CTC Cleared Contracts

Counter-Terrorist Check (CTC) Clearance
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for CTC Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 11 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 484 542 647
Rank change year-on-year +58 +105 +102
Contract jobs citing CTC Cleared 34 40 56
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.12% 0.093% 0.097%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.37% 0.31% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 25 41
10th Percentile £354 £256 £350
25th Percentile £422 £441 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year +3.75% -1.96% +9.14%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £619
90th Percentile £611 £645 £660
UK excluding London median daily rate £519 £588 £600
% change year-on-year -11.70% -2.08% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 0
10th Percentile £27.18 - -
25th Percentile £31.19 - -
Median hourly rate £39.42 £12.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +215.34% - -
75th Percentile £47.35 - -
90th Percentile £51.19 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £39.42 £12.50 -
% change year-on-year +215.34% - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

CTC Cleared 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 9,132 13,065 15,782
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 31.00% 30.38% 27.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,727 8,067 10,529
10th Percentile £285 £307 £330
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 £623 £650 £650
90th Percentile £700 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £534 £525
% change year-on-year -6.28% +1.62% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 521 1,069 814
10th Percentile £18.13 £13.82 £15.25
25th Percentile £21.46 £17.80 £20.22
Median hourly rate £37.50 £40.00 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -25.93% +27.06%
75th Percentile £65.00 £61.60 £68.06
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.45 £79.19
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £40.94 £50.00
% change year-on-year -2.30% -18.12% +42.86%

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Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for CTC Cleared in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for CTC Cleared in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CTC Cleared over the 6 months to 11 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CTC Cleared in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for CTC Cleared in the UK

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Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing CTC Cleared over the 6 months to 11 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for CTC Cleared in the UK

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Top 12 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CTC Cleared within the UK over the 6 months to 11 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
England +82 32 £512 -4.70% 25
UK excluding London +60 14 £519 -11.70% 19
London +22 14 £524 +6.10% 6
Work from Home +41 11 £536 +8.53% 19
North of England - 7 £550 - 9
Midlands +24 4 £320 - 1
West Midlands +23 4 £320 - 1
North East - 4 £575 -
South East +46 3 £320 -47.76% 8
North West - 2 £500 - 2
Yorkshire - 1 £513 - 7
East of England - 1 £450 - 2

