C Contracts in the East Midlands

C
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands 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 51 59 80
Rank change year-on-year +8 +21 +14
Contract jobs citing C 5 7 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 0.93% 0.91% 0.48%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.88% 3.70% 1.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 5 3
10th Percentile £68 - £370
25th Percentile £73 - £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £168 £445 £450
Median % change year-on-year -62.36% -1.11% -7.69%
75th Percentile £293 £505 £519
90th Percentile £352 £615 £530
England median daily rate £500 £535 £600
% change year-on-year -6.54% -10.83% +5.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £45.00
Median hourly rate - - £50.00
75th Percentile - - £55.00
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £68.00 £65.00 £58.70
% change year-on-year +4.62% +10.73% +6.73%

All Programming Languages
East Midlands

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 East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 129 189 309
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 24.07% 24.45% 29.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 137 266
10th Percentile £311 £283 £273
25th Percentile £358 £356 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £425 £425
Median % change year-on-year - - +1.19%
75th Percentile £500 £550 £538
90th Percentile £545 £625 £638
England median daily rate £525 £540 £565
% change year-on-year -2.78% -4.42% +2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 7 7
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.66 £20.39
25th Percentile £16.88 £22.12 £26.48
Median hourly rate £18.60 £25.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.60% -50.00% +42.86%
75th Percentile £20.38 £31.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £21.95 £40.71 £63.50
England median hourly rate £62.75 £62.50 £61.84
% change year-on-year +0.40% +1.07% +23.68%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing C as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for C in the East Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing C in the East Midlands.

Daily rate trend for C in the East Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for C in the East Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing C in the East Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for C in the East Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing C within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 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
Northamptonshire -4 3 £326 -26.85% 7
Nottinghamshire +9 2 £70 -89.63% 24
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England

C
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 2 (40.00%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) CANalyzer
1 1 (20.00%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) AWS
2 2 (40.00%) Cloud Computing
2 2 (40.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) MongoDB
1 2 (40.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Eclipse
1 2 (40.00%) Introscope
1 2 (40.00%) LoadRunner
1 2 (40.00%) NetBeans
General
1 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (40.00%) Banking
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Software Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Test Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Embedded Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Embedded Software Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Principal Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Principal Systems Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) .NET
1 2 (40.00%) HTML
1 2 (40.00%) J2EE
1 2 (40.00%) POSIX
1 2 (40.00%) Web Services
2 1 (20.00%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Algorithms
2 1 (20.00%) IoT
2 1 (20.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) AIX
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
1 2 (40.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Agile
2 3 (60.00%) Software Engineering
3 2 (40.00%) Business Development
3 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (40.00%) Code Quality
3 2 (40.00%) Data Extraction
3 2 (40.00%) Non-Functional Testing
3 2 (40.00%) Performance Metrics
3 2 (40.00%) Performance Testing
3 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (40.00%) Scenario Testing
3 2 (40.00%) Scrum
3 2 (40.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (40.00%) Test Scripting
3 2 (40.00%) Waterfall
4 1 (20.00%) Creative Problem-Solving
4 1 (20.00%) Project Delivery
4 1 (20.00%) Project Management
4 1 (20.00%) Roadmaps
4 1 (20.00%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) C++
2 2 (40.00%) Java
2 2 (40.00%) Python
3 1 (20.00%) MATLAB
3 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) GDPR
1 2 (40.00%) MISRA
1 2 (40.00%) MISRA C
1 2 (40.00%) QA
1 2 (40.00%) Software Quality Assurance
2 1 (20.00%) IEC 61508
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) CA Wily
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (40.00%) AppDynamics
2 2 (40.00%) Google
2 2 (40.00%) QNX
2 2 (40.00%) Splunk
2 2 (40.00%) VMware
3 1 (20.00%) HP
3 1 (20.00%) Oracle