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 17 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 490 529 576
Rank change year-on-year +39 +47 +146
Contract jobs citing CTC Cleared 13 31 55
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.048% 0.086% 0.12%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.15% 0.28% 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 15 40
10th Percentile £432 £256 £293
25th Percentile £482 £441 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £512 £494 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.67% -10.20% +23.94%
75th Percentile £542 £625 £650
90th Percentile £765 £641 £680
UK median daily rate £513 £494 £550
% change year-on-year +3.77% -10.20% +22.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £45.63 - -
25th Percentile £46.56 - -
Median hourly rate £48.75 - -
75th Percentile £51.56 - -
90th Percentile £52.88 - -
UK median hourly rate £48.75 £12.50 -
% change year-on-year +290.00% - -

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 8,415 11,077 12,906
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 30.92% 30.63% 27.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,307 6,943 8,560
10th Percentile £288 £313 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% +3.48%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £716 £738 £745
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 605 941 633
10th Percentile £18.13 £14.25 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.25 £23.00
Median hourly rate £27.13 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -36.92% -21.82% +32.53%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.25 £77.50 £81.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £56.29
% change year-on-year -40.82% -24.50% +26.49%

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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 17 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 17 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 +15 5 £524 +6.10% 5
North of England - 4 £513 - 7
North West - 3 £675 - 1
South East +30 2 £320 -50.77% 7
South West +46 1 £850 - 1
Midlands +3 1 £320 - 3
West Midlands -1 1 £320 -
Yorkshire - 1 £513 - 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 1 (7.69%) Confluence
1 1 (7.69%) Mattermost
Business Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 3 (23.08%) AWS
2 2 (15.38%) Azure
2 2 (15.38%) Power Platform
3 1 (7.69%) Amazon S3
3 1 (7.69%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (7.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (7.69%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (7.69%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (7.69%) Entra ID
3 1 (7.69%) GCP
3 1 (7.69%) Power Automate
3 1 (7.69%) PowerApps
3 1 (7.69%) Slack
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (7.69%) Crystal Reports
1 1 (7.69%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (7.69%) DynamoDB
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Analysis Services
1 1 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (7.69%) Power BI
1 1 (7.69%) Relational Database
1 1 (7.69%) Semantic Layer
1 1 (7.69%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Bitbucket
1 1 (7.69%) Git
1 1 (7.69%) GitLab
1 1 (7.69%) JIRA
1 1 (7.69%) JUnit
1 1 (7.69%) Maven
General
1 8 (61.54%) Public Sector
2 4 (30.77%) Social Skills
3 3 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (15.38%) Military
5 1 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (7.69%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (23.08%) Senior
2 2 (15.38%) Consultant
2 2 (15.38%) Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Applications Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Applications Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Applications Support
3 1 (7.69%) Applications Support Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) COBOL Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Crystal Reports Writer
3 1 (7.69%) Deployment Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Java Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Mainframe Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Programme Director
3 1 (7.69%) Report Writer
3 1 (7.69%) Senior Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Senior Technical Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Support Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.69%) CSS
1 1 (7.69%) Guice
1 1 (7.69%) jQuery
1 1 (7.69%) Spring
1 1 (7.69%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.69%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (7.69%) Cloud Native
1 1 (7.69%) Data Centre
1 1 (7.69%) Mainframe
1 1 (7.69%) Public Cloud
1 1 (7.69%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (15.38%) Windows
2 1 (7.69%) Linux
2 1 (7.69%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (30.77%) Agile
2 3 (23.08%) CI/CD
2 3 (23.08%) DevOps
2 3 (23.08%) Mentoring
2 3 (23.08%) Roadmaps
2 3 (23.08%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (15.38%) Change Management
3 2 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (15.38%) Contract Management
3 2 (15.38%) CRM
3 2 (15.38%) Microservices
3 2 (15.38%) Strategic Roadmap
3 2 (15.38%) Strategic Thinking
3 2 (15.38%) Technical Architecture
3 2 (15.38%) Unit Testing
3 2 (15.38%) User Acceptance Testing
4 1 (7.69%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (7.69%) Test Automation
4 1 (7.69%) Test Scripting
4 1 (7.69%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (15.38%) Python
1 2 (15.38%) SQL
2 1 (7.69%) Bash
2 1 (7.69%) C#
2 1 (7.69%) COBOL
2 1 (7.69%) Java
2 1 (7.69%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 13 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 8 (61.54%) SC Cleared
3 2 (15.38%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (7.69%) DV Cleared
4 1 (7.69%) ISTQB
4 1 (7.69%) MAPM
4 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (7.69%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) QA
2 1 (7.69%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) Active Directory
1 1 (7.69%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 2 (15.38%) Terraform
2 1 (7.69%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (7.69%) Jamf Pro
2 1 (7.69%) Kubernetes
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (7.69%) SCCM
Vendors
1 5 (38.46%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.69%) Apple
2 1 (7.69%) Atlassian
2 1 (7.69%) ESET
2 1 (7.69%) Google