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 15 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 338 271 305
Rank change year-on-year -67 +34 -59
Contract jobs citing C 41 89 85
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.27% 0.66% 0.46%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.74% 1.69% 1.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 45 55
10th Percentile £353 £457 £250
25th Percentile £400 £500 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £461 £600 £475
Median % change year-on-year -23.17% +26.32% -21.49%
75th Percentile £550 £810 £597
90th Percentile £666 £870 £648
England median daily rate £488 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -7.14% -1.87% -10.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 7
10th Percentile - - £55.50
25th Percentile - - £59.38
Median hourly rate - - £65.50
75th Percentile - - £72.50
90th Percentile - - £73.50
England median hourly rate £66.50 £67.75 £65.00
% change year-on-year -1.85% +4.23% +11.11%

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 5,511 5,279 6,458
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 36.10% 38.88% 34.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,709 3,489 4,897
10th Percentile £363 £373 £388
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £650 £690 £700
90th Percentile £775 £825 £800
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 37 68
10th Percentile £23.38 £35.00 £26.68
25th Percentile £36.25 £38.50 £39.15
Median hourly rate £54.75 £52.50 £51.13
Median % change year-on-year +4.29% +2.69% -11.09%
75th Percentile £66.50 £65.00 £62.50
90th Percentile £81.38 £97.50 £72.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £63.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year +3.17% +5.00% -7.69%

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 15 February 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 15 February 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 -24 3 £493 -7.08% 6
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 3 (7.32%) Confluence
2 1 (2.44%) Apache
2 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.44%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 5 (12.20%) BASE24
1 5 (12.20%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (2.44%) Actimize
2 1 (2.44%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (2.44%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 12 (29.27%) Azure
2 10 (24.39%) AWS
3 7 (17.07%) GitHub
4 4 (9.76%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (9.76%) GCP
5 2 (4.88%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (4.88%) Power Platform
6 1 (2.44%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (2.44%) Amazon Kinesis
6 1 (2.44%) Amazon S3
6 1 (2.44%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (2.44%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (2.44%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (2.44%) OneDrive
6 1 (2.44%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 6 (14.63%) TCP/IP
2 3 (7.32%) 3GPP
2 3 (7.32%) Ethernet
2 3 (7.32%) Modbus
2 3 (7.32%) MVNO
2 3 (7.32%) Network Security
2 3 (7.32%) RS-232
2 3 (7.32%) RS-485
2 3 (7.32%) SMPP
2 3 (7.32%) SMS
3 2 (4.88%) DNS
3 2 (4.88%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (14.63%) NonStop SQL
2 5 (12.20%) OLTP
3 3 (7.32%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (2.44%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (2.44%) Hadoop
4 1 (2.44%) Metadata
4 1 (2.44%) MySQL
4 1 (2.44%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.44%) Oracle Database
4 1 (2.44%) Oracle Exadata
4 1 (2.44%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (2.44%) Power BI
4 1 (2.44%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (12.20%) GitLab
2 3 (7.32%) JIRA
3 2 (4.88%) Selenium
4 1 (2.44%) Appium
4 1 (2.44%) ClearCase
4 1 (2.44%) CMake
4 1 (2.44%) Cucumber
4 1 (2.44%) Git
4 1 (2.44%) Jenkins
4 1 (2.44%) JMeter
4 1 (2.44%) MSTest
4 1 (2.44%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (2.44%) PowerBuilder
4 1 (2.44%) Robot Framework
4 1 (2.44%) SonarQube
4 1 (2.44%) Subversion
4 1 (2.44%) Visual Studio
General
1 19 (46.34%) Finance
2 8 (19.51%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (17.07%) Banking
3 7 (17.07%) Public Sector
4 6 (14.63%) Social Skills
5 3 (7.32%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (7.32%) Financial Institution
5 3 (7.32%) Telecoms
6 2 (4.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (4.88%) Military
7 1 (2.44%) Health Technology
