Job Vacancy Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Hourly Rate Histogram Job Locations Skill Sets
Period
to 26 October 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 26 October 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
26 Oct 2020		 Same period 2019 Same period 2018
Rank 93 123 164
Rank change year-on-year +30 +41 +7
Contract jobs citing C 794 1,728 1,773
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 2.47% 2.05% 1.71%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.85% 4.88% 3.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 469 930 978
Median daily rate £500 £455 £475
Median daily rate % change year-on-year +9.89% -4.21% +9.20%
10th Percentile £298 £325 £313
90th Percentile £688 £660 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £438 £450 £415
% change year-on-year -2.78% +8.43% +3.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 127 243 222
Median hourly rate £40.00 £46.00 £42.50
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year -13.04% +8.24% -
10th Percentile £11.17 £36.25 £22.50
90th Percentile £53.00 £53.75 £50.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.50 £45.75 £42.50
% change year-on-year -7.10% +7.65% -

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 13,579 35,394 46,124
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 42.21% 41.98% 44.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,929 24,526 32,439
Median daily rate £475 £475 £475
10th Percentile £309 £320 £315
90th Percentile £675 £650 £638
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £425 £420
% change year-on-year - +1.19% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 366 687 707
Median hourly rate £35.00 £44.00 £41.85
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year -20.45% +5.15% +4.61%
10th Percentile £13.00 £19.25 £16.25
90th Percentile £54.84 £55.00 £52.50
Median hourly rate £35.00 £43.50 £42.00
% change year-on-year -19.54% +3.57% +3.70%

C
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for C in the UK

C
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing C.

Daily rate trend for C in the UK

C
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing C over the 6 months to 26 October 2020.

Daily rate histogram for C in the UK

C
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing C.

Hourly rate trend for C in the UK

C
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing C over the 6 months to 26 October 2020.

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 26 October 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 +15 687 £498 +6.99% 587
UK excluding London +1 423 £438 -2.78% 473
London +87 277 £525 - 157
South East +25 133 £425 - 129
Work from Home +1 122 £500 +20.48% 85
East of England +26 96 £400 -11.11% 71
South West -17 71 £450 - 72
North of England +55 60 £400 -3.61% 86
North West +69 38 £450 +5.88% 39
Midlands +26 33 £404 -2.71% 71
West Midlands +4 23 £408 -1.81% 58
Yorkshire +44 18 £313 -20.89% 35
Wales +40 16 £475 +31.03% 6
Scotland +69 14 £504 +15.20% 34
East Midlands +36 10 £400 -5.88% 13
North East +12 4 £325 -28.57% 12
Northern Ireland +12 4 £375 -13.39% 5

For the 6 months to 26 October 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.

1 212 (26.70%) C++
2 209 (26.32%) Agile Software Development
3 193 (24.31%) Security Cleared
4 181 (22.80%) Linux
5 176 (22.17%) Python
6 162 (20.40%) Software Engineering
7 153 (19.27%) SC Cleared
8 147 (18.51%) Finance
9 119 (14.99%) Java
10 107 (13.48%) Windows
11 104 (13.10%) Oracle
12 86 (10.83%) Problem-Solving
13 84 (10.58%) Unix
14 75 (9.45%) SQL
15 72 (9.07%) Azure
16 69 (8.69%) Microsoft
16 69 (8.69%) Shell Script
17 67 (8.44%) Git (software)
18 66 (8.31%) Migration
19 63 (7.93%) Wi-Fi
19 63 (7.93%) DevOps
20 62 (7.81%) Scrum
21 59 (7.43%) Analytical Skills
22 57 (7.18%) Public Sector
22 57 (7.18%) TCP/IP
22 57 (7.18%) DV Cleared
23 56 (7.05%) JIRA
23 56 (7.05%) Mathematics
24 55 (6.93%) Telecoms
25 54 (6.80%) DNS

