C Contract Job Trends in Gloucester

C
Gloucestershire > Gloucester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Gloucester requiring C skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 - 29
Rank change year-on-year - - +9
Contract jobs citing C 1 0 4
As % of all contract jobs in Gloucester 0.75% - 3.48%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.82% - 7.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £613 - £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 - £663
Median % change year-on-year - - +89.29%
75th Percentile £638 - £688
90th Percentile - - -
Gloucestershire median daily rate £569 £600 £650
% change year-on-year -5.21% -7.69% +85.71%

All Programming Languages
Gloucester

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 Gloucester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 55 31 52
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucester 41.04% 32.98% 45.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 23 42
10th Percentile £343 £413 £429
25th Percentile £409 £455 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £545
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -8.26% -0.91%
75th Percentile £644 £734 £688
90th Percentile £700 - £748
Gloucestershire median daily rate £500 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -13.04% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £78.00
Gloucestershire median hourly rate £68.00 £65.00 £78.00
% change year-on-year +4.62% -16.67% +41.82%

C
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucester

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing C relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucester.

C job vacancy trend in Gloucester

C
Daily Rate Trend in Gloucester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucester citing C.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucester citing C

C
Hourly Rate Trend in Gloucester

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucester citing C.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucester citing C

C
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gloucester by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Node.js
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker