C Contract Job Trends in Leeds

C
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Leeds requiring C skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 75 61 71
Rank change year-on-year -14 +10 +41
Contract jobs citing C 4 2 3
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 0.55% 0.33% 0.34%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.50% 0.93% 1.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £443 - -
25th Percentile £470 - £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 - £600
Median % change year-on-year - - +50.00%
75th Percentile £583 - £625
90th Percentile £604 - -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £531 - £600
% change year-on-year - - +37.14%

All Programming Languages
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 266 214 219
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 36.44% 35.02% 24.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 167 150 170
10th Percentile £375 £359 £363
25th Percentile £413 £421 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -9.09%
75th Percentile £575 £572 £600
90th Percentile £675 £725 £675
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 4
10th Percentile - £35.25 £20.00
25th Percentile - £48.75 £20.84
Median hourly rate - £90.42 £21.31
Median % change year-on-year - +324.28% -69.56%
75th Percentile - £102.00 £31.98
90th Percentile - - £49.99
West Yorkshire median hourly rate - £52.50 £21.31
% change year-on-year - +146.36% -69.56%

C
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

C job vacancy trend in Leeds

C
Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing C

C
Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing C in Leeds over the 6 months to 17 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for C in Leeds

C
Hourly Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing C

C
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds 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 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (25.00%) AWS CloudTrail
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (25.00%) Serverless
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
General
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Java Developer
3 1 (25.00%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) C++ Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) CUDA Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Kernel Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) CUDA
1 1 (25.00%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (25.00%) AI
2 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (25.00%) Cost Optimisation
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (25.00%) Memory Management
2 1 (25.00%) Multithreading
2 1 (25.00%) Performance Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) C++
1 3 (75.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) Java
3 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (25.00%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Splunk