Job Vacancy Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Hourly Rate Histogram Job Locations Skill Sets
Period
to 21 February 2020

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 21 February 2020 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
21 Feb 2020		 Same period 2019 Same period 2018
Rank 127 171 171
Rank change year-on-year +44 0 -43
Contract jobs citing C 1,351 1,664 1,587
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 1.97% 1.68% 1.56%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.83% 3.83% 3.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 770 860 857
UK median daily rate £450 £450 £475
Median daily rate % change year-on-year - -5.26% +11.76%
10th Percentile £325 £308 £313
90th Percentile £625 £638 £663
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £400 £413
% change year-on-year +12.50% -3.03% +3.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 176 207 213
UK median hourly rate £46.00 £43.50 £42.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year +5.75% +3.57% +1.82%
10th Percentile £32.50 £18.70 £22.50
90th Percentile £53.75 £51.35 £52.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.50 £44.00 £42.00
% change year-on-year +3.41% +4.76% +2.44%

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 27,988 43,408 42,654
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 40.89% 43.80% 41.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,048 30,437 29,981
UK median daily rate £475 £475 £460
Median daily rate % change year-on-year - +3.26% +8.24%
10th Percentile £325 £321 £310
90th Percentile £650 £650 £638
UK excluding London median daily rate £430 £425 £400
% change year-on-year +1.18% +6.25% +3.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 591 711 787
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £42.50 £40.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year - +6.25% -
10th Percentile £17.50 £17.00 £16.61
90th Percentile £55.00 £52.50 £52.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.63 £42.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year -2.05% +6.25% -

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 21 February 2020.

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 21 February 2020.

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 21 February 2020. 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 +49 1,281 £457 +1.60% 1,308
UK excluding London +33 991 £450 +12.50% 1,122
London +13 329 £525 +5.00% 261
South West +26 310 £450 - 175
South East +29 265 £450 +12.50% 314
East of England +23 168 £450 +12.50% 204
North of England +38 101 £368 -8.00% 189
Midlands +49 96 £450 +5.88% 164
West Midlands +54 82 £455 +7.06% 114
North West +43 64 £375 - 110
North East +36 24 £360 -20.00% 19
Wales 0 23 £375 -6.25% 21
Scotland +2 22 £495 +50.00% 47
East Midlands +23 13 £375 +8.18% 47
Yorkshire -4 13 £350 -12.50% 60
Northern Ireland +2 5 £400 - 7
Isle of Man - 1 - -

For the 6 months to 21 February 2020, 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.

1 457 (33.83%) Agile Software Development
2 437 (32.35%) C++
3 379 (28.05%) Software Engineering
4 352 (26.05%) Linux
5 295 (21.84%) Python
6 255 (18.87%) Security Cleared
7 185 (13.69%) SC Cleared
8 180 (13.32%) Finance
9 178 (13.18%) Embedded C
10 175 (12.95%) Java
11 171 (12.66%) Degree
12 170 (12.58%) Windows
13 168 (12.44%) SQL
14 165 (12.21%) Problem-Solving
15 148 (10.95%) Analytical Skills
16 146 (10.81%) JIRA
17 144 (10.66%) Scrum
18 129 (9.55%) Test Automation
19 128 (9.47%) Git (software)
19 128 (9.47%) Microsoft
20 124 (9.18%) UML
21 122 (9.03%) C#
22 114 (8.44%) DevOps
23 111 (8.22%) Continuous Integration
24 100 (7.40%) Azure
25 99 (7.33%) Unix
26 96 (7.11%) DV Cleared
27 95 (7.03%) Embedded C++
27 95 (7.03%) Jenkins
28 92 (6.81%) Oracle

