Job Vacancy Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Hourly Rate Histogram Job Locations Skill Sets
Period
to 22 October 2017

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 October 2017 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 Oct 2017		 Same period 2016 Same period 2015
Rank 164 124 130
Rank change year-on-year -40 +6 -15
Contract jobs citing C 1584 2176 2056
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 1.59% 2.06% 1.80%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.80% 5.15% 4.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 810 1170 1148
UK median daily rate £435 £420 £386
Median daily rate % change year-on-year +3.57% +8.74% +3.00%
10th Percentile £300 £263 £250
90th Percentile £663 £588 £604
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £375 £365
% change year-on-year +6.67% +2.74% +4.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 184 255 289
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £40.00 £38.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year +6.25% +5.26% +8.57%
10th Percentile £30.41 £15.86 £14.13
90th Percentile £52.50 £53.75 £47.65
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.50 £40.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year +6.25% +6.67% +4.17%

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 41664 42293 43550
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.94% 40.12% 38.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 28946 29067 29450
UK median daily rate £450 £425 £400
Median daily rate % change year-on-year +5.88% +6.25% +2.56%
10th Percentile £306 £281 £265
90th Percentile £625 £588 £588
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £375 £363
% change year-on-year +6.67% +3.45% +3.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 783 896 986
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £37.50 £36.50
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year +6.67% +2.74% +14.54%
10th Percentile £15.83 £14.19 £15.00
90th Percentile £53.00 £53.75 £51.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.50 £37.50 £37.00
% change year-on-year +8.00% +1.35% +13.85%

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 October 2017.

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 October 2017.

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 October 2017. 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 -40 1458 £450 +5.88% 304
UK excluding London -32 991 £400 +6.67% 239
London -56 556 £500 +5.26% 74
South East -53 264 £400 +14.29% 65
East of England +19 243 £413 -2.94% 85
South West -10 174 £373 -16.76% 24
Midlands +13 108 £350 -12.50% 17
North of England -41 107 £450 +20.00% 38
West Midlands -3 64 £325 -18.75% 12
North West -15 59 £450 +7.14% 17
Scotland -24 48 £350 +7.69% 2
East Midlands +8 40 £400 -10.11% 5
Yorkshire -10 30 £425 +13.33% 16
Wales -14 25 £384 -7.53% 6
Northern Ireland - 23 £411 - 2
North East -12 16 £440 +35.38% 5

For the 6 months to 22 October 2017, IT contractor jobs citing C also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all contract ads with a requirement for C.

1 552 (34.85%) C++
2 419 (26.45%) Linux
3 371 (23.42%) Software Engineering
4 355 (22.41%) Agile Software Development
5 305 (19.26%) Python
6 267 (16.86%) Java
6 267 (16.86%) Security Cleared
7 247 (15.59%) Finance
8 239 (15.09%) SQL
9 189 (11.93%) Windows
10 180 (11.36%) Embedded C
11 167 (10.54%) Unix
12 155 (9.79%) Degree
13 150 (9.47%) SC Cleared
14 140 (8.84%) C#
15 134 (8.46%) JavaScript
16 130 (8.21%) Microsoft
17 123 (7.77%) Oracle
18 120 (7.58%) Banking
19 114 (7.20%) Test Automation
20 112 (7.07%) Git (software)
20 112 (7.07%) SDLC
21 107 (6.76%) Perl
22 105 (6.63%) Analytical Skills
23 104 (6.57%) HTML
24 102 (6.44%) Scrum
25 101 (6.38%) Stakeholder Management
26 98 (6.19%) Electronics
27 96 (6.06%) TDD
28 94 (5.93%) Continuous Integration

