C Contracts with Work from Home Options

C
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 185 224 351
Rank change year-on-year +39 +127 -67
Contract jobs citing C 169 277 294
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.09% 1.05% 0.65%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.30% 2.81% 1.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 110 158
10th Percentile £378 £360 £400
25th Percentile £458 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £573
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% -3.93% +41.36%
75th Percentile £550 £650 £650
90th Percentile £625 £800 £727
UK median daily rate £535 £571 £575
% change year-on-year -6.30% -0.70% +35.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 65 31
10th Percentile - £21.28 £43.75
25th Percentile £46.25 £46.25 £47.50
Median hourly rate £70.00 £57.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +21.74% +15.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £89.69 £63.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £68.30 £57.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +13.04% +4.55% +22.22%

All Programming Languages
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 5,127 9,841 17,211
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 32.97% 37.35% 38.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,692 7,201 12,788
10th Percentile £350 £399 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.47%
75th Percentile £650 £660 £630
90th Percentile £775 £775 £713
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 148 218 203
10th Percentile £26.25 £35.00 £20.75
25th Percentile £46.25 £50.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £60.00 £65.00 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +32.65% +12.64%
75th Percentile £72.50 £69.31 £57.50
90th Percentile £89.13 £79.13 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £61.18 £50.00
% change year-on-year -1.92% +22.35% +14.94%

C
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing C as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

C trend for jobs with a WFH option

C
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing C.

C daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

C
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing C over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

C daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

C
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing C.

C hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

C
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing C over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

C hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

C
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 6 (3.55%) Confluence
2 1 (0.59%) nginx
2 1 (0.59%) Oracle HTTP Server
2 1 (0.59%) WebLogic
Applications
1 18 (10.65%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 4 (2.37%) Academy Housing
1 4 (2.37%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
2 1 (0.59%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 19 (11.24%) AWS
2 6 (3.55%) Azure
3 4 (2.37%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (2.37%) Power Automate
3 4 (2.37%) Power Platform
3 4 (2.37%) PowerApps
4 3 (1.78%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (1.78%) Amazon EKS
4 3 (1.78%) Datadog
4 3 (1.78%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (1.18%) Amazon S3
5 2 (1.18%) Amazon SQS
5 2 (1.18%) GitHub
6 1 (0.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (0.59%) Amazon ELB
6 1 (0.59%) Azure Batch
6 1 (0.59%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (0.59%) GCP
6 1 (0.59%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 13 (7.69%) 802.11
1 13 (7.69%) Wi-Fi
2 5 (2.96%) J1939
2 5 (2.96%) TCP/IP
3 4 (2.37%) Wireless
4 2 (1.18%) Bluetooth
4 2 (1.18%) Diameter Protocol
5 1 (0.59%) DHCP
5 1 (0.59%) DNS
5 1 (0.59%) HTTP
5 1 (0.59%) Internet
5 1 (0.59%) IPv4
5 1 (0.59%) Reverse Proxy
5 1 (0.59%) Software-Defined Radio
5 1 (0.59%) VLAN
5 1 (0.59%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (2.96%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.78%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (1.18%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (1.18%) MySQL
3 2 (1.18%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.59%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.59%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (0.59%) CouchDB
4 1 (0.59%) Data Mining
4 1 (0.59%) DynamoDB
4 1 (0.59%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.59%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.59%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.59%) Oracle Database 11g
4 1 (0.59%) Oracle Database 12c
4 1 (0.59%) Redis
4 1 (0.59%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 32 (18.93%) Visual Studio
2 30 (17.75%) PVCS
3 12 (7.10%) Rational DOORS
4 10 (5.92%) Git
4 10 (5.92%) JIRA
5 7 (4.14%) Jenkins
6 5 (2.96%) Subversion
7 4 (2.37%) Bitbucket
7 4 (2.37%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 3 (1.78%) JMeter
9 2 (1.18%) Cucumber
9 2 (1.18%) Cypress.io
9 2 (1.18%) Gradle
9 2 (1.18%) JUnit
9 2 (1.18%) Maven
9 2 (1.18%) Mocha
9 2 (1.18%) Selenium
9 2 (1.18%) SoapUI
9 2 (1.18%) TestNG
9 2 (1.18%) WebDriver
General
1 22 (13.02%) Social Skills
2 14 (8.28%) Automotive
2 14 (8.28%) Electronics
2 14 (8.28%) Public Sector
3 8 (4.73%) Telecoms
4 4 (2.37%) Aerospace
4 4 (2.37%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (2.37%) Local Government
4 4 (2.37%) Military
5 2 (1.18%) Finance
6 1 (0.59%) Billing
6 1 (0.59%) Law
6 1 (0.59%) Retail
Job Titles
1 53 (31.36%) Software Engineer
2 33 (19.53%) Embedded Engineer
3 31 (18.34%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 28 (16.57%) C Programmer
4 28 (16.57%) Programmer
5 24 (14.20%) Developer
6 19 (11.24%) FPGA Engineer
7 17 (10.06%) Design Engineer
7 17 (10.06%) FPGA Design Engineer
8 13 (7.69%) C Software Engineer
9 12 (7.10%) Embedded C Engineer
9 12 (7.10%) Embedded C Software Engineer
10 11 (6.51%) C++ Software Engineer
11 10 (5.92%) Senior
12 7 (4.14%) C Developer
12 7 (4.14%) C++ Developer
12 7 (4.14%) Consultant
13 6 (3.55%) C/C++ Developer
13 6 (3.55%) DevOps Engineer
14 5 (2.96%) Linux Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (7.69%) 802.1X
2 7 (4.14%) .NET
2 7 (4.14%) REST
2 7 (4.14%) Spring Boot
3 6 (3.55%) Node.js
3 6 (3.55%) RESTful
3 6 (3.55%) Spring
4 5 (2.96%) React
5 3 (1.78%) HTML
5 3 (1.78%) iOS SDK
5 3 (1.78%) XML
6 2 (1.18%) CSS
6 2 (1.18%) DirectX
6 2 (1.18%) JAXB
6 2 (1.18%) JAX-RS
6 2 (1.18%) Kafka
6 2 (1.18%) Middleware
6 2 (1.18%) OpenGL
6 2 (1.18%) OpenGL ES
6 2 (1.18%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 22 (13.02%) Verilog
2 20 (11.83%) FPGA
2 20 (11.83%) VHDL
3 9 (5.33%) Algorithms
4 8 (4.73%) Device Driver
5 5 (2.96%) CAN bus
6 4 (2.37%) Housing Association
6 4 (2.37%) Legacy Applications
7 3 (1.78%) iPad
7 3 (1.78%) iPhone
8 2 (1.18%) 3D Graphics
8 2 (1.18%) Data Centre
8 2 (1.18%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.18%) Private Cloud
8 2 (1.18%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.18%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.18%) Ray Tracing
8 2 (1.18%) STB
9 1 (0.59%) IoT
9 1 (0.59%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 23 (13.61%) Linux
2 8 (4.73%) Windows
3 3 (1.78%) Apple iOS
3 3 (1.78%) Unix
4 1 (0.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.59%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.59%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.59%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (0.59%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (37.87%) Software Engineering
2 39 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
3 22 (13.02%) Signal Processing
4 20 (11.83%) Validation
5 19 (11.24%) UVM
6 18 (10.65%) FPGA Design
6 18 (10.65%) Test Automation
7 16 (9.47%) Verification and Validation
8 14 (8.28%) Agile
9 12 (7.10%) DevOps
9 12 (7.10%) Test Scripting
10 11 (6.51%) Configuration Management
11 8 (4.73%) Computer Science
11 8 (4.73%) Software Architecture
12 5 (2.96%) BDD
12 5 (2.96%) Multithreading
12 5 (2.96%) Open Source
12 5 (2.96%) Requirements Analysis
12 5 (2.96%) Software Assurance
12 5 (2.96%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 72 (42.60%) C++
2 31 (18.34%) PL/SQL
3 29 (17.16%) Embedded C
4 26 (15.38%) Python
5 20 (11.83%) SystemVerilog
6 18 (10.65%) Perl
7 16 (9.47%) Java
8 14 (8.28%) Tcl
9 13 (7.69%) Bash
9 13 (7.69%) SQL
10 10 (5.92%) C#
10 10 (5.92%) Embedded C++
11 9 (5.33%) PowerShell
12 8 (4.73%) JavaScript
13 7 (4.14%) Shell Script
14 5 (2.96%) Ada
15 4 (2.37%) Assembly Language
15 4 (2.37%) MATLAB
15 4 (2.37%) TypeScript
16 3 (1.78%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 53 (31.36%) Security Cleared
2 39 (23.08%) SC Cleared
3 28 (16.57%) Degree
4 13 (7.69%) DV Cleared
5 7 (4.14%) Master's Degree
5 7 (4.14%) PhD
6 4 (2.37%) DBS Check
7 3 (1.78%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.59%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.55%) QA
2 5 (2.96%) AUTOSAR
2 5 (2.96%) DO-178B
2 5 (2.96%) IEC 61508
3 4 (2.37%) JTAG
4 1 (0.59%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.59%) NIST
System Software
1 13 (7.69%) Docker
2 5 (2.96%) Firmware
3 4 (2.37%) Embedded Firmware
3 4 (2.37%) VMware ESXi
3 4 (2.37%) VMware NSX
3 4 (2.37%) vSphere
4 1 (0.59%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.59%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 13 (7.69%) Ansible
2 11 (6.51%) Kubernetes
2 11 (6.51%) Terraform
3 5 (2.96%) Functional Safety
4 4 (2.37%) Progress Chef
4 4 (2.37%) Puppet
5 3 (1.78%) Nagios
6 2 (1.18%) Kibana
7 1 (0.59%) Consul
7 1 (0.59%) Data Guard
7 1 (0.59%) Grafana
7 1 (0.59%) logstash
7 1 (0.59%) Oracle Flashback
7 1 (0.59%) Oracle RMAN
7 1 (0.59%) Packer
7 1 (0.59%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 19 (11.24%) Xilinx
2 18 (10.65%) Intel
2 18 (10.65%) Microsemi
3 9 (5.33%) Microsoft
4 6 (3.55%) Oracle
5 5 (2.96%) Splunk
6 4 (2.37%) Atlassian
6 4 (2.37%) Capita
7 3 (1.78%) New Relic
8 2 (1.18%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.18%) SAP
9 1 (0.59%) AppDynamics
9 1 (0.59%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.59%) Google
9 1 (0.59%) VMware