CCTV Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Closed-Circuit Television (CCTV)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term CCTV in permanent job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited CCTV over the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 369 418 484
Rank change year-on-year +49 +66 +172
Permanent jobs citing CCTV 140 148 89
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.33% 0.41% 0.26%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.03% 1.20% 0.75%
Number of salaries quoted 107 71 71
10th Percentile £29,000 £28,500 £24,000
25th Percentile £33,625 £29,750 £27,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £36,000 £40,000 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +14.29% +7.69%
75th Percentile £42,375 £53,125 £47,500
90th Percentile £54,250 £67,500 £72,433
UK median annual salary £37,500 £40,000 £36,800
% change year-on-year -6.25% +8.70% +5.14%

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

CCTV falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 13,649 12,311 11,930
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 32.19% 34.27% 34.57%
Number of salaries quoted 6,315 5,294 8,462
10th Percentile £26,375 £30,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £31,500 £41,250 £37,733
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,790 £82,500 £82,543
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -7.69%

CCTV
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing CCTV relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

CCTV job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

CCTV
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing CCTV.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing CCTV

CCTV
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing CCTV in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for CCTV in the UK excluding London

CCTV
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing CCTV within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 14 January 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East +52 35 £35,000 -46.15% 66
North of England 0 25 £37,500 -1.96% 50
Midlands -7 23 £35,000 -26.32% 34
North West +9 21 £37,500 -1.96% 27
East of England +31 19 £36,000 +12.50% 24
South West +14 19 £50,000 +56.25% 22
Scotland +22 18 £38,000 - 17
East Midlands -1 16 £35,000 -30.00% 20
West Midlands -14 7 £55,000 +37.50% 14
Northern Ireland -13 5 £30,000 +3.45% 2
Yorkshire -8 4 £47,500 -13.64% 17
CCTV
UK

