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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 296 293 372
Rank change year-on-year -3 +79 -38
Contract jobs citing C 97 209 235
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.55% 0.82% 0.61%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.49% 2.04% 1.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 134 138
10th Percentile £265 £505 £463
25th Percentile £413 £525 £523
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +8.33% +20.00%
75th Percentile £575 £750 £688
90th Percentile £725 £950 £783
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 6,527 10,232 16,151
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 37.24% 39.99% 41.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,976 7,713 12,451
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 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -3.64% +2.36% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 74 103
10th Percentile £23.80 £25.75 £31.05
25th Percentile £33.07 £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 £67.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £88.50 £76.77
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £51.75
% change year-on-year - +20.77% +17.61%

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 2 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 2 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 2 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 +1 6 £725 +11.54% 7
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 (5.15%) Confluence
2 4 (4.12%) OpenStack
3 3 (3.09%) nginx
3 3 (3.09%) SAS
4 2 (2.06%) Apache Spark
5 1 (1.03%) IBM Domino
5 1 (1.03%) IBM Notes
5 1 (1.03%) JBoss
Applications
1 1 (1.03%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 5 (5.15%) Endur
1 5 (5.15%) OpenLink RightAngle
2 3 (3.09%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (1.03%) SAP ERP
3 1 (1.03%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 38 (39.18%) AWS
2 9 (9.28%) Azure
3 8 (8.25%) Cloud Computing
4 4 (4.12%) PaaS
4 4 (4.12%) SaaS
5 3 (3.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 3 (3.09%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (3.09%) Amazon ELB
5 3 (3.09%) Snowflake
6 2 (2.06%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (2.06%) GitHub
7 1 (1.03%) Azure AKS
7 1 (1.03%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.03%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.03%) Firebase
7 1 (1.03%) GCP
7 1 (1.03%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 10 (10.31%) Wi-Fi
2 6 (6.19%) DNS
3 5 (5.15%) DHCP
4 4 (4.12%) Firewall
5 3 (3.09%) IPv4
5 3 (3.09%) Reverse Proxy
6 2 (2.06%) 5G
6 2 (2.06%) Software-Defined Networking
6 2 (2.06%) TCP/IP
7 1 (1.03%) 4G
7 1 (1.03%) Bluetooth
7 1 (1.03%) HTTP
7 1 (1.03%) HTTPS
7 1 (1.03%) Internet
7 1 (1.03%) Network Security
7 1 (1.03%) NFC
7 1 (1.03%) RTSP
7 1 (1.03%) SNMP
7 1 (1.03%) UWB
7 1 (1.03%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (8.25%) NoSQL
2 7 (7.22%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (6.19%) Data Mining
3 6 (6.19%) Relational Database
4 5 (5.15%) SQL Server
5 4 (4.12%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (4.12%) MySQL
5 4 (4.12%) Oracle Database
6 3 (3.09%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (3.09%) DynamoDB
6 3 (3.09%) MongoDB
6 3 (3.09%) SAP HANA
7 2 (2.06%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (2.06%) RDBMS
8 1 (1.03%) CouchDB
8 1 (1.03%) Data Lake
8 1 (1.03%) DB2
8 1 (1.03%) Geospatial Data
8 1 (1.03%) Oracle Database 12c
8 1 (1.03%) Redis
Development Applications
1 19 (19.59%) Git
2 8 (8.25%) JIRA
3 5 (5.15%) Bitbucket
3 5 (5.15%) Jenkins
3 5 (5.15%) Karma Test Runner
4 3 (3.09%) Gradle
4 3 (3.09%) Jasmine
4 3 (3.09%) JMeter
4 3 (3.09%) LoadRunner
4 3 (3.09%) NeoLoad
4 3 (3.09%) Octopus Deploy
4 3 (3.09%) TeamCity
5 1 (1.03%) Ant
5 1 (1.03%) ClearCase
5 1 (1.03%) ClearQuest
5 1 (1.03%) IntelliJ
5 1 (1.03%) JUnit
5 1 (1.03%) Maven
5 1 (1.03%) Mercurial
5 1 (1.03%) Xcode
General
1 10 (10.31%) Social Skills
2 9 (9.28%) Finance
3 5 (5.15%) Telecoms
4 3 (3.09%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (3.09%) Banking
4 3 (3.09%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.03%) Electronics
5 1 (1.03%) Front Office
5 1 (1.03%) Investment Banking
5 1 (1.03%) Multimedia
5 1 (1.03%) Retail
Job Titles
1 37 (38.14%) Developer
2 11 (11.34%) Senior
2 11 (11.34%) Software Engineer
3 10 (10.31%) Lead
4 9 (9.28%) AWS Engineer
