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 20 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 122 119 140
Rank change year-on-year -3 +21 +31
DemandTrendContract jobs citing C 4 4 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.22% 0.19% 0.68%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.57% 0.54% 1.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 12
10th Percentile £343 £723 £528
25th Percentile £444 £738 £569
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £800 £625
Median % change year-on-year -21.88% +28.00% -12.80%
75th Percentile £638 £888 £875
90th Percentile - £918 £943
Central London median daily rate £625 £800 £625
% change year-on-year -21.88% +28.00% -11.23%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 699 741 1,283
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 37.93% 35.99% 39.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 478 507 831
10th Percentile £400 £413 £413
25th Percentile £463 £481 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £593 £610
Median % change year-on-year +1.27% -2.87% +1.67%
75th Percentile £699 £710 £738
90th Percentile £775 £825 £831
Central London median daily rate £579 £575 £605
% change year-on-year +0.70% -4.96% +2.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 3
10th Percentile £22.05 - £24.80
25th Percentile £26.00 - £43.63
Median hourly rate £34.00 - £80.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +52.38%
75th Percentile £63.75 - £84.38
90th Percentile £73.75 - £84.75
Central London median hourly rate £34.00 £41.50 £80.00
% change year-on-year -18.07% -48.13% +52.38%

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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

C
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing C.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing C

C
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 20 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for C in the City of London

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Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing C.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing C

C
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
1 1 (25.00%) WAN
1 1 (25.00%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (75.00%) Finance
2 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Back Office
3 1 (25.00%) Financial Institution
3 1 (25.00%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Applications Specialist
1 1 (25.00%) Applications Support
1 1 (25.00%) Applications Support Specialist
1 1 (25.00%) Deployment Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Deployment Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Developer
1 1 (25.00%) IT Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) IT Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) IT Support
1 1 (25.00%) IT Support Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) IT Support Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Lead
1 1 (25.00%) Support Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Support Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Support Specialist
1 1 (25.00%) Technical Leader
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Algorithms
1 1 (25.00%) Credit Risk
1 1 (25.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (25.00%) Data Structures
1 1 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Fixed Income
1 1 (25.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 1 (25.00%) Hedge funds
1 1 (25.00%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (25.00%) Unix
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (25.00%) Agile
1 1 (25.00%) Algorithmic Trading
1 1 (25.00%) Business Continuity Planning
1 1 (25.00%) Capacity Management
1 1 (25.00%) Change Management
1 1 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
1 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (25.00%) Credit Risk Analysis
1 1 (25.00%) DevOps
1 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (25.00%) High Availability
1 1 (25.00%) Mathematics
1 1 (25.00%) People Management
1 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (25.00%) Proprietary Trading
1 1 (25.00%) Quantitative Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Risk Analysis
1 1 (25.00%) Scrum
1 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (25.00%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) C#
2 2 (50.00%) C++
3 1 (25.00%) Bash
3 1 (25.00%) Java
3 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Apple
1 1 (25.00%) HP
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (25.00%) ServiceNow