CESG Contracts in England

Communications-Electronics Security Group (CESG)
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term CESG in contract job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited CESG over the 6 months leading up to 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 487 538 635
Rank change year-on-year +51 +97 +96
Contract jobs citing CESG 5 7 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.019% 0.019% 0.031%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.054% 0.061% 0.094%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 8
10th Percentile £483 - £489
25th Percentile £513 - £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - £563
Median % change year-on-year - - -13.13%
75th Percentile £615 - £639
90th Percentile £632 - £735
UK median daily rate £575 - £550
% change year-on-year - - -15.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £72.50
Median hourly rate - - £75.75
75th Percentile - - £81.69
90th Percentile - - £85.18
UK median hourly rate - - £75.75

All Generic Skills
England

CESG falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 9,205 11,434 15,933
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.71% 30.68% 33.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,870 7,362 11,121
10th Percentile £305 £281 £313
25th Percentile £408 £415 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% +2.27%
75th Percentile £660 £675 £695
90th Percentile £788 £825 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 442 826 516
10th Percentile £15.48 £12.25 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.87 £15.40 £11.87
Median hourly rate £32.72 £37.50 £25.58
Median % change year-on-year -12.74% +46.60% -3.47%
75th Percentile £59.23 £63.75 £63.94
90th Percentile £80.00 £72.50 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £36.50 £23.90
% change year-on-year -17.81% +52.75% -11.43%

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Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for CESG in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for CESG in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CESG in England over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CESG in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for CESG 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 CESG within the England region over the 6 months to 5 July 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
South East - 3 £643 - 2
South West +30 1 £475 -
North of England - 1 £575 - 1
North West - 1 £575 -
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UK

CESG
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:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) Firewall
2 1 (20.00%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle Reports
General
1 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (20.00%) Military
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Architect
1 2 (40.00%) Security Architect
1 2 (40.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Security Advisor
2 1 (20.00%) Security Officer
2 1 (20.00%) Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (20.00%) JBoss Seam
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (20.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) VMS
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
1 1 (20.00%) Windows 10
1 1 (20.00%) Windows Server
1 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2012
1 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Information Security
2 3 (60.00%) Security Architecture
3 2 (40.00%) Decision-Making
3 2 (40.00%) Risk Assessment
3 2 (40.00%) Risk Management
3 2 (40.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
4 1 (20.00%) Agile
4 1 (20.00%) Cloud Security
4 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (20.00%) Deployment Automation
4 1 (20.00%) DevOps
4 1 (20.00%) Information Assurance
4 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Automation
4 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (20.00%) Risk Analysis
4 1 (20.00%) SABSA
4 1 (20.00%) Scrum
4 1 (20.00%) Server Building
4 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering
4 1 (20.00%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (20.00%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (80.00%) DV Cleared
3 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
4 1 (20.00%) CISSP
4 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (40.00%) JSP 440
2 1 (20.00%) COBIT
2 1 (20.00%) HMG Security Policy Framework
2 1 (20.00%) NCSC
2 1 (20.00%) NIST
2 1 (20.00%) NIST 800
2 1 (20.00%) PCI DSS
2 1 (20.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) PowerCLI
1 1 (20.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Darktrace
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle
1 1 (20.00%) VMware