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 20 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 560 468 506
Rank change year-on-year -92 +38 +215
Contract jobs citing CCTV 26 47 79
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.070% 0.15% 0.18%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.20% 0.47% 0.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 29 38
10th Percentile £169 £216 £214
25th Percentile £261 £220 £220
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £240 £368
Median % change year-on-year +56.25% -34.69% -26.50%
75th Percentile £488 £450 £435
90th Percentile £575 £545 £588
UK excluding London median daily rate £300 £220 £525
% change year-on-year +36.36% -58.10% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 6
10th Percentile - - £11.25
25th Percentile - - £11.38
Median hourly rate £12.21 £16.37 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.41% -6.43% -12.53%
75th Percentile - - £24.75
90th Percentile - - £25.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £12.21 £16.37 £17.50
% change year-on-year -25.41% -6.43% -

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 12,770 10,086 13,371
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.26% 32.25% 30.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,073 5,954 8,762
10th Percentile £278 £263 £258
25th Percentile £406 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £533 £540
Median % change year-on-year -6.23% -1.26% -3.57%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £656
90th Percentile £738 £775 £760
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 616 313 645
10th Percentile £14.43 £18.66 £14.54
25th Percentile £18.27 £23.80 £17.72
Median hourly rate £27.63 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.07% - +55.56%
75th Percentile £61.19 £65.00 £61.25
90th Percentile £74.84 £80.75 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.52 £32.50 £35.83
% change year-on-year -15.32% -9.28% +79.13%

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 20 January 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 13 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 20 January 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 -78 22 £313 +30.21% 225
UK excluding London -57 14 £300 +36.36% 206
London -43 10 £363 +45.00% 48
Midlands -38 4 £250 - 32
Work from Home -6 3 £575 +130.00% 19
Yorkshire -56 3 £325 +47.73% 14
North of England -60 3 £325 +47.73% 39
Wales -3 2 - - 5
East of England -20 2 £475 +61.02% 26
South East -24 2 £675 +38.46% 74
West Midlands -31 2 £463 - 16
South West - 2 £213 - 18
East Midlands - 2 £175 - 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 (7.69%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (7.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (3.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 3 (11.54%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (3.85%) Entra ID
2 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Purview
2 1 (3.85%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 5 (19.23%) Firewall
2 4 (15.38%) VLAN
2 4 (15.38%) VPN
3 3 (11.54%) TCP/IP
4 2 (7.69%) DHCP
4 2 (7.69%) DNS
4 2 (7.69%) Intrusion Detection
4 2 (7.69%) LAN
4 2 (7.69%) Network Security
4 2 (7.69%) Structured Cabling
4 2 (7.69%) WAN
4 2 (7.69%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (7.69%) Wireless
5 1 (3.85%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.85%) GIS
Development Applications
1 1 (3.85%) JIRA
General
1 14 (53.85%) Social Skills
2 5 (19.23%) Telecoms
3 3 (11.54%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (7.69%) Finance
4 2 (7.69%) Fire and Rescue
4 2 (7.69%) Local Government
4 2 (7.69%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.85%) Aviation
5 1 (3.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (3.85%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (15.38%) CCTV Engineer
1 4 (15.38%) Project Manager
2 3 (11.54%) 2nd Line Engineer
2 3 (11.54%) CCTV Project Manager
2 3 (11.54%) IT Engineer
2 3 (11.54%) Support Engineer
3 2 (7.69%) Administrator
3 2 (7.69%) Data Engineer
3 2 (7.69%) Desktop Engineer
3 2 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (7.69%) Infrastructure Manager
3 2 (7.69%) Infrastructure Project Manager
3 2 (7.69%) IT Security Engineer
3 2 (7.69%) Network Infrastructure Manager
3 2 (7.69%) Network Infrastructure Project Manager
3 2 (7.69%) Security Engineer
4 1 (3.85%) 1st/2nd Line Support
4 1 (3.85%) GIS Project Manager
4 1 (3.85%) Lead
4 1 (3.85%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.85%) RSS
Miscellaneous
1 4 (15.38%) Driving Licence
2 3 (11.54%) Housing Association
3 2 (7.69%) Data Centre
3 2 (7.69%) Fibre Optics
3 2 (7.69%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.85%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.85%) Security Operations Centre
4 1 (3.85%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (3.85%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 1 (3.85%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 4 (15.38%) Windows
2 3 (11.54%) VMS
3 2 (7.69%) Linux
4 1 (3.85%) Mac OS
4 1 (3.85%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (19.23%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 5 (19.23%) Project Management
3 4 (15.38%) Cybersecurity
4 3 (11.54%) Agile
4 3 (11.54%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (11.54%) Security Operations
4 3 (11.54%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 3 (11.54%) Waterfall
5 2 (7.69%) Data Entry
5 2 (7.69%) Data Loss Prevention
5 2 (7.69%) Incident Response
5 2 (7.69%) Knowledge Transfer
5 2 (7.69%) Migration
5 2 (7.69%) Platform Engineering
5 2 (7.69%) Project Delivery
5 2 (7.69%) Risk Management
5 2 (7.69%) Scrum
5 2 (7.69%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (7.69%) Virtual Environments
Qualifications
1 3 (11.54%) DBS Check
2 2 (7.69%) CCNA
2 2 (7.69%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (7.69%) Degree
3 1 (3.85%) APMP
3 1 (3.85%) DV Cleared
3 1 (3.85%) MCP
3 1 (3.85%) MCSA
3 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (3.85%) Network+ Certification
3 1 (3.85%) PMI Certification
3 1 (3.85%) PMP
3 1 (3.85%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.85%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (3.85%) NIST
1 1 (3.85%) PMO
1 1 (3.85%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (7.69%) Active Directory
1 2 (7.69%) Firmware
1 2 (7.69%) Hyper-V
1 2 (7.69%) Virtual Machines
1 2 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 8 (30.77%) Microsoft
2 3 (11.54%) VMware
3 1 (3.85%) Cisco
3 1 (3.85%) Logitech
3 1 (3.85%) ServiceNow
3 1 (3.85%) Virgin Media