C Contracts

C
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 175 245 384
Rank change year-on-year +70 +139 -70
Contract jobs citing C 583 607 595
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.35% 1.08% 0.68%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.51% 3.17% 1.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 259 324 298
10th Percentile £400 £375 £405
25th Percentile £463 £450 £489
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.55% -4.35% +27.78%
75th Percentile £600 £675 £650
90th Percentile £688 £800 £747
UK excluding London median daily rate £543 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +8.50% - +23.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 192 106 87
10th Percentile £46.25 £37.80 £44.69
25th Percentile £56.65 £48.63 £48.04
Median hourly rate £65.00 £60.00 £56.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +7.14% +17.89%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.56 £60.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £82.25 £66.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £57.00
% change year-on-year - +14.04% +20.00%

All Programming Languages
UK

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 with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 12,939 19,124 31,582
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.05% 34.12% 36.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,176 13,793 23,095
10th Percentile £350 £388 £388
25th Percentile £425 £461 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £680 £660
90th Percentile £763 £788 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +14.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 522 433 488
10th Percentile £31.25 £26.60 £19.52
25th Percentile £46.25 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £62.00 £62.50 £51.75
Median % change year-on-year -0.80% +20.77% +17.21%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £61.56
90th Percentile £77.50 £78.95 £71.98
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year - +19.05% +28.05%

C
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for C in the UK

C
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for C in the UK

C
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing C over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for C in the UK

C
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for C in the UK

C
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing C over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for C in the UK

C
Top 16 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing C within the UK over the 6 months to 1 June 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
England +60 535 £538 -4.78% 577
UK excluding London +73 447 £543 +8.50% 509
Work from Home +46 171 £535 -2.73% 211
East of England +18 137 £550 +11.39% 97
South East +24 110 £550 +4.76% 135
London -8 96 £500 -23.08% 100
South West +26 94 £563 +12.50% 104
Midlands +73 64 £535 +33.75% 56
West Midlands +65 57 £535 +42.67% 24
North of England +15 29 £523 -12.92% 65
Scotland +34 17 £525 +9.09% 46
North West +19 16 £525 -8.10% 39
East Midlands +12 7 £445 -1.11% 32
Yorkshire +6 7 £510 -15.00% 22
North East - 6 - - 5
Wales +16 1 - - 15

