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 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 342 279 310
Rank change year-on-year -63 +31 -51
Contract jobs citing C 39 87 86
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.27% 0.60% 0.47%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.72% 1.56% 1.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 49 57
10th Percentile £340 £454 £325
25th Percentile £425 £489 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +4.35% -5.74%
75th Percentile £600 £810 £644
90th Percentile £679 £865 £700
England median daily rate £500 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -6.98% -2.27% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - £54.50
25th Percentile - - £57.50
Median hourly rate - - £62.50
75th Percentile - - £66.75
90th Percentile - - £70.20
England median hourly rate £67.00 £67.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year -0.74% +3.85% +12.07%

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 5,410 5,584 6,486
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 37.52% 38.20% 35.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,634 3,737 4,892
10th Percentile £363 £373 £391
25th Percentile £425 £460 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £563 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.53% -2.09% -4.17%
75th Percentile £670 £699 £700
90th Percentile £788 £825 £800
England median daily rate £513 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -4.65% -2.27% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 37 65
10th Percentile £25.93 £35.45 £26.24
25th Percentile £35.50 £40.06 £36.28
Median hourly rate £54.25 £52.50 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% +3.96% -12.17%
75th Percentile £66.19 £68.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.38 £97.50 £72.30
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.75 £62.50
% change year-on-year +3.59% +0.40% -3.47%

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 1 January 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 1 January 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 -12 5 £475 -7.77% 41
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 (7.69%) Confluence
2 1 (2.56%) Apache
2 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.56%) OpenStack
2 1 (2.56%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (7.69%) BASE24
1 3 (7.69%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (2.56%) Actimize
2 1 (2.56%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (2.56%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 12 (30.77%) Azure
2 11 (28.21%) AWS
3 8 (20.51%) GitHub
4 6 (15.38%) GCP
5 2 (5.13%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.56%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (2.56%) Amazon Kinesis
6 1 (2.56%) Amazon S3
6 1 (2.56%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (2.56%) Datadog
6 1 (2.56%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (2.56%) IaaS
6 1 (2.56%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (2.56%) OneDrive
6 1 (2.56%) OpenShift
6 1 (2.56%) PaaS
6 1 (2.56%) Power Platform
6 1 (2.56%) SaaS
6 1 (2.56%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 4 (10.26%) TCP/IP
2 3 (7.69%) 3GPP
2 3 (7.69%) Ethernet
2 3 (7.69%) Modbus
2 3 (7.69%) Network Security
2 3 (7.69%) RS-232
2 3 (7.69%) RS-485
3 2 (5.13%) Firewall
3 2 (5.13%) MVNO
3 2 (5.13%) SMPP
3 2 (5.13%) SMS
4 1 (2.56%) Anycast
4 1 (2.56%) BGP
4 1 (2.56%) DNS
4 1 (2.56%) Ethernet VPN
4 1 (2.56%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (2.56%) Software-Defined Networking
4 1 (2.56%) VXLAN
4 1 (2.56%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (12.82%) NonStop SQL
2 4 (10.26%) OLTP
3 3 (7.69%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (2.56%) Big Data
4 1 (2.56%) Data Lake
4 1 (2.56%) HPCC
4 1 (2.56%) Metadata
4 1 (2.56%) MySQL
4 1 (2.56%) Oracle Database
4 1 (2.56%) Oracle Exadata
4 1 (2.56%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (2.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (10.26%) GitLab
2 3 (7.69%) JIRA
3 2 (5.13%) Clang
3 2 (5.13%) GCC
3 2 (5.13%) Git
3 2 (5.13%) Selenium
4 1 (2.56%) Appium
4 1 (2.56%) ClearCase
4 1 (2.56%) CMake
4 1 (2.56%) Cucumber
4 1 (2.56%) Gradle
4 1 (2.56%) Jenkins
4 1 (2.56%) JMeter
4 1 (2.56%) Maven
4 1 (2.56%) MSTest
4 1 (2.56%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (2.56%) Robot Framework
4 1 (2.56%) SonarQube
4 1 (2.56%) Subversion
4 1 (2.56%) Visual Studio
General
1 21 (53.85%) Finance
2 9 (23.08%) Public Sector
3 7 (17.95%) Social Skills
4 6 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (12.82%) Banking
5 5 (12.82%) Telecoms
