CESG Contract Job Trends 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 18 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 515 517 585
Rank change year-on-year +2 +68 +144
Contract jobs citing CESG 2 12 9
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.007% 0.038% 0.022%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.019% 0.12% 0.067%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 3 6
10th Percentile - £483 £481
25th Percentile - £513 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £575 £563
Median % change year-on-year - +2.22% -13.46%
75th Percentile - £631 £672
90th Percentile - £658 £738
UK median daily rate - £575 £575
% change year-on-year - - -11.54%

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 10,324 9,970 13,379
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 36.54% 31.23% 32.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,451 5,991 9,250
10th Percentile £300 £294 £300
25th Percentile £410 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.67% -0.91% -2.22%
75th Percentile £644 £675 £675
90th Percentile £756 £815 £788
UK median daily rate £515 £531 £550
% change year-on-year -2.92% -3.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 555 345 442
10th Percentile £14.52 £17.25 £17.22
25th Percentile £18.50 £25.75 £22.00
Median hourly rate £28.13 £53.50 £45.88
Median % change year-on-year -47.43% +16.61% +77.11%
75th Percentile £53.75 £70.00 £66.14
90th Percentile £73.45 £75.16 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £27.00 £47.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -43.16% +5.56% +73.08%

CESG
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing CESG relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

CESG job vacancy trend in England

CESG
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing CESG.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing CESG

CESG
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing CESG.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing CESG

CESG
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 18 October 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 +9 2 - -
CESG
UK

CESG
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) Intrusion Detection
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Security Advisor
1 1 (50.00%) Security Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (50.00%) JBoss Seam
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 2 (100.00%) Information Security
1 2 (100.00%) Risk Assessment
1 2 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 2 (100.00%) Security Architecture
1 2 (100.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Information Assurance
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) NCSC
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Darktrace