Job Vacancy Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Hourly Rate Histogram Job Locations Skill Sets
Period
to 19 January 2022

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 19 January 2022 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
19 Jan 2022		 Same period 2021 Same period 2020
Rank 204 118 124
Rank change year-on-year -86 +6 +49
Contract jobs citing C 1,211 876 1,454
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.38% 2.13% 2.03%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.57% 5.15% 4.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 734 490 838
10th Percentile £350 £281 £313
25th Percentile £450 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £488 £450
Median % change year-on-year +12.82% +8.33% -
75th Percentile £650 £575 £550
90th Percentile £775 £700 £625
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £413 £450
% change year-on-year +16.45% -8.33% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 103 131 178
10th Percentile £24.36 £11.17 £26.66
25th Percentile £45.00 £23.88 £40.06
Median hourly rate £52.50 £42.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +23.53% -5.56% +5.88%
75th Percentile £60.00 £48.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £58.75 £53.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £51.50 £42.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year +21.18% -5.56% +5.88%

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 33,886 17,021 29,269
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 38.66% 41.43% 40.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,721 11,971 20,487
10th Percentile £369 £313 £325
25th Percentile £440 £388 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +13.16% - -
75th Percentile £638 £575 £575
90th Percentile £725 £663 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £425 £430
% change year-on-year +11.76% -1.16% +1.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 430 403 534
10th Percentile £19.52 £13.39 £16.52
25th Percentile £32.13 £24.00 £24.13
Median hourly rate £49.00 £42.50 £43.50
Median % change year-on-year +15.29% -2.30% +3.11%
75th Percentile £60.88 £49.50 £50.00
90th Percentile £71.37 £58.75 £55.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £42.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year +11.76% - -

C
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing C as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for C in the UK

C
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing C.

Daily rate trend for C in the UK

C
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing C over the 6 months to 19 January 2022.

Daily rate histogram for C in the UK

C
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing C.

Hourly rate trend for C in the UK

C
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing C over the 6 months to 19 January 2022.

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 19 January 2022. 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
Jobs
England -80 1,027 £550 +15.79% 873
London -53 514 £600 +14.29% 205
UK excluding London -75 507 £480 +16.45% 727
Work from Home -75 276 £540 +7.73% 152
South East -78 133 £463 +12.12% 170
South West -5 124 £490 +5.38% 104
East of England -22 110 £500 +27.80% 100
North of England -69 46 £450 +33.33% 176
Midlands -62 45 £450 +16.13% 119
Wales -6 31 £509 +31.23% 13
West Midlands -58 31 £438 +16.67% 63
North West -45 28 £438 +1.74% 76
Scotland -40 23 £525 +4.17% 42
Yorkshire -46 17 £450 +33.33% 63
East Midlands -28 14 £473 +18.13% 56
North East -10 3 £650 +306.25% 37
Northern Ireland -7 1 - - 5

For the 6 months to 19 January 2022, 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.

1 360 (29.73%) Agile Software Development
2 355 (29.31%) C++
3 284 (23.45%) Social Skills
4 278 (22.96%) Python
5 262 (21.64%) Security Cleared
6 245 (20.23%) Java
7 238 (19.65%) Finance
8 230 (18.99%) Software Engineering
9 224 (18.50%) Linux
10 193 (15.94%) SC Cleared
11 178 (14.70%) DevOps
12 165 (13.63%) Azure
13 157 (12.96%) Windows
14 156 (12.88%) SQL
15 152 (12.55%) Degree
16 139 (11.48%) SDLC
17 130 (10.73%) AWS
18 128 (10.57%) Stakeholder Management
19 119 (9.83%) C#
19 119 (9.83%) Problem-Solving
20 112 (9.25%) Microsoft
21 106 (8.75%) Analytical Skills
22 100 (8.26%) CI/CD
23 93 (7.68%) JavaScript
23 93 (7.68%) Git (software)
24 90 (7.43%) .NET
24 90 (7.43%) Project Management
24 90 (7.43%) Telecoms
25 89 (7.35%) Oracle
26 88 (7.27%) JIRA

