Job Vacancy Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Hourly Rate Histogram Job Locations Skill Sets
Period
to 16 November 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 16 November 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
16 Nov 2018		 Same period 2017 Same period 2016
Rank 165 164 128
Rank change year-on-year -1 -36 -4
Contract jobs citing C 1,750 1,644 2,172
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 1.68% 1.60% 2.05%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.77% 3.81% 5.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 972 847 1,174
UK median daily rate £461 £438 £415
Median daily rate % change year-on-year +5.43% +5.42% +4.40%
10th Percentile £313 £302 £263
90th Percentile £650 £675 £579
UK excluding London median daily rate £410 £400 £375
% change year-on-year +2.50% +6.67% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 199 189 251
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £42.00 £40.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year +1.19% +5.00% +5.26%
10th Percentile £22.25 £26.25 £16.01
90th Percentile £50.25 £52.50 £52.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.50 £42.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +1.19% +5.00% +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 46,417 43,161 42,827
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 44.66% 41.94% 40.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 32,637 30,153 29,384
UK median daily rate £475 £450 £425
Median daily rate % change year-on-year +5.56% +5.88% +6.25%
10th Percentile £315 £308 £281
90th Percentile £638 £638 £588
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £400 £375
% change year-on-year +6.25% +6.67% +1.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 686 804 897
UK median hourly rate £41.53 £40.00 £37.50
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year +3.83% +6.67% +1.35%
10th Percentile £16.46 £16.25 £14.25
90th Percentile £52.50 £52.50 £52.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.00 £40.31 £37.50
% change year-on-year +4.21% +7.48% -

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 16 November 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 16 November 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 16 November 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 1,624 £475 +5.56% 1,639
UK excluding London +9 1,111 £410 +2.50% 1,386
London +5 604 £525 +5.00% 366
South East +41 356 £400 - 287
South West 0 219 £425 +13.33% 201
East of England -12 191 £450 +5.88% 288
North of England +26 152 £375 -16.67% 253
Midlands -27 92 £425 +21.43% 247
North West +11 78 £375 -21.05% 137
Yorkshire +14 57 £400 -5.88% 72
West Midlands -31 57 £469 +44.23% 182
Wales +2 53 £425 +13.33% 32
East Midlands +1 32 £365 -8.86% 64
Scotland -18 29 £369 -2.70% 59
North East -2 17 £365 -17.05% 44
Northern Ireland +24 16 £400 -2.44% 22
Channel Islands - 5 - -

For the 6 months to 16 November 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.

1 647 (36.97%) C++
2 440 (25.14%) Software Engineering
3 405 (23.14%) Linux
4 402 (22.97%) Python
5 371 (21.20%) Java
6 349 (19.94%) Agile Software Development
7 325 (18.57%) Security Cleared
8 292 (16.69%) Finance
9 239 (13.66%) SQL
10 229 (13.09%) Windows
11 224 (12.80%) C#
12 205 (11.71%) SC Cleared
13 189 (10.80%) Embedded C
14 181 (10.34%) Degree
15 175 (10.00%) Git (software)
16 164 (9.37%) Microsoft
17 162 (9.26%) JavaScript
18 155 (8.86%) Problem-Solving
19 152 (8.69%) Unix
