C Contracts in the UK excluding London

C
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 261 106 159
Rank change year-on-year -155 +53 +106
Contract jobs citing C 92 410 364
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.64% 1.95% 1.57%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.27% 8.23% 5.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 155 180
10th Percentile £268 £400 £350
25th Percentile £300 £456 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -25.65% +2.48% +2.19%
75th Percentile £500 £600 £615
90th Percentile £556 £650 £650
UK median daily rate £500 £534 £550
% change year-on-year -6.28% -3.00% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 153 95
10th Percentile £54.25 £46.25 £37.80
25th Percentile £59.00 £57.50 £50.63
Median hourly rate £68.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.62% - +14.04%
75th Percentile £73.75 £70.00 £69.38
90th Percentile £77.50 £85.00 £90.00
UK median hourly rate £68.00 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year +4.62% +8.33% +7.14%

All Programming Languages
UK excluding London

C falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring coding skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 4,055 4,980 6,341
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 28.16% 23.63% 27.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,670 3,270 4,422
10th Percentile £313 £322 £338
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.96% -2.10% -
75th Percentile £550 £582 £594
90th Percentile £625 £650 £688
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 176 449 331
10th Percentile £28.18 £35.93 £26.75
25th Percentile £45.00 £52.50 £50.00
Median hourly rate £62.25 £65.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.23% +4.00% +17.92%
75th Percentile £68.13 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £78.10 £75.50 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year -12.00% - +19.05%

C
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for C in the UK excluding London

C
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for C in the UK excluding London

C
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing C in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for C in the UK excluding London

C
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for C in the UK excluding London

C
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing C in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for C in the UK excluding London

C
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 5 July 2025. 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
East of England -28 36 £400 -27.27% 326
South West -26 20 £550 - 195
Scotland 0 14 £300 -54.29% 119
South East -58 9 £513 -6.82% 323
North of England -19 8 £375 -27.88% 205
Midlands -40 5 £75 -85.94% 160
East Midlands +2 4 £75 -83.15% 57
North West -13 4 £375 -27.88% 99
Yorkshire +1 3 £500 -1.96% 88
North East -5 1 - - 18
West Midlands -40 1 - - 102
C
UK

C
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 11 (11.96%) Confluence
2 10 (10.87%) WebLogic
3 9 (9.78%) WebSphere
4 1 (1.09%) nginx
4 1 (1.09%) Tomcat
4 1 (1.09%) Tuxedo
Applications
1 7 (7.61%) Simulink
2 1 (1.09%) CANalyzer
Business Applications
1 2 (2.17%) LabWindows
2 1 (1.09%) BASE24
Cloud Services
1 6 (6.52%) Azure
2 4 (4.35%) AWS
3 2 (2.17%) Cloud Computing
3 2 (2.17%) GCP
4 1 (1.09%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (1.09%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (1.09%) Entra ID
4 1 (1.09%) GitHub
4 1 (1.09%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (1.09%) npm
4 1 (1.09%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.43%) SpaceWire
2 3 (3.26%) 3GPP
2 3 (3.26%) Ethernet
2 3 (3.26%) Wireless
3 2 (2.17%) NFC
3 2 (2.17%) RS-232
4 1 (1.09%) AMQP
4 1 (1.09%) ATM
4 1 (1.09%) HTTP
4 1 (1.09%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (10.87%) Oracle Database
2 3 (3.26%) MongoDB
3 2 (2.17%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.09%) InfluxDB
4 1 (1.09%) NonStop SQL
4 1 (1.09%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.09%) RDBMS
4 1 (1.09%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.09%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 20 (21.74%) Git
2 11 (11.96%) JIRA
3 9 (9.78%) Oracle Forms
3 9 (9.78%) PVCS
3 9 (9.78%) Subversion
4 6 (6.52%) Jenkins
5 5 (5.43%) Gradle
6 4 (4.35%) Rational DOORS
6 4 (4.35%) Xcode
7 2 (2.17%) Eclipse
7 2 (2.17%) LabVIEW
7 2 (2.17%) NetBeans
8 1 (1.09%) Bitbucket
8 1 (1.09%) Burp Suite
8 1 (1.09%) CMake
8 1 (1.09%) Gerrit
8 1 (1.09%) GitLab
8 1 (1.09%) LoadRunner
8 1 (1.09%) Rational Rhapsody
8 1 (1.09%) Rational Team Concert
General
1 14 (15.22%) Social Skills
2 10 (10.87%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (6.52%) Aerospace
4 5 (5.43%) Banking
4 5 (5.43%) Law
5 3 (3.26%) Electronics
5 3 (3.26%) Finance
5 3 (3.26%) Military
6 2 (2.17%) Aviation
6 2 (2.17%) Avionics
6 2 (2.17%) Manufacturing
6 2 (2.17%) Marketing
6 2 (2.17%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.09%) Automotive
7 1 (1.09%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.09%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 21 (22.83%) Software Engineer
2 19 (20.65%) Developer
3 12 (13.04%) Support Engineer
4 11 (11.96%) Product Engineer
4 11 (11.96%) Products Support Engineer
4 11 (11.96%) Software Support Engineer
5 10 (10.87%) Embedded Engineer
6 9 (9.78%) Consultant
6 9 (9.78%) Linux Engineer
6 9 (9.78%) Oracle Developer
6 9 (9.78%) Senior
7 8 (8.70%) Linux Support
7 8 (8.70%) Linux Support Engineer
7 8 (8.70%) Systems Engineer
8 6 (6.52%) Embedded Software Engineer
9 5 (5.43%) Architect
9 5 (5.43%) Design Engineer
10 4 (4.35%) Electrical Engineer
10 4 (4.35%) iOS Developer
11 3 (3.26%) Senior Oracle Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (23.91%) Middleware
2 14 (15.22%) HTML
3 11 (11.96%) .NET
4 10 (10.87%) Node.js
5 9 (9.78%) Java EE
6 6 (6.52%) POSIX
7 4 (4.35%) CSS
8 3 (3.26%) Google JAX
8 3 (3.26%) JAX
8 3 (3.26%) PyTorch
8 3 (3.26%) scikit-learn
8 3 (3.26%) TensorFlow
8 3 (3.26%) Yocto
9 2 (2.17%) React
10 1 (1.09%) AngularJS
10 1 (1.09%) JSON
10 1 (1.09%) OAuth
10 1 (1.09%) OpenAPI
10 1 (1.09%) REST
10 1 (1.09%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.70%) Embedded Systems
2 7 (7.61%) Algorithms
2 7 (7.61%) Device Driver
2 7 (7.61%) FPGA
3 5 (5.43%) VHDL
4 4 (4.35%) Mobile App
4 4 (4.35%) Mobile Banking
4 4 (4.35%) PCIe
5 3 (3.26%) CUDA
5 3 (3.26%) EMV
5 3 (3.26%) IoT
5 3 (3.26%) Verilog
6 2 (2.17%) ASIC
6 2 (2.17%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (2.17%) Security Posture
6 2 (2.17%) STB
7 1 (1.09%) Analogue Electronics
7 1 (1.09%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.09%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.09%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 31 (33.70%) Linux
2 13 (14.13%) Ubuntu
3 7 (7.61%) Unix
3 7 (7.61%) Windows
4 4 (4.35%) Android
4 4 (4.35%) Apple iOS
4 4 (4.35%) FreeRTOS
5 1 (1.09%) AIX
5 1 (1.09%) CentOS
5 1 (1.09%) Embedded Linux
5 1 (1.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.09%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (39.13%) Software Engineering
2 17 (18.48%) Agile
3 16 (17.39%) Problem-Solving
4 14 (15.22%) Unit Testing
5 10 (10.87%) Requirements Gathering
6 9 (9.78%) CI/CD
6 9 (9.78%) Data Modelling
6 9 (9.78%) ETL
6 9 (9.78%) Technical Analysis
7 8 (8.70%) ETL Development
7 8 (8.70%) Signal Processing
8 7 (7.61%) Artificial Intelligence
8 7 (7.61%) Scrum
8 7 (7.61%) Software Testing
9 6 (6.52%) Code Quality
9 6 (6.52%) Data Protection
9 6 (6.52%) DevOps
9 6 (6.52%) Multithreading
9 6 (6.52%) SDLC
9 6 (6.52%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 55 (59.78%) C++
2 37 (40.22%) Java
3 20 (21.74%) JavaScript
4 18 (19.57%) Python
5 15 (16.30%) Shell Script
6 13 (14.13%) Ada
7 11 (11.96%) SQL
8 10 (10.87%) PL/SQL
9 9 (9.78%) PHP
9 9 (9.78%) ProC
10 7 (7.61%) Bash
11 5 (5.43%) MATLAB
11 5 (5.43%) Ruby
11 5 (5.43%) Scala
11 5 (5.43%) Tcl
12 4 (4.35%) Embedded C
12 4 (4.35%) Kotlin
12 4 (4.35%) Objective-C
12 4 (4.35%) Swift
12 4 (4.35%) VBA
Qualifications
1 18 (19.57%) Security Cleared
2 12 (13.04%) SC Cleared
3 10 (10.87%) Degree
4 3 (3.26%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (2.17%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.09%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.09%) GPEN
6 1 (1.09%) GWAPT
6 1 (1.09%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.09%) OSCE
6 1 (1.09%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.52%) GDPR
2 3 (3.26%) EU AI Act
2 3 (3.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (3.26%) MISRA
2 3 (3.26%) MISRA C
2 3 (3.26%) QA
3 2 (2.17%) NIST
3 2 (2.17%) PCI DSS
3 2 (2.17%) Software Quality Assurance
4 1 (1.09%) HIPAA
4 1 (1.09%) IEC 61508
4 1 (1.09%) ISO 8583
4 1 (1.09%) MIL-STD-1553
System Software
1 8 (8.70%) Firmware
2 3 (3.26%) Docker
2 3 (3.26%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (1.09%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.09%) KVM
3 1 (1.09%) QEMU
3 1 (1.09%) Xen
Systems Management
1 6 (6.52%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.17%) Ansible
2 2 (2.17%) Terraform
3 1 (1.09%) CA Wily
3 1 (1.09%) Grafana
3 1 (1.09%) Podman
3 1 (1.09%) WMI
Vendors
1 13 (14.13%) Red Hat
2 12 (13.04%) Oracle
3 9 (9.78%) Dynatrace
4 4 (4.35%) Microsoft
5 3 (3.26%) Intel
6 2 (2.17%) Atlassian
6 2 (2.17%) EMC
6 2 (2.17%) HP
6 2 (2.17%) Microsemi
6 2 (2.17%) QNX
6 2 (2.17%) Xilinx
7 1 (1.09%) AppDynamics
7 1 (1.09%) CA Agile Central
7 1 (1.09%) Google
7 1 (1.09%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.09%) Splunk
7 1 (1.09%) Twitter
7 1 (1.09%) VMware
7 1 (1.09%) webMethods
7 1 (1.09%) Wind River