Job Vacancy Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Hourly Rate Histogram Job Locations Skill Sets
Period
to 25 May 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 25 May 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
25 May 2019		 Same period 2018 Same period 2017
Rank 152 165 137
Rank change year-on-year +13 -28 -16
Contract jobs citing C 1,656 1,645 1,728
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 1.81% 1.62% 1.91%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.21% 3.76% 4.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 820 886 919
UK median daily rate £450 £475 £440
Median daily rate % change year-on-year -5.26% +7.95% +7.65%
10th Percentile £312 £313 £311
90th Percentile £663 £644 £606
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £413 £413
% change year-on-year +3.03% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 217 222 231
UK median hourly rate £45.00 £42.50 £42.50
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year +5.88% - +6.25%
10th Percentile £36.05 £20.25 £22.50
90th Percentile £52.50 £49.88 £57.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £42.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year +5.88% - +6.25%

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 39,292 43,711 37,497
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 42.88% 43.06% 41.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,220 30,568 25,724
UK median daily rate £475 £463 £430
Median daily rate % change year-on-year +2.70% +7.56% +3.61%
10th Percentile £325 £313 £300
90th Percentile £650 £638 £613
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £405 £388
% change year-on-year +4.94% +4.52% +3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 681 793 810
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £40.00 £41.50
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year +6.25% -3.61% +7.79%
10th Percentile £18.00 £16.89 £16.50
90th Percentile £55.00 £52.50 £56.15
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.50 £40.00 £41.25
% change year-on-year +8.75% -3.03% +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 25 May 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 25 May 2019.

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 25 May 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 +17 1,550 £450 -5.26% 617
UK excluding London +44 1,189 £425 +3.03% 539
London -53 444 £513 -6.82% 130
South East +20 365 £425 - 120
South West +11 293 £450 +7.46% 83
East of England +13 191 £405 -14.74% 154
Midlands +65 126 £425 +6.32% 47
North of England 0 124 £400 +3.23% 85
West Midlands +48 91 £425 +6.25% 31
Yorkshire +47 74 £425 +6.25% 25
Scotland +36 44 £438 - 39
Wales -4 36 £425 +6.25% 9
East Midlands +35 34 £318 -15.20% 16
North West -14 31 £400 - 49
North East -22 19 £310 -17.33% 11
Northern Ireland +16 8 £350 +40.00% 4
Channel Islands - 2 - -

For the 6 months to 25 May 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.

1 626 (37.80%) C++
2 508 (30.68%) Software Engineering
3 405 (24.46%) Linux
4 359 (21.68%) Agile Software Development
5 348 (21.01%) Java
6 335 (20.23%) Python
7 330 (19.93%) Security Cleared
8 229 (13.83%) SQL
9 218 (13.16%) Finance
10 216 (13.04%) Problem-Solving
11 210 (12.68%) Degree
12 202 (12.20%) SC Cleared
13 169 (10.21%) Embedded C
14 147 (8.88%) Microsoft
15 141 (8.51%) Unix
16 135 (8.15%) Project Management
17 132 (7.97%) Windows
18 128 (7.73%) DV Cleared
19 121 (7.31%) DevOps
20 116 (7.00%) UML
