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 24 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 183 219 340
Rank change year-on-year +36 +121 -37
Contract jobs citing C 172 269 301
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.17% 1.10% 0.68%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.44% 2.98% 1.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 131 178
10th Percentile £391 £375 £400
25th Percentile £463 £450 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% -4.35% +41.98%
75th Percentile £569 £666 £650
90th Percentile £625 £810 £725
UK median daily rate £536 £560 £575
% change year-on-year -4.29% -2.61% +27.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 57 57 25
10th Percentile £42.75 £19.88 £45.25
25th Percentile £46.25 £46.25 £47.50
Median hourly rate £70.00 £55.00 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% +1.85% +20.00%
75th Percentile £85.00 £65.00 £55.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £90.00 £57.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £60.00 £56.00
% change year-on-year +8.33% +7.14% +22.40%

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 4,995 9,015 16,807
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 34.08% 36.90% 38.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,634 6,626 12,517
10th Percentile £352 £388 £375
25th Percentile £430 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -3.09% +3.77% +7.07%
75th Percentile £650 £669 £638
90th Percentile £788 £775 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 138 192 185
10th Percentile £28.00 £35.00 £20.75
25th Percentile £46.25 £51.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £63.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.70% +26.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £72.50 £70.00 £61.25
90th Percentile £85.00 £84.75 £74.00
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £50.77
% change year-on-year - +23.10% +19.02%

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 24 May 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 24 May 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 (3.49%) Confluence
2 1 (0.58%) Apache
2 1 (0.58%) nginx
2 1 (0.58%) Oracle HTTP Server
2 1 (0.58%) WebLogic
Applications
1 17 (9.88%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 4 (2.33%) Academy Housing
1 4 (2.33%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
2 2 (1.16%) Endur
2 2 (1.16%) OpenLink RightAngle
2 2 (1.16%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.58%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 30 (17.44%) AWS
2 11 (6.40%) Azure
3 4 (2.33%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (2.33%) Power Automate
3 4 (2.33%) Power Platform
3 4 (2.33%) PowerApps
4 3 (1.74%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (1.74%) Amazon EKS
4 3 (1.74%) Cloud Computing
4 3 (1.74%) Datadog
4 3 (1.74%) Dynamics 365
4 3 (1.74%) SaaS
5 2 (1.16%) Amazon S3
5 2 (1.16%) Amazon SQS
5 2 (1.16%) GitHub
5 2 (1.16%) Snowflake
6 1 (0.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (0.58%) Amazon ELB
6 1 (0.58%) Azure Batch
6 1 (0.58%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.65%) 802.11
1 8 (4.65%) Wi-Fi
2 6 (3.49%) Diameter Protocol
2 6 (3.49%) TCP/IP
3 5 (2.91%) J1939
4 4 (2.33%) Wireless
5 2 (1.16%) HTTP
6 1 (0.58%) Bluetooth
6 1 (0.58%) DHCP
6 1 (0.58%) DNS
6 1 (0.58%) Firewall
6 1 (0.58%) Internet
6 1 (0.58%) IPv4
6 1 (0.58%) Modbus
6 1 (0.58%) Reverse Proxy
6 1 (0.58%) RS-232
6 1 (0.58%) RTSP
6 1 (0.58%) Software-Defined Radio
6 1 (0.58%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (4.65%) SQL Server
2 5 (2.91%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (1.74%) Amazon Redshift
3 3 (1.74%) DB2
4 2 (1.16%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (1.16%) MySQL
4 2 (1.16%) SAP HANA
5 1 (0.58%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.58%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (0.58%) CouchDB
5 1 (0.58%) Data Mining
5 1 (0.58%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.58%) Ingres
5 1 (0.58%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.58%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.58%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.58%) Oracle Database 11g
5 1 (0.58%) Oracle Database 12c
5 1 (0.58%) Redis
5 1 (0.58%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 32 (18.60%) PVCS
2 31 (18.02%) Visual Studio
3 11 (6.40%) JIRA
4 10 (5.81%) Git
5 9 (5.23%) Rational DOORS
6 7 (4.07%) Jenkins
7 4 (2.33%) Bitbucket
7 4 (2.33%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 4 (2.33%) Subversion
8 3 (1.74%) JMeter
9 2 (1.16%) Cucumber
9 2 (1.16%) Cypress.io
9 2 (1.16%) GitLab
9 2 (1.16%) JUnit
9 2 (1.16%) Maven
9 2 (1.16%) Mocha
9 2 (1.16%) Selenium
9 2 (1.16%) SoapUI
9 2 (1.16%) TestNG
9 2 (1.16%) WebDriver
General
1 17 (9.88%) Social Skills
2 14 (8.14%) Automotive
2 14 (8.14%) Electronics
2 14 (8.14%) Public Sector
2 14 (8.14%) Telecoms
3 7 (4.07%) Finance
