CITP Contracts

Chartered IT Professional (CITP)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for CITP qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 514 570 712
Rank change year-on-year +56 +142 +137
Contract jobs citing CITP 6 12 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.020% 0.028% 0.010%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.067% 0.090% 0.037%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 4 3
10th Percentile £415 - £773
25th Percentile £446 £350 £788
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £375 £825
Median % change year-on-year +26.67% -54.55% +73.68%
75th Percentile £480 £450 £838
90th Percentile £485 £540 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £478 - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 3
10th Percentile - - £53.96
25th Percentile - £13.69 £58.10
Median hourly rate - £14.46 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - -77.75% -
75th Percentile - £15.23 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £14.46 £65.00
% change year-on-year - -77.75% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

CITP 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 8,993 13,316 16,299
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.72% 30.57% 27.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,686 8,190 10,861
10th Percentile £288 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% +4.76%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £707 £743 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £501 £533 £530
% change year-on-year -6.10% +0.57% +6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 509 1,076 849
10th Percentile £18.13 £13.87 £15.25
25th Percentile £22.00 £17.88 £20.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £40.00 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year - -25.93% +29.16%
75th Percentile £66.00 £61.60 £68.25
90th Percentile £80.20 £75.24 £80.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.50 £40.94 £49.57
% change year-on-year +3.81% -17.41% +53.14%

CITP
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for CITP in the UK

CITP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing CITP.

Daily rate trend for CITP in the UK

CITP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing CITP.

Hourly rate trend for CITP in the UK

CITP
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CITP within the UK over the 6 months to 1 May 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
UK excluding London +61 5 £478 - 7
Work from Home - 5 £463 - 3
Wales - 4 £478 - 3
England +47 2 £395 +5.33% 5
London +35 1 £395 +5.33% 1
Midlands - 1 - - 2
West Midlands - 1 - - 2

CITP
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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (83.33%) Azure
2 4 (66.67%) AWS
2 4 (66.67%) GCP
3 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Purview
3 1 (16.67%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (16.67%) Metadata
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Analysis Services
1 1 (16.67%) Power BI
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Visual Studio
General
1 5 (83.33%) Public Sector
2 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
3 3 (50.00%) Digital Health
4 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (16.67%) Military
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Architect
2 4 (66.67%) Cloud Architect
3 3 (50.00%) Migration Architect
3 3 (50.00%) Principal Architect
4 2 (33.33%) Principal Solutions Architect
4 2 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (16.67%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
5 1 (16.67%) Cloud Solutions Architect
5 1 (16.67%) Data Architect
5 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Architect
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Cloud Native
2 3 (50.00%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Agile
1 5 (83.33%) IT Strategy
1 5 (83.33%) ITIL
1 5 (83.33%) TOGAF
2 4 (66.67%) Cloud Security
2 4 (66.67%) Computer Science
2 4 (66.67%) Data Privacy
2 4 (66.67%) DevSecOps
2 4 (66.67%) Enterprise Architecture
2 4 (66.67%) Roadmaps
2 4 (66.67%) Strategic Roadmap
2 4 (66.67%) Technical Leadership
3 3 (50.00%) Migration
3 3 (50.00%) Risk Management
4 2 (33.33%) Architectural Design
4 2 (33.33%) Architectural Patterns
4 2 (33.33%) Open Source
4 2 (33.33%) Service Delivery
5 1 (16.67%) Analytical Modelling
5 1 (16.67%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Python
1 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) AWS Certification
1 4 (66.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 4 (66.67%) Azure Certification
1 4 (66.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (66.67%) Degree
1 4 (66.67%) Master's Degree
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) Data Quality
1 1 (16.67%) GDPR
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Microsoft
2 4 (66.67%) Google