Job Vacancy Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Hourly Rate Histogram Job Locations Skill Sets
Period
to 22 September 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 22 September 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
22 Sep 2019		 Same period 2018 Same period 2017
Rank 125 170 162
Rank change year-on-year +45 -8 -29
Contract jobs citing C 1,772 1,678 1,613
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 2.03% 1.65% 1.63%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.82% 3.70% 3.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 958 898 828
UK median daily rate £455 £475 £430
Median daily rate % change year-on-year -4.21% +10.47% +3.61%
10th Percentile £320 £313 £300
90th Percentile £663 £654 £663
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £413 £400
% change year-on-year +9.09% +3.13% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 218 215 183
UK median hourly rate £46.50 £42.00 £42.50
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year +10.71% -1.18% +6.25%
10th Percentile £37.28 £20.65 £30.55
90th Percentile £55.00 £50.15 £52.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £46.50 £42.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year +9.41% - +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 36,799 45,319 41,332
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 42.14% 44.46% 41.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,471 31,859 28,514
UK median daily rate £475 £475 £450
Median daily rate % change year-on-year - +5.56% +5.88%
10th Percentile £320 £313 £306
90th Percentile £650 £638 £625
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £415 £400
% change year-on-year +2.41% +3.75% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 664 723 780
UK median hourly rate £44.00 £41.50 £40.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year +6.02% +3.75% +6.67%
10th Percentile £20.31 £16.25 £15.79
90th Percentile £56.18 £52.50 £53.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £44.00 £41.92 £40.00
% change year-on-year +4.96% +4.81% +6.67%

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 September 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 22 September 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 22 September 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 +49 1,699 £463 -2.63% 1,335
UK excluding London +57 1,286 £450 +9.09% 1,198
London -3 451 £525 -2.33% 211
South West +23 404 £450 +9.76% 195
South East +40 382 £425 - 301
East of England +33 212 £450 - 241
North of England +10 128 £405 +8.00% 235
Midlands +77 110 £428 +7.01% 152
West Midlands +79 92 £439 +0.29% 118
Yorkshire +45 67 £385 -5.23% 62
North West -7 40 £400 +6.67% 142
Scotland +31 24 £500 +21.21% 50
North East +8 21 £467 +28.38% 31
Wales -6 21 £450 +12.50% 15
East Midlands +9 18 £400 +9.72% 33
Northern Ireland +1 6 £388 +10.71% 9

For the 6 months to 22 September 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.

1 710 (40.07%) C++
2 557 (31.43%) Software Engineering
3 474 (26.75%) Agile Software Development
4 468 (26.41%) Linux
5 379 (21.39%) Security Cleared
6 325 (18.34%) Python
7 324 (18.28%) Java
8 237 (13.37%) SC Cleared
9 223 (12.58%) Embedded C
10 207 (11.68%) Windows
11 198 (11.17%) Finance
12 196 (11.06%) SQL
13 187 (10.55%) Degree
14 182 (10.27%) DV Cleared
15 179 (10.10%) Microsoft
16 177 (9.99%) UML
17 171 (9.65%) Problem-Solving
18 151 (8.52%) C#
19 147 (8.30%) JIRA
20 146 (8.24%) Unix
21 144 (8.13%) Scrum
