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

6 months to
11 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 420 322 288
Rank change year-on-year -98 -34 +28
Contract jobs citing C 40 53 105
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.20% 0.40% 0.65%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.62% 1.03% 1.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 27 64
10th Percentile £350 £360 £418
25th Percentile £450 £425 £486
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £586 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.39% +6.55% -12.00%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £775
90th Percentile £850 £775 £810
England median daily rate £475 £500 £543
% change year-on-year -5.00% -7.83% -1.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 3
10th Percentile £43.25 - £51.73
25th Percentile £44.38 - £56.94
Median hourly rate £47.50 - £68.75
75th Percentile £49.38 - £71.88
90th Percentile £49.75 - -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £68.00 £67.50
% change year-on-year +2.94% +0.74% +3.85%

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 6,403 5,164 6,416
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 31.67% 38.57% 39.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,353 3,503 4,480
10th Percentile £375 £375 £373
25th Percentile £448 £431 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £565
Median % change year-on-year - -2.65% -5.83%
75th Percentile £668 £680 £700
90th Percentile £775 £800 £850
England median daily rate £525 £515 £543
% change year-on-year +1.94% -5.07% -1.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 68 46
10th Percentile £26.51 £25.58 £28.24
25th Percentile £36.25 £33.06 £38.89
Median hourly rate £53.00 £44.20 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year +19.92% -8.87% -16.02%
75th Percentile £73.00 £63.38 £71.66
90th Percentile £88.75 £87.50 £97.50
England median hourly rate £65.00 £56.25 £65.00
% change year-on-year +15.56% -13.46% +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 11 October 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 11 October 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 -22 3 £400 -36.00% 14
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 (7.50%) WebSphere
2 2 (5.00%) Apache Spark
3 1 (2.50%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (2.50%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 9 (22.50%) AWS
2 7 (17.50%) Azure
3 6 (15.00%) GitHub
4 5 (12.50%) IaaS
5 4 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (7.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (7.50%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (7.50%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (7.50%) Azure AKS
6 3 (7.50%) Datadog
6 3 (7.50%) GCP
6 3 (7.50%) Serverless
7 2 (5.00%) Amazon S3
7 2 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (5.00%) Azure Sentinel
7 2 (5.00%) GitHub Copilot
7 2 (5.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 2 (5.00%) Power Platform
8 1 (2.50%) LangSmith
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.00%) DNS
1 2 (5.00%) Internet
1 2 (5.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (2.50%) 2G
2 1 (2.50%) 3G
2 1 (2.50%) 4G
2 1 (2.50%) Bluetooth
2 1 (2.50%) Firewall
2 1 (2.50%) HTTP
2 1 (2.50%) LTE
2 1 (2.50%) NAS
2 1 (2.50%) SAN
2 1 (2.50%) SCCP
2 1 (2.50%) SS7
2 1 (2.50%) SSL
2 1 (2.50%) TCAP
2 1 (2.50%) tcpdump
2 1 (2.50%) WAN
2 1 (2.50%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (2.50%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.00%) NoSQL
1 2 (5.00%) Oracle Database
1 2 (5.00%) SQLPlus
2 1 (2.50%) Big Data
2 1 (2.50%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (2.50%) KDB
2 1 (2.50%) Kdb+
2 1 (2.50%) Parquet
2 1 (2.50%) Power BI
2 1 (2.50%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 11 (27.50%) Git
2 10 (25.00%) Jenkins
3 3 (7.50%) GitLab
4 2 (5.00%) JIRA
5 1 (2.50%) CMake
5 1 (2.50%) Eclipse
5 1 (2.50%) PetaLinux
5 1 (2.50%) Rational DOORS
5 1 (2.50%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 11 (27.50%) Social Skills
2 8 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (17.50%) Banking
4 6 (15.00%) Finance
5 3 (7.50%) Front Office
5 3 (7.50%) Investment Banking
6 2 (5.00%) Electronics
6 2 (5.00%) Public Sector
6 2 (5.00%) Telecoms
7 1 (2.50%) Aerospace
7 1 (2.50%) Avionics
7 1 (2.50%) Back Office
7 1 (2.50%) Games
7 1 (2.50%) Military
7 1 (2.50%) Polish Language
Job Titles
1 7 (17.50%) Developer
1 7 (17.50%) Senior
2 5 (12.50%) Analyst
2 5 (12.50%) Systems Engineer
3 4 (10.00%) Architect
3 4 (10.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 3 (7.50%) Linux Engineer