6 3 (7.69%) Financial Institution
7 2 (5.13%) Electronics
7 2 (5.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (5.13%) Manufacturing
7 2 (5.13%) Marketing
7 2 (5.13%) Military
8 1 (2.56%) Back Office
8 1 (2.56%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (2.56%) Health Technology
8 1 (2.56%) Investment Banking
8 1 (2.56%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 18 (46.15%) Developer
2 7 (17.95%) Linux Developer
3 6 (15.38%) Senior
4 5 (12.82%) C++ Developer
5 4 (10.26%) FPGA Developer
5 4 (10.26%) Low Latency C++ Developer
5 4 (10.26%) Market Data Developer
5 4 (10.26%) Software Engineer
6 3 (7.69%) Architect
6 3 (7.69%) Embedded Engineer
6 3 (7.69%) Full-Stack Developer
6 3 (7.69%) Unix Developer
7 2 (5.13%) Automation Tester
7 2 (5.13%) Build Engineer
7 2 (5.13%) Senior Software Engineer
7 2 (5.13%) Tester
8 1 (2.56%) IT Support
8 1 (2.56%) Java Engineer
8 1 (2.56%) Network Design Architect
8 1 (2.56%) Senior Automation Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (20.51%) HTML
2 5 (12.82%) CSS
3 3 (7.69%) AngularJS
3 3 (7.69%) Electron
3 3 (7.69%) JNI
3 3 (7.69%) Node.js
3 3 (7.69%) React
4 2 (5.13%) JSON
4 2 (5.13%) Kafka
4 2 (5.13%) REST
5 1 (2.56%) .NET
5 1 (2.56%) Beautiful Soup
5 1 (2.56%) COM
5 1 (2.56%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (2.56%) J2EE
5 1 (2.56%) Middleware
5 1 (2.56%) Pandas
5 1 (2.56%) RESTful
5 1 (2.56%) Spring
5 1 (2.56%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (12.82%) Tandem
2 4 (10.26%) Embedded Systems
2 4 (10.26%) FPGA
3 3 (7.69%) Cloud Native
3 3 (7.69%) EMV
3 3 (7.69%) Hedge funds
4 2 (5.13%) CBDC
4 2 (5.13%) Digital Currency
4 2 (5.13%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (5.13%) IoT
4 2 (5.13%) Java Card
5 1 (2.56%) Arduino
5 1 (2.56%) Blockchain
5 1 (2.56%) Credit Risk
5 1 (2.56%) Data Centre
5 1 (2.56%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (2.56%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.56%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (2.56%) Robotics
5 1 (2.56%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 14 (35.90%) Linux
2 5 (12.82%) Windows
3 4 (10.26%) Unix
4 3 (7.69%) CentOS
4 3 (7.69%) FreeRTOS
4 3 (7.69%) Mac OS
5 1 (2.56%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (28.21%) CI/CD
2 9 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (23.08%) Software Engineering
3 7 (17.95%) DevOps
4 6 (15.38%) Computer Science
5 5 (12.82%) Agile
5 5 (12.82%) Containerisation
5 5 (12.82%) Infrastructure as Code
6 4 (10.26%) High Availability
6 4 (10.26%) Low Latency
6 4 (10.26%) Roadmaps
6 4 (10.26%) Software Testing
6 4 (10.26%) Validation
7 3 (7.69%) Business Analysis
7 3 (7.69%) Change Management
7 3 (7.69%) Mentoring
7 3 (7.69%) Performance Tuning
7 3 (7.69%) SDLC
7 3 (7.69%) Test Automation
7 3 (7.69%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 23 (58.97%) C++
2 20 (51.28%) Python
3 12 (30.77%) Java
4 10 (25.64%) SQL
5 7 (17.95%) JavaScript
6 6 (15.38%) Bash
6 6 (15.38%) Rust
7 4 (10.26%) Perl
8 3 (7.69%) COBOL
8 3 (7.69%) Embedded C
8 3 (7.69%) Embedded C++
8 3 (7.69%) Go
8 3 (7.69%) PL/SQL
8 3 (7.69%) ProC
9 2 (5.13%) C#
9 2 (5.13%) PowerShell
9 2 (5.13%) Shell Script
10 1 (2.56%) Korn
10 1 (2.56%) VB
Qualifications
1 9 (23.08%) Security Cleared
2 5 (12.82%) Degree
2 5 (12.82%) SC Cleared
3 4 (10.26%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (5.13%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (5.13%) ISTQB
5 1 (2.56%) CCIE
5 1 (2.56%) CCNA
5 1 (2.56%) CCSAS
5 1 (2.56%) CISSP
5 1 (2.56%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.56%) GPEN
5 1 (2.56%) GWAPT
5 1 (2.56%) GXPN
5 1 (2.56%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (2.56%) JNCIE
5 1 (2.56%) OSCE
5 1 (2.56%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.69%) ISO 8583
1 3 (7.69%) QA
2 2 (5.13%) PCI DSS
3 1 (2.56%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.56%) HMG Security Policy Framework
3 1 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.56%) MiFID
System Software
1 9 (23.08%) Docker
2 5 (12.82%) Firmware
3 4 (10.26%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (2.56%) KVM
4 1 (2.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (15.38%) Kubernetes
2 5 (12.82%) Terraform
3 2 (5.13%) Prometheus
4 1 (2.56%) Ansible
4 1 (2.56%) Grafana
Vendors
1 7 (17.95%) Oracle
2 6 (15.38%) HP
3 5 (12.82%) Microsoft
4 4 (10.26%) Red Hat
5 3 (7.69%) Cisco
6 2 (5.13%) SAP
6 2 (5.13%) Thales
7 1 (2.56%) Apple
7 1 (2.56%) Arista
7 1 (2.56%) Bloomberg
7 1 (2.56%) Dynatrace
7 1 (2.56%) NetApp
7 1 (2.56%) OutSystems
7 1 (2.56%) Proofpoint
7 1 (2.56%) Refinitiv
7 1 (2.56%) Salesforce
7 1 (2.56%) Veritas
7 1 (2.56%) VMware
7 1 (2.56%) Wind River