Job Vacancy Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Hourly Rate Histogram Job Locations Skill Sets
Period
to 18 July 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 18 July 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
18 Jul 2018		 Same period 2017 Same period 2016
Rank 168 146 128
Rank change year-on-year -22 -18 -1
Contract jobs citing C 1,665 1,698 2,127
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 1.61% 1.79% 1.93%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.67% 4.30% 5.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 883 917 1,078
UK median daily rate £475 £450 £400
Median daily rate % change year-on-year +5.56% +12.50% +6.67%
10th Percentile £307 £306 £269
90th Percentile £655 £650 £600
UK excluding London median daily rate £413 £413 £375
% change year-on-year - +10.00% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 213 201 299
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £42.50 £39.50
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year - +7.59% +5.33%
10th Percentile £20.25 £26.25 £14.10
90th Percentile £50.00 £52.50 £52.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.50 £42.50 £39.75
% change year-on-year - +6.92% +6.71%

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 45,309 39,501 42,553
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 43.78% 41.57% 38.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 31,707 27,068 29,190
UK median daily rate £460 £440 £425
Median daily rate % change year-on-year +4.63% +3.53% +6.25%
10th Percentile £313 £300 £275
90th Percentile £638 £625 £599
UK excluding London median daily rate £413 £400 £375
% change year-on-year +3.13% +6.67% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 789 805 932
UK median hourly rate £41.00 £41.00 £37.50
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year - +9.33% +7.14%
10th Percentile £16.25 £16.25 £14.00
90th Percentile £52.50 £53.75 £51.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.63 £42.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -3.27% +12.00% +7.14%

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 18 July 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 18 July 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 18 July 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 -14 1,557 £475 +5.56% 1,190
UK excluding London -11 1,020 £413 - 1,010
London -32 608 £540 +8.00% 250
South East -9 370 £425 +4.94% 243
South West +17 202 £405 +5.19% 156
East of England -12 157 £475 +11.76% 208
North of England +4 142 £375 -10.71% 184
Midlands -48 72 £387 +10.64% 149
North West -23 66 £400 -11.11% 91
Wales -3 47 £400 -5.88% 27
West Midlands -45 44 £400 +16.64% 109
North East +36 41 £363 -50.00% 32
Yorkshire -33 35 £400 - 61
East Midlands -5 27 £375 +7.14% 40
Scotland -60 27 £450 +50.00% 35
Northern Ireland +1 2 £215 -47.88% 6
Channel Islands - 2 - - 2

For the 6 months to 18 July 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.

1 573 (34.41%) C++
2 426 (25.59%) Linux
3 421 (25.29%) Software Engineering
4 387 (23.24%) Agile Software Development
5 380 (22.82%) Python
6 371 (22.28%) Java
6 371 (22.28%) Security Cleared
7 268 (16.10%) Finance
8 251 (15.08%) SC Cleared
9 243 (14.59%) SQL
10 219 (13.15%) Windows
11 203 (12.19%) Degree
12 184 (11.05%) C#
13 173 (10.39%) Microsoft
14 166 (9.97%) JavaScript
15 164 (9.85%) Embedded C
16 155 (9.31%) Problem-Solving
17 154 (9.25%) Git (software)
