CTC Cleared Contracts in England

Counter-Terrorist Check (CTC) Clearance
UK > England

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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 513 583 727
Rank change year-on-year +70 +144 -130
Contract jobs citing CTC Cleared 29 56 67
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.079% 0.12% 0.095%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.26% 0.43% 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 43 45
10th Percentile £279 £300 £213
25th Percentile £441 £384 £260
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £550 £430
Median % change year-on-year -10.20% +27.91% -14.00%
75th Percentile £588 £646 £575
90th Percentile £626 £676 £617
UK median daily rate £494 £544 £434
% change year-on-year -9.17% +25.36% -10.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £65.03
25th Percentile - - £65.08
Median hourly rate - - £65.15
75th Percentile - - £65.23
90th Percentile - - £65.27
UK median hourly rate £12.50 - £65.15
% change year-on-year - - +15.31%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
England

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 advertised in England with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 11,283 13,151 15,488
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 30.55% 27.54% 21.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,990 8,833 10,320
10th Percentile £313 £349 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £638
90th Percentile £745 £745 £725
UK median daily rate £530 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -3.64% +4.76% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,005 654 675
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.25 £13.41
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.24 £19.06
Median hourly rate £40.00 £55.00 £39.50
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +39.24% +8.22%
75th Percentile £63.75 £68.75 £56.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £80.18 £67.80
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £55.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -27.27% +23.60% +28.84%

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Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for CTC Cleared in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for CTC Cleared in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CTC Cleared in England over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for CTC Cleared in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for CTC Cleared in England

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Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 2 June 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
London +87 24 £494 -1.22% 1
South East - 4 £613 - 2
Midlands +25 1 - - 1
West Midlands +15 1 - - 1
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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 5 (17.24%) SharePoint
2 2 (6.90%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (6.90%) Skype for Business
3 1 (3.45%) Confluence
3 1 (3.45%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (6.90%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 7 (24.14%) AWS
2 5 (17.24%) Azure
2 5 (17.24%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (17.24%) SaaS
3 2 (6.90%) Entra ID
3 2 (6.90%) OneDrive
4 1 (3.45%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (3.45%) Amazon S3
4 1 (3.45%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
4 1 (3.45%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (3.45%) Serverless
4 1 (3.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.90%) Cisco IOS
1 2 (6.90%) DHCP
1 2 (6.90%) DNS
1 2 (6.90%) Skype
1 2 (6.90%) TCP/IP
2 1 (3.45%) Firewall
2 1 (3.45%) Network Security
2 1 (3.45%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.34%) NoSQL
2 1 (3.45%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (3.45%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 2 (6.90%) JIRA
2 1 (3.45%) Git
2 1 (3.45%) GitLab
General
1 13 (44.83%) Public Sector
2 6 (20.69%) Police
3 3 (10.34%) Military
4 2 (6.90%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.45%) Finance
5 1 (3.45%) Fire and Rescue
5 1 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 5 (17.24%) Development Manager
2 4 (13.79%) Developer
3 3 (10.34%) Information Governance Officer
3 3 (10.34%) Information Officer
3 3 (10.34%) Software Developer
4 2 (6.90%) Architect
4 2 (6.90%) IT Support
4 2 (6.90%) Lead
4 2 (6.90%) Operations Engineer
4 2 (6.90%) Security Engineer
4 2 (6.90%) Support Officer
5 1 (3.45%) Applications Support
5 1 (3.45%) Applications Support Engineer
5 1 (3.45%) Delivery Manager
5 1 (3.45%) Incident Manager
5 1 (3.45%) IT Architect
5 1 (3.45%) Security Analyst
5 1 (3.45%) Security Architect
5 1 (3.45%) Security Manager
5 1 (3.45%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (13.79%) WebSockets
2 3 (10.34%) FastAPI
2 3 (10.34%) RESTful
3 1 (3.45%) CSS
3 1 (3.45%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (3.45%) HTML
3 1 (3.45%) Laravel
3 1 (3.45%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (3.45%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 6 (20.69%) Data Centre
2 5 (17.24%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (6.90%) iPhone
3 2 (6.90%) Operational Technology
4 1 (3.45%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (3.45%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (3.45%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (3.45%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.45%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.45%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 3 (10.34%) Linux
1 3 (10.34%) Windows
2 2 (6.90%) Android
2 2 (6.90%) Mac OS X
2 2 (6.90%) Windows 7
3 1 (3.45%) Ubuntu
3 1 (3.45%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (34.48%) Cybersecurity
2 8 (27.59%) Performance Management
3 7 (24.14%) Agile
3 7 (24.14%) Migration
3 7 (24.14%) Security Architecture
4 6 (20.69%) Analytics
4 6 (20.69%) Roadmaps
5 5 (17.24%) Business Strategy
5 5 (17.24%) Data Protection
5 5 (17.24%) Disaster Recovery
5 5 (17.24%) Information Assurance
5 5 (17.24%) Service Design
5 5 (17.24%) SIAM
5 5 (17.24%) Supplier Management
5 5 (17.24%) Technology Roadmap
6 4 (13.79%) Information Management
6 4 (13.79%) Information Security
6 4 (13.79%) Security Operations
6 4 (13.79%) SIEM
6 4 (13.79%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 5 (17.24%) Python
2 3 (10.34%) SQL
3 1 (3.45%) Bash
3 1 (3.45%) JavaScript
3 1 (3.45%) PHP
3 1 (3.45%) R
Qualifications
1 29 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 18 (62.07%) SC Cleared
3 10 (34.48%) DV Cleared
4 3 (10.34%) Degree
5 1 (3.45%) CISSP
5 1 (3.45%) DBS Check
5 1 (3.45%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (3.45%) PMI Certification
5 1 (3.45%) PMP
5 1 (3.45%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.34%) GDPR
2 1 (3.45%) NIST
2 1 (3.45%) QA
System Software
1 4 (13.79%) Active Directory
2 2 (6.90%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (3.45%) Docker
3 1 (3.45%) Firmware
3 1 (3.45%) iptables
Systems Management
1 4 (13.79%) Microsoft Intune
1 4 (13.79%) SCCM
2 2 (6.90%) WSUS
3 1 (3.45%) Ansible
3 1 (3.45%) Kibana
3 1 (3.45%) Kubernetes
3 1 (3.45%) logstash
3 1 (3.45%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (13.79%) Microsoft
2 3 (10.34%) OpenAI
3 2 (6.90%) Apple
3 2 (6.90%) Cisco
3 2 (6.90%) Citrix
3 2 (6.90%) Mitel
3 2 (6.90%) Progress
3 2 (6.90%) Rapid7
3 2 (6.90%) Sophos
4 1 (3.45%) Atlassian
4 1 (3.45%) Oracle
4 1 (3.45%) ServiceNow