CHECK Team Leader Contract Job Trends

CHECK Team Leader (CTL)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for CHECK Team Leader qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 12 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 657 543 565
Rank change year-on-year -114 +22 +80
Contract jobs citing CHECK Team Leader 14 19 2
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.026% 0.058% 0.005%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.081% 0.18% 0.018%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 19 2
10th Percentile £584 - £600
25th Percentile £663 - £619
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £600 £675
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -11.11% +35.00%
75th Percentile £688 - £719
90th Percentile - - £730
UK excluding London median daily rate - £550 -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

CHECK Team Leader 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.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 17,195 10,356 11,331
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 31.52% 31.37% 29.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,490 6,444 7,004
10th Percentile £350 £300 £313
25th Percentile £438 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.55%
75th Percentile £628 £623 £638
90th Percentile £713 £700 £735
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,314 827 672
10th Percentile £17.18 £17.97 £17.00
25th Percentile £25.77 £18.87 £24.18
Median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +88.87% -49.70% -9.09%
75th Percentile £72.06 £47.50 £68.00
90th Percentile £87.11 £71.33 £76.17
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £54.00
% change year-on-year +88.87% -53.43% +2.86%

CHECK Team Leader
Job Vacancy Trend

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

CHECK Team Leader job vacancy trend in the UK

CHECK Team Leader
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing CHECK Team Leader.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing CHECK Team Leader

CHECK Team Leader
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CHECK Team Leader over the 6 months to 12 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for CHECK Team Leader in the UK

CHECK Team Leader
Top 3 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CHECK Team Leader within the UK over the 6 months to 12 September 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
Work from Home -68 13 £675 +12.50% 6
London -92 1 £525 -12.50% 4
England -146 1 £525 -12.50% 7

CHECK Team Leader
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 1 (7.14%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 14 (100.00%) AWS
1 14 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (7.14%) GitHub
2 1 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Burp Suite
1 1 (7.14%) Jenkins
1 1 (7.14%) JIRA
1 1 (7.14%) Metasploit
General
1 12 (85.71%) Public Sector
1 12 (85.71%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (100.00%) Penetration Tester
1 14 (100.00%) Tester
2 4 (28.57%) Ethical Hacker
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 1 (7.14%) CSOC
2 1 (7.14%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
2 12 (85.71%) Coaching
3 4 (28.57%) Ethical Hacking
4 3 (21.43%) CI/CD
4 3 (21.43%) Containerisation
4 3 (21.43%) Security Testing
5 2 (14.29%) Cloud Security
5 2 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
6 1 (7.14%) Agile
6 1 (7.14%) Cybersecurity
6 1 (7.14%) DevOps
6 1 (7.14%) Identity Access Management
6 1 (7.14%) Mentoring
6 1 (7.14%) Network Architecture
6 1 (7.14%) Offensive Security
6 1 (7.14%) OWASP
6 1 (7.14%) Scenario Testing
6 1 (7.14%) Security Architecture
6 1 (7.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 1 (7.14%) Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 14 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 13 (92.86%) SC Cleared
3 12 (85.71%) CHECK Team Member
4 11 (78.57%) DV Cleared
5 3 (21.43%) CREST Certified
6 2 (14.29%) OSCP
7 1 (7.14%) CCSAM
7 1 (7.14%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (92.86%) NCSC
2 1 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (7.14%) NIST
2 1 (7.14%) NIST 800
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (92.86%) Kubernetes
2 1 (7.14%) Nmap
Vendors
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft