C Contracts in Cambridge

C
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cambridge 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 10 11
Rank change year-on-year -6 +1 +13
Contract jobs citing C 4 22 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridge 3.51% 11.34% 8.16%
As % of the Programming Languages category 10.26% 30.56% 20.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 10 17
10th Percentile £156 £503 £425
25th Percentile £292 £531 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £588 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.51% +17.50% -
75th Percentile £566 £759 £560
90th Percentile £571 £820 £566
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £538 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -2.27% +10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £86.25 £47.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £87.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.71% +75.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile - £88.75 £52.50
90th Percentile - - -
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £65.00 £48.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year +35.42% +28.00% -34.78%

All Programming Languages
Cambridge

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 Cambridge.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 39 72 120
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridge 34.21% 37.11% 40.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 43 79
10th Percentile £313 £405 -
25th Percentile £403 £430 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -
75th Percentile £566 £556 £544
90th Percentile £625 £630 £575
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £475 £499 £475
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 7 7
10th Percentile £27.24 £55.75 £35.49
25th Percentile £41.40 £58.75 £49.38
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +19.05% -8.70%
75th Percentile - £69.00 £53.75
90th Percentile - £78.25 -
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £52.50 £55.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -

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Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

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

Job vacancy trend for C in Cambridge

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cambridge

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

Daily rate trend for C in Cambridge

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Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridge

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing C in Cambridge over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for C in Cambridge

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridge

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

Hourly rate trend for C in Cambridge

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridge 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:

Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Design Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Verification Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Virtualisation Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) ASIC
1 2 (50.00%) Embedded Systems
2 1 (25.00%) PCIe
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (25.00%) Memory Management
1 1 (25.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (25.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) C++
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Embedded Firmware
1 2 (50.00%) Firmware
2 1 (25.00%) KVM
2 1 (25.00%) QEMU
2 1 (25.00%) Xen