Chartered IT Professional (CITP)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for CITP qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 19 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 728 647 861
Rank change year-on-year -81 +214 -732
Permanent jobs citing CITP 16 7 9
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.017% 0.016% 0.009%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.076% 0.040% 0.035%
Number of salaries quoted 16 7 9
10th Percentile £43,497 £54,321 -
25th Percentile £61,000 £58,265 £60,639
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,250 £65,000 £65,400
Median % change year-on-year -4.23% -0.61% +289.29%
75th Percentile £83,640 £67,875 £72,888
90th Percentile - £69,206 £77,235
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,000 £65,000 £64,433
% change year-on-year -4.62% +0.88% +283.53%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 21,089 17,649 25,996
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 22.91% 40.05% 26.74%
Number of salaries quoted 9,124 7,610 17,176
10th Percentile £29,750 £30,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £42,000 £41,000 £38,354
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +1.85% -9.28%
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,750 £71,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £91,250 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,000 £51,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.85% +3.00% -3.85%

CITP
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing CITP relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

CITP job vacancy trend in the UK

CITP
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing CITP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing CITP

CITP
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing CITP over the 6 months to 19 May 2026.

Salary histogram for CITP in the UK

CITP
Top 6 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing CITP within the UK over the 6 months to 19 May 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
England -63 16 £62,250 -4.23% 1
West Midlands -12 10 £62,000 -5.34% 1
Midlands -23 10 £62,000 -5.34% 1
UK excluding London -62 10 £62,000 -4.62% 1
Work from Home +33 7 £62,000 +3.33% 1
London - 2 £79,500 -

CITP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 4 (25.00%) Confluence
1 4 (25.00%) Documentum
Cloud Services
1 13 (81.25%) AWS
2 12 (75.00%) Azure
3 4 (25.00%) Cloud Computing
3 4 (25.00%) PaaS
3 4 (25.00%) SaaS
4 3 (18.75%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (43.75%) Data Lake
1 7 (43.75%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (18.75%) Amazon Redshift
2 3 (18.75%) Power BI
3 1 (6.25%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 7 (43.75%) JIRA
General
1 11 (68.75%) Social Skills
2 10 (62.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 9 (56.25%) Public Sector
4 7 (43.75%) Finance
5 2 (12.50%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (62.50%) Lead
2 6 (37.50%) Architect
3 4 (25.00%) Lead Architect
3 4 (25.00%) Technical Architect
3 4 (25.00%) Technical Leader
4 3 (18.75%) Analyst
4 3 (18.75%) Business Intelligence Analyst
4 3 (18.75%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
4 3 (18.75%) Data Analyst
4 3 (18.75%) Data Engineer
4 3 (18.75%) Data Integration Engineer
4 3 (18.75%) Integration Engineer
4 3 (18.75%) Lead Data Engineer
4 3 (18.75%) Platform Engineer
4 3 (18.75%) Power BI Analyst
5 2 (12.50%) Enterprise Architect
5 2 (12.50%) Principal Enterprise Architect
5 2 (12.50%) Senior
5 2 (12.50%) Senior Analyst
5 2 (12.50%) Senior Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (43.75%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 10 (62.50%) Management Information System
2 4 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 4 (25.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (87.50%) Agile
2 11 (68.75%) TOGAF
3 10 (62.50%) CRM
3 10 (62.50%) Data Governance
3 10 (62.50%) Data Management
3 10 (62.50%) Data Strategy
4 8 (50.00%) Data Architecture
5 7 (43.75%) Agile Project Management
5 7 (43.75%) Analytics
5 7 (43.75%) Computer Science
5 7 (43.75%) Data Integration
5 7 (43.75%) Data Pipeline
5 7 (43.75%) Data Security
5 7 (43.75%) Data Transformation
5 7 (43.75%) Decision-Making
5 7 (43.75%) DevOps
5 7 (43.75%) ETL
5 7 (43.75%) PRINCE2
5 7 (43.75%) Project Management
5 7 (43.75%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 3 (18.75%) SQL
2 1 (6.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 5 (31.25%) Degree
2 4 (25.00%) AWS Certification
2 4 (25.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 3 (18.75%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (18.75%) SC Cleared
3 3 (18.75%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 7 (43.75%) Planon
1 7 (43.75%) Salesforce
2 4 (25.00%) OpenText
2 4 (25.00%) Pega
2 4 (25.00%) ServiceNow
2 4 (25.00%) YouTube
3 3 (18.75%) Microsoft