's Degree
13 10 (0.59%) BPSS Clearance
13 10 (0.59%) ITIL Certification
13 10 (0.59%) MCSE
13 10 (0.59%) PhD
14 9 (0.53%) PMP
14 9 (0.53%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 8 (0.47%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (3.05%) MISRA
2 51 (2.99%) QA
3 31 (1.82%) PMO
4 28 (1.64%) MISRA C
5 22 (1.29%) SLA
6 15 (0.88%) DO-178B
7 14 (0.82%) GDPR
8 13 (0.76%) Def Stans
9 10 (0.59%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 9 (0.53%) JSP 440
11 8 (0.47%) HMG Infosec
12 7 (0.41%) IEC 61508
13 6 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
14 5 (0.29%) Data Quality
14 5 (0.29%) ISO 13485
14 5 (0.29%) ISO 20022
14 5 (0.29%) ISO 9001
14 5 (0.29%) MiFID
15 4 (0.23%) IEC 62304
16 3 (0.18%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 78 (4.57%) Docker
2 61 (3.58%) Active Directory
3 57 (3.34%) VMware Infrastructure
4 34 (1.99%) Firmware
5 21 (1.23%) Hyper-V
6 19 (1.11%) VMware ESXi
7 16 (0.94%) vSphere
8 13 (0.76%) Apache Flume
9 12 (0.70%) NFS
10 8 (0.47%) Virtual Machines
11 6 (0.35%) XenDesktop
12 4 (0.23%) Xen
13 3 (0.18%) Microsoft App-V
13 3 (0.18%) Oracle RAC
14 2 (0.12%) ACF2
14 2 (0.12%) KVM
14 2 (0.12%) RACF
14 2 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
14 2 (0.12%) XenApp
15 1 (0.059%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 87 (5.10%) Ansible
2 71 (4.16%) Puppet
3 58 (3.40%) Opscode Chef
4 53 (3.11%) Terraform
5 51 (2.99%) Kubernetes
6 35 (2.05%) Nagios
7 27 (1.58%) Packer
8 18 (1.06%) SCCM
9 17 (1.00%) CFEngine
10 13 (0.76%) Salt
11 11 (0.65%) SELinux
12 10 (0.59%) SCOM
13 9 (0.53%) Perfmon
13 9 (0.53%) vCenter Server
14 8 (0.47%) HP Quality Center
14 8 (0.47%) McAfee ePO
14 8 (0.47%) WSUS
15 7 (0.41%) Cisco CUCM
16 6 (0.35%) HP ALM
16 6 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 168 (9.85%) Microsoft
2 124 (7.27%) Oracle
3 72 (4.22%) VMware
4 58 (3.40%) Cisco
5 54 (3.17%) Splunk
6 45 (2.64%) Red Hat
7 41 (2.40%) Google
8 36 (2.11%) IBM
9 33 (1.94%) New Relic
10 27 (1.58%) EMC
10 27 (1.58%) HP
11 22 (1.29%) F5
12 20 (1.17%) SAP
12 20 (1.17%) Sybase
13 16 (0.94%) Juniper
14 15 (0.88%) Citrix
14 15 (0.88%) NetApp
15 14 (0.82%) McAfee
16 11 (0.65%) Hitachi
16 11 (0.65%) Informatica
1,630 C job vacancies Nationwide