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

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 406 306 295
Rank change year-on-year -100 -11 +23
Contract jobs citing C 43 54 101
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.21% 0.40% 0.62%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.68% 1.04% 1.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 28 66
10th Percentile £336 £334 £405
25th Percentile £350 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £586 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.14% +6.55% -18.52%
75th Percentile £678 £675 £675
90th Percentile £831 £775 £836
England median daily rate £473 £543 £538
% change year-on-year -12.89% +0.93% -2.18%
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 £70.00 £68.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +2.94% -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 6,351 5,187 6,527
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 31.39% 38.56% 40.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,262 3,568 4,717
10th Percentile £378 £368 £367
25th Percentile £450 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £660 £688 £700
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 65 41
10th Percentile £26.52 £26.71 £25.25
25th Percentile £36.25 £33.25 £33.07
Median hourly rate £52.50 £44.90 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +16.94% -5.48% -20.83%
75th Percentile £73.50 £63.75 £61.43
90th Percentile £88.75 £87.00 £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 13 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 13 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 13 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 -26 2 - - 9
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 (6.98%) WebSphere
2 1 (2.33%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 9 (20.93%) AWS
2 7 (16.28%) Azure
3 5 (11.63%) GitHub
3 5 (11.63%) IaaS
4 3 (6.98%) GitHub Actions
4 3 (6.98%) GitHub Copilot
5 2 (4.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (4.65%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (4.65%) Amazon S3
5 2 (4.65%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (4.65%) AWS IoT
5 2 (4.65%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (4.65%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (4.65%) Datadog
5 2 (4.65%) GCP
5 2 (4.65%) Serverless
6 1 (2.33%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (2.33%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (2.33%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (2.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (9.30%) Internet
1 4 (9.30%) TCP/IP
2 3 (6.98%) MQTT
2 3 (6.98%) VXLAN
3 2 (4.65%) DNS
4 1 (2.33%) 2G
4 1 (2.33%) 3G
4 1 (2.33%) 4G
4 1 (2.33%) Bluetooth
4 1 (2.33%) Firewall
4 1 (2.33%) HTTP
4 1 (2.33%) SAN
4 1 (2.33%) SCCP
4 1 (2.33%) SS7
4 1 (2.33%) SSL
4 1 (2.33%) TCAP
4 1 (2.33%) tcpdump
4 1 (2.33%) WAN
4 1 (2.33%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (2.33%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.65%) NoSQL
1 2 (4.65%) Oracle Database
1 2 (4.65%) SQLPlus
2 1 (2.33%) Big Data
2 1 (2.33%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (2.33%) KDB
2 1 (2.33%) Kdb+
2 1 (2.33%) Power BI
2 1 (2.33%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 11 (25.58%) Git
2 9 (20.93%) Jenkins
3 4 (9.30%) JIRA
4 2 (4.65%) GitLab
4 2 (4.65%) Subversion
5 1 (2.33%) CMake
5 1 (2.33%) Eclipse
5 1 (2.33%) PetaLinux
5 1 (2.33%) Rational DOORS
5 1 (2.33%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 18 (41.86%) Social Skills
2 8 (18.60%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (16.28%) Banking
3 7 (16.28%) Finance
4 3 (6.98%) Front Office
4 3 (6.98%) Investment Banking
5 2 (4.65%) Games
5 2 (4.65%) Japanese Language
5 2 (4.65%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.33%) Avionics
6 1 (2.33%) Back Office
6 1 (2.33%) Electronics
6 1 (2.33%) Korean Language
6 1 (2.33%) Polish Language
6 1 (2.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (18.60%) Senior
2 6 (13.95%) Analyst
2 6 (13.95%) Developer
3 4 (9.30%) Linux Engineer
3 4 (9.30%) Systems Engineer
4 3 (6.98%) Architect
4 3 (6.98%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 3 (6.98%) Network Engineer
5 2 (4.65%) AWS Engineer
5 2 (4.65%) C Developer
5 2 (4.65%) Embedded Engineer
