C Contract Job Trends in London

C
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring C skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 371 296 302
Rank change year-on-year -75 +6 -28
Contract jobs citing C 45 54 95
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.24% 0.44% 0.54%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.77% 1.12% 1.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 29 62
10th Percentile £303 £313 £258
25th Percentile £385 £500 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £625 £500
Median % change year-on-year -28.48% +25.00% -23.08%
75th Percentile £538 £675 £575
90th Percentile £570 £775 £731
England median daily rate £481 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -8.33% -2.42% -5.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 8
10th Percentile - - £51.23
25th Percentile £26.25 - £61.31
Median hourly rate £27.50 - £68.75
75th Percentile £28.75 - £72.50
90th Percentile - - £73.25
England median hourly rate £67.50 £68.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -0.74% +4.62% +8.33%

All Programming Languages
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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 5,832 4,807 6,508
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 31.57% 39.51% 37.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,909 3,371 4,974
10th Percentile £375 £380 £375
25th Percentile £440 £438 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.79% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £650 £713 £700
90th Percentile £763 £825 £838
England median daily rate £513 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -2.38% -3.67% -3.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 36 51
10th Percentile £33.21 £28.20 £23.80
25th Percentile £40.25 £32.75 £36.91
Median hourly rate £58.94 £37.25 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year +58.21% -26.24% -15.83%
75th Percentile £73.00 £53.75 £62.50
90th Percentile £89.00 £62.63 £72.50
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +4.84% -0.80% -

C
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

C job vacancy trend in London

C
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing C

C
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing C in London over the 6 months to 30 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for C in London

C
Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing C

C
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing C within the London region over the 6 months to 30 May 2026. 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
Central London -20 3 £493 -21.20% 4
East London - 2 £334 -
C
England

