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 6 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 403 318 300
Rank change year-on-year -85 -18 +14
Contract jobs citing C 41 55 100
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.20% 0.41% 0.62%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.64% 1.07% 1.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 32 65
10th Percentile £335 £341 £400
25th Percentile £350 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £613 £550
Median % change year-on-year -18.37% +11.36% -21.43%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £675
90th Percentile £838 £775 £863
England median daily rate £473 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -14.00% +2.23% -3.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 3
10th Percentile £27.88 - £51.73
25th Percentile £30.31 - £56.94
Median hourly rate £36.25 - £68.75
75th Percentile £42.81 - £71.88
90th Percentile £45.63 - -
England median hourly rate £67.75 £68.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -0.37% -2.86% +7.69%

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 6,368 5,155 6,449
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 31.54% 38.51% 39.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,271 3,566 4,710
10th Percentile £385 £372 £370
25th Percentile £450 £430 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £659 £690 £704
90th Percentile £775 £825 £850
England median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 64 41
10th Percentile £26.52 £27.90 £25.25
25th Percentile £36.25 £33.25 £33.07
Median hourly rate £52.50 £44.95 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +16.80% -5.37% -20.97%
75th Percentile £73.00 £63.75 £61.43
90th Percentile £88.75 £87.13 £78.75
England median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +3.17%

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 6 September 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing C in London over the 6 months to 6 September 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for C in London

