C Contracts in the West Midlands

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England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 1 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 55 134 162
Rank change year-on-year +79 +28 -61
Contract jobs citing C 57 6 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 2.92% 0.25% 0.34%
As % of the Programming Languages category 13.44% 0.95% 1.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 3 6
10th Percentile £486 - £409
25th Percentile £507 £363 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £375 £473
Median % change year-on-year +42.67% -20.63% +16.67%
75th Percentile £538 £413 £510
90th Percentile - £428 £516
England median daily rate £535 £588 £569
% change year-on-year -8.94% +3.25% +33.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £48.38 - -
25th Percentile £56.25 - -
Median hourly rate £57.50 - -
75th Percentile £58.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £58.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +11.11% +6.36% +22.22%

All Programming Languages
West Midlands

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 advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 424 631 922
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 21.73% 26.48% 26.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 308 437 676
10th Percentile £260 £362 £325
25th Percentile £350 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £458
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +14.57% +14.56%
75th Percentile £556 £595 £540
90th Percentile £638 £700 £635
England median daily rate £542 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -4.16% +2.73% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 8 2
10th Percentile £40.10 £21.73 £16.35
25th Percentile £55.00 £23.81 £16.51
Median hourly rate £57.50 £29.32 £17.39
Median % change year-on-year +96.13% +68.59% -53.63%
75th Percentile £58.75 £64.69 £18.38
90th Percentile £69.75 £98.25 £18.60
England median hourly rate £62.50 £60.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +4.17% +20.00% +14.94%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing C as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for C in the West Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for C in the West Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing C in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for C in the West Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for C in the West Midlands

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing C in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for C in the West Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing C within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 May 2024. 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
Shropshire - 49 £535 - 1
Birmingham +15 3 £456 +7.24% 6
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.75%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 5 (8.77%) Simulink
1 5 (8.77%) Stateflow
1 5 (8.77%) TargetLink
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.51%) Data Lake
1 2 (3.51%) NoSQL
1 2 (3.51%) RDBMS
1 2 (3.51%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 42 (73.68%) PVCS
1 42 (73.68%) Visual Studio
2 5 (8.77%) Bitbucket
2 5 (8.77%) Git
2 5 (8.77%) Subversion
3 1 (1.75%) Ant
3 1 (1.75%) Gradle
3 1 (1.75%) JUnit
3 1 (1.75%) Maven
General
1 16 (28.07%) Public Sector
2 5 (8.77%) Automotive
3 2 (3.51%) Finance
4 1 (1.75%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (1.75%) Banking
Job Titles
1 49 (85.96%) Programmer
2 46 (80.70%) C Programmer
3 5 (8.77%) Control Systems Engineer
3 5 (8.77%) Principal Engineer
3 5 (8.77%) Principal Systems Engineer
3 5 (8.77%) Systems Engineer
4 3 (5.26%) C++ Programmer
5 2 (3.51%) Data Engineer
5 2 (3.51%) Embedded C Programmer
5 2 (3.51%) Software Programmer
6 1 (1.75%) Embedded Engineer
6 1 (1.75%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 1 (1.75%) PL/SQL Programmer
6 1 (1.75%) Senior
6 1 (1.75%) Senior Data Engineer
6 1 (1.75%) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (12.28%) Algorithms
2 5 (8.77%) Management Information System
3 2 (3.51%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.75%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (14.04%) Problem-Solving
1 8 (14.04%) Software Engineering
2 5 (8.77%) Agile
2 5 (8.77%) Black-Box Testing
2 5 (8.77%) Functional Testing
2 5 (8.77%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
2 5 (8.77%) Integration Testing
2 5 (8.77%) Line Management
2 5 (8.77%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
2 5 (8.77%) Project Management
2 5 (8.77%) QMS
2 5 (8.77%) Quality Management
2 5 (8.77%) Software Audit
2 5 (8.77%) Software Testing
2 5 (8.77%) UML
2 5 (8.77%) Validation
2 5 (8.77%) Verification and Validation
2 5 (8.77%) White-Box Testing
3 2 (3.51%) Data Modelling
4 1 (1.75%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 42 (73.68%) PL/SQL
2 15 (26.32%) C++
3 5 (8.77%) MATLAB
4 2 (3.51%) Java
4 2 (3.51%) Python
5 1 (1.75%) Scala
5 1 (1.75%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 50 (87.72%) SC Cleared
1 50 (87.72%) Security Cleared
2 5 (8.77%) Degree
2 5 (8.77%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.77%) AUTOSAR
1 5 (8.77%) ISO 26262
1 5 (8.77%) MISRA
1 5 (8.77%) MISRA C
Vendors
1 2 (3.51%) Microsoft