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 30 (3.78%) Confluence
2 24 (3.02%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 23 (2.90%) CMS
4 20 (2.52%) WebLogic
5 11 (1.39%) ArcGIS
6 10 (1.26%) IIS
7 9 (1.13%) Apache
7 9 (1.13%) SharePoint
8 8 (1.01%) Tomcat
9 4 (0.50%) Jadu
10 3 (0.38%) Apache Airflow
10 3 (0.38%) JBoss
11 2 (0.25%) Apache Spark
11 2 (0.25%) Exchange Server 2010
11 2 (0.25%) Exchange Server 2013
11 2 (0.25%) LiveLink
11 2 (0.25%) MS Exchange
11 2 (0.25%) nginx
11 2 (0.25%) SAS
12 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 33 (4.16%) Microsoft Office
2 17 (2.14%) Simulink
3 13 (1.64%) Microsoft Excel
4 11 (1.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (1.39%) MS Visio
4 11 (1.39%) Photoshop
5 6 (0.76%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.25%) Doxygen
8 1 (0.13%) Adobe After Effects
8 1 (0.13%) Adobe Premiere
8 1 (0.13%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.13%) CINEMA 4D
8 1 (0.13%) CPLEX
8 1 (0.13%) PTC Creo
8 1 (0.13%) Siemens NX
8 1 (0.13%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 8 (1.01%) ION MarketView
2 5 (0.63%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.38%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.38%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.25%) Dynamics NAV
4 2 (0.25%) SAP CRM
4 2 (0.25%) SAP Hybris
5 1 (0.13%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.13%) Dynamics GP
5 1 (0.13%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.13%) Oracle Retail
5 1 (0.13%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.13%) Salesforce.com CRM
5 1 (0.13%) SAP MDG
5 1 (0.13%) SAP MDG-M
5 1 (0.13%) SAP MDM
5 1 (0.13%) SAP PM
5 1 (0.13%) SAP SD
5 1 (0.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.13%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 72 (9.07%) Azure
2 49 (6.17%) AWS
3 35 (4.41%) SaaS
4 34 (4.28%) PaaS
5 31 (3.90%) GCP
6 15 (1.89%) Office 365
7 11 (1.39%) IaaS
8 10 (1.26%) Kong
9 9 (1.13%) Cloud Computing
9 9 (1.13%) Power Platform
10 7 (0.88%) AWS CloudFormation
10 7 (0.88%) GitHub
11 5 (0.63%) Dynamics 365
12 3 (0.38%) Apigee
13 2 (0.25%) Amazon EKS
13 2 (0.25%) Azure Active Directory
13 2 (0.25%) Azure Data Factory
13 2 (0.25%) Azure ExpressRoute
14 1 (0.13%) Amazon ECS
14 1 (0.13%) Google Sheets
Communications & Networking
1 63 (7.93%) Wi-Fi
2 57 (7.18%) TCP/IP
3 54 (6.80%) DNS
4 39 (4.91%) DHCP
5 38 (4.79%) Wireless
6 36 (4.53%) Firewall
7 35 (4.41%) DMZ
8 34 (4.28%) Bluetooth
9 32 (4.03%) VPN
10 29 (3.65%) LAN
11 28 (3.53%) WAN
12 26 (3.27%) Internet
13 25 (3.15%) IPv6
14 24 (3.02%) ZigBee
15 23 (2.90%) HTTP
16 22 (2.77%) 5G
16 22 (2.77%) IPv4
16 22 (2.77%) Network Security
17 16 (2.02%) 2G
17 16 (2.02%) GSM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (3.78%) SQL Server
2 19 (2.39%) Oracle ODI
3 12 (1.51%) MySQL
4 11 (1.39%) Data Warehouse
5 9 (1.13%) GIS
5 9 (1.13%) PostgreSQL
6 7 (0.88%) Data Lake
6 7 (0.88%) NoSQL
7 6 (0.76%) Power BI
7 6 (0.76%) Relational Database
8 5 (0.63%) Big Data
8 5 (0.63%) SAP HANA
9 4 (0.50%) DataStage
9 4 (0.50%) DB2
9 4 (0.50%) IBM InfoSphere
9 4 (0.50%) Oracle Database
9 4 (0.50%) SQL Server 2008
9 4 (0.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 3 (0.38%) DB2 UDB
10 3 (0.38%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 67 (8.44%) Git (software)
2 56 (7.05%) JIRA
3 29 (3.65%) Jenkins
