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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 453 511 604
Rank change year-on-year +58 +93 +108
Contract jobs citing CTC Cleared 32 31 49
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.13% 0.083% 0.097%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.42% 0.27% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 20 36
10th Percentile £363 £252 £350
25th Percentile £425 £441 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £497 £540
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% -7.89% +13.90%
75th Percentile £588 £597 £623
90th Percentile £613 £639 £660
UK median daily rate £525 £494 £524
% change year-on-year +6.30% -5.70% +10.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £27.18 - -
25th Percentile £31.19 - -
Median hourly rate £39.42 - -
75th Percentile £47.35 - -
90th Percentile £51.19 - -
UK median hourly rate £39.42 £12.50 -
% change year-on-year +215.34% - -

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 7,629 11,624 13,999
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 31.33% 31.25% 27.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,849 7,135 9,365
10th Percentile £290 £306 £330
25th Percentile £415 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +4.76%
75th Percentile £629 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 435 985 748
10th Percentile £18.13 £14.00 £15.15
25th Percentile £22.39 £18.13 £20.00
Median hourly rate £45.00 £40.00 £52.40
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -23.66% +39.73%
75th Percentile £67.75 £62.50 £68.25
90th Percentile £81.74 £75.25 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £40.00 £54.00
% change year-on-year - -25.93% +29.16%

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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 1 May 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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Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing CTC Cleared in England over the 6 months to 1 May 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 1 May 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 +25 14 £524 +6.10% 5
North of England - 8 £550 - 4
North East - 5 £575 -
Midlands +24 3 - - 1
West Midlands +16 3 - -
South East +46 2 - - 9
North West - 2 £500 - 2
Yorkshire - 1 £513 - 2
East of England - 1 £450 - 6
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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 3 (9.38%) SharePoint
2 1 (3.13%) Confluence
2 1 (3.13%) Mattermost
Applications
1 2 (6.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (3.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 8 (25.00%) AWS
2 5 (15.63%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (12.50%) Azure
4 2 (6.25%) Power Automate
4 2 (6.25%) Power Platform
4 2 (6.25%) SaaS
5 1 (3.13%) Amazon S3
5 1 (3.13%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (3.13%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (3.13%) Entra ID
5 1 (3.13%) GCP
5 1 (3.13%) PowerApps
5 1 (3.13%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 4 (12.50%) DHCP
1 4 (12.50%) DNS
2 3 (9.38%) TCP/IP
3 2 (6.25%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (3.13%) LAN
4 1 (3.13%) Network Security
4 1 (3.13%) SNMP
4 1 (3.13%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.13%) Crystal Reports
1 1 (3.13%) DynamoDB
1 1 (3.13%) Pentaho
1 1 (3.13%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (3.13%) Power BI
1 1 (3.13%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Bitbucket
1 1 (3.13%) Git
1 1 (3.13%) GitLab
1 1 (3.13%) JIRA
1 1 (3.13%) JUnit
1 1 (3.13%) Maven
General
1 12 (37.50%) Public Sector
2 7 (21.88%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (18.75%) Military
4 5 (15.63%) Finance
5 4 (12.50%) Social Skills
6 1 (3.13%) Aviation
6 1 (3.13%) Fire and Rescue
6 1 (3.13%) French Language
6 1 (3.13%) German Language
6 1 (3.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (3.13%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (3.13%) Police
6 1 (3.13%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (12.50%) Analyst
2 3 (9.38%) Architect
2 3 (9.38%) Operations Engineer
2 3 (9.38%) Security Engineer
2 3 (9.38%) Senior
3 2 (6.25%) AWS Data Engineer
3 2 (6.25%) AWS Engineer
3 2 (6.25%) Data Architect
3 2 (6.25%) Data Engineer
3 2 (6.25%) Developer
3 2 (6.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (6.25%) Report Writer
3 2 (6.25%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (3.13%) Applications Developer
4 1 (3.13%) Applications Support
4 1 (3.13%) Consultant
4 1 (3.13%) Process Analyst
4 1 (3.13%) Support Engineer
4 1 (3.13%) Support Specialist
4 1 (3.13%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.13%) CSS
1 1 (3.13%) Guice
1 1 (3.13%) jQuery
1 1 (3.13%) MDX
1 1 (3.13%) NETCONF
1 1 (3.13%) Spring
1 1 (3.13%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.25%) Data Centre
2 1 (3.13%) Fibre Optics
2 1 (3.13%) Mainframe
2 1 (3.13%) Product Ownership
2 1 (3.13%) Public Cloud
2 1 (3.13%) Replication
2 1 (3.13%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.13%) Linux
1 1 (3.13%) Mac OS
1 1 (3.13%) Unix
1 1 (3.13%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (21.88%) Analytics
2 5 (15.63%) Agile
2 5 (15.63%) Cybersecurity
3 4 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
3 4 (12.50%) Data Security
3 4 (12.50%) Information Security
3 4 (12.50%) ITIL
3 4 (12.50%) Security Architecture
3 4 (12.50%) Security Management
3 4 (12.50%) Security Operations
3 4 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (9.38%) CI/CD
4 3 (9.38%) Information Security Management
4 3 (9.38%) Patch Management
4 3 (9.38%) Process Improvement
4 3 (9.38%) Roadmaps
4 3 (9.38%) SIEM
4 3 (9.38%) Threat Detection
4 3 (9.38%) User Acceptance Testing
4 3 (9.38%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 3 (9.38%) Python
2 2 (6.25%) SQL
3 1 (3.13%) Bash
3 1 (3.13%) C#
3 1 (3.13%) COBOL
3 1 (3.13%) Java
3 1 (3.13%) JavaScript
3 1 (3.13%) Perl
3 1 (3.13%) PowerShell
3 1 (3.13%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 32 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 15 (46.88%) SC Cleared
3 5 (15.63%) DV Cleared
4 3 (9.38%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (9.38%) Degree
5 1 (3.13%) CCNP
5 1 (3.13%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (3.13%) Citrix Certification
5 1 (3.13%) MAPM
5 1 (3.13%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.25%) QA
2 1 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 3 (9.38%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (3.13%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (9.38%) Microsoft Intune
1 3 (9.38%) SCCM
1 3 (9.38%) WSUS
2 2 (6.25%) Terraform
3 1 (3.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (3.13%) BMC PATROL
3 1 (3.13%) CSIRT
3 1 (3.13%) Grafana
3 1 (3.13%) Jamf Pro
3 1 (3.13%) Kubernetes
3 1 (3.13%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (21.88%) Microsoft
2 3 (9.38%) Rapid7
2 3 (9.38%) Sophos
3 2 (6.25%) Databricks
4 1 (3.13%) Apple
4 1 (3.13%) Atlassian
4 1 (3.13%) BMC
4 1 (3.13%) Cisco
4 1 (3.13%) ESET
4 1 (3.13%) FireEye
4 1 (3.13%) Google
4 1 (3.13%) Juniper
4 1 (3.13%) Pega
4 1 (3.13%) Reuters
4 1 (3.13%) SAP
4 1 (3.13%) Splunk
4 1 (3.13%) Tanium