C Contracts in the Midlands

C
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands requiring C skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited C over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 106 69 156
Rank change year-on-year -37 +87 +35
Contract jobs citing C 5 64 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.26% 2.32% 0.32%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.05% 10.36% 1.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 41 6
10th Percentile £68 £445 -
25th Percentile £73 £505 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £168 £535 £400
Median % change year-on-year -68.69% +33.75% -17.95%
75th Percentile £293 £538 £484
90th Percentile £352 - £519
England median daily rate £500 £535 £600
% change year-on-year -6.54% -10.83% +5.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 1
10th Percentile - £48.38 -
25th Percentile - £56.25 £45.00
Median hourly rate - £57.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year - +15.00% -
75th Percentile - £58.75 £55.00
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £68.00 £65.00 £58.70
% change year-on-year +4.62% +10.73% +6.73%

All Programming Languages
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 477 618 932
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 24.92% 22.42% 27.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 317 447 697
10th Percentile £275 £260 £313
25th Percentile £381 £350 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £450 £480
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% -6.25% +6.67%
75th Percentile £540 £550 £563
90th Percentile £650 £638 £650
England median daily rate £525 £540 £565
% change year-on-year -2.78% -4.42% +2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 20 15
10th Percentile £16.46 £22.42 £20.24
25th Percentile £17.60 £27.38 £24.31
Median hourly rate £20.24 £51.78 £33.39
Median % change year-on-year -60.91% +55.10% -4.61%
75th Percentile £28.75 £58.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £33.91 £60.13 £86.00
England median hourly rate £62.75 £62.50 £61.84
% change year-on-year +0.40% +1.07% +23.68%

C
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings citing C as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for C in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing C in the Midlands.

Daily rate trend for C in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing C in the Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for C in the Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing C in the Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for C in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing C within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
East Midlands +8 5 £168 -62.36% 69
C
England

C
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (40.00%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) CANalyzer
1 1 (20.00%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) AWS
2 2 (40.00%) Cloud Computing
2 2 (40.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) MongoDB
1 2 (40.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Eclipse
1 2 (40.00%) Introscope
1 2 (40.00%) LoadRunner
1 2 (40.00%) NetBeans
General
1 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (40.00%) Banking
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Software Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Test Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Embedded Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Embedded Software Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Principal Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Principal Systems Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) .NET
1 2 (40.00%) HTML
1 2 (40.00%) J2EE
1 2 (40.00%) POSIX
1 2 (40.00%) Web Services
2 1 (20.00%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Algorithms
2 1 (20.00%) IoT
2 1 (20.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) AIX
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
1 2 (40.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Agile
2 3 (60.00%) Software Engineering
3 2 (40.00%) Business Development
3 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (40.00%) Code Quality
3 2 (40.00%) Data Extraction
3 2 (40.00%) Non-Functional Testing
3 2 (40.00%) Performance Metrics
3 2 (40.00%) Performance Testing
3 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (40.00%) Scenario Testing
3 2 (40.00%) Scrum
3 2 (40.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (40.00%) Test Scripting
3 2 (40.00%) Waterfall
4 1 (20.00%) Creative Problem-Solving
4 1 (20.00%) Project Delivery
4 1 (20.00%) Project Management
4 1 (20.00%) Roadmaps
4 1 (20.00%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) C++
2 2 (40.00%) Java
2 2 (40.00%) Python
3 1 (20.00%) MATLAB
3 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) GDPR
1 2 (40.00%) MISRA
1 2 (40.00%) MISRA C
1 2 (40.00%) QA
1 2 (40.00%) Software Quality Assurance
2 1 (20.00%) IEC 61508
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) CA Wily
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (40.00%) AppDynamics
2 2 (40.00%) Google
2 2 (40.00%) QNX
2 2 (40.00%) Splunk
2 2 (40.00%) VMware
3 1 (20.00%) HP
3 1 (20.00%) Oracle