CTC Cleared Contracts

Counter-Terrorist Check (CTC) Clearance
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for CTC Cleared qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 561 660 773
Rank change year-on-year +99 +113 -114
Contract jobs citing CTC Cleared 39 56 90
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.090% 0.095% 0.10%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.30% 0.35% 0.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 41 55
10th Percentile £245 £350 £214
25th Percentile £441 £406 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £510 £467
Median % change year-on-year +5.39% +9.14% -5.83%
75th Percentile £625 £619 £575
90th Percentile £646 £660 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £588 £600 £500
% change year-on-year -2.08% +20.00% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
Median hourly rate £12.50 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £12.50 - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

CTC Cleared is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 13,178 16,121 19,056
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.53% 27.29% 21.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,130 10,752 12,590
10th Percentile £300 £330 £330
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £626
90th Percentile £744 £743 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £530 £530 £500
% change year-on-year - +6.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,075 841 765
10th Percentile £13.86 £15.25 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.84 £20.00 £19.52
Median hourly rate £40.00 £54.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.93% +27.06% +12.88%
75th Percentile £61.60 £68.25 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.00 £66.86
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.94 £49.72 £34.38
% change year-on-year -17.66% +44.65% -0.48%

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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 5 May 2024.

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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Top 10 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 5 May 2024. 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 +101 31 £538 - 22
London +109 27 £494 -1.22% 3
Work from Home +124 15 £494 -10.20% 11
UK excluding London +50 8 £588 -2.08% 19
Scotland +41 3 - - 1
South East - 2 £613 - 6
Midlands +29 1 - -
West Midlands +23 1 - -
South West +16 1 £600 -4.38% 1
Wales - 1 £363 -

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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 6 (15.38%) SharePoint
2 5 (12.82%) nginx
3 3 (7.69%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (7.69%) Skype for Business
4 1 (2.56%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (7.69%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 11 (28.21%) AWS
2 6 (15.38%) Azure
3 5 (12.82%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
3 5 (12.82%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (12.82%) SaaS
4 3 (7.69%) Entra ID
4 3 (7.69%) OneDrive
5 1 (2.56%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (2.56%) Amazon S3
5 1 (2.56%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (2.56%) Cloudflare
5 1 (2.56%) Serverless
5 1 (2.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.69%) Cisco IOS
1 3 (7.69%) Skype
2 2 (5.13%) DHCP
2 2 (5.13%) DNS
2 2 (5.13%) Network Security
2 2 (5.13%) TCP/IP
3 1 (2.56%) Firewall
3 1 (2.56%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.69%) NoSQL
2 1 (2.56%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (2.56%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 2 (5.13%) JIRA
2 1 (2.56%) Git
2 1 (2.56%) GitLab
General
1 14 (35.90%) Public Sector
2 9 (23.08%) Police
3 5 (12.82%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (7.69%) Military
4 3 (7.69%) Social Skills
5 1 (2.56%) Finance
5 1 (2.56%) Fire and Rescue
5 1 (2.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 9 (23.08%) Developer
2 5 (12.82%) Development Manager
3 4 (10.26%) Full Stack Developer
4 3 (7.69%) Administrator
4 3 (7.69%) Analyst
4 3 (7.69%) Information Governance Officer
4 3 (7.69%) Information Officer
4 3 (7.69%) IT Support
4 3 (7.69%) Security Administrator
4 3 (7.69%) Security Analyst
4 3 (7.69%) Security Engineer
4 3 (7.69%) Software Developer
4 3 (7.69%) Support Officer
5 2 (5.13%) Architect
5 2 (5.13%) Lead
5 2 (5.13%) Operations Engineer
5 2 (5.13%) Senior
6 1 (2.56%) Full Stack JavaScript Developer
6 1 (2.56%) Full Stack PHP Developer
6 1 (2.56%) HTML CSS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (20.51%) WebSockets
2 6 (15.38%) CSS
2 6 (15.38%) HTML
3 5 (12.82%) Laravel
3 5 (12.82%) Sass
4 3 (7.69%) FastAPI
4 3 (7.69%) RESTful
5 1 (2.56%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (2.56%) Lightning Web Components
5 1 (2.56%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 6 (15.38%) Data Centre
2 5 (12.82%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (7.69%) iPhone
4 2 (5.13%) Operational Technology
5 1 (2.56%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (2.56%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.56%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (2.56%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.56%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 6 (15.38%) Linux
2 5 (12.82%) Unix
3 4 (10.26%) Windows
4 3 (7.69%) Android
4 3 (7.69%) Mac OS X
4 3 (7.69%) Windows 7
5 1 (2.56%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (28.21%) Cybersecurity
2 8 (20.51%) Agile
2 8 (20.51%) Performance Management
3 7 (17.95%) Migration
3 7 (17.95%) Security Architecture
4 6 (15.38%) Analytics
4 6 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (15.38%) Roadmaps
5 5 (12.82%) Business Strategy
5 5 (12.82%) Disaster Recovery
5 5 (12.82%) Full Stack Development
5 5 (12.82%) Information Assurance
5 5 (12.82%) Service Design
5 5 (12.82%) SIAM
5 5 (12.82%) Supplier Management
5 5 (12.82%) Technology Roadmap
5 5 (12.82%) Web Development
6 4 (10.26%) Change Management
6 4 (10.26%) Data Protection
6 4 (10.26%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 5 (12.82%) JavaScript
1 5 (12.82%) PHP
1 5 (12.82%) Python
2 3 (7.69%) SQL
3 1 (2.56%) Bash
3 1 (2.56%) R
Qualifications
1 39 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 27 (69.23%) SC Cleared
3 8 (20.51%) DV Cleared
4 3 (7.69%) Degree
5 1 (2.56%) CISSP
5 1 (2.56%) DBS Check
5 1 (2.56%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (2.56%) PMI Certification
5 1 (2.56%) PMP
5 1 (2.56%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.26%) Accessibility
2 2 (5.13%) GDPR
3 1 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.56%) NIST
3 1 (2.56%) QA
System Software
1 5 (12.82%) Active Directory
2 2 (5.13%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (2.56%) Docker
3 1 (2.56%) iptables
Systems Management
1 5 (12.82%) Microsoft Intune
1 5 (12.82%) SCCM
2 2 (5.13%) WSUS
3 1 (2.56%) Ansible
3 1 (2.56%) Kibana
3 1 (2.56%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.56%) logstash
3 1 (2.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (10.26%) Microsoft
2 3 (7.69%) Apple
2 3 (7.69%) Cisco
2 3 (7.69%) Citrix
2 3 (7.69%) Mitel
2 3 (7.69%) OpenAI
2 3 (7.69%) Progress
3 2 (5.13%) Rapid7
3 2 (5.13%) Sophos
4 1 (2.56%) Atlassian
4 1 (2.56%) Barracuda Networks
4 1 (2.56%) Oracle
4 1 (2.56%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.56%) ServiceNow