20 149 (8.51%) Test Automation
21 144 (8.23%) Analytical Skills
22 132 (7.54%) Project Management
23 131 (7.49%) Microsoft Azure
24 126 (7.20%) DevOps
25 124 (7.09%) .NET
25 124 (7.09%) Unit Testing
26 123 (7.03%) Oracle
26 123 (7.03%) Scrum
27 119 (6.80%) Amazon AWS
28 116 (6.63%) DV Cleared

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 47 (2.69%) Confluence
2 45 (2.57%) SharePoint
3 29 (1.66%) CMS
4 26 (1.49%) Apache
5 20 (1.14%) WebSphere
6 19 (1.09%) JBoss
7 16 (0.91%) Apache Spark
8 15 (0.86%) MS Exchange
9 14 (0.80%) OpenStack
10 13 (0.74%) Elasticsearch
11 11 (0.63%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 10 (0.57%) Apache Pig
12 10 (0.57%) SAS
12 10 (0.57%) Skype for Business
13 8 (0.46%) IIS
14 6 (0.34%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 6 (0.34%) Tomcat
14 6 (0.34%) WebLogic
15 5 (0.29%) Apache Solr
16 4 (0.23%) Gentran
Applications
1 65 (3.71%) Microsoft Office
2 62 (3.54%) Microsoft Excel
3 42 (2.40%) Simulink
4 18 (1.03%) Microsoft Project
5 17 (0.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 12 (0.69%) MS Visio
7 6 (0.34%) SPSS
8 4 (0.23%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 4 (0.23%) Stateflow
9 3 (0.17%) AutoCAD
9 3 (0.17%) Maya
9 3 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
10 2 (0.11%) InVision
11 1 (0.057%) Camtasia
11 1 (0.057%) EViews
11 1 (0.057%) GNU Octave
11 1 (0.057%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.057%) Shockwave
Business Applications
1 19 (1.09%) Dynamics NAV
2 7 (0.40%) Primavera
3 6 (0.34%) Oracle BPM
3 6 (0.34%) Workday HCM
4 5 (0.29%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (0.29%) SAP S/4HANA
5 4 (0.23%) AquaLogic BPM
5 4 (0.23%) LabWindows
6 3 (0.17%) Distributed Ledger
6 3 (0.17%) Remedy ITSM
7 2 (0.11%) Cerner Millennium
7 2 (0.11%) Lorenzo
7 2 (0.11%) Markit EDM
7 2 (0.11%) Oracle BRM
7 2 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
7 2 (0.11%) Oracle Receivables
7 2 (0.11%) Sage 200
7 2 (0.11%) Sage CRM
7 2 (0.11%) Salesforce.com CRM
7 2 (0.11%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 131 (7.49%) Microsoft Azure
2 119 (6.80%) Amazon AWS
3 44 (2.51%) Office 365
4 37 (2.11%) PaaS
5 36 (2.06%) Cloud Computing
6 33 (1.89%) SaaS
7 25 (1.43%) Google Cloud Platform
8 20 (1.14%) GitHub
9 17 (0.97%) IaaS
10 16 (0.91%) NuGet
11 14 (0.80%) Serverless
12 11 (0.63%) Amazon EC2
12 11 (0.63%) Amazon S3
13 9 (0.51%) Amazon EMR
13 9 (0.51%) Datadog
14 7 (0.40%) AWS Lambda
15 6 (0.34%) Akamai
15 6 (0.34%) Amazon Alexa
15 6 (0.34%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 6 (0.34%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 79 (4.51%) TCP/IP
2 67 (3.83%) Wireless
3 59 (3.37%) HTTP
4 58 (3.31%) DNS
4 58 (3.31%) Firewall
5 47 (2.69%) VoIP
6 45 (2.57%) Internet
7 39 (2.23%) Wi-Fi
8 37 (2.11%) DHCP
9 35 (2.00%) Bluetooth
10 33 (1.89%) SNMP
10 33 (1.89%) VPN
11 30 (1.71%) WAN
12 28 (1.60%) Network Security
13 27 (1.54%) SSL
14 26 (1.49%) SAN
15 25 (1.43%) Wireshark
16 24 (1.37%) LAN
17 19 (1.09%) BIG-IP
18 18 (1.03%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 90 (5.14%) SQL Server
2 59 (3.37%) MySQL
3 40 (2.29%) Hadoop
3 40 (2.29%) Relational Database
4 37 (2.11%) Oracle Database
5 31 (1.77%) Big Data
6 29 (1.66%) PostgreSQL
7 27 (1.54%) Data Warehouse
8 24 (1.37%) NoSQL
9 23 (1.31%) Blockchain
10 22 (1.26%) HBase
11 21 (1.20%) MongoDB
12 20 (1.14%) Azure SQL Database
12 20 (1.14%) RDBMS
13 19 (1.09%) Apache Hive
14 18 (1.03%) Cosmos DB
15 16 (0.91%) Amazon Redshift
