C Contract Job Trends in Bedfordshire

C
East of England > Bedfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bedfordshire requiring C skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 41 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing C 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Bedfordshire 0.33% - -
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.89% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £413 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - -
75th Percentile £438 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median daily rate £500 £413 £500
% change year-on-year +21.21% -17.50% -

All Programming Languages
Bedfordshire

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 Bedfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 53 18 22
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 17.26% 12.16% 7.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 9 15
10th Percentile £469 £470 £318
25th Percentile £500 £513 £344
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £425
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +29.41% -13.92%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £494
90th Percentile - £679 £500
East of England median daily rate £495 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +4.21% - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 5 1
10th Percentile £62.55 £41.76 -
25th Percentile £62.97 £62.50 £51.25
Median hourly rate £68.21 £80.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.74% +52.38% +50.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £88.00 £53.75
90th Percentile £80.40 - -
East of England median hourly rate £68.21 £67.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +1.05% +3.85% -

C
Job Vacancy Trend in Bedfordshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing C relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire.

C job vacancy trend in Bedfordshire

C
Daily Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing C.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing C

C
Hourly Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing C.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing C

C
Contract Job Locations in Bedfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing C within the Bedfordshire region over the 6 months to 27 March 2026. 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
Luton - 1 £425 - 3
C
East of England

C
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bedfordshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Business Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Copilot Studio
1 1 (100.00%) Dynamics 365
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Copilot
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Power BI
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) CRM
1 1 (100.00%) Customer Service
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared