CTC Cleared Contract Job Trends in the South East

Counter-Terrorist Check (CTC) Clearance
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for CTC Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 6 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 177 177 209
Rank change year-on-year 0 +32 +54
Contract jobs citing CTC Cleared 1 3 7
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.026% 0.072% 0.13%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.064% 0.18% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 7
10th Percentile - - £565
25th Percentile £310 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £320 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year -50.77% +8.33% +26.32%
75th Percentile £330 - -
90th Percentile - - £660
England median daily rate £598 £650 £528
% change year-on-year -8.08% +23.22% +5.50%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 1,553 1,668 2,224
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 40.51% 40.24% 41.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,017 1,071 1,318
10th Percentile £219 £278 £216
25th Percentile £406 £413 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% +1.90%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £638
90th Percentile £650 £700 £688
England median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 158 99 136
10th Percentile - £22.48 £26.00
25th Percentile £18.87 £34.50 £49.40
Median hourly rate £25.15 £58.49 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -57.00% -2.52% +33.33%
75th Percentile £39.00 £68.84 £72.01
90th Percentile £81.00 £88.00 £78.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £52.19 £52.50
% change year-on-year -51.81% -0.59% +16.67%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing CTC Cleared relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East.

CTC Cleared job vacancy trend in the South East

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Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing CTC Cleared.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing CTC Cleared

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Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing CTC Cleared.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing CTC Cleared

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 6 November 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
Hampshire -1 1 £320 -50.77%
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England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Analysis Services
1 1 (100.00%) Power BI
1 1 (100.00%) Semantic Layer
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Data Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Coaching
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Working
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Data Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) DataOps
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Master Data Management
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Strategic Roadmap
1 1 (100.00%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft