C Contract Job Trends in Worcestershire

C
West Midlands > Worcestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Worcestershire requiring C skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 - 19
Rank change year-on-year - - +8
Contract jobs citing C 2 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Worcestershire 1.23% - 1.05%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.14% - 3.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £563 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - £750
75th Percentile £588 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median daily rate £488 - £536
% change year-on-year - - +42.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £72.50 - -
Median hourly rate £75.00 - -
75th Percentile £77.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £75.00 - £57.50

All Programming Languages
Worcestershire

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 Worcestershire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 28 3 28
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Worcestershire 17.28% 6.38% 29.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 3 24
10th Percentile £475 £580 £408
25th Percentile £525 £625 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £700 £539
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% +29.93% -8.69%
75th Percentile £731 - £584
90th Percentile £750 - £624
West Midlands median daily rate £483 £475 £455
% change year-on-year +1.58% +4.40% -13.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £72.50 - £67.50
Median hourly rate £75.00 - £70.00
75th Percentile £77.50 - £72.50
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £58.00 £20.24 £56.25
% change year-on-year +186.56% -64.02% +122.77%

C
Job Vacancy Trend in Worcestershire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing C relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Worcestershire.

C job vacancy trend in Worcestershire

C
Daily Rate Trend in Worcestershire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Worcestershire citing C.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Worcestershire citing C

C
Hourly Rate Trend in Worcestershire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Worcestershire citing C.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Worcestershire citing C

C
Contract Job Locations in Worcestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing C within the Worcestershire region over the 6 months to 1 April 2026. 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
Malvern - 1 - - 2
C
West Midlands

C
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Worcestershire 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) Confluence
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) PetaLinux
General
1 1 (50.00%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Embedded Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Embedded Software Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) FPGA Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) NumPy
1 1 (50.00%) PostGIS
1 1 (50.00%) SciPy
1 1 (50.00%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) FPGA
1 2 (100.00%) Verilog
1 2 (100.00%) VHDL
2 1 (50.00%) MicroBlaze
2 1 (50.00%) RISC-V
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Embedded Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Embedded Software Development
1 2 (100.00%) FPGA Design
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Architectural Design
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Digital Signal Processing
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) Signal Processing
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) UVM
2 1 (50.00%) Validation
2 1 (50.00%) Verification and Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C++
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) SystemVerilog
2 1 (50.00%) MATLAB
2 1 (50.00%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Xilinx