5 7 (7.22%) Analyst
5 7 (7.22%) Angular Developer
5 7 (7.22%) C++ Developer
6 6 (6.19%) Python Developer
7 5 (5.15%) Embedded Developer
7 5 (5.15%) Full Stack Developer
7 5 (5.15%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 5 (5.15%) Linux Developer
7 5 (5.15%) Machine Learning Engineer
7 5 (5.15%) Risk Analyst
8 4 (4.12%) Backend Developer
8 4 (4.12%) Embedded Engineer
8 4 (4.12%) QA Leader
8 4 (4.12%) Senior Developer
9 3 (3.09%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (13.40%) HTML
2 10 (10.31%) AngularJS
3 8 (8.25%) CSS
3 8 (8.25%) REST
3 8 (8.25%) Spring Boot
4 7 (7.22%) J2EE
5 6 (6.19%) .NET
5 6 (6.19%) iOS SDK
5 6 (6.19%) Middleware
5 6 (6.19%) Node.js
5 6 (6.19%) Twitter Bootstrap
6 5 (5.15%) Playwright
6 5 (5.15%) Yocto
7 4 (4.12%) Kafka
7 4 (4.12%) LDAP
8 3 (3.09%) ASP.NET
8 3 (3.09%) React
8 3 (3.09%) RxJS
8 3 (3.09%) Swagger
8 3 (3.09%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (7.22%) Algorithms
2 6 (6.19%) Data Structures
3 5 (5.15%) Client/Server
3 5 (5.15%) iPad
3 5 (5.15%) iPhone
4 4 (4.12%) Data Centre
4 4 (4.12%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (4.12%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (4.12%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (4.12%) STB
5 3 (3.09%) Clustering
6 2 (2.06%) Device Driver
6 2 (2.06%) Embedded Systems
6 2 (2.06%) Management Information System
6 2 (2.06%) Mobile App
6 2 (2.06%) Product Ownership
6 2 (2.06%) Public Cloud
6 2 (2.06%) Tandem
7 1 (1.03%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (1.03%) Raspberry Pi
Operating Systems
1 21 (21.65%) Linux
2 7 (7.22%) Apple iOS
3 4 (4.12%) Android
4 3 (3.09%) Windows
5 1 (1.03%) Embedded Linux
5 1 (1.03%) ThreadX
5 1 (1.03%) Unix
5 1 (1.03%) VMS
5 1 (1.03%) Windows 10
5 1 (1.03%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (23.71%) Software Engineering
2 22 (22.68%) Agile
3 16 (16.49%) DevOps
4 14 (14.43%) Multithreading
5 13 (13.40%) Test Automation
6 12 (12.37%) CI/CD
6 12 (12.37%) Unit Testing
7 11 (11.34%) Computer Science
8 10 (10.31%) OO
8 10 (10.31%) Scrum
9 9 (9.28%) Full Stack Development
10 8 (8.25%) Roadmaps
11 6 (6.19%) Analytics
11 6 (6.19%) Change Management
11 6 (6.19%) ETRM
11 6 (6.19%) Memory Management
11 6 (6.19%) Multithreaded Programming
11 6 (6.19%) TDD
11 6 (6.19%) User Experience
12 5 (5.15%) Parallel Computing
Programming Languages
1 60 (61.86%) C++
2 49 (50.52%) Python
3 31 (31.96%) Java
4 23 (23.71%) SQL
5 16 (16.49%) C#
6 11 (11.34%) Bash
7 10 (10.31%) Go
7 10 (10.31%) JavaScript
8 9 (9.28%) Shell Script
8 9 (9.28%) Swift
9 8 (8.25%) Objective-C
10 7 (7.22%) TypeScript
11 5 (5.15%) ABAP
11 5 (5.15%) Embedded C
12 4 (4.12%) Rust
13 3 (3.09%) Kotlin
14 2 (2.06%) Perl
14 2 (2.06%) PowerShell
14 2 (2.06%) Ruby
14 2 (2.06%) Scala
Qualifications
1 12 (12.37%) Degree
2 11 (11.34%) Security Cleared
3 10 (10.31%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (10.31%) SC Cleared
4 3 (3.09%) Master's Degree
5 2 (2.06%) PhD
5 2 (2.06%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 1 (1.03%) CREST Certified
6 1 (1.03%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.03%) OSCP
6 1 (1.03%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.15%) QA
2 3 (3.09%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.06%) MiFID
3 2 (2.06%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.03%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.03%) ISO 20022
4 1 (1.03%) JTAG
4 1 (1.03%) NIST
4 1 (1.03%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 9 (9.28%) Docker
2 6 (6.19%) Firmware
3 2 (2.06%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.06%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.06%) VMware NSX
3 2 (2.06%) vSphere
4 1 (1.03%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 11 (11.34%) Kubernetes
1 11 (11.34%) Terraform
2 4 (4.12%) Kibana
3 3 (3.09%) Consul
3 3 (3.09%) Packer
4 2 (2.06%) Ansible
5 1 (1.03%) Grafana
5 1 (1.03%) HP ALM
5 1 (1.03%) logstash
5 1 (1.03%) Progress Chef
5 1 (1.03%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.03%) Puppet
5 1 (1.03%) SCOM
5 1 (1.03%) vCenter Server
5 1 (1.03%) VxRail
Vendors
1 14 (14.43%) Oracle
2 6 (6.19%) Microsoft
3 5 (5.15%) OpenLink
3 5 (5.15%) SAP
3 5 (5.15%) Triple Point
4 4 (4.12%) AppDynamics
4 4 (4.12%) BT
4 4 (4.12%) Dynatrace
4 4 (4.12%) Splunk
5 3 (3.09%) Apple
5 3 (3.09%) MuleSoft
5 3 (3.09%) webMethods
6 2 (2.06%) Cisco
6 2 (2.06%) HP
6 2 (2.06%) VMware
7 1 (1.03%) Google
7 1 (1.03%) Lotus
7 1 (1.03%) NVIDIA
7 1 (1.03%) QNX
7 1 (1.03%) Renesas