Job Vacancy Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Hourly Rate Histogram Job Locations Skill Sets
Period
to 14 December 2019

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 14 December 2019 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
14 Dec 2019		 Same period 2018 Same period 2017
Rank 125 169 171
Rank change year-on-year +44 +2 -40
Contract jobs citing C 1,610 1,750 1,616
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 2.03% 1.67% 1.57%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.95% 3.72% 3.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 889 973 860
UK median daily rate £450 £463 £450
Median daily rate % change year-on-year -2.70% +2.78% +5.88%
10th Percentile £323 £313 £300
90th Percentile £643 £650 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £410 £400
% change year-on-year +9.76% +2.50% +3.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 215 197 187
UK median hourly rate £45.50 £42.50 £42.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year +7.06% +1.19% +5.00%
10th Percentile £32.50 £19.03 £26.25
90th Percentile £53.75 £50.45 £52.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £42.50 £42.00
% change year-on-year +5.88% +1.19% +5.00%

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 32,554 46,995 43,374
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.14% 44.79% 42.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,400 33,088 30,453
UK median daily rate £475 £475 £450
Median daily rate % change year-on-year - +5.56% +5.88%
10th Percentile £323 £319 £308
90th Percentile £650 £644 £638
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £425 £400
% change year-on-year - +6.25% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 658 703 777
UK median hourly rate £43.00 £42.00 £40.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year +2.38% +5.00% +1.27%
10th Percentile £17.24 £16.73 £16.25
90th Percentile £55.00 £52.50 £52.35
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.50 £42.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year - +6.25% +1.27%

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 14 December 2019.

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 14 December 2019.

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 14 December 2019. 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 +57 1,557 £453 -4.74% 1,194
UK excluding London +48 1,169 £450 +9.76% 1,024
London +13 407 £525 - 247
South West +35 387 £450 - 150
South East +41 341 £425 +10.39% 257
East of England +21 189 £450 +5.88% 212
North of England +23 123 £398 +6.00% 186
Midlands +63 98 £400 -5.88% 142
West Midlands +60 82 £410 -12.53% 81
North West +10 60 £385 +2.67% 89
Yorkshire +17 33 £385 -3.75% 77
North East +40 30 £450 +32.35% 20
Scotland +12 16 £421 +19.93% 40
East Midlands +11 15 £300 -17.71% 61
Wales -2 14 £375 -16.67% 22
Northern Ireland -12 2 £433 +8.25% 15

For the 6 months to 14 December 2019, 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.

1 588 (36.52%) C++
2 483 (30.00%) Software Engineering
3 481 (29.88%) Agile Software Development
4 383 (23.79%) Linux
5 335 (20.81%) Security Cleared
6 300 (18.63%) Python
7 237 (14.72%) SC Cleared
8 232 (14.41%) Java
9 220 (13.66%) Windows
10 212 (13.17%) Embedded C
11 187 (11.61%) SQL
11 187 (11.61%) Finance
12 181 (11.24%) Microsoft
13 166 (10.31%) Degree
14 165 (10.25%) Scrum
15 159 (9.88%) JIRA
16 155 (9.63%) UML
17 150 (9.32%) DV Cleared
18 147 (9.13%) C#
19 140 (8.70%) Problem-Solving
20 132 (8.20%) DevOps
21 123 (7.64%) Analytical Skills
21 123 (7.64%) TDD
22 119 (7.39%) Unix
23 118 (7.33%) Oracle
24 115 (7.14%) Test Automation
25 114 (7.08%) Embedded C++
26 110 (6.83%) Git (software)
27 108 (6.71%) Continuous Integration
28 105 (6.52%) Azure