18 149 (8.95%) Amazon AWS
19 139 (8.35%) DevOps
20 137 (8.23%) Test Automation
21 131 (7.87%) Oracle
22 130 (7.81%) Configuration Management
23 129 (7.75%) Unix
24 121 (7.27%) Project Management
25 117 (7.03%) Analytical Skills
26 114 (6.85%) Perl
27 112 (6.73%) Continuous Integration
28 110 (6.61%) SQL Server
28 110 (6.61%) Jenkins

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 52 (3.12%) SharePoint
2 32 (1.92%) Apache Spark
3 29 (1.74%) Apache
4 28 (1.68%) MS Exchange
5 27 (1.62%) Confluence
6 25 (1.50%) CMS
7 23 (1.38%) WebSphere
8 20 (1.20%) Elasticsearch
9 17 (1.02%) Ethereum
9 17 (1.02%) IIS
9 17 (1.02%) OpenStack
10 16 (0.96%) JBoss
11 15 (0.90%) Hyperledger
12 14 (0.84%) Skype for Business
13 11 (0.66%) WebSphere Portal
14 10 (0.60%) Oracle SOA Suite
15 9 (0.54%) Exchange Server 2010
16 8 (0.48%) IBM Notes
17 6 (0.36%) Apache Solr
17 6 (0.36%) WebLogic
Applications
1 59 (3.54%) Microsoft Office
2 51 (3.06%) Microsoft Excel
3 36 (2.16%) Simulink
4 20 (1.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 18 (1.08%) MS Visio
6 16 (0.96%) Microsoft Project
7 5 (0.30%) SPSS
8 3 (0.18%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 3 (0.18%) Stateflow
9 2 (0.12%) AutoCAD
9 2 (0.12%) Shockwave
9 2 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
10 1 (0.060%) Chatbot
10 1 (0.060%) EPLAN
10 1 (0.060%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 18 (1.08%) Dynamics NAV
2 13 (0.78%) Oracle BPM
3 8 (0.48%) ION MarketView
4 5 (0.30%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (0.30%) SAP S/4HANA
5 4 (0.24%) Distributed Ledger
5 4 (0.24%) LabWindows
5 4 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
5 4 (0.24%) SAP ERP
6 3 (0.18%) SAP PM
6 3 (0.18%) SAP SRM
7 2 (0.12%) Cerner Millennium
7 2 (0.12%) Dynamics AX
7 2 (0.12%) Elite 3E
7 2 (0.12%) Lorenzo
7 2 (0.12%) MultiChain
7 2 (0.12%) Sage 200
7 2 (0.12%) Sage CRM
7 2 (0.12%) SAP HR
7 2 (0.12%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 149 (8.95%) Amazon AWS
2 99 (5.95%) Microsoft Azure
3 43 (2.58%) Office 365
4 33 (1.98%) Cloud Computing
5 32 (1.92%) Datadog
6 31 (1.86%) GitHub
7 29 (1.74%) Google Cloud Platform
8 21 (1.26%) IaaS
8 21 (1.26%) PaaS
9 18 (1.08%) SaaS
10 12 (0.72%) NuGet
11 8 (0.48%) Amazon EC2
11 8 (0.48%) Amazon S3
11 8 (0.48%) Dynamics 365
12 7 (0.42%) OpenShift
13 6 (0.36%) AWS CloudFormation
13 6 (0.36%) G Suite
14 4 (0.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 4 (0.24%) Force.com
14 4 (0.24%) IBM Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 74 (4.44%) Firewall
2 56 (3.36%) DNS
3 53 (3.18%) Wireless
4 49 (2.94%) TCP/IP
5 41 (2.46%) DHCP
6 40 (2.40%) Network Security
7 34 (2.04%) Internet
8 31 (1.86%) Ethernet
9 29 (1.74%) Wi-Fi
10 28 (1.68%) Bluetooth
10 28 (1.68%) VoIP
10 28 (1.68%) Wireshark
11 26 (1.56%) LAN
11 26 (1.56%) VPN
12 25 (1.50%) WAN
13 24 (1.44%) SAN
14 23 (1.38%) HTTP
15 20 (1.20%) SNMP
16 17 (1.02%) Unified Communications
17 16 (0.96%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 110 (6.61%) SQL Server
2 61 (3.66%) Relational Database
3 56 (3.36%) Big Data
4 46 (2.76%) NoSQL
4 46 (2.76%) Oracle Database
5 42 (2.52%) MySQL
6 38 (2.28%) Hadoop
6 38 (2.28%) PostgreSQL
7 33 (1.98%) Blockchain
8 28 (1.68%) Apache Cassandra
8 28 (1.68%) HBase
9 27 (1.62%) GIS
10 26 (1.56%) RDBMS
11 24 (1.44%) Amazon Redshift
11 24 (1.44%) MongoDB
12 22 (1.32%) Data Warehouse
13 20 (1.20%) Oracle Database 11g