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 92 (6.81%) Confluence
2 30 (2.22%) Apache Spark
3 15 (1.11%) SharePoint
4 13 (0.96%) Apache
4 13 (0.96%) CMS
5 11 (0.81%) MS Exchange
5 11 (0.81%) OpenStack
6 8 (0.59%) Elasticsearch
6 8 (0.59%) IIS
7 7 (0.52%) Exchange Server 2010
8 6 (0.44%) Skype for Business
9 5 (0.37%) JBoss
10 4 (0.30%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 4 (0.30%) SAP Portal
10 4 (0.30%) SAS
11 3 (0.22%) Kinematics
11 3 (0.22%) Tomcat
11 3 (0.22%) WebLogic
12 2 (0.15%) Drupal
12 2 (0.15%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 35 (2.59%) Microsoft Office
2 28 (2.07%) Microsoft Excel
3 24 (1.78%) Simulink
4 16 (1.18%) Microsoft Project
5 14 (1.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 14 (1.04%) MS Visio
6 6 (0.44%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.22%) OrCAD
7 3 (0.22%) PlantUML
7 3 (0.22%) Stateflow
8 2 (0.15%) Adobe Illustrator
8 2 (0.15%) Inkscape
9 1 (0.074%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.074%) CATIA
9 1 (0.074%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.074%) FileZilla
9 1 (0.074%) GNU Octave
9 1 (0.074%) Maya
9 1 (0.074%) Notepad++
9 1 (0.074%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 12 (0.89%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (0.67%) FINCAD Analytics
2 9 (0.67%) ION MarketView
3 7 (0.52%) Dynamics NAV
4 5 (0.37%) SAP S/4HANA
5 3 (0.22%) SAP CO
5 3 (0.22%) SAP Convergent Charging
5 3 (0.22%) SAP FI
5 3 (0.22%) SAP FI/CO
5 3 (0.22%) SAP PSCD
6 2 (0.15%) JDE OneWorld
6 2 (0.15%) LabWindows
6 2 (0.15%) NetSuite
6 2 (0.15%) Oracle BPM
6 2 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.15%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 2 (0.15%) SAP SD
6 2 (0.15%) SAP VC
7 1 (0.074%) SAP HR
7 1 (0.074%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 100 (7.40%) Azure
2 85 (6.29%) AWS
3 23 (1.70%) GitHub
4 21 (1.55%) GCP
5 20 (1.48%) Office 365
6 17 (1.26%) IaaS
7 16 (1.18%) Power Platform
7 16 (1.18%) Serverless
8 14 (1.04%) OpenShift
9 13 (0.96%) Datadog
10 11 (0.81%) Dynamics 365
10 11 (0.81%) SaaS
11 10 (0.74%) Amazon S3
11 10 (0.74%) Cloud Computing
11 10 (0.74%) PaaS
12 8 (0.59%) Amazon SQS
12 8 (0.59%) AWS Lambda
12 8 (0.59%) AWS Step Functions
13 7 (0.52%) TestFlight
14 6 (0.44%) Azure Active Directory
Communications & Networking
1 73 (5.40%) TCP/IP
2 70 (5.18%) Internet
3 53 (3.92%) Wireless
4 50 (3.70%) DNS
5 45 (3.33%) DHCP
5 45 (3.33%) IPv6
5 45 (3.33%) Wireshark
6 41 (3.03%) Wi-Fi
7 40 (2.96%) HTTPS
8 39 (2.89%) HTTP
9 37 (2.74%) IPv4
10 36 (2.66%) Firewall
11 28 (2.07%) Ethernet
12 22 (1.63%) VoIP
13 21 (1.55%) LAN
14 18 (1.33%) Network Security
15 17 (1.26%) RS-485
16 15 (1.11%) WAN
17 14 (1.04%) Bluetooth
17 14 (1.04%) RS-232
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (4.44%) SQL Server
2 48 (3.55%) Big Data
3 44 (3.26%) MongoDB
4 43 (3.18%) Hadoop
5 40 (2.96%) MySQL
6 27 (2.00%) NoSQL
6 27 (2.00%) PostgreSQL
7 20 (1.48%) Amazon Redshift
8 18 (1.33%) Relational Database
9 16 (1.18%) Apache Hive
9 16 (1.18%) Power BI
10 15 (1.11%) Data Warehouse
11 14 (1.04%) Oracle Database
12 13 (0.96%) HBase
12 13 (0.96%) KDB
13 11 (0.81%) Data Lake
14 9 (0.67%) Oracle Database 11g
14 9 (0.67%) Oracle Database 12c
14 9 (0.67%) Presto
15 8 (0.59%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 146 (10.81%) JIRA
2 128 (9.47%) Git (software)
3 95 (7.03%) Jenkins
4 45 (3.33%) Rational Rhapsody
5 39 (2.89%) Rational DOORS