CCTV
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 2 (1.43%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.43%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.71%) AutoCAD
2 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.71%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.71%) Navisworks
2 1 (0.71%) Revit
Business Applications
1 4 (2.86%) C-CURE
2 1 (0.71%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 14 (10.00%) Azure
1 14 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
2 9 (6.43%) Entra ID
3 7 (5.00%) AWS
4 2 (1.43%) Google Workspace
4 2 (1.43%) Mimecast
5 1 (0.71%) ChatGPT
5 1 (0.71%) Google Gemini
5 1 (0.71%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (12.86%) Wi-Fi
2 13 (9.29%) Firewall
3 12 (8.57%) WAN
4 11 (7.86%) LAN
5 7 (5.00%) IP Telephony
6 5 (3.57%) DHCP
6 5 (3.57%) VLAN
6 5 (3.57%) Wireless
7 4 (2.86%) Internet
7 4 (2.86%) VPN
8 3 (2.14%) DNS
8 3 (2.14%) Network Security
9 2 (1.43%) 5G
9 2 (1.43%) 802.11
9 2 (1.43%) Softphone
9 2 (1.43%) Structured Cabling
9 2 (1.43%) TCP/IP
9 2 (1.43%) VoIP
9 2 (1.43%) WLAN
10 1 (0.71%) Wireshark
General
1 45 (32.14%) Telecoms
2 27 (19.29%) Social Skills
3 14 (10.00%) Retail
4 6 (4.29%) Public Sector
5 5 (3.57%) Advertising
5 5 (3.57%) Fire and Rescue
6 4 (2.86%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (2.14%) Games
7 3 (2.14%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.43%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.43%) Electronics
8 2 (1.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.43%) Legal
8 2 (1.43%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.43%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.71%) Law
9 1 (0.71%) Marketing
9 1 (0.71%) Military
Job Titles
1 33 (23.57%) Security Engineer
2 27 (19.29%) Support Engineer
3 19 (13.57%) Technical Support
4 18 (12.86%) Technical Engineer
5 17 (12.14%) Business Development Manager
5 17 (12.14%) Business Manager
5 17 (12.14%) Development Manager
6 16 (11.43%) Field Engineer
6 16 (11.43%) Systems Engineer
6 16 (11.43%) Technical Support Engineer
7 14 (10.00%) Field Service Engineer
8 12 (8.57%) IT Support
9 11 (7.86%) IT Engineer
9 11 (7.86%) IT Support Engineer
10 10 (7.14%) CCTV Engineer
11 8 (5.71%) Systems Support Engineer
12 7 (5.00%) Security Support Engineer
13 5 (3.57%) Commissioning Engineer
13 5 (3.57%) Remote Support Engineer
13 5 (3.57%) Systems Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.14%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 50 (35.71%) Driving Licence
2 8 (5.71%) Home Automation
3 6 (4.29%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (2.86%) Video Conferencing
5 3 (2.14%) Data Centre
5 3 (2.14%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.14%) Virtual Team
6 2 (1.43%) BYOD
6 2 (1.43%) Digital Signage
6 2 (1.43%) e-Learning
6 2 (1.43%) EPoS
6 2 (1.43%) Fibre Optics
6 2 (1.43%) IoT
6 2 (1.43%) Operational Technology
6 2 (1.43%) SCADA
7 1 (0.71%) Derivative
7 1 (0.71%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.71%) Online Games
7 1 (0.71%) PDA
7 1 (0.71%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 23 (16.43%) Windows
2 13 (9.29%) Windows Server
3 8 (5.71%) Linux
4 2 (1.43%) Apple iOS
4 2 (1.43%) VMS
4 2 (1.43%) Windows 10
4 2 (1.43%) Windows Server 2012
4 2 (1.43%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.71%) Debian
5 1 (0.71%) OpenWrt
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (20.71%) Problem-Solving
2 25 (17.86%) Customer Service
3 21 (15.00%) Business Development
4 13 (9.29%) Preventative Maintenance
4 13 (9.29%) Service Delivery
5 11 (7.86%) Cybersecurity
6 8 (5.71%) ITIL
7 7 (5.00%) ITSM
8 6 (4.29%) Mentoring
8 6 (4.29%) Project Delivery
9 5 (3.57%) Root Cause Analysis
10 4 (2.86%) B2B
10 4 (2.86%) Decision-Making
10 4 (2.86%) Network Design
10 4 (2.86%) Project Management
10 4 (2.86%) Software Testing
11 3 (2.14%) AI
11 3 (2.14%) Disaster Recovery
11 3 (2.14%) Logistics
11 3 (2.14%) Quality Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (1.43%) C
1 2 (1.43%) C#
1 2 (1.43%) C++
1 2 (1.43%) Ladder Logic
1 2 (1.43%) SQL
1 2 (1.43%) VB
1 2 (1.43%) VBA
2 1 (0.71%) PHP
Qualifications
1 13 (9.29%) Cisco Certification
2 12 (8.57%) CCNA
3 10 (7.14%) Degree
4 8 (5.71%) CCNP
4 8 (5.71%) NVQ Level 4
5 7 (5.00%) MCP
5 7 (5.00%) MCSA
5 7 (5.00%) MCSE
5 7 (5.00%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (2.86%) HND
7 3 (2.14%) City & Guilds
8 2 (1.43%) HNC
8 2 (1.43%) SC Cleared
8 2 (1.43%) Security Cleared
9 1 (0.71%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 7 (5.00%) GDPR
2 5 (3.57%) QA
3 3 (2.14%) SLA
4 2 (1.43%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.71%) ISO 14001
5 1 (0.71%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 9 (6.43%) Hyper-V
2 6 (4.29%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.43%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (1.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.43%) vSphere
4 1 (0.71%) iptables
Systems Management
1 9 (6.43%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (1.43%) vCenter Server
3 1 (0.71%) Ansible
Vendors
1 15 (10.71%) Microsoft
2 9 (6.43%) VMware
3 7 (5.00%) Draytek
3 7 (5.00%) Mitel
3 7 (5.00%) WatchGuard
4 5 (3.57%) Cisco
5 4 (2.86%) Meraki
6 3 (2.14%) Fortinet
6 3 (2.14%) SolarWinds
7 2 (1.43%) Dell
7 2 (1.43%) Google
7 2 (1.43%) HP
7 2 (1.43%) Ruckus Wireless
7 2 (1.43%) Siemens
8 1 (0.71%) MikroTik
8 1 (0.71%) NetApp
8 1 (0.71%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.71%) Splunk
8 1 (0.71%) Ubiquiti