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 13 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 378 294 297
Rank change year-on-year -84 +3 -12
Contract jobs citing C 38 61 103
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.20% 0.50% 0.58%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.64% 1.26% 1.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 34 68
10th Percentile £301 £329 £303
25th Percentile £352 £521 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £431 £625 £500
Median % change year-on-year -31.00% +25.00% -23.08%
75th Percentile £538 £675 £575
90th Percentile £595 £775 £675
England median daily rate £475 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -13.64% +2.28% -10.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 7
10th Percentile - - £50.80
25th Percentile £26.25 - £58.38
Median hourly rate £27.50 - £68.75
75th Percentile £28.75 - £72.19
90th Percentile - - £73.50
England median hourly rate £67.50 £68.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -0.74% +4.62% +10.35%

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 5,924 4,853 6,656
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 31.43% 39.53% 37.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,948 3,410 5,062
10th Percentile £375 £375 £375
25th Percentile £438 £431 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £650 £703 £700
90th Percentile £775 £825 £838
England median daily rate £513 £523 £540
% change year-on-year -1.91% -3.24% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 41 52
10th Percentile £32.93 £29.00 £23.80
25th Percentile £37.00 £33.25 £38.83
Median hourly rate £58.50 £40.00 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year +46.25% -20.79% -17.89%
75th Percentile £74.50 £58.75 £62.50
90th Percentile £89.13 £86.25 £72.50
England median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +13.04% -8.00% -

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 13 June 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 13 June 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
East London - 2 £334 - 1
Central London -23 1 - - 7
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 (2.63%) Apache Spark
1 1 (2.63%) Confluence
1 1 (2.63%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (5.26%) BASE24
1 2 (5.26%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (2.63%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 9 (23.68%) Azure
2 7 (18.42%) AWS
3 3 (7.89%) Amazon S3
3 3 (7.89%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (5.26%) AWS IoT
4 2 (5.26%) Azure Monitor
4 2 (5.26%) GCP
4 2 (5.26%) GitHub
4 2 (5.26%) Power Platform
5 1 (2.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (2.63%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (2.63%) AWS CloudTrail
5 1 (2.63%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (2.63%) AWS Step Functions
5 1 (2.63%) Datadog
5 1 (2.63%) Google Drive
5 1 (2.63%) IaaS
5 1 (2.63%) PaaS
5 1 (2.63%) SaaS
5 1 (2.63%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (13.16%) TCP/IP
2 4 (10.53%) Network Security
3 3 (7.89%) 3GPP
3 3 (7.89%) DNS
3 3 (7.89%) Internet
3 3 (7.89%) MQTT
3 3 (7.89%) MVNO
3 3 (7.89%) SMPP
3 3 (7.89%) SMS
3 3 (7.89%) VXLAN
4 2 (5.26%) VSAN
5 1 (2.63%) Ethernet
5 1 (2.63%) Firewall
5 1 (2.63%) Modbus
5 1 (2.63%) NAS
5 1 (2.63%) RS-232
5 1 (2.63%) RS-485
5 1 (2.63%) SAN
5 1 (2.63%) SSL
5 1 (2.63%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.89%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (7.89%) NonStop SQL
1 3 (7.89%) NoSQL
2 2 (5.26%) Power BI
3 1 (2.63%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (2.63%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (2.63%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (2.63%) Apache Hudi
3 1 (2.63%) Apache Iceberg
3 1 (2.63%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (2.63%) Big Data
3 1 (2.63%) Data Lake
3 1 (2.63%) Hadoop
3 1 (2.63%) KDB
3 1 (2.63%) Kdb+
3 1 (2.63%) Metadata
3 1 (2.63%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.63%) OLTP
3 1 (2.63%) Oracle Database
3 1 (2.63%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 4 (10.53%) Git
2 3 (7.89%) JIRA
3 2 (5.26%) GitLab
3 2 (5.26%) Subversion
4 1 (2.63%) ER Studio
4 1 (2.63%) ERwin
4 1 (2.63%) Jenkins
4 1 (2.63%) PowerDesigner
General
1 13 (34.21%) Social Skills
2 10 (26.32%) Finance
3 7 (18.42%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (18.42%) Banking
4 3 (7.89%) Telecoms
5 2 (5.26%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (5.26%) Investment Banking
5 2 (5.26%) Japanese Language
5 2 (5.26%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.63%) Games