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 (2.34%) Apache
2 31 (1.96%) Confluence
3 28 (1.77%) WebLogic
4 22 (1.39%) SharePoint
5 21 (1.33%) JBoss
6 19 (1.20%) Tomcat
7 16 (1.01%) WebSphere
8 14 (0.88%) Elasticsearch
9 11 (0.69%) Apache Spark
9 11 (0.69%) IIS
9 11 (0.69%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 9 (0.57%) MS Exchange
10 9 (0.57%) OpenROAD
11 8 (0.51%) SAS
12 7 (0.44%) Skype for Business
13 6 (0.38%) ArcGIS
13 6 (0.38%) CMS
13 6 (0.38%) Exchange Server 2013
13 6 (0.38%) TPMS
14 5 (0.32%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 44 (2.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 36 (2.27%) Simulink
3 34 (2.15%) Microsoft Office
4 15 (0.95%) Doxygen
4 15 (0.95%) Microsoft Project
5 13 (0.82%) MS Visio
6 12 (0.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 4 (0.25%) FrameMaker
7 4 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.25%) Stateflow
7 4 (0.25%) XMetaL
8 3 (0.19%) OrCAD
8 3 (0.19%) Pipeline Pilot
9 2 (0.13%) LaTeX
10 1 (0.063%) Adobe Illustrator
10 1 (0.063%) InVision
10 1 (0.063%) Maya
10 1 (0.063%) Pixate
10 1 (0.063%) Stata
10 1 (0.063%) UXPin
Business Applications
1 15 (0.95%) Dynamics NAV
2 11 (0.69%) LabWindows
3 8 (0.51%) ION MarketView
3 8 (0.51%) Oracle BPM
4 5 (0.32%) Dynamics CRM
5 4 (0.25%) RMDS
6 3 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
6 3 (0.19%) SAP PP
6 3 (0.19%) Summit
7 2 (0.13%) Dynamics AX
7 2 (0.13%) Eloqua
7 2 (0.13%) Oracle ERP
7 2 (0.13%) Oracle Retail
7 2 (0.13%) R3 Corda
7 2 (0.13%) Sage X3
7 2 (0.13%) SAP BPC
7 2 (0.13%) Sonata
7 2 (0.13%) Teamcenter
8 1 (0.063%) Infor LN
8 1 (0.063%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 41 (2.59%) Amazon AWS
2 31 (1.96%) Microsoft Azure
3 20 (1.26%) Office 365
4 14 (0.88%) GitHub
5 12 (0.76%) Cloud Computing
5 12 (0.76%) SaaS
6 8 (0.51%) Google Cloud Platform
7 7 (0.44%) IaaS
7 7 (0.44%) PaaS
8 6 (0.38%) Amazon S3
9 4 (0.25%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
10 3 (0.19%) npm
10 3 (0.19%) Yammer
11 2 (0.13%) Amazon EC2
11 2 (0.13%) Dropbox
11 2 (0.13%) Slack
11 2 (0.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 1 (0.063%) AWS Lambda
12 1 (0.063%) Azure Active Directory
12 1 (0.063%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 91 (5.74%) Wireless
2 85 (5.37%) TCP/IP
3 50 (3.16%) Bluetooth
4 48 (3.03%) Firewall
5 36 (2.27%) Wi-Fi
6 34 (2.15%) HTTP
7 30 (1.89%) DNS
7 30 (1.89%) WAN
8 29 (1.83%) LAN
9 26 (1.64%) SSL
10 24 (1.52%) Internet
11 22 (1.39%) Ethernet
12 19 (1.20%) LTE
12 19 (1.20%) Network Security
13 17 (1.07%) 3GPP
14 16 (1.01%) NAS
15 15 (0.95%) VPN
16 14 (0.88%) LDAP
16 14 (0.88%) Wireshark
17 12 (0.76%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (5.30%) SQL Server
2 58 (3.66%) Relational Database
3 39 (2.46%) MySQL
4 38 (2.40%) Big Data
5 35 (2.21%) MongoDB
6 32 (2.02%) Hadoop
7 27 (1.70%) Oracle Database
7 27 (1.70%) RDBMS
8 22 (1.39%) Data Warehouse
9 18 (1.14%) PostgreSQL
10 14 (0.88%) Oracle Database 11g
11 13 (0.82%) Ingres
11 13 (0.82%) SAP BW
12 12 (0.76%) BusinessObjects
12 12 (0.76%) NoSQL
12 12 (0.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 10 (0.63%) Oracle Database 12c
13 10 (0.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 9 (0.57%) Blockchain
14 9 (0.57%) KDB
Development Applications
1 112 (7.07%) Git (software)
2 72 (4.55%) JIRA
3 65 (4.10%) Subversion
4 58 (3.66%) Visual Studio
