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 23 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 419 314 290
Rank change year-on-year -105 -24 +25
Contract jobs citing C 39 55 92
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.19% 0.41% 0.57%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.61% 1.06% 1.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 34 61
10th Percentile £332 £329 £400
25th Percentile £350 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £593 £513
Median % change year-on-year -11.47% +15.71% -26.79%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £638
90th Percentile £810 £775 £863
England median daily rate £492 £547 £538
% change year-on-year -9.93% +1.58% -2.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 3
10th Percentile £27.88 - £51.73
25th Percentile £30.31 - £56.94
Median hourly rate £36.25 - £68.75
75th Percentile £42.81 - £71.88
90th Percentile £45.63 - -
England median hourly rate £67.50 £68.00 £68.13
% change year-on-year -0.74% -0.18% +4.81%

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 6,362 5,187 6,478
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 31.53% 38.50% 39.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,275 3,613 4,792
10th Percentile £384 £375 £373
25th Percentile £450 £430 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £660 £700 £710
90th Percentile £775 £825 £850
England median daily rate £525 £515 £550
% change year-on-year +1.94% -6.36% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 60 40
10th Percentile £27.87 £26.31 £25.11
25th Percentile £36.25 £33.25 £38.31
Median hourly rate £52.50 £44.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +19.32% -7.37% -24.60%
75th Percentile £73.00 £62.31 £57.50
90th Percentile £88.75 £86.25 £75.13
England median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +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 23 August 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 23 August 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 23 August 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 -18 2 - - 2
East London - 2 £334 - 3
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 (5.13%) WebSphere
2 1 (2.56%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.56%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 7 (17.95%) AWS
2 6 (15.38%) Azure
3 5 (12.82%) IaaS
4 3 (7.69%) Amazon S3
4 3 (7.69%) GitHub
5 2 (5.13%) AWS IoT
5 2 (5.13%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (5.13%) GitHub Copilot
5 2 (5.13%) SaaS
5 2 (5.13%) Serverless
6 1 (2.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (2.56%) Amazon EventBridge
6 1 (2.56%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (2.56%) AWS CloudTrail
6 1 (2.56%) Azure AKS
6 1 (2.56%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.56%) Datadog
6 1 (2.56%) Entra ID
6 1 (2.56%) Google Drive
6 1 (2.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (10.26%) TCP/IP
2 3 (7.69%) Internet
2 3 (7.69%) MQTT
2 3 (7.69%) VXLAN
3 2 (5.13%) DNS
4 1 (2.56%) 2G
4 1 (2.56%) 3G
4 1 (2.56%) 4G
4 1 (2.56%) Bluetooth
4 1 (2.56%) Firewall
4 1 (2.56%) HTTP
4 1 (2.56%) Network Security
4 1 (2.56%) SAN
4 1 (2.56%) SCCP
4 1 (2.56%) SS7
4 1 (2.56%) SSL
4 1 (2.56%) TCAP
4 1 (2.56%) tcpdump
4 1 (2.56%) WAN
4 1 (2.56%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.69%) NoSQL
2 2 (5.13%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (5.13%) Oracle Database
2 2 (5.13%) SQLPlus
3 1 (2.56%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (2.56%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (2.56%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (2.56%) Apache Hudi
3 1 (2.56%) Apache Iceberg
3 1 (2.56%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (2.56%) Big Data
3 1 (2.56%) Data Lake
3 1 (2.56%) KDB
3 1 (2.56%) Kdb+
3 1 (2.56%) Metadata
3 1 (2.56%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.56%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.56%) Power BI
3 1 (2.56%) Snowflake Schema
3 1 (2.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (23.08%) Git
2 7 (17.95%) Jenkins
3 2 (5.13%) JIRA
3 2 (5.13%) Subversion
4 1 (2.56%) CMake
4 1 (2.56%) ER Studio
4 1 (2.56%) ERwin
4 1 (2.56%) GitLab
4 1 (2.56%) PetaLinux
4 1 (2.56%) PowerDesigner
General
1 18 (46.15%) Social Skills
2 8 (20.51%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (20.51%) Finance
3 7 (17.95%) Banking
4 4 (10.26%) Public Sector
5 3 (7.69%) Front Office
5 3 (7.69%) Investment Banking
6 2 (5.13%) Games
6 2 (5.13%) Japanese Language
7 1 (2.56%) Back Office
7 1 (2.56%) Electronics
7 1 (2.56%) Korean Language