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 (3.06%) SharePoint
2 28 (2.31%) Apache Spark
3 27 (2.23%) Confluence
4 21 (1.73%) OpenStack
5 13 (1.07%) Apache
5 13 (1.07%) ArcGIS
5 13 (1.07%) CMS
6 12 (0.99%) SAS
7 8 (0.66%) IIS
8 6 (0.50%) Elasticsearch
8 6 (0.50%) WebLogic
9 5 (0.41%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 3 (0.25%) MS Exchange
10 3 (0.25%) Tomcat
11 2 (0.17%) IBM Notes
11 2 (0.17%) Red Hat Fuse
11 2 (0.17%) SharePoint 2013
11 2 (0.17%) Tuxedo
12 1 (0.083%) Apache Airflow
12 1 (0.083%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 53 (4.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 44 (3.63%) Microsoft Office
3 18 (1.49%) Simulink
4 15 (1.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 11 (0.91%) Photoshop
6 9 (0.74%) Microsoft Project
7 5 (0.41%) FrameMaker
7 5 (0.41%) MS Visio
8 2 (0.17%) Notepad++
8 2 (0.17%) Sketch
8 2 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.083%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.083%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.083%) Houdini
9 1 (0.083%) InVision
9 1 (0.083%) Maya
9 1 (0.083%) NUKE
9 1 (0.083%) PlantUML
9 1 (0.083%) SOLIDWORKS
9 1 (0.083%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 24 (1.98%) ION MarketView
2 11 (0.91%) Dynamics NAV
3 9 (0.74%) SAP S/4HANA
4 7 (0.58%) Shopify
5 5 (0.41%) Workday HCM
6 4 (0.33%) Sentinel
7 3 (0.25%) BASE24
7 3 (0.25%) Oracle ERP
8 2 (0.17%) Dynamics CRM
8 2 (0.17%) IBM Planning Analytics
8 2 (0.17%) NetSuite
8 2 (0.17%) Oracle BPM
8 2 (0.17%) Oracle EBS R12
8 2 (0.17%) Oracle Financials
8 2 (0.17%) Remedy ITSM
8 2 (0.17%) SAP BPC
8 2 (0.17%) SAP ERP
8 2 (0.17%) SAP Hybris
8 2 (0.17%) SAP MDG
8 2 (0.17%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 165 (13.63%) Azure
2 130 (10.73%) AWS
3 72 (5.95%) GCP
4 45 (3.72%) Serverless
5 41 (3.39%) GitHub
6 35 (2.89%) SaaS
7 31 (2.56%) Microsoft 365
8 30 (2.48%) Power Platform
9 28 (2.31%) AWS CloudFormation
10 19 (1.57%) PaaS
11 18 (1.49%) Cloud Computing
12 13 (1.07%) AWS Lambda
13 8 (0.66%) Azure Monitor
14 7 (0.58%) Akamai
14 7 (0.58%) Algolia
14 7 (0.58%) Amplience
14 7 (0.58%) CloudFront
15 6 (0.50%) Amazon S3
15 6 (0.50%) Azure Functions
15 6 (0.50%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 55 (4.54%) 5G
2 51 (4.21%) Firewall
3 49 (4.05%) Wireless
4 44 (3.63%) GSM
5 43 (3.55%) 2G
6 41 (3.39%) MVNO
7 31 (2.56%) Network Security
8 30 (2.48%) Wi-Fi
9 28 (2.31%) Packet Switching
9 28 (2.31%) WAN
10 26 (2.15%) LAN
11 23 (1.90%) OSPF
12 20 (1.65%) Ethernet
12 20 (1.65%) Internet
13 19 (1.57%) Software-Defined Networking
13 19 (1.57%) TCP/IP
14 18 (1.49%) BGP
14 18 (1.49%) DNS
15 17 (1.40%) VPN
16 14 (1.16%) Bluetooth
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (5.53%) SQL Server
2 40 (3.30%) Relational Database
3 34 (2.81%) NoSQL
4 30 (2.48%) GIS
5 29 (2.39%) Power BI
6 27 (2.23%) Oracle Database
6 27 (2.23%) PostgreSQL
7 26 (2.15%) Hadoop
8 24 (1.98%) Big Data
9 23 (1.90%) Data Warehouse
10 22 (1.82%) MySQL
11 20 (1.65%) Tableau
12 18 (1.49%) Geospatial Data
13 15 (1.24%) RDBMS
13 15 (1.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 14 (1.16%) Metadata
15 12 (0.99%) Data Lake
16 11 (0.91%) MongoDB
17 9 (0.74%) Electronic Patient Records
17 9 (0.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 93 (7.68%) Git (software)
2 88 (7.27%) JIRA
3 58 (4.79%) Jenkins
4 35 (2.89%) Rational DOORS
4 35 (2.89%) Rational Rhapsody
5 28 (2.31%) GitLab
