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

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 401 307 290
Rank change year-on-year -94 -17 +4
Contract jobs citing C 37 61 95
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.19% 0.45% 0.57%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.60% 1.15% 1.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 37 65
10th Percentile £328 £320 £385
25th Percentile £400 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £586 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.41% +17.20% -23.08%
75th Percentile £628 £675 £625
90th Percentile £709 £768 £863
England median daily rate £492 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -6.24% -2.33% -4.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 4
10th Percentile £27.88 - £53.46
25th Percentile £30.31 - £61.28
Median hourly rate £36.25 - £68.75
75th Percentile £42.81 - £72.03
90th Percentile £45.63 - £72.31
England median hourly rate £67.50 £68.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -0.74% +4.62% -

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 6,218 5,288 6,551
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 31.10% 38.71% 39.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,152 3,719 4,941
10th Percentile £383 £368 £375
25th Percentile £450 £430 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £659 £700 £711
90th Percentile £775 £825 £850
England median daily rate £521 £515 £550
% change year-on-year +1.07% -6.36% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 49 45
10th Percentile £34.35 £26.31 £23.80
25th Percentile £36.25 £33.25 £33.07
Median hourly rate £54.50 £43.50 £49.50
Median % change year-on-year +25.29% -12.12% -17.50%
75th Percentile £73.00 £62.50 £62.50
90th Percentile £88.75 £86.25 £74.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +13.04% -11.54% +4.00%

