C Contracts in the North of England

C
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 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 172 142 154
Rank change year-on-year -30 +12 +56
Contract jobs citing C 13 27 43
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.32% 0.65% 0.83%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.16% 2.65% 3.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 18 33
10th Percentile - £418 £415
25th Percentile - £445 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £515 £600
Median % change year-on-year -27.18% -14.17% -
75th Percentile £440 £560 £625
90th Percentile £555 £665 £648
England median daily rate £539 £538 £550
% change year-on-year +0.14% -2.18% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 5
10th Percentile - £94.00 £39.74
25th Percentile - £96.25 £42.67
Median hourly rate £52.00 £100.00 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year -48.00% +106.19% +86.54%
75th Percentile - - £50.25
90th Percentile - - £51.38
England median hourly rate £68.00 £67.25 £65.00
% change year-on-year +1.12% +3.46% +14.04%

All Programming Languages
North of England

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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 1,122 1,019 1,344
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 27.97% 24.66% 25.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 803 717 963
10th Percentile £315 £350 £350
25th Percentile £379 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.62% -2.50% -2.44%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £611
90th Percentile £602 £638 £675
England median daily rate £515 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.36% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 32 39
10th Percentile £30.35 £37.50 £29.42
25th Percentile £36.00 £44.02 £41.33
Median hourly rate £66.50 £53.75 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +23.72% +16.39% +31.94%
75th Percentile £84.50 £71.59 £50.25
90th Percentile £93.75 £82.62 £64.00
England median hourly rate £57.50 £65.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% +13.64%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for C in the North of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing C in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for C in the North of England

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing C in the North of England over the 6 months to 16 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for C in the North of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing C in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for C in the North of England

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Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing C within the North of England region over the 6 months to 16 August 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
North West -18 8 £375 -23.08% 53
Yorkshire -16 4 £500 -5.66% 33
North East - 1 - - 11
C
England

C
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (7.69%) LabWindows
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) MongoDB
1 1 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (61.54%) Jenkins
2 7 (53.85%) Git
2 7 (53.85%) Gradle
2 7 (53.85%) Xcode
3 1 (7.69%) Artifactory
3 1 (7.69%) LabVIEW
General
1 7 (53.85%) Banking
2 1 (7.69%) Electronics
2 1 (7.69%) Finance
2 1 (7.69%) Manufacturing
2 1 (7.69%) Marketing
2 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
2 1 (7.69%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (76.92%) Developer
2 6 (46.15%) iOS Developer
3 2 (15.38%) Java Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Android Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Database Developer
4 1 (7.69%) DBA
4 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Senior
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Software Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Software Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (53.85%) CSS
1 7 (53.85%) HTML
2 2 (15.38%) React
3 1 (7.69%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (53.85%) Mobile App
1 7 (53.85%) Mobile Banking
2 1 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (7.69%) FPGA
2 1 (7.69%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (53.85%) Android
1 7 (53.85%) Apple iOS
2 2 (15.38%) Linux
3 1 (7.69%) Unix
3 1 (7.69%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (61.54%) Agile
1 8 (61.54%) Unit Testing
2 7 (53.85%) BDD
2 7 (53.85%) Continuous Deployment
2 7 (53.85%) Front End Development
2 7 (53.85%) Mobile Development
2 7 (53.85%) Roadmaps
2 7 (53.85%) Scrum
2 7 (53.85%) TDD
2 7 (53.85%) Technology Roadmap
2 7 (53.85%) User Experience
2 7 (53.85%) UX Design
3 6 (46.15%) iOS Development
4 2 (15.38%) Software Engineering
5 1 (7.69%) Android Development
5 1 (7.69%) Cryptography
5 1 (7.69%) Digital Marketing
5 1 (7.69%) Line Management
5 1 (7.69%) Performance Tuning
5 1 (7.69%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 10 (76.92%) C++
1 10 (76.92%) Java
2 9 (69.23%) Python
3 8 (61.54%) JavaScript
4 7 (53.85%) Kotlin
4 7 (53.85%) Objective-C
4 7 (53.85%) Ruby
4 7 (53.85%) Scala
4 7 (53.85%) Swift
5 1 (7.69%) ActionScript
5 1 (7.69%) ActionScript 2.0
5 1 (7.69%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) SC Cleared
1 2 (15.38%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) IEC 61508
1 1 (7.69%) IEC 62304
1 1 (7.69%) ISO 26262
Systems Management
1 2 (15.38%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) Atlassian
2 1 (7.69%) SAP