CTC Cleared Contract Job Trends in England

Counter-Terrorist Check (CTC) Clearance
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for CTC Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 16 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 509 478 501
Rank change year-on-year -31 +23 +205
Contract jobs citing CTC Cleared 34 28 64
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.11% 0.096% 0.17%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.32% 0.32% 0.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 10 34
10th Percentile £450 £344 £306
25th Percentile £475 £438 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £621 £601 £600
90th Percentile £813 £628 £646
UK median daily rate £598 £550 £525
% change year-on-year +8.64% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 1 11
10th Percentile £16.75 - -
25th Percentile £17.05 £24.50 £19.99
Median hourly rate £18.09 £26.34 £21.25
Median % change year-on-year -31.31% +23.93% -67.46%
75th Percentile £18.82 £28.17 £22.52
90th Percentile £24.06 - -
UK median hourly rate £18.09 £26.34 £21.25
% change year-on-year -31.31% +23.93% -67.46%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
England

CTC Cleared falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in England.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 10,614 8,768 11,323
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.88% 30.20% 30.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,948 5,419 7,158
10th Percentile £313 £306 £300
25th Percentile £419 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
75th Percentile £627 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 905 415 680
10th Percentile £16.84 £20.00 £17.69
25th Percentile £19.29 £25.26 £26.85
Median hourly rate £25.15 £47.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -47.05% -9.52% +16.67%
75th Percentile £56.69 £68.00 £67.81
90th Percentile £76.58 £75.00 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £53.50
% change year-on-year -37.13% -25.23% +18.89%

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Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing CTC Cleared relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

CTC Cleared job vacancy trend in England

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Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing CTC Cleared.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing CTC Cleared

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CTC Cleared in England over the 6 months to 16 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CTC Cleared in England

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Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing CTC Cleared.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing CTC Cleared

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Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing CTC Cleared in England over the 6 months to 16 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for CTC Cleared in England

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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 CTC Cleared within the England region over the 6 months to 16 December 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 -6 13 £500 -13.04% 6
East of England - 9 £600 - 1
North of England -39 6 £488 -11.36% 5
North West - 6 £488 - 1
South West -8 1 £850 - 1
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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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (5.88%) SharePoint
Applications
1 11 (32.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (29.41%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (8.82%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (2.94%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (2.94%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 4 (11.76%) Azure
1 4 (11.76%) GitHub
1 4 (11.76%) GitHub Actions
2 2 (5.88%) Azure Service Bus
2 2 (5.88%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 2 (5.88%) Power Platform
3 1 (2.94%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.88%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (11.76%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (5.88%) Delta Lake
2 2 (5.88%) Parquet
2 2 (5.88%) Power BI
2 2 (5.88%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (2.94%) JIRA
General
1 14 (41.18%) Social Skills
2 12 (35.29%) Public Sector
3 9 (26.47%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (26.47%) Organisational Skills
4 8 (23.53%) Legal
5 4 (11.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (5.88%) Billing
6 2 (5.88%) Finance
6 2 (5.88%) Law
7 1 (2.94%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (2.94%) Local Government
7 1 (2.94%) Police
Job Titles
1 8 (23.53%) Developer
2 7 (20.59%) Security Officer
3 5 (14.71%) ServiceNow Developer
4 4 (11.76%) Lead
5 3 (8.82%) Consultant
5 3 (8.82%) Data Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) Analyst
6 2 (5.88%) Architect
6 2 (5.88%) Business Analyst
6 2 (5.88%) Business Architect
6 2 (5.88%) Deployment Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) Node.js Developer
6 2 (5.88%) Project Leader
6 2 (5.88%) Telephony Engineer
7 1 (2.94%) Data Business Analyst
7 1 (2.94%) PMO Lead
7 1 (2.94%) SC Cleared Business Analyst
7 1 (2.94%) Senior Project Manager
7 1 (2.94%) Service Transition Leader
7 1 (2.94%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (11.76%) JSON
2 2 (5.88%) AngularJS
2 2 (5.88%) Express.js
2 2 (5.88%) Great Expectations
2 2 (5.88%) Node.js
2 2 (5.88%) PySpark
2 2 (5.88%) SignalR
2 2 (5.88%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 8 (23.53%) Insider Threat
2 3 (8.82%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (8.82%) Management Information System
3 2 (5.88%) Handset
4 1 (2.94%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (2.94%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.94%) NHS
4 1 (2.94%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.94%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (32.35%) Continuous Improvement
2 9 (26.47%) Data Protection
3 8 (23.53%) Information Security
3 8 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (20.59%) Analytical Thinking
5 5 (14.71%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 4 (11.76%) CI/CD
6 4 (11.76%) Containerisation
6 4 (11.76%) Observability
6 4 (11.76%) RBAC
6 4 (11.76%) Roadmaps
6 4 (11.76%) Service Delivery
6 4 (11.76%) Validation
7 3 (8.82%) Agile
7 3 (8.82%) ERP
7 3 (8.82%) Project Delivery
7 3 (8.82%) Workshop Facilitation
8 2 (5.88%) Critical Thinking
8 2 (5.88%) Storage Management
8 2 (5.88%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 5 (14.71%) SQL
2 2 (5.88%) TypeScript
3 1 (2.94%) Python
3 1 (2.94%) R
Qualifications
1 34 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 20 (58.82%) SC Cleared
3 10 (29.41%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.94%) Degree
4 1 (2.94%) ISTQB
4 1 (2.94%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (2.94%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.94%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (2.94%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (2.94%) SCCM
Vendors
1 11 (32.35%) Microsoft
2 5 (14.71%) ServiceNow
3 2 (5.88%) Databricks
4 1 (2.94%) Oracle
4 1 (2.94%) Snow