C Contracts in the East of England

C
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 20 37 78
Rank change year-on-year +17 +41 -11
Contract jobs citing C 134 89 72
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 6.84% 4.57% 2.82%
As % of the Programming Languages category 32.29% 15.24% 9.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 22 21
10th Percentile £450 £425 £425
25th Percentile £463 £427 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £494 £525
Median % change year-on-year +11.39% -5.95% +16.67%
75th Percentile £638 £560 £575
90th Percentile £800 - £600
England median daily rate £538 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -10.38% +4.35% +27.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 84 40 39
10th Percentile £60.00 £55.98 -
25th Percentile £61.25 - £56.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year - +13.04% +17.35%
75th Percentile £80.00 £88.13 £60.00
90th Percentile £88.75 £90.00 £62.15
England median hourly rate £65.00 £58.91 £56.00
% change year-on-year +10.35% +5.19% +17.89%

All Programming Languages
East of England

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 East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 415 584 758
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 21.18% 29.99% 29.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 177 357 453
10th Percentile £313 £313 £298
25th Percentile £363 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% +2.63% +5.56%
75th Percentile £573 £575 £600
90th Percentile £638 £700 £669
England median daily rate £540 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -4.00% +2.27% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 145 95 92
10th Percentile £52.50 £49.75 £35.00
25th Percentile £58.75 £53.75 £47.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £56.00
Median % change year-on-year - +16.07% +31.76%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £89.00 £70.55
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 East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for C in the East of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Daily rate trend for C in the East of England

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Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing C in the East of England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for C in the East of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Hourly rate trend for C in the East of England

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the East of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing C in the East of England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for C in the East of England

