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

6 months to
29 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 362 277 319
Rank change year-on-year -85 +42 -61
Contract jobs citing C 45 72 79
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.27% 0.57% 0.44%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.79% 1.44% 1.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 39 53
10th Percentile £330 £313 £250
25th Percentile £400 £463 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £575 £450
Median % change year-on-year -17.39% +27.78% -28.00%
75th Percentile £544 £736 £588
90th Percentile £570 £885 £705
England median daily rate £500 £500 £535
% change year-on-year - -6.54% -10.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 6
10th Percentile - - £55.00
25th Percentile £26.25 - £59.19
Median hourly rate £27.50 - £67.75
75th Percentile £28.75 - £72.50
90th Percentile - - £73.75
England median hourly rate £67.50 £72.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year -6.90% +11.54% +13.04%

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 5,726 4,995 6,330
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 33.91% 39.28% 35.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,863 3,484 4,804
10th Percentile £363 £375 £385
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £700
90th Percentile £775 £825 £814
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -5.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 31 60
10th Percentile £25.54 £29.07 £24.93
25th Percentile £39.25 £38.18 £37.02
Median hourly rate £54.25 £45.00 £51.13
Median % change year-on-year +20.56% -11.98% -11.09%
75th Percentile £66.50 £59.75 £60.44
90th Percentile £76.25 £65.00 £70.25
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -4.76%

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 29 March 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 29 March 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 -25 3 £493 -7.08% 13
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 (6.67%) Confluence
2 1 (2.22%) Apache
2 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.22%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (11.11%) BASE24
1 5 (11.11%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (2.22%) Actimize
2 1 (2.22%) Loan IQ
2 1 (2.22%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (2.22%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 9 (20.00%) Azure
2 7 (15.56%) AWS
2 7 (15.56%) GitHub
3 4 (8.89%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (4.44%) Amazon S3
4 2 (4.44%) Azure Monitor
4 2 (4.44%) Power Platform
5 1 (2.22%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (2.22%) Amazon Kinesis
5 1 (2.22%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (2.22%) Azure AKS
5 1 (2.22%) GCP
5 1 (2.22%) GitHub Copilot
5 1 (2.22%) Google Drive
5 1 (2.22%) IaaS
5 1 (2.22%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (2.22%) OneDrive
5 1 (2.22%) PaaS
5 1 (2.22%) SaaS
5 1 (2.22%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 7 (15.56%) TCP/IP
2 4 (8.89%) Network Security
3 3 (6.67%) 3GPP
3 3 (6.67%) Ethernet
3 3 (6.67%) Modbus
3 3 (6.67%) MVNO
3 3 (6.67%) RS-232
3 3 (6.67%) RS-485
3 3 (6.67%) SMPP
3 3 (6.67%) SMS
4 2 (4.44%) DNS
4 2 (4.44%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (13.33%) NonStop SQL
2 5 (11.11%) OLTP
3 2 (4.44%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (4.44%) Metadata
3 2 (4.44%) NoSQL
3 2 (4.44%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (4.44%) SQL Server
4 1 (2.22%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (2.22%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (2.22%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (2.22%) Apache Hudi
4 1 (2.22%) Apache Iceberg
4 1 (2.22%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (2.22%) Data Lake
4 1 (2.22%) Hadoop
4 1 (2.22%) MongoDB
4 1 (2.22%) MySQL
4 1 (2.22%) Oracle Exadata
4 1 (2.22%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 5 (11.11%) GitLab
1 5 (11.11%) JIRA
2 4 (8.89%) Git
3 3 (6.67%) Subversion
4 2 (4.44%) Selenium
5 1 (2.22%) Appium
5 1 (2.22%) Cucumber
5 1 (2.22%) ER Studio
5 1 (2.22%) ERwin
5 1 (2.22%) Jenkins
5 1 (2.22%) JMeter
5 1 (2.22%) MSTest
5 1 (2.22%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (2.22%) PowerBuilder
5 1 (2.22%) PowerDesigner
5 1 (2.22%) Robot Framework
5 1 (2.22%) SonarQube
5 1 (2.22%) Visual Studio
General
1 16 (35.56%) Finance
2 9 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 7 (15.56%) Banking
3 7 (15.56%) Public Sector
4 3 (6.67%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (6.67%) Telecoms
5 2 (4.44%) Japanese Language
6 1 (2.22%) Games
6 1 (2.22%) Health Technology
6 1 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.22%) Korean Language
6 1 (2.22%) Local Government
6 1 (2.22%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.22%) Military
6 1 (2.22%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 19 (42.22%) Developer
2 6 (13.33%) Embedded Engineer
3 5 (11.11%) C++ Developer
4 4 (8.89%) Senior
5 3 (6.67%) Architect
5 3 (6.67%) Data Engineer
5 3 (6.67%) FPGA Developer
5 3 (6.67%) Linux Developer
5 3 (6.67%) Low Latency C++ Developer
5 3 (6.67%) Market Data Developer
6 2 (4.44%) Automation Tester
6 2 (4.44%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 2 (4.44%) Azure Engineer
6 2 (4.44%) Development Engineer
6 2 (4.44%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (4.44%) Quantitative Developer
6 2 (4.44%) Software Developer
6 2 (4.44%) Software Engineer
6 2 (4.44%) Tester
6 2 (4.44%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (11.11%) HTML
2 3 (6.67%) ARM Templates
2 3 (6.67%) Kafka
3 2 (4.44%) HTML5
4 1 (2.22%) .NET
4 1 (2.22%) Beautiful Soup
4 1 (2.22%) CSS
4 1 (2.22%) J2EE
4 1 (2.22%) JSON
4 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Graph
4 1 (2.22%) Middleware
4 1 (2.22%) Pandas
4 1 (2.22%) REST
4 1 (2.22%) RESTful
4 1 (2.22%) scikit-learn
4 1 (2.22%) TensorFlow
4 1 (2.22%) WCF
4 1 (2.22%) WebAssembly
4 1 (2.22%) WinForms
4 1 (2.22%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 6 (13.33%) Embedded Systems
1 6 (13.33%) Tandem
2 5 (11.11%) EMV
3 3 (6.67%) FPGA
3 3 (6.67%) IoT
3 3 (6.67%) Java Card
4 2 (4.44%) Cloud Native
4 2 (4.44%) Data Structures
4 2 (4.44%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (4.44%) Legacy Code
4 2 (4.44%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.22%) CBDC
5 1 (2.22%) Credit Risk
5 1 (2.22%) Digital Currency
5 1 (2.22%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (2.22%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (2.22%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (2.22%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.22%) PlayStation
5 1 (2.22%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 11 (24.44%) Linux
2 3 (6.67%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (24.44%) CI/CD
1 11 (24.44%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (22.22%) DevOps
2 10 (22.22%) Software Engineering
3 7 (15.56%) Infrastructure as Code
4 6 (13.33%) AI
4 6 (13.33%) Containerisation
4 6 (13.33%) High Availability
4 6 (13.33%) Performance Tuning
5 5 (11.11%) Computer Science
5 5 (11.11%) Key Management
5 5 (11.11%) Validation
6 4 (8.89%) Low Latency
6 4 (8.89%) Regulatory Compliance
6 4 (8.89%) Test Automation
7 3 (6.67%) Analytics
7 3 (6.67%) Mentoring
7 3 (6.67%) Microservices
7 3 (6.67%) SDLC
7 3 (6.67%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 22 (48.89%) C++
2 19 (42.22%) Python
3 16 (35.56%) SQL
4 7 (15.56%) Java
5 6 (13.33%) Bash
6 5 (11.11%) COBOL
6 5 (11.11%) JavaScript
7 4 (8.89%) PL/SQL
7 4 (8.89%) Rust
8 3 (6.67%) Embedded C
8 3 (6.67%) Embedded C++
8 3 (6.67%) ProC
8 3 (6.67%) Shell Script
9 2 (4.44%) Go
10 1 (2.22%) Bicep
10 1 (2.22%) C#
10 1 (2.22%) Erlang
10 1 (2.22%) Korn
10 1 (2.22%) T-SQL
10 1 (2.22%) VB
Qualifications
1 8 (17.78%) Security Cleared
2 5 (11.11%) Degree
3 3 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (4.44%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (4.44%) ISTQB
4 2 (4.44%) SC Cleared
5 1 (2.22%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.22%) CCNA
5 1 (2.22%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (2.22%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.22%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (11.11%) ISO 8583
2 4 (8.89%) PCI DSS
3 2 (4.44%) Data Quality
3 2 (4.44%) QA
4 1 (2.22%) Accessibility
4 1 (2.22%) HMG Security Policy Framework
4 1 (2.22%) IFRS
4 1 (2.22%) IFRS 9
4 1 (2.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (2.22%) MiFID
System Software
1 9 (20.00%) Docker
2 3 (6.67%) Embedded Firmware
2 3 (6.67%) Firmware
3 2 (4.44%) vCloud
3 2 (4.44%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (4.44%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (4.44%) VMware NSX
3 2 (4.44%) vSphere
4 1 (2.22%) FreeRADIUS
Systems Management
1 6 (13.33%) Kubernetes
1 6 (13.33%) Terraform
2 2 (4.44%) Ansible
3 1 (2.22%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (13.33%) HP
2 4 (8.89%) Cisco
2 4 (8.89%) Microsoft
2 4 (8.89%) Oracle
3 3 (6.67%) Thales
4 2 (4.44%) Dell
4 2 (4.44%) Perforce
4 2 (4.44%) VMware
5 1 (2.22%) Bloomberg
5 1 (2.22%) Databricks
5 1 (2.22%) Dynatrace
5 1 (2.22%) Google
5 1 (2.22%) OutSystems
5 1 (2.22%) Proofpoint
5 1 (2.22%) Refinitiv
5 1 (2.22%) Salesforce
5 1 (2.22%) SAP
5 1 (2.22%) Veritas
5 1 (2.22%) Virgin Media