C Contracts in Scotland

C
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 110 148 174
Rank change year-on-year +38 +26 -43
Contract jobs citing C 17 20 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.79% 0.74% 0.059%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.79% 2.22% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 14 0
10th Percentile £468 £414 -
25th Percentile £484 £456 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £481 -
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -
75th Percentile £731 £525 -
90th Percentile £848 £559 -
UK median daily rate £537 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -2.41% -4.35% +27.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £60.25 £39.00 -
Median hourly rate £60.50 £40.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +51.25% - -
75th Percentile £60.75 £41.00 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £60.00 £56.00
% change year-on-year +8.33% +7.14% +17.89%

All Programming Languages
Scotland

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 Scotland with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 609 900 1,019
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 28.40% 33.38% 29.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 408 630 722
10th Percentile £350 £406 £382
25th Percentile £412 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £493 £488
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% +0.87% +14.88%
75th Percentile £541 £550 £550
90th Percentile £616 £650 £638
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 11 14
10th Percentile £29.60 £47.73 £17.50
25th Percentile £41.31 £53.75 £29.19
Median hourly rate £57.50 £59.03 £45.75
Median % change year-on-year -2.59% +29.03% -0.54%
75th Percentile £60.75 £67.66 £55.39
90th Percentile £62.50 £70.00 £56.98
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 Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for C in Scotland

C
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for C in Scotland

C
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

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

Daily rate histogram for C in Scotland

C
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for C in Scotland

C
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing C within the Scotland 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
Glasgow +11 7 - - 9
Edinburgh +31 6 £850 +61.90% 23
C
UK

C
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (5.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (5.88%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (5.88%) Amazon S3
1 1 (5.88%) AWS
1 1 (5.88%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (5.88%) OpenShift
1 1 (5.88%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (35.29%) Kerberos
2 4 (23.53%) Internet
3 2 (11.76%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.88%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (5.88%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (5.88%) Oracle Database
1 1 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (47.06%) Git
1 8 (47.06%) Jenkins
2 6 (35.29%) Bitbucket
3 2 (11.76%) CMake
3 2 (11.76%) JIRA
General
1 4 (23.53%) Electronics
2 1 (5.88%) Finance
2 1 (5.88%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (41.18%) Developer
2 4 (23.53%) Embedded Engineer
2 4 (23.53%) Embedded Software Engineer
2 4 (23.53%) Software Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Firmware Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Database Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Java Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Linux DevOps Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Linux Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Linux/Unix DevOps
4 1 (5.88%) Python Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Unix Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Unix Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Unix Linux Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Windows DevOps Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Windows Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (41.18%) JSON
2 6 (35.29%) LDAP
2 6 (35.29%) OpenID
2 6 (35.29%) RESTful
2 6 (35.29%) Web Services
2 6 (35.29%) XML
3 2 (11.76%) YAML
3 2 (11.76%) Yocto
4 1 (5.88%) AWS CDK
4 1 (5.88%) Flash
4 1 (5.88%) OAuth
4 1 (5.88%) OAuth2
4 1 (5.88%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (5.88%) React
4 1 (5.88%) Redfish
4 1 (5.88%) Spring
4 1 (5.88%) Spring Boot
4 1 (5.88%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 6 (35.29%) Enterprise Cloud
2 5 (29.41%) IoT
3 4 (23.53%) Device Driver
3 4 (23.53%) PCIe
3 4 (23.53%) Verilog
3 4 (23.53%) VHDL
4 1 (5.88%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (5.88%) Data Structures
4 1 (5.88%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (5.88%) Management Information System
4 1 (5.88%) NB-IoT
4 1 (5.88%) Replication
4 1 (5.88%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (47.06%) Linux
2 6 (35.29%) Embedded Linux
3 4 (23.53%) VxWorks
4 2 (11.76%) ThreadX
5 1 (5.88%) Oracle Linux
5 1 (5.88%) Unix
5 1 (5.88%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (64.71%) Continuous Integration
2 9 (52.94%) Agile
3 7 (41.18%) CI/CD
3 7 (41.18%) Test Automation
4 6 (35.29%) Data Modelling
4 6 (35.29%) OO
4 6 (35.29%) Software Engineering
5 4 (23.53%) Code Optimisation
5 4 (23.53%) Configuration Management
5 4 (23.53%) Continuous Deployment
5 4 (23.53%) Defect Tracking
5 4 (23.53%) Device Driver Development
5 4 (23.53%) Memory Management
5 4 (23.53%) Requirements Management
6 2 (11.76%) DevOps
6 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure as Code
6 2 (11.76%) Kanban
6 2 (11.76%) Multithreading
7 1 (5.88%) Data Protection
7 1 (5.88%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 8 (47.06%) Embedded C
2 6 (35.29%) Go
3 2 (11.76%) C++
3 2 (11.76%) JavaScript
4 1 (5.88%) Java
4 1 (5.88%) Perl
4 1 (5.88%) Python
4 1 (5.88%) SQL
4 1 (5.88%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (23.53%) MISRA
1 4 (23.53%) MISRA C
System Software
1 7 (41.18%) Firmware
2 6 (35.29%) Active Directory
3 1 (5.88%) Docker
3 1 (5.88%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 2 (11.76%) Grafana
1 2 (11.76%) Kibana
Vendors
1 6 (35.29%) Cadence
2 4 (23.53%) Atlassian
2 4 (23.53%) Intel
3 1 (5.88%) Commvault
3 1 (5.88%) Dell
3 1 (5.88%) HP
3 1 (5.88%) Oracle
3 1 (5.88%) Renesas