MISRA C Contracts

MISRA C
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for MISRA C skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited MISRA C over the 6 months to 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 588 666 849
Rank change year-on-year +78 +183 -124
Contract jobs citing MISRA C 14 29 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.032% 0.052% 0.008%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.24% 0.39% 0.060%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 4 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £500 -
UK excluding London median daily rate - £500 -
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 15 0
10th Percentile £37.55 £50.00 -
25th Percentile £56.25 £53.88 -
Median hourly rate £57.50 £65.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% - -
75th Percentile £60.75 - -
90th Percentile - £66.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £57.50 £65.00 -
% change year-on-year -11.54% - -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK

MISRA C is in the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 5,947 7,502 11,580
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.73% 13.50% 13.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,715 5,115 7,992
10th Percentile £280 £290 £298
25th Percentile £400 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £515
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +1.94% +8.42%
75th Percentile £625 £644 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £486 £455
% change year-on-year -2.26% +6.81% +7.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 422 249 310
10th Percentile £11.00 £13.29 £12.30
25th Percentile £13.18 £18.93 £16.50
Median hourly rate £23.05 £38.00 £27.73
Median % change year-on-year -39.36% +37.04% +32.05%
75th Percentile £48.75 £63.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.95 £68.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £19.00 £37.50 £22.29
% change year-on-year -49.33% +68.24% +6.14%

MISRA C
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for MISRA C in the UK

MISRA C
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for MISRA C in the UK

MISRA C
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for MISRA C in the UK

MISRA C
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing MISRA C over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for MISRA C in the UK

MISRA C
Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MISRA C within the UK over the 6 months to 9 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
UK excluding London +28 14 - - 10
England +76 10 - - 10
Midlands +24 5 - - 2
West Midlands +16 5 - - 1
North of England - 4 - - 3
North West - 4 - - 1
Scotland - 4 - -
South East -2 1 - - 3

MISRA C
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (7.14%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (42.86%) Simulink
2 5 (35.71%) Stateflow
2 5 (35.71%) TargetLink
Business Applications
1 4 (28.57%) Misys Midas
Communications & Networking
1 4 (28.57%) Internet
Development Applications
1 6 (42.86%) Bitbucket
1 6 (42.86%) Git
2 5 (35.71%) JIRA
2 5 (35.71%) Rational DOORS
2 5 (35.71%) Subversion
3 1 (7.14%) GitLab
3 1 (7.14%) MagicDraw
3 1 (7.14%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 5 (35.71%) Automotive
2 4 (28.57%) Electronics
2 4 (28.57%) Military
3 1 (7.14%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 8 (57.14%) Software Engineer
2 5 (35.71%) Control Systems Engineer
2 5 (35.71%) Principal Engineer
2 5 (35.71%) Principal Systems Engineer
2 5 (35.71%) Systems Engineer
3 4 (28.57%) Embedded Engineer
3 4 (28.57%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Developer
4 1 (7.14%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) Node.js
1 1 (7.14%) React
Miscellaneous
1 5 (35.71%) Algorithms
1 5 (35.71%) Management Information System
2 4 (28.57%) Device Driver
2 4 (28.57%) IoT
2 4 (28.57%) PCIe
2 4 (28.57%) Verilog
2 4 (28.57%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 5 (35.71%) Linux
1 5 (35.71%) VxWorks
2 4 (28.57%) Embedded Linux
3 1 (7.14%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (100.00%) Agile
1 14 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 10 (71.43%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
2 10 (71.43%) UML
3 9 (64.29%) Requirements Management
3 9 (64.29%) Software Testing
4 5 (35.71%) Black-Box Testing
4 5 (35.71%) Continuous Integration
4 5 (35.71%) Functional Testing
4 5 (35.71%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
4 5 (35.71%) Integration Testing
4 5 (35.71%) Line Management
4 5 (35.71%) Project Management
4 5 (35.71%) QMS
4 5 (35.71%) Quality Management
4 5 (35.71%) Software Audit
4 5 (35.71%) Validation
4 5 (35.71%) Verification and Validation
4 5 (35.71%) White-Box Testing
5 4 (28.57%) Defect Tracking
Programming Languages
1 10 (71.43%) C
2 6 (42.86%) MATLAB
3 5 (35.71%) C++
4 4 (28.57%) Embedded C
5 1 (7.14%) Assembly Language
5 1 (7.14%) JavaScript
5 1 (7.14%) Python
Qualifications
1 8 (57.14%) Degree
2 5 (35.71%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (100.00%) MISRA
2 5 (35.71%) AUTOSAR
2 5 (35.71%) ISO 26262
3 1 (7.14%) IEC 61508
System Software
1 4 (28.57%) Firmware
Vendors
1 8 (57.14%) Atlassian
2 4 (28.57%) Intel