4 4 (2.33%) Aerospace
4 4 (2.33%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (2.33%) Local Government
5 3 (1.74%) Banking
6 1 (0.58%) Billing
6 1 (0.58%) Law
6 1 (0.58%) Military
6 1 (0.58%) Multimedia
6 1 (0.58%) Retail
Job Titles
1 53 (30.81%) Software Engineer
2 31 (18.02%) Embedded Engineer
2 31 (18.02%) Embedded Software Engineer
2 31 (18.02%) Programmer
3 30 (17.44%) C Programmer
4 19 (11.05%) Developer
5 17 (9.88%) FPGA Engineer
6 16 (9.30%) Design Engineer
6 16 (9.30%) FPGA Design Engineer
7 15 (8.72%) C Software Engineer
8 12 (6.98%) Senior
9 11 (6.40%) Architect
9 11 (6.40%) C++ Software Engineer
9 11 (6.40%) Embedded C Engineer
9 11 (6.40%) Embedded C Software Engineer
10 8 (4.65%) DevOps Engineer
11 7 (4.07%) Analyst
12 6 (3.49%) C Developer
13 5 (2.91%) C++ Developer
13 5 (2.91%) Software Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (8.14%) Spring Boot
2 12 (6.98%) .NET
3 8 (4.65%) 802.1X
3 8 (4.65%) J2EE
3 8 (4.65%) React
3 8 (4.65%) REST
4 7 (4.07%) RESTful
4 7 (4.07%) XML
5 6 (3.49%) HTML
5 6 (3.49%) Node.js
5 6 (3.49%) Spring
6 4 (2.33%) Middleware
7 3 (1.74%) iOS SDK
7 3 (1.74%) Yocto
8 2 (1.16%) AngularJS
8 2 (1.16%) Chai
8 2 (1.16%) Elastic Stack
8 2 (1.16%) JAX-RS
8 2 (1.16%) Kafka
8 2 (1.16%) OpenGL ES
Miscellaneous
1 21 (12.21%) Verilog
2 20 (11.63%) VHDL
3 17 (9.88%) FPGA
4 7 (4.07%) Device Driver
5 6 (3.49%) Algorithms
6 5 (2.91%) CAN bus
6 5 (2.91%) Public Cloud
7 4 (2.33%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (2.33%) Housing Association
7 4 (2.33%) Legacy Applications
8 3 (1.74%) iPad
8 3 (1.74%) iPhone
8 3 (1.74%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.74%) Mainframe
8 3 (1.74%) Product Ownership
9 2 (1.16%) 3D Graphics
9 2 (1.16%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.16%) Embedded Systems
9 2 (1.16%) Ray Tracing
9 2 (1.16%) STB
Operating Systems
1 21 (12.21%) Linux
2 8 (4.65%) Windows
3 6 (3.49%) Apple iOS
4 3 (1.74%) Android
4 3 (1.74%) Unix
5 2 (1.16%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (0.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.58%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.58%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.58%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.58%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (37.21%) Software Engineering
2 30 (17.44%) Problem-Solving
3 21 (12.21%) Agile
4 20 (11.63%) Signal Processing
5 19 (11.05%) DevOps
6 18 (10.47%) UVM
7 17 (9.88%) FPGA Design
8 15 (8.72%) Test Automation
9 14 (8.14%) Validation
10 11 (6.40%) Configuration Management
11 10 (5.81%) Computer Science
11 10 (5.81%) Verification and Validation
12 9 (5.23%) Test Scripting
13 8 (4.65%) Software Architecture
14 6 (3.49%) API Design
14 6 (3.49%) CI/CD
14 6 (3.49%) Microservices
14 6 (3.49%) Stakeholder Management
14 6 (3.49%) Waterfall
15 5 (2.91%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 72 (41.86%) C++
2 33 (19.19%) PL/SQL
3 32 (18.60%) Python
4 28 (16.28%) Java
5 24 (13.95%) Embedded C
6 19 (11.05%) SQL
7 18 (10.47%) SystemVerilog
8 13 (7.56%) Perl
9 11 (6.40%) Bash
10 10 (5.81%) C#
11 9 (5.23%) JavaScript
11 9 (5.23%) Tcl
12 8 (4.65%) PowerShell
13 7 (4.07%) Shell Script
14 6 (3.49%) Embedded C++
15 4 (2.33%) Assembly Language
15 4 (2.33%) MATLAB
15 4 (2.33%) TypeScript
16 3 (1.74%) Objective-C
16 3 (1.74%) Swift
Qualifications
1 54 (31.40%) Security Cleared
2 39 (22.67%) SC Cleared
3 27 (15.70%) Degree
4 13 (7.56%) DV Cleared
5 7 (4.07%) Master's Degree
5 7 (4.07%) PhD
6 4 (2.33%) DBS Check
7 2 (1.16%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.58%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.91%) AUTOSAR
2 4 (2.33%) JTAG
3 2 (1.16%) QA
4 1 (0.58%) DO-178B
4 1 (0.58%) IEC 61508
4 1 (0.58%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.58%) NIST
System Software
1 17 (9.88%) Docker
2 6 (3.49%) Firmware
3 4 (2.33%) Embedded Firmware
3 4 (2.33%) VMware ESXi
3 4 (2.33%) VMware NSX
3 4 (2.33%) vSphere
4 1 (0.58%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.58%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 20 (11.63%) Terraform
2 14 (8.14%) Ansible
3 12 (6.98%) Kubernetes
4 5 (2.91%) Functional Safety
5 4 (2.33%) Progress Chef
5 4 (2.33%) Puppet
6 3 (1.74%) Nagios
7 2 (1.16%) Kibana
8 1 (0.58%) Consul
8 1 (0.58%) Data Guard
8 1 (0.58%) Grafana
8 1 (0.58%) logstash
8 1 (0.58%) Oracle Flashback
8 1 (0.58%) Oracle RMAN
8 1 (0.58%) Packer
8 1 (0.58%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 17 (9.88%) Intel
1 17 (9.88%) Microsemi
1 17 (9.88%) Xilinx
2 11 (6.40%) Microsoft
3 8 (4.65%) Oracle
4 5 (2.91%) SAP
4 5 (2.91%) Splunk
5 4 (2.33%) Atlassian
5 4 (2.33%) Capita
6 3 (1.74%) New Relic
7 2 (1.16%) MuleSoft
7 2 (1.16%) OpenLink
7 2 (1.16%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.16%) Triple Point
7 2 (1.16%) webMethods
8 1 (0.58%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.58%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.58%) Google
8 1 (0.58%) Micro Focus
8 1 (0.58%) VMware