C Contracts in London

C
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for C skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited C over the 6 months to 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 302 263 382
Rank change year-on-year -39 +119 -61
Contract jobs citing C 93 229 229
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.53% 0.89% 0.59%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.45% 2.20% 1.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 141 131
10th Percentile £250 £505 £450
25th Percentile £408 £531 £520
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £639 £600
Median % change year-on-year -21.81% +6.58% +20.00%
75th Percentile £578 £738 £725
90th Percentile £746 £950 £800
England median daily rate £538 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -6.43% - +27.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 11 5
10th Percentile £56.00 £50.00 £34.00
25th Percentile £62.56 £53.75 £36.25
Median hourly rate £68.75 £57.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.57% +4.55% +76.42%
75th Percentile £72.50 £58.75 -
90th Percentile £73.25 - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £60.00 £56.00
% change year-on-year +8.33% +7.14% +23.08%

All Programming Languages
London

C is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 6,419 10,421 16,150
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 36.73% 40.34% 41.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,902 7,798 12,394
10th Percentile £380 £413 £415
25th Percentile £463 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £700 £738 £700
90th Percentile £831 £825 £800
England median daily rate £550 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -2.65% +2.73% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 80 112
10th Percentile £23.80 £26.20 £31.03
25th Percentile £40.77 £48.01 £35.00
Median hourly rate £51.13 £60.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.79% +20.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £64.02 £75.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £85.00 £78.63
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £50.77
% change year-on-year - +23.10% +19.46%

C
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing C as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for C in London

C
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing C in London.

Daily rate trend for C in London

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Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing C in London over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for C in London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing C in London.

Hourly rate trend for C in London

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Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing C in London over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for C in London

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Contract Job Locations in 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 London region over the 6 months to 17 May 2024. 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
West London - 13 £250 - 15
Central London +13 7 £725 +11.54% 7
South London -8 3 £550 -
C
England

