C Contracts in the West Midlands

C
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West 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 15 November 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Nov 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 106 110 149
Rank change year-on-year +4 +39 +19
Contract jobs citing C 8 13 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.42% 0.66% 0.92%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.89% 2.98% 3.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 5 14
10th Percentile - - £331
25th Percentile £381 £438 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £388 £525 £477
Median % change year-on-year -26.19% +10.06% +6.00%
75th Percentile £472 £550 £530
90th Percentile £519 £670 £540
England median daily rate £538 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -2.27% -8.33% +14.29%

All Programming Languages
West 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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 423 436 1,067
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 22.37% 22.15% 30.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 252 314 765
10th Percentile £350 £287 £350
25th Percentile £409 £383 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -14.29% +16.67%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £574
90th Percentile £662 £700 £625
England median daily rate £538 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -2.27% -4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 9 3
10th Percentile £18.94 £17.43 £15.90
25th Percentile £23.25 £17.50 £21.75
Median hourly rate £33.93 £18.50 £32.00
Median % change year-on-year +83.41% -42.19% -10.51%
75th Percentile £47.50 £19.25 £46.21
90th Percentile £66.00 £25.80 £54.44
England median hourly rate £65.00 £60.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +7.44% -3.20% +31.58%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for C in the West Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for C in the West Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing C in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 15 November 2024.

Daily rate histogram for C in the West Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for C in the West Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the West 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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 15 November 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
Staffordshire - 5 - - 7
Birmingham +8 2 £388 -29.55% 1
Warwickshire -18 1 £550 +15.79% 5
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) 5G
1 1 (12.50%) Firewall
1 1 (12.50%) Network Security
1 1 (12.50%) TCP/IP
1 1 (12.50%) Wireless
General
1 5 (62.50%) Aviation
1 5 (62.50%) Military
2 1 (12.50%) Automotive
2 1 (12.50%) Law
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) QA Engineer
1 5 (62.50%) Quality Engineer
1 5 (62.50%) Software QA Engineer
1 5 (62.50%) Software Quality Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (62.50%) Qt
2 1 (12.50%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Embedded Systems
2 1 (12.50%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 6 (75.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Code Quality
1 5 (62.50%) Computer Science
1 5 (62.50%) Configuration Management
1 5 (62.50%) Customer Requirements
1 5 (62.50%) Programme Management
1 5 (62.50%) Project Delivery
1 5 (62.50%) Quality Management
1 5 (62.50%) Risk Management
1 5 (62.50%) SDLC
1 5 (62.50%) Six Sigma
1 5 (62.50%) Test Scripting
2 4 (50.00%) Software Engineering
3 2 (25.00%) Project Management
4 1 (12.50%) Cryptography
4 1 (12.50%) Identity Access Management
4 1 (12.50%) Information Security
4 1 (12.50%) Key Management
4 1 (12.50%) Security Architecture
4 1 (12.50%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) C++
2 2 (25.00%) Python
3 1 (12.50%) Embedded C
3 1 (12.50%) Java
Qualifications
1 5 (62.50%) Computer Science Degree
1 5 (62.50%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (62.50%) QA
1 5 (62.50%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Firmware
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Cisco
1 1 (12.50%) Thales