C Contracts in the North of England

C
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 149 170 213
Rank change year-on-year +21 +43 -44
Contract jobs citing C 29 37 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.61% 0.67% 0.49%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.36% 2.37% 1.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 25 27
10th Percentile £435 £368 £383
25th Percentile £445 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -12.92% - +84.62%
75th Percentile £560 £625 £625
90th Percentile £619 £638 £634
England median daily rate £538 £565 £575
% change year-on-year -4.78% -1.74% +27.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 6 4
10th Percentile £44.68 £37.80 £28.80
25th Percentile £46.25 £39.01 £33.75
Median hourly rate £47.50 £45.96 £41.84
Median % change year-on-year +3.35% +9.85% -7.54%
75th Percentile £48.75 £49.30 £44.68
90th Percentile £70.50 £50.77 £44.69
England median hourly rate £65.00 £60.00 £56.00
% change year-on-year +8.33% +7.14% +17.89%

All Programming Languages
North of 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 the North of England with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 1,229 1,562 2,236
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 25.90% 28.17% 31.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 856 1,143 1,707
10th Percentile £323 £356 £325
25th Percentile £401 £420 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £575
90th Percentile £625 £688 £650
England median daily rate £543 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -3.64% +2.36% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 26 50
10th Percentile £37.57 £28.55 £14.25
25th Percentile £42.41 £37.80 £21.57
Median hourly rate £47.75 £48.00 £43.59
Median % change year-on-year -0.52% +10.12% +67.65%
75th Percentile £68.75 £62.19 £68.75
90th Percentile £73.90 £68.00 £77.50
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £51.75
% change year-on-year - +20.77% +17.61%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for C in the North of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for C in the North of England

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for C in the North of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for C in the North of England

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Hourly rate histogram for C in the North of England

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Contract Job Locations in the North 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 North of 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
North West +14 16 £525 -8.10% 40
Yorkshire +9 7 £510 -15.00% 22
North East - 6 - - 5
C
England

C
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North 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 (3.45%) Apache
1 1 (3.45%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (3.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (3.45%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 10 (34.48%) AWS
2 7 (24.14%) Azure
3 3 (10.34%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (10.34%) GCP
3 3 (10.34%) GitHub
3 3 (10.34%) SaaS
4 1 (3.45%) Azure Batch
Communications & Networking
1 3 (10.34%) J1939
2 1 (3.45%) RS-422
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.34%) DB2
1 3 (10.34%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.45%) Flink
Development Applications
1 3 (10.34%) Git
2 1 (3.45%) Bitbucket
2 1 (3.45%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.45%) JIRA
General
1 10 (34.48%) Automotive
2 9 (31.03%) Social Skills
3 6 (20.69%) Electronics
4 4 (13.79%) German Language
5 3 (10.34%) Banking
5 3 (10.34%) Finance
6 2 (6.90%) Manufacturing
6 2 (6.90%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (3.45%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 11 (37.93%) Software Engineer
2 6 (20.69%) Embedded Engineer
2 6 (20.69%) Embedded Software Engineer
3 4 (13.79%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 4 (13.79%) Security Engineer
4 3 (10.34%) Architect
4 3 (10.34%) Developer
4 3 (10.34%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (6.90%) Automation Tester
5 2 (6.90%) Tester
6 1 (3.45%) DevOps Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) Firmware Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) FPGA Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) Java Developer
6 1 (3.45%) Java Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) Research Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) Senior
6 1 (3.45%) Senior Software Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (24.14%) .NET
2 4 (13.79%) HTML
3 3 (10.34%) J2EE
3 3 (10.34%) JSP
3 3 (10.34%) Playwright
3 3 (10.34%) React
3 3 (10.34%) SOAP
3 3 (10.34%) XML
4 2 (6.90%) REST
4 2 (6.90%) RESTful
4 2 (6.90%) Spring Boot
5 1 (3.45%) ASP.NET
5 1 (3.45%) ASP.NET Core
5 1 (3.45%) ASP.NET Web API
5 1 (3.45%) CSS
5 1 (3.45%) CSS3
5 1 (3.45%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (3.45%) Flash
5 1 (3.45%) HTML5
5 1 (3.45%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.34%) CAN bus
1 3 (10.34%) Data Protection Act
1 3 (10.34%) Enterprise Software
1 3 (10.34%) Mainframe
1 3 (10.34%) Public Cloud
2 1 (3.45%) Data Structures
2 1 (3.45%) Device Driver
2 1 (3.45%) Embedded Systems
2 1 (3.45%) FPGA
2 1 (3.45%) NB-IoT
2 1 (3.45%) Verilog
2 1 (3.45%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 4 (13.79%) Android
2 3 (10.34%) Apple iOS
2 3 (10.34%) Linux
2 3 (10.34%) Unix
2 3 (10.34%) Windows
3 1 (3.45%) Embedded Linux
3 1 (3.45%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (58.62%) Software Engineering
2 10 (34.48%) Agile
3 8 (27.59%) SDLC
4 7 (24.14%) Project Management
5 6 (20.69%) Product Requirements
5 6 (20.69%) Waterfall
6 4 (13.79%) Analytics
6 4 (13.79%) Cybersecurity
6 4 (13.79%) DevOps
6 4 (13.79%) Requirements Engineering
7 3 (10.34%) API Design
7 3 (10.34%) CI/CD
7 3 (10.34%) Data Modelling
7 3 (10.34%) Data Protection
7 3 (10.34%) Domain-Driven Design
7 3 (10.34%) ERP
7 3 (10.34%) Microservices
7 3 (10.34%) Non-Functional Testing
7 3 (10.34%) TDD
7 3 (10.34%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 9 (31.03%) C++
1 9 (31.03%) Java
2 8 (27.59%) Embedded C
3 6 (20.69%) JavaScript
4 4 (13.79%) Bash
5 3 (10.34%) PowerShell
5 3 (10.34%) SQL
5 3 (10.34%) TypeScript
6 2 (6.90%) C#
7 1 (3.45%) Fortran
7 1 (3.45%) Python
7 1 (3.45%) Rust
7 1 (3.45%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 4 (13.79%) Degree
1 4 (13.79%) Security Cleared
2 3 (10.34%) DV Cleared
3 1 (3.45%) Master's Degree
3 1 (3.45%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.34%) AUTOSAR
System Software
1 2 (6.90%) Docker
2 1 (3.45%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 3 (10.34%) Ansible
1 3 (10.34%) Functional Safety
1 3 (10.34%) Terraform
2 2 (6.90%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (10.34%) Google
2 2 (6.90%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.45%) Intel
3 1 (3.45%) Microsemi
3 1 (3.45%) Renesas
3 1 (3.45%) SAP
3 1 (3.45%) Xilinx