21 115 (6.94%) C#
21 115 (6.94%) Scrum
21 115 (6.94%) Analytical Skills
22 113 (6.82%) Android
23 112 (6.76%) Oracle
24 107 (6.46%) JavaScript
25 100 (6.04%) TDD
26 99 (5.98%) Configuration Management
27 95 (5.74%) Multithreading
28 94 (5.68%) Computer Science

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 37 (2.23%) Apache Spark
2 34 (2.05%) Confluence
3 29 (1.75%) SAS
4 20 (1.21%) JBoss
4 20 (1.21%) SharePoint
4 20 (1.21%) Tomcat
5 16 (0.97%) Apache
6 13 (0.79%) CMS
7 11 (0.66%) MS Exchange
7 11 (0.66%) OpenStack
8 9 (0.54%) Skype for Business
9 8 (0.48%) Elasticsearch
10 7 (0.42%) TPMS
11 6 (0.36%) WebSphere
12 4 (0.24%) Apache Qpid
12 4 (0.24%) Jupyter
12 4 (0.24%) SharePoint Server
13 3 (0.18%) Camunda
13 3 (0.18%) Cloud Foundry
13 3 (0.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 72 (4.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 42 (2.54%) Microsoft Office
3 33 (1.99%) Simulink
4 25 (1.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 16 (0.97%) Spreadsheet
6 12 (0.72%) MS Visio
7 9 (0.54%) Microsoft Project
7 9 (0.54%) Stateflow
8 7 (0.42%) Adobe Illustrator
9 5 (0.30%) Inkscape
10 3 (0.18%) Photoshop
11 2 (0.12%) GIMP
11 2 (0.12%) InVision
12 1 (0.060%) Adobe XD
12 1 (0.060%) AutoCAD
12 1 (0.060%) GNU Octave
12 1 (0.060%) Sketch
12 1 (0.060%) SPSS
12 1 (0.060%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 13 (0.79%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (0.60%) SAP S/4HANA
3 9 (0.54%) Dynamics NAV
4 8 (0.48%) ION MarketView
5 3 (0.18%) C-CURE
5 3 (0.18%) Oracle Retail
5 3 (0.18%) Remedy ITSM
5 3 (0.18%) SAP Hybris
5 3 (0.18%) SAP MM
6 2 (0.12%) GoldMine
6 2 (0.12%) Oracle BPM
6 2 (0.12%) Primavera
6 2 (0.12%) Sage 200
6 2 (0.12%) SAP CRM
6 2 (0.12%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 2 (0.12%) Scribe Insight
7 1 (0.060%) Oracle BRM
7 1 (0.060%) Oracle Cash Management
7 1 (0.060%) Oracle EBS R12
7 1 (0.060%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 86 (5.19%) Amazon AWS
2 84 (5.07%) Microsoft Azure
3 43 (2.60%) Google Cloud Platform
4 32 (1.93%) Office 365
5 27 (1.63%) PaaS
6 22 (1.33%) GitHub
6 22 (1.33%) Power Platform
6 22 (1.33%) Serverless
7 17 (1.03%) Cloud Computing
7 17 (1.03%) IaaS
8 10 (0.60%) Amazon S3
8 10 (0.60%) SaaS
9 9 (0.54%) OpenShift
10 8 (0.48%) AWS Lambda
10 8 (0.48%) Azure Active Directory
10 8 (0.48%) Azure Stack
11 6 (0.36%) Adobe Analytics
11 6 (0.36%) Amazon SQS
11 6 (0.36%) AWS CloudFormation
12 4 (0.24%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 74 (4.47%) Wireless
2 43 (2.60%) Firewall
3 42 (2.54%) TCP/IP
4 38 (2.29%) DNS
5 36 (2.17%) Ethernet
6 32 (1.93%) Internet
7 29 (1.75%) 5G
8 28 (1.69%) Bluetooth
9 26 (1.57%) 3GPP
9 26 (1.57%) HTTP
10 25 (1.51%) WAN
11 24 (1.45%) Wireshark
12 23 (1.39%) VoIP
13 21 (1.27%) LAN
14 20 (1.21%) LTE
15 18 (1.09%) IPv6
15 18 (1.09%) SAN
15 18 (1.09%) SSL
15 18 (1.09%) VPN
15 18 (1.09%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (3.74%) SQL Server
2 50 (3.02%) Big Data
3 41 (2.48%) Hadoop
3 41 (2.48%) MySQL
4 34 (2.05%) MongoDB
5 30 (1.81%) PostgreSQL
5 30 (1.81%) Relational Database
6 28 (1.69%) Oracle Database
7 26 (1.57%) Apache Hive
8 25 (1.51%) NoSQL
9 22 (1.33%) Power BI
10 20 (1.21%) BigQuery
10 20 (1.21%) Data Warehouse
11 16 (0.97%) Apache Cassandra
12 13 (0.79%) Sqoop
13 11 (0.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 10 (0.60%) Azure SQL Database
15 9 (0.54%) SAP HANA
16 8 (0.48%) Adabas
16 8 (0.48%) Redis
Development Applications
