C Contract Job Trends in Manchester

C
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring C skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 86 80 101
Rank change year-on-year -6 +21 +5
Contract jobs citing C 5 3 5
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.44% 0.26% 0.31%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.43% 0.99% 1.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 4
10th Percentile £455 - £558
25th Percentile £463 - £569
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £400 £588
Median % change year-on-year +37.50% -31.91% -2.08%
75th Percentile £575 - £606
90th Percentile £613 - £618
North West median daily rate £463 £444 £588
% change year-on-year +4.17% -24.43% -2.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £100.00 -
North West median hourly rate - £100.00 £49.25
% change year-on-year - +103.05% +14.30%

All Programming Languages
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 350 303 489
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 30.92% 26.51% 30.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 259 208 398
10th Percentile £313 £362 £325
25th Percentile £361 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £538 £543 £575
90th Percentile £625 £600 £675
North West median daily rate £425 £453 £488
% change year-on-year -6.08% -7.18% -5.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 9
10th Percentile - - £60.75
25th Percentile £22.81 £65.00 £61.25
Median hourly rate £24.62 £82.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -70.16% +26.92% +36.84%
75th Percentile £26.43 £100.00 £77.50
90th Percentile - - £79.50
North West median hourly rate £74.26 £65.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year +14.25% +40.75% +20.26%

C
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing C relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

C job vacancy trend in Manchester

C
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing C.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing C

C
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing C in Manchester over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for C in Manchester

C
Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing C.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing C

C
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing C within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 13 December 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
Cheadle - 4 £550 -
C
North West

C
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) ChatGPT
1 1 (20.00%) GCP
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Artifactory
1 3 (60.00%) Jenkins
1 3 (60.00%) Rational DOORS
General
1 2 (40.00%) Documentation Skills
1 2 (40.00%) Electronics
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
1 2 (40.00%) Manufacturing
1 2 (40.00%) Marketing
1 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
1 2 (40.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Architect
1 3 (60.00%) Software Architect
2 1 (20.00%) C++ Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Machine Learning Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Python Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (40.00%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (20.00%) CUDA
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (80.00%) Containerisation
1 4 (80.00%) UML
2 3 (60.00%) FMEA
2 3 (60.00%) Software Engineering
3 2 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (40.00%) Digital Marketing
3 2 (40.00%) Programme Management
3 2 (40.00%) Requirements Management
4 1 (20.00%) Data Science
4 1 (20.00%) DevOps
4 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Automation
4 1 (20.00%) LLM
4 1 (20.00%) Machine Learning
4 1 (20.00%) Memory Management
4 1 (20.00%) Performance Optimisation
4 1 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (20.00%) Systems Engineering
4 1 (20.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) C++
2 4 (80.00%) Java
3 1 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (80.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (80.00%) IEC 61508
1 4 (80.00%) ISO 26262
2 3 (60.00%) IEC 62304
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Atlassian
2 2 (40.00%) SAP
3 1 (20.00%) OpenAI