GCC Contracts in London

GNU Compiler Collection (GCC)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring GCC skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited GCC over the 6 months leading up to 16 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 356 383 444
Rank change year-on-year +27 +61 +166
Contract jobs citing GCC 12 1 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.088% 0.006% 0.11%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.57% 0.044% 0.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 0 17
10th Percentile - - £915
25th Percentile £425 - £1,088
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £763 - £1,125
Median % change year-on-year - - +60.71%
75th Percentile £800 - £1,163
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £763 £500 £1,125
% change year-on-year +52.50% -55.56% +66.05%

All Development Application Skills
London

GCC falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring development application skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 2,107 2,293 3,577
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 15.53% 14.18% 15.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,440 1,594 2,611
10th Percentile £340 £363 £400
25th Percentile £415 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £700
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 21 32
10th Percentile £26.98 £22.00 £37.03
25th Percentile £36.25 £25.99 £54.00
Median hourly rate £45.00 £37.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -46.43% +48.76%
75th Percentile £63.75 £71.25 £80.63
90th Percentile £84.50 £71.88 £90.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +13.04%

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Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing GCC as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for GCC in London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing GCC in London.

Daily rate trend for GCC in London

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Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GCC in London over the 6 months to 16 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GCC in London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing GCC in London.

Hourly rate trend for GCC in London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 6 (50.00%) Azure
2 4 (33.33%) AWS
2 4 (33.33%) GCP
3 2 (16.67%) Azure Data Factory
3 2 (16.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 6 (50.00%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 6 (50.00%) GDB
2 4 (33.33%) Clang
General
1 8 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 6 (50.00%) Banking
2 6 (50.00%) Front Office
2 6 (50.00%) International Banking
2 6 (50.00%) Public Sector
3 4 (33.33%) Electronics
3 4 (33.33%) Finance
3 4 (33.33%) Manufacturing
3 4 (33.33%) Marketing
3 4 (33.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) Developer
2 5 (41.67%) C++ Developer
3 4 (33.33%) Build Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) Architect
4 2 (16.67%) Azure Architect
4 2 (16.67%) Azure Data Architect
4 2 (16.67%) Data Architect
5 1 (8.33%) Senior
5 1 (8.33%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (50.00%) Boost C++ Libraries
1 6 (50.00%) FIX Protocol
1 6 (50.00%) Middleware
1 6 (50.00%) STL
Miscellaneous
1 6 (50.00%) Distributed Architecture
1 6 (50.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 10 (83.33%) Linux
2 4 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) Electronic Trading
1 6 (50.00%) High Availability
1 6 (50.00%) Low Latency
1 6 (50.00%) Risk Management
1 6 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 4 (33.33%) Build Automation
2 4 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 4 (33.33%) Digital Marketing
2 4 (33.33%) Programme Management
3 2 (16.67%) Data Strategy
3 2 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (83.33%) C++
2 4 (33.33%) Bash
2 4 (33.33%) C
2 4 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 4 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 4 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (33.33%) Docker
Vendors
1 6 (50.00%) Solace
2 4 (33.33%) SAP
3 2 (16.67%) Microsoft