C Contracts in the South West

C
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 70 97 138
Rank change year-on-year +27 +41 -50
Contract jobs citing C 89 68 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 2.82% 1.96% 0.96%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.13% 6.77% 3.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 26 13
10th Percentile £523 £375 £358
25th Percentile £525 £417 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +17.07% -2.38% +16.67%
75th Percentile £706 £644 £575
90th Percentile £735 £716 £595
England median daily rate £538 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -6.43% - +35.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 20 13
10th Percentile £56.88 £54.63 £54.00
25th Percentile £67.13 - £65.00
Median hourly rate £70.00 £65.00 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -13.33% +50.00%
75th Percentile - £65.75 -
90th Percentile £85.00 - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £60.00 £56.00
% change year-on-year +8.33% +7.14% +23.08%

All Programming Languages
South West

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 South West with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 630 1,004 1,105
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 19.99% 28.93% 30.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 422 716 757
10th Percentile £325 £350 £363
25th Percentile £406 £416 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% +2.50% +8.11%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £575
90th Percentile £700 £700 £638
England median daily rate £550 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -2.65% +2.73% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 90 70
10th Percentile £49.80 £49.56 £46.66
25th Percentile £61.25 £55.58 £53.81
Median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £61.25
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +6.12% +34.62%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.55 £75.75 £69.65
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £51.05
% change year-on-year - +22.43% +20.12%

C
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing C as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for C in the South West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing C in the South West.

Daily rate trend for C in the South West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing C in the South West over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for C in the South West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing C in the South West.

Hourly rate trend for C in the South West

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the South West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing C in the South West over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for C in the South West

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Contract Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing C within the South West region over the 6 months to 16 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
Gloucestershire +16 38 £563 -13.46% 17
Bristol +26 37 £500 -19.68% 36
Wiltshire -7 8 £725 +48.72% 10
Cornwall - 1 £396 - 5
C
England

C
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 (6.74%) SharePoint
2 5 (5.62%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (2.25%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 16 (17.98%) AWS
2 15 (16.85%) Azure
3 8 (8.99%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (6.74%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (4.49%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (4.49%) Amazon S3
5 4 (4.49%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (4.49%) OpenShift
5 4 (4.49%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.49%) AMQP
1 4 (4.49%) Network Security
1 4 (4.49%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (7.87%) SQL Server
2 4 (4.49%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (4.49%) InfluxDB
2 4 (4.49%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (7.87%) Jenkins
2 5 (5.62%) Bitbucket
2 5 (5.62%) JIRA
3 4 (4.49%) Git
4 3 (3.37%) Rational Rhapsody
5 1 (1.12%) Rational DOORS
5 1 (1.12%) Rational Team Concert
5 1 (1.12%) Visual Studio
General
1 7 (7.87%) Aerospace
2 5 (5.62%) Social Skills
2 5 (5.62%) Telecoms
3 4 (4.49%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (3.37%) Electronics
5 1 (1.12%) Aviation
5 1 (1.12%) Banking
5 1 (1.12%) Billing
5 1 (1.12%) Law
Job Titles
1 36 (40.45%) Software Engineer
2 29 (32.58%) Embedded Engineer
3 28 (31.46%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 14 (15.73%) Developer
5 11 (12.36%) Architect
5 11 (12.36%) Full Stack Developer
6 7 (7.87%) DevOps Engineer
7 6 (6.74%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
7 6 (6.74%) SharePoint Architect
7 6 (6.74%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 5 (5.62%) Senior
8 5 (5.62%) Software Architect
9 4 (4.49%) Integration Engineer
9 4 (4.49%) Python Software Architect
9 4 (4.49%) Senior Integration Engineer
9 4 (4.49%) Senior Test and Integration Engineer
9 4 (4.49%) Senior Test Engineer
9 4 (4.49%) Test and Integration Engineer
9 4 (4.49%) Test Engineer
10 3 (3.37%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (17.98%) Spring
2 15 (16.85%) React
3 11 (12.36%) AngularJS
4 9 (10.11%) RESTful
5 7 (7.87%) .NET
6 5 (5.62%) Spring Boot
6 5 (5.62%) XML
7 4 (4.49%) Node.js
7 4 (4.49%) RabbitMQ
8 1 (1.12%) Apache NiFi
8 1 (1.12%) ASP.NET
8 1 (1.12%) ASP.NET Core
8 1 (1.12%) ASP.NET Web API
8 1 (1.12%) CSS
8 1 (1.12%) CSS3
8 1 (1.12%) HTML
8 1 (1.12%) HTML5
8 1 (1.12%) Kafka
8 1 (1.12%) REST
8 1 (1.12%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 19 (21.35%) ARM Cortex
2 5 (5.62%) IoT
2 5 (5.62%) Product Ownership
2 5 (5.62%) Verilog
2 5 (5.62%) VHDL
3 4 (4.49%) Embedded Systems
3 4 (4.49%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (3.37%) Device Driver
5 2 (2.25%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.12%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.12%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (1.12%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 39 (43.82%) Linux
2 23 (25.84%) FreeRTOS
3 4 (4.49%) SafeRTOS
3 4 (4.49%) Windows
4 2 (2.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.12%) CentOS
5 1 (1.12%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (44.94%) Software Engineering
2 36 (40.45%) DevOps
3 30 (33.71%) Agile
4 24 (26.97%) Configuration Management
5 18 (20.22%) Software Architecture
6 15 (16.85%) Problem-Solving
7 12 (13.48%) Full Stack Development
8 11 (12.36%) Change Management
8 11 (12.36%) OO
8 11 (12.36%) OOP
8 11 (12.36%) Programme Management
8 11 (12.36%) Project Management
8 11 (12.36%) Secure Coding
8 11 (12.36%) Unit Testing
9 10 (11.24%) SDLC
10 7 (7.87%) CI/CD
10 7 (7.87%) Scrum
11 6 (6.74%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 6 (6.74%) Validation
12 5 (5.62%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 35 (39.33%) Python
2 29 (32.58%) Java
3 21 (23.60%) C++
4 19 (21.35%) Embedded C
5 11 (12.36%) C#
5 11 (12.36%) JavaScript
6 9 (10.11%) SQL
7 6 (6.74%) Shell Script
8 5 (5.62%) Go
9 4 (4.49%) Bash
9 4 (4.49%) PL/SQL
9 4 (4.49%) PowerShell
9 4 (4.49%) TypeScript
10 2 (2.25%) Perl
11 1 (1.12%) Assembly Language
11 1 (1.12%) Fortran
11 1 (1.12%) MATLAB
11 1 (1.12%) ProC
11 1 (1.12%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 59 (66.29%) Security Cleared
2 36 (40.45%) DV Cleared
3 23 (25.84%) SC Cleared
4 5 (5.62%) Degree
5 4 (4.49%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.12%) CREST Certified
6 1 (1.12%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (13.48%) QA
2 4 (4.49%) DO-178B
3 3 (3.37%) Def Stans
3 3 (3.37%) MISRA
4 2 (2.25%) JTAG
5 1 (1.12%) IEC 61508
5 1 (1.12%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 23 (25.84%) Docker
2 4 (4.49%) VMware ESXi
2 4 (4.49%) VMware NSX
2 4 (4.49%) vSphere
3 3 (3.37%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 16 (17.98%) Ansible
1 16 (17.98%) Terraform
2 11 (12.36%) Kubernetes
3 6 (6.74%) Grafana
3 6 (6.74%) Prometheus
4 5 (5.62%) Progress Chef
5 4 (4.49%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 22 (24.72%) IBM
2 19 (21.35%) Lauterbach
3 4 (4.49%) Atlassian
4 1 (1.12%) CA Agile Central
4 1 (1.12%) Oracle
4 1 (1.12%) Red Hat
4 1 (1.12%) Wind River