CCTV Engineer Contract Job Trends in Watford

CCTV Engineer
Hertfordshire > Watford

The median CCTV Engineer daily rate in Watford is £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 11 September 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a CCTV Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Watford 2.17% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 2.22% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £463 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - -
75th Percentile £488 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Hertfordshire median daily rate £475 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Watford

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Watford. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Watford with a recognized job title 45 80 113
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 97.83% 91.95% 96.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 54 79
10th Percentile £263 £254 £165
25th Percentile £425 £308 £231
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £375 £475
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -21.05% +15.15%
75th Percentile £575 £529 £675
90th Percentile - £696 £738
Hertfordshire median daily rate £525 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +16.67% -10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 6 5
10th Percentile £17.53 £13.28 £16.35
25th Percentile £23.96 £13.69 £16.50
Median hourly rate £29.51 £14.31 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +106.18% -34.94% -37.14%
75th Percentile £33.82 £14.94 £23.00
90th Percentile £34.44 £16.88 £24.91
Hertfordshire median hourly rate £48.29 £50.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -3.42% -23.08% +16.07%

CCTV Engineer Skill Set
Top 23 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Watford

For the 6 months to 11 September 2025, CCTV Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Watford region featuring CCTV Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) VMS
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) VMware
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (100.00%) CCTV
1 1 (100.00%) VLAN
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (100.00%) Waterfall
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Environments
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (100.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 1 (100.00%) End-to-End Testing

CCTV Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Watford 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) VLAN
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) CCTV
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 1 (100.00%) End-to-End Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Environments
1 1 (100.00%) Waterfall
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) VMware