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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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (5.88%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.94%) Confluence
2 1 (2.94%) Mattermost
Applications
1 2 (5.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (2.94%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (2.94%) Oracle Assets
1 1 (2.94%) Oracle Cash Management
1 1 (2.94%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (2.94%) Oracle Financials
1 1 (2.94%) Oracle General Ledger
1 1 (2.94%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (2.94%) Oracle Payroll
1 1 (2.94%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 8 (23.53%) AWS
2 5 (14.71%) Azure
2 5 (14.71%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (8.82%) Power Platform
3 3 (8.82%) SaaS
4 2 (5.88%) OCI
4 2 (5.88%) Power Automate
5 1 (2.94%) Amazon S3
5 1 (2.94%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (2.94%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (2.94%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (2.94%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (2.94%) Entra ID
5 1 (2.94%) GCP
5 1 (2.94%) PowerApps
5 1 (2.94%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 4 (11.76%) DHCP
1 4 (11.76%) DNS
2 3 (8.82%) TCP/IP
3 2 (5.88%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (2.94%) LAN
4 1 (2.94%) Network Security
4 1 (2.94%) SNMP
4 1 (2.94%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.88%) Power BI
2 1 (2.94%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (2.94%) Crystal Reports
2 1 (2.94%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (2.94%) DynamoDB
2 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Analysis Services
2 1 (2.94%) Pentaho
2 1 (2.94%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.94%) Relational Database
2 1 (2.94%) Semantic Layer
2 1 (2.94%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (2.94%) Bitbucket
1 1 (2.94%) Git
1 1 (2.94%) GitLab
1 1 (2.94%) JIRA
1 1 (2.94%) JUnit
1 1 (2.94%) Maven
General
1 12 (35.29%) Public Sector
2 8 (23.53%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (20.59%) Social Skills
4 6 (17.65%) Finance
5 5 (14.71%) Military
6 1 (2.94%) Aviation
6 1 (2.94%) Fire and Rescue
6 1 (2.94%) French Language
6 1 (2.94%) General Ledger
6 1 (2.94%) German Language
6 1 (2.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.94%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (2.94%) Local Government
6 1 (2.94%) Police
6 1 (2.94%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.94%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (11.76%) Analyst
1 4 (11.76%) Senior
2 3 (8.82%) Architect
2 3 (8.82%) Data Engineer
2 3 (8.82%) Operations Engineer
2 3 (8.82%) Security Engineer
3 2 (5.88%) AWS Data Engineer
3 2 (5.88%) AWS Engineer
3 2 (5.88%) Consultant
3 2 (5.88%) Data Architect
3 2 (5.88%) Developer
3 2 (5.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (5.88%) Lead
3 2 (5.88%) Report Writer
3 2 (5.88%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (2.94%) Applications Developer
4 1 (2.94%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
4 1 (2.94%) Product Lead
4 1 (2.94%) Support Engineer
4 1 (2.94%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.94%) CSS
1 1 (2.94%) Guice
1 1 (2.94%) jQuery
1 1 (2.94%) MDX
1 1 (2.94%) NETCONF
1 1 (2.94%) Oracle Fusion
1 1 (2.94%) Spring
1 1 (2.94%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.88%) Data Centre
2 1 (2.94%) Fibre Optics
2 1 (2.94%) Mainframe
2 1 (2.94%) Product Ownership
2 1 (2.94%) Public Cloud
2 1 (2.94%) Replication
2 1 (2.94%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.94%) Linux
1 1 (2.94%) Mac OS
1 1 (2.94%) Unix
1 1 (2.94%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (20.59%) Analytics
1 7 (20.59%) Continuous Improvement
2 5 (14.71%) Agile
2 5 (14.71%) Cybersecurity
2 5 (14.71%) Stakeholder Management
3 4 (11.76%) Data Security
3 4 (11.76%) Information Security
3 4 (11.76%) ITIL
3 4 (11.76%) Roadmaps
3 4 (11.76%) Security Architecture
3 4 (11.76%) Security Management
3 4 (11.76%) Security Operations
3 4 (11.76%) User Acceptance Testing
4 3 (8.82%) CI/CD
4 3 (8.82%) DevOps
4 3 (8.82%) Patch Management
4 3 (8.82%) Process Improvement
4 3 (8.82%) SIEM
4 3 (8.82%) Threat Detection
4 3 (8.82%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 3 (8.82%) Python
1 3 (8.82%) SQL
2 1 (2.94%) Bash
2 1 (2.94%) C#
2 1 (2.94%) COBOL
2 1 (2.94%) Java
2 1 (2.94%) JavaScript
2 1 (2.94%) Perl
2 1 (2.94%) PowerShell
2 1 (2.94%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 34 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 16 (47.06%) SC Cleared
3 4 (11.76%) BPSS Clearance
3 4 (11.76%) DV Cleared
4 3 (8.82%) Degree
5 1 (2.94%) CCNP
5 1 (2.94%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (2.94%) Citrix Certification
5 1 (2.94%) MAPM
5 1 (2.94%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.88%) QA
2 1 (2.94%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 3 (8.82%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (2.94%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (8.82%) Microsoft Intune
1 3 (8.82%) SCCM
1 3 (8.82%) WSUS
2 2 (5.88%) Terraform
3 1 (2.94%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (2.94%) BMC PATROL
3 1 (2.94%) CSIRT
3 1 (2.94%) Grafana
3 1 (2.94%) Jamf Pro
3 1 (2.94%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.94%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 8 (23.53%) Microsoft
2 3 (8.82%) Rapid7
2 3 (8.82%) Sophos
3 2 (5.88%) Databricks
3 2 (5.88%) Oracle
4 1 (2.94%) Apple
4 1 (2.94%) Atlassian
4 1 (2.94%) BMC
4 1 (2.94%) Cisco
4 1 (2.94%) ESET
4 1 (2.94%) FireEye
4 1 (2.94%) Google
4 1 (2.94%) Juniper
4 1 (2.94%) Reuters
4 1 (2.94%) SAP
4 1 (2.94%) Splunk
4 1 (2.94%) Tanium