Job Vacancy Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Hourly Rate Histogram Job Locations Skill Sets
Period
to 22 May 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 22 May 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
22 May 2018		 Same period 2017 Same period 2016
Rank 169 141 122
Rank change year-on-year -28 -19 +3
Contract jobs citing C 1,612 1,717 2,109
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 1.60% 1.90% 2.00%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.72% 4.60% 5.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 864 915 1,065
UK median daily rate £475 £440 £400
Median daily rate % change year-on-year +7.95% +10.00% +6.67%
10th Percentile £307 £307 £269
90th Percentile £646 £606 £600
UK excluding London median daily rate £413 £413 £375
% change year-on-year - +10.00% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 214 229 307
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £42.50 £40.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year - +6.25% +11.11%
10th Percentile £20.00 £21.25 £14.00
90th Percentile £50.00 £57.50 £52.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.50 £42.50 £40.50
% change year-on-year - +4.94% +12.50%

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 43,342 37,287 40,486
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 43.04% 41.37% 38.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 30,289 25,582 27,687
UK median daily rate £463 £425 £420
Median daily rate % change year-on-year +8.82% +1.19% +5.00%
10th Percentile £313 £300 £275
90th Percentile £638 £613 £600
UK excluding London median daily rate £403 £388 £375
% change year-on-year +3.87% +3.33% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 777 806 956
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £41.38 £38.50
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year -3.32% +7.47% +10.00%
10th Percentile £16.73 £16.50 £14.13
90th Percentile £52.50 £56.75 £52.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £41.00 £38.50
% change year-on-year -2.44% +6.49% +10.00%

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 22 May 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 22 May 2018.

Contractor hourly rate histogram for C in the UK

C
Top 16 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 22 May 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 -23 1,504 £475 +5.56% 1,325
UK excluding London -32 949 £413 - 1,061
London -32 626 £550 +10.00% 318
South East -27 336 £425 +6.25% 276
South West -6 164 £425 -1.16% 165
East of England -2 157 £475 +16.56% 198
North of England +9 148 £400 -4.76% 203
Midlands -48 68 £400 -5.94% 166
North West -30 62 £425 -5.56% 104
North East +39 50 £375 - 35
Wales +3 47 £400 -5.88% 21
West Midlands -35 44 £400 -9.09% 118
Yorkshire -11 36 £413 +6.45% 64
Scotland -68 26 £425 +29.28% 29
East Midlands -20 23 £375 - 48
Northern Ireland -15 3 £250 -39.39% 5

For the 6 months to 22 May 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.

1 475 (29.47%) C++
2 407 (25.25%) Linux
3 399 (24.75%) Agile Software Development
4 386 (23.95%) Software Engineering
5 379 (23.51%) Security Cleared
6 330 (20.47%) Java
7 310 (19.23%) Python
8 268 (16.63%) Finance
9 258 (16.00%) Windows
10 235 (14.58%) SC Cleared
11 234 (14.52%) SQL
12 206 (12.78%) Degree
13 198 (12.28%) Microsoft
14 157 (9.74%) C#
15 151 (9.37%) Embedded C
16 146 (9.06%) JavaScript
16 146 (9.06%) Problem-Solving
17 141 (8.75%) Unix
18 134 (8.31%) Oracle
19 132 (8.19%) Project Management
20 131 (8.13%) Amazon AWS
21 124 (7.69%) Configuration Management
22 118 (7.32%) SQL Server
22 118 (7.32%) DevOps
23 117 (7.26%) Open Source
23 117 (7.26%) Web Services
24 116 (7.20%) Git (software)
25 111 (6.89%) DV Cleared
26 107 (6.64%) ITIL
27 105 (6.51%) .NET