15 16 (0.91%) Apache Cassandra
15 16 (0.91%) MariaDB
16 13 (0.74%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 175 (10.00%) Git (software)
2 108 (6.17%) Jenkins
3 98 (5.60%) JIRA
4 72 (4.11%) Subversion
5 54 (3.09%) Visual Studio
6 52 (2.97%) Selenium
7 45 (2.57%) Rational DOORS
8 42 (2.40%) TeamCity
9 33 (1.89%) JUnit
10 30 (1.71%) Gradle
10 30 (1.71%) Rational Rhapsody
11 25 (1.43%) ClearCase
11 25 (1.43%) ProC
12 24 (1.37%) GDB
12 24 (1.37%) NUnit
12 24 (1.37%) Rational Team Concert
13 23 (1.31%) Ant
13 23 (1.31%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 22 (1.26%) PVCS
15 20 (1.14%) MSBuild
General
1 292 (16.69%) Finance
2 115 (6.57%) Banking
3 61 (3.49%) Electronics
4 58 (3.31%) Telecoms
5 54 (3.09%) Automotive
6 40 (2.29%) Law
6 40 (2.29%) Retail
7 33 (1.89%) Front Office
8 30 (1.71%) Games
8 30 (1.71%) Manufacturing
9 27 (1.54%) Aerospace
10 19 (1.09%) Military
11 18 (1.03%) Avionics
11 18 (1.03%) Marketing
12 16 (0.91%) Legal
13 13 (0.74%) Investment Banking
14 11 (0.63%) Mandarin Language
15 10 (0.57%) Billing
16 9 (0.51%) Retail Banking
17 8 (0.46%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 491 (28.06%) Developer
2 286 (16.34%) Software Engineer
3 155 (8.86%) Embedded Engineer
4 138 (7.89%) Embedded Software Engineer
5 132 (7.54%) Analyst
6 103 (5.89%) Architect
7 84 (4.80%) C++ Developer
8 68 (3.89%) C Developer
9 67 (3.83%) Java Developer
10 66 (3.77%) C++ Software Engineer
11 65 (3.71%) Project Manager
12 57 (3.26%) Consultant
13 55 (3.14%) C Software Engineer
14 53 (3.03%) DevOps Engineer
15 47 (2.69%) Software Developer
16 45 (2.57%) Tester
17 43 (2.46%) Test Engineer
18 42 (2.40%) Embedded C Engineer
19 37 (2.11%) Embedded C Software Engineer
20 36 (2.06%) Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 124 (7.09%) .NET
2 110 (6.29%) XML
3 93 (5.31%) HTML
4 81 (4.63%) AngularJS
5 73 (4.17%) Web Services
6 71 (4.06%) CSS
7 68 (3.89%) REST
8 49 (2.80%) HTML5
9 47 (2.69%) SOAP
10 44 (2.51%) JSON
10 44 (2.51%) React
11 41 (2.34%) CSS3
12 38 (2.17%) J2EE
12 38 (2.17%) Node.js
13 35 (2.00%) .NET Framework
14 31 (1.77%) RESTful
15 30 (1.71%) STL
16 28 (1.60%) Middleware
16 28 (1.60%) Spring
17 27 (1.54%) Android SDK
Miscellaneous
1 144 (8.23%) Analytical Skills
2 111 (6.34%) Computer Science
3 71 (4.06%) Embedded Systems
4 65 (3.71%) Self-Motivation
5 55 (3.14%) Algorithms
6 53 (3.03%) Greenfield Project
7 52 (2.97%) Data Centre
8 44 (2.51%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
9 42 (2.40%) Management Information System
10 38 (2.17%) Fintech
11 31 (1.77%) Fixed Income
12 29 (1.66%) User Experience
13 28 (1.60%) Derivative
14 27 (1.54%) Device Driver
15 23 (1.31%) Mobile App
16 18 (1.03%) Linux Command Line
17 16 (0.91%) PKI
18 13 (0.74%) Mainframe
18 13 (0.74%) VHDL
19 12 (0.69%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 405 (23.14%) Linux
2 229 (13.09%) Windows
3 152 (8.69%) Unix
4 93 (5.31%) Android
5 44 (2.51%) Windows Server
6 43 (2.46%) Apple iOS
7 36 (2.06%) Embedded Linux
8 35 (2.00%) Windows 7
9 31 (1.77%) Solaris
10 27 (1.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 26 (1.49%) OpenVMS
12 25 (1.43%) Windows Server 2008
13 21 (1.20%) Windows Server 2012
14 19 (1.09%) Windows 8
15 17 (0.97%) Windows 10
16 16 (0.91%) SUSE
16 16 (0.91%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
17 12 (0.69%) Kali Linux
18 11 (0.63%) AIX
18 11 (0.63%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 440 (25.14%) Software Engineering
2 349 (19.94%) Agile Software Development
