C Contracts in the East of England

C
England > East of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 16 40 70
Rank change year-on-year +24 +30 -4
Contract jobs citing C 141 89 77
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 7.46% 4.52% 3.03%
As % of the Programming Languages category 35.43% 15.11% 9.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 22 17
10th Percentile £300 £425 £415
25th Percentile £463 £481 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% +20.00%
75th Percentile £638 £560 £588
90th Percentile £800 - £668
England median daily rate £538 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -6.43% - +27.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 90 37 41
10th Percentile £60.00 £55.15 £55.00
25th Percentile £61.56 - £56.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year - +13.04% +21.05%
75th Percentile £80.00 £77.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £90.00 -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £60.00 £56.00
% change year-on-year +8.33% +7.14% +23.08%

All Programming Languages
East of England

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 East of England with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 398 589 777
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 21.05% 29.91% 30.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 170 340 463
10th Percentile £312 £312 £298
25th Percentile £405 £400 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £494 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.77% +3.95% +5.56%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £586
90th Percentile £638 £700 £650
England median daily rate £550 £564 £550
% change year-on-year -2.48% +2.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 97 89
10th Percentile £52.50 £50.25 £35.00
25th Percentile £60.00 £53.75 £47.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £56.00
Median % change year-on-year - +16.07% +31.76%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £87.40 £78.00 £67.64
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £50.77
% change year-on-year - +23.10% +19.46%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing C as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for C in the East of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing C in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for C in the East of England

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Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing C in the East of England over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for C in the East of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing C in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for C in the East of England

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the East of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing C in the East of England over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for C in the East of England

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Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing C within the East of England region over the 6 months to 18 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
Hertfordshire +12 90 - - 14
Cambridgeshire 0 29 £550 +8.64% 103
Essex +26 22 £425 - 4
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England