22 134 (7.56%) DevOps
23 127 (7.17%) Oracle
24 120 (6.77%) Stakeholder Management
25 118 (6.66%) Project Management
26 116 (6.55%) Embedded C++
26 116 (6.55%) TDD
27 102 (5.76%) JavaScript
27 102 (5.76%) Configuration Management
28 101 (5.70%) 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 90 (5.08%) Confluence
2 31 (1.75%) JBoss
3 30 (1.69%) CMS
4 26 (1.47%) SAS
5 21 (1.19%) SharePoint
6 20 (1.13%) Apache Spark
7 15 (0.85%) MS Exchange
8 12 (0.68%) OpenStack
9 11 (0.62%) WebLogic
10 9 (0.51%) Exchange Server 2010
10 9 (0.51%) Skype for Business
11 8 (0.45%) Tomcat
11 8 (0.45%) WebSphere
12 6 (0.34%) Apache
12 6 (0.34%) Elasticsearch
13 5 (0.28%) Camunda
13 5 (0.28%) Captiva
13 5 (0.28%) Documentum
14 4 (0.23%) SharePoint Server
15 3 (0.17%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 65 (3.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 40 (2.26%) Microsoft Office
3 29 (1.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 26 (1.47%) Simulink
5 20 (1.13%) Microsoft Project
6 12 (0.68%) Spreadsheet
7 11 (0.62%) Stateflow
8 10 (0.56%) Adobe Illustrator
8 10 (0.56%) Inkscape
9 8 (0.45%) MS Visio
10 2 (0.11%) FileZilla
10 2 (0.11%) Notepad++
10 2 (0.11%) Quicktime
11 1 (0.056%) Abaqus
11 1 (0.056%) AutoCAD
11 1 (0.056%) Autodesk Inventor
11 1 (0.056%) Chatbot
11 1 (0.056%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 24 (1.35%) Dynamics NAV
1 24 (1.35%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 18 (1.02%) ION MarketView
3 10 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
4 7 (0.40%) SAP S/4HANA
5 4 (0.23%) FINCAD Analytics
6 3 (0.17%) LabWindows
6 3 (0.17%) Oracle Retail
6 3 (0.17%) Payment Gateway
6 3 (0.17%) SAP CRM
6 3 (0.17%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 3 (0.17%) SAP SD
7 2 (0.11%) Oracle BPM
7 2 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
7 2 (0.11%) SAP MM
7 2 (0.11%) SAP WM
8 1 (0.056%) Actimize
8 1 (0.056%) assyst
8 1 (0.056%) Cognos TM1
8 1 (0.056%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 101 (5.70%) Azure
2 89 (5.02%) AWS
3 46 (2.60%) GCP
4 40 (2.26%) Office 365
5 28 (1.58%) Cloud Computing
6 27 (1.52%) PaaS
7 26 (1.47%) IaaS
8 20 (1.13%) Power Platform
9 18 (1.02%) Serverless
10 16 (0.90%) OpenShift
11 14 (0.79%) SaaS
12 11 (0.62%) GitHub
13 10 (0.56%) Amazon S3
14 9 (0.51%) Azure Stack
15 8 (0.45%) AWS Lambda
16 7 (0.40%) G Suite
17 6 (0.34%) Adobe Analytics
17 6 (0.34%) Amazon SQS
17 6 (0.34%) AWS CloudFormation
17 6 (0.34%) Azure Active Directory
Communications & Networking
1 69 (3.89%) Wireless
2 62 (3.50%) DNS
2 62 (3.50%) TCP/IP
3 57 (3.22%) Internet
4 46 (2.60%) Ethernet
5 44 (2.48%) Firewall
6 41 (2.31%) Bluetooth
6 41 (2.31%) Wireshark
7 35 (1.98%) VoIP
8 30 (1.69%) DHCP
9 29 (1.64%) ZigBee
10 27 (1.52%) WAN
11 26 (1.47%) SAN
12 24 (1.35%) IPv6
12 24 (1.35%) Wi-Fi
13 23 (1.30%) LAN
13 23 (1.30%) SNMP
14 21 (1.19%) 3GPP
15 19 (1.07%) RS-485
16 17 (0.96%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (2.48%) Hadoop
1 44 (2.48%) SQL Server
2 38 (2.14%) MySQL
3 35 (1.98%) Big Data
4 32 (1.81%) MongoDB
4 32 (1.81%) Relational Database
5 23 (1.30%) PostgreSQL
6 20 (1.13%) NoSQL
6 20 (1.13%) Power BI
7 18 (1.02%) Oracle Database
8 17 (0.96%) Apache Hive
9 16 (0.90%) BigQuery
10 15 (0.85%) Data Warehouse
11 13 (0.73%) DB2
12 12 (0.68%) SAP HANA
13 10 (0.56%) Apache Cassandra
14 9 (0.51%) Crystal Reports
14 9 (0.51%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 9 (0.51%) Sqoop
15 8 (0.45%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 147 (8.30%) JIRA