1 92 (5.56%) Git (software)
2 75 (4.53%) JIRA
3 65 (3.93%) Rational DOORS
4 64 (3.86%) Jenkins
5 48 (2.90%) Rational Rhapsody
6 37 (2.23%) ProC
7 33 (1.99%) Visual Studio
8 31 (1.87%) Subversion
9 27 (1.63%) Ant
10 22 (1.33%) ClearCase
10 22 (1.33%) Selenium
11 19 (1.15%) Maven
12 18 (1.09%) NUnit
13 16 (0.97%) CppUnit
13 16 (0.97%) GoogleTest
13 16 (0.97%) Oracle Forms
14 15 (0.91%) Cucumber
14 15 (0.91%) PVCS
14 15 (0.91%) Xcode
15 14 (0.85%) JUnit
General
1 218 (13.16%) Finance
2 93 (5.62%) Electronics
3 80 (4.83%) Banking
4 65 (3.93%) Telecoms
5 46 (2.78%) Aerospace
6 45 (2.72%) Law
7 35 (2.11%) Automotive
7 35 (2.11%) Manufacturing
8 29 (1.75%) Marketing
9 28 (1.69%) Retail
10 21 (1.27%) Avionics
11 20 (1.21%) Military
12 17 (1.03%) Legal
13 15 (0.91%) Games
14 11 (0.66%) Publishing
15 9 (0.54%) Billing
16 8 (0.48%) Investment Banking
17 7 (0.42%) Back Office
17 7 (0.42%) Front Office
18 6 (0.36%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 385 (23.25%) Developer
2 315 (19.02%) Software Engineer
3 192 (11.59%) Embedded Engineer
4 160 (9.66%) Embedded Software Engineer
5 107 (6.46%) Analyst
6 105 (6.34%) Architect
7 84 (5.07%) C++ Developer
8 73 (4.41%) C++ Software Engineer
9 67 (4.05%) Consultant
10 65 (3.93%) C Developer
11 61 (3.68%) C Software Engineer
12 51 (3.08%) Android Developer
13 48 (2.90%) Project Manager
14 46 (2.78%) Java Developer
14 46 (2.78%) Linux Developer
15 45 (2.72%) Software Developer
16 39 (2.36%) C/C++ Software Engineer
17 38 (2.29%) Solutions Architect
18 35 (2.11%) Systems Engineer
19 32 (1.93%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (4.65%) Web Services
1 77 (4.65%) XML
2 63 (3.80%) HTML
3 58 (3.50%) .NET
4 45 (2.72%) AngularJS
5 44 (2.66%) CSS
6 41 (2.48%) Spring
7 38 (2.29%) SOAP
8 37 (2.23%) REST
9 36 (2.17%) JSON
10 35 (2.11%) Middleware
11 31 (1.87%) Qt
12 29 (1.75%) Node.js
13 27 (1.63%) React
14 26 (1.57%) Kafka
15 23 (1.39%) LDAP
16 20 (1.21%) ASP.NET
17 19 (1.15%) Natural Language Processing
18 18 (1.09%) RESTful
19 17 (1.03%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 115 (6.94%) Analytical Skills
2 73 (4.41%) Algorithms
3 63 (3.80%) Embedded Systems
4 44 (2.66%) Greenfield Project
5 42 (2.54%) VHDL
6 36 (2.17%) Data Centre
6 36 (2.17%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
7 32 (1.93%) Self-Motivation
8 31 (1.87%) Device Driver
9 29 (1.75%) Management Information System
10 26 (1.57%) ASIC
10 26 (1.57%) Linux Command Line
11 22 (1.33%) Mobile App
11 22 (1.33%) User Experience
12 19 (1.15%) Mainframe
13 18 (1.09%) Data Structures
13 18 (1.09%) PKI
14 17 (1.03%) Derivative
15 16 (0.97%) Replication
15 16 (0.97%) TMS320
Operating Systems
1 405 (24.46%) Linux
2 141 (8.51%) Unix
3 132 (7.97%) Windows
4 113 (6.82%) Android
5 36 (2.17%) Apple iOS
6 32 (1.93%) Embedded Linux
7 30 (1.81%) Solaris
8 28 (1.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 20 (1.21%) Windows 7
10 18 (1.09%) OpenVMS
10 18 (1.09%) Windows 10
10 18 (1.09%) Windows Server
11 15 (0.91%) Windows Server 2008
11 15 (0.91%) Windows Server 2012
12 12 (0.72%) CentOS
13 9 (0.54%) FreeRTOS
13 9 (0.54%) Ubuntu
14 8 (0.48%) Mac OS
15 7 (0.42%) VME
16 6 (0.36%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 508 (30.68%) Software Engineering
2 359 (21.68%) Agile Software Development
3 216 (13.04%) Problem-Solving
4 135 (8.15%) Project Management
5 121 (7.31%) DevOps
6 116 (7.00%) UML
7 115 (6.94%) Scrum
8 100 (6.04%) TDD
9 99 (5.98%) Configuration Management
10 95 (5.74%) Multithreading
