C Contracts in the Thames Valley

C
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 97 117 124
Rank change year-on-year +20 +7 +22
Contract jobs citing C 5 28 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.33% 1.04% 0.92%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.26% 5.25% 3.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 6 13
10th Percentile - £425 £333
25th Percentile - £444 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £563 £500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +12.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile - £675 £588
90th Percentile - £688 £658
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 18 3
10th Percentile - £46.25 £43.25
25th Percentile - £47.50 £46.25
Median hourly rate - £58.30 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year - +11.05% -
75th Percentile - £61.60 £54.38
90th Percentile - £65.00 £54.75
South East median hourly rate - £54.90 £50.00
% change year-on-year - +9.80% -2.91%

All Programming Languages
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 397 533 702
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 26.27% 19.84% 23.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 251 364 521
10th Percentile £350 £352 £325
25th Percentile £450 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £608 £613
90th Percentile £700 £668 £680
South East median daily rate £514 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.80% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 30 20
10th Percentile £26.49 £33.94 £25.64
25th Percentile £40.75 £46.25 £32.30
Median hourly rate £55.00 £58.30 £56.88
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +2.51% -21.82%
75th Percentile £65.62 £65.00 £76.61
90th Percentile £70.25 £67.63 £79.41
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 the Thames Valley

Job postings citing C as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for C in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing C in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for C in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing C in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for C in the Thames Valley

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Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing C within the Thames Valley 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
Oxfordshire +1 3 - - 35
Berkshire +18 2 £500 -23.08% 49
C
South East

C
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (20.00%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) RS-232
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Burp Suite
1 2 (40.00%) Metasploit
2 1 (20.00%) Rational DOORS
2 1 (20.00%) VectorCAST
General
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Aerospace
2 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Software Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Penetration Tester
2 2 (40.00%) Tester
2 2 (40.00%) Verification Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Embedded Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Embedded Software Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Lead
3 1 (20.00%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (20.00%) FPGA
2 1 (20.00%) VHDL
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Agile
1 3 (60.00%) DevOps
1 3 (60.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (40.00%) Cloud Security
2 2 (40.00%) Computer Science
2 2 (40.00%) Cryptography
2 2 (40.00%) Data Protection
2 2 (40.00%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
2 2 (40.00%) Information Security
2 2 (40.00%) OWASP
2 2 (40.00%) Penetration Testing
2 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (40.00%) Regulatory Compliance
2 2 (40.00%) Reverse Engineering
2 2 (40.00%) Scenario Testing
2 2 (40.00%) Security Testing
2 2 (40.00%) Software Testing
2 2 (40.00%) Unit Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Validation
3 1 (20.00%) Verification and Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Python
2 2 (40.00%) C++
2 2 (40.00%) Java
2 2 (40.00%) MATLAB
2 2 (40.00%) Ruby
3 1 (20.00%) C#
3 1 (20.00%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) Degree
2 2 (40.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (40.00%) GPEN
2 2 (40.00%) GWAPT
2 2 (40.00%) Master's Degree
2 2 (40.00%) OSCE
2 2 (40.00%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) GDPR
1 2 (40.00%) HIPAA
1 2 (40.00%) ISO 26262
1 2 (40.00%) PCI DSS
2 1 (20.00%) DO-178B
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Intel
2 1 (20.00%) Siemens