7 1 (2.44%) Investment Banking
7 1 (2.44%) Local Government
7 1 (2.44%) Manufacturing
7 1 (2.44%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 22 (53.66%) Developer
2 7 (17.07%) Linux Developer
3 5 (12.20%) C++ Developer
3 5 (12.20%) Senior
4 4 (9.76%) FPGA Developer
4 4 (9.76%) Low Latency C++ Developer
4 4 (9.76%) Market Data Developer
5 3 (7.32%) Embedded Engineer
5 3 (7.32%) Full-Stack Developer
5 3 (7.32%) Software Engineer
5 3 (7.32%) Unix Developer
6 2 (4.88%) Applications Developer
6 2 (4.88%) Architect
6 2 (4.88%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 2 (4.88%) Azure Engineer
6 2 (4.88%) Data Engineer
6 2 (4.88%) Python Engineer
6 2 (4.88%) Senior Software Engineer
6 2 (4.88%) Software Developer
6 2 (4.88%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (17.07%) HTML
2 5 (12.20%) CSS
3 3 (7.32%) AngularJS
3 3 (7.32%) ARM Templates
3 3 (7.32%) Electron
3 3 (7.32%) JNI
3 3 (7.32%) Kafka
3 3 (7.32%) Node.js
3 3 (7.32%) React
4 1 (2.44%) Beautiful Soup
4 1 (2.44%) COM
4 1 (2.44%) JSON
4 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Graph
4 1 (2.44%) Pandas
4 1 (2.44%) REST
4 1 (2.44%) RESTful
4 1 (2.44%) WCF
4 1 (2.44%) WebAssembly
4 1 (2.44%) WinForms
4 1 (2.44%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 6 (14.63%) Tandem
2 5 (12.20%) EMV
3 4 (9.76%) FPGA
4 3 (7.32%) Embedded Systems
4 3 (7.32%) Hedge funds
4 3 (7.32%) IoT
4 3 (7.32%) Java Card
5 2 (4.88%) CBDC
5 2 (4.88%) Cloud Native
5 2 (4.88%) Digital Currency
5 2 (4.88%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (4.88%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (4.88%) Legacy Code
6 1 (2.44%) Data Structures
6 1 (2.44%) Fixed Income
6 1 (2.44%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (2.44%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (2.44%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 11 (26.83%) Linux
2 3 (7.32%) CentOS
2 3 (7.32%) FreeRTOS
2 3 (7.32%) Mac OS
2 3 (7.32%) Unix
3 1 (2.44%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (31.71%) CI/CD
2 11 (26.83%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (21.95%) DevOps
4 7 (17.07%) Infrastructure as Code
5 6 (14.63%) Containerisation
5 6 (14.63%) Software Engineering
6 5 (12.20%) Computer Science
6 5 (12.20%) High Availability
6 5 (12.20%) Performance Tuning
6 5 (12.20%) Roadmaps
7 4 (9.76%) AI
7 4 (9.76%) Key Management
7 4 (9.76%) Low Latency
7 4 (9.76%) Regulatory Compliance
7 4 (9.76%) SDLC
7 4 (9.76%) Test Automation
7 4 (9.76%) Validation
8 3 (7.32%) AOP
8 3 (7.32%) Business Analysis
8 3 (7.32%) Cryptography
Programming Languages
1 21 (51.22%) C++
2 19 (46.34%) Python
3 14 (34.15%) SQL
4 11 (26.83%) Java
5 7 (17.07%) JavaScript
6 6 (14.63%) Rust
7 5 (12.20%) Bash
7 5 (12.20%) COBOL
8 3 (7.32%) Embedded C
8 3 (7.32%) Embedded C++
8 3 (7.32%) Go
8 3 (7.32%) Perl
8 3 (7.32%) PL/SQL
8 3 (7.32%) ProC
8 3 (7.32%) Shell Script
9 2 (4.88%) C#
10 1 (2.44%) Erlang
10 1 (2.44%) Korn
10 1 (2.44%) VB
Qualifications
1 7 (17.07%) Security Cleared
2 4 (9.76%) Degree
3 3 (7.32%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (7.32%) SC Cleared
4 2 (4.88%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (4.88%) ISTQB
5 1 (2.44%) CCNA
5 1 (2.44%) CCSAS
5 1 (2.44%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (2.44%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.44%) GPEN
5 1 (2.44%) GWAPT
5 1 (2.44%) GXPN
5 1 (2.44%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (2.44%) OSCE
5 1 (2.44%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (12.20%) ISO 8583
2 4 (9.76%) PCI DSS
3 2 (4.88%) QA
4 1 (2.44%) Accessibility
4 1 (2.44%) Data Quality
4 1 (2.44%) HMG Security Policy Framework
4 1 (2.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (2.44%) MiFID
System Software
1 9 (21.95%) Docker
2 3 (7.32%) Embedded Firmware
2 3 (7.32%) Firmware
3 2 (4.88%) vCloud
3 2 (4.88%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (4.88%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (4.88%) VMware NSX
3 2 (4.88%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (14.63%) Kubernetes
1 6 (14.63%) Terraform
2 2 (4.88%) Ansible
3 1 (2.44%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (17.07%) Oracle
2 6 (14.63%) HP
3 4 (9.76%) Cisco
4 3 (7.32%) Microsoft
4 3 (7.32%) Red Hat
4 3 (7.32%) Thales
5 2 (4.88%) Dell
5 2 (4.88%) VMware
6 1 (2.44%) Bloomberg
6 1 (2.44%) Dynatrace
6 1 (2.44%) NetApp
6 1 (2.44%) OutSystems
6 1 (2.44%) Proofpoint
6 1 (2.44%) Refinitiv
6 1 (2.44%) Salesforce
6 1 (2.44%) SAP
6 1 (2.44%) Veritas