5 52 (3.28%) Rational DOORS
6 42 (2.65%) Jenkins
7 30 (1.89%) Rational Rhapsody
8 28 (1.77%) ProC
9 23 (1.45%) Selenium
10 17 (1.07%) Eclipse
10 17 (1.07%) GDB
11 16 (1.01%) Gradle
12 15 (0.95%) Bitbucket
13 14 (0.88%) Oracle Forms
14 13 (0.82%) JMeter
15 12 (0.76%) NUnit
15 12 (0.76%) SoapUI
16 11 (0.69%) Team Foundation Server
17 10 (0.63%) LoadRunner
17 10 (0.63%) Mercurial
General
1 247 (15.59%) Finance
2 120 (7.58%) Banking
3 98 (6.19%) Electronics
4 90 (5.68%) Telecoms
5 57 (3.60%) Automotive
6 43 (2.71%) Investment Banking
7 41 (2.59%) Aerospace
8 37 (2.34%) Marketing
9 33 (2.08%) Front Office
10 31 (1.96%) Manufacturing
11 21 (1.33%) Retail
12 15 (0.95%) Avionics
12 15 (0.95%) Legal
13 14 (0.88%) Law
14 12 (0.76%) Games
14 12 (0.76%) Military
15 11 (0.69%) Back Office
16 9 (0.57%) Advertising
16 9 (0.57%) Publishing
17 8 (0.51%) French Language
Job Titles
1 418 (26.39%) Developer
2 272 (17.17%) Software Engineer
3 154 (9.72%) Embedded Engineer
4 130 (8.21%) Analyst
5 116 (7.32%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 84 (5.30%) C Developer
7 80 (5.05%) Architect
8 75 (4.73%) C++ Developer
9 64 (4.04%) C++ Software Engineer
10 63 (3.98%) Java Developer
11 62 (3.91%) Business Analyst
12 56 (3.54%) Senior Developer
13 54 (3.41%) Consultant
14 53 (3.35%) Linux Engineer
15 52 (3.28%) Embedded Developer
16 49 (3.09%) Project Manager
17 45 (2.84%) C Software Engineer
17 45 (2.84%) Software Developer
18 37 (2.34%) Test Engineer
19 36 (2.27%) Embedded C Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 104 (6.57%) HTML
2 90 (5.68%) .NET
3 88 (5.56%) Web Services
4 81 (5.11%) XML
5 59 (3.72%) CSS
6 42 (2.65%) Middleware
7 37 (2.34%) RESTful
8 35 (2.21%) JSON
8 35 (2.21%) SOAP
9 34 (2.15%) J2EE
10 32 (2.02%) Boost C++ Libraries
11 31 (1.96%) REST
12 28 (1.77%) HTML5
13 26 (1.64%) CSS3
14 24 (1.52%) XSLT
15 23 (1.45%) .NET Framework
15 23 (1.45%) AngularJS
15 23 (1.45%) jQuery
16 21 (1.33%) WCF
17 20 (1.26%) JNI
Miscellaneous
1 105 (6.63%) Analytical Skills
2 82 (5.18%) Computer Science
3 70 (4.42%) Embedded Systems
4 49 (3.09%) Device Driver
5 46 (2.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 42 (2.65%) Greenfield Project
7 37 (2.34%) User Experience
8 36 (2.27%) Mobile App
9 35 (2.21%) Equities
10 34 (2.15%) Algorithms
10 34 (2.15%) Management Information System
11 31 (1.96%) Data Centre
12 27 (1.70%) Derivative
13 26 (1.64%) Data Structures
14 23 (1.45%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
15 22 (1.39%) Fixed Income
16 16 (1.01%) Virtual Team
17 14 (0.88%) Fintech
17 14 (0.88%) STB
18 13 (0.82%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 419 (26.45%) Linux
2 189 (11.93%) Windows
3 167 (10.54%) Unix
4 57 (3.60%) Android
5 51 (3.22%) Embedded Linux
6 44 (2.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 35 (2.21%) AIX
8 25 (1.58%) Windows Server
9 24 (1.52%) Apple iOS
9 24 (1.52%) CentOS
10 20 (1.26%) Windows 7
11 17 (1.07%) Windows 10
12 15 (0.95%) VxWorks
13 12 (0.76%) Solaris
13 12 (0.76%) Ubuntu
14 11 (0.69%) Mac OS X
14 11 (0.69%) Windows Server 2012
15 9 (0.57%) Windows Server 2008
16 8 (0.51%) Nucleus RTOS
17 7 (0.44%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 371 (23.42%) Software Engineering
2 355 (22.41%) Agile Software Development
3 114 (7.20%) Test Automation
4 112 (7.07%) SDLC
5 102 (6.44%) Scrum
6 101 (6.38%) Stakeholder Management
