CTC Cleared Contracts in London

Counter-Terrorist Check (CTC) Clearance
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 339 364 463
Rank change year-on-year +25 +99 +73
Contract jobs citing CTC Cleared 14 27 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.11% 0.15% 0.11%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.44% 0.63% 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 17 24
10th Percentile £351 £238 £267
25th Percentile £363 £441 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £524 £494 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.10% -1.22% +9.02%
75th Percentile £592 £588 £569
90th Percentile £623 £626 £662
England median daily rate £513 £497 £540
% change year-on-year +3.13% -7.89% +13.90%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 3,210 4,292 5,821
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 25.58% 24.07% 21.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,169 2,903 3,919
10th Percentile £350 £325 £363
25th Percentile £431 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -6.09% +4.55%
75th Percentile £653 £661 £688
90th Percentile £754 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 111 80
10th Percentile £19.20 £14.25 £19.94
25th Percentile £22.27 £20.74 £21.24
Median hourly rate £29.07 £26.00 £45.25
Median % change year-on-year +11.81% -42.54% +1.69%
75th Percentile £55.50 £43.75 £64.50
90th Percentile £69.72 £68.75 £82.55
England median hourly rate £45.00 £40.00 £52.40
% change year-on-year +12.50% -23.66% +39.73%

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Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for CTC Cleared in London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for CTC Cleared in London

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Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CTC Cleared in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CTC Cleared in London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for CTC Cleared in London

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Contract Job Locations in London

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 London 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
West London +13 2 £375 +15.38%
Central London - 2 - -
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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 2 (14.29%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 5 (35.71%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (28.57%) AWS
3 3 (21.43%) Azure
4 2 (14.29%) Power Automate
5 1 (7.14%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (7.14%) Power Platform
5 1 (7.14%) PowerApps
5 1 (7.14%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (21.43%) DHCP
1 3 (21.43%) DNS
1 3 (21.43%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) Pentaho
1 1 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Bitbucket
1 1 (7.14%) Git
1 1 (7.14%) JUnit
1 1 (7.14%) Maven
General
1 7 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (42.86%) Public Sector
3 2 (14.29%) Finance
3 2 (14.29%) Military
4 1 (7.14%) Fire and Rescue
4 1 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (7.14%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (7.14%) Police
4 1 (7.14%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (21.43%) Operations Engineer
1 3 (21.43%) Security Engineer
2 1 (7.14%) Analyst
2 1 (7.14%) Consultant
2 1 (7.14%) Developer
2 1 (7.14%) Document Manager
2 1 (7.14%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
2 1 (7.14%) HR Analyst
2 1 (7.14%) HR Specialist
2 1 (7.14%) Java Developer
2 1 (7.14%) Lead
2 1 (7.14%) Process Analyst
2 1 (7.14%) Product Lead
2 1 (7.14%) Product Manager
2 1 (7.14%) Programme Director
2 1 (7.14%) Programme Manager
2 1 (7.14%) Report Writer
2 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) CSS
1 1 (7.14%) Guice
1 1 (7.14%) jQuery
1 1 (7.14%) MDX
1 1 (7.14%) Spring
1 1 (7.14%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.14%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (28.57%) Agile
1 4 (28.57%) Analytics
1 4 (28.57%) Cybersecurity
1 4 (28.57%) Data Security
2 3 (21.43%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (21.43%) Information Security
2 3 (21.43%) Information Security Management
2 3 (21.43%) ITIL
2 3 (21.43%) Patch Management
2 3 (21.43%) Security Architecture
2 3 (21.43%) Security Management
2 3 (21.43%) Security Operations
2 3 (21.43%) SIEM
2 3 (21.43%) Threat Detection
2 3 (21.43%) Vulnerability Scanning
3 2 (14.29%) Change Management
3 2 (14.29%) Customer Experience
3 2 (14.29%) Process Improvement
3 2 (14.29%) Roadmaps
4 1 (7.14%) Programme Governance
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.14%) C#
1 1 (7.14%) Java
1 1 (7.14%) JavaScript
1 1 (7.14%) SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (21.43%) Degree
2 3 (21.43%) SC Cleared
3 2 (14.29%) DV Cleared
4 1 (7.14%) MAPM
4 1 (7.14%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 3 (21.43%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (21.43%) Microsoft Intune
1 3 (21.43%) SCCM
1 3 (21.43%) WSUS
2 1 (7.14%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (21.43%) Microsoft
1 3 (21.43%) Rapid7
1 3 (21.43%) Sophos
2 1 (7.14%) Reuters