Embedded C Contracts in the UK excluding London

Embedded C
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Embedded C skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Embedded C over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 337 324 377
Rank change year-on-year -13 +53 +111
Contract jobs citing Embedded C 6 73 53
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.046% 0.35% 0.23%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.16% 1.48% 0.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 11 17
10th Percentile £431 £425 £343
25th Percentile £448 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £550 £513
Median % change year-on-year -12.27% +7.32% +28.13%
75th Percentile £509 £605 £560
90th Percentile £526 £775 -
UK median daily rate £483 £503 £460
% change year-on-year -3.98% +9.24% +13.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 53 23
10th Percentile - - £46.25
25th Percentile - £46.25 £50.63
Median hourly rate £90.00 £70.00 £77.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.57% -9.09% +35.09%
75th Percentile - - £90.00
90th Percentile - £90.00 -
UK median hourly rate £90.00 £70.00 £74.75
% change year-on-year +28.57% -6.35% +31.14%

All Programming Languages
UK excluding London

Embedded 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 3,784 4,920 6,398
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 29.03% 23.74% 28.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,522 3,294 4,475
10th Percentile £321 £319 £350
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £487 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.41% -2.65% -
75th Percentile £558 £582 £594
90th Percentile £638 £650 £679
UK median daily rate £514 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.10% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 167 430 324
10th Percentile £27.91 £37.55 £26.16
25th Percentile £44.51 £52.50 £51.25
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +22.91%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £80.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £57.50 £62.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -7.26% -0.80% +22.11%

Embedded C
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Embedded C in the UK excluding London

Embedded C
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Embedded C in the UK excluding London

Embedded C
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Embedded C in the UK excluding London

Embedded 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 Embedded C within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 31 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
South East +32 5 £483 -12.27% 41
East of England +8 1 - - 16
Embedded C
UK

Embedded 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Ethernet
1 1 (16.67%) RS-232
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Rational DOORS
General
1 5 (83.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Embedded Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Embedded Software Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Senior
2 2 (33.33%) Senior Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Senior Solutions Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Software Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Algorithms
1 4 (66.67%) Device Driver
1 4 (66.67%) Embedded Systems
1 4 (66.67%) IoT
2 1 (16.67%) FPGA
2 1 (16.67%) PCIe
2 1 (16.67%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) Linux
2 1 (16.67%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Agile
2 4 (66.67%) Architectural Design
2 4 (66.67%) Artificial Intelligence
2 4 (66.67%) Cloud Enablement
2 4 (66.67%) Decision-Making
2 4 (66.67%) Device Driver Development
2 4 (66.67%) Multithreading
2 4 (66.67%) Project Management
2 4 (66.67%) SDLC
2 4 (66.67%) Signal Processing
3 2 (33.33%) Software Engineering
4 1 (16.67%) DevOps
4 1 (16.67%) Software Testing
4 1 (16.67%) SysML
4 1 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (16.67%) Test Scripting
4 1 (16.67%) UML
4 1 (16.67%) Validation
4 1 (16.67%) Verification and Validation
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) C
2 1 (16.67%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
System Software
1 4 (66.67%) Firmware
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Intel
1 1 (16.67%) Siemens