C Contracts in London

C
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 315 263 375
Rank change year-on-year -52 +112 -54
Contract jobs citing C 79 260 236
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.45% 0.96% 0.61%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.24% 2.36% 1.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 146 139
10th Percentile £250 £505 £446
25th Percentile £325 £539 £521
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £639 £600
Median % change year-on-year -29.60% +6.54% +20.00%
75th Percentile £572 £738 £725
90th Percentile £738 £913 £819
England median daily rate £536 £600 £569
% change year-on-year -10.67% +5.45% +33.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 14 5
10th Percentile £55.50 - £34.00
25th Percentile £60.88 £56.25 £36.25
Median hourly rate £68.75 £57.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.57% +4.55% +76.42%
75th Percentile £72.50 £58.75 -
90th Percentile £73.50 - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £58.70 £55.00
% change year-on-year +10.73% +6.73% +22.22%

All Programming Languages
London

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 London with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 6,361 11,026 16,341
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 35.91% 40.78% 42.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,855 8,208 12,485
10th Percentile £380 £413 £418
25th Percentile £463 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £700 £738 £700
90th Percentile £825 £825 £800
England median daily rate £540 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -4.42% +2.73% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 85 114
10th Percentile £23.80 £34.55 £29.08
25th Percentile £35.19 £49.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £50.25 £57.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.61% +15.00% +9.39%
75th Percentile £61.94 £75.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £70.94 £83.45 £79.28
England median hourly rate £62.50 £61.84 £50.00
% change year-on-year +1.07% +23.68% +13.64%

C
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for C in London

C
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for C in London

C
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing C in London over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for C in London

C
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for C in London

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Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing C in London over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for C in London

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Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing C within the London region over the 6 months to 28 April 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
West London - 11 £250 - 8
Central London -15 6 £725 +11.54% 7
South London -2 2 £550 - 1
C
England