6 23 (1.90%) Eclipse
7 20 (1.65%) Bitbucket
8 17 (1.40%) NetBeans
8 17 (1.40%) Rational Team Concert
8 17 (1.40%) Subversion
9 16 (1.32%) GDB
10 15 (1.24%) Visual Studio
11 14 (1.16%) TeamCity
12 12 (0.99%) Burp Suite
12 12 (0.99%) Gatling
13 11 (0.91%) LoadRunner
14 10 (0.83%) SonarQube
15 9 (0.74%) JMeter
15 9 (0.74%) Selenium
General
1 284 (23.45%) Social Skills
2 238 (19.65%) Finance
3 106 (8.75%) Analytical Skills
4 90 (7.43%) Telecoms
5 74 (6.11%) Banking
6 63 (5.20%) Public Sector
7 61 (5.04%) Presentation Skills
8 44 (3.63%) Legal
9 39 (3.22%) Electronics
10 37 (3.06%) Retail
11 29 (2.39%) Marketing
12 26 (2.15%) Influencing Skills
13 22 (1.82%) Investment Banking
13 22 (1.82%) Organisational Skills
14 21 (1.73%) Documentation Skills
15 20 (1.65%) Aerospace
15 20 (1.65%) Manufacturing
16 16 (1.32%) Financial Institution
16 16 (1.32%) Local Government
17 15 (1.24%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 245 (20.23%) Developer
2 160 (13.21%) Software Engineer
3 133 (10.98%) Architect
4 105 (8.67%) Analyst
5 75 (6.19%) Project Manager
6 70 (5.78%) Embedded Engineer
7 58 (4.79%) C Software Engineer
8 55 (4.54%) Business Analyst
9 52 (4.29%) Embedded Software Engineer
10 44 (3.63%) C++ Software Engineer
11 41 (3.39%) Consultant
12 40 (3.30%) Java Developer
13 37 (3.06%) C/C++ Software Engineer
14 34 (2.81%) C++ Developer
15 33 (2.73%) Solutions Architect
16 30 (2.48%) C# Developer
16 30 (2.48%) Java Engineer
17 28 (2.31%) Cloud Architect
18 27 (2.23%) Embedded C Engineer
18 27 (2.23%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 90 (7.43%) .NET
2 51 (4.21%) React
2 51 (4.21%) REST
3 42 (3.47%) Web Services
4 41 (3.39%) .NET Framework
5 34 (2.81%) HTML
5 34 (2.81%) XML
6 33 (2.73%) CSS
7 29 (2.39%) WPF
8 28 (2.31%) JNI
9 24 (1.98%) ASP.NET
10 21 (1.73%) JSON
11 19 (1.57%) jQuery
11 19 (1.57%) Node.js
12 18 (1.49%) Twitter Bootstrap
13 17 (1.40%) CORBA
13 17 (1.40%) Motif
14 16 (1.32%) AngularJS
14 16 (1.32%) WCF
14 16 (1.32%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 55 (4.54%) Self-Motivation
2 35 (2.89%) User Experience
3 34 (2.81%) Management Information System
4 30 (2.48%) Algorithms
5 25 (2.06%) Client/Server
5 25 (2.06%) Data Centre
5 25 (2.06%) PMI
6 24 (1.98%) Cloud Native
7 23 (1.90%) Embedded Systems
8 20 (1.65%) Mobile App
9 19 (1.57%) Public Cloud
9 19 (1.57%) Renewable Energy
10 18 (1.49%) Legacy Applications
10 18 (1.49%) NHS
11 16 (1.32%) Clustering
11 16 (1.32%) SystemC
12 15 (1.24%) Enterprise Cloud
12 15 (1.24%) Hedge funds
12 15 (1.24%) Virtual Team
13 14 (1.16%) FPGA
Operating Systems
1 224 (18.50%) Linux
2 157 (12.96%) Windows
3 30 (2.48%) Windows Server
4 29 (2.39%) Unix
5 26 (2.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 23 (1.90%) Android
6 23 (1.90%) Embedded Linux
6 23 (1.90%) Windows 10
7 18 (1.49%) Ubuntu
8 16 (1.32%) Apple iOS
9 15 (1.24%) Windows Server 2008
10 14 (1.16%) Windows 7
11 13 (1.07%) Windows Server 2012
11 13 (1.07%) Windows Server 2016
12 12 (0.99%) Windows Server 2019
13 10 (0.83%) Solaris
14 7 (0.58%) OpenWrt
14 7 (0.58%) VMS
14 7 (0.58%) VxWorks
15 6 (0.50%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 360 (29.73%) Agile Software Development
2 230 (18.99%) Software Engineering
3 178 (14.70%) DevOps
4 139 (11.48%) SDLC
5 128 (10.57%) Stakeholder Management
6 119 (9.83%) Problem-Solving
7 100 (8.26%) CI/CD
8 90 (7.43%) Project Management
9 88 (7.27%) Analytics
10 87 (7.18%) Computer Science