6 30 (2.22%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 25 (1.85%) Sonatype Nexus
8 24 (1.78%) ProC
8 24 (1.78%) Selenium
9 23 (1.70%) Maven
10 22 (1.63%) GoogleTest
11 18 (1.33%) Subversion
12 16 (1.18%) Cucumber
13 12 (0.89%) Eclipse
13 12 (0.89%) PVCS
13 12 (0.89%) Xcode
14 11 (0.81%) IBM UrbanCode
14 11 (0.81%) TeamCity
15 10 (0.74%) GitLab
16 9 (0.67%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 180 (13.32%) Finance
2 77 (5.70%) Public Sector
3 67 (4.96%) Military
4 58 (4.29%) Electronics
5 44 (3.26%) Law
5 44 (3.26%) Telecoms
6 38 (2.81%) Manufacturing
7 36 (2.66%) Banking
8 32 (2.37%) Legal
9 30 (2.22%) Marketing
10 22 (1.63%) Aerospace
11 21 (1.55%) Retail
12 20 (1.48%) Front Office
13 16 (1.18%) Local Government
14 15 (1.11%) Automotive
15 14 (1.04%) Games
15 14 (1.04%) Publishing
16 11 (0.81%) Pharmaceutical
17 9 (0.67%) Billing
17 9 (0.67%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 288 (21.32%) Software Engineer
2 270 (19.99%) Developer
3 171 (12.66%) Embedded Engineer
4 137 (10.14%) Embedded Software Engineer
5 104 (7.70%) C++ Software Engineer
6 94 (6.96%) Analyst
7 89 (6.59%) C Software Engineer
8 74 (5.48%) C/C++ Software Engineer
9 59 (4.37%) Architect
10 58 (4.29%) Systems Engineer
11 56 (4.15%) C Developer
12 54 (4.00%) Test Engineer
13 42 (3.11%) Embedded C Engineer
13 42 (3.11%) Project Manager
14 38 (2.81%) Embedded C Software Engineer
14 38 (2.81%) Software Developer
15 33 (2.44%) Business Analyst
15 33 (2.44%) Embedded C++ Engineer
15 33 (2.44%) Senior Developer
16 32 (2.37%) Embedded C++ Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (5.11%) .NET
2 36 (2.66%) Yocto
3 34 (2.52%) AngularJS
4 33 (2.44%) React
4 33 (2.44%) Web Services
4 33 (2.44%) XML
5 30 (2.22%) Node.js
6 27 (2.00%) HTML
7 25 (1.85%) Middleware
7 25 (1.85%) REST
8 24 (1.78%) Gherkin
8 24 (1.78%) Kafka
8 24 (1.78%) POSIX
9 18 (1.33%) CSS
10 15 (1.11%) JSON
11 13 (0.96%) OpenID
11 13 (0.96%) React Native
12 12 (0.89%) .NET Framework
12 12 (0.89%) Backbone.js
12 12 (0.89%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 148 (10.95%) Analytical Skills
2 52 (3.85%) Self-Motivation
3 49 (3.63%) Device Driver
3 49 (3.63%) Management Information System
4 48 (3.55%) Data Centre
5 39 (2.89%) Embedded Systems
6 34 (2.52%) Algorithms
7 30 (2.22%) User Experience
8 28 (2.07%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
9 21 (1.55%) Greenfield Project
10 17 (1.26%) Public Cloud
11 14 (1.04%) ASIC
11 14 (1.04%) Mobile App
11 14 (1.04%) Private Cloud
12 13 (0.96%) Driving Licence
13 12 (0.89%) e-Learning
13 12 (0.89%) Enterprise Software
13 12 (0.89%) Hedge funds
14 11 (0.81%) Fixed Income
14 11 (0.81%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 352 (26.05%) Linux
2 170 (12.58%) Windows
3 99 (7.33%) Unix
4 39 (2.89%) Embedded Linux
5 38 (2.81%) FreeRTOS
6 36 (2.66%) ThreadX
7 34 (2.52%) Windows Server
8 32 (2.37%) Android
9 30 (2.22%) Apple iOS
10 29 (2.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 25 (1.85%) Windows Server 2012
12 19 (1.41%) Windows Server 2008
13 14 (1.04%) AIX
13 14 (1.04%) Windows 10
14 12 (0.89%) Solaris
14 12 (0.89%) Windows Server 2003
15 8 (0.59%) CentOS
15 8 (0.59%) OpenVMS
15 8 (0.59%) VxWorks
16 6 (0.44%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 457 (33.83%) Agile Software Development
2 379 (28.05%) Software Engineering
3 165 (12.21%) Problem-Solving
4 144 (10.66%) Scrum
5 129 (9.55%) Test Automation
6 124 (9.18%) UML
7 114 (8.44%) DevOps
