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 20 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 511 513 541
Rank change year-on-year +2 +28 +179
Contract jobs citing CTC Cleared 10 21 55
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.036% 0.064% 0.13%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.11% 0.21% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 5 34
10th Percentile £437 £351 £252
25th Percentile - £563 £330
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £525
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +14.29% +5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £600
90th Percentile £765 £640 £656
UK median daily rate £500 £549 £525
% change year-on-year -8.88% +4.52% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 7
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £19.99
Median hourly rate £45.00 - £21.25
75th Percentile - - £22.52
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £45.00 - £21.25
% change year-on-year - - -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 8,775 9,784 12,173
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 31.59% 29.71% 28.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,588 6,019 7,854
10th Percentile £303 £325 £325
25th Percentile £415 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £715 £738 £743
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 691 570 680
10th Percentile £17.96 £17.46 £16.52
25th Percentile £18.87 £27.00 £24.04
Median hourly rate £25.15 £54.00 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year -53.43% - +20.00%
75th Percentile £45.00 £69.94 £70.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £80.00 £78.36
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £49.00 £54.00
% change year-on-year -48.67% -9.26% +20.00%

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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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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 20 September 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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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 20 September 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 6 £500 -16.67% 8
North of England - 3 £550 - 14
North West - 2 £700 -
South West +25 1 £850 - 4
South East +10 1 £320 -47.76% 6
Yorkshire - 1 £513 - 14
Midlands - 1 £320 -
West Midlands - 1 £320 -
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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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (10.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (10.00%) AWS
1 1 (10.00%) Azure
1 1 (10.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (10.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 1 (10.00%) Cloud Computing
1 1 (10.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (10.00%) DynamoDB
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Analysis Services
1 1 (10.00%) Power BI
1 1 (10.00%) Semantic Layer
1 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
General
1 5 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (20.00%) Law
4 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (10.00%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Consultant
2 2 (20.00%) Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) Business Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Change Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Data Business Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Data Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Developer
3 1 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Programme Director
3 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared Business Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Senior
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Data Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Service Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) ServiceNow Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Test Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (10.00%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (10.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (10.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (30.00%) Agile
2 3 (30.00%) Roadmaps
2 3 (30.00%) Strategic Thinking
3 2 (20.00%) Change Management
3 2 (20.00%) Critical Thinking
3 2 (20.00%) DevOps
3 2 (20.00%) ERP
3 2 (20.00%) Resource Management
3 2 (20.00%) Service Delivery
3 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (20.00%) Workshop Facilitation
4 1 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (10.00%) Data Modelling
4 1 (10.00%) ETL
4 1 (10.00%) ITIL
4 1 (10.00%) ITSM
4 1 (10.00%) Risk Management
4 1 (10.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) SQL
2 1 (10.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 10 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (20.00%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (10.00%) ISTQB
4 1 (10.00%) MAPM
4 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (10.00%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (10.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (10.00%) SCCM
1 1 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (10.00%) Snow