CCTV Engineer Contract Job Trends in England

CCTV Engineer
UK > England

The median CCTV Engineer daily rate in England is £388, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 4 November 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 542 512 580
Rank change year-on-year -30 +68 -
Contract jobs requiring a CCTV Engineer 2 1 2
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.007% 0.003% 0.005%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.007% 0.003% 0.005%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 2
10th Percentile £316 - £242
25th Percentile £341 £606 £252
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £388 £613 £289
Median % change year-on-year -36.73% +111.94% -
75th Percentile £441 £619 £310
90th Percentile £469 - £311
UK median daily rate £388 £613 £289
% change year-on-year -36.73% +111.94% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in England with a recognized job title 26,776 28,754 37,262
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.18% 93.00% 93.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,199 17,540 25,863
10th Percentile £281 £300 £300
25th Percentile £403 £413 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,571 1,092 1,411
10th Percentile £14.05 £15.10 £15.25
25th Percentile £17.74 £21.05 £19.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.66 £45.88
Median % change year-on-year -38.15% -11.37% +52.93%
75th Percentile £51.38 £66.61 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.16 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £37.28 £45.00
% change year-on-year -32.54% -17.16% +57.89%

CCTV Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'CCTV Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

CCTV Engineer job vacancy trend in England

CCTV Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for CCTV Engineer job vacancies in England.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for CCTV Engineer job vacancies in England

CCTV Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CCTV Engineer in England over the 6 months to 4 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CCTV Engineer in England

CCTV Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for CCTV Engineer job vacancies in England.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for CCTV Engineer job vacancies in England

CCTV Engineer
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CCTV Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 4 November 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
London -3 1 £300 -51.02% 16
East of England - 1 £475 - 3
CCTV Engineer
UK

CCTV Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 4 November 2025, CCTV Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring CCTV Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) Asset Management
1 1 (50.00%) Change Management
1 1 (50.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) End-to-End Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (50.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (50.00%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (50.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 1 (50.00%) Network Security
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) RSS
1 1 (50.00%) Scrum
1 1 (50.00%) SDLC
1 1 (50.00%) ServiceNow
1 1 (50.00%) SLA
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (50.00%) Virtual Environments
1 1 (50.00%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (50.00%) VLAN
1 1 (50.00%) VMS
1 1 (50.00%) VMware
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (50.00%) VPN
1 1 (50.00%) Waterfall

CCTV Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (50.00%) Network Security
1 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (50.00%) VLAN
1 1 (50.00%) VPN
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) RSS
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) CCTV
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) Asset Management
1 1 (50.00%) Change Management
1 1 (50.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 1 (50.00%) End-to-End Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (50.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Scrum
1 1 (50.00%) SDLC
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (50.00%) Virtual Environments
1 1 (50.00%) Waterfall
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (50.00%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) ServiceNow
1 1 (50.00%) VMware