C Contracts in the UK excluding London

C
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 249 100 181
Rank change year-on-year -149 +81 +99
Contract jobs citing C 87 433 348
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.68% 2.08% 1.45%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.39% 8.90% 4.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 157 154
10th Percentile £261 £400 £320
25th Percentile £294 £475 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £538 £500
Median % change year-on-year -23.33% +7.60% -
75th Percentile £509 £600 £575
90th Percentile £620 £706 £668
UK median daily rate £475 £535 £563
% change year-on-year -11.21% -4.89% -2.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 180 97
10th Percentile £54.10 £46.25 £37.75
25th Percentile £60.50 £59.75 £46.25
Median hourly rate £68.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.62% - +16.07%
75th Percentile £85.00 £70.00 £65.75
90th Percentile £87.50 £85.38 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £68.00 £65.00 £58.50
% change year-on-year +4.62% +11.11% +6.36%

All Programming Languages
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 3,641 4,865 6,991
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 28.52% 23.42% 29.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,400 3,277 4,996
10th Percentile £325 £319 £338
25th Percentile £402 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% +3.09%
75th Percentile £575 £584 £594
90th Percentile £650 £650 £676
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 187 397 346
10th Percentile £22.38 £37.58 £23.61
25th Percentile £42.00 £50.75 £50.00
Median hourly rate £64.00 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.40% - +26.21%
75th Percentile £68.75 £70.00 £69.31
90th Percentile £85.00 £80.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £60.50 £60.70
% change year-on-year +3.31% -0.33% +21.40%

C
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing C as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for C in the UK excluding London

C
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing C in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for C in the UK excluding London

C
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing C in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for C in the UK excluding London

C
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing C in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for C in the UK excluding London

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing C in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for C in the UK excluding London

C
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing C within the UK excluding London 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
East of England -34 33 £400 -27.27% 190
South West -18 20 £600 - 135
Scotland +9 12 £285 -42.28% 86
South East -38 12 £500 - 276
East Midlands +8 5 £168 -62.36% 69
Midlands -37 5 £168 -68.69% 159
North of England +2 3 - - 184
Yorkshire +7 2 - - 77
Wales +2 2 £525 - 34
North East -5 1 - - 36
C
UK

