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

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 335 283 313
Rank change year-on-year -52 +30 -18
Contract jobs citing C 50 103 107
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.36% 0.66% 0.53%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.94% 1.68% 1.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 63 78
10th Percentile £425 £412 £350
25th Percentile £463 £486 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £593 £550 £625
Median % change year-on-year +7.82% -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £688 £810 £800
90th Percentile £775 £863 £818
England median daily rate £500 £546 £550
% change year-on-year -8.47% -0.68% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 4
10th Percentile - - £31.13
25th Percentile - £48.25 £44.06
Median hourly rate - £49.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year - -5.71% -8.70%
75th Percentile - £50.75 £56.25
90th Percentile - - £60.75
England median hourly rate £68.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.62% - +4.21%

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 5,344 6,140 7,490
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 38.42% 39.10% 37.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,598 4,206 5,626
10th Percentile £370 £368 £400
25th Percentile £430 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £565 £590
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% -4.24% -1.67%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £713
90th Percentile £800 £825 £825
England median daily rate £513 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -4.65% -2.27% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 70 41 67
10th Percentile £22.99 £35.00 £25.60
25th Percentile £31.83 £40.06 £36.27
Median hourly rate £44.95 £49.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.20% -10.00% -4.35%
75th Percentile £63.06 £71.00 £66.05
90th Percentile £87.50 £97.50 £77.50
England median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -0.53%