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
1 103 (6.40%) Confluence
2 32 (1.99%) CMS
3 25 (1.55%) Apache Spark
4 15 (0.93%) JBoss
4 15 (0.93%) MS Exchange
5 12 (0.75%) Exchange Server 2010
5 12 (0.75%) SharePoint
6 10 (0.62%) Apache
7 9 (0.56%) SAS
8 8 (0.50%) Elasticsearch
8 8 (0.50%) OpenStack
8 8 (0.50%) Skype for Business
9 7 (0.43%) WebLogic
10 6 (0.37%) IIS
11 5 (0.31%) Captiva
11 5 (0.31%) Documentum
12 4 (0.25%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 3 (0.19%) Kinematics
13 3 (0.19%) WebSphere
14 2 (0.12%) ColdFusion
Applications
1 53 (3.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 41 (2.55%) Microsoft Office
3 26 (1.61%) Simulink
4 25 (1.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 16 (0.99%) Microsoft Project
6 14 (0.87%) MS Visio
7 9 (0.56%) Stateflow
8 8 (0.50%) Spreadsheet
9 7 (0.43%) Adobe Illustrator
9 7 (0.43%) Inkscape
10 2 (0.12%) AutoCAD
10 2 (0.12%) FileZilla
10 2 (0.12%) Notepad++
10 2 (0.12%) Quicktime
11 1 (0.062%) Abaqus
11 1 (0.062%) Autodesk Inventor
11 1 (0.062%) CATIA
11 1 (0.062%) Chatbot
11 1 (0.062%) SOLIDWORKS
11 1 (0.062%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 19 (1.18%) Dynamics NAV
2 16 (0.99%) ION MarketView
3 14 (0.87%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 11 (0.68%) Dynamics CRM
5 9 (0.56%) FINCAD Analytics
6 7 (0.43%) SAP S/4HANA
7 4 (0.25%) SAP CO
7 4 (0.25%) SAP FI
7 4 (0.25%) SAP FI/CO
8 3 (0.19%) LabWindows
8 3 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
8 3 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
9 2 (0.12%) assyst
9 2 (0.12%) Oracle BPM
9 2 (0.12%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 2 (0.12%) SAP CRM
9 2 (0.12%) SAP Oil and Gas
10 1 (0.062%) Oracle Financials
10 1 (0.062%) SAP MM
10 1 (0.062%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 105 (6.52%) Azure
2 90 (5.59%) AWS
3 33 (2.05%) Office 365
4 27 (1.68%) GCP
5 21 (1.30%) IaaS
5 21 (1.30%) Serverless
6 20 (1.24%) Cloud Computing
6 20 (1.24%) Power Platform
7 19 (1.18%) GitHub
8 17 (1.06%) PaaS
8 17 (1.06%) SaaS
9 15 (0.93%) OpenShift
10 12 (0.75%) Amazon S3
11 11 (0.68%) AWS Lambda
12 8 (0.50%) Adobe Analytics
12 8 (0.50%) Amazon SQS
12 8 (0.50%) AWS Step Functions
13 7 (0.43%) Datadog
13 7 (0.43%) Dynamics 365
13 7 (0.43%) TestFlight
Communications & Networking
1 80 (4.97%) Internet
2 71 (4.41%) DNS
3 67 (4.16%) TCP/IP
4 61 (3.79%) Wireless
5 46 (2.86%) Firewall
6 40 (2.48%) DHCP
7 37 (2.30%) Ethernet
8 35 (2.17%) Bluetooth
8 35 (2.17%) Wi-Fi
8 35 (2.17%) Wireshark
9 27 (1.68%) LAN
10 25 (1.55%) WAN
11 24 (1.49%) RS-485
12 22 (1.37%) SNMP
13 21 (1.30%) RS-232
14 20 (1.24%) HTTPS
14 20 (1.24%) ZigBee
15 19 (1.18%) HTTP
16 17 (1.06%) SAN
16 17 (1.06%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (3.23%) SQL Server
2 47 (2.92%) Hadoop
3 43 (2.67%) Big Data
3 43 (2.67%) MongoDB
4 31 (1.93%) MySQL
5 28 (1.74%) Relational Database
6 26 (1.61%) NoSQL
7 20 (1.24%) Power BI
8 19 (1.18%) PostgreSQL
9 17 (1.06%) Oracle Database
10 14 (0.87%) Apache Hive
10 14 (0.87%) Data Warehouse
11 13 (0.81%) Amazon Redshift
12 11 (0.68%) Data Lake
13 10 (0.62%) DB2
14 9 (0.56%) KDB
14 9 (0.56%) Presto
14 9 (0.56%) SAP HANA
15 8 (0.50%) Amazon Aurora
15 8 (0.50%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 159 (9.88%) JIRA
2 110 (6.83%) Git (software)
3 80 (4.97%) Jenkins
4 57 (3.54%) Rational Rhapsody
5 53 (3.29%) Rational DOORS
6 30 (1.86%) Cucumber