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 26 July 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 26 July 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 26 July 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 -23 2 - - 6
East London - 2 £334 - 1
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 2 (5.41%) WebSphere
2 1 (2.70%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.70%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 10 (27.03%) Azure
2 9 (24.32%) AWS
3 3 (8.11%) Amazon S3
3 3 (8.11%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (8.11%) GitHub
4 2 (5.41%) AWS IoT
4 2 (5.41%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (5.41%) Azure Monitor
4 2 (5.41%) GCP
4 2 (5.41%) GitHub Copilot
4 2 (5.41%) Power Platform
4 2 (5.41%) SaaS
4 2 (5.41%) Serverless
5 1 (2.70%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (2.70%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (2.70%) Datadog
5 1 (2.70%) IaaS
5 1 (2.70%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (2.70%) PaaS
5 1 (2.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (13.51%) TCP/IP
2 4 (10.81%) DNS
3 3 (8.11%) Internet
3 3 (8.11%) MQTT
3 3 (8.11%) VXLAN
4 1 (2.70%) 3G
4 1 (2.70%) 4G
4 1 (2.70%) 5G
4 1 (2.70%) Diameter Protocol
4 1 (2.70%) HTTP
4 1 (2.70%) LTE
4 1 (2.70%) NAS
4 1 (2.70%) Network Security
4 1 (2.70%) SAN
4 1 (2.70%) SCCP
4 1 (2.70%) SS7
4 1 (2.70%) SSL
4 1 (2.70%) TCAP
4 1 (2.70%) tcpdump
4 1 (2.70%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.11%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (8.11%) NoSQL
2 2 (5.41%) Oracle Database
2 2 (5.41%) Power BI
2 2 (5.41%) SQLPlus
3 1 (2.70%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (2.70%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (2.70%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (2.70%) Apache Hudi
3 1 (2.70%) Apache Iceberg
3 1 (2.70%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (2.70%) Big Data
3 1 (2.70%) Data Lake
3 1 (2.70%) Hadoop
3 1 (2.70%) Kdb+
3 1 (2.70%) Metadata
3 1 (2.70%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.70%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.70%) Snowflake Schema
3 1 (2.70%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (13.51%) Git
2 3 (8.11%) GitLab
3 2 (5.41%) Jenkins
3 2 (5.41%) JIRA
3 2 (5.41%) Subversion
4 1 (2.70%) CMake
4 1 (2.70%) ER Studio
4 1 (2.70%) ERwin
4 1 (2.70%) PowerDesigner
General
1 17 (45.95%) Social Skills
2 8 (21.62%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (21.62%) Finance
3 7 (18.92%) Banking
4 4 (10.81%) Public Sector
5 3 (8.11%) Investment Banking
6 2 (5.41%) Front Office
6 2 (5.41%) Games
6 2 (5.41%) Japanese Language
7 1 (2.70%) Electronics
7 1 (2.70%) Korean Language
7 1 (2.70%) Manufacturing
7 1 (2.70%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (2.70%) Polish Language
7 1 (2.70%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (21.62%) Developer
2 5 (13.51%) Analyst
3 3 (8.11%) Embedded Engineer
3 3 (8.11%) Network Engineer
3 3 (8.11%) Quantitative Developer
3 3 (8.11%) Senior
4 2 (5.41%) Architect
4 2 (5.41%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (5.41%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 2 (5.41%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (5.41%) Data Engineer
4 2 (5.41%) Database Developer
4 2 (5.41%) Development Engineer
4 2 (5.41%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (5.41%) Oracle Database Developer
4 2 (5.41%) Oracle Developer
4 2 (5.41%) Python Engineer
5 1 (2.70%) Build Engineer
5 1 (2.70%) Firmware Engineer
5 1 (2.70%) Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (10.81%) .NET
2 3 (8.11%) JSON
3 2 (5.41%) ARM Templates
3 2 (5.41%) HTML
3 2 (5.41%) HTML5
3 2 (5.41%) Kafka
3 2 (5.41%) Middleware
3 2 (5.41%) WebSphere MQ
3 2 (5.41%) XML
4 1 (2.70%) Bazel
4 1 (2.70%) FastAPI
4 1 (2.70%) Flask
4 1 (2.70%) Pandas
4 1 (2.70%) PyQt
4 1 (2.70%) PyTorch
4 1 (2.70%) REST
4 1 (2.70%) scikit-learn
4 1 (2.70%) Streamlit
4 1 (2.70%) TensorFlow
4 1 (2.70%) WebAssembly
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.81%) Distributed Systems
1 4 (10.81%) Embedded Systems
2 3 (8.11%) Fixed Income
2 3 (8.11%) IoT
3 2 (5.41%) Data Structures
3 2 (5.41%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (5.41%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 1 (2.70%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.70%) CUDA
4 1 (2.70%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (2.70%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.70%) Legacy Code
4 1 (2.70%) Life Science
4 1 (2.70%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (2.70%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.70%) PlayStation
4 1 (2.70%) Reference Data
4 1 (2.70%) Security Operations Centre
4 1 (2.70%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 1 (2.70%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 14 (37.84%) Linux
2 4 (10.81%) Windows
3 3 (8.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (8.11%) Unix
4 1 (2.70%) Android
4 1 (2.70%) Apple iOS
4 1 (2.70%) Mac OS
4 1 (2.70%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (24.32%) DevOps
2 8 (21.62%) CI/CD
3 7 (18.92%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (16.22%) AI
4 6 (16.22%) Infrastructure as Code
4 6 (16.22%) Software Engineering
5 5 (13.51%) Agile
5 5 (13.51%) High Availability
6 4 (10.81%) SDLC
6 4 (10.81%) Technical Leadership
7 3 (8.11%) Analytics
7 3 (8.11%) Capacity Planning
7 3 (8.11%) Containerisation
7 3 (8.11%) Data Science
7 3 (8.11%) Low Latency
7 3 (8.11%) Performance Engineering
7 3 (8.11%) Refactoring
7 3 (8.11%) Risk Management
7 3 (8.11%) Roadmaps
7 3 (8.11%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 24 (64.86%) Python
2 20 (54.05%) C++
3 13 (35.14%) SQL
4 6 (16.22%) Java
5 5 (13.51%) Bash
5 5 (13.51%) PL/SQL
6 4 (10.81%) C#
7 3 (8.11%) Shell Script
8 2 (5.41%) JavaScript
8 2 (5.41%) PowerShell
8 2 (5.41%) ProC
9 1 (2.70%) Bicep
9 1 (2.70%) Embedded C
9 1 (2.70%) Embedded C++
9 1 (2.70%) Erlang
9 1 (2.70%) Fortran
9 1 (2.70%) Groovy
9 1 (2.70%) Objective-C
9 1 (2.70%) Rust
9 1 (2.70%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (18.92%) Degree
1 7 (18.92%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.41%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.70%) Azure Certification
3 1 (2.70%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (2.70%) CompTIA CySA+
3 1 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.70%) DV Cleared
3 1 (2.70%) GCIA
3 1 (2.70%) GCIH
3 1 (2.70%) GIAC
3 1 (2.70%) Master's Degree
3 1 (2.70%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.41%) ISO 15022
1 2 (5.41%) ISO 20022
1 2 (5.41%) QA
2 1 (2.70%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.70%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.70%) IFRS
2 1 (2.70%) IFRS 9
2 1 (2.70%) NCSC
2 1 (2.70%) NIST
2 1 (2.70%) NIST 800
System Software
1 6 (16.22%) Docker
2 3 (8.11%) Firmware
3 2 (5.41%) Active Directory
3 2 (5.41%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (5.41%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (2.70%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (2.70%) FreeRADIUS
4 1 (2.70%) KVM
4 1 (2.70%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 1 (2.70%) Squid
Systems Management
1 6 (16.22%) Kubernetes
1 6 (16.22%) Terraform
2 4 (10.81%) Ansible
3 1 (2.70%) Packer
3 1 (2.70%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (13.51%) Oracle
2 3 (8.11%) Cisco
3 2 (5.41%) IBM
3 2 (5.41%) Perforce
3 2 (5.41%) Sitecore
3 2 (5.41%) VMware
4 1 (2.70%) Databricks
4 1 (2.70%) Google
4 1 (2.70%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.70%) PagerDuty
4 1 (2.70%) Red Hat
4 1 (2.70%) SAP
4 1 (2.70%) Trend Micro
4 1 (2.70%) Virgin Media