C Contracts in the Thames Valley

C
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley requiring C skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited C over the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 111 121 160
Rank change year-on-year +10 +39 -6
Contract jobs citing C 19 21 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.89% 0.79% 0.73%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.61% 3.61% 3.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 11 16
10th Percentile - £350 £412
25th Percentile - £463 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £615 £620
Median % change year-on-year -34.96% -0.81% +24.00%
75th Percentile £613 £766 £650
90th Percentile £644 £825 £681
South East median daily rate £600 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +9.09% - +37.50%

All Programming Languages
Thames Valley

C falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring coding skills in the Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 526 581 916
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 24.59% 21.87% 23.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 341 443 702
10th Percentile £375 £325 £357
25th Percentile £415 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - +13.02%
75th Percentile £638 £615 £625
90th Percentile £663 £688 £675
South East median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 10 7
10th Percentile £34.80 £32.32 £36.60
25th Percentile £55.87 £36.34 £56.25
Median hourly rate £57.62 £48.40 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year +19.04% -21.30% -0.81%
75th Percentile £66.89 £53.35 £81.81
90th Percentile £76.13 £59.48 £96.25
South East median hourly rate £64.76 £55.00 £62.96
% change year-on-year +17.75% -12.64% +19.92%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing C as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for C in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing C in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for C in the Thames Valley

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing C in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 31 October 2024.

Daily rate histogram for C in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing C in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for C in the Thames Valley

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Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing C within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 31 October 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
Berkshire +7 17 £400 -34.96% 19
Oxfordshire +10 1 £525 - 20
Buckinghamshire +9 1 - - 18
C
South East

C
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 4 (21.05%) Azure
2 3 (15.79%) Azure Functions
2 3 (15.79%) Azure Monitor
2 3 (15.79%) Entra ID
2 3 (15.79%) Serverless
3 2 (10.53%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 2 (10.53%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (5.26%) Azure API Management
4 1 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (5.26%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.26%) SSL
1 1 (5.26%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.53%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (47.37%) Git
2 2 (10.53%) CMake
2 2 (10.53%) Selenium
General
1 6 (31.58%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (26.32%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.26%) Advertising
3 1 (5.26%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (5.26%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (52.63%) Developer
2 7 (36.84%) C Developer
2 7 (36.84%) C/C++ Developer
2 7 (36.84%) C++ Developer
3 4 (21.05%) Architect
3 4 (21.05%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
3 4 (21.05%) Security Architect
4 2 (10.53%) Azure Developer
4 2 (10.53%) Full-Stack Developer
4 2 (10.53%) Full-Stack Python Developer
4 2 (10.53%) Python Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Lead
5 1 (5.26%) Lead Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Linux Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.79%) Google JAX
1 3 (15.79%) PyTorch
1 3 (15.79%) scikit-learn
1 3 (15.79%) TensorFlow
2 2 (10.53%) React
3 1 (5.26%) .NET
3 1 (5.26%) ASP.NET
3 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Graph
3 1 (5.26%) OAuth
3 1 (5.26%) OAuth2
3 1 (5.26%) OpenID
3 1 (5.26%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.79%) Algorithms
1 3 (15.79%) Embedded Systems
1 3 (15.79%) Security Posture
2 2 (10.53%) IoT
2 2 (10.53%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 9 (47.37%) Linux
2 1 (5.26%) Embedded Linux
2 1 (5.26%) Solaris
2 1 (5.26%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (36.84%) Linux Kernel Development
2 6 (31.58%) CI/CD
2 6 (31.58%) DevOps
3 5 (26.32%) SDLC
4 4 (21.05%) Artificial Intelligence
4 4 (21.05%) Deep Learning
4 4 (21.05%) LLM
4 4 (21.05%) Machine Learning
4 4 (21.05%) Threat Modelling
4 4 (21.05%) Workflow
5 3 (15.79%) Data Pipeline
5 3 (15.79%) Data Protection
5 3 (15.79%) Data Science
5 3 (15.79%) DataOps
5 3 (15.79%) Incident Response
5 3 (15.79%) MITRE ATT&CK
5 3 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (15.79%) Secure Coding
5 3 (15.79%) Security Architecture
5 3 (15.79%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 14 (73.68%) C++
1 14 (73.68%) Python
2 6 (31.58%) Java
2 6 (31.58%) Rust
3 3 (15.79%) R
4 2 (10.53%) Shell Script
5 1 (5.26%) Bash
5 1 (5.26%) C#
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.79%) GDPR
1 3 (15.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (15.79%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (15.79%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (15.79%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (5.26%) Microsoft
1 1 (5.26%) Oracle