C Contracts in Cheltenham

C
Gloucestershire > Cheltenham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheltenham 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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 12 25
Rank change year-on-year -5 +13 -7
Contract jobs citing C 2 28 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheltenham 3.51% 13.53% 3.36%
As % of the Programming Languages category 8.00% 41.79% 7.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 17 5
10th Percentile £582 £523 £595
25th Percentile £592 £525 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £631 £550 £650
Median % change year-on-year +14.77% -15.38% +8.33%
75th Percentile £667 £575 £675
90th Percentile £676 £639 £698
Gloucestershire median daily rate £631 £563 £650
% change year-on-year +12.22% -13.46% +11.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £75.00 -
Gloucestershire median hourly rate £75.00 £75.00 -

All Programming Languages
Cheltenham

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 Cheltenham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 25 67 70
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheltenham 43.86% 32.37% 46.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 49 42
10th Percentile £575 £363 £489
25th Percentile £607 £525 £534
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £615 £560 £651
Median % change year-on-year +9.82% -13.91% +23.90%
75th Percentile £676 £630 £725
90th Percentile £703 £745 £763
Gloucestershire median daily rate £614 £550 £548
% change year-on-year +11.59% +0.46% +5.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
Median hourly rate - £75.00 £90.00
Median % change year-on-year - -16.67% -
Gloucestershire median hourly rate £72.50 £72.50 £78.00
% change year-on-year - -7.05% +115.17%

C
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheltenham

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

Job vacancy trend for C in Cheltenham

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheltenham

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

Daily rate trend for C in Cheltenham

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cheltenham

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

Hourly rate trend for C in Cheltenham

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheltenham 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 (50.00%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (50.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (50.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (50.00%) Node.js
1 1 (50.00%) React
1 1 (50.00%) Vue
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) Bash
2 1 (50.00%) C++
2 1 (50.00%) Go
2 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (50.00%) Ansible
2 1 (50.00%) Podman
2 1 (50.00%) Terraform