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

6 months to
30 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 411 316 298
Rank change year-on-year -95 -18 +23
Contract jobs citing C 39 57 96
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.19% 0.42% 0.59%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.61% 1.10% 1.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 34 65
10th Percentile £331 £329 £400
25th Percentile £350 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £593 £530
Median % change year-on-year -13.58% +11.89% -24.29%
75th Percentile £641 £675 £675
90th Percentile £826 £775 £863
England median daily rate £473 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -14.00% +2.23% -3.93%
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 £68.00 £68.00 £69.38
% change year-on-year - -1.98% +6.73%

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 6,366 5,182 6,460
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 31.45% 38.48% 39.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,275 3,605 4,752
10th Percentile £381 £375 £375
25th Percentile £450 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £660 £688 £710
90th Percentile £775 £825 £850
England median daily rate £525 £514 £550
% change year-on-year +2.14% -6.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 62 40
10th Percentile £27.87 £26.43 £25.11
25th Percentile £36.25 £33.25 £38.31
Median hourly rate £52.50 £44.70 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +17.46% -5.90% -20.83%
75th Percentile £73.00 £63.06 £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 30 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 30 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 30 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 -19 2 - - 2
East London - 2 £334 - 5
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 (7.69%) WebSphere
2 1 (2.56%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 6 (15.38%) AWS
1 6 (15.38%) Azure
1 6 (15.38%) IaaS
2 3 (7.69%) GitHub
3 2 (5.13%) Amazon S3
3 2 (5.13%) AWS IoT
3 2 (5.13%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (5.13%) GitHub Copilot
3 2 (5.13%) SaaS
3 2 (5.13%) Serverless
4 1 (2.56%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (2.56%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (2.56%) Amazon EventBridge
4 1 (2.56%) Azure AKS
4 1 (2.56%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (2.56%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (2.56%) Entra ID
4 1 (2.56%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (2.56%) Google Drive
4 1 (2.56%) Nutanix
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%) WAN
4 1 (2.56%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (2.56%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.13%) NoSQL
1 2 (5.13%) Oracle Database
1 2 (5.13%) SQLPlus
2 1 (2.56%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (2.56%) Big Data
2 1 (2.56%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (2.56%) KDB
2 1 (2.56%) Kdb+
2 1 (2.56%) Power BI
2 1 (2.56%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 10 (25.64%) Git
2 8 (20.51%) Jenkins
3 2 (5.13%) JIRA
3 2 (5.13%) Subversion
4 1 (2.56%) CMake
4 1 (2.56%) GitLab
4 1 (2.56%) PetaLinux
General
1 18 (46.15%) Social Skills
2 8 (20.51%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (17.95%) Banking
3 7 (17.95%) Finance
4 3 (7.69%) Front Office
4 3 (7.69%) Investment Banking
4 3 (7.69%) Public Sector
5 2 (5.13%) Games
5 2 (5.13%) Japanese Language
6 1 (2.56%) Back Office
6 1 (2.56%) Electronics
6 1 (2.56%) Korean Language
6 1 (2.56%) Polish Language
6 1 (2.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (15.38%) Analyst
2 5 (12.82%) Developer
2 5 (12.82%) Senior
3 4 (10.26%) Linux Engineer
4 3 (7.69%) Architect
4 3 (7.69%) Network Engineer
5 2 (5.13%) AWS Engineer
5 2 (5.13%) Database Developer
5 2 (5.13%) Embedded Engineer
5 2 (5.13%) Firmware Engineer
5 2 (5.13%) Lead
5 2 (5.13%) Lead Architect
5 2 (5.13%) Linux Systems Engineer
5 2 (5.13%) Oracle Database Developer
5 2 (5.13%) Oracle Developer
5 2 (5.13%) Senior Architect
5 2 (5.13%) Senior Technical Architect
5 2 (5.13%) Systems Engineer
5 2 (5.13%) Technical Architect
5 2 (5.13%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (10.26%) .NET
1 4 (10.26%) JSON
1 4 (10.26%) Middleware
1 4 (10.26%) Terraform
2 3 (7.69%) WebSphere MQ
2 3 (7.69%) XML
3 2 (5.13%) HTML
3 2 (5.13%) HTML5
4 1 (2.56%) Boost C++ Libraries
4 1 (2.56%) FIX Protocol
4 1 (2.56%) Flask
4 1 (2.56%) IBM Integration Bus
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%) scikit-learn
4 1 (2.56%) YAML
4 1 (2.56%) ZeroMQ
Miscellaneous
1 6 (15.38%) Private Cloud
2 4 (10.26%) Data Protection Act
2 4 (10.26%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (10.26%) Embedded Systems
2 4 (10.26%) IoT
3 3 (7.69%) Fixed Income
3 3 (7.69%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (7.69%) SWIFT Messaging Network
3 3 (7.69%) Virtual Team
4 2 (5.13%) Derivative
4 2 (5.13%) Device Driver
5 1 (2.56%) Data Structures
5 1 (2.56%) Equity Derivative
5 1 (2.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (2.56%) FPGA
5 1 (2.56%) Interest Rate Derivative
5 1 (2.56%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.56%) Mobile Games
5 1 (2.56%) Verilog
5 1 (2.56%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 20 (51.28%) Linux
2 10 (25.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 10 (25.64%) Unix
3 5 (12.82%) Windows
4 1 (2.56%) Android
4 1 (2.56%) Apple iOS
4 1 (2.56%) Embedded Linux
4 1 (2.56%) FreeRTOS
4 1 (2.56%) Mac OS
4 1 (2.56%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 11 (28.21%) DevOps
3 7 (17.95%) Configuration Management
3 7 (17.95%) Test Automation
4 6 (15.38%) AI
4 6 (15.38%) Open Source
5 5 (12.82%) Agile
5 5 (12.82%) High Availability
5 5 (12.82%) Infrastructure Automation
5 5 (12.82%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 5 (12.82%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (12.82%) Technical Leadership
6 4 (10.26%) Data Protection
6 4 (10.26%) Performance Engineering
6 4 (10.26%) Root Cause Analysis
6 4 (10.26%) Software Engineering
7 3 (7.69%) Capacity Planning
7 3 (7.69%) Computer Science
7 3 (7.69%) Test Strategy
7 3 (7.69%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 25 (64.10%) C++
2 24 (61.54%) Python
3 10 (25.64%) SQL
4 7 (17.95%) Java
5 6 (15.38%) Perl
6 5 (12.82%) C#
6 5 (12.82%) PL/SQL
7 2 (5.13%) Bash
7 2 (5.13%) JavaScript
7 2 (5.13%) PowerShell
7 2 (5.13%) ProC
7 2 (5.13%) Shell Script
8 1 (2.56%) Bicep
8 1 (2.56%) Embedded C
8 1 (2.56%) Embedded C++
8 1 (2.56%) Fortran
8 1 (2.56%) Groovy
8 1 (2.56%) Objective-C
8 1 (2.56%) Rust
8 1 (2.56%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 9 (23.08%) Degree
2 6 (15.38%) 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 3 (7.69%) ISO 15022
1 3 (7.69%) ISO 20022
2 2 (5.13%) QA
3 1 (2.56%) NCSC
3 1 (2.56%) NIST
3 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 7 (17.95%) Puppet
2 6 (15.38%) Kubernetes
2 6 (15.38%) Progress Chef
3 2 (5.13%) Ansible
4 1 (2.56%) Packer
Vendors
1 6 (15.38%) Red Hat
1 6 (15.38%) SaltStack
2 5 (12.82%) Oracle
3 3 (7.69%) Cisco
3 3 (7.69%) IBM
4 2 (5.13%) Perforce
4 2 (5.13%) Sitecore
4 2 (5.13%) VMware
5 1 (2.56%) Calypso
5 1 (2.56%) Databricks
5 1 (2.56%) Google
5 1 (2.56%) Microsoft
5 1 (2.56%) PagerDuty
5 1 (2.56%) Trend Micro
5 1 (2.56%) Virgin Media
5 1 (2.56%) Xilinx