2 87 (4.91%) Git (software)
3 69 (3.89%) Rational Rhapsody
4 63 (3.56%) Jenkins
5 62 (3.50%) Rational DOORS
6 41 (2.31%) Visual Studio
7 37 (2.09%) Selenium
8 34 (1.92%) Subversion
9 30 (1.69%) Cucumber
10 24 (1.35%) GoogleTest
11 23 (1.30%) GDB
11 23 (1.30%) PVCS
12 22 (1.24%) ClearCase
13 20 (1.13%) Ant
14 17 (0.96%) Team Foundation Server
15 16 (0.90%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 16 (0.90%) Eclipse
15 16 (0.90%) ProC
16 15 (0.85%) NUnit
17 14 (0.79%) JUnit
General
1 198 (11.17%) Finance
2 83 (4.68%) Electronics
3 72 (4.06%) Public Sector
4 71 (4.01%) Banking
5 66 (3.72%) Law
6 59 (3.33%) Military
6 59 (3.33%) Telecoms
7 36 (2.03%) Manufacturing
7 36 (2.03%) Retail
8 34 (1.92%) Aerospace
9 28 (1.58%) Marketing
10 25 (1.41%) Automotive
11 23 (1.30%) Avionics
11 23 (1.30%) Front Office
12 22 (1.24%) Local Government
13 15 (0.85%) Games
13 15 (0.85%) Investment Banking
13 15 (0.85%) Pharmaceutical
14 14 (0.79%) Legal
15 10 (0.56%) Billing
Job Titles
1 413 (23.31%) Software Engineer
2 335 (18.91%) Developer
3 252 (14.22%) Embedded Engineer
4 208 (11.74%) Embedded Software Engineer
5 137 (7.73%) Analyst
6 129 (7.28%) C++ Software Engineer
7 121 (6.83%) Architect
8 98 (5.53%) C Software Engineer
9 83 (4.68%) C Developer
10 79 (4.46%) C/C++ Software Engineer
11 64 (3.61%) C++ Developer
12 59 (3.33%) Embedded C++ Engineer
13 57 (3.22%) Embedded C Engineer
13 57 (3.22%) Software Developer
14 53 (2.99%) Consultant
15 47 (2.65%) Embedded C/C++ Engineer
16 46 (2.60%) Systems Engineer
17 45 (2.54%) Embedded C Software Engineer
17 45 (2.54%) Embedded C++ Software Engineer
18 43 (2.43%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (4.18%) Web Services
2 73 (4.12%) .NET
2 73 (4.12%) XML
3 51 (2.88%) HTML
4 50 (2.82%) AngularJS
5 45 (2.54%) Middleware
6 40 (2.26%) Node.js
7 35 (1.98%) React
8 33 (1.86%) CSS
9 32 (1.81%) Qt
10 31 (1.75%) SOAP
11 30 (1.69%) REST
12 27 (1.52%) JSON
13 26 (1.47%) Spring
13 26 (1.47%) STL
14 20 (1.13%) Hibernate
15 18 (1.02%) JNI
16 17 (0.96%) Java EE
17 16 (0.90%) EJB
18 15 (0.85%) Rendezvous
Miscellaneous
1 96 (5.42%) Analytical Skills
2 65 (3.67%) Algorithms
3 58 (3.27%) Embedded Systems
4 46 (2.60%) Self-Motivation
5 43 (2.43%) Management Information System
6 40 (2.26%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
7 37 (2.09%) Greenfield Project
8 26 (1.47%) Data Centre
9 24 (1.35%) VHDL
10 22 (1.24%) ASIC
10 22 (1.24%) PKI
11 21 (1.19%) Device Driver
12 20 (1.13%) User Experience
13 19 (1.07%) Derivative
13 19 (1.07%) Linux Command Line
13 19 (1.07%) Mobile App
14 16 (0.90%) Video\Live Streaming
15 15 (0.85%) Replication
16 14 (0.79%) Data Structures
17 11 (0.62%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 468 (26.41%) Linux
2 207 (11.68%) Windows
3 146 (8.24%) Unix
4 89 (5.02%) Android
5 57 (3.22%) Embedded Linux
6 46 (2.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 42 (2.37%) FreeRTOS
8 27 (1.52%) ThreadX
9 23 (1.30%) OpenVMS
10 22 (1.24%) Windows Server 2012
11 20 (1.13%) Solaris
11 20 (1.13%) Windows Server 2008
12 19 (1.07%) Apple iOS
12 19 (1.07%) Windows 10
13 17 (0.96%) Windows 7
13 17 (0.96%) Windows Server
14 13 (0.73%) CentOS
15 11 (0.62%) Windows Server 2003
16 9 (0.51%) Mac OS
17 8 (0.45%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 557 (31.43%) Software Engineering
2 474 (26.75%) Agile Software Development
3 177 (9.99%) UML
4 171 (9.65%) Problem-Solving
5 144 (8.13%) Scrum
6 134 (7.56%) DevOps
7 120 (6.77%) Stakeholder Management