5 2 (4.65%) Lead
5 2 (4.65%) Linux Systems Engineer
5 2 (4.65%) Oracle Database Developer
5 2 (4.65%) Senior C Developer
5 2 (4.65%) Senior Developer
5 2 (4.65%) Senior Software Engineer
5 2 (4.65%) Software Engineer
5 2 (4.65%) Technical Architect
5 2 (4.65%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (9.30%) .NET
1 4 (9.30%) JSON
1 4 (9.30%) Middleware
1 4 (9.30%) Terraform
2 3 (6.98%) WebSphere MQ
2 3 (6.98%) XML
3 2 (4.65%) FastAPI
3 2 (4.65%) Flask
3 2 (4.65%) HTML
3 2 (4.65%) HTML5
4 1 (2.33%) Bazel
4 1 (2.33%) LangChain
4 1 (2.33%) LangGraph
4 1 (2.33%) Pulumi
4 1 (2.33%) PyTorch
4 1 (2.33%) scikit-learn
4 1 (2.33%) Semantic Kernel
4 1 (2.33%) Streamlit
4 1 (2.33%) TensorFlow
4 1 (2.33%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 7 (16.28%) Private Cloud
2 6 (13.95%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (9.30%) Data Protection Act
3 4 (9.30%) Embedded Systems
3 4 (9.30%) IoT
4 3 (6.98%) AI Agents
4 3 (6.98%) Algorithms
4 3 (6.98%) Data Structures
4 3 (6.98%) Device Driver
4 3 (6.98%) Fixed Income
4 3 (6.98%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 3 (6.98%) Virtual Team
5 2 (4.65%) Cloud Native
5 2 (4.65%) Derivative
5 2 (4.65%) Distributed Architecture
5 2 (4.65%) Distributed Computing
5 2 (4.65%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (2.33%) Equity Derivative
6 1 (2.33%) FPGA
6 1 (2.33%) Interest Rate Derivative
Operating Systems
1 20 (46.51%) Linux
2 10 (23.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 10 (23.26%) Unix
3 5 (11.63%) Windows
4 1 (2.33%) Android
4 1 (2.33%) Apple iOS
4 1 (2.33%) Embedded Linux
4 1 (2.33%) FreeRTOS
4 1 (2.33%) Mac OS
4 1 (2.33%) VxWorks
4 1 (2.33%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (32.56%) CI/CD
2 11 (25.58%) DevOps
3 9 (20.93%) AI
3 9 (20.93%) Test Automation
4 8 (18.60%) Configuration Management
5 6 (13.95%) Open Source
6 5 (11.63%) Agile
6 5 (11.63%) Data Protection
6 5 (11.63%) Infrastructure Automation
6 5 (11.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 5 (11.63%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (11.63%) Software Engineering
6 5 (11.63%) Validation
7 4 (9.30%) Event-Driven
7 4 (9.30%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 4 (9.30%) High Availability
7 4 (9.30%) Performance Engineering
7 4 (9.30%) Root Cause Analysis
7 4 (9.30%) SDLC
7 4 (9.30%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 26 (60.47%) C++
2 25 (58.14%) Python
3 9 (20.93%) SQL
4 7 (16.28%) Java
5 6 (13.95%) Perl
6 5 (11.63%) C#
6 5 (11.63%) PL/SQL
7 3 (6.98%) ProC
7 3 (6.98%) Rust
8 2 (4.65%) Bash
8 2 (4.65%) Embedded C
8 2 (4.65%) JavaScript
8 2 (4.65%) PowerShell
8 2 (4.65%) Shell Script
9 1 (2.33%) Bicep
9 1 (2.33%) Embedded C++
9 1 (2.33%) Fortran
9 1 (2.33%) Groovy
9 1 (2.33%) Objective-C
9 1 (2.33%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 9 (20.93%) Degree
2 6 (13.95%) Security Cleared
3 4 (9.30%) SC Cleared
4 2 (4.65%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.33%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (2.33%) CompTIA CySA+
5 1 (2.33%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.33%) GCIA
5 1 (2.33%) GCIH
5 1 (2.33%) GIAC
5 1 (2.33%) Master's Degree
5 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Certified Professional
5 1 (2.33%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.98%) ISO 15022
1 3 (6.98%) ISO 20022
1 3 (6.98%) QA
2 1 (2.33%) NCSC
2 1 (2.33%) NIST
2 1 (2.33%) NIST 800
System Software
1 4 (9.30%) Firmware
2 2 (4.65%) Active Directory
2 2 (4.65%) Docker
2 2 (4.65%) Embedded Firmware
2 2 (4.65%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.33%) KVM
3 1 (2.33%) Slurm Workload Manager
3 1 (2.33%) Squid
Systems Management
1 8 (18.60%) Puppet
2 7 (16.28%) Progress Chef
3 6 (13.95%) Kubernetes
4 3 (6.98%) Ansible
5 1 (2.33%) Control-M
5 1 (2.33%) Grafana
5 1 (2.33%) Packer
5 1 (2.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (16.28%) Oracle
1 7 (16.28%) SaltStack
2 6 (13.95%) Red Hat
3 3 (6.98%) Cisco
3 3 (6.98%) IBM
3 3 (6.98%) VMware
4 2 (4.65%) Perforce
4 2 (4.65%) Sitecore
5 1 (2.33%) Calypso
5 1 (2.33%) Databricks
5 1 (2.33%) Dynatrace
5 1 (2.33%) Foundry
5 1 (2.33%) Google
5 1 (2.33%) Microsoft
5 1 (2.33%) Murex
5 1 (2.33%) OpenAI
5 1 (2.33%) PagerDuty
5 1 (2.33%) Trend Micro
5 1 (2.33%) Wind River
5 1 (2.33%) Xilinx