6 30 (1.86%) GoogleTest
7 27 (1.68%) Subversion
8 26 (1.61%) Selenium
9 24 (1.49%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 24 (1.49%) Visual Studio
10 20 (1.24%) PVCS
11 19 (1.18%) Maven
12 16 (0.99%) ClearCase
12 16 (0.99%) ProC
12 16 (0.99%) Sonatype Nexus
12 16 (0.99%) Team Foundation Server
13 15 (0.93%) GDB
13 15 (0.93%) NUnit
14 12 (0.75%) Xcode
General
1 187 (11.61%) Finance
2 88 (5.47%) Military
3 80 (4.97%) Public Sector
4 66 (4.10%) Electronics
5 64 (3.98%) Banking
6 61 (3.79%) Law
7 44 (2.73%) Telecoms
8 42 (2.61%) Manufacturing
9 39 (2.42%) Marketing
10 36 (2.24%) Retail
11 31 (1.93%) Aerospace
12 27 (1.68%) Front Office
13 26 (1.61%) Local Government
14 20 (1.24%) Automotive
15 17 (1.06%) Games
15 17 (1.06%) Pharmaceutical
16 14 (0.87%) Investment Banking
17 12 (0.75%) Avionics
18 10 (0.62%) Publishing
19 9 (0.56%) Legal
Job Titles
1 368 (22.86%) Software Engineer
2 301 (18.70%) Developer
3 226 (14.04%) Embedded Engineer
4 182 (11.30%) Embedded Software Engineer
5 138 (8.57%) C++ Software Engineer
6 136 (8.45%) Analyst
7 112 (6.96%) C Software Engineer
8 96 (5.96%) C/C++ Software Engineer
9 88 (5.47%) Architect
10 67 (4.16%) Embedded C Engineer
11 65 (4.04%) Embedded C++ Engineer
12 63 (3.91%) C Developer
13 60 (3.73%) Systems Engineer
14 59 (3.66%) Embedded C Software Engineer
15 58 (3.60%) Embedded C++ Software Engineer
16 57 (3.54%) Embedded C/C++ Engineer
17 53 (3.29%) C/C++ Embedded Software Engineer
17 53 (3.29%) Embedded C/C++ Software Engineer
18 49 (3.04%) Software Developer
19 47 (2.92%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (4.84%) .NET
2 63 (3.91%) XML
3 59 (3.66%) Web Services
4 40 (2.48%) Middleware
5 38 (2.36%) AngularJS
5 38 (2.36%) React
6 36 (2.24%) HTML
6 36 (2.24%) Node.js
7 28 (1.74%) REST
8 24 (1.49%) CSS
8 24 (1.49%) STL
9 23 (1.43%) Gherkin
10 22 (1.37%) Kafka
11 19 (1.18%) JSON
12 18 (1.12%) Spring
13 17 (1.06%) ASP.NET
13 17 (1.06%) RESTful
13 17 (1.06%) SOAP
14 16 (0.99%) JNI
15 15 (0.93%) Rendezvous
Miscellaneous
1 123 (7.64%) Analytical Skills
2 56 (3.48%) Management Information System
3 55 (3.42%) Embedded Systems
4 53 (3.29%) Algorithms
5 46 (2.86%) Data Centre
6 43 (2.67%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
7 42 (2.61%) Self-Motivation
8 33 (2.05%) Device Driver
9 31 (1.93%) Greenfield Project
10 24 (1.49%) ASIC
10 24 (1.49%) User Experience
11 21 (1.30%) Enterprise Software
12 17 (1.06%) Derivative
12 17 (1.06%) Mobile App
13 15 (0.93%) VHDL
14 13 (0.81%) PKI
14 13 (0.81%) Public Cloud
15 12 (0.75%) Driving Licence
15 12 (0.75%) e-Learning
15 12 (0.75%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 383 (23.79%) Linux
2 220 (13.66%) Windows
3 119 (7.39%) Unix
4 50 (3.11%) Android
5 49 (3.04%) Embedded Linux
5 49 (3.04%) FreeRTOS
6 38 (2.36%) ThreadX
7 34 (2.11%) Windows Server 2012
8 32 (1.99%) Apple iOS
9 31 (1.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 29 (1.80%) Windows Server
11 28 (1.74%) Windows Server 2008
12 26 (1.61%) OpenVMS
13 19 (1.18%) Windows Server 2003
14 15 (0.93%) Solaris
14 15 (0.93%) Windows 10
15 11 (0.68%) AIX
15 11 (0.68%) Windows 7
16 8 (0.50%) VxWorks
17 7 (0.43%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 483 (30.00%) Software Engineering
2 481 (29.88%) Agile Software Development
3 165 (10.25%) Scrum
4 155 (9.63%) UML
5 140 (8.70%) Problem-Solving
6 132 (8.20%) DevOps
7 123 (7.64%) TDD
8 115 (7.14%) Test Automation
9 108 (6.71%) Continuous Integration
