C Contracts in Reading

C
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 58 82 82
Rank change year-on-year +24 0 +5
Contract jobs citing C 2 9 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 0.34% 0.76% 0.48%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.21% 3.11% 1.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 5
10th Percentile - £534 -
25th Percentile - £584 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £650 £375
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +73.33% -7.41%
75th Percentile - £688 £590
90th Percentile - - £660
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £650 £488
% change year-on-year -23.08% +33.33% +17.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 0
Median hourly rate - £58.30 -
Berkshire median hourly rate - £59.95 -

All Programming Languages
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 165 289 275
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 27.64% 24.24% 26.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 202 216
10th Percentile £406 £363 £369
25th Percentile £500 £425 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £563 £550
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +2.27% +10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £638 £670
90th Percentile £700 £688 £714
Berkshire median daily rate £525 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -2.33% +2.38% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 10 7
10th Percentile - £54.13 £63.00
25th Percentile - £56.65 £72.63
Median hourly rate £77.19 £59.22 £79.19
Median % change year-on-year +30.34% -25.22% -
75th Percentile - £66.03 -
90th Percentile - £67.63 £80.06
Berkshire median hourly rate £63.75 £61.60 £70.00
% change year-on-year +3.48% -12.00% -12.50%

C
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for C in Reading

C
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for C in Reading

C
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

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

Hourly rate trend for C in Reading

C
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Burp Suite
1 2 (100.00%) Metasploit
General
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Penetration Tester
1 2 (100.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 2 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 2 (100.00%) Cryptography
1 2 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 2 (100.00%) Information Security
1 2 (100.00%) OWASP
1 2 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) Regulatory Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) Reverse Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Scenario Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C++
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (100.00%) Degree
1 2 (100.00%) GPEN
1 2 (100.00%) GWAPT
1 2 (100.00%) Master's Degree
1 2 (100.00%) OSCE
1 2 (100.00%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) GDPR
1 2 (100.00%) HIPAA
1 2 (100.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft