C Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

C
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 5 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 241 186 230
Rank change year-on-year -55 +44 +119
Contract jobs citing C 60 168 273
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.61% 1.11% 1.07%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.62% 3.31% 2.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 79 119
10th Percentile £288 £325 £394
25th Percentile £441 £463 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% -2.73% -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £553 £675
90th Percentile £638 £625 £802
UK median daily rate £475 £535 £560
% change year-on-year -11.21% -4.46% -2.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 57 60
10th Percentile - - £20.32
25th Percentile - £46.25 £46.25
Median hourly rate £68.00 £70.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +21.74% +7.48%
75th Percentile - £88.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £77.50 £90.00 £71.35
UK median hourly rate £68.00 £65.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year +4.62% +13.04% +4.55%

All Programming Languages
Work from Home

C falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 3,700 5,078 9,530
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 37.73% 33.51% 37.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,640 3,680 6,970
10th Percentile £363 £350 £388
25th Percentile £421 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £646 £650 £656
90th Percentile £800 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 142 204
10th Percentile £24.93 £26.50 £32.03
25th Percentile £35.00 £46.25 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -12.00% +25.63%
75th Percentile £68.13 £72.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.25 £88.38 £78.80
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £61.60 £60.00
% change year-on-year +1.46% +2.67% +20.00%

C
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing C as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

C trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

C
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing C.

C daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

C
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing C over the 6 months to 5 May 2025.

C daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

C
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing C.

C hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

C
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing C over the 6 months to 5 May 2025.

C hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

C
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 5 (8.33%) Confluence
2 3 (5.00%) Apache Spark
3 2 (3.33%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (1.67%) Ethereum
4 1 (1.67%) Hyperledger
4 1 (1.67%) MetaMask
4 1 (1.67%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (3.33%) Oracle Applications
1 2 (3.33%) Oracle Assets
1 2 (3.33%) Oracle Cash Management
1 2 (3.33%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (3.33%) Oracle EBS R12
1 2 (3.33%) Oracle E-Business Tax
1 2 (3.33%) Oracle General Ledger
1 2 (3.33%) Oracle Internet Expenses
1 2 (3.33%) Oracle iProcurement
1 2 (3.33%) Oracle Payables
1 2 (3.33%) Oracle Receivables
1 2 (3.33%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 1 (1.67%) BASE24
2 1 (1.67%) R3 Corda
2 1 (1.67%) SAP CX
2 1 (1.67%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 13 (21.67%) AWS
2 9 (15.00%) Azure
3 4 (6.67%) GCP
4 3 (5.00%) Entra ID
5 2 (3.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (3.33%) Datadog
5 2 (3.33%) SaaS
6 1 (1.67%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.67%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 1 (1.67%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (1.67%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.00%) DHCP
1 3 (5.00%) DOCSIS
1 3 (5.00%) TCP/IP
1 3 (5.00%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (3.33%) DNS
2 2 (3.33%) Network Security
3 1 (1.67%) 802.11
3 1 (1.67%) DSL
3 1 (1.67%) Ethernet
3 1 (1.67%) GPON
3 1 (1.67%) HTTP
3 1 (1.67%) IPv4
3 1 (1.67%) IPv6
3 1 (1.67%) PPP
3 1 (1.67%) RS-232
3 1 (1.67%) SSL
3 1 (1.67%) VLAN
3 1 (1.67%) VPN
3 1 (1.67%) VSAN
3 1 (1.67%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (8.33%) Oracle Database
2 3 (5.00%) Big Data
2 3 (5.00%) Data Mining
3 2 (3.33%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (3.33%) InfluxDB
3 2 (3.33%) Looker
3 2 (3.33%) MongoDB
3 2 (3.33%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (1.67%) NonStop SQL
4 1 (1.67%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.67%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (10.00%) JIRA
2 5 (8.33%) Git
3 4 (6.67%) Oracle Forms
3 4 (6.67%) PVCS
3 4 (6.67%) Subversion
4 3 (5.00%) Jenkins
5 1 (1.67%) Burp Suite
5 1 (1.67%) Gerrit
5 1 (1.67%) Hardhat
5 1 (1.67%) Introscope
5 1 (1.67%) LoadRunner
5 1 (1.67%) Metasploit
5 1 (1.67%) Rational DOORS
5 1 (1.67%) VectorCAST
General
1 13 (21.67%) Social Skills
2 8 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (10.00%) Finance
4 2 (3.33%) Banking
4 2 (3.33%) General Ledger
4 2 (3.33%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.67%) Automotive
5 1 (1.67%) Dutch Language
5 1 (1.67%) Electronics
5 1 (1.67%) Front Office
5 1 (1.67%) Investment Banking
5 1 (1.67%) Law
5 1 (1.67%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.67%) Marketing
5 1 (1.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (16.67%) Developer
1 10 (16.67%) Senior
1 10 (16.67%) Software Engineer
1 10 (16.67%) Support Engineer
2 9 (15.00%) Product Engineer
2 9 (15.00%) Products Support Engineer
2 9 (15.00%) Software Support Engineer
3 8 (13.33%) Linux Engineer
3 8 (13.33%) Linux Support
3 8 (13.33%) Linux Support Engineer
4 5 (8.33%) Architect
5 4 (6.67%) Analyst
5 4 (6.67%) C Software Engineer
5 4 (6.67%) Consultant
5 4 (6.67%) Oracle Developer
6 3 (5.00%) C++ Software Engineer
6 3 (5.00%) Design Engineer
6 3 (5.00%) Penetration Tester
6 3 (5.00%) Senior Solutions Architect
6 3 (5.00%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (16.67%) Middleware
2 4 (6.67%) Java EE
3 3 (5.00%) .NET
3 3 (5.00%) Ray
4 2 (3.33%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (3.33%) EntireX
4 2 (3.33%) OAuth
4 2 (3.33%) React
4 2 (3.33%) Web Services
4 2 (3.33%) Yocto
5 1 (1.67%) AngularJS
5 1 (1.67%) Flask
5 1 (1.67%) HTML
5 1 (1.67%) J2EE
5 1 (1.67%) Motif
5 1 (1.67%) Node.js
5 1 (1.67%) POSIX
5 1 (1.67%) Smart Contracts
5 1 (1.67%) Spring
5 1 (1.67%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (13.33%) Embedded Systems
2 6 (10.00%) Algorithms
2 6 (10.00%) IoT
3 5 (8.33%) Device Driver
4 4 (6.67%) Tandem
5 3 (5.00%) Distributed Computing
5 3 (5.00%) Mainframe
6 2 (3.33%) AI Agents
6 2 (3.33%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (3.33%) PCIe
6 2 (3.33%) STB
6 2 (3.33%) SystemC
6 2 (3.33%) Verilog
6 2 (3.33%) Video\Live Streaming
7 1 (1.67%) Derivative
7 1 (1.67%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.67%) Equity Derivative
7 1 (1.67%) FPGA
7 1 (1.67%) Reference Data
7 1 (1.67%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 25 (41.67%) Linux
2 9 (15.00%) Ubuntu
3 8 (13.33%) Unix
4 4 (6.67%) Windows
5 2 (3.33%) Embedded Linux
5 2 (3.33%) FreeRTOS
6 1 (1.67%) AIX
6 1 (1.67%) Android
6 1 (1.67%) OpenWrt
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (33.33%) Software Engineering
2 11 (18.33%) Artificial Intelligence
3 8 (13.33%) Agile
3 8 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (10.00%) Technical Leadership
4 6 (10.00%) Test Automation
5 5 (8.33%) CI/CD
5 5 (8.33%) Decision-Making
5 5 (8.33%) Project Management
5 5 (8.33%) SDLC
6 4 (6.67%) Architectural Design
6 4 (6.67%) Cloud Enablement
6 4 (6.67%) Cryptography
6 4 (6.67%) Data Modelling
6 4 (6.67%) Device Driver Development
6 4 (6.67%) ETL
6 4 (6.67%) Migration
6 4 (6.67%) Performance Optimisation
6 4 (6.67%) Scenario Testing
6 4 (6.67%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 28 (46.67%) C++
2 18 (30.00%) Java
3 17 (28.33%) Shell Script
4 16 (26.67%) Python
5 11 (18.33%) JavaScript
5 11 (18.33%) SQL
6 9 (15.00%) Ada
7 7 (11.67%) Embedded C
8 6 (10.00%) Go
8 6 (10.00%) PL/SQL
9 4 (6.67%) ProC
9 4 (6.67%) Rust
10 3 (5.00%) Assembly Language
11 2 (3.33%) JCL
11 2 (3.33%) Natural
11 2 (3.33%) Perl
11 2 (3.33%) SystemVerilog
11 2 (3.33%) Tcl
11 2 (3.33%) TypeScript
12 1 (1.67%) ActionScript
Qualifications
1 6 (10.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (8.33%) Degree
3 4 (6.67%) AWS Certification
4 3 (5.00%) DV Cleared
4 3 (5.00%) SC Cleared
5 2 (3.33%) Azure Certification
5 2 (3.33%) OSCP
6 1 (1.67%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.67%) CEH
6 1 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.67%) GPEN
6 1 (1.67%) GWAPT
6 1 (1.67%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.67%) OSCE
6 1 (1.67%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.33%) GDPR
1 2 (3.33%) HIPAA
1 2 (3.33%) PCI DSS
1 2 (3.33%) QA
2 1 (1.67%) ISO 8583
2 1 (1.67%) NIST
System Software
1 6 (10.00%) Firmware
2 3 (5.00%) Active Directory
3 2 (3.33%) Docker
3 2 (3.33%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (1.67%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.67%) KVM
4 1 (1.67%) QEMU
4 1 (1.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.67%) VMware NSX
4 1 (1.67%) vSphere
4 1 (1.67%) Xen
Systems Management
1 5 (8.33%) Kubernetes
2 3 (5.00%) Grafana
2 3 (5.00%) Istio
2 3 (5.00%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (1.67%) CA Wily
3 1 (1.67%) Functional Safety
3 1 (1.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 9 (15.00%) Red Hat
2 8 (13.33%) Oracle
3 5 (8.33%) Microsoft
4 3 (5.00%) Hitachi
4 3 (5.00%) Splunk
4 3 (5.00%) TOWER Software
5 2 (3.33%) Fujitsu
5 2 (3.33%) HP
5 2 (3.33%) IBM
5 2 (3.33%) SAP
5 2 (3.33%) Software AG
5 2 (3.33%) VMware
6 1 (1.67%) AppDynamics
6 1 (1.67%) Google
6 1 (1.67%) Intel
6 1 (1.67%) Siemens
6 1 (1.67%) Synopsys
6 1 (1.67%) webMethods