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 (3.23%) SharePoint
2 32 (1.99%) Apache Spark
3 30 (1.86%) Apache
4 27 (1.67%) Confluence
5 24 (1.49%) MS Exchange
6 23 (1.43%) WebSphere
7 18 (1.12%) JBoss
8 17 (1.05%) CMS
8 17 (1.05%) Elasticsearch
8 17 (1.05%) OpenStack
9 16 (0.99%) WebSphere Portal
10 14 (0.87%) WebLogic
11 13 (0.81%) Ethereum
11 13 (0.81%) Hyperledger
11 13 (0.81%) IIS
12 11 (0.68%) Skype for Business
12 11 (0.68%) Tomcat
13 10 (0.62%) Apache Pig
14 9 (0.56%) IBM Notes
15 8 (0.50%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 64 (3.97%) Microsoft Office
2 63 (3.91%) Microsoft Excel
3 33 (2.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 29 (1.80%) Microsoft Project
5 28 (1.74%) Simulink
6 25 (1.55%) MS Visio
7 8 (0.50%) SPSS
8 4 (0.25%) Stateflow
9 3 (0.19%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 3 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
10 2 (0.12%) TargetLink
11 1 (0.062%) Chatbot
11 1 (0.062%) EPLAN
11 1 (0.062%) InfoPath
11 1 (0.062%) Shockwave
11 1 (0.062%) S-PLUS
11 1 (0.062%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 18 (1.12%) Dynamics NAV
2 16 (0.99%) Oracle BPM
3 8 (0.50%) ION MarketView
4 7 (0.43%) SAP S/4HANA
5 6 (0.37%) Dynamics AX
6 5 (0.31%) Dynamics CRM
6 5 (0.31%) LabWindows
6 5 (0.31%) NetSuite
6 5 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
7 4 (0.25%) Infor CRM
7 4 (0.25%) SAP ERP
7 4 (0.25%) Unit4 Business World
8 3 (0.19%) SAP PM
8 3 (0.19%) SAP SRM
9 2 (0.12%) Elite 3E
9 2 (0.12%) MultiChain
9 2 (0.12%) Oracle SCM
9 2 (0.12%) SAP HR
10 1 (0.062%) Maximo
10 1 (0.062%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 131 (8.13%) Amazon AWS
2 83 (5.15%) Microsoft Azure
3 41 (2.54%) SaaS
4 39 (2.42%) Office 365
5 36 (2.23%) IaaS
6 32 (1.99%) PaaS
7 25 (1.55%) Google Cloud Platform
8 24 (1.49%) Cloud Computing
8 24 (1.49%) Datadog
9 17 (1.05%) GitHub
10 12 (0.74%) Amazon S3
11 8 (0.50%) Amazon EC2
12 7 (0.43%) G Suite
12 7 (0.43%) NuGet
12 7 (0.43%) OneDrive
12 7 (0.43%) OpenShift
13 6 (0.37%) Dynamics 365
14 5 (0.31%) Serverless
14 5 (0.31%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 4 (0.25%) Yammer
Communications & Networking
1 60 (3.72%) Firewall
2 55 (3.41%) Wireless
3 44 (2.73%) TCP/IP
4 42 (2.61%) DNS
5 35 (2.17%) Internet
6 32 (1.99%) Network Security
7 31 (1.92%) DHCP
8 30 (1.86%) LAN
9 27 (1.67%) Bluetooth
10 25 (1.55%) WAN
10 25 (1.55%) Wi-Fi
11 24 (1.49%) Ethernet
11 24 (1.49%) HTTP
11 24 (1.49%) VPN
12 20 (1.24%) SAN
13 19 (1.18%) Wireshark
14 16 (0.99%) Intranet
15 15 (0.93%) VoIP
16 14 (0.87%) VLAN
17 13 (0.81%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 118 (7.32%) SQL Server
2 58 (3.60%) Relational Database
3 50 (3.10%) Big Data
4 45 (2.79%) MySQL
4 45 (2.79%) NoSQL
5 44 (2.73%) Oracle Database
5 44 (2.73%) PostgreSQL
6 36 (2.23%) GIS
6 36 (2.23%) Hadoop
7 29 (1.80%) MongoDB
8 28 (1.74%) Oracle Database 11g
9 27 (1.67%) HBase
9 27 (1.67%) Oracle Database 10g
10 24 (1.49%) Apache Cassandra
11 21 (1.30%) Amazon Redshift
11 21 (1.30%) Blockchain
12 20 (1.24%) Data Warehouse
12 20 (1.24%) Power BI
12 20 (1.24%) RDBMS
13 19 (1.18%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 116 (7.20%) Git (software)
2 85 (5.27%) Jenkins
3 76 (4.71%) JIRA
4 59 (3.66%) Subversion
5 50 (3.10%) Visual Studio
6 43 (2.67%) Rational DOORS
7 40 (2.48%) TeamCity
