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

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 550 473 523
Rank change year-on-year -77 +50 +198
Contract jobs citing CCTV 31 47 74
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.085% 0.15% 0.17%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.25% 0.47% 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 29 37
10th Percentile £183 £216 £214
25th Percentile £262 £220 £215
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £240 £350
Median % change year-on-year +87.50% -31.43% -26.32%
75th Percentile £547 £450 £428
90th Percentile £575 £545 £558
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £220 £475
% change year-on-year +115.91% -53.68% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 4
10th Percentile - £24.03 -
25th Percentile - £35.53 £11.25
Median hourly rate £12.21 £54.69 £11.50
Median % change year-on-year -77.67% +375.52% -42.50%
75th Percentile - £73.84 £14.62
90th Percentile - £85.34 £19.79
UK excluding London median hourly rate £12.21 £54.69 £11.50
% change year-on-year -77.67% +375.52% -

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 12,549 10,090 13,285
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.29% 32.18% 30.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,883 5,987 8,780
10th Percentile £280 £263 £263
25th Percentile £406 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £533 £548
Median % change year-on-year -6.19% -2.65% -0.45%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £660
90th Percentile £738 £775 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 611 312 559
10th Percentile £14.25 £18.13 £15.43
25th Percentile £18.23 £23.30 £18.93
Median hourly rate £27.50 £33.77 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.57% -9.95% +50.00%
75th Percentile £61.21 £64.56 £63.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.75 £75.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.21 £32.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -16.28% -23.53% +102.28%

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 13 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 13 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 -87 27 £375 +56.25% 117
UK excluding London -49 20 £475 +115.91% 100
London -49 9 £300 +20.00% 33
Yorkshire -44 8 £525 +138.64% 5
North of England -57 8 £525 +138.64% 25
Midlands -41 4 £250 - 13
Work from Home -4 3 £575 +130.00% 13
South East -18 3 £675 +38.46% 33
Wales -2 2 - - 2
East of England -20 2 £475 +61.02% 12
West Midlands -34 2 £463 - 7
South West - 2 £213 - 9
East Midlands - 2 £175 - 6

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 (6.45%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (6.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (3.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 3 (9.68%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (3.23%) Entra ID
2 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Purview
2 1 (3.23%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 5 (16.13%) Firewall
2 4 (12.90%) VLAN
2 4 (12.90%) VPN
3 3 (9.68%) LAN
3 3 (9.68%) TCP/IP
3 3 (9.68%) WAN
4 2 (6.45%) DHCP
4 2 (6.45%) DNS
4 2 (6.45%) Intrusion Detection
4 2 (6.45%) Network Security
4 2 (6.45%) Structured Cabling
4 2 (6.45%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (6.45%) Wireless
5 1 (3.23%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.23%) GIS
Development Applications
1 1 (3.23%) JIRA
General
1 14 (45.16%) Social Skills
2 5 (16.13%) Telecoms
3 3 (9.68%) Organisational Skills
3 3 (9.68%) Public Sector
4 2 (6.45%) Finance
4 2 (6.45%) Fire and Rescue
4 2 (6.45%) Local Government
5 1 (3.23%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.23%) Aviation
5 1 (3.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (3.23%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (16.13%) Lead
1 5 (16.13%) Project Manager
1 5 (16.13%) Technical Leader
2 4 (12.90%) CCTV Engineer
3 3 (9.68%) 2nd Line Engineer
3 3 (9.68%) CCTV Project Manager
3 3 (9.68%) IT Engineer
3 3 (9.68%) Support Engineer
4 2 (6.45%) Administrator
4 2 (6.45%) Data Engineer
4 2 (6.45%) Desktop Engineer
4 2 (6.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (6.45%) Infrastructure Manager
4 2 (6.45%) Infrastructure Project Manager
4 2 (6.45%) IT Security Engineer
4 2 (6.45%) Network Infrastructure Manager
4 2 (6.45%) Network Infrastructure Project Manager
4 2 (6.45%) Security Engineer
5 1 (3.23%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
5 1 (3.23%) Senior IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.23%) RSS
Miscellaneous
1 9 (29.03%) Driving Licence
2 3 (9.68%) Housing Association
3 2 (6.45%) Data Centre
3 2 (6.45%) Fibre Optics
3 2 (6.45%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.23%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.23%) Security Operations Centre
4 1 (3.23%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (3.23%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 1 (3.23%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 4 (12.90%) Windows
2 3 (9.68%) VMS
3 1 (3.23%) Linux
3 1 (3.23%) Mac OS
3 1 (3.23%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (19.35%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (16.13%) Project Management
3 4 (12.90%) Cybersecurity
4 3 (9.68%) Agile
4 3 (9.68%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (9.68%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 3 (9.68%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 3 (9.68%) Waterfall
5 2 (6.45%) Data Entry
5 2 (6.45%) Data Loss Prevention
5 2 (6.45%) End-to-End Testing
5 2 (6.45%) Incident Response
5 2 (6.45%) Knowledge Transfer
5 2 (6.45%) Migration
5 2 (6.45%) PRINCE2
5 2 (6.45%) Project Delivery
5 2 (6.45%) Scrum
5 2 (6.45%) SDLC
5 2 (6.45%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (6.45%) Virtual Environments
Qualifications
1 7 (22.58%) CCNA
1 7 (22.58%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (9.68%) DBS Check
3 2 (6.45%) Degree
4 1 (3.23%) APMP
4 1 (3.23%) DV Cleared
4 1 (3.23%) MCP
4 1 (3.23%) MCSA
4 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (3.23%) Network+ Certification
4 1 (3.23%) PMI Certification
4 1 (3.23%) PMP
4 1 (3.23%) SC Cleared
4 1 (3.23%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (3.23%) NIST
1 1 (3.23%) PMO
1 1 (3.23%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (6.45%) Active Directory
1 2 (6.45%) Hyper-V
1 2 (6.45%) Virtual Machines
1 2 (6.45%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (3.23%) Firmware
Vendors
1 8 (25.81%) Microsoft
2 3 (9.68%) VMware
3 1 (3.23%) Cisco
3 1 (3.23%) Logitech
3 1 (3.23%) ServiceNow
3 1 (3.23%) Virgin Media