7 1 (2.56%) Polish Language
7 1 (2.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (12.82%) Analyst
1 5 (12.82%) Developer
1 5 (12.82%) Senior
2 4 (10.26%) Linux Engineer
3 3 (7.69%) Architect
3 3 (7.69%) Embedded Engineer
3 3 (7.69%) Network Engineer
4 2 (5.13%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (5.13%) Database Developer
4 2 (5.13%) Firmware Engineer
4 2 (5.13%) Lead
4 2 (5.13%) Lead Architect
4 2 (5.13%) Linux Systems Engineer
4 2 (5.13%) Oracle Database Developer
4 2 (5.13%) Oracle Developer
4 2 (5.13%) Senior Architect
4 2 (5.13%) Senior Technical Architect
4 2 (5.13%) Systems Engineer
4 2 (5.13%) Technical Architect
4 2 (5.13%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (10.26%) Terraform
2 3 (7.69%) .NET
2 3 (7.69%) JSON
2 3 (7.69%) Middleware
3 2 (5.13%) HTML
3 2 (5.13%) HTML5
3 2 (5.13%) WebSphere MQ
3 2 (5.13%) XML
4 1 (2.56%) Boost C++ Libraries
4 1 (2.56%) FIX Protocol
4 1 (2.56%) Flask
4 1 (2.56%) Kafka
4 1 (2.56%) NumPy
4 1 (2.56%) Pandas
4 1 (2.56%) PyQt
4 1 (2.56%) REST
4 1 (2.56%) TensorFlow
4 1 (2.56%) YAML
4 1 (2.56%) Yocto
4 1 (2.56%) ZeroMQ
Miscellaneous
1 5 (12.82%) Embedded Systems
1 5 (12.82%) Private Cloud
2 4 (10.26%) Data Protection Act
2 4 (10.26%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (10.26%) IoT
3 3 (7.69%) Fixed Income
3 3 (7.69%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (7.69%) Virtual Team
4 2 (5.13%) Data Structures
4 2 (5.13%) Derivative
4 2 (5.13%) Device Driver
4 2 (5.13%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 1 (2.56%) Algorithms
5 1 (2.56%) Credit Risk
5 1 (2.56%) CUDA
5 1 (2.56%) Equity Derivative
5 1 (2.56%) FPGA
5 1 (2.56%) Interest Rate Derivative
5 1 (2.56%) Mobile Games
5 1 (2.56%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 19 (48.72%) Linux
2 9 (23.08%) Unix
3 8 (20.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (12.82%) Windows
5 1 (2.56%) Android
5 1 (2.56%) Apple iOS
5 1 (2.56%) Embedded Linux
5 1 (2.56%) FreeRTOS
5 1 (2.56%) Mac OS
5 1 (2.56%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (30.77%) CI/CD
2 10 (25.64%) DevOps
3 6 (15.38%) AI
3 6 (15.38%) Configuration Management
3 6 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (15.38%) Test Automation
4 5 (12.82%) Agile
4 5 (12.82%) High Availability
4 5 (12.82%) Open Source
4 5 (12.82%) Software Engineering
4 5 (12.82%) Technical Leadership
5 4 (10.26%) Data Protection
5 4 (10.26%) Infrastructure Automation
5 4 (10.26%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 4 (10.26%) Performance Engineering
5 4 (10.26%) Root Cause Analysis
6 3 (7.69%) Event-Driven
6 3 (7.69%) Infrastructure as Code
6 3 (7.69%) SDLC
6 3 (7.69%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 24 (61.54%) C++
1 24 (61.54%) Python
2 10 (25.64%) SQL
3 6 (15.38%) Java
4 5 (12.82%) Perl
4 5 (12.82%) PL/SQL
5 4 (10.26%) C#
6 2 (5.13%) Bash
6 2 (5.13%) JavaScript
6 2 (5.13%) PowerShell
6 2 (5.13%) ProC
7 1 (2.56%) Bicep
7 1 (2.56%) Embedded C
7 1 (2.56%) Embedded C++
7 1 (2.56%) Fortran
7 1 (2.56%) Groovy
7 1 (2.56%) Objective-C
7 1 (2.56%) Rust
7 1 (2.56%) Shell Script
7 1 (2.56%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (23.08%) Degree
2 8 (20.51%) Security Cleared
3 4 (10.26%) SC Cleared
4 2 (5.13%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.56%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.56%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (2.56%) CompTIA CySA+
5 1 (2.56%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.56%) GCIA
5 1 (2.56%) GCIH
5 1 (2.56%) GIAC
5 1 (2.56%) Master's Degree
5 1 (2.56%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.13%) ISO 15022
1 2 (5.13%) ISO 20022
1 2 (5.13%) QA
2 1 (2.56%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.56%) IFRS
2 1 (2.56%) IFRS 9
2 1 (2.56%) NCSC
2 1 (2.56%) NIST
2 1 (2.56%) NIST 800
System Software
1 4 (10.26%) Firmware
2 3 (7.69%) Docker
3 2 (5.13%) Active Directory
3 2 (5.13%) Embedded Firmware
3 2 (5.13%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (2.56%) FreeRADIUS
4 1 (2.56%) KVM
4 1 (2.56%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 1 (2.56%) Squid
Systems Management
1 6 (15.38%) Kubernetes
1 6 (15.38%) Puppet
2 5 (12.82%) Progress Chef
3 2 (5.13%) Ansible
4 1 (2.56%) Packer
Vendors
1 5 (12.82%) Oracle
1 5 (12.82%) Red Hat
1 5 (12.82%) SaltStack
2 3 (7.69%) Cisco
3 2 (5.13%) IBM
3 2 (5.13%) Perforce
3 2 (5.13%) Sitecore
3 2 (5.13%) VMware
4 1 (2.56%) Calypso
4 1 (2.56%) Databricks
4 1 (2.56%) Google
4 1 (2.56%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.56%) PagerDuty
4 1 (2.56%) Trend Micro
4 1 (2.56%) Virgin Media
4 1 (2.56%) Xilinx