C
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 (0.71%) Confluence
Applications
1 26 (18.44%) Simulink
2 2 (1.42%) Stateflow
Cloud Services
1 4 (2.84%) Microsoft 365
1 4 (2.84%) Power Automate
1 4 (2.84%) Power Platform
1 4 (2.84%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 35 (24.82%) Modbus
1 35 (24.82%) RS-422
1 35 (24.82%) RS-485
2 7 (4.96%) 5G
3 4 (2.84%) NAS
3 4 (2.84%) Radio Access Network
3 4 (2.84%) Wireshark
4 2 (1.42%) 5G NR
4 2 (1.42%) Software-Defined Radio
5 1 (0.71%) 4G
5 1 (0.71%) Bluetooth
5 1 (0.71%) RTMP
5 1 (0.71%) RTP
5 1 (0.71%) RTSP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.84%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 13 (9.22%) Rational DOORS
2 10 (7.09%) Rational Rhapsody
3 9 (6.38%) Git
4 8 (5.67%) JIRA
5 7 (4.96%) Subversion
6 4 (2.84%) GCC
6 4 (2.84%) gcov
6 4 (2.84%) GDB
6 4 (2.84%) Gradle
6 4 (2.84%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 3 (2.13%) CppUnit
7 3 (2.13%) PVCS
8 2 (1.42%) Rational Team Concert
9 1 (0.71%) CMake
9 1 (0.71%) Gerrit
9 1 (0.71%) VTune
General
1 48 (34.04%) Electronics
2 41 (29.08%) Social Skills
3 8 (5.67%) Aerospace
4 7 (4.96%) Telecoms
5 5 (3.55%) Law
5 5 (3.55%) Multimedia
6 4 (2.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.42%) Automotive
7 2 (1.42%) Aviation
7 2 (1.42%) Military
7 2 (1.42%) Wearables
8 1 (0.71%) Finance
8 1 (0.71%) Games
8 1 (0.71%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.71%) Marketing
8 1 (0.71%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 79 (56.03%) Software Engineer
2 34 (24.11%) C++ Software Engineer
3 27 (19.15%) Embedded Engineer
3 27 (19.15%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 26 (18.44%) C Software Engineer
5 18 (12.77%) Developer
6 17 (12.06%) FPGA Engineer
7 16 (11.35%) Design Engineer
7 16 (11.35%) FPGA Design Engineer
8 15 (10.64%) C/C++ Software Engineer
9 10 (7.09%) Ada Engineer
9 10 (7.09%) Ada Software Engineer
10 9 (6.38%) Embedded C Engineer
10 9 (6.38%) Embedded C Software Engineer
11 8 (5.67%) Architect
11 8 (5.67%) Linux Engineer
11 8 (5.67%) Software Architect
12 7 (4.96%) Real Time Engineer
12 7 (4.96%) Real Time Software Engineer
13 6 (4.26%) Verification Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (10.64%) Yocto
2 9 (6.38%) DirectX
2 9 (6.38%) OpenGL
2 9 (6.38%) Vulkan
3 8 (5.67%) OpenGL ES
4 4 (2.84%) .NET
4 4 (2.84%) LLVM
4 4 (2.84%) REST
5 3 (2.13%) JSON
5 3 (2.13%) YAML
6 1 (0.71%) FFmpeg
6 1 (0.71%) GStreamer
6 1 (0.71%) Middleware
6 1 (0.71%) NumPy
6 1 (0.71%) Unity (Game Engine)
6 1 (0.71%) Unreal Engine
Miscellaneous
1 28 (19.86%) Self-Motivation
2 20 (14.18%) FPGA
2 20 (14.18%) Verilog
3 17 (12.06%) VHDL
4 9 (6.38%) Ray Tracing
5 8 (5.67%) 3D Graphics
6 7 (4.96%) STB
7 4 (2.84%) Digital TV
7 4 (2.84%) Legacy Applications
8 3 (2.13%) ASIC
8 3 (2.13%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (1.42%) Embedded Systems
10 1 (0.71%) Data Structures
10 1 (0.71%) MPEG
Operating Systems
1 28 (19.86%) Linux
2 4 (2.84%) Unix
3 1 (0.71%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (56.03%) Software Engineering
2 45 (31.91%) Agile
3 38 (26.95%) Software Testing
3 38 (26.95%) Unit Testing
4 35 (24.82%) Continuous Improvement
4 35 (24.82%) Continuous Integration
4 35 (24.82%) Customer Requirements
4 35 (24.82%) DevOps
4 35 (24.82%) Pair Programming
4 35 (24.82%) TDD
5 28 (19.86%) Validation
6 24 (17.02%) Problem-Solving
7 20 (14.18%) UVM
8 17 (12.06%) FPGA Design
9 16 (11.35%) Signal Processing
10 15 (10.64%) Open Source
11 13 (9.22%) Multithreading
11 13 (9.22%) Verification and Validation
12 12 (8.51%) Embedded Software Development
13 10 (7.09%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 89 (63.12%) C++
2 40 (28.37%) C#
3 20 (14.18%) SystemVerilog
4 17 (12.06%) Embedded C
5 11 (7.80%) Python
6 10 (7.09%) Ada
7 9 (6.38%) Bash
7 9 (6.38%) MATLAB
8 7 (4.96%) Embedded C++
9 6 (4.26%) SQL
10 3 (2.13%) Assembly Language
10 3 (2.13%) Shell Script
10 3 (2.13%) Tcl
11 2 (1.42%) Fortran
11 2 (1.42%) VB
12 1 (0.71%) GLSL
12 1 (0.71%) HLSL
12 1 (0.71%) Java
12 1 (0.71%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 33 (23.40%) Degree
2 13 (9.22%) PhD
3 12 (8.51%) Master's Degree
4 4 (2.84%) SC Cleared
4 4 (2.84%) Security Cleared
5 3 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.71%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 3 (2.13%) Firmware
1 3 (2.13%) Virtual Machines
1 3 (2.13%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 20 (14.18%) Xilinx
2 17 (12.06%) Intel
2 17 (12.06%) Microsemi
3 10 (7.09%) IBM
4 4 (2.84%) Klocwork
4 4 (2.84%) Perforce
5 3 (2.13%) Cadence
5 3 (2.13%) Synopsys
5 3 (2.13%) VMware
6 2 (1.42%) Broadcom
6 2 (1.42%) MathWorks
6 2 (1.42%) Twitter
7 1 (0.71%) SAP