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Contract Job Locations in the East of 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 East of England 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
Hertfordshire +14 86 - - 20
Cambridgeshire -7 31 £550 +10.00% 71
Essex +19 17 £550 +123.35% 6
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of 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 1 (0.75%) Confluence
Applications
1 27 (20.15%) Simulink
2 2 (1.49%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 2 (1.49%) Payment Gateway
1 2 (1.49%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 4 (2.99%) Microsoft 365
1 4 (2.99%) Power Automate
1 4 (2.99%) Power Platform
1 4 (2.99%) PowerApps
2 2 (1.49%) Dynamics 365
2 2 (1.49%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 33 (24.63%) Modbus
1 33 (24.63%) RS-422
1 33 (24.63%) RS-485
2 7 (5.22%) 5G
3 4 (2.99%) NAS
3 4 (2.99%) Radio Access Network
3 4 (2.99%) Wireshark
4 2 (1.49%) 5G NR
4 2 (1.49%) Software-Defined Radio
5 1 (0.75%) 4G
5 1 (0.75%) RS-232
5 1 (0.75%) RTMP
5 1 (0.75%) RTP
5 1 (0.75%) RTSP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.99%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (7.46%) Rational DOORS
1 10 (7.46%) Rational Rhapsody
2 9 (6.72%) Git
3 8 (5.97%) JIRA
4 7 (5.22%) Subversion
5 4 (2.99%) gcov
5 4 (2.99%) GDB
5 4 (2.99%) Gradle
5 4 (2.99%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 3 (2.24%) GCC
7 2 (1.49%) CppUnit
7 2 (1.49%) PVCS
7 2 (1.49%) Rational Team Concert
8 1 (0.75%) CMake
8 1 (0.75%) Gerrit
8 1 (0.75%) VTune
General
1 46 (34.33%) Electronics
2 37 (27.61%) Social Skills
3 8 (5.97%) Aerospace
4 7 (5.22%) Telecoms
5 5 (3.73%) Law
5 5 (3.73%) Multimedia
6 3 (2.24%) Finance
6 3 (2.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.49%) Automotive
7 2 (1.49%) Aviation
7 2 (1.49%) Military
7 2 (1.49%) Retail
7 2 (1.49%) Wearables
8 1 (0.75%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (0.75%) Games
8 1 (0.75%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.75%) Marketing
8 1 (0.75%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 76 (56.72%) Software Engineer
2 32 (23.88%) C++ Software Engineer
3 27 (20.15%) Embedded Engineer
3 27 (20.15%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 22 (16.42%) C Software Engineer
5 20 (14.93%) Developer
6 18 (13.43%) FPGA Engineer
7 16 (11.94%) Design Engineer
7 16 (11.94%) FPGA Design Engineer
8 13 (9.70%) C/C++ Software Engineer
9 10 (7.46%) Ada Engineer
9 10 (7.46%) Ada Software Engineer
10 8 (5.97%) Architect
10 8 (5.97%) Linux Engineer
10 8 (5.97%) Software Architect
11 7 (5.22%) Embedded C Engineer
11 7 (5.22%) Embedded C Software Engineer
11 7 (5.22%) Real Time Engineer
11 7 (5.22%) Real Time Software Engineer
12 5 (3.73%) Principal Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (6.72%) DirectX
1 9 (6.72%) OpenGL
1 9 (6.72%) Vulkan
1 9 (6.72%) Yocto
2 8 (5.97%) OpenGL ES
3 4 (2.99%) .NET
3 4 (2.99%) REST
4 3 (2.24%) JSON
4 3 (2.24%) LLVM
4 3 (2.24%) YAML
5 1 (0.75%) FFmpeg
5 1 (0.75%) GStreamer
5 1 (0.75%) Middleware
5 1 (0.75%) NumPy
5 1 (0.75%) POSIX
5 1 (0.75%) Unity (Game Engine)
5 1 (0.75%) Unreal Engine
Miscellaneous
1 28 (20.90%) Self-Motivation
2 21 (15.67%) FPGA
2 21 (15.67%) Verilog
3 18 (13.43%) VHDL
4 9 (6.72%) Ray Tracing
5 8 (5.97%) 3D Graphics
6 4 (2.99%) Legacy Applications
6 4 (2.99%) STB
7 3 (2.24%) ASIC
7 3 (2.24%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.49%) Embedded Systems
9 1 (0.75%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.75%) Device Driver
9 1 (0.75%) Digital TV
9 1 (0.75%) MPEG
Operating Systems
1 23 (17.16%) Linux
2 4 (2.99%) Unix
3 1 (0.75%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (56.72%) Software Engineering
2 37 (27.61%) Agile
3 36 (26.87%) Software Testing
4 35 (26.12%) Unit Testing
5 33 (24.63%) Continuous Improvement
5 33 (24.63%) Continuous Integration
5 33 (24.63%) Customer Requirements
5 33 (24.63%) DevOps
5 33 (24.63%) Pair Programming
5 33 (24.63%) TDD
6 25 (18.66%) Problem-Solving
6 25 (18.66%) Validation
7 21 (15.67%) UVM
8 18 (13.43%) FPGA Design
9 16 (11.94%) Signal Processing
10 13 (9.70%) Multithreading
11 12 (8.96%) Embedded Software Development
12 11 (8.21%) Code Quality
13 10 (7.46%) Systems Engineering
13 10 (7.46%) Verification and Validation
Programming Languages
1 83 (61.94%) C++
2 38 (28.36%) C#
3 21 (15.67%) SystemVerilog
4 16 (11.94%) Embedded C
5 11 (8.21%) Python
6 10 (7.46%) Ada
7 9 (6.72%) Bash
7 9 (6.72%) MATLAB
8 6 (4.48%) SQL
9 5 (3.73%) Embedded C++
10 3 (2.24%) Assembly Language
10 3 (2.24%) Shell Script
10 3 (2.24%) Tcl
11 2 (1.49%) Fortran
11 2 (1.49%) VB
12 1 (0.75%) GLSL
12 1 (0.75%) HLSL
12 1 (0.75%) Java
12 1 (0.75%) JavaScript
12 1 (0.75%) Rust
Qualifications
1 36 (26.87%) Degree
2 12 (8.96%) Master's Degree
2 12 (8.96%) PhD
3 4 (2.99%) SC Cleared
3 4 (2.99%) Security Cleared
4 3 (2.24%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.75%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.75%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 2 (1.49%) Virtual Machines
1 2 (1.49%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 21 (15.67%) Xilinx
2 18 (13.43%) Intel
2 18 (13.43%) Microsemi
3 10 (7.46%) IBM
4 4 (2.99%) Klocwork
4 4 (2.99%) Perforce
5 3 (2.24%) Cadence
5 3 (2.24%) Synopsys
6 2 (1.49%) Broadcom
6 2 (1.49%) MathWorks
6 2 (1.49%) Microsoft
6 2 (1.49%) Twitter
6 2 (1.49%) VMware
7 1 (0.75%) SAP