8 118 (6.66%) Project Management
9 116 (6.55%) TDD
10 102 (5.76%) Configuration Management
11 96 (5.42%) Migration
12 93 (5.25%) Computer Science
13 89 (5.02%) Cybersecurity
14 88 (4.97%) Multithreading
14 88 (4.97%) Test Automation
15 86 (4.85%) OO
16 81 (4.57%) Continuous Integration
17 78 (4.40%) Mathematics
18 71 (4.01%) ITIL
18 71 (4.01%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 710 (40.07%) C++
2 325 (18.34%) Python
3 324 (18.28%) Java
4 223 (12.58%) Embedded C
5 196 (11.06%) SQL
6 151 (8.52%) C#
7 116 (6.55%) Embedded C++
8 102 (5.76%) JavaScript
9 70 (3.95%) MATLAB
10 54 (3.05%) PowerShell
11 53 (2.99%) Perl
12 47 (2.65%) Ruby
13 38 (2.14%) PL/SQL
14 36 (2.03%) Bash Shell
15 35 (1.98%) PHP
15 35 (1.98%) R
16 28 (1.58%) Go
17 25 (1.41%) VB
18 20 (1.13%) Java 8
18 20 (1.13%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 379 (21.39%) Security Cleared
2 237 (13.37%) SC Cleared
3 187 (10.55%) Degree
4 182 (10.27%) DV Cleared
5 44 (2.48%) Computer Science Degree
6 31 (1.75%) CISSP
7 23 (1.30%) CESG Certified Professional
8 18 (1.02%) Cisco Certification
8 18 (1.02%) CISM
9 17 (0.96%) BPSS Clearance
10 16 (0.90%) PRINCE2 Certification
11 15 (0.85%) SANS
12 14 (0.79%) CCNA
13 12 (0.68%) ISTQB
13 12 (0.68%) PhD
13 12 (0.68%) PMI Certification
13 12 (0.68%) PMP
14 11 (0.62%) HND
14 11 (0.62%) ISEB
14 11 (0.62%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (3.27%) QA
2 48 (2.71%) MISRA
3 28 (1.58%) PMO
4 21 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 17 (0.96%) MISRA C
6 13 (0.73%) DO-178B
7 11 (0.62%) SLA
8 10 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 9 (0.51%) GDPR
10 8 (0.45%) DO-254
11 7 (0.40%) IEC 61508
12 6 (0.34%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 6 (0.34%) JSP 440
13 5 (0.28%) HMG Infosec
13 5 (0.28%) PCI DSS
14 4 (0.23%) GMP
14 4 (0.23%) JTAG
14 4 (0.23%) NIST
15 3 (0.17%) COBIT
15 3 (0.17%) Solvency II
System Software
1 82 (4.63%) Firmware
2 78 (4.40%) Active Directory
3 60 (3.39%) Docker
4 29 (1.64%) VMware Infrastructure
5 12 (0.68%) vSphere
5 12 (0.68%) XenApp
6 11 (0.62%) Virtual Machines
7 10 (0.56%) Apache Flume
8 8 (0.45%) Hyper-V
8 8 (0.45%) XenDesktop
9 6 (0.34%) RACF
10 5 (0.28%) VMware ESXi
11 4 (0.23%) Gluster
12 3 (0.17%) Microsoft App-V
13 2 (0.11%) BitLocker
13 2 (0.11%) NFS
13 2 (0.11%) Samba
14 1 (0.056%) Virtual Desktop
14 1 (0.056%) Virtual Servers
14 1 (0.056%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 51 (2.88%) Ansible
2 44 (2.48%) Kubernetes
3 38 (2.14%) Puppet
4 20 (1.13%) Opscode Chef
5 18 (1.02%) Terraform
6 12 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
7 11 (0.62%) SCCM
8 9 (0.51%) vRealize
9 8 (0.45%) Cisco CUCM
9 8 (0.45%) HP ALM
9 8 (0.45%) HP Quality Center
9 8 (0.45%) WSUS
10 7 (0.40%) Salt
11 6 (0.34%) Nessus
11 6 (0.34%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 5 (0.28%) Nagios
12 5 (0.28%) QRadar
13 4 (0.23%) AirWatch
13 4 (0.23%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
14 3 (0.17%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 179 (10.10%) Microsoft
2 127 (7.17%) Oracle
3 88 (4.97%) Google
4 65 (3.67%) Cisco
5 55 (3.10%) Atlassian
6 50 (2.82%) SAP
7 44 (2.48%) Red Hat
8 42 (2.37%) VMware
9 37 (2.09%) Apple
10 28 (1.58%) ServiceNow
11 24 (1.35%) IBM
11 24 (1.35%) Sparx
11 24 (1.35%) TIBCO
12 22 (1.24%) Adobe
13 20 (1.13%) HP
14 18 (1.02%) Citrix
14 18 (1.02%) ION Trading
15 16 (0.90%) Micro Focus
16 13 (0.73%) Salesforce.com
17 9 (0.51%) MathWorks
1,412 C job vacancies Nationwide