8 32 (1.99%) Rational Rhapsody
9 31 (1.92%) GDB
10 29 (1.80%) Selenium
11 27 (1.67%) JUnit
12 25 (1.55%) Team Foundation Server
13 19 (1.18%) ProC
14 14 (0.87%) Visual Studio Team System
15 13 (0.81%) Cucumber
15 13 (0.81%) Maven
15 13 (0.81%) Rational Team Concert
16 12 (0.74%) LoadRunner
16 12 (0.74%) NUnit
17 11 (0.68%) Eclipse
General
1 268 (16.63%) Finance
2 94 (5.83%) Banking
3 61 (3.78%) Electronics
4 45 (2.79%) Law
5 41 (2.54%) Telecoms
6 37 (2.30%) Marketing
6 37 (2.30%) Retail
7 30 (1.86%) Automotive
8 27 (1.67%) Military
9 24 (1.49%) Front Office
10 22 (1.36%) Investment Banking
11 20 (1.24%) Manufacturing
12 19 (1.18%) Legal
13 18 (1.12%) Aerospace
14 15 (0.93%) Back Office
15 10 (0.62%) Publishing
16 9 (0.56%) Games
17 8 (0.50%) French Language
17 8 (0.50%) Retail Banking
18 7 (0.43%) German Language
Job Titles
1 329 (20.41%) Developer
2 272 (16.87%) Software Engineer
3 147 (9.12%) Analyst
4 130 (8.06%) Embedded Engineer
5 107 (6.64%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 88 (5.46%) Architect
7 74 (4.59%) Project Manager
8 71 (4.40%) Java Developer
9 60 (3.72%) C++ Software Engineer
10 58 (3.60%) Consultant
11 52 (3.23%) DevOps Engineer
11 52 (3.23%) Software Developer
12 51 (3.16%) Business Analyst
13 42 (2.61%) C Developer
14 41 (2.54%) C++ Developer
14 41 (2.54%) Test Engineer
15 35 (2.17%) Python Developer
16 34 (2.11%) C Software Engineer
17 30 (1.86%) Embedded C Engineer
18 29 (1.80%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 117 (7.26%) Web Services
2 105 (6.51%) .NET
3 86 (5.33%) XML
4 69 (4.28%) HTML
5 60 (3.72%) J2EE
6 54 (3.35%) REST
7 52 (3.23%) CSS
8 43 (2.67%) Node.js
9 36 (2.23%) SOAP
10 32 (1.99%) AngularJS
10 32 (1.99%) Kafka
11 31 (1.92%) JSON
12 29 (1.80%) Spring
13 28 (1.74%) JSF
13 28 (1.74%) Middleware
13 28 (1.74%) RESTful
14 25 (1.55%) jQuery
15 23 (1.43%) Elastic Stack
16 22 (1.36%) ASP.NET
17 20 (1.24%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 104 (6.45%) Analytical Skills
2 92 (5.71%) Computer Science
3 76 (4.71%) Self-Motivation
4 60 (3.72%) Algorithms
4 60 (3.72%) Management Information System
5 55 (3.41%) Data Centre
6 42 (2.61%) User Experience
7 37 (2.30%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
8 36 (2.23%) Embedded Systems
9 31 (1.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 28 (1.74%) Greenfield Project
11 26 (1.61%) CMDB
12 25 (1.55%) Device Driver
13 19 (1.18%) Equities
13 19 (1.18%) Mobile App
14 18 (1.12%) Fixed Income
15 17 (1.05%) Cyberthreat
15 17 (1.05%) Derivative
15 17 (1.05%) VSAM
16 15 (0.93%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 407 (25.25%) Linux
2 258 (16.00%) Windows
3 141 (8.75%) Unix
4 67 (4.16%) Windows Server
5 41 (2.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 40 (2.48%) Android
6 40 (2.48%) Embedded Linux
7 37 (2.30%) Windows Server 2008
8 31 (1.92%) AIX
9 30 (1.86%) Solaris
9 30 (1.86%) Windows Server 2012
10 26 (1.61%) VMS
10 26 (1.61%) Windows 7
11 25 (1.55%) Apple iOS
12 18 (1.12%) MVS
13 17 (1.05%) Mac OS X
13 17 (1.05%) VME
13 17 (1.05%) VxWorks
13 17 (1.05%) Windows 10
14 16 (0.99%) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 399 (24.75%) Agile Software Development
2 386 (23.95%) Software Engineering
3 146 (9.06%) Problem-Solving
4 132 (8.19%) Project Management
5 124 (7.69%) Configuration Management
6 118 (7.32%) DevOps
7 117 (7.26%) Open Source