5 2 (5.00%) C Developer
5 2 (5.00%) Cloud Architect
5 2 (5.00%) Database Developer
5 2 (5.00%) Linux Systems Engineer
5 2 (5.00%) Oracle Database Developer
5 2 (5.00%) Oracle Developer
5 2 (5.00%) Senior C Developer
5 2 (5.00%) Senior Developer
5 2 (5.00%) Senior Software Engineer
5 2 (5.00%) Senior Technical Architect
5 2 (5.00%) Software Engineer
5 2 (5.00%) Technical Architect
5 2 (5.00%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (12.50%) JSON
1 5 (12.50%) Terraform
2 4 (10.00%) .NET
2 4 (10.00%) Middleware
2 4 (10.00%) XML
3 3 (7.50%) WebSphere MQ
4 2 (5.00%) FastAPI
4 2 (5.00%) Flask
4 2 (5.00%) Kafka
4 2 (5.00%) Pulumi
5 1 (2.50%) Bazel
5 1 (2.50%) LangChain
5 1 (2.50%) LangGraph
5 1 (2.50%) Model Context Protocol
5 1 (2.50%) NumPy
5 1 (2.50%) PyQt
5 1 (2.50%) PySpark
5 1 (2.50%) Semantic Kernel
5 1 (2.50%) Streamlit
5 1 (2.50%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 8 (20.00%) Private Cloud
2 7 (17.50%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (15.00%) Embedded Systems
4 4 (10.00%) AI Agents
4 4 (10.00%) Algorithms
4 4 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (10.00%) Data Structures
5 3 (7.50%) Cloud Native
5 3 (7.50%) Device Driver
5 3 (7.50%) Fixed Income
5 3 (7.50%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 3 (7.50%) Virtual Team
6 2 (5.00%) Derivative
6 2 (5.00%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (5.00%) Distributed Computing
6 2 (5.00%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (5.00%) Verilog
6 2 (5.00%) VHDL
7 1 (2.50%) ARM Cortex
7 1 (2.50%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 20 (50.00%) Linux
2 10 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 10 (25.00%) Unix
3 5 (12.50%) Windows
4 2 (5.00%) Embedded Linux
5 1 (2.50%) Android
5 1 (2.50%) Apple iOS
5 1 (2.50%) FreeRTOS
5 1 (2.50%) macOS
5 1 (2.50%) VxWorks
5 1 (2.50%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (35.00%) CI/CD
2 12 (30.00%) DevOps
3 10 (25.00%) Test Automation
4 9 (22.50%) Configuration Management
5 8 (20.00%) AI
6 6 (15.00%) Open Source
6 6 (15.00%) Software Engineering
7 5 (12.50%) Agile
7 5 (12.50%) Data Protection
7 5 (12.50%) Infrastructure Automation
7 5 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 5 (12.50%) Observability
7 5 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
7 5 (12.50%) Validation
8 4 (10.00%) Event-Driven
8 4 (10.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 4 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
8 4 (10.00%) SDLC
8 4 (10.00%) Software Delivery
8 4 (10.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 23 (57.50%) C++
2 21 (52.50%) Python
3 9 (22.50%) SQL
4 6 (15.00%) Perl
5 5 (12.50%) C#
5 5 (12.50%) PL/SQL
6 4 (10.00%) Java
6 4 (10.00%) Rust
7 3 (7.50%) ProC
8 2 (5.00%) Bash
8 2 (5.00%) Bicep
8 2 (5.00%) Embedded C
8 2 (5.00%) PowerShell
8 2 (5.00%) Shell Script
9 1 (2.50%) Embedded C++
9 1 (2.50%) Fortran
9 1 (2.50%) Groovy
9 1 (2.50%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (2.50%) MATLAB
9 1 (2.50%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 7 (17.50%) Degree
1 7 (17.50%) Security Cleared
2 5 (12.50%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.00%) Master's Degree
4 1 (2.50%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (2.50%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.50%) CompTIA CySA+
4 1 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.50%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.50%) EMC Certification
4 1 (2.50%) GCIA
4 1 (2.50%) GCIH
4 1 (2.50%) GIAC
4 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Certified Professional
4 1 (2.50%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.50%) ISO 15022
1 3 (7.50%) ISO 20022
1 3 (7.50%) QA
2 1 (2.50%) NCSC
2 1 (2.50%) NIST
2 1 (2.50%) NIST 800
System Software
1 2 (5.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (5.00%) Docker
1 2 (5.00%) Embedded Firmware
1 2 (5.00%) Firmware
1 2 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (2.50%) KVM
2 1 (2.50%) Slurm Workload Manager
2 1 (2.50%) Squid
Systems Management
1 9 (22.50%) Puppet
2 8 (20.00%) Progress Chef
3 7 (17.50%) Kubernetes
4 4 (10.00%) Ansible
5 2 (5.00%) Grafana
5 2 (5.00%) Prometheus
6 1 (2.50%) Control-M
6 1 (2.50%) Packer
Vendors
1 8 (20.00%) SaltStack
2 7 (17.50%) Oracle
3 6 (15.00%) Red Hat
4 4 (10.00%) VMware
5 3 (7.50%) IBM
6 2 (5.00%) Dynatrace
6 2 (5.00%) Microsoft
6 2 (5.00%) Sitecore
7 1 (2.50%) Calypso
7 1 (2.50%) Databricks
7 1 (2.50%) EMC
7 1 (2.50%) Foundry
7 1 (2.50%) Mentor Graphics
7 1 (2.50%) Murex
7 1 (2.50%) OpenAI
7 1 (2.50%) PagerDuty
7 1 (2.50%) Siemens
7 1 (2.50%) Trend Micro
7 1 (2.50%) Wind River
7 1 (2.50%) Xilinx