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 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 330 286 324
Rank change year-on-year -44 +38 -45
Contract jobs citing C 43 100 100
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.31% 0.64% 0.51%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.80% 1.65% 1.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 60 70
10th Percentile £358 £451 £325
25th Percentile £425 £475 £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £559 £567 £613
Median % change year-on-year -1.32% -7.51% +2.08%
75th Percentile £647 £810 £778
90th Percentile £675 £864 £813
England median daily rate £500 £528 £550
% change year-on-year -5.21% -4.09% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £29.50
25th Percentile - - £40.00
Median hourly rate - - £60.00
75th Percentile - - £63.13
90th Percentile - - £63.50
England median hourly rate £67.50 £66.25 £65.00
% change year-on-year +1.89% +1.92% +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 5,342 6,060 7,190
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 38.06% 38.66% 36.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,593 4,122 5,399
10th Percentile £363 £373 £394
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £670 £700 £700
90th Percentile £788 £825 £810
England median daily rate £513 £545 £550
% change year-on-year -5.96% -0.91% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 63 41 68
10th Percentile £25.29 £35.75 £26.11
25th Percentile £33.88 £40.06 £36.70
Median hourly rate £47.50 £52.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £65.63 £68.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £86.00 £97.50 £74.06
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £61.92
% change year-on-year - +4.97% -0.93%

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 December 2025.

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 December 2025. 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 -3 3 £453 -14.62% 17
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 (4.65%) Confluence
2 1 (2.33%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.33%) OpenStack
2 1 (2.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.33%) Actimize
1 1 (2.33%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 17 (39.53%) AWS
2 15 (34.88%) Azure
3 8 (18.60%) GCP
3 8 (18.60%) GitHub
4 2 (4.65%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (2.33%) Amazon Kinesis
5 1 (2.33%) Amazon S3
5 1 (2.33%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (2.33%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (2.33%) Datadog
5 1 (2.33%) IaaS
5 1 (2.33%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (2.33%) OneDrive
5 1 (2.33%) OpenShift
5 1 (2.33%) PaaS
5 1 (2.33%) Power Platform
5 1 (2.33%) SaaS
5 1 (2.33%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 4 (9.30%) TCP/IP
2 2 (4.65%) Ethernet
2 2 (4.65%) Firewall
2 2 (4.65%) Modbus
2 2 (4.65%) RS-232
2 2 (4.65%) RS-485
3 1 (2.33%) 3GPP
3 1 (2.33%) Anycast
3 1 (2.33%) BGP
3 1 (2.33%) DNS
3 1 (2.33%) Ethernet VPN
3 1 (2.33%) Network Security
3 1 (2.33%) Radio Access Network
3 1 (2.33%) Software-Defined Networking
3 1 (2.33%) VXLAN
3 1 (2.33%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.98%) Big Data
1 3 (6.98%) Data Lake
1 3 (6.98%) Elasticsearch
1 3 (6.98%) HPCC
2 1 (2.33%) Data Mining
2 1 (2.33%) Metadata
2 1 (2.33%) NonStop SQL
2 1 (2.33%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 4 (9.30%) Clang
1 4 (9.30%) GCC
1 4 (9.30%) GitLab
2 3 (6.98%) Git
2 3 (6.98%) Gradle
2 3 (6.98%) Maven
3 2 (4.65%) JIRA
4 1 (2.33%) CANoe
4 1 (2.33%) ClearCase
4 1 (2.33%) CMake
4 1 (2.33%) Jenkins
4 1 (2.33%) JMeter
4 1 (2.33%) MSTest
4 1 (2.33%) Selenium
4 1 (2.33%) TensorBoard
4 1 (2.33%) Visual Studio
General
1 20 (46.51%) Finance
2 9 (20.93%) Public Sector
2 9 (20.93%) Social Skills
3 5 (11.63%) Telecoms
4 4 (9.30%) Electronics
4 4 (9.30%) Financial Institution
4 4 (9.30%) Manufacturing
4 4 (9.30%) Marketing
5 3 (6.98%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (6.98%) Banking
6 2 (4.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (4.65%) Military
7 1 (2.33%) Automotive
7 1 (2.33%) Back Office
7 1 (2.33%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.33%) Health Technology
7 1 (2.33%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 12 (27.91%) Developer
