CTC Cleared Contracts in England

Counter-Terrorist Check (CTC) Clearance
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for CTC Cleared qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 507 599 718
Rank change year-on-year +92 +119 -120
Contract jobs citing CTC Cleared 31 49 71
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.084% 0.098% 0.100%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.27% 0.35% 0.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 36 51
10th Percentile £314 £350 £213
25th Percentile £441 £411 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £540 £467
Median % change year-on-year -0.37% +15.45% -8.82%
75th Percentile £625 £623 £575
90th Percentile £639 £660 -
UK median daily rate £538 £524 £467
% change year-on-year +2.63% +12.08% -5.83%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
England

CTC Cleared is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 11,509 13,878 15,373
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 31.22% 27.75% 21.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,093 9,286 10,105
10th Percentile £310 £331 £319
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +6.60%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £713
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.73% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 983 746 688
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.00 £13.41
25th Percentile £18.07 £20.00 £18.75
Median hourly rate £40.00 £52.50 £38.90
Median % change year-on-year -23.81% +34.98% +2.36%
75th Percentile £62.50 £68.25 £55.88
90th Percentile £76.64 £80.25 £67.59
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £54.00 £42.00
% change year-on-year -25.93% +28.57% +10.82%

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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 May 2024.

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 May 2024. 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 +98 27 £494 -1.22% 2
South East - 2 £613 - 6
Midlands +29 1 - -
West Midlands +25 1 - -
South West +16 1 £600 -4.38%
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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 5 (16.13%) SharePoint
2 3 (9.68%) nginx
3 2 (6.45%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (6.45%) Skype for Business
4 1 (3.23%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (6.45%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 9 (29.03%) AWS
2 5 (16.13%) Azure
2 5 (16.13%) SaaS
3 4 (12.90%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (9.68%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
5 2 (6.45%) Entra ID
5 2 (6.45%) OneDrive
6 1 (3.23%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (3.23%) Amazon S3
6 1 (3.23%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (3.23%) Serverless
6 1 (3.23%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.45%) Cisco IOS
1 2 (6.45%) DHCP
1 2 (6.45%) DNS
1 2 (6.45%) Skype
1 2 (6.45%) TCP/IP
2 1 (3.23%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (9.68%) NoSQL
2 1 (3.23%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (3.23%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 2 (6.45%) JIRA
2 1 (3.23%) Git
2 1 (3.23%) GitLab
General
1 13 (41.94%) Public Sector
2 6 (19.35%) Police
3 3 (9.68%) Military
4 2 (6.45%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.23%) Finance
5 1 (3.23%) Fire and Rescue
5 1 (3.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 6 (19.35%) Developer
2 5 (16.13%) Development Manager
3 3 (9.68%) Full Stack Developer
3 3 (9.68%) Information Governance Officer
3 3 (9.68%) Information Officer
3 3 (9.68%) Security Engineer
3 3 (9.68%) Software Developer
4 2 (6.45%) Architect
4 2 (6.45%) IT Support
4 2 (6.45%) Lead
4 2 (6.45%) Operations Engineer
4 2 (6.45%) Senior
4 2 (6.45%) Support Officer
5 1 (3.23%) Applications Support
5 1 (3.23%) Applications Support Engineer
5 1 (3.23%) Delivery Manager
5 1 (3.23%) IT Architect
5 1 (3.23%) Project Manager
5 1 (3.23%) Senior Manager
5 1 (3.23%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (19.35%) WebSockets
2 3 (9.68%) CSS
2 3 (9.68%) FastAPI
2 3 (9.68%) HTML
2 3 (9.68%) Laravel
2 3 (9.68%) RESTful
2 3 (9.68%) Sass
3 1 (3.23%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (3.23%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 6 (19.35%) Data Centre
2 5 (16.13%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (6.45%) iPhone
3 2 (6.45%) Operational Technology
4 1 (3.23%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (3.23%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (3.23%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.23%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 4 (12.90%) Linux
2 3 (9.68%) Unix
2 3 (9.68%) Windows
3 2 (6.45%) Android
3 2 (6.45%) Mac OS X
3 2 (6.45%) Windows 7
4 1 (3.23%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (32.26%) Cybersecurity
2 8 (25.81%) Agile
2 8 (25.81%) Performance Management
3 7 (22.58%) Migration
3 7 (22.58%) Security Architecture
4 6 (19.35%) Analytics
4 6 (19.35%) Roadmaps
5 5 (16.13%) Business Strategy
5 5 (16.13%) Disaster Recovery
5 5 (16.13%) Information Assurance
5 5 (16.13%) Service Design
5 5 (16.13%) SIAM
5 5 (16.13%) Supplier Management
5 5 (16.13%) Technology Roadmap
6 4 (12.90%) Data Protection
6 4 (12.90%) Vulnerability Scanning
7 3 (9.68%) API Development
7 3 (9.68%) Full Stack Development
7 3 (9.68%) Records Management
7 3 (9.68%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 5 (16.13%) Python
2 3 (9.68%) JavaScript
2 3 (9.68%) PHP
2 3 (9.68%) SQL
3 1 (3.23%) Bash
3 1 (3.23%) R
Qualifications
1 31 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 19 (61.29%) SC Cleared
3 8 (25.81%) DV Cleared
4 3 (9.68%) Degree
5 1 (3.23%) CISSP
5 1 (3.23%) DBS Check
5 1 (3.23%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (3.23%) PMI Certification
5 1 (3.23%) PMP
5 1 (3.23%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.45%) Accessibility
1 2 (6.45%) GDPR
2 1 (3.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.23%) NIST
2 1 (3.23%) QA
System Software
1 4 (12.90%) Active Directory
2 2 (6.45%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (3.23%) Docker
3 1 (3.23%) iptables
Systems Management
1 4 (12.90%) Microsoft Intune
1 4 (12.90%) SCCM
2 2 (6.45%) WSUS
3 1 (3.23%) Ansible
3 1 (3.23%) Kibana
3 1 (3.23%) Kubernetes
3 1 (3.23%) logstash
3 1 (3.23%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (9.68%) Microsoft
1 3 (9.68%) OpenAI
2 2 (6.45%) Apple
2 2 (6.45%) Cisco
2 2 (6.45%) Citrix
2 2 (6.45%) Mitel
2 2 (6.45%) Progress
2 2 (6.45%) Rapid7
2 2 (6.45%) Sophos
3 1 (3.23%) Atlassian
3 1 (3.23%) Oracle
3 1 (3.23%) ServiceNow