Job Vacancy Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Hourly Rate Histogram Job Locations Skill Sets
Period
to 17 August 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 17 August 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
17 Aug 2017		 Same period 2016 Same period 2015
Rank 151 132 140
Rank change year-on-year -19 +8 -30
Contract jobs citing C 1653 2091 1976
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 1.73% 1.92% 1.75%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.11% 4.90% 4.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 866 1061 1068
UK median daily rate £433 £413 £388
Median daily rate % change year-on-year +4.91% +6.45% +3.33%
10th Percentile £299 £265 £258
90th Percentile £663 £613 £600
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £375 £355
% change year-on-year +6.67% +5.63% +1.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 184 277 233
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £40.00 £37.50
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year +6.25% +6.67% +7.14%
10th Percentile £30.75 £14.13 £18.75
90th Percentile £52.50 £53.00 £46.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.50 £40.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year +6.25% +6.67% +5.63%

C is in the programming language skills category. The next table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for programming language skills.

Contract Programming Language Skills
UK
Contract job vacancies with a requirement for programming language skills 40199 42636 42444
As % of all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK 42.01% 39.19% 37.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 27630 29315 28158
UK median daily rate £450 £425 £400
Median daily rate % change year-on-year +5.88% +6.25% +6.67%
10th Percentile £300 £278 £263
90th Percentile £625 £588 £588
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £375 £350
% change year-on-year +6.67% +7.14% +2.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 781 907 898
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £37.50 £35.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year +6.67% +7.14% +4.32%
10th Percentile £16.00 £13.41 £15.50
90th Percentile £53.75 £50.87 £50.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.50 £37.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year +8.00% +4.17% +5.88%

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 17 August 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 17 August 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 17 August 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 -16 1521 £438 +4.17% 437
UK excluding London -14 1029 £400 +6.67% 339
London -19 589 £490 +6.23% 120
South East -25 311 £400 +10.73% 72
East of England +23 201 £409 +2.19% 76
South West -18 179 £383 -15.00% 51
North of England -47 117 £425 +11.84% 51
Midlands +3 116 £350 -12.50% 65
West Midlands +5 66 £333 -16.88% 34
North West -27 66 £450 +5.88% 34
Scotland +6 53 £300 -7.69% 17
East Midlands -1 46 £400 +7.38% 31
Yorkshire -8 37 £410 +18.84% 11
Wales -17 33 £425 +4.29% 5
Northern Ireland - 21 £413 - 2
North East +3 13 £425 +51.79% 6

For the 6 months to 17 August 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.

1 579 (35.03%) C++
2 402 (24.32%) Linux
3 388 (23.47%) Software Engineering
4 332 (20.08%) Agile Software Development
5 313 (18.94%) Java
6 309 (18.69%) SQL
7 290 (17.54%) Security Cleared
8 276 (16.70%) Finance
9 265 (16.03%) Python
10 213 (12.89%) Windows
11 182 (11.01%) C#
12 180 (10.89%) Unix
13 169 (10.22%) Oracle
14 163 (9.86%) SC Cleared
15 161 (9.74%) Embedded C
16 160 (9.68%) Degree
17 149 (9.01%) Microsoft
18 137 (8.29%) Perl
18 137 (8.29%) Banking
19 127 (7.68%) JavaScript
20 124 (7.50%) SDLC
21 121 (7.32%) Analytical Skills
22 114 (6.90%) Scrum
23 112 (6.78%) .NET
24 110 (6.65%) Test Automation
25 104 (6.29%) Git (software)
25 104 (6.29%) SQL Server
26 99 (5.99%) Project Management
27 98 (5.93%) TDD
28 97 (5.87%) 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 43 (2.60%) Apache
2 33 (2.00%) SharePoint
3 30 (1.81%) WebLogic
4 28 (1.69%) Confluence
5 23 (1.39%) JBoss
6 22 (1.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 22 (1.33%) WebSphere
7 20 (1.21%) Elasticsearch
8 17 (1.03%) IIS
9 16 (0.97%) Tomcat
10 13 (0.79%) CMS
11 9 (0.54%) ArcGIS
11 9 (0.54%) MS Exchange
11 9 (0.54%) OpenROAD
12 8 (0.48%) Exchange Server 2013
12 8 (0.48%) NServiceBus
12 8 (0.48%) TPMS
13 7 (0.42%) Apache Spark
13 7 (0.42%) Skype for Business
14 6 (0.36%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 69 (4.17%) Microsoft Office
2 52 (3.15%) Microsoft Excel
3 23 (1.39%) Simulink
4 15 (0.91%) MS Visio
5 13 (0.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 12 (0.73%) Doxygen
7 11 (0.67%) Microsoft Project
8 5 (0.30%) FrameMaker
9 4 (0.24%) XMetaL
10 3 (0.18%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 3 (0.18%) OrCAD
11 2 (0.12%) AutoCAD
11 2 (0.12%) Photoshop
11 2 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
11 2 (0.12%) TargetLink
12 1 (0.060%) Adobe Illustrator
12 1 (0.060%) LaTeX
12 1 (0.060%) Maya
12 1 (0.060%) SPSS
12 1 (0.060%) Stata
Business Applications
1 17 (1.03%) LabWindows
2 16 (0.97%) Dynamics NAV
3 11 (0.67%) Dynamics CRM
4 8 (0.48%) Oracle iRecruitment
5 7 (0.42%) ION MarketView
6 5 (0.30%) Oracle BPM
6 5 (0.30%) Oracle EBS
6 5 (0.30%) WebTrends
7 3 (0.18%) Dynamics AX
7 3 (0.18%) Eloqua
7 3 (0.18%) Endur
7 3 (0.18%) SAP GTS
7 3 (0.18%) Siebel CRM
7 3 (0.18%) Summit
8 2 (0.12%) Oracle Payables
8 2 (0.12%) R3 Corda
8 2 (0.12%) RMDS
8 2 (0.12%) Sage X3
8 2 (0.12%) SAP BPC
8 2 (0.12%) Sonata
Cloud Services
1 40 (2.42%) Amazon AWS
2 30 (1.81%) Microsoft Azure
3 18 (1.09%) Office 365
4 11 (0.67%) PaaS
5 10 (0.60%) GitHub
5 10 (0.60%) IaaS
5 10 (0.60%) SaaS
6 8 (0.48%) Oracle CX
6 8 (0.48%) Oracle Service Cloud
7 7 (0.42%) Cloud Computing
8 5 (0.30%) Adobe Analytics
9 4 (0.24%) Amazon S3
9 4 (0.24%) G Suite
9 4 (0.24%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
10 3 (0.18%) Google Cloud Platform
11 2 (0.12%) Amazon EC2
11 2 (0.12%) Slack
11 2 (0.12%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 2 (0.12%) Yammer
12 1 (0.060%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 81 (4.90%) TCP/IP
2 52 (3.15%) Firewall
3 44 (2.66%) HTTP
4 42 (2.54%) Wireless
5 39 (2.36%) SSL
6 37 (2.24%) DNS
7 30 (1.81%) Wi-Fi
8 27 (1.63%) Bluetooth
9 26 (1.57%) WAN
10 22 (1.33%) Internet
11 21 (1.27%) Ethernet
11 21 (1.27%) LAN
12 17 (1.03%) Wireshark
13 15 (0.91%) DVB
14 14 (0.85%) Network Security
15 13 (0.79%) SAN
16 12 (0.73%) IPsec
16 12 (0.73%) VoIP
17 11 (0.67%) NAS
17 11 (0.67%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 104 (6.29%) SQL Server
2 66 (3.99%) Relational Database
3 38 (2.30%) MongoDB
3 38 (2.30%) Oracle Database
4 33 (2.00%) Data Warehouse
5 32 (1.94%) Big Data
5 32 (1.94%) MySQL
6 28 (1.69%) Hadoop
7 27 (1.63%) Oracle Database 11g
8 25 (1.51%) RDBMS
9 24 (1.45%) PostgreSQL
10 23 (1.39%) Oracle Database 12c
11 21 (1.27%) NoSQL
12 19 (1.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 17 (1.03%) KDB
14 16 (0.97%) BusinessObjects
15 15 (0.91%) SAP BW
16 12 (0.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 10 (0.60%) Oracle ODI
18 9 (0.54%) Ingres
Development Applications
1 104 (6.29%) Git (software)
2 73 (4.42%) JIRA
3 63 (3.81%) Visual Studio
4 53 (3.21%) Jenkins
5 52 (3.15%) Rational DOORS
5 52 (3.15%) Subversion
6 42 (2.54%) ProC
7 29 (1.75%) Rational Rhapsody
8 24 (1.45%) Selenium
9 22 (1.33%) Eclipse
10 21 (1.27%) Team Foundation Server
11 17 (1.03%) Oracle Forms
12 16 (0.97%) Bitbucket
13 14 (0.85%) SoapUI
14 13 (0.79%) GDB
14 13 (0.79%) Gradle
14 13 (0.79%) NUnit
15 12 (0.73%) JMeter
16 11 (0.67%) LoadRunner
17 9 (0.54%) Mercurial
General
1 276 (16.70%) Finance
2 137 (8.29%) Banking
3 80 (4.84%) Electronics
4 71 (4.30%) Telecoms
5 44 (2.66%) Aerospace
6 43 (2.60%) Automotive
6 43 (2.60%) Investment Banking
7 37 (2.24%) Front Office
8 36 (2.18%) Marketing
9 30 (1.81%) Manufacturing
10 25 (1.51%) Retail
11 22 (1.33%) Games
12 19 (1.15%) Avionics
13 18 (1.09%) Legal
13 18 (1.09%) Military
14 15 (0.91%) Back Office
15 9 (0.54%) Law
16 8 (0.48%) Advertising
16 8 (0.48%) German Language
17 7 (0.42%) French Language
Job Titles
1 465 (28.13%) Developer
2 282 (17.06%) Software Engineer
3 160 (9.68%) Embedded Engineer
4 126 (7.62%) Analyst
5 117 (7.08%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 100 (6.05%) Java Developer
7 95 (5.75%) C++ Developer
8 91 (5.51%) Architect
9 75 (4.54%) C Developer
10 71 (4.30%) C++ Software Engineer
11 66 (3.99%) Project Manager
12 62 (3.75%) Consultant
13 59 (3.57%) Linux Engineer
14 54 (3.27%) C Software Engineer
15 51 (3.09%) Senior Developer
16 48 (2.90%) Software Developer
17 46 (2.78%) SQL Developer
18 44 (2.66%) Business Analyst
18 44 (2.66%) Systems Engineer
19 41 (2.48%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 112 (6.78%) .NET
2 97 (5.87%) HTML
3 82 (4.96%) Web Services
4 73 (4.42%) XML
5 59 (3.57%) CSS
6 49 (2.96%) Middleware
7 47 (2.84%) J2EE
8 35 (2.12%) REST
9 33 (2.00%) JSON
9 33 (2.00%) RESTful
10 31 (1.88%) JNI
11 30 (1.81%) .NET Framework
11 30 (1.81%) Boost C++ Libraries
11 30 (1.81%) HTML5
12 28 (1.69%) AngularJS
13 25 (1.51%) SOAP
13 25 (1.51%) XSLT
14 21 (1.27%) ASP.NET
14 21 (1.27%) STL
14 21 (1.27%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 121 (7.32%) Analytical Skills
2 77 (4.66%) Computer Science
3 64 (3.87%) Embedded Systems
4 50 (3.02%) Data Centre
5 49 (2.96%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 49 (2.96%) Greenfield Project
6 48 (2.90%) Equities
7 42 (2.54%) Algorithms
8 40 (2.42%) Device Driver
9 37 (2.24%) Management Information System
9 37 (2.24%) User Experience
10 31 (1.88%) Fixed Income
10 31 (1.88%) Mobile App
11 29 (1.75%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
12 24 (1.45%) STB
13 22 (1.33%) Data Structures
14 21 (1.27%) Digital TV
15 16 (0.97%) Derivative
16 15 (0.91%) Client/Server
17 13 (0.79%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 402 (24.32%) Linux
2 213 (12.89%) Windows
3 180 (10.89%) Unix
4 53 (3.21%) Android
4 53 (3.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 45 (2.72%) Embedded Linux
6 33 (2.00%) Windows Server
7 31 (1.88%) Windows 7
8 28 (1.69%) AIX
9 25 (1.51%) Apple iOS
9 25 (1.51%) CentOS
10 16 (0.97%) Windows Server 2012
11 15 (0.91%) Windows 10
12 13 (0.79%) VxWorks
13 12 (0.73%) Ubuntu
14 11 (0.67%) Solaris
14 11 (0.67%) Windows Server 2008
15 10 (0.60%) Mac OS
16 9 (0.54%) Nucleus RTOS