11 85 (7.02%) Test Automation
12 81 (6.69%) Continuous Integration
12 81 (6.69%) OO
13 78 (6.44%) Project Delivery
14 72 (5.95%) ITIL
15 71 (5.86%) Scrum
16 70 (5.78%) Migration
17 64 (5.28%) Risk Management
18 63 (5.20%) Decision-Making
18 63 (5.20%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 355 (29.31%) C++
2 278 (22.96%) Python
3 245 (20.23%) Java
4 156 (12.88%) SQL
5 119 (9.83%) C#
6 93 (7.68%) JavaScript
7 68 (5.62%) Embedded C
8 67 (5.53%) Bash
9 50 (4.13%) PowerShell
10 45 (3.72%) Perl
11 37 (3.06%) T-SQL
12 36 (2.97%) TypeScript
13 35 (2.89%) VB
14 33 (2.73%) Shell Script
15 31 (2.56%) Embedded C++
16 25 (2.06%) VBA
17 24 (1.98%) MATLAB
17 24 (1.98%) PL/SQL
18 21 (1.73%) Ruby
19 16 (1.32%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 262 (21.64%) Security Cleared
2 193 (15.94%) SC Cleared
3 152 (12.55%) Degree
4 81 (6.69%) DV Cleared
5 38 (3.14%) Cisco Certification
6 36 (2.97%) Computer Science Degree
7 29 (2.39%) CISSP
7 29 (2.39%) PMI Certification
8 24 (1.98%) BPSS Clearance
9 15 (1.24%) Microsoft Certification
10 14 (1.16%) CCNA
11 13 (1.07%) CCNP
12 11 (0.91%) Master's Degree
12 11 (0.91%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 11 (0.91%) SANS
13 10 (0.83%) CREST Certified
13 10 (0.83%) PMP
13 10 (0.83%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 8 (0.66%) CCDP
15 7 (0.58%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (3.80%) QA
2 41 (3.39%) GDPR
3 23 (1.90%) PMBOK
4 19 (1.57%) PMO
4 19 (1.57%) SLA
5 15 (1.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 11 (0.91%) NCSC
7 8 (0.66%) Data Quality
8 7 (0.58%) JTAG
9 6 (0.50%) DO-178B
9 6 (0.50%) NIST
10 5 (0.41%) GRC
11 4 (0.33%) ISO 26262
11 4 (0.33%) MISRA
12 3 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
12 3 (0.25%) Disclosure Scotland
12 3 (0.25%) IEC 62304
13 2 (0.17%) Accessibility
13 2 (0.17%) ISO 9001
13 2 (0.17%) RMADS
System Software
1 76 (6.28%) Docker
2 56 (4.62%) Active Directory
3 51 (4.21%) VMware Infrastructure
4 40 (3.30%) Firmware
5 36 (2.97%) VMware NSX
6 33 (2.73%) vSphere
7 28 (2.31%) Virtual Machines
8 6 (0.50%) iptables
8 6 (0.50%) VirtualBox
9 5 (0.41%) KVM
9 5 (0.41%) Microsoft App-V
9 5 (0.41%) Virtual Servers
10 4 (0.33%) HDFS
10 4 (0.33%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 3 (0.25%) Hyper-V
11 3 (0.25%) NFS
11 3 (0.25%) VMware ESXi
12 2 (0.17%) VMFS
12 2 (0.17%) Xen
12 2 (0.17%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 72 (5.95%) Kubernetes
2 63 (5.20%) Terraform
3 24 (1.98%) Cisco CUCM
4 21 (1.73%) Ansible
5 18 (1.49%) vRealize
5 18 (1.49%) vRealize Orchestrator
6 16 (1.32%) Microsoft Clustering
7 13 (1.07%) BMC PATROL
8 12 (0.99%) Single Sign-On
9 9 (0.74%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 9 (0.74%) Nessus
9 9 (0.74%) SCCM
10 8 (0.66%) Microsoft Intune
11 6 (0.50%) VxRail
11 6 (0.50%) ZABBIX
12 5 (0.41%) HP Quality Center
12 5 (0.41%) Nagios
13 4 (0.33%) Grafana
13 4 (0.33%) systemd
13 4 (0.33%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 112 (9.25%) Microsoft
2 89 (7.35%) Oracle
3 70 (5.78%) Cisco
4 61 (5.04%) VMware
5 35 (2.89%) SAP
6 27 (2.23%) Red Hat
7 24 (1.98%) ION Trading
8 21 (1.73%) Google
9 18 (1.49%) CheckPoint
10 17 (1.40%) Atlassian
11 15 (1.24%) IBM
12 13 (1.07%) ESRI
12 13 (1.07%) ServiceNow
12 13 (1.07%) Splunk
13 11 (0.91%) Databricks
13 11 (0.91%) Lumension
13 11 (0.91%) Salesforce.com
13 11 (0.91%) Sophos
14 10 (0.83%) Citrix
14 10 (0.83%) Sybase
984 C job vacancies Nationwide