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 6 September 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 2 - - 11
East London - 2 £334 - 2
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%) WebSphere
2 1 (2.44%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 8 (19.51%) AWS
2 5 (12.20%) Azure
2 5 (12.20%) IaaS
3 3 (7.32%) GitHub
4 2 (4.88%) Amazon S3
4 2 (4.88%) AWS IoT
4 2 (4.88%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (4.88%) GitHub Copilot
4 2 (4.88%) Serverless
5 1 (2.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (2.44%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (2.44%) Amazon EventBridge
5 1 (2.44%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (2.44%) AWS CloudTrail
5 1 (2.44%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (2.44%) Entra ID
5 1 (2.44%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (2.44%) Google Drive
5 1 (2.44%) Nutanix
5 1 (2.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (9.76%) TCP/IP
2 3 (7.32%) Internet
2 3 (7.32%) MQTT
2 3 (7.32%) VXLAN
3 2 (4.88%) DNS
4 1 (2.44%) 2G
4 1 (2.44%) 3G
4 1 (2.44%) 4G
4 1 (2.44%) Bluetooth
4 1 (2.44%) Firewall
4 1 (2.44%) HTTP
4 1 (2.44%) SAN
4 1 (2.44%) SCCP
4 1 (2.44%) SS7
4 1 (2.44%) SSL
4 1 (2.44%) TCAP
4 1 (2.44%) tcpdump
4 1 (2.44%) WAN
4 1 (2.44%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (2.44%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.88%) NoSQL
1 2 (4.88%) Oracle Database
1 2 (4.88%) SQLPlus
2 1 (2.44%) Big Data
2 1 (2.44%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (2.44%) KDB
2 1 (2.44%) Kdb+
2 1 (2.44%) Power BI
2 1 (2.44%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 10 (24.39%) Git
2 8 (19.51%) Jenkins
3 3 (7.32%) JIRA
4 2 (4.88%) Subversion
5 1 (2.44%) CMake
5 1 (2.44%) Eclipse
5 1 (2.44%) GitLab
5 1 (2.44%) PetaLinux
5 1 (2.44%) Rational DOORS
General
1 18 (43.90%) Social Skills
2 8 (19.51%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (14.63%) Banking
3 6 (14.63%) Finance
4 3 (7.32%) Front Office
4 3 (7.32%) Investment Banking
5 2 (4.88%) Games
5 2 (4.88%) Japanese Language
5 2 (4.88%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.44%) Avionics
6 1 (2.44%) Back Office
6 1 (2.44%) Electronics
6 1 (2.44%) Korean Language
6 1 (2.44%) Polish Language
6 1 (2.44%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (17.07%) Senior
2 6 (14.63%) Analyst
3 5 (12.20%) Developer
4 4 (9.76%) Linux Engineer
4 4 (9.76%) Systems Engineer
5 3 (7.32%) Embedded Engineer
5 3 (7.32%) Network Engineer
6 2 (4.88%) Architect
6 2 (4.88%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 2 (4.88%) AWS Engineer
6 2 (4.88%) Database Developer
6 2 (4.88%) Lead
6 2 (4.88%) Linux Systems Engineer
6 2 (4.88%) Oracle Database Developer
6 2 (4.88%) Oracle Developer
6 2 (4.88%) Senior Software Engineer
6 2 (4.88%) Senior Technical Architect
6 2 (4.88%) Software Engineer
6 2 (4.88%) Technical Architect
6 2 (4.88%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (9.76%) .NET
1 4 (9.76%) JSON
1 4 (9.76%) Middleware
2 3 (7.32%) Terraform
2 3 (7.32%) WebSphere MQ
2 3 (7.32%) XML
3 2 (4.88%) HTML
3 2 (4.88%) HTML5
4 1 (2.44%) Boost C++ Libraries
4 1 (2.44%) FIX Protocol
4 1 (2.44%) Flask
4 1 (2.44%) IBM Integration Bus
4 1 (2.44%) Kafka
4 1 (2.44%) NumPy
4 1 (2.44%) Pandas
4 1 (2.44%) PyQt
4 1 (2.44%) REST
4 1 (2.44%) TensorFlow
4 1 (2.44%) YAML
4 1 (2.44%) ZeroMQ
Miscellaneous
1 6 (14.63%) Distributed Systems
1 6 (14.63%) Private Cloud
2 5 (12.20%) Embedded Systems
3 4 (9.76%) Data Protection Act
3 4 (9.76%) IoT
4 3 (7.32%) Algorithms
4 3 (7.32%) Data Structures
4 3 (7.32%) Device Driver
4 3 (7.32%) Fixed Income
4 3 (7.32%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 3 (7.32%) Virtual Team
5 2 (4.88%) AI Agents
5 2 (4.88%) Cloud Native
5 2 (4.88%) Derivative
5 2 (4.88%) Distributed Architecture
5 2 (4.88%) Distributed Computing
5 2 (4.88%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (2.44%) Equity Derivative
6 1 (2.44%) FPGA
6 1 (2.44%) Interest Rate Derivative
Operating Systems
1 21 (51.22%) Linux
2 10 (24.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 10 (24.39%) Unix
3 5 (12.20%) Windows
4 1 (2.44%) Android
4 1 (2.44%) Apple iOS
4 1 (2.44%) Embedded Linux
4 1 (2.44%) FreeRTOS
4 1 (2.44%) Mac OS
4 1 (2.44%) VxWorks
4 1 (2.44%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (29.27%) CI/CD
2 10 (24.39%) DevOps
3 8 (19.51%) AI
4 7 (17.07%) Configuration Management
4 7 (17.07%) Test Automation
5 6 (14.63%) Open Source
5 6 (14.63%) Software Engineering
6 5 (12.20%) Agile
6 5 (12.20%) Infrastructure Automation
6 5 (12.20%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 5 (12.20%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (12.20%) Validation
7 4 (9.76%) Data Protection
7 4 (9.76%) Event-Driven
7 4 (9.76%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 4 (9.76%) High Availability
7 4 (9.76%) Performance Engineering
7 4 (9.76%) Root Cause Analysis
7 4 (9.76%) Technical Leadership
8 3 (7.32%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 27 (65.85%) C++
2 24 (58.54%) Python
3 9 (21.95%) SQL
4 7 (17.07%) Java
5 6 (14.63%) Perl
6 5 (12.20%) C#
6 5 (12.20%) PL/SQL
7 3 (7.32%) ProC
7 3 (7.32%) Rust
8 2 (4.88%) Bash
8 2 (4.88%) Embedded C
8 2 (4.88%) JavaScript
8 2 (4.88%) PowerShell
8 2 (4.88%) Shell Script
9 1 (2.44%) Embedded C++
9 1 (2.44%) Fortran
9 1 (2.44%) Groovy
9 1 (2.44%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (2.44%) Objective-C
9 1 (2.44%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 9 (21.95%) Degree
2 7 (17.07%) Security Cleared
3 4 (9.76%) SC Cleared
4 2 (4.88%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.44%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (2.44%) CompTIA CySA+
5 1 (2.44%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.44%) GCIA
5 1 (2.44%) GCIH
5 1 (2.44%) GIAC
5 1 (2.44%) Master's Degree
5 1 (2.44%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.32%) ISO 15022
1 3 (7.32%) ISO 20022
2 2 (4.88%) QA
3 1 (2.44%) NCSC
3 1 (2.44%) NIST
3 1 (2.44%) NIST 800
System Software
1 4 (9.76%) Firmware
2 2 (4.88%) Active Directory
2 2 (4.88%) Docker
2 2 (4.88%) Embedded Firmware
2 2 (4.88%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.44%) KVM
3 1 (2.44%) Slurm Workload Manager
3 1 (2.44%) Squid
Systems Management
1 7 (17.07%) Puppet
2 6 (14.63%) Progress Chef
3 5 (12.20%) Kubernetes
4 2 (4.88%) Ansible
5 1 (2.44%) Packer
Vendors
1 6 (14.63%) Oracle
1 6 (14.63%) Red Hat
1 6 (14.63%) SaltStack
2 3 (7.32%) Cisco
2 3 (7.32%) IBM
3 2 (4.88%) Perforce
3 2 (4.88%) Sitecore
3 2 (4.88%) VMware
4 1 (2.44%) Calypso
4 1 (2.44%) Databricks
4 1 (2.44%) Google
4 1 (2.44%) PagerDuty
4 1 (2.44%) Trend Micro
4 1 (2.44%) Wind River
4 1 (2.44%) Xilinx