4 21 (2.64%) CA Gen
5 16 (2.02%) Rational Rhapsody
6 13 (1.64%) Selenium
7 12 (1.51%) Visual Studio
8 9 (1.13%) GDB
8 9 (1.13%) PVCS
8 9 (1.13%) Subversion
9 7 (0.88%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 7 (0.88%) Grunt
9 7 (0.88%) gulp
10 6 (0.76%) Bitbucket
11 5 (0.63%) git-flow
11 5 (0.63%) JUnit
11 5 (0.63%) TeamCity
11 5 (0.63%) webpack
12 4 (0.50%) Ant
12 4 (0.50%) Eclipse
General
1 147 (18.51%) Finance
2 57 (7.18%) Public Sector
3 55 (6.93%) Telecoms
4 49 (6.17%) Electronics
5 25 (3.15%) Law
6 21 (2.64%) Banking
7 18 (2.27%) Marketing
8 16 (2.02%) Manufacturing
9 14 (1.76%) Aerospace
10 11 (1.39%) Investment Banking
11 10 (1.26%) Front Office
12 8 (1.01%) Games
13 7 (0.88%) Military
13 7 (0.88%) Retail
14 5 (0.63%) Automotive
14 5 (0.63%) Legal
15 4 (0.50%) Pharmaceutical
15 4 (0.50%) Spanish Language
16 3 (0.38%) Multimedia
16 3 (0.38%) Portuguese Language
Job Titles
1 167 (21.03%) Developer
2 126 (15.87%) Software Engineer
3 77 (9.70%) Embedded Engineer
4 71 (8.94%) Embedded Software Engineer
5 46 (5.79%) Architect
6 41 (5.16%) Analyst
7 36 (4.53%) Project Manager
8 31 (3.90%) Consultant
9 28 (3.53%) C Software Engineer
10 26 (3.27%) C++ Software Engineer
10 26 (3.27%) Test Engineer
11 24 (3.02%) Software Developer
12 21 (2.64%) C/C++ Software Engineer
13 20 (2.52%) Linux Engineer
14 17 (2.14%) Embedded C Engineer
14 17 (2.14%) Support Engineer
15 16 (2.02%) C++ Developer
15 16 (2.02%) Senior Developer
16 15 (1.89%) Embedded C Software Engineer
16 15 (1.89%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (6.05%) Web Services
2 40 (5.04%) HTML
3 35 (4.41%) Yocto
4 34 (4.28%) REST
4 34 (4.28%) XML
5 30 (3.78%) SAML
6 28 (3.53%) CSS
7 25 (3.15%) Oracle Fusion
8 23 (2.90%) POSIX
9 21 (2.64%) .NET
10 17 (2.14%) Node.js
11 16 (2.02%) JSON
12 14 (1.76%) HTML5
13 12 (1.51%) Middleware
14 10 (1.26%) JNI
14 10 (1.26%) STL
15 9 (1.13%) Qt
15 9 (1.13%) SOAP
16 7 (0.88%) CSS3
16 7 (0.88%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 59 (7.43%) Analytical Skills
2 48 (6.05%) Device Driver
3 34 (4.28%) Greenfield Project
4 26 (3.27%) Fixed Income
5 24 (3.02%) Management Information System
6 23 (2.90%) Hedge funds
7 21 (2.64%) Credit Derivative
7 21 (2.64%) Derivative
8 20 (2.52%) Home Automation
9 19 (2.39%) Self-Motivation
10 17 (2.14%) Algorithms
11 16 (2.02%) Embedded Systems
11 16 (2.02%) PMI
12 15 (1.89%) STB
12 15 (1.89%) User Experience
13 13 (1.64%) Virtual Team
14 12 (1.51%) Data Centre
15 11 (1.39%) Equities
16 9 (1.13%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
17 8 (1.01%) Media Streaming
Operating Systems
1 181 (22.80%) Linux
2 107 (13.48%) Windows
3 84 (10.58%) Unix
4 34 (4.28%) Windows Server
5 31 (3.90%) Windows 10
6 25 (3.15%) Android
7 21 (2.64%) AIX
8 19 (2.39%) Embedded Linux
8 19 (2.39%) Windows 7
9 17 (2.14%) Windows Server 2008
9 17 (2.14%) Windows Server 2012
10 16 (2.02%) Windows Server 2016
11 14 (1.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 13 (1.64%) Windows Server 2019
13 12 (1.51%) Mac OS
14 10 (1.26%) Solaris
15 9 (1.13%) OpenVMS
16 8 (1.01%) Apple iOS
17 7 (0.88%) Mac OS X
18 4 (0.50%) OpenWrt
Processes & Methodologies
1 209 (26.32%) Agile Software Development
2 162 (20.40%) Software Engineering
3 86 (10.83%) Problem-Solving
4 66 (8.31%) Migration
5 63 (7.93%) DevOps
6 62 (7.81%) Scrum
7 56 (7.05%) Mathematics
8 51 (6.42%) Project Delivery