6 1 (2.63%) Korean Language
6 1 (2.63%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.63%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 14 (36.84%) Developer
2 4 (10.53%) Embedded Engineer
3 3 (7.89%) Analyst
3 3 (7.89%) Network Engineer
3 3 (7.89%) Quantitative Developer
4 2 (5.26%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 2 (5.26%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (5.26%) C++ Developer
4 2 (5.26%) Data Engineer
4 2 (5.26%) Development Engineer
4 2 (5.26%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (5.26%) VMware Engineer
5 1 (2.63%) Data Migration Architect
5 1 (2.63%) Data Science Engineer
5 1 (2.63%) FPGA Developer
5 1 (2.63%) Kernel Engineer
5 1 (2.63%) Migration Architect
5 1 (2.63%) Python Data Engineer
5 1 (2.63%) Python Engineer
5 1 (2.63%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (7.89%) .NET
2 2 (5.26%) ARM Templates
2 2 (5.26%) HTML
2 2 (5.26%) HTML5
2 2 (5.26%) JSON
2 2 (5.26%) Kafka
3 1 (2.63%) Boost C++ Libraries
3 1 (2.63%) FIX Protocol
3 1 (2.63%) NumPy
3 1 (2.63%) Pandas
3 1 (2.63%) PyTorch
3 1 (2.63%) REST
3 1 (2.63%) scikit-learn
3 1 (2.63%) TensorFlow
3 1 (2.63%) WCF
3 1 (2.63%) WebAssembly
3 1 (2.63%) WPF
3 1 (2.63%) XML
3 1 (2.63%) YAML
3 1 (2.63%) ZeroMQ
Miscellaneous
1 6 (15.79%) IoT
2 4 (10.53%) Embedded Systems
3 3 (7.89%) Java Card
3 3 (7.89%) Tandem
4 2 (5.26%) Data Structures
4 2 (5.26%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (5.26%) EMV
5 1 (2.63%) CUDA
5 1 (2.63%) Derivative
5 1 (2.63%) Equity Derivative
5 1 (2.63%) Fixed Income
5 1 (2.63%) FPGA
5 1 (2.63%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (2.63%) Legacy Code
5 1 (2.63%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.63%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (2.63%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.63%) PlayStation
5 1 (2.63%) Reference Data
5 1 (2.63%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 11 (28.95%) Linux
2 2 (5.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (5.26%) Windows
3 1 (2.63%) FreeRTOS
3 1 (2.63%) Unix
3 1 (2.63%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (23.68%) CI/CD
1 9 (23.68%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (15.79%) DevOps
2 6 (15.79%) Software Engineering
3 5 (13.16%) High Availability
3 5 (13.16%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (13.16%) Validation
4 4 (10.53%) AI
4 4 (10.53%) Key Management
5 3 (7.89%) Agile
5 3 (7.89%) Analytics
5 3 (7.89%) Computer Science
5 3 (7.89%) Configuration Management
5 3 (7.89%) Cryptography
5 3 (7.89%) Data Science
5 3 (7.89%) Knowledge Transfer
5 3 (7.89%) Low Latency
5 3 (7.89%) Performance Tuning
5 3 (7.89%) Personalization
5 3 (7.89%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 23 (60.53%) Python
2 21 (55.26%) C++
3 14 (36.84%) SQL
4 8 (21.05%) Java
5 5 (13.16%) Bash
6 3 (7.89%) PL/SQL
6 3 (7.89%) Shell Script
7 2 (5.26%) C#
7 2 (5.26%) COBOL
7 2 (5.26%) JavaScript
7 2 (5.26%) PowerShell
8 1 (2.63%) Bicep
8 1 (2.63%) Embedded C
8 1 (2.63%) Embedded C++
8 1 (2.63%) Erlang
8 1 (2.63%) Fortran
8 1 (2.63%) Groovy
8 1 (2.63%) ProC
8 1 (2.63%) Rust
8 1 (2.63%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (18.42%) Degree
2 5 (13.16%) Security Cleared
3 2 (5.26%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.63%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.63%) Master's Degree
4 1 (2.63%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.26%) ISO 8583
1 2 (5.26%) PCI DSS
1 2 (5.26%) QA
2 1 (2.63%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.63%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.63%) IFRS
2 1 (2.63%) IFRS 9
2 1 (2.63%) ISO 15022
2 1 (2.63%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 5 (13.16%) Docker
2 3 (7.89%) Firmware
2 3 (7.89%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (5.26%) vCloud
3 2 (5.26%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (5.26%) VMware NSX
3 2 (5.26%) vSphere
4 1 (2.63%) Active Directory
4 1 (2.63%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (2.63%) FreeRADIUS
4 1 (2.63%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 1 (2.63%) Squid
Systems Management
1 5 (13.16%) Terraform
2 4 (10.53%) Ansible
3 3 (7.89%) Kubernetes
4 1 (2.63%) Packer
4 1 (2.63%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (13.16%) Cisco
2 3 (7.89%) HP
2 3 (7.89%) Oracle
2 3 (7.89%) Thales
2 3 (7.89%) VMware
3 2 (5.26%) Dell
3 2 (5.26%) Perforce
4 1 (2.63%) Databricks
4 1 (2.63%) Google
4 1 (2.63%) IBM
4 1 (2.63%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.63%) PagerDuty
4 1 (2.63%) Red Hat
4 1 (2.63%) SAP
4 1 (2.63%) Sitecore
4 1 (2.63%) Trend Micro
4 1 (2.63%) Virgin Media