C Contracts in Scotland

C
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 105 148 172
Rank change year-on-year +43 +24 -46
Contract jobs citing C 17 19 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.79% 0.71% 0.088%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.78% 2.08% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 11 0
10th Percentile £462 £413 -
25th Percentile £470 £437 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £465 -
Median % change year-on-year +6.18% - -
75th Percentile £520 £494 -
90th Percentile £531 £569 -
UK median daily rate £536 £560 £575
% change year-on-year -4.29% -2.61% +27.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 0
10th Percentile - £41.35 -
25th Percentile £60.25 £44.88 -
Median hourly rate £60.50 £52.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +15.24% - -
75th Percentile £60.75 £60.88 -
90th Percentile - £64.85 -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £60.00 £56.00
% change year-on-year +8.33% +7.14% +23.08%

All Programming Languages
Scotland

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 Scotland with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 612 914 946
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 28.57% 33.93% 27.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 407 656 663
10th Percentile £358 £406 £363
25th Percentile £413 £435 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% +3.16% +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £551 £550
90th Percentile £650 £658 £638
UK median daily rate £530 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.64% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 12 15
10th Percentile £29.60 £48.08 £17.50
25th Percentile £41.31 £55.00 £27.50
Median hourly rate £57.50 £59.79 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.83% +34.36% -2.20%
75th Percentile £60.75 £67.81 £55.03
90th Percentile £62.50 £69.88 £56.80
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £50.20
% change year-on-year - +24.50% +18.12%

C
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for C in Scotland

C
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for C in Scotland

C
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for C in Scotland

C
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing C within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 17 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
Glasgow +10 9 - - 11
Edinburgh +33 4 - - 13
C
UK

C
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (5.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (5.88%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (5.88%) Amazon S3
1 1 (5.88%) AWS
1 1 (5.88%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (5.88%) IaaS
1 1 (5.88%) OpenShift
1 1 (5.88%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (35.29%) Kerberos
2 4 (23.53%) Internet
3 2 (11.76%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.88%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (5.88%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (5.88%) Oracle Database
1 1 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (58.82%) Jenkins
2 9 (52.94%) Git
3 6 (35.29%) Bitbucket
4 2 (11.76%) CMake
4 2 (11.76%) JIRA
General
1 4 (23.53%) Electronics
2 1 (5.88%) Finance
2 1 (5.88%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (41.18%) Developer
2 4 (23.53%) Embedded Engineer
2 4 (23.53%) Embedded Software Engineer
2 4 (23.53%) Software Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) Linux Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Hardware Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Linux DevOps Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Linux/Unix DevOps
4 2 (11.76%) Python Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Unix Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Unix Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Unix Linux Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Linux Scripter
5 1 (5.88%) Linux Server Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Server Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Windows DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (35.29%) JSON
1 6 (35.29%) LDAP
1 6 (35.29%) OpenID
1 6 (35.29%) RESTful
1 6 (35.29%) Web Services
1 6 (35.29%) XML
2 2 (11.76%) Redfish
2 2 (11.76%) YAML
2 2 (11.76%) Yocto
3 1 (5.88%) AWS CDK
3 1 (5.88%) OAuth
3 1 (5.88%) OAuth2
3 1 (5.88%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (5.88%) React
3 1 (5.88%) Spring
3 1 (5.88%) Spring Boot
3 1 (5.88%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 6 (35.29%) Enterprise Cloud
2 4 (23.53%) Device Driver
2 4 (23.53%) IoT
2 4 (23.53%) PCIe
2 4 (23.53%) Verilog
2 4 (23.53%) VHDL
3 2 (11.76%) Virtual Team
4 1 (5.88%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (5.88%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (5.88%) Management Information System
4 1 (5.88%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 10 (58.82%) Linux
2 6 (35.29%) Embedded Linux
3 4 (23.53%) VxWorks
4 3 (17.65%) Unix
5 1 (5.88%) Oracle Linux
5 1 (5.88%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (64.71%) Agile
1 11 (64.71%) Continuous Integration
2 9 (52.94%) Test Automation
3 7 (41.18%) CI/CD
4 6 (35.29%) Data Modelling
4 6 (35.29%) OO
4 6 (35.29%) Software Engineering
5 5 (29.41%) Continuous Deployment
6 4 (23.53%) Code Optimisation
6 4 (23.53%) Configuration Management
6 4 (23.53%) Defect Tracking
6 4 (23.53%) Device Driver Development
6 4 (23.53%) DevOps
6 4 (23.53%) Memory Management
6 4 (23.53%) Requirements Management
7 3 (17.65%) Server Management
8 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure as Code
8 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 2 (11.76%) Kanban
9 1 (5.88%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 6 (35.29%) Embedded C
1 6 (35.29%) Go
2 3 (17.65%) Perl
2 3 (17.65%) Python
3 2 (11.76%) JavaScript
4 1 (5.88%) Java
4 1 (5.88%) SQL
4 1 (5.88%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (23.53%) MISRA
1 4 (23.53%) MISRA C
System Software
1 6 (35.29%) Active Directory
2 5 (29.41%) Firmware
3 1 (5.88%) Docker
3 1 (5.88%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 2 (11.76%) Grafana
1 2 (11.76%) Kibana
Vendors
1 6 (35.29%) Cadence
2 4 (23.53%) Atlassian
2 4 (23.53%) Intel
3 2 (11.76%) HP
4 1 (5.88%) Commvault
4 1 (5.88%) Dell
4 1 (5.88%) Oracle