9 49 (6.17%) Stakeholder Management
10 40 (5.04%) UML
11 37 (4.66%) ITIL
12 36 (4.53%) Project Management
13 35 (4.41%) Continuous Integration
14 34 (4.28%) Open Source
14 34 (4.28%) Test Automation
15 31 (3.90%) Configuration Management
15 31 (3.90%) User Stories
16 30 (3.78%) Decision-Making
16 30 (3.78%) Mentoring
16 30 (3.78%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 212 (26.70%) C++
2 176 (22.17%) Python
3 119 (14.99%) Java
4 75 (9.45%) SQL
5 69 (8.69%) Shell Script
6 50 (6.30%) JavaScript
7 46 (5.79%) C#
8 45 (5.67%) Embedded C
9 37 (4.66%) PowerShell
10 35 (4.41%) Bash Shell
10 35 (4.41%) Embedded C++
11 34 (4.28%) Perl
12 32 (4.03%) PL/SQL
13 26 (3.27%) MATLAB
14 25 (3.15%) R
15 24 (3.02%) Korn
16 22 (2.77%) Ada
17 18 (2.27%) VB
18 16 (2.02%) PHP
19 13 (1.64%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 193 (24.31%) Security Cleared
2 153 (19.27%) SC Cleared
3 57 (7.18%) DV Cleared
4 49 (6.17%) Degree
5 18 (2.27%) Cisco Certification
5 18 (2.27%) PMI Certification
6 15 (1.89%) Microsoft Certification
7 10 (1.26%) BPSS Clearance
8 9 (1.13%) PhD
9 8 (1.01%) HNC
10 7 (0.88%) CISSP
10 7 (0.88%) DBS Check
10 7 (0.88%) Master's Degree
11 5 (0.63%) CESG Certified Professional
11 5 (0.63%) CISM
11 5 (0.63%) Computer Science Degree
12 4 (0.50%) CCIE
12 4 (0.50%) PMP
13 3 (0.38%) CCNA
13 3 (0.38%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (4.41%) QA
2 15 (1.89%) SLA
3 14 (1.76%) PMBOK
4 13 (1.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 12 (1.51%) NIST
6 7 (0.88%) Data Quality
6 7 (0.88%) WCAG
7 6 (0.76%) NCSC
8 4 (0.50%) Disclosure Scotland
8 4 (0.50%) GDPR
8 4 (0.50%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 4 (0.50%) MISRA
8 4 (0.50%) PMO
9 3 (0.38%) DO-178B
9 3 (0.38%) JTAG
10 2 (0.25%) IEC 62304
10 2 (0.25%) ISO 26262
10 2 (0.25%) ISO 8583
10 2 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 1 (0.13%) NIST 800
System Software
1 42 (5.29%) Active Directory
2 40 (5.04%) VMware Infrastructure
3 26 (3.27%) Firmware
4 24 (3.02%) Virtual Machines
5 20 (2.52%) Docker
6 13 (1.64%) VMware NSX
7 8 (1.01%) NFS
8 7 (0.88%) VMware ESXi
9 6 (0.76%) vSphere
10 4 (0.50%) VirtualBox
10 4 (0.50%) XenApp
11 3 (0.38%) RACF
11 3 (0.38%) Veritas Cluster Server
11 3 (0.38%) VMware Workstation
12 2 (0.25%) Hyper-V
12 2 (0.25%) Microsoft App-V
12 2 (0.25%) Virtual Servers
13 1 (0.13%) UAG
13 1 (0.13%) vCloud
13 1 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 28 (3.53%) Single Sign-On
2 26 (3.27%) Ansible
3 22 (2.77%) Kubernetes
4 19 (2.39%) Puppet
5 16 (2.02%) Opscode Chef
6 12 (1.51%) Salt
7 11 (1.39%) HP ALM
7 11 (1.39%) Terraform
8 10 (1.26%) HP Fortify
9 8 (1.01%) Prometheus
10 7 (0.88%) vCenter Server
11 5 (0.63%) SCCM
12 4 (0.50%) Cisco CUCM
13 3 (0.38%) HP Quality Center
13 3 (0.38%) MaaS360
13 3 (0.38%) Pacemaker
13 3 (0.38%) vRealize Orchestrator
13 3 (0.38%) WSUS
14 2 (0.25%) Data Guard
14 2 (0.25%) Packer
Vendors
1 104 (13.10%) Oracle
2 69 (8.69%) Microsoft
3 43 (5.42%) VMware
4 39 (4.91%) IBM
5 33 (4.16%) Google
6 27 (3.40%) Cisco
7 24 (3.02%) SAP
8 22 (2.77%) CA
9 15 (1.89%) Citrix
9 15 (1.89%) HP
10 14 (1.76%) Splunk
11 13 (1.64%) Qualys
11 13 (1.64%) ServiceNow
12 11 (1.39%) ArcSight
12 11 (1.39%) ESRI
12 11 (1.39%) Lumension
12 11 (1.39%) Micro Focus
12 11 (1.39%) Red Hat
12 11 (1.39%) Sonatype
12 11 (1.39%) Sophos
650 C job vacancies Nationwide