C
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (2.22%) Apache
1 1 (2.22%) Apache Spark
1 1 (2.22%) Confluence
1 1 (2.22%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (11.11%) BASE24
1 5 (11.11%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (2.22%) Loan IQ
2 1 (2.22%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (2.22%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 10 (22.22%) Azure
2 8 (17.78%) AWS
3 4 (8.89%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (6.67%) Amazon S3
4 3 (6.67%) GitHub
5 2 (4.44%) AWS IoT
5 2 (4.44%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (4.44%) GCP
5 2 (4.44%) Power Platform
6 1 (2.22%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (2.22%) AWS KMS
6 1 (2.22%) AWS Step Functions
6 1 (2.22%) Azure AKS
6 1 (2.22%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (2.22%) Azure Storage
6 1 (2.22%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (2.22%) Cohesity
6 1 (2.22%) GitHub Copilot
6 1 (2.22%) Nutanix
6 1 (2.22%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 6 (13.33%) TCP/IP
2 4 (8.89%) Network Security
3 3 (6.67%) 3GPP
3 3 (6.67%) DNS
3 3 (6.67%) Internet
3 3 (6.67%) MQTT
3 3 (6.67%) MVNO
3 3 (6.67%) SMPP
3 3 (6.67%) SMS
3 3 (6.67%) VXLAN
4 2 (4.44%) VSAN
5 1 (2.22%) Ethernet
5 1 (2.22%) Firewall
5 1 (2.22%) Modbus
5 1 (2.22%) NAS
5 1 (2.22%) RS-232
5 1 (2.22%) RS-485
5 1 (2.22%) SAN
5 1 (2.22%) SSL
5 1 (2.22%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (13.33%) NonStop SQL
2 5 (11.11%) OLTP
3 3 (6.67%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (6.67%) NoSQL
4 2 (4.44%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (4.44%) Power BI
4 2 (4.44%) SQL Server
5 1 (2.22%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (2.22%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (2.22%) Apache Hudi
5 1 (2.22%) Apache Iceberg
5 1 (2.22%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (2.22%) Big Data
5 1 (2.22%) Data Lake
5 1 (2.22%) Kdb+
5 1 (2.22%) Metadata
5 1 (2.22%) MongoDB
5 1 (2.22%) MySQL
5 1 (2.22%) Oracle Exadata
5 1 (2.22%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 5 (11.11%) Git
2 4 (8.89%) GitLab
3 3 (6.67%) JIRA
3 3 (6.67%) Subversion
4 1 (2.22%) Appium
4 1 (2.22%) Cucumber
4 1 (2.22%) ER Studio
4 1 (2.22%) ERwin
4 1 (2.22%) Jenkins
4 1 (2.22%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (2.22%) PowerBuilder
4 1 (2.22%) PowerDesigner
4 1 (2.22%) Robot Framework
4 1 (2.22%) Selenium
4 1 (2.22%) SonarQube
General
1 13 (28.89%) Finance
1 13 (28.89%) Social Skills
2 11 (24.44%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (20.00%) Banking
4 4 (8.89%) Public Sector
5 3 (6.67%) Telecoms
6 2 (4.44%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (4.44%) Investment Banking
6 2 (4.44%) Japanese Language
7 1 (2.22%) Games
7 1 (2.22%) Korean Language
7 1 (2.22%) Local Government
7 1 (2.22%) Manufacturing
7 1 (2.22%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 18 (40.00%) Developer
2 4 (8.89%) Embedded Engineer
3 3 (6.67%) Analyst
3 3 (6.67%) C++ Developer
3 3 (6.67%) Network Engineer
3 3 (6.67%) Quantitative Developer
4 2 (4.44%) Architect
4 2 (4.44%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 2 (4.44%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (4.44%) Data Engineer
4 2 (4.44%) Development Engineer
4 2 (4.44%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (4.44%) FPGA Developer
4 2 (4.44%) Linux Developer
4 2 (4.44%) Low Latency C++ Developer
4 2 (4.44%) Market Data Developer
4 2 (4.44%) VMware Engineer
5 1 (2.22%) Azure Architect
5 1 (2.22%) Data Science Engineer
5 1 (2.22%) NoSQL Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.67%) ARM Templates
1 3 (6.67%) HTML
1 3 (6.67%) Kafka
2 2 (4.44%) .NET
2 2 (4.44%) HTML5
2 2 (4.44%) JSON
3 1 (2.22%) Boost C++ Libraries
3 1 (2.22%) FIX Protocol
3 1 (2.22%) J2EE
3 1 (2.22%) NumPy
3 1 (2.22%) Pandas
3 1 (2.22%) REST
3 1 (2.22%) scikit-learn
3 1 (2.22%) WCF
3 1 (2.22%) WebSphere MQ
3 1 (2.22%) WinForms
3 1 (2.22%) WPF
3 1 (2.22%) XML
3 1 (2.22%) YAML
3 1 (2.22%) ZeroMQ
Miscellaneous
1 6 (13.33%) IoT
1 6 (13.33%) Tandem
2 5 (11.11%) Embedded Systems
2 5 (11.11%) EMV
3 3 (6.67%) Java Card
4 2 (4.44%) Data Structures
4 2 (4.44%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (4.44%) FPGA
4 2 (4.44%) Legacy Code
4 2 (4.44%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.22%) Cloud Native
5 1 (2.22%) Derivative
5 1 (2.22%) Equity Derivative
5 1 (2.22%) Fixed Income
5 1 (2.22%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (2.22%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (2.22%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (2.22%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.22%) PlayStation
5 1 (2.22%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 13 (28.89%) Linux
2 2 (4.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (4.44%) Windows
3 1 (2.22%) FreeRTOS
3 1 (2.22%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (28.89%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (24.44%) CI/CD
3 7 (15.56%) DevOps
3 7 (15.56%) High Availability
3 7 (15.56%) Software Engineering
4 6 (13.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 6 (13.33%) Performance Tuning
5 5 (11.11%) AI
5 5 (11.11%) Containerisation
5 5 (11.11%) Key Management
5 5 (11.11%) Validation
6 4 (8.89%) Low Latency
6 4 (8.89%) Roadmaps
7 3 (6.67%) Analytics
7 3 (6.67%) Computer Science
7 3 (6.67%) Data Science
7 3 (6.67%) Knowledge Transfer
7 3 (6.67%) Migration
7 3 (6.67%) Personalization
7 3 (6.67%) Regulatory Compliance
Programming Languages
1 23 (51.11%) C++
1 23 (51.11%) Python
2 19 (42.22%) SQL
3 9 (20.00%) Java
4 8 (17.78%) Bash
5 5 (11.11%) COBOL
6 4 (8.89%) PL/SQL
6 4 (8.89%) Shell Script
7 3 (6.67%) JavaScript
8 2 (4.44%) PowerShell
8 2 (4.44%) ProC
8 2 (4.44%) Rust
9 1 (2.22%) C#
9 1 (2.22%) Embedded C
9 1 (2.22%) Embedded C++
9 1 (2.22%) Erlang
9 1 (2.22%) Groovy
9 1 (2.22%) Korn
9 1 (2.22%) T-SQL
9 1 (2.22%) VB
Qualifications
1 8 (17.78%) Security Cleared
2 6 (13.33%) Degree
3 2 (4.44%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (4.44%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.22%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.22%) CCNA
4 1 (2.22%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (2.22%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.22%) ISTQB
4 1 (2.22%) Master's Degree
4 1 (2.22%) PhD
4 1 (2.22%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (11.11%) ISO 8583
2 4 (8.89%) PCI DSS
3 1 (2.22%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.22%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.22%) IFRS
3 1 (2.22%) IFRS 9
3 1 (2.22%) ISO 15022
3 1 (2.22%) ISO 20022
3 1 (2.22%) QA
System Software
1 7 (15.56%) Docker
2 3 (6.67%) Firmware
2 3 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (4.44%) vCloud
3 2 (4.44%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (4.44%) VMware NSX
3 2 (4.44%) vSphere
4 1 (2.22%) Active Directory
4 1 (2.22%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (2.22%) FreeRADIUS
4 1 (2.22%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 1 (2.22%) Squid
Systems Management
1 6 (13.33%) Terraform
2 5 (11.11%) Kubernetes
3 4 (8.89%) Ansible
4 1 (2.22%) Packer
4 1 (2.22%) Prometheus
4 1 (2.22%) Puppet
Vendors
1 6 (13.33%) Cisco
1 6 (13.33%) HP
2 4 (8.89%) Oracle
3 3 (6.67%) Microsoft
3 3 (6.67%) Thales
3 3 (6.67%) VMware
4 2 (4.44%) Dell
4 2 (4.44%) Perforce
5 1 (2.22%) Databricks
5 1 (2.22%) Dynatrace
5 1 (2.22%) Google
5 1 (2.22%) IBM
5 1 (2.22%) OutSystems
5 1 (2.22%) PagerDuty
5 1 (2.22%) Red Hat
5 1 (2.22%) Salesforce
5 1 (2.22%) SAP
5 1 (2.22%) Trend Micro
5 1 (2.22%) Virgin Media