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 24 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 538 500 560
Rank change year-on-year -38 +60 +165
Contract jobs citing CESG 1 13 4
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.003% 0.045% 0.011%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.009% 0.14% 0.034%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 3 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £575 £700
Median % change year-on-year - -17.86% +7.69%
UK median daily rate - £575 £700
% change year-on-year - -17.86% +7.69%

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 11,230 9,348 11,643
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.54% 32.47% 31.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,083 5,656 7,867
10th Percentile £282 £281 £263
25th Percentile £408 £413 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.37% - -3.51%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £775
UK median daily rate £505 £533 £550
% change year-on-year -5.25% -3.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 562 276 464
10th Percentile £14.25 £17.08 £16.56
25th Percentile £18.25 £23.60 £20.51
Median hourly rate £27.86 £37.25 £43.63
Median % change year-on-year -25.22% -14.61% +24.45%
75th Percentile £61.55 £67.27 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £82.25 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £27.00 £33.54 £42.50
% change year-on-year -19.50% -21.08% +21.43%

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

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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
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 (100.00%) BGP
1 1 (100.00%) BIG-IP
1 1 (100.00%) Ethernet VPN
1 1 (100.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) IPsec
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) MPLS
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
1 1 (100.00%) OSPF
1 1 (100.00%) Reverse Proxy
1 1 (100.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (100.00%) VXLAN
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Algorithms
1 1 (100.00%) PKI
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Boundary Protection
1 1 (100.00%) Network Segmentation
1 1 (100.00%) NsoIT
1 1 (100.00%) SABSA
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) TOGAF
1 1 (100.00%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CCDP
1 1 (100.00%) CCIE
1 1 (100.00%) CCIE Security
1 1 (100.00%) CESG Certified Professional
1 1 (100.00%) CHECK Team Leader
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (100.00%) CREST Certified
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) JSP 440
1 1 (100.00%) NCSC
1 1 (100.00%) RMADS
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) F5
1 1 (100.00%) Fortinet
1 1 (100.00%) Juniper
1 1 (100.00%) Netskope
1 1 (100.00%) Palo Alto
1 1 (100.00%) Zscaler