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 27 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 614 477 542
Rank change year-on-year -137 +65 +66
Contract jobs citing CESG 5 5 7
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.012% 0.020% 0.019%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.035% 0.057% 0.061%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 3 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £575 -
UK median daily rate - £575 -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £24.46 - -
UK median hourly rate £24.46 - -

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 14,285 8,780 11,407
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.86% 34.75% 30.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,900 5,626 7,328
10th Percentile £313 £305 £280
25th Percentile £415 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -2.22%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £816
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -0.95% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 778 413 843
10th Percentile £16.01 £15.84 £12.24
25th Percentile £21.14 £19.00 £15.39
Median hourly rate £43.96 £33.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +33.21% -12.00% +61.99%
75th Percentile £70.00 £60.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £87.16 £81.01 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.10 £31.04 £36.50
% change year-on-year +38.86% -14.96% +62.22%

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 27 June 2026. 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 -62 1 - - 1
London - 1 - -
East Midlands - 1 - -
Midlands - 1 - -
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:

Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) OCI
1 1 (20.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) Network Security
2 2 (40.00%) BGP
2 2 (40.00%) Firewall
2 2 (40.00%) MPLS
2 2 (40.00%) OSPF
3 1 (20.00%) BIG-IP
3 1 (20.00%) DHCP
3 1 (20.00%) DNS
3 1 (20.00%) Ethernet VPN
3 1 (20.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 1 (20.00%) IPsec
3 1 (20.00%) LAN
3 1 (20.00%) Reverse Proxy
3 1 (20.00%) SD-WAN
3 1 (20.00%) SSL
3 1 (20.00%) TCP/IP
3 1 (20.00%) VPN
3 1 (20.00%) VXLAN
3 1 (20.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle Reports
General
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Legal
2 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Information Assurance Officer
1 1 (20.00%) Information Officer
1 1 (20.00%) Lead
1 1 (20.00%) Risk Officer
1 1 (20.00%) Security Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Senior
1 1 (20.00%) Senior Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (20.00%) Algorithms
2 1 (20.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (20.00%) Driving Licence
2 1 (20.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (20.00%) Operational Technology
2 1 (20.00%) PKI
2 1 (20.00%) Private Cloud
2 1 (20.00%) Public Cloud
2 1 (20.00%) Security Operations Centre
2 1 (20.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (40.00%) Data Protection
2 2 (40.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (40.00%) Impact Assessments
2 2 (40.00%) Incident Response
2 2 (40.00%) Information Security
2 2 (40.00%) Network Segmentation
2 2 (40.00%) Penetration Testing
2 2 (40.00%) Security Architecture
2 2 (40.00%) SIEM
2 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 2 (40.00%) Use Case
2 2 (40.00%) Zero Trust
3 1 (20.00%) Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) Cloud Security
3 1 (20.00%) Design Patterns
3 1 (20.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (20.00%) Security Monitoring
3 1 (20.00%) Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) CESG Certified Professional
1 4 (80.00%) CISSP
2 3 (60.00%) DV Cleared
2 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (40.00%) CCIE
3 2 (40.00%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (40.00%) CISM
3 2 (40.00%) Degree
3 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
4 1 (20.00%) CCDP
4 1 (20.00%) CCIE Security
4 1 (20.00%) CCNP
4 1 (20.00%) CHECK Team Leader
4 1 (20.00%) CISMP
4 1 (20.00%) CREST Certified
4 1 (20.00%) CSSLP
4 1 (20.00%) GIAC
4 1 (20.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) NCSC
2 2 (40.00%) RMADS
3 1 (20.00%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (20.00%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (20.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (20.00%) GDPR
3 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (20.00%) JSP 440
3 1 (20.00%) NIST
3 1 (20.00%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Cisco
1 2 (40.00%) Fortinet
1 2 (40.00%) Juniper
1 2 (40.00%) Palo Alto
2 1 (20.00%) Arista
2 1 (20.00%) CheckPoint
2 1 (20.00%) F5
2 1 (20.00%) Netskope
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle
2 1 (20.00%) Zscaler