CTC Cleared Contracts 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 4 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 483 531 579
Rank change year-on-year +48 +48 +140
Contract jobs citing CTC Cleared 12 28 57
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.046% 0.075% 0.12%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.15% 0.25% 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 14 43
10th Percentile £417 £245 £300
25th Percentile £477 £441 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £494 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.45% -10.20% +23.94%
75th Percentile £524 £616 £646
90th Percentile £600 £626 £676
UK median daily rate £512 £494 £544
% change year-on-year +3.67% -9.17% +22.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £51.25 - -
Median hourly rate £52.50 - -
75th Percentile £53.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £12.50 -
% change year-on-year +320.00% - -

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 8,147 11,382 12,951
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 30.92% 30.48% 27.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,141 7,059 8,640
10th Percentile £283 £313 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +3.77%
75th Percentile £625 £645 £650
90th Percentile £716 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £521 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.76% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 537 991 638
10th Percentile £17.87 £14.16 £14.57
25th Percentile £20.00 £20.62 £22.50
Median hourly rate £28.50 £42.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.94% -22.73% +32.99%
75th Percentile £63.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £77.50 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £27.94 £40.94 £55.85
% change year-on-year -31.75% -26.70% +25.51%

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Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing CTC Cleared as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for CTC Cleared in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing CTC Cleared in England.

Daily rate trend for CTC Cleared in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CTC Cleared in England over the 6 months to 4 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CTC Cleared in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing CTC Cleared in England.

Hourly rate trend 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 4 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
London +17 4 £524 +6.10% 23
North of England - 3 £506 - 15
South East +38 2 £320 -47.76% 7
West Midlands +12 2 £320 - 6
Midlands +9 2 £320 - 7
North West - 2 £500 - 4
Yorkshire - 1 £513 - 12
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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 1 (8.33%) Confluence
1 1 (8.33%) Mattermost
Business Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 3 (25.00%) AWS
2 2 (16.67%) Azure
2 2 (16.67%) Power Platform
3 1 (8.33%) Amazon S3
3 1 (8.33%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (8.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (8.33%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (8.33%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (8.33%) Entra ID
3 1 (8.33%) GCP
3 1 (8.33%) Power Automate
3 1 (8.33%) PowerApps
3 1 (8.33%) SaaS
3 1 (8.33%) Slack
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (8.33%) Crystal Reports
1 1 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (8.33%) DynamoDB
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Analysis Services
1 1 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (8.33%) Power BI
1 1 (8.33%) Relational Database
1 1 (8.33%) Semantic Layer
1 1 (8.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Bitbucket
1 1 (8.33%) Git
1 1 (8.33%) GitLab
1 1 (8.33%) JIRA
1 1 (8.33%) JUnit
1 1 (8.33%) Maven
General
1 6 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (16.67%) Military
4 1 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 3 (25.00%) Senior
2 2 (16.67%) Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Applications Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Applications Support
3 1 (8.33%) Applications Support Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) COBOL Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Consultant
3 1 (8.33%) Crystal Reports Writer
3 1 (8.33%) Deployment Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Java Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Mainframe Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Operations Support Specialist
3 1 (8.33%) Programme Director
3 1 (8.33%) Report Writer
3 1 (8.33%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Senior Technical Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Support Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Support Specialist
3 1 (8.33%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) CSS
1 1 (8.33%) Guice
1 1 (8.33%) jQuery
1 1 (8.33%) Spring
1 1 (8.33%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Data Centre
1 1 (8.33%) Mainframe
1 1 (8.33%) Public Cloud
1 1 (8.33%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Linux
1 1 (8.33%) Mac OS
1 1 (8.33%) Unix
1 1 (8.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (25.00%) Agile
1 3 (25.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (25.00%) DevOps
1 3 (25.00%) Mentoring
1 3 (25.00%) Roadmaps
2 2 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (16.67%) Contract Management
2 2 (16.67%) CRM
2 2 (16.67%) Microservices
2 2 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (16.67%) Strategic Roadmap
2 2 (16.67%) Strategic Thinking
2 2 (16.67%) Technical Architecture
2 2 (16.67%) Unit Testing
2 2 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (8.33%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (8.33%) Change Management
3 1 (8.33%) Data Modelling
3 1 (8.33%) Data Security
3 1 (8.33%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 3 (25.00%) Python
2 2 (16.67%) SQL
3 1 (8.33%) Bash
3 1 (8.33%) C#
3 1 (8.33%) COBOL
3 1 (8.33%) Java
3 1 (8.33%) JavaScript
3 1 (8.33%) Perl
3 1 (8.33%) PowerShell
3 1 (8.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 12 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 7 (58.33%) SC Cleared
3 3 (25.00%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (8.33%) DV Cleared
4 1 (8.33%) MAPM
4 1 (8.33%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) QA
2 1 (8.33%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (16.67%) Terraform
2 1 (8.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (8.33%) BMC PATROL
2 1 (8.33%) Grafana
2 1 (8.33%) Jamf Pro
2 1 (8.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (8.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (8.33%) Apple
2 1 (8.33%) Atlassian
2 1 (8.33%) BMC
2 1 (8.33%) ESET
2 1 (8.33%) Google