C
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 14 (2.40%) Confluence
2 7 (1.20%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.69%) OpenStack
4 3 (0.51%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.51%) nginx
4 3 (0.51%) SAS
5 1 (0.17%) Apache
5 1 (0.17%) IBM Domino
5 1 (0.17%) IBM Notes
5 1 (0.17%) JBoss
5 1 (0.17%) Oracle HTTP Server
5 1 (0.17%) WebLogic
Applications
1 37 (6.35%) Simulink
2 7 (1.20%) Stateflow
3 5 (0.86%) TargetLink
4 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.17%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 6 (1.03%) Teamcenter
2 5 (0.86%) Endur
2 5 (0.86%) OpenLink RightAngle
3 4 (0.69%) Academy Housing
3 4 (0.69%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
3 4 (0.69%) LabWindows
3 4 (0.69%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 3 (0.51%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.17%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.17%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.17%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 87 (14.92%) AWS
2 57 (9.78%) Azure
3 17 (2.92%) Azure DevOps
4 11 (1.89%) Microsoft 365
5 10 (1.72%) Amazon EC2
6 9 (1.54%) SaaS
7 8 (1.37%) Cloud Computing
7 8 (1.37%) GitHub
7 8 (1.37%) Serverless
8 7 (1.20%) Amazon S3
9 6 (1.03%) GCP
10 5 (0.86%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (0.86%) OpenShift
11 4 (0.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 4 (0.69%) Amazon EKS
11 4 (0.69%) Azure Monitor
11 4 (0.69%) Datadog
11 4 (0.69%) Dynamics 365
11 4 (0.69%) Entra ID
11 4 (0.69%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 36 (6.17%) Modbus
2 35 (6.00%) RS-422
3 34 (5.83%) RS-485
4 17 (2.92%) Wi-Fi
5 9 (1.54%) 5G
5 9 (1.54%) TCP/IP
6 8 (1.37%) Firewall
7 7 (1.20%) 802.11
7 7 (1.20%) Diameter Protocol
8 6 (1.03%) DNS
8 6 (1.03%) Internet
8 6 (1.03%) Kerberos
8 6 (1.03%) RS-232
9 5 (0.86%) DHCP
9 5 (0.86%) J1939
9 5 (0.86%) Network Security
9 5 (0.86%) Wireless
10 4 (0.69%) NAS
10 4 (0.69%) Radio Access Network
10 4 (0.69%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (3.77%) SQL Server
2 13 (2.23%) NoSQL
2 13 (2.23%) Relational Database
3 10 (1.72%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (1.37%) Amazon RDS
4 8 (1.37%) Oracle Database
5 6 (1.03%) Data Mining
5 6 (1.03%) DB2
6 5 (0.86%) Elasticsearch
6 5 (0.86%) MySQL
7 4 (0.69%) Amazon Redshift
7 4 (0.69%) Geospatial Data
7 4 (0.69%) InfluxDB
7 4 (0.69%) RDBMS
8 3 (0.51%) Data Lake
8 3 (0.51%) DynamoDB
8 3 (0.51%) MongoDB
8 3 (0.51%) SAP HANA
9 2 (0.34%) Apache Cassandra
9 2 (0.34%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 65 (11.15%) Git
2 59 (10.12%) Visual Studio
3 57 (9.78%) PVCS
4 31 (5.32%) JIRA
5 29 (4.97%) Jenkins
6 23 (3.95%) Bitbucket
7 20 (3.43%) Subversion
8 19 (3.26%) Rational DOORS
9 14 (2.40%) Rational Rhapsody
10 10 (1.72%) Gradle
11 5 (0.86%) JMeter
11 5 (0.86%) Karma Test Runner
12 4 (0.69%) ClearCase
12 4 (0.69%) ClearQuest
12 4 (0.69%) CMake
12 4 (0.69%) GDB
12 4 (0.69%) GitLab
12 4 (0.69%) JUnit
12 4 (0.69%) Maven
12 4 (0.69%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 90 (15.44%) Social Skills
2 71 (12.18%) Electronics
3 40 (6.86%) Public Sector
4 29 (4.97%) Telecoms
5 28 (4.80%) Automotive
6 24 (4.12%) Analytical Skills
6 24 (4.12%) Finance
7 22 (3.77%) Aerospace
8 11 (1.89%) Banking
9 9 (1.54%) Aviation
10 6 (1.03%) Law
10 6 (1.03%) Manufacturing
10 6 (1.03%) Multimedia
11 5 (0.86%) Billing
12 4 (0.69%) German Language
12 4 (0.69%) Local Government
12 4 (0.69%) Marketing
13 3 (0.51%) Military
13 3 (0.51%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (0.51%) Retail
Job Titles
1 190 (32.59%) Software Engineer
2 109 (18.70%) Developer
3 93 (15.95%) Embedded Engineer
4 89 (15.27%) Embedded Software Engineer
5 66 (11.32%) Programmer
6 62 (10.63%) C Programmer
7 48 (8.23%) C++ Software Engineer
8 42 (7.20%) Senior
9 32 (5.49%) Architect
9 32 (5.49%) C Software Engineer
10 22 (3.77%) FPGA Engineer
10 22 (3.77%) Full Stack Developer
10 22 (3.77%) Lead
11 19 (3.26%) C Developer
11 19 (3.26%) C/C++ Software Engineer
11 19 (3.26%) Design Engineer
11 19 (3.26%) FPGA Design Engineer
12 18 (3.09%) Analyst
12 18 (3.09%) C++ Developer
13 17 (2.92%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (5.32%) React
2 30 (5.15%) .NET
3 28 (4.80%) Spring Boot
4 25 (4.29%) AngularJS
4 25 (4.29%) Spring
5 19 (3.26%) HTML
5 19 (3.26%) J2EE
6 18 (3.09%) REST
6 18 (3.09%) Yocto
7 17 (2.92%) RESTful
7 17 (2.92%) XML
8 14 (2.40%) Node.js
9 12 (2.06%) JSON
