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

6 months to
16 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 403 310 292
Rank change year-on-year -93 -18 +23
Contract jobs citing C 39 58 92
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.19% 0.43% 0.57%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.62% 1.11% 1.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 35 60
10th Percentile £332 £318 £398
25th Percentile £350 £425 £462
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £586 £513
Median % change year-on-year -10.41% +14.34% -21.15%
75th Percentile £638 £672 £628
90th Percentile £810 £735 £863
England median daily rate £496 £539 £538
% change year-on-year -7.91% +0.14% -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 £67.25
% change year-on-year -0.74% +1.12% +3.46%

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 6,330 5,206 6,445
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 31.34% 38.38% 39.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,234 3,635 4,814
10th Percentile £381 £370 £375
25th Percentile £450 £426 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £660 £700 £713
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 51 56 42
10th Percentile £31.03 £26.86 £23.80
25th Percentile £36.25 £33.25 £31.71
Median hourly rate £52.50 £44.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +19.32% -7.37% -22.90%
75th Percentile £73.00 £62.69 £57.50
90th Percentile £88.75 £86.25 £74.69
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 16 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 16 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 16 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 -13 2 - - 8
East London - 2 £334 - 4
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 ECS
6 1 (2.56%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (2.56%) AWS KMS
6 1 (2.56%) AWS Step Functions
6 1 (2.56%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (2.56%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.56%) Azure Storage
6 1 (2.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (2.56%) Cohesity
6 1 (2.56%) Power Platform
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%) Bluetooth
4 1 (2.56%) Firewall
4 1 (2.56%) HTTP
4 1 (2.56%) LTE
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%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (5.13%) NoSQL
1 2 (5.13%) Oracle Database
1 2 (5.13%) SQLPlus
2 1 (2.56%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (2.56%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (2.56%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (2.56%) Apache Hudi
2 1 (2.56%) Apache Iceberg
2 1 (2.56%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (2.56%) Big Data
2 1 (2.56%) Data Lake
2 1 (2.56%) KDB
2 1 (2.56%) Kdb+
2 1 (2.56%) Metadata
2 1 (2.56%) MongoDB
2 1 (2.56%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.56%) Power BI
2 1 (2.56%) Snowflake Schema
2 1 (2.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (25.64%) 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%) 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
2 4 (10.26%) Embedded Engineer
2 4 (10.26%) Linux Engineer
2 4 (10.26%) Senior
3 3 (7.69%) Architect
3 3 (7.69%) Network 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%) Quantitative 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 3 (7.69%) .NET
1 3 (7.69%) JSON
1 3 (7.69%) Middleware
2 2 (5.13%) HTML
2 2 (5.13%) HTML5
2 2 (5.13%) WebSphere MQ
2 2 (5.13%) XML
3 1 (2.56%) Bazel
3 1 (2.56%) FastAPI
3 1 (2.56%) Flask
3 1 (2.56%) Kafka
3 1 (2.56%) NumPy
3 1 (2.56%) Pandas
3 1 (2.56%) PyQt
3 1 (2.56%) PyTorch
3 1 (2.56%) REST
3 1 (2.56%) scikit-learn
3 1 (2.56%) TensorFlow
3 1 (2.56%) Yocto
3 1 (2.56%) ZeroMQ
Miscellaneous
1 6 (15.38%) Embedded Systems
2 5 (12.82%) Private Cloud
3 4 (10.26%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (10.26%) IoT
4 3 (7.69%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (7.69%) Fixed Income
4 3 (7.69%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (7.69%) Virtual Team
5 2 (5.13%) Device Driver
5 2 (5.13%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 1 (2.56%) ARM Cortex
6 1 (2.56%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (2.56%) Data Structures
6 1 (2.56%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (2.56%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (2.56%) Mobile Games
6 1 (2.56%) Onboarding
6 1 (2.56%) PlayStation
6 1 (2.56%) Security Operations Centre
6 1 (2.56%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 21 (53.85%) 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 11 (28.21%) CI/CD
2 10 (25.64%) DevOps
3 7 (17.95%) Software Engineering
4 6 (15.38%) Configuration Management
4 6 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (15.38%) Test Automation
5 5 (12.82%) Agile
5 5 (12.82%) AI
5 5 (12.82%) High Availability
5 5 (12.82%) Open Source
5 5 (12.82%) Technical Leadership
6 4 (10.26%) Infrastructure Automation
6 4 (10.26%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 4 (10.26%) Low Latency
6 4 (10.26%) Performance Engineering
6 4 (10.26%) Root Cause Analysis
7 3 (7.69%) Concurrent Programming
7 3 (7.69%) Infrastructure as Code
7 3 (7.69%) Performance Tuning
7 3 (7.69%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 25 (64.10%) C++
2 24 (61.54%) Python
3 9 (23.08%) SQL
4 6 (15.38%) Java
5 5 (12.82%) Perl
5 5 (12.82%) PL/SQL
6 4 (10.26%) C#
7 3 (7.69%) Bash
8 2 (5.13%) JavaScript
8 2 (5.13%) PowerShell
8 2 (5.13%) ProC
8 2 (5.13%) Shell Script
9 1 (2.56%) Bicep
9 1 (2.56%) Embedded C
9 1 (2.56%) Embedded C++
9 1 (2.56%) Fortran
9 1 (2.56%) Groovy
9 1 (2.56%) Objective-C
9 1 (2.56%) Rust
9 1 (2.56%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (23.08%) Security Cleared
2 8 (20.51%) Degree
3 4 (10.26%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.56%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.56%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.56%) CompTIA CySA+
4 1 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.56%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.56%) GCIA
4 1 (2.56%) GCIH
4 1 (2.56%) GIAC
4 1 (2.56%) Master's Degree
4 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 4 (10.26%) Terraform
4 2 (5.13%) Ansible
5 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%) 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