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 2 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 367 359 413
Rank change year-on-year -8 +54 +98
Contract jobs citing CTC Cleared 6 12 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.039% 0.065% 0.063%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.11% 0.18% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 5 7
10th Percentile £367 £364 £485
25th Percentile £453 £413 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -11.96% +4.55% +15.79%
75th Percentile £608 £650 £569
90th Percentile £768 - £593
UK median daily rate £512 £472 £550
% change year-on-year +8.49% -14.19% +12.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £51.25 - -
Median hourly rate £52.50 £12.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +320.00% -72.22% -30.93%
75th Percentile £53.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £48.75 £12.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year +290.00% -72.22% -30.93%

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 5,364 6,663 7,229
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 35.07% 36.00% 32.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,167 4,020 4,608
10th Percentile £213 £290 £308
25th Percentile £385 £420 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £635 £638
90th Percentile £675 £713 £706
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 632 767 535
10th Percentile £17.87 £14.16 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.19 £20.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £45.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -44.11% -14.29% +18.11%
75th Percentile £52.13 £67.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.70 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £55.41
% change year-on-year -41.51% -22.40% +23.13%

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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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Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CTC Cleared in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram 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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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 2 August 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 - 4 £513 - 8
North West - 3 £675 - 1
South East +20 2 £320 -50.77% 8
South West +27 1 £850 -
West Midlands -6 1 £320 - 1
Midlands -8 1 £320 - 4
Yorkshire - 1 £513 - 8
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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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) AWS
1 2 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon S3
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (16.67%) GCP
2 1 (16.67%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (16.67%) Crystal Reports
1 1 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (16.67%) DynamoDB
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Analysis Services
1 1 (16.67%) Power BI
1 1 (16.67%) Relational Database
1 1 (16.67%) Semantic Layer
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
General
1 3 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Military
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (16.67%) Applications Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Applications Support
2 1 (16.67%) Applications Support Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Architect
2 1 (16.67%) COBOL Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Crystal Reports Specialist
2 1 (16.67%) Crystal Reports Writer
2 1 (16.67%) Data Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Developer
2 1 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Mainframe Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Mainframe Support
2 1 (16.67%) Report Specialist
2 1 (16.67%) Report Writer
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Data Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Technical Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Support Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Technical Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
1 1 (16.67%) Mainframe
1 1 (16.67%) Public Cloud
1 1 (16.67%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 2 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (33.33%) Roadmaps
2 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (33.33%) Technical Architecture
3 1 (16.67%) Architectural Patterns
3 1 (16.67%) Code Quality
3 1 (16.67%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (16.67%) Containerisation
3 1 (16.67%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (16.67%) Data Strategy
3 1 (16.67%) DataOps
3 1 (16.67%) Design Patterns
3 1 (16.67%) Incident Response
3 1 (16.67%) Proactive Monitoring
3 1 (16.67%) Product Roadmap
3 1 (16.67%) Strategic Thinking
3 1 (16.67%) Thought Leadership
3 1 (16.67%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) SQL
2 1 (16.67%) COBOL
2 1 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (66.67%) SC Cleared
3 2 (33.33%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (16.67%) DV Cleared
4 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) QA
2 1 (16.67%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (16.67%) SCCM
1 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Google