C Contracts in Oxfordshire

C
South East > Oxfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Oxfordshire 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 19 20 18
Rank change year-on-year +1 -2 -
Contract jobs citing C 3 7 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 2.83% 3.08% 4.80%
As % of the Programming Languages category 17.65% 18.92% 16.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -14.29% -
75th Percentile - £475 £588
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 2
10th Percentile - - £51.63
25th Percentile - - £52.19
Median hourly rate - £65.00 £53.75
Median % change year-on-year - +20.93% -
75th Percentile - - £54.69
90th Percentile - - £54.88
South East median hourly rate - £54.90 £50.00
% change year-on-year - +9.80% -2.91%

All Programming Languages
Oxfordshire

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 Oxfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 17 37 73
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 16.04% 16.30% 29.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 23 35
10th Percentile £318 £328 £279
25th Percentile £360 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £500 £538 £550
90th Percentile £515 £588 £588
South East median daily rate £514 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.80% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 5
10th Percentile - £53.75 £28.57
25th Percentile £20.85 - -
Median hourly rate £21.90 £65.00 £32.30
Median % change year-on-year -66.31% +101.24% -
75th Percentile £22.95 - £53.75
90th Percentile - - £54.50
South East median hourly rate £56.75 £60.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -5.42% +9.09% +26.03%

C
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for C in Oxfordshire

C
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Daily rate trend for C in Oxfordshire

C
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Hourly rate trend for C in Oxfordshire

C
Contract Job Locations in Oxfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing C within the Oxfordshire 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
Oxford -3 1 - - 27
C
South East

C
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Oxfordshire 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:

Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) RS-232
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Rational DOORS
1 1 (33.33%) VectorCAST
General
1 2 (66.67%) Aerospace
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Software Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) Verification Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Embedded Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Embedded Software Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Lead
3 1 (33.33%) Lead Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) FPGA
1 1 (33.33%) VHDL
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
2 2 (66.67%) Software Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Unit Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Validation
3 1 (33.33%) Verification and Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) MATLAB
2 1 (33.33%) C#
2 1 (33.33%) Embedded C
2 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) ISO 26262
2 1 (33.33%) DO-178B
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Intel
1 1 (33.33%) Siemens