8 111 (8.22%) Continuous Integration
9 91 (6.74%) TDD
10 87 (6.44%) Cybersecurity
11 79 (5.85%) Mentoring
11 79 (5.85%) Stakeholder Management
12 78 (5.77%) Project Management
13 74 (5.48%) Mathematics
14 72 (5.33%) Business Intelligence
15 70 (5.18%) Computer Science
16 65 (4.81%) Configuration Management
16 65 (4.81%) SDLC
16 65 (4.81%) User Stories
17 64 (4.74%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 437 (32.35%) C++
2 295 (21.84%) Python
3 178 (13.18%) Embedded C
4 175 (12.95%) Java
5 168 (12.44%) SQL
6 122 (9.03%) C#
7 95 (7.03%) Embedded C++
8 69 (5.11%) JavaScript
9 58 (4.29%) Perl
10 52 (3.85%) PowerShell
11 51 (3.77%) Bash Shell
11 51 (3.77%) MATLAB
12 41 (3.03%) Ruby
13 23 (1.70%) PL/SQL
14 21 (1.55%) Shell Script
15 20 (1.48%) Scala
16 18 (1.33%) Apple Swift
16 18 (1.33%) Objective-C
17 17 (1.26%) Go
18 15 (1.11%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 255 (18.87%) Security Cleared
2 185 (13.69%) SC Cleared
3 171 (12.66%) Degree
4 96 (7.11%) DV Cleared
5 35 (2.59%) Computer Science Degree
6 23 (1.70%) Cisco Certification
7 18 (1.33%) ISTQB
8 16 (1.18%) CCNA
8 16 (1.18%) CISSP
9 15 (1.11%) BPSS Clearance
9 15 (1.11%) ISEB
9 15 (1.11%) Microsoft Certification
10 12 (0.89%) CCNP
11 10 (0.74%) APMP
11 10 (0.74%) GIAC
11 10 (0.74%) HND
12 9 (0.67%) CISM
12 9 (0.67%) SANS
13 8 (0.59%) Numerate Degree
13 8 (0.59%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (4.29%) QA
2 21 (1.55%) SLA
3 18 (1.33%) MISRA
4 14 (1.04%) PMO
5 13 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 10 (0.74%) Def Stans
7 9 (0.67%) MISRA C
8 7 (0.52%) NIST
9 6 (0.44%) IEC 61508
9 6 (0.44%) JTAG
10 5 (0.37%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 4 (0.30%) DO-254
11 4 (0.30%) GDPR
11 4 (0.30%) ISO 9001
12 3 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
12 3 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 3 (0.22%) ECSS
12 3 (0.22%) ISO 14001
12 3 (0.22%) JSP 440
12 3 (0.22%) RMADS
System Software
1 62 (4.59%) Docker
2 44 (3.26%) Active Directory
3 29 (2.15%) Firmware
3 29 (2.15%) VMware Infrastructure
4 28 (2.07%) Virtual Machines
5 12 (0.89%) VMware ESXi
6 11 (0.81%) HDFS
6 11 (0.81%) vSphere
7 10 (0.74%) Hyper-V
8 9 (0.67%) XenApp
9 8 (0.59%) XenDesktop
10 4 (0.30%) RACF
10 4 (0.30%) Snort
11 3 (0.22%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 3 (0.22%) NFS
11 3 (0.22%) VMware NSX
12 2 (0.15%) Samba
12 2 (0.15%) VirtualBox
12 2 (0.15%) Xen
13 1 (0.074%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 42 (3.11%) Ansible
1 42 (3.11%) Kubernetes
2 35 (2.59%) Puppet
3 31 (2.29%) Opscode Chef
4 16 (1.18%) Nagios
5 13 (0.96%) HP ALM
5 13 (0.96%) Terraform
6 11 (0.81%) Hadoop YARN
7 9 (0.67%) Packer
8 8 (0.59%) HP Quality Center
9 7 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
10 6 (0.44%) SCCM
11 5 (0.37%) Cisco CUCM
11 5 (0.37%) Rancher
11 5 (0.37%) vCenter Server
12 4 (0.30%) AirWatch
12 4 (0.30%) Grafana
12 4 (0.30%) Network Intrusion Detection System
12 4 (0.30%) OSSEC
12 4 (0.30%) SCOM
Vendors
1 128 (9.47%) Microsoft
2 92 (6.81%) Oracle
3 67 (4.96%) Google
4 59 (4.37%) Atlassian
5 48 (3.55%) Cisco
6 47 (3.48%) VMware
7 43 (3.18%) SAP
8 33 (2.44%) Apple
9 21 (1.55%) Red Hat
10 20 (1.48%) IBM
11 17 (1.26%) HP
11 17 (1.26%) Splunk
12 16 (1.18%) Citrix
13 14 (1.04%) EMC
14 13 (0.96%) Juniper
14 13 (0.96%) New Relic
15 12 (0.89%) Hortonworks
15 12 (0.89%) TIBCO
16 11 (0.81%) Adobe
16 11 (0.81%) Salesforce.com
1,392 C job vacancies Nationwide