C
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 5 (6.33%) Confluence
2 4 (5.06%) OpenStack
3 3 (3.80%) nginx
4 1 (1.27%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.27%) JBoss
Business Applications
1 3 (3.80%) Endur
1 3 (3.80%) OpenLink RightAngle
2 2 (2.53%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (1.27%) SAP ERP
3 1 (1.27%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 27 (34.18%) AWS
2 7 (8.86%) Azure
3 6 (7.59%) Cloud Computing
4 4 (5.06%) PaaS
4 4 (5.06%) SaaS
5 3 (3.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 3 (3.80%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (3.80%) Amazon ELB
6 2 (2.53%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (2.53%) Snowflake
7 1 (1.27%) Azure AKS
7 1 (1.27%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.27%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.27%) Firebase
7 1 (1.27%) GCP
7 1 (1.27%) GitHub
7 1 (1.27%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 9 (11.39%) Wi-Fi
2 5 (6.33%) DHCP
2 5 (6.33%) DNS
3 4 (5.06%) Firewall
4 3 (3.80%) IPv4
4 3 (3.80%) Reverse Proxy
5 2 (2.53%) Software-Defined Networking
6 1 (1.27%) 5G
6 1 (1.27%) Bluetooth
6 1 (1.27%) HTTPS
6 1 (1.27%) Internet
6 1 (1.27%) Network Security
6 1 (1.27%) NFC
6 1 (1.27%) SNMP
6 1 (1.27%) SSL
6 1 (1.27%) TCP/IP
6 1 (1.27%) UWB
6 1 (1.27%) VLAN
6 1 (1.27%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (10.13%) NoSQL
2 5 (6.33%) Data Mining
2 5 (6.33%) Relational Database
2 5 (6.33%) SQL Server
3 4 (5.06%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (5.06%) MySQL
3 4 (5.06%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (3.80%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (3.80%) DynamoDB
4 3 (3.80%) MongoDB
5 2 (2.53%) Apache Cassandra
5 2 (2.53%) Oracle Database
5 2 (2.53%) Oracle Database 12c
5 2 (2.53%) RDBMS
5 2 (2.53%) SAP HANA
6 1 (1.27%) CouchDB
6 1 (1.27%) Data Lake
6 1 (1.27%) DB2
6 1 (1.27%) Geospatial Data
6 1 (1.27%) Redis
Development Applications
1 16 (20.25%) Git
2 8 (10.13%) JIRA
3 5 (6.33%) Bitbucket
4 4 (5.06%) Jenkins
5 3 (3.80%) Gradle
5 3 (3.80%) JMeter
5 3 (3.80%) LoadRunner
5 3 (3.80%) NeoLoad
5 3 (3.80%) Octopus Deploy
5 3 (3.80%) TeamCity
6 2 (2.53%) Karma Test Runner
7 1 (1.27%) Bitbucket Server
7 1 (1.27%) CircleCI
7 1 (1.27%) ClearCase
7 1 (1.27%) ClearQuest
7 1 (1.27%) Darcs
7 1 (1.27%) Jaeger
7 1 (1.27%) Maven
7 1 (1.27%) Travis CI
7 1 (1.27%) Xcode
General
1 8 (10.13%) Social Skills
2 6 (7.59%) Finance
3 5 (6.33%) Telecoms
4 3 (3.80%) Banking
4 3 (3.80%) Public Sector
5 2 (2.53%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.27%) Electronics
6 1 (1.27%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.27%) Retail
Job Titles
1 35 (44.30%) Developer
2 10 (12.66%) C++ Developer
2 10 (12.66%) Linux Developer
3 8 (10.13%) Lead
4 6 (7.59%) AWS Engineer
4 6 (7.59%) Software Engineer
5 5 (6.33%) Angular Developer
5 5 (6.33%) Backend Developer
5 5 (6.33%) C Developer
5 5 (6.33%) Embedded Developer
5 5 (6.33%) Full Stack Developer
5 5 (6.33%) Machine Learning Engineer
5 5 (6.33%) Senior
6 4 (5.06%) Analyst
6 4 (5.06%) C/C++ Developer
7 3 (3.80%) C# Developer
7 3 (3.80%) Network Engineer
7 3 (3.80%) Performance Engineer
7 3 (3.80%) QA Engineer
7 3 (3.80%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (10.13%) HTML
2 7 (8.86%) AngularJS
2 7 (8.86%) Yocto
3 6 (7.59%) .NET
3 6 (7.59%) Node.js
4 5 (6.33%) CSS
4 5 (6.33%) iOS SDK
4 5 (6.33%) Middleware
5 4 (5.06%) Kafka
5 4 (5.06%) LDAP
5 4 (5.06%) REST
6 3 (3.80%) .NET Core
6 3 (3.80%) ASP.NET
6 3 (3.80%) OpenAPI
6 3 (3.80%) Swagger
6 3 (3.80%) Twitter Bootstrap
7 2 (2.53%) .NET Framework
7 2 (2.53%) Ktor
7 2 (2.53%) Spring
7 2 (2.53%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (10.13%) Algorithms
2 5 (6.33%) Client/Server
2 5 (6.33%) Data Structures
2 5 (6.33%) Device Driver
3 4 (5.06%) Data Centre
3 4 (5.06%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (5.06%) iPad
3 4 (5.06%) iPhone
3 4 (5.06%) STB
4 3 (3.80%) Clustering
4 3 (3.80%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (3.80%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.53%) Mobile App
5 2 (2.53%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.53%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.53%) Tandem
6 1 (1.27%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (1.27%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.27%) Raspberry Pi
6 1 (1.27%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 24 (30.38%) Linux
2 5 (6.33%) Apple iOS
3 3 (3.80%) Android
3 3 (3.80%) Windows
4 1 (1.27%) Unix
4 1 (1.27%) VMS
4 1 (1.27%) Windows 10
4 1 (1.27%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (24.05%) Software Engineering
2 18 (22.78%) Agile
3 13 (16.46%) Multithreading
4 12 (15.19%) CI/CD
4 12 (15.19%) Computer Science
4 12 (15.19%) Test Automation
5 10 (12.66%) Scrum
6 9 (11.39%) DevOps
6 9 (11.39%) Full Stack Development
7 8 (10.13%) Unit Testing
8 7 (8.86%) OO
9 6 (7.59%) Roadmaps
9 6 (7.59%) TDD
10 5 (6.33%) Machine Learning
10 5 (6.33%) Memory Management
10 5 (6.33%) Microservices
10 5 (6.33%) Multithreaded Programming
10 5 (6.33%) Problem-Solving
10 5 (6.33%) Software Testing
10 5 (6.33%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 54 (68.35%) C++
2 32 (40.51%) Python
3 22 (27.85%) Java
4 16 (20.25%) Bash
4 16 (20.25%) SQL
5 12 (15.19%) C#
6 10 (12.66%) Go
7 7 (8.86%) JavaScript
7 7 (8.86%) Shell Script
7 7 (8.86%) Swift
8 6 (7.59%) Objective-C
9 4 (5.06%) Embedded C
9 4 (5.06%) Rust
10 3 (3.80%) ABAP
10 3 (3.80%) PowerShell
10 3 (3.80%) TypeScript
11 2 (2.53%) Kotlin
11 2 (2.53%) Perl
11 2 (2.53%) Ruby
11 2 (2.53%) Scala
Qualifications
1 13 (16.46%) Degree
2 10 (12.66%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (8.86%) SC Cleared
3 7 (8.86%) Security Cleared
4 4 (5.06%) Master's Degree
5 3 (3.80%) PhD
6 2 (2.53%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 1 (1.27%) CREST Certified
7 1 (1.27%) OSCP
7 1 (1.27%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.06%) QA
2 2 (2.53%) MiFID
2 2 (2.53%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.27%) ISO 20022
3 1 (1.27%) JTAG
3 1 (1.27%) NIST
3 1 (1.27%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 8 (10.13%) Docker
2 3 (3.80%) Firmware
3 2 (2.53%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.53%) VMware NSX
3 2 (2.53%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 12 (15.19%) Kubernetes
2 5 (6.33%) Terraform
3 4 (5.06%) Kibana
4 3 (3.80%) Ansible
4 3 (3.80%) Consul
4 3 (3.80%) Packer
5 1 (1.27%) Grafana
5 1 (1.27%) HP ALM
5 1 (1.27%) logstash
5 1 (1.27%) Progress Chef
5 1 (1.27%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.27%) Puppet
5 1 (1.27%) SCOM
5 1 (1.27%) vCenter Server
5 1 (1.27%) VxRail
Vendors
1 11 (13.92%) Oracle
2 5 (6.33%) Microsoft
3 4 (5.06%) AppDynamics
3 4 (5.06%) BT
3 4 (5.06%) Dynatrace
3 4 (5.06%) Splunk
4 3 (3.80%) OpenLink
4 3 (3.80%) SAP
4 3 (3.80%) Triple Point
5 2 (2.53%) Apple
5 2 (2.53%) Cisco
5 2 (2.53%) HP
5 2 (2.53%) MuleSoft
5 2 (2.53%) VMware
5 2 (2.53%) webMethods
6 1 (1.27%) Google
6 1 (1.27%) NVIDIA
6 1 (1.27%) QNX
6 1 (1.27%) Sparx
6 1 (1.27%) Turbonomic