10 11 (1.89%) CSS
10 11 (1.89%) DirectX
10 11 (1.89%) OpenGL
10 11 (1.89%) Vulkan
11 10 (1.72%) Itk
11 10 (1.72%) Middleware
11 10 (1.72%) OpenGL ES
Miscellaneous
1 32 (5.49%) VHDL
2 30 (5.15%) Verilog
3 29 (4.97%) Self-Motivation
4 27 (4.63%) Algorithms
5 25 (4.29%) FPGA
6 24 (4.12%) ARM Cortex
7 15 (2.57%) Device Driver
8 12 (2.06%) Data Structures
8 12 (2.06%) Management Information System
9 11 (1.89%) IoT
9 11 (1.89%) Public Cloud
10 10 (1.72%) Embedded Systems
10 10 (1.72%) Product Ownership
11 9 (1.54%) 3D Graphics
11 9 (1.54%) Ray Tracing
11 9 (1.54%) STB
12 8 (1.37%) Data Protection Act
12 8 (1.37%) Linux Command Line
13 7 (1.20%) Data Centre
13 7 (1.20%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 130 (22.30%) Linux
2 26 (4.46%) FreeRTOS
3 22 (3.77%) Windows
4 17 (2.92%) Unix
5 13 (2.23%) Apple iOS
6 11 (1.89%) Android
7 8 (1.37%) Embedded Linux
8 7 (1.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 5 (0.86%) VxWorks
9 5 (0.86%) Windows 10
9 5 (0.86%) Windows Server
10 4 (0.69%) SafeRTOS
10 4 (0.69%) ThreadX
10 4 (0.69%) Windows Server 2016
10 4 (0.69%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.17%) CentOS
11 1 (0.17%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (0.17%) Solaris
11 1 (0.17%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 232 (39.79%) Software Engineering
2 152 (26.07%) Agile
3 128 (21.96%) DevOps
4 85 (14.58%) Problem-Solving
5 65 (11.15%) Unit Testing
6 53 (9.09%) Software Testing
7 52 (8.92%) Validation
8 51 (8.75%) Continuous Integration
9 48 (8.23%) TDD
10 47 (8.06%) OO
11 46 (7.89%) Test Automation
12 44 (7.55%) Configuration Management
13 40 (6.86%) CI/CD
14 38 (6.52%) Continuous Improvement
15 37 (6.35%) Multithreading
15 37 (6.35%) Pair Programming
16 36 (6.17%) Scrum
17 35 (6.00%) SDLC
18 34 (5.83%) Customer Requirements
19 33 (5.66%) Full Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 269 (46.14%) C++
2 142 (24.36%) Python
3 105 (18.01%) Java
4 81 (13.89%) Embedded C
5 74 (12.69%) C#
6 65 (11.15%) PL/SQL
7 58 (9.95%) SQL
8 37 (6.35%) JavaScript
9 34 (5.83%) Bash
10 29 (4.97%) Shell Script
11 25 (4.29%) MATLAB
12 24 (4.12%) Go
13 21 (3.60%) SystemVerilog
14 19 (3.26%) Perl
15 15 (2.57%) Embedded C++
15 15 (2.57%) TypeScript
16 14 (2.40%) PowerShell
17 12 (2.06%) Ada
18 11 (1.89%) Tcl
19 10 (1.72%) Swift
Qualifications
1 180 (30.87%) Security Cleared
2 123 (21.10%) SC Cleared
3 72 (12.35%) Degree
4 55 (9.43%) DV Cleared
5 29 (4.97%) Master's Degree
6 18 (3.09%) PhD
7 16 (2.74%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (0.69%) DBS Check
9 3 (0.51%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.34%) CREST Certified
10 2 (0.34%) OSCP
10 2 (0.34%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 1 (0.17%) CCIE
11 1 (0.17%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.17%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (3.60%) QA
2 13 (2.23%) AUTOSAR
2 13 (2.23%) MISRA
3 10 (1.72%) MISRA C
4 7 (1.20%) JTAG
5 5 (0.86%) DO-178B
5 5 (0.86%) ISO 26262
6 4 (0.69%) Def Stans
7 3 (0.51%) Accessibility
7 3 (0.51%) IEC 61508
7 3 (0.51%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.34%) ISO 20022
8 2 (0.34%) MiFID
8 2 (0.34%) NIST
9 1 (0.17%) Data Quality
9 1 (0.17%) GDPR
9 1 (0.17%) ISO 13485
9 1 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.17%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 42 (7.20%) Docker
2 28 (4.80%) Firmware
3 11 (1.89%) Active Directory
4 7 (1.20%) Embedded Firmware
5 6 (1.03%) VMware NSX
5 6 (1.03%) vSphere
6 5 (0.86%) VMware Infrastructure
7 4 (0.69%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 44 (7.55%) Terraform
2 33 (5.66%) Kubernetes
3 27 (4.63%) Ansible
4 10 (1.72%) Progress Chef
5 9 (1.54%) Grafana
6 7 (1.20%) Prometheus
7 6 (1.03%) Kibana
8 5 (0.86%) Functional Safety
8 5 (0.86%) Puppet
9 4 (0.69%) Docker Swarm
9 4 (0.69%) HP ALM
9 4 (0.69%) Nagios
10 3 (0.51%) Consul
10 3 (0.51%) Packer
11 1 (0.17%) Data Guard
11 1 (0.17%) logstash
11 1 (0.17%) Oracle Flashback
11 1 (0.17%) Oracle RMAN
11 1 (0.17%) vCenter Server
11 1 (0.17%) VxRail
Vendors
1 37 (6.35%) IBM
2 35 (6.00%) Microsoft
3 29 (4.97%) Oracle
4 24 (4.12%) Xilinx
5 23 (3.95%) Lauterbach
6 21 (3.60%) Intel
7 17 (2.92%) Microsemi
8 13 (2.23%) SAP
9 9 (1.54%) Cadence
10 8 (1.37%) Atlassian
10 8 (1.37%) Splunk
11 6 (1.03%) Google
11 6 (1.03%) HP
12 5 (0.86%) OpenLink
12 5 (0.86%) Triple Point
12 5 (0.86%) VMware
13 4 (0.69%) BT
13 4 (0.69%) Capita
13 4 (0.69%) Micro Focus
13 4 (0.69%) Perforce