8 107 (6.64%) ITIL
9 104 (6.45%) Continuous Integration
9 104 (6.45%) Test Automation
10 97 (6.02%) Scrum
10 97 (6.02%) UML
11 93 (5.77%) TDD
12 90 (5.58%) Migration
13 86 (5.33%) Analytics
14 84 (5.21%) Change Management
14 84 (5.21%) SDLC
15 83 (5.15%) Stakeholder Management
16 82 (5.09%) Waterfall
17 69 (4.28%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 475 (29.47%) C++
2 330 (20.47%) Java
3 310 (19.23%) Python
4 234 (14.52%) SQL
5 157 (9.74%) C#
6 151 (9.37%) Embedded C
7 146 (9.06%) JavaScript
8 92 (5.71%) Perl
9 86 (5.33%) Ruby
10 79 (4.90%) PowerShell
11 69 (4.28%) Embedded C++
12 67 (4.16%) Bash Shell
13 54 (3.35%) PL/SQL
14 53 (3.29%) MATLAB
15 46 (2.85%) Shell Script
16 37 (2.30%) Go
17 29 (1.80%) T-SQL
18 26 (1.61%) Scala
19 24 (1.49%) PHP
20 18 (1.12%) JCL
Qualifications
1 379 (23.51%) Security Cleared
2 235 (14.58%) SC Cleared
3 206 (12.78%) Degree
4 111 (6.89%) DV Cleared
5 29 (1.80%) BPSS Clearance
6 28 (1.74%) CISSP
7 22 (1.36%) Cisco Certification
7 22 (1.36%) Microsoft Certification
8 20 (1.24%) Computer Science Degree
8 20 (1.24%) ISEB
9 19 (1.18%) Master's Degree
10 13 (0.81%) Numerate Degree
11 12 (0.74%) CCNP
11 12 (0.74%) ITIL Certification
11 12 (0.74%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 11 (0.68%) MCSE
13 10 (0.62%) ISTQB
13 10 (0.62%) PMI Certification
14 9 (0.56%) PhD
14 9 (0.56%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (2.42%) QA
2 38 (2.36%) PMO
3 32 (1.99%) GDPR
4 26 (1.61%) MISRA
5 24 (1.49%) SLA
6 22 (1.36%) GCP
7 17 (1.05%) Def Stans
8 16 (0.99%) ISO 9001
9 14 (0.87%) Data Quality
10 11 (0.68%) IEC 62304
10 11 (0.68%) MISRA C
11 10 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 9 (0.56%) DO-178B
13 8 (0.50%) Disclosure Scotland
14 6 (0.37%) IEC 61508
14 6 (0.37%) MiFID
15 4 (0.25%) ARP4754
15 4 (0.25%) ISO 13485
15 4 (0.25%) SEPA
16 3 (0.19%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 95 (5.89%) Active Directory
2 77 (4.78%) Docker
3 55 (3.41%) VMware Infrastructure
4 35 (2.17%) Firmware
5 21 (1.30%) Apache Flume
6 20 (1.24%) vSphere
7 18 (1.12%) Job Entry Subsystem
7 18 (1.12%) RACF
8 16 (0.99%) VMware ESXi
9 15 (0.93%) Hyper-V
9 15 (0.93%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
10 14 (0.87%) NFS
11 12 (0.74%) Virtual Machines
12 6 (0.37%) Xen
13 5 (0.31%) StorNext
13 5 (0.31%) XenDesktop
14 3 (0.19%) HDFS
14 3 (0.19%) QEMU
14 3 (0.19%) Snort
14 3 (0.19%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 63 (3.91%) Puppet
2 57 (3.54%) Ansible
3 42 (2.61%) Opscode Chef
4 39 (2.42%) Kubernetes
5 34 (2.11%) Terraform
6 25 (1.55%) Nagios
7 23 (1.43%) Tivoli
8 21 (1.30%) Packer
9 19 (1.18%) Tivoli Monitoring
10 17 (1.05%) SELinux
11 11 (0.68%) Salt
12 10 (0.62%) Tivoli Storage Manager
12 10 (0.62%) WSUS
13 9 (0.56%) Cisco Prime
13 9 (0.56%) Grafana
13 9 (0.56%) HP ALM
14 7 (0.43%) HP Quality Center
14 7 (0.43%) SCCM
15 6 (0.37%) McAfee ePO
15 6 (0.37%) SCOM
Vendors
1 198 (12.28%) Microsoft
2 134 (8.31%) Oracle
3 66 (4.09%) VMware
4 62 (3.85%) Cisco
5 51 (3.16%) HP
6 49 (3.04%) Google
7 40 (2.48%) Splunk
8 34 (2.11%) Red Hat
9 33 (2.05%) SAP
10 26 (1.61%) IBM
11 24 (1.49%) Atlassian
11 24 (1.49%) New Relic
11 24 (1.49%) ServiceNow
11 24 (1.49%) Talend
12 21 (1.30%) NetApp
13 19 (1.18%) EMC
14 17 (1.05%) Citrix
14 17 (1.05%) Fujitsu
15 15 (0.93%) BMC
16 13 (0.81%) Adobe
1,393 C job vacancies Nationwide