C Contracts in Hertfordshire

C
East of England > Hertfordshire

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

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 7 22 45
Rank change year-on-year +15 +23 -5
Contract jobs citing C 88 56 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 10.45% 7.40% 3.91%
As % of the Programming Languages category 45.36% 23.63% 12.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £400 -
East of England median daily rate £550 £494 £513
% change year-on-year +11.39% -3.66% +13.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 79 36 28
10th Percentile £61.00 £58.50 -
25th Percentile £61.88 - £56.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% +41.18%
75th Percentile £77.50 £88.13 -
90th Percentile £90.00 £90.00 £63.23
East of England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year - +13.04% +19.17%

All Programming Languages
Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 194 237 258
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 23.04% 31.31% 32.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 105 124
10th Percentile £325 £363 £359
25th Percentile £363 £400 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% -4.72% -0.05%
75th Percentile £578 £638 £625
90th Percentile £650 £715 £711
East of England median daily rate £475 £488 £475
% change year-on-year -2.56% +2.63% +4.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 109 77 52
10th Percentile £59.50 £53.75 £40.22
25th Percentile £61.25 £56.25 £48.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £56.00
Median % change year-on-year - +16.07% +24.44%
75th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £88.75 £90.00 -
East of England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £56.00
% change year-on-year - +16.07% +31.76%

C
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for C in Hertfordshire

C
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Daily rate trend for C in Hertfordshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Hourly rate trend for C in Hertfordshire

C
Hourly Rate Histogram in Hertfordshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing C in Hertfordshire over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for C in Hertfordshire

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Contract Job Locations in Hertfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing C within the Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 1 June 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
Stevenage 0 86 - - 10
C
East of England

C
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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:

Applications
1 26 (29.55%) Simulink
2 2 (2.27%) Stateflow
Communications & Networking
1 34 (38.64%) Modbus
1 34 (38.64%) RS-422
1 34 (38.64%) RS-485
2 4 (4.55%) 5G
2 4 (4.55%) NAS
2 4 (4.55%) Radio Access Network
2 4 (4.55%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 12 (13.64%) Rational DOORS
2 10 (11.36%) Rational Rhapsody
3 4 (4.55%) gcov
3 4 (4.55%) GDB
3 4 (4.55%) Git
3 4 (4.55%) Gradle
3 4 (4.55%) JIRA
3 4 (4.55%) Subversion
4 3 (3.41%) CppUnit
4 3 (3.41%) PVCS
5 2 (2.27%) Rational Team Concert
General
1 44 (50.00%) Electronics
2 29 (32.95%) Social Skills
3 6 (6.82%) Aerospace
4 5 (5.68%) Law
5 4 (4.55%) Multimedia
5 4 (4.55%) Telecoms
6 2 (2.27%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 62 (70.45%) Software Engineer
2 33 (37.50%) C++ Software Engineer
3 24 (27.27%) C Software Engineer
4 17 (19.32%) FPGA Engineer
5 16 (18.18%) Design Engineer
5 16 (18.18%) Embedded Engineer
5 16 (18.18%) Embedded Software Engineer
5 16 (18.18%) FPGA Design Engineer
6 14 (15.91%) C/C++ Software Engineer
7 10 (11.36%) Ada Engineer
7 10 (11.36%) Ada Software Engineer
8 8 (9.09%) Embedded C Engineer
8 8 (9.09%) Embedded C Software Engineer
8 8 (9.09%) Linux Engineer
9 7 (7.95%) Real Time Engineer
9 7 (7.95%) Real Time Software Engineer
10 4 (4.55%) C++ Developer
10 4 (4.55%) Developer
11 3 (3.41%) Python Developer
11 3 (3.41%) Validation Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 28 (31.82%) Self-Motivation
2 17 (19.32%) FPGA
2 17 (19.32%) Verilog
2 17 (19.32%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 12 (13.64%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (70.45%) Software Engineering
2 37 (42.05%) Unit Testing
3 34 (38.64%) Agile
3 34 (38.64%) Continuous Improvement
3 34 (38.64%) Continuous Integration
3 34 (38.64%) Customer Requirements
3 34 (38.64%) DevOps
3 34 (38.64%) Pair Programming
3 34 (38.64%) Software Testing
3 34 (38.64%) TDD
4 24 (27.27%) Validation
5 17 (19.32%) FPGA Design
5 17 (19.32%) UVM
6 16 (18.18%) Signal Processing
7 12 (13.64%) Verification and Validation
8 10 (11.36%) Code Quality
8 10 (11.36%) Embedded Software Development
8 10 (11.36%) Systems Engineering
8 10 (11.36%) UML
9 9 (10.23%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 58 (65.91%) C++
2 34 (38.64%) C#
3 17 (19.32%) SystemVerilog
4 10 (11.36%) Ada
5 9 (10.23%) MATLAB
6 7 (7.95%) Embedded C
7 5 (5.68%) Embedded C++
8 4 (4.55%) Python
9 2 (2.27%) Fortran
Qualifications
1 19 (21.59%) Degree
2 4 (4.55%) SC Cleared
2 4 (4.55%) Security Cleared
3 2 (2.27%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.14%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 3 (3.41%) Virtual Machines
1 3 (3.41%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 17 (19.32%) Intel
1 17 (19.32%) Microsemi
1 17 (19.32%) Xilinx
2 10 (11.36%) IBM
3 4 (4.55%) Klocwork
3 4 (4.55%) Perforce
4 3 (3.41%) VMware
5 2 (2.27%) MathWorks
5 2 (2.27%) Twitter