C Contracts in Cheshire

C
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire 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 22 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 56 55 -
Rank change year-on-year -1 - -
Contract jobs citing C 3 4 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 0.63% 0.78% -
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.91% 3.28% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £445 -
Median % change year-on-year -15.73% - -
North West median daily rate £375 £525 £571
% change year-on-year -28.57% -8.10% -4.79%

All Programming Languages
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 157 122 176
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 32.85% 23.64% 33.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 120 99 130
10th Percentile £322 £311 £325
25th Percentile £358 £380 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £475 £507
Median % change year-on-year -15.37% -6.31% +19.29%
75th Percentile £493 £591 £575
90th Percentile £592 £617 £638
North West median daily rate £463 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -2.63% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 3
10th Percentile - - £25.93
25th Percentile - £41.25 £31.21
Median hourly rate £86.00 £42.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +102.35% +6.25% +78.65%
75th Percentile - £43.75 £52.88
90th Percentile - - £60.60
North West median hourly rate £74.50 £48.43 £44.05
% change year-on-year +53.83% +9.96% -11.87%

C
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for C in Cheshire

C
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Daily rate trend for C in Cheshire

C
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Hourly rate trend for C in Cheshire

C
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing C within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 22 May 2025. 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
Knutsford -10 3 £375 -15.73% 6
C
North West

C
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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:

Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Git
1 3 (100.00%) Gradle
1 3 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 3 (100.00%) Xcode
General
1 3 (100.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
1 3 (100.00%) iOS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) CSS
1 3 (100.00%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Mobile App
1 3 (100.00%) Mobile Banking
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Android
1 3 (100.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) BDD
1 3 (100.00%) Continuous Deployment
1 3 (100.00%) Front End Development
1 3 (100.00%) iOS Development
1 3 (100.00%) Mobile Development
1 3 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 3 (100.00%) Scrum
1 3 (100.00%) TDD
1 3 (100.00%) Technology Roadmap
1 3 (100.00%) Unit Testing
1 3 (100.00%) User Experience
1 3 (100.00%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) C++
1 3 (100.00%) Java
1 3 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (100.00%) Kotlin
1 3 (100.00%) Objective-C
1 3 (100.00%) Python
1 3 (100.00%) Ruby
1 3 (100.00%) Scala
1 3 (100.00%) Swift