CESG Certified Professional Contract Job Trends in Central London

CESG Certified Professional (CCP)
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for CESG Certified Professional qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 28 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 127 121 140
Rank change year-on-year -6 +19 +62
Contract jobs citing CESG Certified Professional 4 9 3
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.20% 0.39% 0.11%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.71% 1.56% 0.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £513 £563 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £700
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -17.86% +17.20%
75th Percentile £538 £588 -
90th Percentile - - -
London median daily rate £583 £525 £700
% change year-on-year +10.95% -25.00% +12.00%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Central London

CESG Certified Professional falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in Central London.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 565 577 552
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 28.00% 25.01% 20.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 421 349 346
10th Percentile £353 £311 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £623 £681
90th Percentile £738 £727 £788
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 4 7
10th Percentile - £24.78 £16.26
25th Percentile £25.47 £28.94 £21.95
Median hourly rate £26.50 £72.25 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -63.32% +20.42% +39.53%
75th Percentile £29.13 £112.00 £69.38
90th Percentile £43.70 - £75.25
London median hourly rate £25.99 £39.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -33.37% -13.33% +4.65%

CESG Certified Professional
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing CESG Certified Professional relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London.

CESG Certified Professional job vacancy trend in Central London

CESG Certified Professional
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing CESG Certified Professional.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing CESG Certified Professional

CESG Certified Professional
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CESG Certified Professional within the Central London region over the 6 months to 28 December 2025. 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
City of London -6 4 £525 -8.70%
CESG Certified Professional
London

CESG Certified Professional
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central 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 (50.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) OCI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (50.00%) Banking
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) CyberArk Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Cybersecurity Specialist
1 2 (50.00%) Information Assurance Specialist
1 2 (50.00%) Information Security Specialist
1 2 (50.00%) Information Specialist
1 2 (50.00%) Security Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Management Information System
1 2 (50.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
1 2 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
1 2 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (50.00%) DevOps
1 2 (50.00%) Impact Assessments
1 2 (50.00%) Incident Response
1 2 (50.00%) Information Assurance
1 2 (50.00%) RBAC
1 2 (50.00%) Risk Management
1 2 (50.00%) SIEM
1 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 2 (50.00%) Threat Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) CISSP
1 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (50.00%) NIST
1 2 (50.00%) NIST 800
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) CyberArk
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle