C Contract Job Trends in Portsmouth

C
Hampshire > Portsmouth

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Portsmouth requiring C skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing C 9 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Portsmouth 2.71% - -
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.07% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £517 - -
25th Percentile £639 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £643 - -
75th Percentile £646 - -
90th Percentile £671 - -
Hampshire median daily rate £450 £513 £563
% change year-on-year -12.20% -8.89% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £52.00 - -
25th Percentile £55.00 - -
Median hourly rate £60.00 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
Hampshire median hourly rate £52.00 - £75.00
% change year-on-year - - +50.00%

All Programming Languages
Portsmouth

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 Portsmouth.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 56 52 50
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Portsmouth 16.87% 25.74% 23.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 33 22
10th Percentile £460 £418 -
25th Percentile £503 £464 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £515 £506
Median % change year-on-year +5.34% +1.73% -11.96%
75th Percentile £594 £550 £589
90th Percentile £646 £653 £635
Hampshire median daily rate £558 £550 £544
% change year-on-year +1.45% +1.15% -1.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 12 17
10th Percentile £52.25 - £61.25
25th Percentile - £50.00 -
Median hourly rate £55.00 £52.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -25.00% +21.74%
75th Percentile £56.88 £55.63 -
90th Percentile £60.00 £58.63 £71.50
Hampshire median hourly rate £55.00 £54.88 £70.00
% change year-on-year +0.23% -21.61% +21.74%

C
Job Vacancy Trend in Portsmouth

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

C job vacancy trend in Portsmouth

C
Daily Rate Trend in Portsmouth

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Portsmouth citing C

C
Daily Rate Histogram in Portsmouth

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing C in Portsmouth over the 6 months to 3 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for C in Portsmouth

C
Hourly Rate Trend in Portsmouth

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Portsmouth citing C

C
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Portsmouth 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:

Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Simulink
Communications & Networking
1 5 (55.56%) Software-Defined Radio
1 5 (55.56%) Wireless
2 3 (33.33%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 3 (33.33%) Rational DOORS
General
1 3 (33.33%) Military
1 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Embedded Engineer
1 4 (44.44%) Embedded Software Engineer
1 4 (44.44%) Software Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Senior
3 2 (22.22%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) C++ Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Test Automation Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (55.56%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 5 (55.56%) Device Driver
1 5 (55.56%) Embedded Systems
1 5 (55.56%) MicroBlaze
1 5 (55.56%) RISC-V
Operating Systems
1 5 (55.56%) Embedded Linux
1 5 (55.56%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Software Engineering
2 5 (55.56%) Agile
2 5 (55.56%) Digital Signal Processing
2 5 (55.56%) Signal Processing
3 3 (33.33%) Computer Science
3 3 (33.33%) Integration Testing
3 3 (33.33%) Physics
3 3 (33.33%) Requirements Engineering
3 3 (33.33%) Requirements Management
3 3 (33.33%) Service Management
3 3 (33.33%) Synthetic Environment
3 3 (33.33%) System Integration Testing
3 3 (33.33%) Systems Engineering
4 1 (11.11%) Acceptance Criteria
4 1 (11.11%) CI/CD
4 1 (11.11%) Regression Testing
4 1 (11.11%) Software Testing
4 1 (11.11%) Use Case
4 1 (11.11%) User Acceptance Testing
4 1 (11.11%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 6 (66.67%) C++
2 4 (44.44%) Python
3 3 (33.33%) Java
3 3 (33.33%) Lua
3 3 (33.33%) PowerShell
4 1 (11.11%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 4 (44.44%) Security Cleared
2 3 (33.33%) Degree
2 3 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (11.11%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) QA
1 1 (11.11%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 5 (55.56%) Embedded Firmware
1 5 (55.56%) Firmware
2 3 (33.33%) Docker
2 3 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) IBM
1 3 (33.33%) VMware