14 19 (1.14%) Oracle Database 10g
15 18 (1.08%) Power BI
16 15 (0.90%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 154 (9.25%) Git (software)
2 110 (6.61%) Jenkins
3 94 (5.65%) JIRA
4 62 (3.72%) Subversion
5 55 (3.30%) TeamCity
6 53 (3.18%) Rational DOORS
7 51 (3.06%) Visual Studio
8 44 (2.64%) Selenium
9 38 (2.28%) GDB
10 36 (2.16%) JUnit
11 34 (2.04%) Rational Rhapsody
12 29 (1.74%) Team Foundation Server
13 27 (1.62%) ProC
14 22 (1.32%) Rational Team Concert
15 17 (1.02%) LoadRunner
16 15 (0.90%) Eclipse
16 15 (0.90%) GCC
16 15 (0.90%) JMeter
16 15 (0.90%) Mercurial
16 15 (0.90%) NUnit
General
1 268 (16.10%) Finance
2 96 (5.77%) Banking
3 62 (3.72%) Electronics
4 48 (2.88%) Telecoms
5 43 (2.58%) Law
6 38 (2.28%) Retail
7 27 (1.62%) Automotive
8 26 (1.56%) Front Office
9 25 (1.50%) Marketing
10 24 (1.44%) Military
11 23 (1.38%) Manufacturing
12 22 (1.32%) Aerospace
13 20 (1.20%) Investment Banking
14 19 (1.14%) Games
15 16 (0.96%) Back Office
16 15 (0.90%) Legal
17 8 (0.48%) French Language
17 8 (0.48%) Mandarin Language
17 8 (0.48%) Retail Banking
18 7 (0.42%) German Language
Job Titles
1 372 (22.34%) Developer
2 291 (17.48%) Software Engineer
3 134 (8.05%) Embedded Engineer
4 133 (7.99%) Analyst
5 116 (6.97%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 85 (5.11%) Architect
7 70 (4.20%) C++ Software Engineer
8 68 (4.08%) Java Developer
9 64 (3.84%) DevOps Engineer
10 63 (3.78%) Project Manager
11 54 (3.24%) C++ Developer
12 50 (3.00%) Consultant
13 49 (2.94%) Business Analyst
14 48 (2.88%) Test Engineer
15 47 (2.82%) C Developer
16 44 (2.64%) C Software Engineer
17 40 (2.40%) Embedded C Engineer
17 40 (2.40%) Senior Software Engineer
18 39 (2.34%) Python Developer
19 35 (2.10%) Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 108 (6.49%) .NET
2 105 (6.31%) Web Services
3 88 (5.29%) XML
4 64 (3.84%) HTML
4 64 (3.84%) REST
5 54 (3.24%) CSS
5 54 (3.24%) J2EE
6 49 (2.94%) AngularJS
7 39 (2.34%) Node.js
8 35 (2.10%) Middleware
9 34 (2.04%) Kafka
10 32 (1.92%) Elastic Stack
10 32 (1.92%) JSON
10 32 (1.92%) React
11 29 (1.74%) RESTful
11 29 (1.74%) SOAP
12 28 (1.68%) jQuery
12 28 (1.68%) OpenGL
12 28 (1.68%) Spring
13 24 (1.44%) JSF
Miscellaneous
1 117 (7.03%) Analytical Skills
2 97 (5.83%) Computer Science
3 80 (4.80%) Data Centre
4 70 (4.20%) Self-Motivation
5 61 (3.66%) Algorithms
6 56 (3.36%) Embedded Systems
7 43 (2.58%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
8 41 (2.46%) Management Information System
8 41 (2.46%) User Experience
9 38 (2.28%) Greenfield Project
10 27 (1.62%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 26 (1.56%) Fixed Income
12 24 (1.44%) Device Driver
12 24 (1.44%) Mobile App
13 22 (1.32%) CMDB
13 22 (1.32%) Fintech
14 20 (1.20%) Equities
15 19 (1.14%) PKI
16 18 (1.08%) Data Structures
17 17 (1.02%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 426 (25.59%) Linux
2 219 (13.15%) Windows
3 129 (7.75%) Unix
4 59 (3.54%) Android
5 53 (3.18%) Windows Server
6 40 (2.40%) Embedded Linux
7 37 (2.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 30 (1.80%) Windows Server 2008
9 29 (1.74%) Apple iOS
10 26 (1.56%) Windows Server 2012
11 20 (1.20%) Solaris
12 17 (1.02%) AIX
13 15 (0.90%) VxWorks
14 14 (0.84%) FreeRTOS
14 14 (0.84%) OpenVMS
14 14 (0.84%) VMS
14 14 (0.84%) Windows 7
15 11 (0.66%) Windows 10
16 10 (0.60%) CentOS
17 8 (0.48%) SafeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 421 (25.29%) Software Engineering
