C Contracts in the South East

C
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 93 115 193
Rank change year-on-year +22 +78 -39
Contract jobs citing C 110 98 63
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.95% 1.73% 0.82%
As % of the Programming Languages category 8.65% 6.52% 3.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 54 29
10th Percentile £400 £228 £396
25th Percentile £425 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £628 £607 £588
90th Percentile £688 £697 £650
England median daily rate £538 £565 £575
% change year-on-year -4.78% -1.74% +27.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 21 11
10th Percentile - £19.00 £46.25
25th Percentile £46.25 £22.23 £46.88
Median hourly rate £58.30 £50.00 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year +16.60% -0.99% +18.39%
75th Percentile £61.60 £54.37 £54.38
90th Percentile £65.00 £60.00 £55.25
England median hourly rate £65.00 £60.00 £56.00
% change year-on-year +8.33% +7.14% +17.89%

All Programming Languages
South East

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 South East with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 1,271 1,504 2,018
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 22.51% 26.53% 26.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 872 1,047 1,318
10th Percentile £325 £325 £338
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.57% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £608 £613 £600
90th Percentile £675 £690 £650
England median daily rate £543 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -3.64% +2.36% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 83 87 78
10th Percentile £35.00 £19.88 £16.25
25th Percentile £46.25 £33.28 £19.64
Median hourly rate £61.60 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% +57.14% -17.95%
75th Percentile £70.00 £67.50 £55.00
90th Percentile £77.00 £75.00 £63.78
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £51.75
% change year-on-year - +20.77% +17.61%

C
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for C in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for C in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Daily rate histogram for C in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for C in the South East

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Hourly rate histogram for C in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing C within the South East 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
Hampshire -20 39 £550 +4.76% 30
Thames Valley +34 33 £625 +15.26% 58
Surrey +29 18 £400 -20.00% 26
Berkshire +1 18 £650 +16.18% 14
Middlesex - 17 £625 -
Oxfordshire +3 8 £450 -14.29% 26
Buckinghamshire +36 7 - - 19
Kent +5 1 - - 7
West Sussex +5 1 - - 11
C
England

