MISRA C Contracts

MISRA C
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring MISRA C skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited MISRA C over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 503 572 691
Rank change year-on-year +69 +119 +153
Contract jobs citing MISRA C 17 10 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.058% 0.023% 0.045%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.37% 0.16% 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 4
10th Percentile £66 - £339
25th Percentile £68 - £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £70 - £500
75th Percentile £73 - £581
90th Percentile £74 - £593
UK excluding London median daily rate £70 - £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 10 14
10th Percentile £61.63 - £50.00
25th Percentile - £56.25 £50.31
Median hourly rate £65.00 £59.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.17% -5.60% -
75th Percentile - £60.75 £66.88
90th Percentile - £62.43 £67.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £59.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +10.17% -5.60% -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK

MISRA C falls under the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 4,564 6,247 7,982
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.59% 14.34% 13.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,922 3,954 5,483
10th Percentile £265 £296 £275
25th Percentile £400 £403 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% +2.44%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £475
% change year-on-year -2.56% +2.63% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 179 382 225
10th Percentile £18.04 £10.95 £13.21
25th Percentile £22.21 £13.18 £18.70
Median hourly rate £34.50 £20.80 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +65.85% -44.53% +33.93%
75th Percentile £65.00 £45.00 £62.00
90th Percentile £83.01 £67.14 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.78 £18.00 £36.25
% change year-on-year +126.53% -50.34% +72.21%

MISRA C
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for MISRA C in the UK

MISRA C
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for MISRA C in the UK

MISRA C
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for MISRA C in the UK

MISRA C
Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MISRA C within the UK over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
UK excluding London +70 17 £70 - 174
England +68 17 £70 - 164
South West - 13 - - 35
Midlands +19 2 £70 - 37
North West - 2 - - 15
East Midlands - 2 £70 - 12
Work from Home - 2 - - 154
North of England - 2 - - 33

MISRA C
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Business Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Misys Midas
Cloud Services
1 2 (11.76%) Azure
1 2 (11.76%) Cloud Computing
Development Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Eclipse
1 2 (11.76%) NetBeans
1 2 (11.76%) Rational DOORS
General
1 2 (11.76%) Aerospace
1 2 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (11.76%) Military
1 2 (11.76%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.88%) Aviation
2 1 (5.88%) Law
Job Titles
1 13 (76.47%) Software Engineer
2 10 (58.82%) C++ Software Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) C++ Developer
3 2 (11.76%) Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Embedded C++ Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Embedded C++ Software Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Embedded Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Principal Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Principal Systems Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Software Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (76.47%) Qt
2 12 (70.59%) Middleware
3 2 (11.76%) POSIX
4 1 (5.88%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) Algorithms
2 1 (5.88%) IoT
2 1 (5.88%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.76%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 4 (23.53%) Agile
3 2 (11.76%) Code Quality
3 2 (11.76%) Data Modelling
3 2 (11.76%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
3 2 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (11.76%) Requirements Management
3 2 (11.76%) Software Testing
3 2 (11.76%) SysML
3 2 (11.76%) Test Automation
3 2 (11.76%) UML
3 2 (11.76%) Waterfall
4 1 (5.88%) Data Protection
4 1 (5.88%) Mathematics
4 1 (5.88%) Multithreading
4 1 (5.88%) Physics
4 1 (5.88%) Roadmaps
4 1 (5.88%) Software Architecture
4 1 (5.88%) Systems Engineering
4 1 (5.88%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 17 (100.00%) C++
2 13 (76.47%) Ada
3 2 (11.76%) C
Qualifications
1 7 (41.18%) Security Cleared
2 5 (29.41%) SC Cleared
3 2 (11.76%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (100.00%) MISRA
2 14 (82.35%) IEC 61508
3 13 (76.47%) Def Stans
4 2 (11.76%) GDPR
4 2 (11.76%) QA
4 2 (11.76%) Software Quality Assurance
Vendors
1 2 (11.76%) Atlassian
1 2 (11.76%) Microsoft
1 2 (11.76%) QNX
2 1 (5.88%) Twitter