17 6 (0.36%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 388 (23.47%) Software Engineering
2 332 (20.08%) Agile Software Development
3 124 (7.50%) SDLC
4 114 (6.90%) Scrum
5 110 (6.65%) Test Automation
6 99 (5.99%) Project Management
7 98 (5.93%) TDD
8 97 (5.87%) Continuous Integration
9 95 (5.75%) Multithreading
10 82 (4.96%) Configuration Management
10 82 (4.96%) Stakeholder Management
11 77 (4.66%) UML
12 76 (4.60%) DevOps
12 76 (4.60%) ITIL
13 75 (4.54%) OO
14 63 (3.81%) Mathematics
15 60 (3.63%) Unit Testing
16 58 (3.51%) Low Latency
16 58 (3.51%) Open Source
17 56 (3.39%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 579 (35.03%) C++
2 313 (18.94%) Java
3 309 (18.69%) SQL
4 265 (16.03%) Python
5 182 (11.01%) C#
6 161 (9.74%) Embedded C
7 137 (8.29%) Perl
8 127 (7.68%) JavaScript
9 57 (3.45%) PL/SQL
10 55 (3.33%) MATLAB
11 54 (3.27%) Bash Shell
12 52 (3.15%) Shell Script
13 43 (2.60%) Assembly Language
14 38 (2.30%) Embedded C++
15 37 (2.24%) T-SQL
16 36 (2.18%) VB
17 35 (2.12%) Ruby
18 25 (1.51%) PowerShell
19 22 (1.33%) R
20 20 (1.21%) PHP
Qualifications
1 290 (17.54%) Security Cleared
2 163 (9.86%) SC Cleared
3 160 (9.68%) Degree
4 81 (4.90%) DV Cleared
5 34 (2.06%) Computer Science Degree
6 24 (1.45%) Cisco Certification
7 18 (1.09%) Microsoft Certification
8 17 (1.03%) HNC
9 16 (0.97%) CCNP
10 14 (0.85%) CISSP
11 13 (0.79%) CCNA
11 13 (0.79%) ISEB
12 12 (0.73%) BPSS Clearance
12 12 (0.73%) HND
12 12 (0.73%) ISTQB
13 8 (0.48%) CISA
14 7 (0.42%) CTC Cleared
15 6 (0.36%) A+ Certification
15 6 (0.36%) AWS Certification
15 6 (0.36%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (2.54%) QA
2 38 (2.30%) MISRA
3 34 (2.06%) DO-178B
4 24 (1.45%) Def Stans
5 17 (1.03%) SLA
6 16 (0.97%) PMO
7 15 (0.91%) Data Quality
8 13 (0.79%) IEC 61508
8 13 (0.79%) SEPA
9 11 (0.67%) GDPR
9 11 (0.67%) MISRA C
10 10 (0.60%) MIL-STD-1553
11 9 (0.54%) ISO 14001
11 9 (0.54%) ISO 9001
11 9 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 8 (0.48%) Solvency II
13 7 (0.42%) Disclosure Scotland
14 6 (0.36%) JSP 440
14 6 (0.36%) NEBOSH
15 5 (0.30%) MiFID
System Software
1 42 (2.54%) Active Directory
2 39 (2.36%) Firmware
3 29 (1.75%) Docker
4 25 (1.51%) VMware Infrastructure
5 14 (0.85%) vSphere
6 11 (0.67%) Virtual Machines
7 8 (0.48%) VMware ESXi
8 7 (0.42%) KVM
9 6 (0.36%) ProxySG
9 6 (0.36%) VMware NSX
10 5 (0.30%) Advanced Linux Sound Architecture
11 4 (0.24%) iptables
11 4 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
11 4 (0.24%) XenDesktop
12 3 (0.18%) Apache Flume
12 3 (0.18%) Cygwin
12 3 (0.18%) LXC
12 3 (0.18%) RHEV
12 3 (0.18%) XenApp
12 3 (0.18%) XenServer
Systems Management
1 41 (2.48%) Puppet
2 30 (1.81%) Opscode Chef
3 17 (1.03%) Ansible
4 13 (0.79%) SCCM
5 11 (0.67%) vCenter Server
6 10 (0.60%) Kibana
7 9 (0.54%) HP Quality Center
7 9 (0.54%) Kubernetes
8 8 (0.48%) Nagios
8 8 (0.48%) Terraform
9 5 (0.30%) Cobbler
9 5 (0.30%) HP Fortify
9 5 (0.30%) Oracle RMAN
9 5 (0.30%) SCOM
9 5 (0.30%) yum
10 4 (0.24%) NetBackup
11 3 (0.18%) logstash
11 3 (0.18%) Rancher
11 3 (0.18%) Rundeck
11 3 (0.18%) WSUS
Vendors
1 169 (10.22%) Oracle
2 149 (9.01%) Microsoft
3 55 (3.33%) VMware
4 54 (3.27%) SAP
5 49 (2.96%) Cisco
6 41 (2.48%) Red Hat
7 30 (1.81%) ION Trading
8 29 (1.75%) HP
8 29 (1.75%) IBM
9 21 (1.27%) Sybase
10 16 (0.97%) Google
11 15 (0.91%) Serena
12 13 (0.79%) EMC
13 12 (0.73%) WSO2
14 11 (0.67%) Perforce
15 10 (0.60%) Citrix
15 10 (0.60%) ServiceNow
16 9 (0.54%) Apple
16 9 (0.54%) F5
16 9 (0.54%) Nokia
462 C job vacancies Nationwide