C
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 5 (5.38%) Confluence
2 4 (4.30%) OpenStack
3 3 (3.23%) nginx
3 3 (3.23%) SAS
4 2 (2.15%) Apache Spark
5 1 (1.08%) IBM Domino
5 1 (1.08%) IBM Notes
5 1 (1.08%) JBoss
Applications
1 1 (1.08%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 5 (5.38%) Endur
1 5 (5.38%) OpenLink RightAngle
2 3 (3.23%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (1.08%) SAP ERP
3 1 (1.08%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 36 (38.71%) AWS
2 9 (9.68%) Azure
3 8 (8.60%) Cloud Computing
4 4 (4.30%) PaaS
4 4 (4.30%) SaaS
5 3 (3.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 3 (3.23%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (3.23%) Amazon ELB
5 3 (3.23%) Snowflake
6 2 (2.15%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (1.08%) Azure AKS
7 1 (1.08%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.08%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.08%) Firebase
7 1 (1.08%) GCP
7 1 (1.08%) GitHub
7 1 (1.08%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 10 (10.75%) Wi-Fi
2 5 (5.38%) DHCP
2 5 (5.38%) DNS
3 4 (4.30%) Firewall
4 3 (3.23%) IPv4
4 3 (3.23%) Reverse Proxy
5 2 (2.15%) 5G
5 2 (2.15%) Software-Defined Networking
5 2 (2.15%) TCP/IP
6 1 (1.08%) 4G
6 1 (1.08%) Bluetooth
6 1 (1.08%) HTTP
6 1 (1.08%) HTTPS
6 1 (1.08%) Network Security
6 1 (1.08%) NFC
6 1 (1.08%) RTSP
6 1 (1.08%) SNMP
6 1 (1.08%) UWB
6 1 (1.08%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (8.60%) NoSQL
2 6 (6.45%) Data Mining
3 5 (5.38%) Oracle Database
3 5 (5.38%) Relational Database
3 5 (5.38%) SQL Server
4 4 (4.30%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (4.30%) MySQL
4 4 (4.30%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (3.23%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (3.23%) DynamoDB
5 3 (3.23%) MongoDB
5 3 (3.23%) SAP HANA
6 2 (2.15%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (2.15%) Oracle Database 12c
6 2 (2.15%) RDBMS
7 1 (1.08%) CouchDB
7 1 (1.08%) Data Lake
7 1 (1.08%) DB2
7 1 (1.08%) Geospatial Data
7 1 (1.08%) Redis
Development Applications
1 17 (18.28%) Git
2 8 (8.60%) JIRA
3 5 (5.38%) Bitbucket
3 5 (5.38%) Jenkins
4 4 (4.30%) Karma Test Runner
5 3 (3.23%) Gradle
5 3 (3.23%) JMeter
5 3 (3.23%) LoadRunner
5 3 (3.23%) NeoLoad
5 3 (3.23%) Octopus Deploy
5 3 (3.23%) TeamCity
6 2 (2.15%) Jasmine
7 1 (1.08%) Bitbucket Server
7 1 (1.08%) CircleCI
7 1 (1.08%) CMake
7 1 (1.08%) Darcs
7 1 (1.08%) Jaeger
7 1 (1.08%) Rational DOORS
7 1 (1.08%) Travis CI
7 1 (1.08%) Xcode
General
1 9 (9.68%) Social Skills
2 7 (7.53%) Finance
3 5 (5.38%) Telecoms
4 3 (3.23%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (3.23%) Banking
4 3 (3.23%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.08%) Electronics
5 1 (1.08%) Front Office
5 1 (1.08%) Investment Banking
5 1 (1.08%) Multimedia
5 1 (1.08%) Retail
Job Titles
1 36 (38.71%) Developer
2 10 (10.75%) Lead
3 9 (9.68%) C++ Developer
3 9 (9.68%) Senior
4 8 (8.60%) AWS Engineer
4 8 (8.60%) Software Engineer
5 7 (7.53%) Analyst
5 7 (7.53%) Linux Developer
6 6 (6.45%) Angular Developer
7 5 (5.38%) Backend Developer
7 5 (5.38%) Embedded Developer
7 5 (5.38%) Full Stack Developer
7 5 (5.38%) Machine Learning Engineer
7 5 (5.38%) Risk Analyst
8 4 (4.30%) C Developer
8 4 (4.30%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (4.30%) QA Leader
8 4 (4.30%) Senior Developer
9 3 (3.23%) C# .NET Developer
9 3 (3.23%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (12.90%) HTML
2 9 (9.68%) AngularJS
3 7 (7.53%) CSS
3 7 (7.53%) Middleware
4 6 (6.45%) .NET
4 6 (6.45%) Node.js
4 6 (6.45%) REST
4 6 (6.45%) Spring Boot
5 5 (5.38%) iOS SDK
5 5 (5.38%) J2EE
5 5 (5.38%) Twitter Bootstrap
5 5 (5.38%) Yocto
6 4 (4.30%) Kafka
6 4 (4.30%) LDAP
6 4 (4.30%) Playwright
7 3 (3.23%) .NET Core
7 3 (3.23%) ASP.NET
7 3 (3.23%) IDoc
7 3 (3.23%) OpenAPI
7 3 (3.23%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.60%) Algorithms
2 5 (5.38%) Client/Server
2 5 (5.38%) Data Structures
3 4 (4.30%) Data Centre
3 4 (4.30%) Data Protection Act
3 4 (4.30%) Device Driver
3 4 (4.30%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (4.30%) iPad
3 4 (4.30%) iPhone
3 4 (4.30%) STB
4 3 (3.23%) Clustering
5 2 (2.15%) Embedded Systems
5 2 (2.15%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.15%) Mobile App
5 2 (2.15%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.15%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.15%) Tandem
6 1 (1.08%) CBDC
6 1 (1.08%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (1.08%) Raspberry Pi
Operating Systems
1 22 (23.66%) Linux
2 6 (6.45%) Apple iOS
3 4 (4.30%) Android
4 3 (3.23%) Windows
5 1 (1.08%) Embedded Linux
5 1 (1.08%) Unix
5 1 (1.08%) VMS
5 1 (1.08%) Windows 10
5 1 (1.08%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (21.51%) Agile
1 20 (21.51%) Software Engineering
2 14 (15.05%) DevOps
3 13 (13.98%) Test Automation
4 12 (12.90%) CI/CD
4 12 (12.90%) Multithreading
5 11 (11.83%) Computer Science
6 10 (10.75%) Scrum
6 10 (10.75%) Unit Testing
7 9 (9.68%) Full Stack Development
8 8 (8.60%) OO
8 8 (8.60%) Roadmaps
9 6 (6.45%) Change Management
9 6 (6.45%) ETRM
9 6 (6.45%) TDD
9 6 (6.45%) User Experience
10 5 (5.38%) Data Analytics
10 5 (5.38%) Machine Learning
10 5 (5.38%) Microservices
10 5 (5.38%) Procure-to-Pay
Programming Languages
1 60 (64.52%) C++
2 45 (48.39%) Python
3 29 (31.18%) Java
4 21 (22.58%) SQL
5 15 (16.13%) C#
6 14 (15.05%) Bash
7 10 (10.75%) Go
8 9 (9.68%) JavaScript
9 8 (8.60%) Shell Script
9 8 (8.60%) Swift
10 7 (7.53%) Objective-C
11 5 (5.38%) ABAP
11 5 (5.38%) TypeScript
12 4 (4.30%) Embedded C
12 4 (4.30%) Rust
13 3 (3.23%) Kotlin
13 3 (3.23%) PowerShell
14 2 (2.15%) Perl
14 2 (2.15%) Ruby
14 2 (2.15%) Scala
Qualifications
1 12 (12.90%) Degree
2 10 (10.75%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (8.60%) Security Cleared
4 7 (7.53%) SC Cleared
5 3 (3.23%) Master's Degree
6 2 (2.15%) PhD
6 2 (2.15%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 1 (1.08%) CREST Certified
7 1 (1.08%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.08%) OSCP
7 1 (1.08%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.38%) QA
2 2 (2.15%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.15%) MiFID
2 2 (2.15%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.08%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.08%) ISO 20022
3 1 (1.08%) JTAG
3 1 (1.08%) NIST
3 1 (1.08%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 8 (8.60%) Docker
2 5 (5.38%) Firmware
3 2 (2.15%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.15%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.15%) VMware NSX
3 2 (2.15%) vSphere
4 1 (1.08%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 12 (12.90%) Kubernetes
2 10 (10.75%) Terraform
3 4 (4.30%) Kibana
4 3 (3.23%) Ansible
4 3 (3.23%) Consul
4 3 (3.23%) Packer
5 1 (1.08%) Grafana
5 1 (1.08%) HP ALM
5 1 (1.08%) logstash
5 1 (1.08%) Progress Chef
5 1 (1.08%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.08%) Puppet
5 1 (1.08%) SCOM
5 1 (1.08%) vCenter Server
5 1 (1.08%) VxRail
Vendors
1 15 (16.13%) Oracle
2 6 (6.45%) Microsoft
3 5 (5.38%) OpenLink
3 5 (5.38%) SAP
3 5 (5.38%) Triple Point
4 4 (4.30%) AppDynamics
4 4 (4.30%) BT
4 4 (4.30%) Dynatrace
4 4 (4.30%) Splunk
5 3 (3.23%) Apple
5 3 (3.23%) MuleSoft
5 3 (3.23%) webMethods
6 2 (2.15%) Cisco
6 2 (2.15%) HP
6 2 (2.15%) VMware
7 1 (1.08%) Google
7 1 (1.08%) Lotus
7 1 (1.08%) NVIDIA
7 1 (1.08%) QNX
7 1 (1.08%) Sparx