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 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 297 289 390
Rank change year-on-year -8 +101 -75
Contract jobs citing C 96 209 233
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.55% 0.82% 0.60%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.47% 2.05% 1.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 134 136
10th Percentile £258 £505 £463
25th Percentile £413 £525 £520
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +8.33% +20.00%
75th Percentile £575 £750 £691
90th Percentile £731 £950 £788
England median daily rate £538 £565 £575
% change year-on-year -4.78% -1.74% +27.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 7 3
10th Percentile £51.23 £49.44 £33.25
25th Percentile £61.31 £50.63 £34.38
Median hourly rate £68.75 £52.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +30.95% +40.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £72.50 £58.75 £46.88
90th Percentile £73.25 £65.75 £51.75
England median hourly rate £65.00 £60.00 £56.00
% change year-on-year +8.33% +7.14% +17.89%

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 6,524 10,182 16,088
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 37.26% 40.03% 41.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,973 7,675 12,404
10th Percentile £375 £413 £413
25th Percentile £463 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £700 £738 £713
90th Percentile £838 £825 £800
England median daily rate £543 £564 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% +2.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 74 102
10th Percentile £23.80 £25.75 £31.03
25th Percentile £33.07 £39.31 £35.00
Median hourly rate £50.50 £60.00 £49.24
Median % change year-on-year -15.83% +21.85% +3.67%
75th Percentile £62.50 £75.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £88.50 £76.88
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year - +19.05% +20.00%

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

C
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for C in London

C
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 1 June 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 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
West London - 15 £338 - 10
Central London +4 6 £725 +11.54% 6
South London -5 3 £550 - 1
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 (5.21%) Confluence
2 4 (4.17%) OpenStack
3 3 (3.13%) nginx
3 3 (3.13%) SAS
4 2 (2.08%) Apache Spark
5 1 (1.04%) IBM Domino
5 1 (1.04%) IBM Notes
5 1 (1.04%) JBoss
Applications
1 1 (1.04%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 5 (5.21%) Endur
1 5 (5.21%) OpenLink RightAngle
2 3 (3.13%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (1.04%) SAP ERP
3 1 (1.04%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 38 (39.58%) AWS
2 9 (9.38%) Azure
3 8 (8.33%) Cloud Computing
4 4 (4.17%) PaaS
4 4 (4.17%) SaaS
5 3 (3.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 3 (3.13%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (3.13%) Amazon ELB
5 3 (3.13%) Snowflake
6 2 (2.08%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (2.08%) GitHub
7 1 (1.04%) Azure AKS
7 1 (1.04%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.04%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.04%) Firebase
7 1 (1.04%) GCP
7 1 (1.04%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 10 (10.42%) Wi-Fi
2 6 (6.25%) DNS
3 5 (5.21%) DHCP
4 4 (4.17%) Firewall
5 3 (3.13%) IPv4
5 3 (3.13%) Reverse Proxy
6 2 (2.08%) 5G
6 2 (2.08%) Software-Defined Networking
6 2 (2.08%) TCP/IP
7 1 (1.04%) 4G
7 1 (1.04%) Bluetooth
7 1 (1.04%) HTTP
7 1 (1.04%) HTTPS
7 1 (1.04%) Internet
7 1 (1.04%) Network Security
7 1 (1.04%) NFC
7 1 (1.04%) RTSP
7 1 (1.04%) SNMP
7 1 (1.04%) UWB
7 1 (1.04%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (8.33%) NoSQL
2 7 (7.29%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (6.25%) Data Mining
3 6 (6.25%) Relational Database
4 5 (5.21%) SQL Server
5 4 (4.17%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (4.17%) MySQL
5 4 (4.17%) Oracle Database
6 3 (3.13%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (3.13%) DynamoDB
6 3 (3.13%) MongoDB
6 3 (3.13%) SAP HANA
7 2 (2.08%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (2.08%) RDBMS
8 1 (1.04%) CouchDB
8 1 (1.04%) Data Lake
8 1 (1.04%) DB2
8 1 (1.04%) Geospatial Data
8 1 (1.04%) Oracle Database 12c
8 1 (1.04%) Redis
Development Applications
1 19 (19.79%) Git
2 8 (8.33%) JIRA
3 5 (5.21%) Bitbucket
3 5 (5.21%) Jenkins
3 5 (5.21%) Karma Test Runner
4 3 (3.13%) Gradle
4 3 (3.13%) Jasmine
4 3 (3.13%) JMeter
4 3 (3.13%) LoadRunner
4 3 (3.13%) NeoLoad
4 3 (3.13%) Octopus Deploy
4 3 (3.13%) TeamCity
5 1 (1.04%) Ant
5 1 (1.04%) ClearCase
5 1 (1.04%) ClearQuest
5 1 (1.04%) IntelliJ
5 1 (1.04%) JUnit
5 1 (1.04%) Maven
5 1 (1.04%) Mercurial
5 1 (1.04%) Xcode
General
1 10 (10.42%) Social Skills
2 9 (9.38%) Finance
3 5 (5.21%) Telecoms
4 3 (3.13%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (3.13%) Banking
4 3 (3.13%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.04%) Electronics
5 1 (1.04%) Front Office
5 1 (1.04%) Investment Banking
5 1 (1.04%) Multimedia
5 1 (1.04%) Retail
Job Titles
1 36 (37.50%) Developer
2 11 (11.46%) Senior
2 11 (11.46%) Software Engineer
3 10 (10.42%) Lead
4 9 (9.38%) AWS Engineer
5 7 (7.29%) Analyst
5 7 (7.29%) Angular Developer
5 7 (7.29%) C++ Developer
6 5 (5.21%) Embedded Developer
6 5 (5.21%) Full Stack Developer
6 5 (5.21%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 5 (5.21%) Linux Developer
6 5 (5.21%) Machine Learning Engineer
6 5 (5.21%) Python Developer
6 5 (5.21%) Risk Analyst
7 4 (4.17%) Backend Developer
7 4 (4.17%) Embedded Engineer
7 4 (4.17%) QA Leader
7 4 (4.17%) Senior Developer
8 3 (3.13%) Junior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (13.54%) HTML
2 10 (10.42%) AngularJS
3 8 (8.33%) CSS
3 8 (8.33%) REST
3 8 (8.33%) Spring Boot
4 7 (7.29%) J2EE
5 6 (6.25%) .NET
5 6 (6.25%) iOS SDK
5 6 (6.25%) Middleware
5 6 (6.25%) Node.js
5 6 (6.25%) Twitter Bootstrap
6 5 (5.21%) Playwright
6 5 (5.21%) Yocto
7 4 (4.17%) Kafka
7 4 (4.17%) LDAP
8 3 (3.13%) ASP.NET
8 3 (3.13%) React
8 3 (3.13%) RxJS
8 3 (3.13%) Swagger
8 3 (3.13%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (7.29%) Algorithms
2 6 (6.25%) Data Structures
3 5 (5.21%) Client/Server
3 5 (5.21%) iPad
3 5 (5.21%) iPhone
4 4 (4.17%) Data Centre
4 4 (4.17%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (4.17%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (4.17%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (4.17%) STB
5 3 (3.13%) Clustering
6 2 (2.08%) Device Driver
6 2 (2.08%) Embedded Systems
6 2 (2.08%) Management Information System
6 2 (2.08%) Mobile App
6 2 (2.08%) Product Ownership
6 2 (2.08%) Public Cloud
6 2 (2.08%) Tandem
7 1 (1.04%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (1.04%) Raspberry Pi
Operating Systems
1 21 (21.88%) Linux
2 7 (7.29%) Apple iOS
3 4 (4.17%) Android
4 3 (3.13%) Windows
5 1 (1.04%) Embedded Linux
5 1 (1.04%) ThreadX
5 1 (1.04%) Unix
5 1 (1.04%) VMS
5 1 (1.04%) Windows 10
5 1 (1.04%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (23.96%) Software Engineering
2 22 (22.92%) Agile
3 16 (16.67%) DevOps
4 14 (14.58%) Multithreading
5 13 (13.54%) Test Automation
6 12 (12.50%) CI/CD
6 12 (12.50%) Unit Testing
7 11 (11.46%) Computer Science
8 10 (10.42%) OO
8 10 (10.42%) Scrum
9 9 (9.38%) Full Stack Development
10 8 (8.33%) Roadmaps
11 6 (6.25%) Analytics
11 6 (6.25%) Change Management
11 6 (6.25%) ETRM
11 6 (6.25%) Memory Management
11 6 (6.25%) Multithreaded Programming
11 6 (6.25%) TDD
11 6 (6.25%) User Experience
12 5 (5.21%) Parallel Computing
Programming Languages
1 60 (62.50%) C++
2 48 (50.00%) Python
3 31 (32.29%) Java
4 23 (23.96%) SQL
5 16 (16.67%) C#
6 11 (11.46%) Bash
7 10 (10.42%) Go
7 10 (10.42%) JavaScript
8 9 (9.38%) Shell Script
8 9 (9.38%) Swift
9 8 (8.33%) Objective-C
10 7 (7.29%) TypeScript
11 5 (5.21%) ABAP
11 5 (5.21%) Embedded C
12 4 (4.17%) Rust
13 3 (3.13%) Kotlin
14 2 (2.08%) Perl
14 2 (2.08%) PowerShell
14 2 (2.08%) Ruby
14 2 (2.08%) Scala
Qualifications
1 12 (12.50%) Degree
2 10 (10.42%) Computer Science Degree
2 10 (10.42%) Security Cleared
3 9 (9.38%) SC Cleared
4 3 (3.13%) Master's Degree
5 2 (2.08%) PhD
5 2 (2.08%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 1 (1.04%) CREST Certified
6 1 (1.04%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.04%) OSCP
6 1 (1.04%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.21%) QA
2 3 (3.13%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.08%) MiFID
3 2 (2.08%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.04%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.04%) ISO 20022
4 1 (1.04%) JTAG
4 1 (1.04%) NIST
4 1 (1.04%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 9 (9.38%) Docker
2 6 (6.25%) Firmware
3 2 (2.08%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.08%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.08%) VMware NSX
3 2 (2.08%) vSphere
4 1 (1.04%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 11 (11.46%) Kubernetes
1 11 (11.46%) Terraform
2 4 (4.17%) Kibana
3 3 (3.13%) Consul
3 3 (3.13%) Packer
4 2 (2.08%) Ansible
5 1 (1.04%) Grafana
5 1 (1.04%) HP ALM
5 1 (1.04%) logstash
5 1 (1.04%) Progress Chef
5 1 (1.04%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.04%) Puppet
5 1 (1.04%) SCOM
5 1 (1.04%) vCenter Server
5 1 (1.04%) VxRail
Vendors
1 14 (14.58%) Oracle
2 6 (6.25%) Microsoft
3 5 (5.21%) OpenLink
3 5 (5.21%) SAP
3 5 (5.21%) Triple Point
4 4 (4.17%) AppDynamics
4 4 (4.17%) BT
4 4 (4.17%) Dynatrace
4 4 (4.17%) Splunk
5 3 (3.13%) Apple
5 3 (3.13%) MuleSoft
5 3 (3.13%) webMethods
6 2 (2.08%) Cisco
6 2 (2.08%) HP
6 2 (2.08%) VMware
7 1 (1.04%) Google
7 1 (1.04%) Lotus
7 1 (1.04%) NVIDIA
7 1 (1.04%) QNX
7 1 (1.04%) Renesas