C Contracts in Manchester

C
North West > Manchester

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 89 92 129
Rank change year-on-year +3 +37 -31
Contract jobs citing C 8 15 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.55% 0.84% 0.65%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.90% 2.77% 1.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 11 17
10th Percentile - £337 £355
25th Percentile £513 £370 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £618 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.86% +2.92% +63.27%
75th Percentile £669 £638 £625
90th Percentile £703 £775 -
North West median daily rate £525 £571 £600
% change year-on-year -8.10% -4.79% +48.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £92.50 £46.25 -
Median hourly rate £95.00 £47.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +100.00% - -
75th Percentile £97.50 £48.75 -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate £68.12 £40.59 £35.34
% change year-on-year +67.81% +14.86% -22.33%

All Programming Languages
Manchester

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 Manchester with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 420 542 1,075
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 29.13% 30.38% 40.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 321 422 826
10th Percentile £350 £350 £325
25th Percentile £405 £413 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% -2.44% +20.59%
75th Percentile £538 £592 £595
90th Percentile £625 £662 £663
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +21.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 3 18
10th Percentile £52.50 £33.25 -
25th Percentile £57.50 £38.13 £14.25
Median hourly rate £70.00 £47.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +47.37% -9.52% +110.00%
75th Percentile £77.75 £57.38 £75.00
90th Percentile £82.80 £62.55 £81.00
North West median hourly rate £48.43 £46.18 £52.50
% change year-on-year +4.87% -12.04% +75.00%

C
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for C in Manchester

C
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for C in Manchester

C
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing C in Manchester over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for C in Manchester

C
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Hourly rate trend for C in Manchester

C
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing C within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 31 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
Bolton - 1 - - 1
C
North West

C
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 (12.50%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) Azure
2 3 (37.50%) AWS
2 3 (37.50%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Batch
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Flink
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Git
2 1 (12.50%) Bitbucket
2 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (25.00%) Manufacturing
1 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Developer
2 1 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Firmware Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) FPGA Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Research Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Research Software Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) SOAP
2 2 (25.00%) REST
2 2 (25.00%) RESTful
3 1 (12.50%) .NET
3 1 (12.50%) Apache NiFi
3 1 (12.50%) ASP.NET
3 1 (12.50%) ASP.NET Core
3 1 (12.50%) ASP.NET Web API
3 1 (12.50%) CSS
3 1 (12.50%) CSS3
3 1 (12.50%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (12.50%) Flash
3 1 (12.50%) HTML
3 1 (12.50%) HTML5
3 1 (12.50%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Data Structures
1 1 (12.50%) FPGA
1 1 (12.50%) NB-IoT
1 1 (12.50%) Verilog
1 1 (12.50%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Linux
2 1 (12.50%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Software Engineering
2 4 (50.00%) DevOps
3 3 (37.50%) Analytics
4 2 (25.00%) Architectural Patterns
4 2 (25.00%) ERP
4 2 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
5 1 (12.50%) Agile
5 1 (12.50%) FPGA Design
5 1 (12.50%) Multithreading
5 1 (12.50%) MVC
5 1 (12.50%) Parallel Programming
5 1 (12.50%) Physics
5 1 (12.50%) SDLC
5 1 (12.50%) UVM
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) PowerShell
2 2 (25.00%) C++
2 2 (25.00%) Java
2 2 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (12.50%) Bash
3 1 (12.50%) C#
3 1 (12.50%) Embedded C
3 1 (12.50%) Fortran
3 1 (12.50%) Python
3 1 (12.50%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) DV Cleared
1 3 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Docker
2 1 (12.50%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) Ansible
1 3 (37.50%) Terraform
2 2 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Intel
1 1 (12.50%) Microsemi
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
1 1 (12.50%) Renesas
1 1 (12.50%) Xilinx