C Contracts in the City of London

C
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London 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 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 112 122 118
Rank change year-on-year +10 -4 +67
Contract jobs citing C 11 5 58
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.63% 0.23% 1.59%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.55% 0.67% 3.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 19
10th Percentile - £723 £540
25th Percentile - £738 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £800 £650
Median % change year-on-year -37.50% +23.08% +18.18%
75th Percentile £547 £888 £781
90th Percentile £631 £918 £890
Central London median daily rate £500 £725 £650
% change year-on-year -31.03% +11.54% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £56.25
Median hourly rate - - £57.50
75th Percentile - - £58.75
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate - - £57.50

All Programming Languages
City of London

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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 711 749 1,574
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 40.49% 34.17% 43.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 471 532 1,029
10th Percentile £413 £400 £425
25th Percentile £464 £463 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £625
Median % change year-on-year - -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £695 £688 £738
90th Percentile £794 £788 £825
Central London median daily rate £575 £563 £620
% change year-on-year +2.22% -9.27% +3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 8
10th Percentile - - £35.00
25th Percentile - £46.75 £47.19
Median hourly rate - £48.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year - -15.65% +0.88%
75th Percentile - £50.25 £65.00
90th Percentile - - £84.13
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £48.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year -40.06% -15.65% +0.88%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for C in the City of London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

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

Daily rate trend for C in the City of London

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Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing C in the City of London over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for C in the City of London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

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

Hourly rate trend for C in the City of London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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:

Applications
1 3 (27.27%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (9.09%) BASE24
Cloud Services
1 1 (9.09%) Apple Pay
1 1 (9.09%) AWS
1 1 (9.09%) Azure
1 1 (9.09%) GCP
1 1 (9.09%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 6 (54.55%) Git
General
1 5 (45.45%) Social Skills
2 3 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Banking
3 1 (9.09%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (54.55%) Lead
2 5 (45.45%) Team Leader
3 3 (27.27%) Analyst
3 3 (27.27%) Pensions Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) C Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Lead Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Senior
4 1 (9.09%) Senior C Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Software Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Systems Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Technical Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) JSON
1 1 (9.09%) Web Services
1 1 (9.09%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (45.45%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 6 (54.55%) Linux
2 3 (27.27%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) Algorithmic Trading
1 6 (54.55%) CI/CD
1 6 (54.55%) Continuous Deployment
1 6 (54.55%) Continuous Integration
1 6 (54.55%) Electronic Trading
1 6 (54.55%) Market Making
2 4 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (27.27%) Data Migration
3 3 (27.27%) Mathematics
3 3 (27.27%) Migration
3 3 (27.27%) OO
3 3 (27.27%) Test Automation
3 3 (27.27%) Time Management
4 2 (18.18%) Software Engineering
5 1 (9.09%) Configuration Management
5 1 (9.09%) DevOps
5 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (9.09%) Risk Management
5 1 (9.09%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 10 (90.91%) Python
2 8 (72.73%) Java
3 7 (63.64%) C++
4 4 (36.36%) SQL
5 1 (9.09%) COBOL
5 1 (9.09%) Go
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) DV Cleared
1 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) ISO 8583
1 1 (9.09%) PSD2
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) XYGATE
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Ansible
1 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) TOWER Software
2 1 (9.09%) HP