C Contracts in England

C
UK > England

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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 167 234 351
Rank change year-on-year +67 +117 -70
Contract jobs citing C 536 545 543
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.45% 1.14% 0.77%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.81% 3.32% 2.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 236 285 273
10th Percentile £400 £369 £405
25th Percentile £463 £475 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £565 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.78% -1.74% +27.78%
75th Percentile £600 £675 £638
90th Percentile £694 £806 £725
UK median daily rate £537 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -2.41% -4.35% +27.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 181 98 84
10th Percentile £46.25 £42.24 £45.16
25th Percentile £57.50 £50.00 £48.31
Median hourly rate £65.00 £60.00 £56.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +7.14% +17.89%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £87.50 £65.75
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £60.00 £56.00
% change year-on-year +8.33% +7.14% +17.89%

All Programming Languages
England

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 England with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 11,133 16,431 25,733
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 30.15% 34.41% 36.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,040 12,043 19,088
10th Percentile £350 £381 £385
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £563 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% +2.36% +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £675
90th Percentile £775 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 471 394 438
10th Percentile £35.50 £26.48 £20.00
25th Percentile £48.84 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £51.75
Median % change year-on-year - +20.77% +17.61%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.30 £62.23
90th Percentile £78.75 £79.19 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £62.00 £62.50 £51.12
% change year-on-year -0.80% +22.26% +14.88%

C
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for C in England

C
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for C in England

C
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing C in England over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for C in England

C
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for C in England

C
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing C in England over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for C in England

C
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing C within the England region over the 6 months to 2 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
East of England +17 137 £550 +11.39% 110
South East +22 110 £550 +4.76% 142
London -3 97 £500 -23.08% 111
South West +30 94 £563 +9.76% 104
Midlands +76 64 £535 +33.75% 56
West Midlands +66 57 £535 +42.67% 24
North of England +21 29 £523 -12.92% 66
North West +14 16 £525 -8.10% 40
East Midlands +10 7 £445 -1.11% 32
Yorkshire +9 7 £510 -15.00% 22
North East - 6 - - 5
C
UK

C
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 14 (2.61%) Confluence
2 7 (1.31%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.75%) OpenStack
4 3 (0.56%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.56%) nginx
4 3 (0.56%) SAS
5 1 (0.19%) Apache
5 1 (0.19%) IBM Domino
5 1 (0.19%) IBM Notes
5 1 (0.19%) JBoss
Applications
1 37 (6.90%) Simulink
2 7 (1.31%) Stateflow
3 5 (0.93%) TargetLink
4 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.19%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 6 (1.12%) Teamcenter
2 5 (0.93%) Endur
2 5 (0.93%) OpenLink RightAngle
3 4 (0.75%) LabWindows
3 4 (0.75%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 3 (0.56%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.19%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.19%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 83 (15.49%) AWS
2 56 (10.45%) Azure
3 17 (3.17%) Azure DevOps
4 11 (2.05%) Microsoft 365
5 9 (1.68%) SaaS
6 8 (1.49%) Cloud Computing
7 7 (1.31%) Amazon EC2
7 7 (1.31%) GitHub
7 7 (1.31%) Serverless
8 6 (1.12%) GCP
9 4 (0.75%) Amazon S3
9 4 (0.75%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (0.75%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 4 (0.75%) Azure Monitor
9 4 (0.75%) Datadog
9 4 (0.75%) Entra ID
9 4 (0.75%) OpenShift
9 4 (0.75%) Power Automate
9 4 (0.75%) Power Platform
9 4 (0.75%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 35 (6.53%) RS-422
2 34 (6.34%) Modbus
2 34 (6.34%) RS-485
3 17 (3.17%) Wi-Fi
4 9 (1.68%) 5G
4 9 (1.68%) TCP/IP
5 8 (1.49%) Firewall
6 7 (1.31%) 802.11
7 6 (1.12%) DNS
7 6 (1.12%) RS-232
8 5 (0.93%) DHCP
8 5 (0.93%) J1939
8 5 (0.93%) Network Security
8 5 (0.93%) Wireless
9 4 (0.75%) AMQP
9 4 (0.75%) NAS
9 4 (0.75%) Radio Access Network
9 4 (0.75%) Wireshark
10 3 (0.56%) IPv4
10 3 (0.56%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (4.10%) SQL Server
2 13 (2.43%) NoSQL
2 13 (2.43%) Relational Database
3 8 (1.49%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (1.31%) Amazon RDS
5 6 (1.12%) Data Mining
5 6 (1.12%) DB2
5 6 (1.12%) Oracle Database
6 5 (0.93%) MySQL
7 4 (0.75%) Amazon Redshift
7 4 (0.75%) Elasticsearch
7 4 (0.75%) Geospatial Data
7 4 (0.75%) InfluxDB
7 4 (0.75%) RDBMS
8 3 (0.56%) Data Lake
8 3 (0.56%) DynamoDB
8 3 (0.56%) MongoDB
8 3 (0.56%) SAP HANA
9 2 (0.37%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (0.19%) CouchDB
Development Applications
1 55 (10.26%) Git
2 48 (8.96%) Visual Studio
3 46 (8.58%) PVCS
4 29 (5.41%) JIRA
5 20 (3.73%) Subversion
6 19 (3.54%) Jenkins
6 19 (3.54%) Rational DOORS
7 17 (3.17%) Bitbucket
8 14 (2.61%) Rational Rhapsody
9 8 (1.49%) Gradle
10 5 (0.93%) Karma Test Runner
11 4 (0.75%) ClearCase
11 4 (0.75%) ClearQuest
11 4 (0.75%) gcov
11 4 (0.75%) GDB
11 4 (0.75%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 3 (0.56%) GCC
12 3 (0.56%) Jasmine
12 3 (0.56%) JMeter
12 3 (0.56%) LoadRunner
General
1 89 (16.60%) Social Skills
2 66 (12.31%) Electronics
3 39 (7.28%) Public Sector
4 28 (5.22%) Automotive
5 24 (4.48%) Analytical Skills
6 23 (4.29%) Finance
6 23 (4.29%) Telecoms
7 22 (4.10%) Aerospace
8 11 (2.05%) Banking
9 9 (1.68%) Aviation
10 6 (1.12%) Law
10 6 (1.12%) Manufacturing
10 6 (1.12%) Multimedia
11 5 (0.93%) Billing
12 4 (0.75%) German Language
12 4 (0.75%) Marketing
13 3 (0.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 3 (0.56%) Military
13 3 (0.56%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (0.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 179 (33.40%) Software Engineer
2 98 (18.28%) Developer
3 88 (16.42%) Embedded Engineer
4 84 (15.67%) Embedded Software Engineer
5 55 (10.26%) Programmer
6 51 (9.51%) C Programmer
7 44 (8.21%) C++ Software Engineer
8 42 (7.84%) Senior
9 32 (5.97%) Architect
10 28 (5.22%) C Software Engineer
11 22 (4.10%) FPGA Engineer
11 22 (4.10%) Lead
12 19 (3.54%) Design Engineer
12 19 (3.54%) FPGA Design Engineer
12 19 (3.54%) Full Stack Developer
13 17 (3.17%) C Developer
13 17 (3.17%) C++ Developer
14 16 (2.99%) DevOps Engineer
15 15 (2.80%) C/C++ Software Engineer
16 14 (2.61%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (5.60%) .NET
2 27 (5.04%) React
3 25 (4.66%) Spring Boot
4 22 (4.10%) AngularJS
5 19 (3.54%) HTML
5 19 (3.54%) J2EE
5 19 (3.54%) Spring
6 16 (2.99%) REST
6 16 (2.99%) Yocto
7 12 (2.24%) Node.js
8 11 (2.05%) CSS
8 11 (2.05%) DirectX
8 11 (2.05%) OpenGL
8 11 (2.05%) RESTful
