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 8 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 299 280 380
Rank change year-on-year -19 +100 -55
Contract jobs citing C 102 210 243
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.58% 0.83% 0.62%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.55% 2.07% 1.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 135 145
10th Percentile £295 £505 £468
25th Percentile £411 £528 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +8.33% +14.29%
75th Percentile £575 £775 £700
90th Percentile £675 £920 £800
England median daily rate £538 £577 £575
% change year-on-year -6.76% +0.35% +27.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 6 3
10th Percentile £51.23 £35.55 £33.25
25th Percentile £61.31 £48.95 £34.38
Median hourly rate £68.75 £52.35 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +31.34% +39.59% -7.41%
75th Percentile £72.50 £55.28 £46.88
90th Percentile £73.25 £66.02 £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 6,587 10,126 16,241
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 37.52% 40.12% 41.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,007 7,630 12,509
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 £827 £800
England median daily rate £540 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -4.00% +2.27% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 74 107
10th Percentile £23.80 £25.40 £28.85
25th Percentile £40.75 £39.31 £35.00
Median hourly rate £50.50 £60.00 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.83% +23.71% +2.11%
75th Percentile £62.50 £75.00 £66.63
90th Percentile £72.50 £88.50 £75.57
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year - +19.05% +18.44%

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 8 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

C
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing C in London over the 6 months to 8 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for C in London

