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 9 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 249 106 165
Rank change year-on-year -143 +59 +120
Contract jobs citing C 87 424 348
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.68% 2.07% 1.48%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.37% 8.86% 5.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 154 157
10th Percentile £260 £403 £325
25th Percentile £287 £500 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £541 £500
Median % change year-on-year -26.10% +8.25% -
75th Percentile £500 £622 £575
90th Percentile £556 £706 £675
UK median daily rate £475 £535 £560
% change year-on-year -11.21% -4.46% -2.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 177 95
10th Percentile £54.40 £46.25 £37.72
25th Percentile £61.00 £60.00 £46.88
Median hourly rate £68.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.62% - +15.56%
75th Percentile £85.00 £70.00 £65.75
90th Percentile £87.50 £85.00 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £68.00 £65.00 £58.91
% change year-on-year +4.62% +10.35% +6.14%

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 3,675 4,786 6,816
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 28.73% 23.37% 29.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,431 3,225 4,837
10th Percentile £325 £316 £350
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £489 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -2.20% +2.56%
75th Percentile £572 £588 £594
90th Percentile £650 £650 £678
UK median daily rate £525 £528 £550
% change year-on-year -0.57% -4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 191 402 340
10th Percentile £24.66 £38.00 £22.50
25th Percentile £44.51 £52.50 £49.92
Median hourly rate £64.00 £62.50 £61.84
Median % change year-on-year +2.40% +1.07% +24.30%
75th Percentile £68.75 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £80.00 £76.00
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £62.18 £60.94
% change year-on-year +0.52% +2.03% +21.88%

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 9 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 9 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 9 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 -31 33 £400 -27.27% 265
South West -27 19 £550 -8.33% 151
Scotland +12 13 £293 -40.76% 86
South East -41 12 £500 -7.41% 259
East Midlands +7 5 £168 -62.36% 57
Midlands -48 5 £168 -68.69% 134
North of England 0 3 - - 158
Yorkshire +10 2 - - 69
Wales - 2 £525 - 30
North East -7 1 - - 31
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 9 (10.34%) 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%) NFC
4 1 (1.15%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (11.49%) Oracle Database
2 2 (2.30%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (2.30%) MongoDB
2 2 (2.30%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.15%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 11 (12.64%) Git
2 10 (11.49%) JIRA
2 10 (11.49%) Subversion
3 9 (10.34%) Oracle Forms
3 9 (10.34%) PVCS
4 5 (5.75%) Rational DOORS
5 2 (2.30%) Burp Suite
5 2 (2.30%) Eclipse
5 2 (2.30%) Introscope
5 2 (2.30%) LabVIEW
5 2 (2.30%) LoadRunner
5 2 (2.30%) Metasploit
5 2 (2.30%) NetBeans
6 1 (1.15%) Gerrit
6 1 (1.15%) Jenkins
6 1 (1.15%) Rational Team Concert
6 1 (1.15%) VectorCAST
General
1 15 (17.24%) Social Skills
2 8 (9.20%) Aerospace
2 8 (9.20%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (3.45%) Banking
3 3 (3.45%) Finance
3 3 (3.45%) Military
4 2 (2.30%) Automotive
4 2 (2.30%) Aviation
4 2 (2.30%) Avionics
4 2 (2.30%) Electronics
4 2 (2.30%) Law
4 2 (2.30%) Manufacturing
4 2 (2.30%) Marketing
5 1 (1.15%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.15%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.15%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 22 (25.29%) 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%) Product Engineer
4 11 (12.64%) Products Support Engineer
4 11 (12.64%) Software Support Engineer
4 11 (12.64%) Support Engineer
5 10 (11.49%) Embedded Engineer
6 9 (10.34%) Linux Engineer
6 9 (10.34%) Oracle Developer
7 8 (9.20%) Linux Support
7 8 (9.20%) Linux Support Engineer
8 7 (8.05%) Embedded Software Engineer
9 5 (5.75%) Architect
9 5 (5.75%) Senior Software Engineer
9 5 (5.75%) Systems Engineer
10 4 (4.60%) Verification Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (14.94%) 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%) EMV
8 2 (2.30%) STB
9 1 (1.15%) CAN bus
9 1 (1.15%) Digital TV
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 33 (37.93%) Linux
2 13 (14.94%) Ubuntu
3 8 (9.20%) Unix
4 7 (8.05%) Windows
5 3 (3.45%) FreeRTOS
6 2 (2.30%) AIX
7 1 (1.15%) Embedded Linux
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%) Software Testing
6 9 (10.34%) Technical Analysis
7 8 (9.20%) ETL Development
7 8 (9.20%) Multithreading
7 8 (9.20%) Project Management
8 7 (8.05%) Test Scripting
9 6 (6.90%) Code Quality
9 6 (6.90%) SDLC
10 5 (5.75%) Architectural Design
10 5 (5.75%) Cloud Enablement
10 5 (5.75%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 30 (34.48%) C++
2 20 (22.99%) Java
3 16 (18.39%) JavaScript
4 14 (16.09%) Shell Script
5 13 (14.94%) Ada
5 13 (14.94%) SystemVerilog
6 12 (13.79%) Python
7 10 (11.49%) SQL
8 9 (10.34%) PL/SQL
8 9 (10.34%) ProC
9 8 (9.20%) Embedded C
10 4 (4.60%) Bash
10 4 (4.60%) Tcl
11 3 (3.45%) MATLAB
11 3 (3.45%) VBA
12 2 (2.30%) ActionScript
12 2 (2.30%) ActionScript 2.0
12 2 (2.30%) C#
12 2 (2.30%) Go
12 2 (2.30%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 25 (28.74%) Degree
2 14 (16.09%) Security Cleared
3 10 (11.49%) SC Cleared
4 3 (3.45%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (2.30%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.30%) DV Cleared
5 2 (2.30%) GPEN
5 2 (2.30%) GWAPT
5 2 (2.30%) Master's Degree
5 2 (2.30%) OSCE
5 2 (2.30%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.60%) GDPR
2 3 (3.45%) PCI DSS
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%) DO-178B
4 1 (1.15%) IEC 61508
4 1 (1.15%) ISO 8583
4 1 (1.15%) MIL-STD-1553
System Software
1 8 (9.20%) Firmware
2 3 (3.45%) 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 3 (3.45%) 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%) Red Hat
2 13 (14.94%) Xilinx
3 10 (11.49%) Oracle
4 6 (6.90%) Microsoft
5 2 (2.30%) AppDynamics
5 2 (2.30%) Atlassian
5 2 (2.30%) EMC
5 2 (2.30%) Google
5 2 (2.30%) HP
5 2 (2.30%) QNX
5 2 (2.30%) Splunk
5 2 (2.30%) VMware
6 1 (1.15%) CA Agile Central
6 1 (1.15%) IBM
6 1 (1.15%) IBM Sterling
6 1 (1.15%) Siemens
6 1 (1.15%) Twitter
6 1 (1.15%) Wind River