C
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 (0.91%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (1.82%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 5 (4.55%) Teamcenter
2 4 (3.64%) LabWindows
3 3 (2.73%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 19 (17.27%) Azure
2 13 (11.82%) AWS
3 4 (3.64%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 4 (3.64%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (3.64%) Azure Monitor
4 3 (2.73%) Azure Data Factory
4 3 (2.73%) Azure Functions
4 3 (2.73%) Datadog
4 3 (2.73%) Entra ID
4 3 (2.73%) Serverless
5 2 (1.82%) GitHub
6 1 (0.91%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (0.91%) Azure Cognitive Search
6 1 (0.91%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (0.91%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 7 (6.36%) 802.11
1 7 (6.36%) Wi-Fi
2 5 (4.55%) RS-232
2 5 (4.55%) Wireless
3 4 (3.64%) Firewall
4 2 (1.82%) J1939
4 2 (1.82%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.91%) Diameter Protocol
5 1 (0.91%) MPLS
5 1 (0.91%) Software-Defined Radio
5 1 (0.91%) VPN
5 1 (0.91%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.73%) Amazon Redshift
1 3 (2.73%) Geospatial Data
1 3 (2.73%) NoSQL
2 2 (1.82%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 13 (11.82%) Git
2 8 (7.27%) Subversion
3 5 (4.55%) JIRA
3 5 (4.55%) Rational DOORS
4 4 (3.64%) Visual Studio
5 3 (2.73%) ClearCase
5 3 (2.73%) ClearQuest
5 3 (2.73%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.91%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.91%) GitLab
6 1 (0.91%) LabVIEW
6 1 (0.91%) MagicDraw
6 1 (0.91%) Rational Rhapsody
6 1 (0.91%) Selenium
General
1 23 (20.91%) Social Skills
2 15 (13.64%) Analytical Skills
2 15 (13.64%) Public Sector
3 9 (8.18%) Automotive
3 9 (8.18%) Electronics
4 6 (5.45%) Aerospace
4 6 (5.45%) Aviation
4 6 (5.45%) Telecoms
5 5 (4.55%) Billing
6 3 (2.73%) Finance
6 3 (2.73%) Marketing
7 2 (1.82%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.91%) Military
8 1 (0.91%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 35 (31.82%) Software Engineer
2 24 (21.82%) Developer
3 21 (19.09%) Senior
4 15 (13.64%) Embedded Engineer
4 15 (13.64%) Embedded Software Engineer
5 12 (10.91%) C Developer
6 11 (10.00%) Lead
7 10 (9.09%) Administrator
7 10 (9.09%) Systems Administrator
8 9 (8.18%) C++ Software Engineer
8 9 (8.18%) Senior Systems Administrator
9 7 (6.36%) Analyst
9 7 (6.36%) Senior Software Engineer
10 5 (4.55%) Architect
10 5 (4.55%) FPGA Engineer
10 5 (4.55%) Software Developer
11 4 (3.64%) C++ Developer
11 4 (3.64%) DevOps Engineer
11 4 (3.64%) Technical Design Leader
11 4 (3.64%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (9.09%) Itk
2 9 (8.18%) 802.1X
2 9 (8.18%) J2EE
2 9 (8.18%) Spring Boot
3 4 (3.64%) ADO
3 4 (3.64%) React
4 3 (2.73%) .NET
5 2 (1.82%) ASP.NET
5 2 (1.82%) Node.js
6 1 (0.91%) AngularJS
6 1 (0.91%) CSS
6 1 (0.91%) DirectX
6 1 (0.91%) HTML
6 1 (0.91%) Middleware
6 1 (0.91%) OpenGL
6 1 (0.91%) OpenGL ES
6 1 (0.91%) PyTorch
6 1 (0.91%) scikit-learn
6 1 (0.91%) TensorFlow
6 1 (0.91%) Vulkan
Miscellaneous
1 11 (10.00%) Algorithms
2 6 (5.45%) VHDL
3 5 (4.55%) FPGA
4 4 (3.64%) Device Driver
4 4 (3.64%) Public Cloud
5 3 (2.73%) Data Centre
5 3 (2.73%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (2.73%) Management Information System
5 3 (2.73%) Private Cloud
5 3 (2.73%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.82%) CAN bus
6 2 (1.82%) FMCG
6 2 (1.82%) GNSS
6 2 (1.82%) IoT
7 1 (0.91%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 24 (21.82%) Linux
2 9 (8.18%) Windows
3 8 (7.27%) Unix
4 6 (5.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (3.64%) Windows 10
5 4 (3.64%) Windows Server
5 4 (3.64%) Windows Server 2016
5 4 (3.64%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.91%) Android
6 1 (0.91%) Solaris
6 1 (0.91%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (38.18%) Software Engineering
2 32 (29.09%) DevOps
3 29 (26.36%) Agile
4 21 (19.09%) Problem-Solving
5 15 (13.64%) OO
6 13 (11.82%) Kanban
6 13 (11.82%) Scrum
7 10 (9.09%) PLM
7 10 (9.09%) Test Automation
8 9 (8.18%) Computer Science
8 9 (8.18%) Full Stack Development
8 9 (8.18%) Process Improvement
8 9 (8.18%) Validation
9 8 (7.27%) Change Management
9 8 (7.27%) SDLC
10 7 (6.36%) CI/CD
11 6 (5.45%) Mentoring
11 6 (5.45%) Signal Processing
11 6 (5.45%) Test Scripting
12 5 (4.55%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 60 (54.55%) C++
2 35 (31.82%) Python
3 23 (20.91%) Java
4 18 (16.36%) Embedded C
5 13 (11.82%) SQL
6 10 (9.09%) Perl
6 10 (9.09%) Shell Script
7 9 (8.18%) ProC
8 8 (7.27%) PL/SQL
9 7 (6.36%) Embedded C++
9 7 (6.36%) MATLAB
9 7 (6.36%) Tcl
10 6 (5.45%) C#
11 5 (4.55%) Assembly Language
12 4 (3.64%) VBScript
13 3 (2.73%) Bash
13 3 (2.73%) JavaScript
13 3 (2.73%) PowerShell
13 3 (2.73%) Ruby
14 2 (1.82%) VB
Qualifications
1 31 (28.18%) Security Cleared
2 17 (15.45%) SC Cleared
3 12 (10.91%) DV Cleared
4 10 (9.09%) Degree
5 4 (3.64%) Master's Degree
5 4 (3.64%) PhD
6 2 (1.82%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.91%) CCIE
7 1 (0.91%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.91%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.64%) JTAG
1 4 (3.64%) QA
2 3 (2.73%) AUTOSAR
3 2 (1.82%) IEC 61508
4 1 (0.91%) Def Stans
4 1 (0.91%) DO-178B
4 1 (0.91%) GDPR
4 1 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.91%) MISRA
4 1 (0.91%) MISRA C
4 1 (0.91%) NIST
System Software
1 10 (9.09%) Firmware
2 5 (4.55%) Embedded Firmware
3 3 (2.73%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.73%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (11.82%) Terraform
2 4 (3.64%) Ansible
2 4 (3.64%) Kubernetes
3 3 (2.73%) HP ALM
3 3 (2.73%) Nagios
3 3 (2.73%) Progress Chef
3 3 (2.73%) Puppet
4 2 (1.82%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 18 (16.36%) Microsoft
2 10 (9.09%) Oracle
3 4 (3.64%) Micro Focus
3 4 (3.64%) SAP
3 4 (3.64%) Xilinx
4 3 (2.73%) HP
4 3 (2.73%) New Relic
4 3 (2.73%) Sparx
4 3 (2.73%) Splunk
5 2 (1.82%) Atmel
6 1 (0.91%) CheckPoint
6 1 (0.91%) Cisco
6 1 (0.91%) Citrix
6 1 (0.91%) F5
6 1 (0.91%) Fortinet
6 1 (0.91%) IBM
6 1 (0.91%) QinetiQ
6 1 (0.91%) QNX
6 1 (0.91%) Zscaler