7 96 (6.06%) TDD
8 94 (5.93%) Continuous Integration
9 93 (5.87%) Project Management
10 86 (5.43%) Multithreading
11 83 (5.24%) UML
12 81 (5.11%) Configuration Management
13 74 (4.67%) ITIL
14 66 (4.17%) DevOps
15 61 (3.85%) OO
16 57 (3.60%) Mathematics
17 52 (3.28%) Migration
17 52 (3.28%) Open Source
18 51 (3.22%) Data Modelling
19 49 (3.09%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 552 (34.85%) C++
2 305 (19.26%) Python
3 267 (16.86%) Java
4 239 (15.09%) SQL
5 180 (11.36%) Embedded C
6 140 (8.84%) C#
7 134 (8.46%) JavaScript
8 107 (6.76%) Perl
9 61 (3.85%) Shell Script
10 59 (3.72%) MATLAB
11 50 (3.16%) PL/SQL
12 44 (2.78%) Bash Shell
13 39 (2.46%) Embedded C++
14 37 (2.34%) T-SQL
15 32 (2.02%) Assembly Language
16 28 (1.77%) PHP
17 27 (1.70%) R
18 26 (1.64%) VB
19 25 (1.58%) Ada
19 25 (1.58%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 267 (16.86%) Security Cleared
2 155 (9.79%) Degree
3 150 (9.47%) SC Cleared
4 87 (5.49%) DV Cleared
5 36 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
6 19 (1.20%) Cisco Certification
7 16 (1.01%) CCNP
7 16 (1.01%) ISEB
8 12 (0.76%) Microsoft Certification
9 11 (0.69%) HNC
10 9 (0.57%) CTC Cleared
11 8 (0.51%) CCNA
11 8 (0.51%) ISTQB
12 7 (0.44%) PhD
12 7 (0.44%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 6 (0.38%) A+ Certification
13 6 (0.38%) BPSS Clearance
13 6 (0.38%) Master's Degree
14 5 (0.32%) CISSP
14 5 (0.32%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (3.41%) MISRA
2 45 (2.84%) QA
3 32 (2.02%) DO-178B
4 20 (1.26%) PMO
5 14 (0.88%) Def Stans
5 14 (0.88%) GDPR
6 12 (0.76%) ISO 26262
6 12 (0.76%) MISRA C
6 12 (0.76%) SLA
7 10 (0.63%) Data Quality
8 9 (0.57%) MiFID
9 8 (0.51%) ISO 9001
9 8 (0.51%) Solvency II
10 7 (0.44%) COBIT
10 7 (0.44%) IEC 61508
10 7 (0.44%) MIL-STD-1553
11 6 (0.38%) IEC 62304
12 5 (0.32%) Disclosure Scotland
12 5 (0.32%) GAAP
13 4 (0.25%) ISO 14001
System Software
1 46 (2.90%) Firmware
2 39 (2.46%) VMware Infrastructure
3 34 (2.15%) Active Directory
4 23 (1.45%) Docker
5 13 (0.82%) KVM
6 11 (0.69%) vSphere
7 10 (0.63%) Advanced Linux Sound Architecture
8 7 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
9 6 (0.38%) VMware ESXi
9 6 (0.38%) VMware NSX
10 4 (0.25%) Apache Flume
10 4 (0.25%) iptables
10 4 (0.25%) ProxySG
10 4 (0.25%) Virtual Servers
11 3 (0.19%) Cygwin
11 3 (0.19%) Hyper-V
11 3 (0.19%) NFS
11 3 (0.19%) RHEV
11 3 (0.19%) XenApp
11 3 (0.19%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 42 (2.65%) Puppet
2 28 (1.77%) Ansible
2 28 (1.77%) Opscode Chef
3 13 (0.82%) SCCM
4 12 (0.76%) HP Quality Center
4 12 (0.76%) Kubernetes
4 12 (0.76%) Nagios
5 11 (0.69%) Terraform
6 8 (0.51%) vCenter Server
7 7 (0.44%) Kibana
8 6 (0.38%) SCOM
9 5 (0.32%) Cobbler
9 5 (0.32%) logstash
9 5 (0.32%) yum
10 4 (0.25%) Thomson Reuters DACS
11 3 (0.19%) CFEngine
11 3 (0.19%) Control-M
11 3 (0.19%) Netcool
11 3 (0.19%) Rundeck
11 3 (0.19%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 130 (8.21%) Microsoft
2 123 (7.77%) Oracle
3 56 (3.54%) VMware
4 40 (2.53%) Cisco
4 40 (2.53%) Red Hat
5 38 (2.40%) SAP
6 23 (1.45%) HP
7 22 (1.39%) ION Trading
8 20 (1.26%) Google
9 18 (1.14%) IBM
10 16 (1.01%) Perforce
11 12 (0.76%) Splunk
12 9 (0.57%) Citrix
12 9 (0.57%) EMC
12 9 (0.57%) F5
12 9 (0.57%) Sybase
12 9 (0.57%) Xamarin
13 8 (0.51%) AppDynamics
13 8 (0.51%) Apple
13 8 (0.51%) Serena
314 C job vacancies Nationwide