CCTV Contract Job Trends

Closed-Circuit Television (CCTV)
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term CCTV in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited CCTV over the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 523 531 601
Rank change year-on-year +8 +70 +170
Contract jobs citing CCTV 36 42 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.11% 0.11% 0.077%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.31% 0.36% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 22 31
10th Percentile £163 £184 £281
25th Percentile £331 £253 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £413 £550
Median % change year-on-year +15.15% -25.00% +29.41%
75th Percentile £574 £525 £594
90th Percentile £638 £636 £600
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £431 £436
% change year-on-year +10.14% -1.15% +5.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 1
10th Percentile - £15.20 -
25th Percentile £22.50 £20.75 -
Median hourly rate £25.00 £30.00 £23.24
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +29.09% +29.11%
75th Percentile £27.50 £61.50 -
90th Percentile £42.20 £80.40 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £52.25 £23.24
% change year-on-year - +124.83% +102.09%

All Generic Skills
UK

CCTV falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 11,672 11,618 16,063
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.44% 30.38% 32.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,136 7,126 11,008
10th Percentile £300 £294 £300
25th Percentile £406 £418 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £542 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.02% -1.41% -
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £758 £805 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 586 475 447
10th Percentile £15.13 £14.41 £16.78
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.25 £21.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £50.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +11.11% +69.81%
75th Percentile £55.00 £70.00 £66.72
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.05 £57.35 £49.00
% change year-on-year -47.60% +17.04% +124.98%

CCTV
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing CCTV as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for CCTV in the UK

CCTV
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing CCTV.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing CCTV

CCTV
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CCTV over the 6 months to 17 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CCTV in the UK

CCTV
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing CCTV.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing CCTV

CCTV
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing CCTV over the 6 months to 17 September 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for CCTV in the UK

CCTV
Top 12 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CCTV within the UK over the 6 months to 17 September 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
England +25 33 £475 +15.15% 403
UK excluding London -3 20 £475 +10.14% 388
London +20 13 £425 +36.00% 93
Yorkshire -4 8 £553 +225.00% 25
North of England -9 8 £553 +64.93% 59
South East +18 5 - - 104
Midlands -10 4 £288 - 60
Work from Home +8 3 £575 +64.29% 25
West Midlands -10 3 £400 - 32
East of England +3 2 £475 +5.56% 60
South West - 1 £150 - 53
East Midlands - 1 £175 - 26

CCTV
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (2.78%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (5.56%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 4 (11.11%) Azure
2 3 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (2.78%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 5 (13.89%) Firewall
1 5 (13.89%) LAN
2 4 (11.11%) VPN
2 4 (11.11%) WAN
2 4 (11.11%) Wi-Fi
3 3 (8.33%) SAN
3 3 (8.33%) Wireless
4 2 (5.56%) Intrusion Detection
4 2 (5.56%) Network Security
4 2 (5.56%) TCP/IP
4 2 (5.56%) VLAN
5 1 (2.78%) 5G
5 1 (2.78%) Structured Cabling
5 1 (2.78%) VoIP
5 1 (2.78%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.78%) Data Mining
1 1 (2.78%) SQL Server
General
1 9 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (16.67%) Telecoms
3 3 (8.33%) Finance
3 3 (8.33%) Public Sector
4 2 (5.56%) Aviation
4 2 (5.56%) Fire and Rescue
4 2 (5.56%) Local Government
5 1 (2.78%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.78%) Banking
5 1 (2.78%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (13.89%) Lead
1 5 (13.89%) Technical Leader
2 4 (11.11%) Field Engineer
2 4 (11.11%) Field Service Engineer
2 4 (11.11%) Installations Engineer
3 3 (8.33%) Analyst
3 3 (8.33%) Architect
3 3 (8.33%) CCTV Engineer
3 3 (8.33%) IT Engineer
3 3 (8.33%) IT Security Engineer
3 3 (8.33%) Security Engineer
4 2 (5.56%) Data Analyst
4 2 (5.56%) Data Protection Analyst
4 2 (5.56%) Network Architect
4 2 (5.56%) Security Manager
4 2 (5.56%) Technology Manager
5 1 (2.78%) Implementation Manager
5 1 (2.78%) Technical Engineer
5 1 (2.78%) Technical Solutions Architect
5 1 (2.78%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.78%) Apache Axis
1 1 (2.78%) RSS
Miscellaneous
1 9 (25.00%) Driving Licence
2 3 (8.33%) Housing Association
3 2 (5.56%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.78%) Fibre Optics
4 1 (2.78%) IoT
4 1 (2.78%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.78%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (11.11%) VMS
2 2 (5.56%) Windows
2 2 (5.56%) Windows Server
3 1 (2.78%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (11.11%) IT Audit
1 4 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
1 4 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (8.33%) Data Loss Prevention
2 3 (8.33%) Integration Patterns
2 3 (8.33%) Migration
2 3 (8.33%) Project Management
3 2 (5.56%) Agile
3 2 (5.56%) CAD
3 2 (5.56%) Customer Service
3 2 (5.56%) Data Protection
3 2 (5.56%) End-to-End Testing
3 2 (5.56%) Enterprise Architecture
3 2 (5.56%) Incident Response
3 2 (5.56%) ITIL
3 2 (5.56%) Knowledge Transfer
3 2 (5.56%) Scrum
3 2 (5.56%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (5.56%) Technology Strategy
3 2 (5.56%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 2 (5.56%) SQL
2 1 (2.78%) C#
2 1 (2.78%) Java
2 1 (2.78%) PowerShell
2 1 (2.78%) Python
2 1 (2.78%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 7 (19.44%) CCNA
1 7 (19.44%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (8.33%) Azure Certification
2 3 (8.33%) DBS Check
3 2 (5.56%) Degree
3 2 (5.56%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.56%) Security Cleared
4 1 (2.78%) CISSP
4 1 (2.78%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (2.78%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.78%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.56%) GDPR
1 2 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.78%) NIST
2 1 (2.78%) QA
2 1 (2.78%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (5.56%) Active Directory
1 2 (5.56%) Hyper-V
1 2 (5.56%) Virtual Machines
1 2 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (2.78%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 8 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 3 (8.33%) Cisco
3 2 (5.56%) VMware
4 1 (2.78%) ServiceNow