8 11 (2.05%) Vulkan
8 11 (2.05%) XML
9 10 (1.87%) Itk
9 10 (1.87%) OpenGL ES
10 9 (1.68%) 802.1X
11 8 (1.49%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 29 (5.41%) Self-Motivation
2 28 (5.22%) VHDL
3 27 (5.04%) Algorithms
4 26 (4.85%) Verilog
5 25 (4.66%) FPGA
6 24 (4.48%) ARM Cortex
7 11 (2.05%) Data Structures
7 11 (2.05%) Device Driver
7 11 (2.05%) Management Information System
7 11 (2.05%) Public Cloud
8 10 (1.87%) Product Ownership
9 9 (1.68%) 3D Graphics
9 9 (1.68%) Embedded Systems
9 9 (1.68%) Ray Tracing
9 9 (1.68%) STB
10 8 (1.49%) Linux Command Line
11 7 (1.31%) Data Centre
11 7 (1.31%) Data Protection Act
11 7 (1.31%) Distributed Systems
12 6 (1.12%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 120 (22.39%) Linux
2 26 (4.85%) FreeRTOS
3 21 (3.92%) Windows
4 16 (2.99%) Unix
5 13 (2.43%) Apple iOS
6 11 (2.05%) Android
7 7 (1.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 5 (0.93%) Windows 10
8 5 (0.93%) Windows Server
9 4 (0.75%) SafeRTOS
9 4 (0.75%) Windows Server 2016
9 4 (0.75%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.37%) Embedded Linux
10 2 (0.37%) ThreadX
11 1 (0.19%) CentOS
11 1 (0.19%) Solaris
11 1 (0.19%) VMS
11 1 (0.19%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 219 (40.86%) Software Engineering
2 141 (26.31%) Agile
3 125 (23.32%) DevOps
4 77 (14.37%) Problem-Solving
5 65 (12.13%) Unit Testing
6 53 (9.89%) Software Testing
7 52 (9.70%) Validation
8 47 (8.77%) TDD
9 41 (7.65%) OO
10 39 (7.28%) Continuous Integration
11 38 (7.09%) Continuous Improvement
12 37 (6.90%) Test Automation
13 35 (6.53%) Scrum
13 35 (6.53%) SDLC
14 34 (6.34%) Customer Requirements
14 34 (6.34%) Multithreading
14 34 (6.34%) Pair Programming
15 32 (5.97%) Configuration Management
16 31 (5.78%) CI/CD
17 30 (5.60%) Full Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 259 (48.32%) C++
2 137 (25.56%) Python
3 99 (18.47%) Java
4 74 (13.81%) C#
5 73 (13.62%) Embedded C
6 53 (9.89%) PL/SQL
7 51 (9.51%) SQL
8 33 (6.16%) Bash
8 33 (6.16%) JavaScript
9 29 (5.41%) Shell Script
10 25 (4.66%) MATLAB
11 21 (3.92%) SystemVerilog
12 18 (3.36%) Go
13 17 (3.17%) Perl
14 15 (2.80%) Embedded C++
15 14 (2.61%) PowerShell
15 14 (2.61%) TypeScript
16 12 (2.24%) Ada
17 11 (2.05%) Tcl
18 10 (1.87%) Rust
Qualifications
1 165 (30.78%) Security Cleared
2 111 (20.71%) SC Cleared
3 71 (13.25%) Degree
4 52 (9.70%) DV Cleared
5 29 (5.41%) Master's Degree
6 18 (3.36%) PhD
7 16 (2.99%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (0.56%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.37%) CREST Certified
9 2 (0.37%) OSCP
9 2 (0.37%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 1 (0.19%) CCIE
10 1 (0.19%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.19%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (3.92%) QA
2 13 (2.43%) AUTOSAR
3 9 (1.68%) MISRA
4 7 (1.31%) JTAG
5 6 (1.12%) MISRA C
6 5 (0.93%) DO-178B
6 5 (0.93%) ISO 26262
7 4 (0.75%) Def Stans
8 3 (0.56%) Accessibility
8 3 (0.56%) IEC 61508
8 3 (0.56%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.37%) ISO 20022
9 2 (0.37%) MiFID
9 2 (0.37%) NIST
10 1 (0.19%) Data Quality
10 1 (0.19%) GDPR
10 1 (0.19%) ISO 13485
10 1 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 1 (0.19%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 39 (7.28%) Docker
2 21 (3.92%) Firmware
3 6 (1.12%) Embedded Firmware
3 6 (1.12%) VMware NSX
3 6 (1.12%) vSphere
4 5 (0.93%) Active Directory
4 5 (0.93%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.75%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 44 (8.21%) Terraform
2 31 (5.78%) Kubernetes
3 26 (4.85%) Ansible
4 10 (1.87%) Progress Chef
5 7 (1.31%) Grafana
5 7 (1.31%) Prometheus
6 5 (0.93%) Functional Safety
6 5 (0.93%) Puppet
7 4 (0.75%) Docker Swarm
7 4 (0.75%) HP ALM
7 4 (0.75%) Kibana
7 4 (0.75%) Nagios
8 3 (0.56%) Consul
8 3 (0.56%) Packer
9 1 (0.19%) logstash
9 1 (0.19%) SCOM
9 1 (0.19%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.19%) VxRail
Vendors
1 37 (6.90%) IBM
2 31 (5.78%) Microsoft
3 25 (4.66%) Oracle
4 24 (4.48%) Xilinx
5 23 (4.29%) Lauterbach
6 17 (3.17%) Intel
6 17 (3.17%) Microsemi
7 11 (2.05%) SAP
8 8 (1.49%) Splunk
9 6 (1.12%) Google
10 5 (0.93%) HP
10 5 (0.93%) OpenLink
10 5 (0.93%) Triple Point
10 5 (0.93%) VMware
11 4 (0.75%) AppDynamics
11 4 (0.75%) Atlassian
11 4 (0.75%) BT
11 4 (0.75%) Micro Focus
11 4 (0.75%) New Relic
11 4 (0.75%) Perforce