C
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 8 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 +38 16 £425 - 13
Central London +5 6 £725 +11.54% 5
South London -3 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 (4.90%) Confluence
2 4 (3.92%) OpenStack
3 3 (2.94%) nginx
3 3 (2.94%) SAS
4 2 (1.96%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.98%) IBM Domino
5 1 (0.98%) IBM Notes
Applications
1 1 (0.98%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 5 (4.90%) Endur
1 5 (4.90%) OpenLink RightAngle
2 3 (2.94%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.98%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.98%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 38 (37.25%) AWS
2 9 (8.82%) Azure
3 8 (7.84%) Cloud Computing
4 4 (3.92%) PaaS
4 4 (3.92%) SaaS
5 3 (2.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 3 (2.94%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (2.94%) Amazon ELB
5 3 (2.94%) GitHub
5 3 (2.94%) Snowflake
6 2 (1.96%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (0.98%) Azure AKS
7 1 (0.98%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (0.98%) Entra ID
7 1 (0.98%) Firebase
7 1 (0.98%) GCP
7 1 (0.98%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 10 (9.80%) Wi-Fi
2 6 (5.88%) DNS
3 5 (4.90%) DHCP
4 4 (3.92%) Firewall
5 3 (2.94%) IPv4
5 3 (2.94%) Reverse Proxy
6 2 (1.96%) 5G
6 2 (1.96%) Software-Defined Networking
6 2 (1.96%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.98%) 4G
7 1 (0.98%) Bluetooth
7 1 (0.98%) HTTP
7 1 (0.98%) HTTPS
7 1 (0.98%) Internet
7 1 (0.98%) Network Security
7 1 (0.98%) NFC
7 1 (0.98%) RTSP
7 1 (0.98%) SNMP
7 1 (0.98%) UWB
7 1 (0.98%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (6.86%) NoSQL
1 7 (6.86%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (5.88%) Data Mining
2 6 (5.88%) Relational Database
3 5 (4.90%) SQL Server
4 4 (3.92%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (3.92%) MySQL
5 3 (2.94%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (2.94%) DynamoDB
5 3 (2.94%) Oracle Database
5 3 (2.94%) SAP HANA
6 2 (1.96%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (1.96%) MongoDB
6 2 (1.96%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.98%) CouchDB
7 1 (0.98%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.98%) DB2
7 1 (0.98%) Geospatial Data
7 1 (0.98%) Redis
Development Applications
1 20 (19.61%) Git
2 8 (7.84%) JIRA
3 5 (4.90%) Bitbucket
3 5 (4.90%) Jenkins
3 5 (4.90%) Karma Test Runner
4 3 (2.94%) Gradle
4 3 (2.94%) Jasmine
4 3 (2.94%) JMeter
4 3 (2.94%) LoadRunner
4 3 (2.94%) NeoLoad
4 3 (2.94%) Octopus Deploy
4 3 (2.94%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.98%) Ant
5 1 (0.98%) ClearCase
5 1 (0.98%) ClearQuest
5 1 (0.98%) IntelliJ
5 1 (0.98%) JUnit
5 1 (0.98%) Maven
5 1 (0.98%) Mercurial
5 1 (0.98%) Xcode
General
1 11 (10.78%) Social Skills
2 9 (8.82%) Finance
3 5 (4.90%) Telecoms
4 3 (2.94%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (2.94%) Banking
4 3 (2.94%) Public Sector
5 1 (0.98%) Electronics
5 1 (0.98%) Front Office
5 1 (0.98%) Investment Banking
5 1 (0.98%) Multimedia
5 1 (0.98%) Retail
Job Titles
1 39 (38.24%) Developer
2 12 (11.76%) Senior
3 10 (9.80%) Software Engineer
4 9 (8.82%) AWS Engineer
4 9 (8.82%) Lead
5 7 (6.86%) Analyst
5 7 (6.86%) Angular Developer
5 7 (6.86%) C++ Developer
5 7 (6.86%) Python Developer
6 5 (4.90%) Embedded Developer
6 5 (4.90%) Full Stack Developer
6 5 (4.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 5 (4.90%) Linux Developer
6 5 (4.90%) Machine Learning Engineer
6 5 (4.90%) Risk Analyst
6 5 (4.90%) Senior Developer
7 4 (3.92%) Backend Developer
7 4 (3.92%) Embedded Engineer
7 4 (3.92%) Java Engineer
7 4 (3.92%) QA Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (12.75%) HTML
2 10 (9.80%) AngularJS
3 9 (8.82%) REST
3 9 (8.82%) Spring Boot
4 8 (7.84%) CSS
4 8 (7.84%) J2EE
5 6 (5.88%) .NET
5 6 (5.88%) iOS SDK
5 6 (5.88%) Middleware
5 6 (5.88%) Twitter Bootstrap
5 6 (5.88%) Yocto
6 5 (4.90%) Node.js
6 5 (4.90%) Playwright
7 4 (3.92%) Kafka
7 4 (3.92%) LDAP
8 3 (2.94%) .NET Core
8 3 (2.94%) Angular 2
8 3 (2.94%) ASP.NET
8 3 (2.94%) IDoc
8 3 (2.94%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (6.86%) Algorithms
2 6 (5.88%) Data Structures
3 5 (4.90%) Client/Server
3 5 (4.90%) iPad
3 5 (4.90%) iPhone
3 5 (4.90%) STB
4 4 (3.92%) Data Centre
4 4 (3.92%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (3.92%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (3.92%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (2.94%) Clustering
5 3 (2.94%) Embedded Systems
6 2 (1.96%) Device Driver
6 2 (1.96%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.96%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.96%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.96%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.96%) Tandem
7 1 (0.98%) CBDC
7 1 (0.98%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 21 (20.59%) Linux
2 7 (6.86%) Android
2 7 (6.86%) Apple iOS
3 3 (2.94%) Windows
4 1 (0.98%) Embedded Linux
4 1 (0.98%) ThreadX
4 1 (0.98%) VMS
4 1 (0.98%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.98%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (22.55%) Agile
1 23 (22.55%) Software Engineering
2 17 (16.67%) DevOps
3 14 (13.73%) Multithreading
4 13 (12.75%) Test Automation
5 12 (11.76%) Unit Testing
6 11 (10.78%) CI/CD
6 11 (10.78%) Computer Science
7 10 (9.80%) Scrum
8 9 (8.82%) Full Stack Development
8 9 (8.82%) OO
9 8 (7.84%) Roadmaps
10 7 (6.86%) User Experience
11 6 (5.88%) Analytics
11 6 (5.88%) Change Management
11 6 (5.88%) ETRM
11 6 (5.88%) Memory Management
11 6 (5.88%) Multithreaded Programming
12 5 (4.90%) Order to Cash
12 5 (4.90%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 60 (58.82%) C++
2 52 (50.98%) Python
3 34 (33.33%) Java
4 23 (22.55%) SQL
5 16 (15.69%) C#
6 11 (10.78%) Bash
7 10 (9.80%) Go
7 10 (9.80%) JavaScript
8 9 (8.82%) Shell Script
8 9 (8.82%) Swift
9 8 (7.84%) Objective-C
10 7 (6.86%) TypeScript
11 6 (5.88%) Kotlin
12 5 (4.90%) ABAP
12 5 (4.90%) Embedded C
13 4 (3.92%) Rust
14 3 (2.94%) Ruby
15 2 (1.96%) Perl
15 2 (1.96%) PowerShell
15 2 (1.96%) Scala
Qualifications
1 13 (12.75%) Degree
1 13 (12.75%) Security Cleared
2 11 (10.78%) SC Cleared
3 10 (9.80%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (2.94%) Master's Degree
5 2 (1.96%) PhD
5 2 (1.96%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 1 (0.98%) CREST Certified
6 1 (0.98%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.98%) OSCP
6 1 (0.98%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.90%) QA
2 3 (2.94%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.96%) MiFID
3 2 (1.96%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.98%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.98%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.98%) JTAG
4 1 (0.98%) NIST
4 1 (0.98%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 9 (8.82%) Docker
2 6 (5.88%) Firmware
3 2 (1.96%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.96%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.96%) VMware NSX
3 2 (1.96%) vSphere
4 1 (0.98%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 12 (11.76%) Terraform
2 11 (10.78%) Kubernetes
3 4 (3.92%) Kibana
4 3 (2.94%) Consul
4 3 (2.94%) Packer
5 2 (1.96%) Ansible
6 1 (0.98%) Grafana
6 1 (0.98%) HP ALM
6 1 (0.98%) logstash
6 1 (0.98%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.98%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.98%) Puppet
6 1 (0.98%) SCOM
6 1 (0.98%) vCenter Server
6 1 (0.98%) VxRail
Vendors
1 12 (11.76%) Oracle
2 6 (5.88%) Microsoft
3 5 (4.90%) OpenLink
3 5 (4.90%) SAP
3 5 (4.90%) Triple Point
4 4 (3.92%) AppDynamics
4 4 (3.92%) BT
4 4 (3.92%) Dynatrace
4 4 (3.92%) Splunk
5 3 (2.94%) Apple
5 3 (2.94%) MuleSoft
5 3 (2.94%) webMethods
6 2 (1.96%) Cisco
6 2 (1.96%) HP
6 2 (1.96%) VMware
7 1 (0.98%) Google
7 1 (0.98%) Lotus
7 1 (0.98%) NVIDIA
7 1 (0.98%) QNX
7 1 (0.98%) Renesas