3 155 (8.86%) Problem-Solving
4 149 (8.51%) Test Automation
5 132 (7.54%) Project Management
6 126 (7.20%) DevOps
7 124 (7.09%) Unit Testing
8 123 (7.03%) Scrum
9 114 (6.51%) SDLC
10 104 (5.94%) Migration
11 98 (5.60%) Configuration Management
12 95 (5.43%) Continuous Integration
13 89 (5.09%) Mathematics
14 88 (5.03%) OO
14 88 (5.03%) TDD
15 85 (4.86%) UML
16 82 (4.69%) Microservices
17 79 (4.51%) Stakeholder Management
18 68 (3.89%) Open Source
19 67 (3.83%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 647 (36.97%) C++
2 402 (22.97%) Python
3 371 (21.20%) Java
4 239 (13.66%) SQL
5 224 (12.80%) C#
6 189 (10.80%) Embedded C
7 162 (9.26%) JavaScript
8 95 (5.43%) Perl
9 93 (5.31%) Ruby
10 81 (4.63%) Bash Shell
11 74 (4.23%) MATLAB
11 74 (4.23%) PowerShell
12 67 (3.83%) Embedded C++
13 63 (3.60%) Go
14 50 (2.86%) Shell Script
15 46 (2.63%) PHP
16 45 (2.57%) PL/SQL
17 30 (1.71%) Objective-C
18 27 (1.54%) Scala
19 24 (1.37%) Ada
Qualifications
1 325 (18.57%) Security Cleared
2 205 (11.71%) SC Cleared
3 181 (10.34%) Degree
4 116 (6.63%) DV Cleared
5 45 (2.57%) Computer Science Degree
6 33 (1.89%) Cisco Certification
7 23 (1.31%) CCNA
8 22 (1.26%) CCNP
9 17 (0.97%) ISTQB
10 15 (0.86%) CISSP
10 15 (0.86%) Microsoft Certification
11 12 (0.69%) MCSE
11 12 (0.69%) PhD
11 12 (0.69%) PMI Certification
12 11 (0.63%) CREST Certified
12 11 (0.63%) ITIL Certification
12 11 (0.63%) OSCE
12 11 (0.63%) SANS
13 10 (0.57%) Master's Degree
13 10 (0.57%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (3.20%) MISRA
2 51 (2.91%) QA
3 31 (1.77%) MISRA C
4 29 (1.66%) PMO
5 23 (1.31%) SLA
6 18 (1.03%) JSP 440
7 16 (0.91%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 15 (0.86%) HMG Infosec
9 14 (0.80%) DO-178B
10 11 (0.63%) GDPR
11 10 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 7 (0.40%) Def Stans
13 6 (0.34%) Data Quality
13 6 (0.34%) IEC 61508
13 6 (0.34%) ISO 20022
14 5 (0.29%) PCI DSS
15 4 (0.23%) ISO 13485
16 3 (0.17%) HIPAA
16 3 (0.17%) ISO 26262
16 3 (0.17%) SEPA
System Software
1 65 (3.71%) Docker
2 52 (2.97%) Active Directory
3 45 (2.57%) VMware Infrastructure
4 35 (2.00%) Firmware
5 19 (1.09%) VMware ESXi
6 16 (0.91%) Hyper-V
7 13 (0.74%) vSphere
8 8 (0.46%) NFS
8 8 (0.46%) Oracle RAC
9 7 (0.40%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 7 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
10 6 (0.34%) HDFS
10 6 (0.34%) Microsoft App-V
10 6 (0.34%) XenDesktop
11 5 (0.29%) Apache Flume
12 4 (0.23%) KVM
12 4 (0.23%) OpenAM
12 4 (0.23%) VirtualBox
13 3 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
14 2 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 71 (4.06%) Ansible
2 49 (2.80%) Opscode Chef
2 49 (2.80%) Puppet
3 41 (2.34%) Terraform
4 36 (2.06%) Kubernetes
5 18 (1.03%) SCCM
6 15 (0.86%) CFEngine
7 13 (0.74%) Nessus
7 13 (0.74%) Packer
8 12 (0.69%) HP ALM
9 11 (0.63%) HP Quality Center
9 11 (0.63%) Nagios
9 11 (0.63%) Nmap
9 11 (0.63%) Salt
10 10 (0.57%) vCenter Server
11 7 (0.40%) Oozie
12 6 (0.34%) Cisco CUCM
12 6 (0.34%) Hadoop YARN
12 6 (0.34%) Microsoft Clustering
12 6 (0.34%) WSUS
Vendors
1 164 (9.37%) Microsoft
2 123 (7.03%) Oracle
3 59 (3.37%) VMware
4 51 (2.91%) Cisco
5 42 (2.40%) Google
6 40 (2.29%) Red Hat
7 39 (2.23%) IBM
8 38 (2.17%) HP
9 36 (2.06%) Splunk
10 22 (1.26%) EMC
11 19 (1.09%) F5
12 16 (0.91%) SAP
12 16 (0.91%) Sybase
13 15 (0.86%) Adobe
13 15 (0.86%) Citrix
13 15 (0.86%) NetApp
14 13 (0.74%) Juniper
15 12 (0.69%) McAfee
15 12 (0.69%) New Relic
15 12 (0.69%) Remedy
1,757 C job vacancies Nationwide