CITP Contracts in the UK excluding London

Chartered IT Professional (CITP)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for CITP qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 329 387 452
Rank change year-on-year +58 +65 +62
Contract jobs citing CITP 5 7 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.039% 0.034% 0.013%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.11% 0.091% 0.038%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £451 - -
25th Percentile £458 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 - -
75th Percentile £482 - -
90th Percentile £485 - -
UK median daily rate £475 £400 £825
% change year-on-year +18.75% -51.52% +73.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 3
10th Percentile - - £53.96
25th Percentile - £13.69 £58.10
Median hourly rate - £14.46 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - -77.75% -
75th Percentile - £15.23 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - £14.46 £65.00
% change year-on-year - -77.75% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK excluding London

CITP 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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 4,548 7,661 7,957
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 35.60% 37.01% 33.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,780 4,410 5,340
10th Percentile £210 £269 £280
25th Percentile £390 £425 £421
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £531 £530
Median % change year-on-year -5.79% +0.19% +6.00%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £631
90th Percentile £688 £725 £713
UK median daily rate £525 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 412 936 667
10th Percentile £18.13 £13.60 £14.25
25th Percentile £21.46 £16.50 £19.96
Median hourly rate £40.72 £40.94 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.55% -18.12% +54.46%
75th Percentile £67.50 £63.75 £65.75
90th Percentile £80.09 £77.50 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £40.00 £54.00
% change year-on-year - -25.93% +28.57%

CITP
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing CITP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for CITP in the UK excluding London

CITP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing CITP in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for CITP in the UK excluding London

CITP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing CITP in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for CITP in the UK excluding London

CITP
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CITP within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 3 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
Wales - 4 £478 - 3
West Midlands - 1 - - 2
Midlands - 1 - - 2
CITP
UK

CITP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
2 4 (80.00%) AWS
2 4 (80.00%) GCP
3 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Purview
3 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (20.00%) Metadata
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Analysis Services
1 1 (20.00%) Power BI
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 5 (100.00%) Public Sector
2 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (40.00%) Digital Health
4 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (20.00%) Military
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Architect
2 3 (60.00%) Cloud Architect
3 2 (40.00%) Migration Architect
3 2 (40.00%) Principal Architect
3 2 (40.00%) Principal Solutions Architect
3 2 (40.00%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (20.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
4 1 (20.00%) Cloud Solutions Architect
4 1 (20.00%) Data Architect
4 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Architect
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (40.00%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) TOGAF
2 4 (80.00%) Agile
2 4 (80.00%) Cloud Security
2 4 (80.00%) Computer Science
2 4 (80.00%) Data Privacy
2 4 (80.00%) DevSecOps
2 4 (80.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 4 (80.00%) IT Strategy
2 4 (80.00%) ITIL
2 4 (80.00%) Roadmaps
2 4 (80.00%) Strategic Roadmap
3 3 (60.00%) Technical Leadership
4 2 (40.00%) Architectural Design
4 2 (40.00%) Architectural Patterns
4 2 (40.00%) Migration
4 2 (40.00%) Risk Management
4 2 (40.00%) Service Delivery
5 1 (20.00%) Analytical Modelling
5 1 (20.00%) Data Security
5 1 (20.00%) Logical Data Model
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Python
1 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) AWS Certification
1 4 (80.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 4 (80.00%) Azure Certification
1 4 (80.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (80.00%) Degree
1 4 (80.00%) Master's Degree
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (20.00%) GDPR
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (80.00%) Google