C Contract Job Trends in Southampton

C
Hampshire > Southampton

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Southampton requiring C skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing C 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Southampton 1.56% - -
As % of the Programming Languages category 11.11% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £478 - -
25th Percentile £481 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
75th Percentile £519 - -
90th Percentile £523 - -
Hampshire median daily rate £500 £593 £488
% change year-on-year -15.61% +21.43% +2.73%

All Programming Languages
Southampton

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 Southampton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 18 29 49
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Southampton 14.06% 17.79% 27.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 20 43
10th Percentile £280 £348 £301
25th Percentile £463 £360 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £550
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -18.18% +8.91%
75th Percentile £538 £631 £638
90th Percentile £590 £660 £650
Hampshire median daily rate £550 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +6.80%

C
Job Vacancy Trend in Southampton

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

Job vacancy trend for C in Southampton

C
Daily Rate Trend in Southampton

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Southampton citing C

C
Hourly Rate Trend in Southampton

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Southampton citing C

C
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Southampton 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) HTTP
1 1 (50.00%) HTTPS
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Data Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Security Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Actionable Insight
1 1 (50.00%) API Development
1 1 (50.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (50.00%) Data Security
1 1 (50.00%) Digital Forensics
1 1 (50.00%) Integration Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Test Scripting
1 1 (50.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C#
1 1 (50.00%) C++
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Actionable Recommendations
1 1 (50.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) Rsyslog
1 1 (50.00%) SCOM
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Intel