ProC Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Oracle Pro*C
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring ProC skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 395 - 405
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing ProC 4 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.022% - 0.015%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.087% - 0.061%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £480 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 - -
75th Percentile £490 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £510 - £575
% change year-on-year - - -11.54%

All Programming Languages
UK excluding London

ProC 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 4,616 3,983 4,917
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 25.23% 27.25% 25.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,985 2,391 3,368
10th Percentile £315 £335 £325
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.05% -2.50% -2.91%
75th Percentile £570 £575 £600
90th Percentile £644 £664 £675
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% -2.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 302 187 323
10th Percentile £41.94 £21.25 £37.72
25th Percentile £52.50 £45.50 £48.40
Median hourly rate £65.00 £63.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.17% -3.08% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £85.00 £83.99
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +4.00% - -

ProC
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing ProC relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

ProC job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

ProC
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing ProC.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing ProC

ProC
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing ProC.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing ProC

ProC
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 ProC within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 31 December 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
North West - 3 £485 - 3
North of England - 3 £485 - 3
South East - 1 - -
ProC
UK

ProC
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Business Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Amazon EKS
1 3 (75.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) GitLab
General
1 3 (75.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Local Government
3 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Developer
1 3 (75.00%) Oracle Developer
2 1 (25.00%) PL/SQL Developer
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Developer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) OpenVMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Batch Processing
1 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (75.00%) Containerisation
1 3 (75.00%) Key Management
1 3 (75.00%) Performance Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Prototyping
3 1 (25.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) PL/SQL
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
2 3 (75.00%) Shell Script
3 1 (25.00%) C
3 1 (25.00%) Fortran
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Oracle
2 3 (75.00%) Dynatrace