C Contracts in Hampshire

C
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hampshire 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 63 57 37
Rank change year-on-year -6 -20 +67
Contract jobs citing C 6 38 73
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hampshire 0.80% 2.36% 5.20%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.86% 11.08% 15.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 23 43
10th Percentile £423 £500 £163
25th Percentile £458 £522 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £500 £609 £574
90th Percentile £523 £716 £628
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 11 17
10th Percentile - - £19.00
25th Percentile - £46.25 £20.47
Median hourly rate - £47.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% -2.44%
75th Percentile - £53.88 £60.00
90th Percentile - £59.00 £68.30
South East median hourly rate - £54.90 £50.00
% change year-on-year - +9.80% -2.91%

All Programming Languages
Hampshire

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 Hampshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 210 343 482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 28.15% 21.30% 34.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 151 221 299
10th Percentile £401 £388 £313
25th Percentile £460 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £545 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.92% +3.81% +5.53%
75th Percentile £621 £638 £638
90th Percentile £675 £738 £700
South East median daily rate £514 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.80% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 32 58
10th Percentile £47.00 - £18.78
25th Percentile £51.78 £46.25 £37.00
Median hourly rate £57.50 £62.25 £55.25
Median % change year-on-year -7.63% +12.67% +57.86%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.51 £67.50
90th Percentile £64.50 £77.25 £75.00
South East median hourly rate £56.75 £60.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -5.42% +9.09% +26.03%

C
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

Job vacancy trend for C in Hampshire

C
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

Daily rate trend for C in Hampshire

C
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

Hourly rate trend for C in Hampshire

C
Contract Job Locations in Hampshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing C within the Hampshire 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
Southampton +9 6 £475 - 15
C
South East

C
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hampshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (83.33%) AWS
General
1 5 (83.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Architect
2 3 (50.00%) Senior
2 3 (50.00%) Senior Architect
2 3 (50.00%) Senior Solutions Architect
2 3 (50.00%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (16.67%) C# Software Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Software Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Systems Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 5 (83.33%) Algorithms
1 5 (83.33%) Device Driver
1 5 (83.33%) Embedded Systems
1 5 (83.33%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 5 (83.33%) Linux
2 1 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Agile
1 5 (83.33%) Architectural Design
1 5 (83.33%) Cloud Enablement
1 5 (83.33%) Decision-Making
1 5 (83.33%) Device Driver Development
1 5 (83.33%) Multithreading
1 5 (83.33%) Project Management
1 5 (83.33%) SDLC
2 4 (66.67%) Artificial Intelligence
2 4 (66.67%) Signal Processing
3 1 (16.67%) Software Engineering
3 1 (16.67%) Task Automation
3 1 (16.67%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) Embedded C
2 1 (16.67%) C#
2 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
System Software
1 5 (83.33%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) WMI