C Contracts in the North West

C
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 118 131 155
Rank change year-on-year +13 +24 -14
Contract jobs citing C 17 19 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.61% 0.63% 0.67%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.53% 2.23% 1.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 13 22
10th Percentile £445 £342 £378
25th Percentile £463 £377 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +48.15%
75th Percentile £560 £638 £625
90th Percentile £650 £748 £634
England median daily rate £538 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -10.38% +4.35% +27.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 2
10th Percentile - - £27.42
25th Percentile £92.50 £37.80 £30.30
Median hourly rate £95.00 £40.59 £35.34
Median % change year-on-year +134.05% +14.86% -22.33%
75th Percentile £97.50 £46.07 £40.14
90th Percentile - £47.68 £42.86
England median hourly rate £65.00 £58.91 £56.00
% change year-on-year +10.35% +5.19% +17.89%

All Programming Languages
North West

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 North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 672 852 1,402
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 24.07% 28.29% 34.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 483 634 1,067
10th Percentile £326 £325 £315
25th Percentile £400 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +17.65%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £588
90th Percentile £614 £663 £675
England median daily rate £540 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -4.00% +2.27% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 17 38
10th Percentile £37.63 £25.22 £14.25
25th Percentile £41.25 £37.75 £21.57
Median hourly rate £48.43 £46.18 £51.35
Median % change year-on-year +4.87% -10.07% +71.17%
75th Percentile £71.87 £56.40 £75.00
90th Percentile £79.90 £65.85 £77.50
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year - +19.05% +19.12%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for C in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for C in the North West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing C in the North West over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for C in the North West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for C in the North West

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Contract Job Locations in the North 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 North West region over the 6 months to 12 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
Manchester +3 9 £588 -3.49% 17
Cheshire - 7 £520 - 11
C
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North 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 1 (5.88%) Apache
Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 7 (41.18%) Azure
2 6 (35.29%) AWS
3 3 (17.65%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (17.65%) SaaS
4 1 (5.88%) Azure Batch
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (17.65%) DB2
1 3 (17.65%) SQL Server
2 1 (5.88%) Flink
Development Applications
1 3 (17.65%) Git
2 1 (5.88%) Bitbucket
2 1 (5.88%) Jenkins
General
1 6 (35.29%) Social Skills
2 4 (23.53%) Automotive
2 4 (23.53%) German Language
3 3 (17.65%) Banking
3 3 (17.65%) Finance
4 2 (11.76%) Manufacturing
4 2 (11.76%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (29.41%) Software Engineer
2 4 (23.53%) Cybersecurity Engineer
2 4 (23.53%) Security Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) Architect
3 3 (17.65%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (11.76%) FPGA Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Developer
5 1 (5.88%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Embedded Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Embedded Software Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Firmware Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Research Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Research Software Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (23.53%) .NET
2 3 (17.65%) React
2 3 (17.65%) SOAP
3 2 (11.76%) REST
3 2 (11.76%) RESTful
4 1 (5.88%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (5.88%) ASP.NET
4 1 (5.88%) ASP.NET Core
4 1 (5.88%) ASP.NET Web API
4 1 (5.88%) CSS
4 1 (5.88%) CSS3
4 1 (5.88%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (5.88%) Flash
4 1 (5.88%) HTML
4 1 (5.88%) HTML5
4 1 (5.88%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 3 (17.65%) Enterprise Software
1 3 (17.65%) Mainframe
1 3 (17.65%) Public Cloud
2 2 (11.76%) FPGA
2 2 (11.76%) Verilog
2 2 (11.76%) VHDL
3 1 (5.88%) Data Structures
3 1 (5.88%) NB-IoT
Operating Systems
1 3 (17.65%) Android
1 3 (17.65%) Apple iOS
1 3 (17.65%) Linux
2 1 (5.88%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (41.18%) Project Management
2 6 (35.29%) Software Engineering
3 4 (23.53%) Agile
3 4 (23.53%) Cybersecurity
3 4 (23.53%) DevOps
3 4 (23.53%) Product Requirements
3 4 (23.53%) Requirements Engineering
3 4 (23.53%) SDLC
4 3 (17.65%) Analytics
4 3 (17.65%) API Design
4 3 (17.65%) Architectural Design
4 3 (17.65%) Containerisation
4 3 (17.65%) Domain-Driven Design
4 3 (17.65%) Microservices
4 3 (17.65%) Waterfall
5 2 (11.76%) Architectural Patterns
5 2 (11.76%) ERP
5 2 (11.76%) FPGA Design
5 2 (11.76%) Performance Tuning
5 2 (11.76%) UVM
Programming Languages
1 6 (35.29%) C++
2 5 (29.41%) Java
3 3 (17.65%) PowerShell
4 2 (11.76%) JavaScript
4 2 (11.76%) SystemVerilog
5 1 (5.88%) Bash
5 1 (5.88%) C#
5 1 (5.88%) Embedded C
5 1 (5.88%) Fortran
5 1 (5.88%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (23.53%) Degree
2 3 (17.65%) DV Cleared
2 3 (17.65%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (11.76%) Docker
2 1 (5.88%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 3 (17.65%) Ansible
1 3 (17.65%) Terraform
2 2 (11.76%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (11.76%) Intel
1 2 (11.76%) Microsemi
1 2 (11.76%) Xilinx
2 1 (5.88%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.88%) Renesas