C Contracts in the Midlands

C
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 76 145 179
Rank change year-on-year +69 +34 -47
Contract jobs citing C 65 13 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 2.20% 0.40% 0.52%
As % of the Programming Languages category 9.42% 1.56% 1.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 6 16
10th Percentile £445 - £409
25th Percentile £505 £363 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £400 £491
Median % change year-on-year +33.75% -18.58% +21.30%
75th Percentile £538 £484 £516
90th Percentile £540 £519 £535
England median daily rate £538 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -10.38% +4.35% +27.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 3 0
10th Percentile £48.38 £46.25 -
25th Percentile £56.25 £48.13 -
Median hourly rate £57.50 £52.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% - -
75th Percentile £58.75 £54.38 -
90th Percentile - £54.75 -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £58.91 £56.00
% change year-on-year +10.35% +5.19% +17.89%

All Programming Languages
Midlands

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 Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 690 835 1,319
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 23.41% 25.94% 26.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 482 605 957
10th Percentile £260 £313 £324
25th Percentile £350 £375 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £455
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +4.40% +13.75%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £540
90th Percentile £634 £700 £625
England median daily rate £540 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -4.00% +2.27% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 16 17
10th Percentile £22.50 £23.61 £16.55
25th Percentile £30.37 £26.02 £20.25
Median hourly rate £55.00 £50.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +42.86% +45.83%
75th Percentile £58.75 £58.75 -
90th Percentile £72.50 £83.75 £44.80
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 Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for C in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for C in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for C in the Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for C in the Midlands

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate histogram for C in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing C within the Midlands 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
West Midlands +70 58 £535 +42.67% 30
East Midlands +7 7 £445 -1.11% 36
C
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 (1.54%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 7 (10.77%) Simulink
2 5 (7.69%) Stateflow
2 5 (7.69%) TargetLink
Cloud Services
1 5 (7.69%) AWS
1 5 (7.69%) Azure
2 4 (6.15%) SaaS
3 1 (1.54%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.54%) Firewall
1 1 (1.54%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.15%) DB2
1 4 (6.15%) SQL Server
2 2 (3.08%) Data Lake
2 2 (3.08%) NoSQL
2 2 (3.08%) RDBMS
2 2 (3.08%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 42 (64.62%) PVCS
1 42 (64.62%) Visual Studio
2 5 (7.69%) Bitbucket
2 5 (7.69%) Git
2 5 (7.69%) Subversion
3 1 (1.54%) Ant
3 1 (1.54%) Gradle
3 1 (1.54%) JUnit
3 1 (1.54%) Maven
General
1 16 (24.62%) Public Sector
2 8 (12.31%) Automotive
3 7 (10.77%) Finance
4 5 (7.69%) Banking
5 1 (1.54%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.54%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 49 (75.38%) Programmer
2 46 (70.77%) C Programmer
3 5 (7.69%) Control Systems Engineer
3 5 (7.69%) Principal Engineer
3 5 (7.69%) Principal Systems Engineer
3 5 (7.69%) Systems Engineer
4 4 (6.15%) Architect
4 4 (6.15%) Solutions Architect
5 3 (4.62%) C++ Programmer
5 3 (4.62%) Embedded Engineer
6 2 (3.08%) Data Engineer
6 2 (3.08%) Embedded C Programmer
6 2 (3.08%) Software Programmer
7 1 (1.54%) Analytics Developer
7 1 (1.54%) Developer
7 1 (1.54%) PL/SQL Programmer
7 1 (1.54%) Rust Developer
7 1 (1.54%) Senior
7 1 (1.54%) Senior Data Engineer
7 1 (1.54%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (7.69%) .NET
2 4 (6.15%) React
Miscellaneous
1 7 (10.77%) Algorithms
2 5 (7.69%) Management Information System
3 4 (6.15%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (6.15%) Mainframe
3 4 (6.15%) Public Cloud
4 3 (4.62%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.54%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.15%) Android
1 4 (6.15%) Apple iOS
2 3 (4.62%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (16.92%) Software Engineering
2 9 (13.85%) Agile
2 9 (13.85%) Project Management
3 8 (12.31%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (10.77%) Validation
5 5 (7.69%) Black-Box Testing
5 5 (7.69%) Functional Testing
5 5 (7.69%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
5 5 (7.69%) Integration Testing
5 5 (7.69%) Line Management
5 5 (7.69%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
5 5 (7.69%) QMS
5 5 (7.69%) Quality Management
5 5 (7.69%) Software Audit
5 5 (7.69%) Software Testing
5 5 (7.69%) UML
5 5 (7.69%) Verification and Validation
5 5 (7.69%) White-Box Testing
6 4 (6.15%) Architectural Design
6 4 (6.15%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 42 (64.62%) PL/SQL
2 19 (29.23%) C++
3 7 (10.77%) Java
3 7 (10.77%) MATLAB
4 3 (4.62%) Python
5 2 (3.08%) Embedded C
5 2 (3.08%) Embedded C++
6 1 (1.54%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.54%) Rust
6 1 (1.54%) Scala
6 1 (1.54%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 50 (76.92%) SC Cleared
1 50 (76.92%) Security Cleared
2 6 (9.23%) Degree
3 5 (7.69%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.54%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (10.77%) AUTOSAR
2 5 (7.69%) ISO 26262
2 5 (7.69%) MISRA
2 5 (7.69%) MISRA C
System Software
1 1 (1.54%) Firmware
Vendors
1 2 (3.08%) Microsoft
2 1 (1.54%) Google
2 1 (1.54%) Thales