2 387 (23.24%) Agile Software Development
3 155 (9.31%) Problem-Solving
4 139 (8.35%) DevOps
5 137 (8.23%) Test Automation
6 130 (7.81%) Configuration Management
7 121 (7.27%) Project Management
8 112 (6.73%) Continuous Integration
9 109 (6.55%) UML
10 108 (6.49%) Open Source
11 105 (6.31%) Scrum
12 100 (6.01%) SDLC
13 98 (5.89%) Migration
14 94 (5.65%) TDD
15 84 (5.05%) Stakeholder Management
16 83 (4.98%) Analytics
17 80 (4.80%) OO
18 76 (4.56%) ITIL
19 69 (4.14%) Waterfall
20 68 (4.08%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 573 (34.41%) C++
2 380 (22.82%) Python
3 371 (22.28%) Java
4 243 (14.59%) SQL
5 184 (11.05%) C#
6 166 (9.97%) JavaScript
7 164 (9.85%) Embedded C
8 114 (6.85%) Perl
9 106 (6.37%) Ruby
10 89 (5.35%) Bash Shell
11 80 (4.80%) Embedded C++
12 70 (4.20%) PowerShell
13 65 (3.90%) MATLAB
14 56 (3.36%) Go
15 53 (3.18%) PL/SQL
16 46 (2.76%) Shell Script
17 35 (2.10%) PHP
18 25 (1.50%) Ada
18 25 (1.50%) Scala
19 22 (1.32%) Assembly Language
Qualifications
1 371 (22.28%) Security Cleared
2 251 (15.08%) SC Cleared
3 203 (12.19%) Degree
4 96 (5.77%) DV Cleared
5 31 (1.86%) Cisco Certification
6 22 (1.32%) Microsoft Certification
7 21 (1.26%) Computer Science Degree
8 18 (1.08%) CCNP
9 16 (0.96%) ISTQB
9 16 (0.96%) Master's Degree
10 15 (0.90%) BPSS Clearance
10 15 (0.90%) CCNA
11 14 (0.84%) CISSP
11 14 (0.84%) ISEB
11 14 (0.84%) PhD
12 11 (0.66%) MCSE
13 10 (0.60%) AWS Certification
13 10 (0.60%) PMP
14 9 (0.54%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 8 (0.48%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (2.58%) QA
2 38 (2.28%) MISRA
3 30 (1.80%) PMO
4 28 (1.68%) SLA
5 25 (1.50%) GCP
5 25 (1.50%) GDPR
6 21 (1.26%) MISRA C
7 16 (0.96%) Data Quality
7 16 (0.96%) Def Stans
8 14 (0.84%) DO-178B
9 11 (0.66%) ISO 9001
10 9 (0.54%) IEC 62304
11 8 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 7 (0.42%) MiFID
13 6 (0.36%) SEPA
14 5 (0.30%) IEC 61508
14 5 (0.30%) ISO 13485
15 4 (0.24%) ARP4754
15 4 (0.24%) PCI DSS
16 3 (0.18%) JTAG
System Software
1 86 (5.17%) Docker
2 80 (4.80%) Active Directory
3 58 (3.48%) VMware Infrastructure
4 40 (2.40%) Firmware
5 23 (1.38%) vSphere
6 21 (1.26%) Hyper-V
7 19 (1.14%) Apache Flume
8 15 (0.90%) NFS
8 15 (0.90%) VMware ESXi
9 11 (0.66%) Virtual Machines
10 6 (0.36%) Xen
11 5 (0.30%) StorNext
12 4 (0.24%) XenDesktop
13 3 (0.18%) Oracle RAC
13 3 (0.18%) QEMU
13 3 (0.18%) Snort
13 3 (0.18%) Veritas Cluster Server
14 2 (0.12%) HDFS
14 2 (0.12%) iptables
14 2 (0.12%) KVM
Systems Management
1 75 (4.50%) Ansible
2 70 (4.20%) Puppet
3 51 (3.06%) Terraform
4 50 (3.00%) Kubernetes
5 47 (2.82%) Opscode Chef
6 35 (2.10%) Nagios
7 30 (1.80%) Packer
8 17 (1.02%) SELinux
9 12 (0.72%) SCCM
10 11 (0.66%) Tivoli Storage Manager
11 10 (0.60%) Salt
11 10 (0.60%) WSUS
12 9 (0.54%) Cisco Prime
12 9 (0.54%) Perfmon
13 8 (0.48%) Cisco CUCM
13 8 (0.48%) Consul
13 8 (0.48%) SCOM
14 7 (0.42%) HP Quality Center
14 7 (0.42%) McAfee ePO
15 6 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 173 (10.39%) Microsoft
2 131 (7.87%) Oracle
3 79 (4.74%) Cisco
4 73 (4.38%) VMware
5 52 (3.12%) Splunk
6 49 (2.94%) Google
7 38 (2.28%) IBM
8 33 (1.98%) New Relic
9 32 (1.92%) Red Hat
10 31 (1.86%) HP
11 26 (1.56%) Atlassian
11 26 (1.56%) EMC
12 25 (1.50%) SAP
13 22 (1.32%) NetApp
14 19 (1.14%) Talend
15 17 (1.02%) Citrix
15 17 (1.02%) Sybase
16 13 (0.78%) Adobe
16 13 (0.78%) McAfee
16 13 (0.78%) Tableau
1,269 C job vacancies Nationwide