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 7 November 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 7 November 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 +5 4 £625 -9.42% 79
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 6 (12.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.00%) Confluence
2 1 (2.00%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.00%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 23 (46.00%) AWS
2 17 (34.00%) Azure
3 9 (18.00%) GCP
4 7 (14.00%) GitHub
5 2 (4.00%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (2.00%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.00%) Datadog
6 1 (2.00%) IaaS
6 1 (2.00%) OpenShift
6 1 (2.00%) PaaS
6 1 (2.00%) Power Platform
6 1 (2.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.00%) TCP/IP
2 3 (6.00%) Firewall
3 1 (2.00%) 3GPP
3 1 (2.00%) Anycast
3 1 (2.00%) BGP
3 1 (2.00%) DNS
3 1 (2.00%) Ethernet VPN
3 1 (2.00%) Internet
3 1 (2.00%) LAN
3 1 (2.00%) Network Security
3 1 (2.00%) Radio Access Network
3 1 (2.00%) SMS
3 1 (2.00%) Software-Defined Networking
3 1 (2.00%) VXLAN
3 1 (2.00%) WAN
3 1 (2.00%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (12.00%) Big Data
2 5 (10.00%) HPCC
3 4 (8.00%) Data Mining
4 3 (6.00%) Data Lake
4 3 (6.00%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (2.00%) DB2
5 1 (2.00%) NonStop SQL
5 1 (2.00%) Oracle Database
5 1 (2.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (12.00%) Git
2 5 (10.00%) GitLab
3 4 (8.00%) Clang
3 4 (8.00%) GCC
4 3 (6.00%) Gradle
4 3 (6.00%) Maven
5 1 (2.00%) CANoe
5 1 (2.00%) ClearCase
5 1 (2.00%) CMake
5 1 (2.00%) JIRA
5 1 (2.00%) JMeter
5 1 (2.00%) MSTest
5 1 (2.00%) Selenium
5 1 (2.00%) TensorBoard
5 1 (2.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 21 (42.00%) Finance
2 10 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 8 (16.00%) Public Sector
4 6 (12.00%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (12.00%) Banking
5 5 (10.00%) Telecoms
6 4 (8.00%) Electronics
6 4 (8.00%) Financial Institution
6 4 (8.00%) Investment Banking
6 4 (8.00%) Manufacturing
6 4 (8.00%) Marketing
7 2 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (4.00%) Military
8 1 (2.00%) Automotive
8 1 (2.00%) Back Office
8 1 (2.00%) Front Office
8 1 (2.00%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 15 (30.00%) Developer
2 8 (16.00%) C++ Developer
3 7 (14.00%) Linux Developer
4 6 (12.00%) Machine Learning Engineer
4 6 (12.00%) Software Engineer
5 5 (10.00%) Architect
5 5 (10.00%) AWS Engineer
5 5 (10.00%) Azure Engineer
5 5 (10.00%) Java Engineer
5 5 (10.00%) Senior
6 4 (8.00%) Azure Software Engineer
6 4 (8.00%) Build Engineer
6 4 (8.00%) Data Architect
6 4 (8.00%) FPGA Developer
6 4 (8.00%) Java Software Engineer
6 4 (8.00%) Low Latency C++ Developer
6 4 (8.00%) Market Data Developer
6 4 (8.00%) Unix Developer
7 3 (6.00%) Full-Stack Developer
7 3 (6.00%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (22.00%) HTML
2 6 (12.00%) JSON
2 6 (12.00%) XML
3 5 (10.00%) CSS
4 4 (8.00%) Node.js
4 4 (8.00%) React
4 4 (8.00%) Spring
5 3 (6.00%) AngularJS
5 3 (6.00%) Electron
5 3 (6.00%) JNI
6 2 (4.00%) COM
6 2 (4.00%) STL
7 1 (2.00%) .NET
7 1 (2.00%) eBPF
7 1 (2.00%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (2.00%) PySpark
7 1 (2.00%) PyTorch
7 1 (2.00%) REST
7 1 (2.00%) Spring Boot
7 1 (2.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 6 (12.00%) Distributed Computing
2 5 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (8.00%) FPGA
3 4 (8.00%) Hedge funds
4 2 (4.00%) CBDC
4 2 (4.00%) Cloud Native
4 2 (4.00%) Data Centre
4 2 (4.00%) Digital Currency
4 2 (4.00%) Embedded Systems
4 2 (4.00%) Equities
4 2 (4.00%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (4.00%) Market Risk
4 2 (4.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 1 (2.00%) Algorithms
5 1 (2.00%) Blockchain
5 1 (2.00%) Data Structures
5 1 (2.00%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (2.00%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (2.00%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 20 (40.00%) Linux
2 13 (26.00%) Windows
3 11 (22.00%) Unix
4 3 (6.00%) CentOS
4 3 (6.00%) Mac OS
5 1 (2.00%) Robot Operating System
5 1 (2.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (22.00%) Software Engineering
2 9 (18.00%) Agile
2 9 (18.00%) Low Latency
3 8 (16.00%) Computer Science
3 8 (16.00%) Machine Learning
3 8 (16.00%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (14.00%) CI/CD
4 7 (14.00%) TDD
5 6 (12.00%) AI
5 6 (12.00%) Code Coverage
5 6 (12.00%) Deep Learning
5 6 (12.00%) DevOps
6 5 (10.00%) Product Requirements
6 5 (10.00%) Waterfall
7 4 (8.00%) Build Automation
7 4 (8.00%) Data Governance
7 4 (8.00%) Data Modelling
7 4 (8.00%) Data Pipeline
7 4 (8.00%) ETL
7 4 (8.00%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 37 (74.00%) C++
2 36 (72.00%) Python
3 27 (54.00%) Java
4 13 (26.00%) SQL
5 8 (16.00%) Perl
5 8 (16.00%) Shell Script
6 7 (14.00%) Bash
6 7 (14.00%) JavaScript
7 6 (12.00%) PowerShell
8 5 (10.00%) C#
8 5 (10.00%) Rust
9 4 (8.00%) PL/SQL
10 3 (6.00%) Go
11 1 (2.00%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 10 (20.00%) Degree
2 8 (16.00%) Security Cleared
3 6 (12.00%) SC Cleared
4 5 (10.00%) Master's Degree
4 5 (10.00%) PhD
5 3 (6.00%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (2.00%) CCIE
6 1 (2.00%) CCSAS
6 1 (2.00%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (2.00%) CISSP
6 1 (2.00%) GPEN
6 1 (2.00%) GWAPT
6 1 (2.00%) GXPN
6 1 (2.00%) ISTQB
6 1 (2.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (2.00%) JNCIE
6 1 (2.00%) OSCE
6 1 (2.00%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.00%) QA
2 1 (2.00%) AUTOSAR
2 1 (2.00%) HMG Security Policy Framework
2 1 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 9 (18.00%) Docker
2 2 (4.00%) Firmware
3 1 (2.00%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.00%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (2.00%) KVM
3 1 (2.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (8.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (6.00%) Terraform
3 1 (2.00%) Ansible
3 1 (2.00%) Grafana
3 1 (2.00%) ITRS Geneos
3 1 (2.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (14.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (10.00%) Oracle
2 5 (10.00%) SAP
3 4 (8.00%) Red Hat
4 2 (4.00%) HP
4 2 (4.00%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.00%) Apple
5 1 (2.00%) Arista
5 1 (2.00%) Cisco
5 1 (2.00%) Databricks
5 1 (2.00%) Dynatrace
5 1 (2.00%) IBM
5 1 (2.00%) NetApp
5 1 (2.00%) Salesforce
5 1 (2.00%) Splunk
5 1 (2.00%) VMware
5 1 (2.00%) Wind River