C
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 10 (11.49%) Confluence
2 2 (2.30%) Tomcat
Applications
1 15 (17.24%) Simulink
2 1 (1.15%) CANalyzer
Business Applications
1 2 (2.30%) LabWindows
2 1 (1.15%) BASE24
Cloud Services
1 10 (11.49%) AWS
2 8 (9.20%) Azure
3 2 (2.30%) Cloud Computing
3 2 (2.30%) GCP
4 1 (1.15%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (1.15%) Entra ID
4 1 (1.15%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.60%) SpaceWire
2 3 (3.45%) 3GPP
2 3 (3.45%) Ethernet
2 3 (3.45%) Wireless
3 2 (2.30%) HTTP
3 2 (2.30%) RS-232
3 2 (2.30%) SSL
4 1 (1.15%) ATM
4 1 (1.15%) HTTPS
4 1 (1.15%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (11.49%) Oracle Database
2 3 (3.45%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (2.30%) MongoDB
3 2 (2.30%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.15%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 10 (11.49%) Git
1 10 (11.49%) JIRA
1 10 (11.49%) Subversion
2 9 (10.34%) Oracle Forms
2 9 (10.34%) PVCS
3 5 (5.75%) Rational DOORS
4 2 (2.30%) Burp Suite
4 2 (2.30%) Eclipse
4 2 (2.30%) Introscope
4 2 (2.30%) LabVIEW
4 2 (2.30%) LoadRunner
4 2 (2.30%) Metasploit
4 2 (2.30%) NetBeans
5 1 (1.15%) Gerrit
5 1 (1.15%) Rational Team Concert
5 1 (1.15%) VectorCAST
General
1 15 (17.24%) Social Skills
2 9 (10.34%) Aerospace
3 8 (9.20%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (3.45%) Banking
4 3 (3.45%) Finance
4 3 (3.45%) Military
5 2 (2.30%) Automotive
5 2 (2.30%) Aviation
5 2 (2.30%) Avionics
5 2 (2.30%) Electronics
5 2 (2.30%) Manufacturing
5 2 (2.30%) Marketing
6 1 (1.15%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.15%) Law
6 1 (1.15%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.15%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 24 (27.59%) Software Engineer
2 15 (17.24%) Design Engineer
3 13 (14.94%) Developer
3 13 (14.94%) FPGA Design Engineer
3 13 (14.94%) FPGA Engineer
3 13 (14.94%) Senior
4 11 (12.64%) Embedded Engineer
5 9 (10.34%) Oracle Developer
5 9 (10.34%) Product Engineer
5 9 (10.34%) Products Support Engineer
5 9 (10.34%) Software Support Engineer
5 9 (10.34%) Support Engineer
6 8 (9.20%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 8 (9.20%) Linux Engineer
7 7 (8.05%) Linux Support
7 7 (8.05%) Linux Support Engineer
8 5 (5.75%) Architect
8 5 (5.75%) Senior Software Engineer
8 5 (5.75%) Systems Engineer
9 4 (4.60%) Verification Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (13.79%) Middleware
2 9 (10.34%) Java EE
3 6 (6.90%) POSIX
4 3 (3.45%) .NET
4 3 (3.45%) Yocto
5 2 (2.30%) HTML
5 2 (2.30%) J2EE
5 2 (2.30%) Web Services
6 1 (1.15%) OAuth
6 1 (1.15%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (19.54%) FPGA
2 15 (17.24%) VHDL
3 14 (16.09%) Verilog
4 9 (10.34%) Device Driver
4 9 (10.34%) Embedded Systems
5 7 (8.05%) Algorithms
6 6 (6.90%) IoT
7 4 (4.60%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (4.60%) PCIe
8 2 (2.30%) ASIC
8 2 (2.30%) STB
9 1 (1.15%) CAN bus
9 1 (1.15%) Digital TV
9 1 (1.15%) EMV
9 1 (1.15%) Mainframe
9 1 (1.15%) Management Information System
9 1 (1.15%) Robotics
9 1 (1.15%) Tandem
9 1 (1.15%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 31 (35.63%) Linux
2 11 (12.64%) Ubuntu
3 8 (9.20%) Unix
4 6 (6.90%) Windows
5 3 (3.45%) FreeRTOS
6 2 (2.30%) AIX
7 1 (1.15%) Embedded Linux
7 1 (1.15%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (36.78%) Software Engineering
2 16 (18.39%) Agile
3 15 (17.24%) Signal Processing
4 13 (14.94%) FPGA Design
4 13 (14.94%) Problem-Solving
4 13 (14.94%) UVM
5 12 (13.79%) Unit Testing
6 9 (10.34%) Data Modelling
6 9 (10.34%) ETL
6 9 (10.34%) Technical Analysis
7 8 (9.20%) ETL Development
7 8 (9.20%) Multithreading
7 8 (9.20%) Project Management
7 8 (9.20%) Software Testing
8 7 (8.05%) Test Scripting
9 6 (6.90%) SDLC
10 5 (5.75%) Artificial Intelligence
10 5 (5.75%) CI/CD
10 5 (5.75%) Data Protection
10 5 (5.75%) Device Driver Development
Programming Languages
1 27 (31.03%) C++
2 22 (25.29%) Java
3 15 (17.24%) JavaScript
4 13 (14.94%) SystemVerilog
5 12 (13.79%) Python
5 12 (13.79%) Shell Script
6 11 (12.64%) Ada
7 10 (11.49%) SQL
8 9 (10.34%) Embedded C
8 9 (10.34%) PL/SQL
8 9 (10.34%) ProC
9 4 (4.60%) Bash
9 4 (4.60%) Tcl
10 3 (3.45%) MATLAB
10 3 (3.45%) TypeScript
10 3 (3.45%) VBA
11 2 (2.30%) ActionScript
11 2 (2.30%) C#
11 2 (2.30%) Go
11 2 (2.30%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 25 (28.74%) Degree
2 16 (18.39%) Security Cleared
3 10 (11.49%) SC Cleared
4 4 (4.60%) DV Cleared
5 3 (3.45%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (2.30%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (2.30%) GPEN
6 2 (2.30%) GWAPT
6 2 (2.30%) Master's Degree
6 2 (2.30%) OSCE
6 2 (2.30%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.60%) GDPR
2 3 (3.45%) PCI DSS
3 2 (2.30%) DO-178B
3 2 (2.30%) HIPAA
3 2 (2.30%) ISO 26262
3 2 (2.30%) MISRA
3 2 (2.30%) MISRA C
3 2 (2.30%) QA
3 2 (2.30%) Software Quality Assurance
4 1 (1.15%) IEC 61508
4 1 (1.15%) ISO 8583
4 1 (1.15%) MIL-STD-1553
System Software
1 7 (8.05%) Firmware
2 4 (4.60%) Docker
3 2 (2.30%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (1.15%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.15%) KVM
4 1 (1.15%) QEMU
4 1 (1.15%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.15%) Xen
Systems Management
1 4 (4.60%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.30%) CA Wily
3 1 (1.15%) Terraform
3 1 (1.15%) WMI
Vendors
1 14 (16.09%) Intel
2 13 (14.94%) Microsemi
2 13 (14.94%) Xilinx
3 11 (12.64%) Red Hat
4 10 (11.49%) Oracle
5 6 (6.90%) Microsoft
6 2 (2.30%) AppDynamics
6 2 (2.30%) Atlassian
6 2 (2.30%) EMC
6 2 (2.30%) Google
6 2 (2.30%) HP
6 2 (2.30%) QNX
6 2 (2.30%) Splunk
6 2 (2.30%) VMware
7 1 (1.15%) CA Agile Central
7 1 (1.15%) IBM
7 1 (1.15%) IBM Sterling
7 1 (1.15%) Siemens
7 1 (1.15%) Twitter
7 1 (1.15%) Wind River