CTC Cleared Contracts in the UK excluding London

Counter-Terrorist Check (CTC) Clearance
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 322 391 446
Rank change year-on-year +69 +55 +59
Contract jobs citing CTC Cleared 14 8 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.11% 0.039% 0.066%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.31% 0.10% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 4 9
10th Percentile £470 £397 £500
25th Percentile £503 £495 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £588 £600
Median % change year-on-year -10.64% -2.08% +20.00%
75th Percentile £588 £650 £645
90th Percentile £598 - £660
UK median daily rate £525 £494 £524
% change year-on-year +6.30% -5.70% +10.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 0
10th Percentile £27.18 - -
25th Percentile £31.19 - -
Median hourly rate £39.42 £12.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +215.34% - -
75th Percentile £47.35 - -
90th Percentile £51.19 - -
UK median hourly rate £39.42 £12.50 -
% change year-on-year +215.34% - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 4,542 7,695 7,993
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 35.58% 37.05% 33.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,785 4,411 5,360
10th Percentile £211 £263 £275
25th Percentile £394 £425 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £533 £530
Median % change year-on-year -6.10% +0.57% +6.00%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £631
90th Percentile £688 £723 £703
UK median daily rate £525 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 405 935 669
10th Percentile £18.13 £13.69 £14.25
25th Percentile £21.46 £16.50 £19.92
Median hourly rate £42.50 £40.94 £49.57
Median % change year-on-year +3.81% -17.41% +53.14%
75th Percentile £67.50 £62.50 £65.75
90th Percentile £80.39 £76.29 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £40.00 £54.00
% change year-on-year - -25.93% +29.16%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for CTC Cleared in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for CTC Cleared in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for CTC Cleared in the UK excluding London

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing CTC Cleared in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for CTC Cleared in the UK excluding London

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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 CTC Cleared within the UK excluding 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
North of England - 8 £550 - 4
North East - 5 £575 -
Midlands +24 3 - - 1
West Midlands +16 3 - -
South East +46 2 - - 9
North West - 2 £500 - 2
Yorkshire - 1 £513 - 2
East of England - 1 £450 - 6
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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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (7.14%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 4 (28.57%) AWS
2 1 (7.14%) Amazon S3
2 1 (7.14%) Azure
2 1 (7.14%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (7.14%) GCP
2 1 (7.14%) Power Platform
2 1 (7.14%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) Crystal Reports
1 1 (7.14%) DynamoDB
1 1 (7.14%) Power BI
1 1 (7.14%) Relational Database
General
1 3 (21.43%) Finance
1 3 (21.43%) Public Sector
2 2 (14.29%) Military
2 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Aviation
3 1 (7.14%) French Language
3 1 (7.14%) German Language
3 1 (7.14%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (21.43%) Analyst
1 3 (21.43%) Architect
2 2 (14.29%) AWS Data Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) AWS Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Data Architect
2 2 (14.29%) Data Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Applications Developer
3 1 (7.14%) Applications Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Applications Support
3 1 (7.14%) Crystal Reports Specialist
3 1 (7.14%) Cybersecurity Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Mainframe Support
3 1 (7.14%) Report Specialist
3 1 (7.14%) Senior
3 1 (7.14%) Senior Architect
3 1 (7.14%) Splunk Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) Support Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Support Specialist
3 1 (7.14%) Technical Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.14%) Mainframe
1 1 (7.14%) Public Cloud
1 1 (7.14%) Replication
1 1 (7.14%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.14%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (21.43%) Analytics
2 2 (14.29%) CI/CD
2 2 (14.29%) Data Architecture
2 2 (14.29%) Data Management
2 2 (14.29%) Data Modelling
2 2 (14.29%) DevOps
2 2 (14.29%) ETL
2 2 (14.29%) Kimball Methodology
2 2 (14.29%) Operations Management
2 2 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (14.29%) Technical Architecture
2 2 (14.29%) Test Automation
2 2 (14.29%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (7.14%) Agile
3 1 (7.14%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (7.14%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (7.14%) Data Cleansing
3 1 (7.14%) Data Validation
3 1 (7.14%) Information Security
3 1 (7.14%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (14.29%) Python
2 1 (7.14%) COBOL
2 1 (7.14%) Perl
2 1 (7.14%) PowerShell
2 1 (7.14%) Shell Script
2 1 (7.14%) SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 8 (57.14%) SC Cleared
3 3 (21.43%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (14.29%) DV Cleared
5 1 (7.14%) CCNP
5 1 (7.14%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (7.14%) Citrix Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (7.14%) BMC PATROL
1 1 (7.14%) CSIRT
1 1 (7.14%) Grafana
1 1 (7.14%) Prometheus
1 1 (7.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (14.29%) Databricks
2 1 (7.14%) BMC
2 1 (7.14%) FireEye
2 1 (7.14%) Google
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.14%) Pega
2 1 (7.14%) SAP
2 1 (7.14%) Splunk
2 1 (7.14%) Tanium