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 3 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 565 484 508
Rank change year-on-year -81 +24 +205
Contract jobs citing CCTV 28 50 86
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.072% 0.16% 0.19%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.21% 0.50% 0.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 30 43
10th Percentile £164 £218 £214
25th Percentile £243 £220 £215
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £313 £240 £385
Median % change year-on-year +30.21% -37.66% -23.00%
75th Percentile £484 £450 £438
90th Percentile £566 £541 £588
UK excluding London median daily rate £275 £220 £525
% change year-on-year +25.00% -58.10% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 9
10th Percentile - - £11.25
25th Percentile - - £11.75
Median hourly rate £12.21 £16.37 £23.24
Median % change year-on-year -25.41% -29.56% +16.20%
75th Percentile - - £25.25
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £12.21 £16.37 £23.24
% change year-on-year -25.41% -29.56% -

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 13,147 10,079 13,850
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 33.95% 32.65% 30.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,318 5,964 9,014
10th Percentile £275 £263 £253
25th Percentile £403 £406 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £625 £656 £650
90th Percentile £738 £767 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 627 309 806
10th Percentile £15.13 £19.94 £13.17
25th Percentile £18.50 £24.15 £16.75
Median hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £32.22
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +8.64% +43.28%
75th Percentile £63.53 £65.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £81.05 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.55 £32.50 £33.36
% change year-on-year -12.17% -2.56% +57.82%

CCTV
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing CCTV relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

CCTV job vacancy trend 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 3 February 2026.

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
Top 14 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 3 February 2026. 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 -95 23 £300 +25.00% 244
UK excluding London -71 16 £275 +25.00% 203
London -37 10 £363 +45.00% 74
Midlands -53 5 £219 - 32
Work from Home -8 3 £575 +130.00% 24
West Midlands -35 3 £250 - 22
Yorkshire -55 3 £325 +47.73% 12
North of England -64 3 £325 +47.73% 32
Wales +4 2 - - 2
East of England -20 2 £475 +61.02% 30
South East -29 2 £675 +50.00% 79
South West - 2 £213 - 16
East Midlands - 2 £175 - 10
Scotland +7 1 - - 16

CCTV
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (7.14%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (3.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 4 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (3.57%) Entra ID
2 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Purview
2 1 (3.57%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 5 (17.86%) Firewall
2 4 (14.29%) VLAN
2 4 (14.29%) VPN
3 3 (10.71%) DHCP
3 3 (10.71%) DNS
3 3 (10.71%) TCP/IP
3 3 (10.71%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (7.14%) Intrusion Detection
4 2 (7.14%) LAN
4 2 (7.14%) Network Security
4 2 (7.14%) Structured Cabling
4 2 (7.14%) WAN
4 2 (7.14%) Wireless
5 1 (3.57%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.57%) GIS
Development Applications
1 1 (3.57%) JIRA
1 1 (3.57%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 15 (53.57%) Social Skills
2 5 (17.86%) Telecoms
3 3 (10.71%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (7.14%) Finance
4 2 (7.14%) Fire and Rescue
4 2 (7.14%) Local Government
4 2 (7.14%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.57%) Aviation
5 1 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (3.57%) Military
5 1 (3.57%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (14.29%) CCTV Engineer
1 4 (14.29%) IT Engineer
1 4 (14.29%) Project Manager
1 4 (14.29%) Support Engineer
2 3 (10.71%) 2nd Line Engineer
2 3 (10.71%) CCTV Project Manager
3 2 (7.14%) Administrator
3 2 (7.14%) Consultant
3 2 (7.14%) Data Engineer
3 2 (7.14%) Desktop Engineer
3 2 (7.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (7.14%) Infrastructure Manager
3 2 (7.14%) Infrastructure Project Manager
3 2 (7.14%) IT Security Engineer
3 2 (7.14%) IT Support
3 2 (7.14%) IT Support Engineer
3 2 (7.14%) Network Infrastructure Manager
3 2 (7.14%) Network Infrastructure Project Manager
3 2 (7.14%) Security Consultant
3 2 (7.14%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.57%) RSS
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.71%) Driving Licence
1 3 (10.71%) Housing Association
1 3 (10.71%) Management Information System
1 3 (10.71%) Onboarding
2 2 (7.14%) Data Centre
2 2 (7.14%) Fibre Optics
3 1 (3.57%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (3.57%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (3.57%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 1 (3.57%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 5 (17.86%) Windows
2 3 (10.71%) VMS
3 2 (7.14%) Linux
3 2 (7.14%) Windows Server
4 1 (3.57%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (17.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 5 (17.86%) Project Management
3 4 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
4 3 (10.71%) Agile
4 3 (10.71%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (10.71%) Migration
4 3 (10.71%) Security Operations
4 3 (10.71%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 3 (10.71%) Waterfall
5 2 (7.14%) Change Control
5 2 (7.14%) Data Entry
5 2 (7.14%) Data Loss Prevention
5 2 (7.14%) PRINCE2
5 2 (7.14%) Project Delivery
5 2 (7.14%) Risk Management
5 2 (7.14%) Scrum
5 2 (7.14%) SDLC
5 2 (7.14%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (7.14%) Virtual Environments
Qualifications
1 3 (10.71%) DBS Check
1 3 (10.71%) Security Cleared
2 2 (7.14%) Degree
2 2 (7.14%) DV Cleared
2 2 (7.14%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.57%) APMP
3 1 (3.57%) CCNA
3 1 (3.57%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (3.57%) MCSA
3 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Certified Professional
3 1 (3.57%) Network+ Certification
3 1 (3.57%) PMI Certification
3 1 (3.57%) PMP
3 1 (3.57%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (3.57%) JSP 440
1 1 (3.57%) NIST
1 1 (3.57%) PMO
1 1 (3.57%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (7.14%) Active Directory
1 2 (7.14%) Firmware
1 2 (7.14%) Hyper-V
1 2 (7.14%) Virtual Machines
1 2 (7.14%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 9 (32.14%) Microsoft
2 3 (10.71%) VMware
3 1 (3.57%) Cisco
3 1 (3.57%) Logitech
3 1 (3.57%) ServiceNow
3 1 (3.57%) Virgin Media