Embedded C Contracts in Scotland

Embedded C
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for Embedded C skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Embedded 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 119 167 -
Rank change year-on-year +48 - -
Contract jobs citing Embedded C 8 1 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.37% 0.037% -
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.31% 0.11% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £775 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £850 - -
75th Percentile £925 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £505 £455 £410
% change year-on-year +10.99% +10.98% +6.49%
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 £70.00 £77.00 £57.00
% change year-on-year -9.09% +35.09% +20.63%

All Programming Languages
Scotland

Embedded 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%

Embedded C
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Embedded C in Scotland

Embedded C
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Embedded C in Scotland

Embedded C
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Embedded C in Scotland

Embedded 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 Embedded 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
Edinburgh +36 6 £850 - 6
Embedded C
UK

Embedded 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:

Communications & Networking
1 4 (50.00%) Internet
2 2 (25.00%) Modbus
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) CMake
1 2 (25.00%) JIRA
2 1 (12.50%) Git
General
1 4 (50.00%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Embedded Engineer
1 4 (50.00%) Embedded Software Engineer
1 4 (50.00%) Software Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Firmware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) YAML
1 2 (25.00%) Yocto
2 1 (12.50%) Flash
2 1 (12.50%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 5 (62.50%) IoT
2 4 (50.00%) Device Driver
2 4 (50.00%) PCIe
2 4 (50.00%) Verilog
2 4 (50.00%) VHDL
3 1 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (12.50%) Data Structures
3 1 (12.50%) NB-IoT
Operating Systems
1 6 (75.00%) Embedded Linux
1 6 (75.00%) Linux
2 4 (50.00%) VxWorks
3 2 (25.00%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Agile
1 6 (75.00%) CI/CD
1 6 (75.00%) Software Engineering
2 4 (50.00%) Code Optimisation
2 4 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 4 (50.00%) Continuous Deployment
2 4 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 4 (50.00%) Defect Tracking
2 4 (50.00%) Device Driver Development
2 4 (50.00%) Memory Management
2 4 (50.00%) Requirements Management
3 2 (25.00%) Multithreading
4 1 (12.50%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) C
2 2 (25.00%) C++
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (50.00%) MISRA
1 4 (50.00%) MISRA C
System Software
1 7 (87.50%) Firmware
2 1 (12.50%) Embedded Firmware
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Atlassian
1 4 (50.00%) Intel
2 1 (12.50%) Renesas