2 7 (16.28%) Linux Developer
3 6 (13.95%) Architect
3 6 (13.95%) Senior
4 5 (11.63%) C++ Developer
4 5 (11.63%) Software Engineer
5 4 (9.30%) Build Engineer
5 4 (9.30%) Data Architect
5 4 (9.30%) FPGA Developer
5 4 (9.30%) Low Latency C++ Developer
5 4 (9.30%) Market Data Developer
6 3 (6.98%) Azure Engineer
6 3 (6.98%) Azure Software Engineer
6 3 (6.98%) Full-Stack Developer
6 3 (6.98%) Java Engineer
6 3 (6.98%) Java Software Engineer
6 3 (6.98%) Lead
6 3 (6.98%) Unix Developer
7 2 (4.65%) Senior Software Engineer
7 2 (4.65%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (20.93%) HTML
2 5 (11.63%) CSS
3 4 (9.30%) JSON
4 3 (6.98%) AngularJS
4 3 (6.98%) Electron
4 3 (6.98%) JNI
4 3 (6.98%) Node.js
4 3 (6.98%) React
4 3 (6.98%) Spring
4 3 (6.98%) XML
5 1 (2.33%) .NET
5 1 (2.33%) Beautiful Soup
5 1 (2.33%) COM
5 1 (2.33%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (2.33%) Kafka
5 1 (2.33%) Middleware
5 1 (2.33%) Pandas
5 1 (2.33%) REST
5 1 (2.33%) RESTful
5 1 (2.33%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 4 (9.30%) FPGA
1 4 (9.30%) Hedge funds
2 3 (6.98%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (6.98%) Embedded Systems
3 2 (4.65%) CBDC
3 2 (4.65%) Cloud Native
3 2 (4.65%) Digital Currency
3 2 (4.65%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.33%) Algorithms
4 1 (2.33%) Arduino
4 1 (2.33%) Blockchain
4 1 (2.33%) Credit Risk
4 1 (2.33%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.33%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.33%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.33%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (2.33%) Robotics
4 1 (2.33%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.33%) Tandem
4 1 (2.33%) Verilog
Operating Systems
1 16 (37.21%) Linux
2 10 (23.26%) Windows
3 7 (16.28%) Unix
4 3 (6.98%) CentOS
4 3 (6.98%) Mac OS
5 2 (4.65%) FreeRTOS
6 1 (2.33%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (25.58%) Software Engineering
2 8 (18.60%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (16.28%) Agile
3 7 (16.28%) CI/CD
3 7 (16.28%) Computer Science
3 7 (16.28%) DevOps
4 5 (11.63%) Data Governance
4 5 (11.63%) Data Pipeline
4 5 (11.63%) ETL
4 5 (11.63%) Low Latency
4 5 (11.63%) TDD
5 4 (9.30%) AI
5 4 (9.30%) Build Automation
5 4 (9.30%) Business Intelligence
5 4 (9.30%) Code Coverage
5 4 (9.30%) Digital Marketing
5 4 (9.30%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (9.30%) Programme Management
5 4 (9.30%) SDLC
5 4 (9.30%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 29 (67.44%) C++
2 28 (65.12%) Python
3 17 (39.53%) Java
4 9 (20.93%) SQL
5 8 (18.60%) Perl
6 7 (16.28%) JavaScript
7 6 (13.95%) Bash
8 5 (11.63%) PL/SQL
8 5 (11.63%) PowerShell
8 5 (11.63%) Rust
9 3 (6.98%) C#
9 3 (6.98%) Go
10 2 (4.65%) Embedded C
10 2 (4.65%) Embedded C++
10 2 (4.65%) Shell Script
11 1 (2.33%) ProC
11 1 (2.33%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 8 (18.60%) Security Cleared
2 6 (13.95%) Degree
2 6 (13.95%) SC Cleared
3 3 (6.98%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.33%) CCIE
4 1 (2.33%) CCSAS
4 1 (2.33%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (2.33%) CISSP
4 1 (2.33%) GPEN
4 1 (2.33%) GWAPT
4 1 (2.33%) GXPN
4 1 (2.33%) ISTQB
4 1 (2.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 1 (2.33%) JNCIE
4 1 (2.33%) Master's Degree
4 1 (2.33%) OSCE
4 1 (2.33%) OSCP
4 1 (2.33%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.65%) QA
2 1 (2.33%) AUTOSAR
2 1 (2.33%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.33%) HMG Security Policy Framework
2 1 (2.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.33%) MiFID
System Software
1 9 (20.93%) Docker
2 4 (9.30%) Firmware
3 3 (6.98%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (2.33%) Active Directory
4 1 (2.33%) KVM
4 1 (2.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (9.30%) Kubernetes
1 4 (9.30%) Terraform
2 1 (2.33%) Ansible
2 1 (2.33%) Grafana
2 1 (2.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (13.95%) Microsoft
1 6 (13.95%) Oracle
2 5 (11.63%) SAP
3 4 (9.30%) Red Hat
4 2 (4.65%) Cisco
4 2 (4.65%) HP
5 1 (2.33%) Apple
5 1 (2.33%) Arista
5 1 (2.33%) Bloomberg
5 1 (2.33%) NetApp
5 1 (2.33%) Proofpoint
5 1 (2.33%) Refinitiv
5 1 (2.33%) Salesforce
5 1 (2.33%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.33%) Veritas
5 1 (2.33%) VMware
5 1 (2.33%) Wind River