10 101 (6.27%) Stakeholder Management
11 97 (6.02%) Cybersecurity
12 89 (5.53%) OO
13 88 (5.47%) ITIL
14 86 (5.34%) Project Management
14 86 (5.34%) User Stories
15 84 (5.22%) Configuration Management
16 79 (4.91%) Migration
17 78 (4.84%) Computer Science
18 77 (4.78%) Information Security
19 72 (4.47%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 588 (36.52%) C++
2 300 (18.63%) Python
3 232 (14.41%) Java
4 212 (13.17%) Embedded C
5 187 (11.61%) SQL
6 147 (9.13%) C#
7 114 (7.08%) Embedded C++
8 78 (4.84%) JavaScript
9 52 (3.23%) MATLAB
9 52 (3.23%) PowerShell
10 50 (3.11%) Ruby
11 48 (2.98%) Bash Shell
12 39 (2.42%) Perl
13 36 (2.24%) PL/SQL
14 25 (1.55%) VB.NET
15 22 (1.37%) Fortran
16 20 (1.24%) Go
16 20 (1.24%) PHP
17 19 (1.18%) Objective-C
17 19 (1.18%) Scala
Qualifications
1 335 (20.81%) Security Cleared
2 237 (14.72%) SC Cleared
3 166 (10.31%) Degree
4 150 (9.32%) DV Cleared
5 44 (2.73%) Computer Science Degree
6 28 (1.74%) CISSP
7 25 (1.55%) Cisco Certification
8 19 (1.18%) CCNA
9 18 (1.12%) BPSS Clearance
10 16 (0.99%) CESG Certified Professional
10 16 (0.99%) Microsoft Certification
11 15 (0.93%) ISEB
11 15 (0.93%) PMI Certification
12 14 (0.87%) CISM
12 14 (0.87%) HND
12 14 (0.87%) PMP
13 13 (0.81%) ISTQB
13 13 (0.81%) SANS
14 10 (0.62%) GIAC
14 10 (0.62%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 75 (4.66%) QA
2 30 (1.86%) MISRA
3 20 (1.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 20 (1.24%) PMO
4 18 (1.12%) SLA
5 9 (0.56%) MISRA C
5 9 (0.56%) NIST
6 8 (0.50%) DO-178B
6 8 (0.50%) JSP 440
7 7 (0.43%) Def Stans
7 7 (0.43%) GDPR
7 7 (0.43%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 7 (0.43%) JTAG
8 6 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 5 (0.31%) IEC 61508
9 5 (0.31%) ISO 9001
9 5 (0.31%) PCI DSS
10 4 (0.25%) HMG Infosec
11 3 (0.19%) COBIT
12 2 (0.12%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 66 (4.10%) Docker
2 58 (3.60%) Firmware
3 57 (3.54%) Active Directory
4 28 (1.74%) VMware Infrastructure
5 18 (1.12%) Virtual Machines
6 14 (0.87%) vSphere
7 11 (0.68%) Hyper-V
7 11 (0.68%) XenApp
7 11 (0.68%) XenDesktop
8 8 (0.50%) VMware ESXi
9 5 (0.31%) HDFS
10 4 (0.25%) Gluster
11 3 (0.19%) Apache Flume
11 3 (0.19%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 3 (0.19%) Microsoft App-V
12 2 (0.12%) VMware NSX
13 1 (0.062%) BitLocker
13 1 (0.062%) BusyBox
13 1 (0.062%) KVM
13 1 (0.062%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 44 (2.73%) Ansible
2 43 (2.67%) Kubernetes
3 31 (1.93%) Puppet
4 26 (1.61%) Opscode Chef
5 14 (0.87%) Terraform
6 11 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
7 10 (0.62%) Nagios
7 10 (0.62%) SCCM
8 9 (0.56%) HP ALM
8 9 (0.56%) HP Quality Center
9 7 (0.43%) Cisco CUCM
9 7 (0.43%) Salt
9 7 (0.43%) WSUS
10 5 (0.31%) Hadoop YARN
10 5 (0.31%) Kibana
10 5 (0.31%) Packer
11 4 (0.25%) AirWatch
11 4 (0.25%) Grafana
11 4 (0.25%) SCOM
11 4 (0.25%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 181 (11.24%) Microsoft
2 118 (7.33%) Oracle
3 103 (6.40%) Google
4 62 (3.85%) Cisco
5 60 (3.73%) Atlassian
6 56 (3.48%) Apple
6 56 (3.48%) SAP
7 45 (2.80%) VMware
8 26 (1.61%) TIBCO
9 24 (1.49%) Red Hat
10 23 (1.43%) IBM
11 19 (1.18%) Adobe
11 19 (1.18%) Citrix
12 18 (1.12%) HP
13 16 (0.99%) ION Trading
14 14 (0.87%) Juniper
14 14 (0.87%) Sparx
15 13 (0.81%) Salesforce.com
16 11 (0.68%) Tableau
17 10 (0.62%) Splunk
1,280 C job vacancies Nationwide