11 94 (5.68%) Computer Science
12 80 (4.83%) Stakeholder Management
13 78 (4.71%) Test Automation
14 73 (4.41%) Analytics
15 68 (4.11%) Machine Learning
16 67 (4.05%) Continuous Integration
16 67 (4.05%) ITIL
17 66 (3.99%) OO
17 66 (3.99%) Unit Testing
18 64 (3.86%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 626 (37.80%) C++
2 348 (21.01%) Java
3 335 (20.23%) Python
4 229 (13.83%) SQL
5 169 (10.21%) Embedded C
6 115 (6.94%) C#
7 107 (6.46%) JavaScript
8 83 (5.01%) MATLAB
9 78 (4.71%) Embedded C++
10 77 (4.65%) Perl
11 55 (3.32%) PL/SQL
12 48 (2.90%) Bash Shell
12 48 (2.90%) Ruby
13 46 (2.78%) PowerShell
14 45 (2.72%) Shell Script
15 43 (2.60%) R
16 36 (2.17%) PHP
17 32 (1.93%) Assembly Language
18 29 (1.75%) Java 8
19 27 (1.63%) Korn
Qualifications
1 330 (19.93%) Security Cleared
2 210 (12.68%) Degree
3 202 (12.20%) SC Cleared
4 128 (7.73%) DV Cleared
5 37 (2.23%) Computer Science Degree
6 27 (1.63%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 21 (1.27%) BPSS Clearance
8 20 (1.21%) Microsoft Certification
9 19 (1.15%) PhD
10 15 (0.91%) ISTQB
10 15 (0.91%) PMI Certification
11 14 (0.85%) CISSP
11 14 (0.85%) Master's Degree
12 12 (0.72%) PMP
13 10 (0.60%) CISM
14 8 (0.48%) MCP
15 7 (0.42%) APMP
15 7 (0.42%) OCP
15 7 (0.42%) Oracle Certification
15 7 (0.42%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (2.48%) MISRA
2 28 (1.69%) QA
3 27 (1.63%) PMO
4 26 (1.57%) DO-178B
5 20 (1.21%) MISRA C
6 15 (0.91%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 13 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 13 (0.79%) JSP 440
8 11 (0.66%) HMG Infosec
8 11 (0.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 10 (0.60%) SLA
10 9 (0.54%) DO-254
11 6 (0.36%) Data Quality
11 6 (0.36%) IEC 61508
11 6 (0.36%) JTAG
12 5 (0.30%) GDPR
12 5 (0.30%) HIPAA
12 5 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 20000
13 4 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
14 3 (0.18%) IEC 62304
System Software
1 74 (4.47%) Firmware
2 73 (4.41%) Active Directory
3 68 (4.11%) Docker
4 21 (1.27%) VMware Infrastructure
5 14 (0.85%) Apache Flume
6 10 (0.60%) Virtual Machines
7 9 (0.54%) Hyper-V
8 8 (0.48%) vSphere
9 7 (0.42%) NFS
9 7 (0.42%) XenApp
10 6 (0.36%) RACF
10 6 (0.36%) Shibboleth
11 5 (0.30%) VMware ESXi
12 4 (0.24%) HDFS
13 3 (0.18%) Oracle RAC
13 3 (0.18%) Terminal Server
13 3 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
14 2 (0.12%) OpenDJ
14 2 (0.12%) OpenIDM
14 2 (0.12%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 50 (3.02%) Kubernetes
2 46 (2.78%) Ansible
3 33 (1.99%) Puppet
4 16 (0.97%) Opscode Chef
4 16 (0.97%) Terraform
5 12 (0.72%) HP ALM
6 7 (0.42%) HP Quality Center
6 7 (0.42%) vRealize
7 6 (0.36%) WSUS
8 5 (0.30%) Cisco CUCM
8 5 (0.30%) Microsoft Clustering
8 5 (0.30%) Nagios
8 5 (0.30%) Packer
8 5 (0.30%) SCCM
8 5 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (0.24%) nmon
9 4 (0.24%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 4 (0.24%) vMotion
10 3 (0.18%) Netcool
10 3 (0.18%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 147 (8.88%) Microsoft
2 112 (6.76%) Oracle
3 38 (2.29%) Cisco
3 38 (2.29%) SAP
4 34 (2.05%) VMware
5 32 (1.93%) IBM
6 29 (1.75%) Google
6 29 (1.75%) HP
6 29 (1.75%) Red Hat
7 19 (1.15%) ServiceNow
8 17 (1.03%) Atlassian
9 16 (0.97%) Adobe
10 13 (0.79%) Citrix
10 13 (0.79%) Micro Focus
11 12 (0.72%) Splunk
12 11 (0.66%) BT
12 11 (0.66%) F5
12 11 (0.66%) Xilinx
13 10 (0.60%) Remedy
13 10 (0.60%) Salesforce.com
669 C job vacancies Nationwide