CESG Certified Professional Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

CESG Certified Professional (CCP)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 22 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 170 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing CESG Certified Professional 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.051% - -
As % of the Qualifications category 0.15% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £463 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - -
75th Percentile £488 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £600 £525 £667
% change year-on-year +14.29% -21.29% +6.72%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 1,316 570 881
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 33.58% 30.00% 31.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 897 372 554
10th Percentile £306 £168 £200
25th Percentile £403 £326 £319
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £482 £477 £450
Median % change year-on-year +1.05% +6.00% -12.71%
75th Percentile £562 £600 £567
90th Percentile £650 £700 £663
England median daily rate £520 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -0.95% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 28 70
10th Percentile £15.67 £17.26 £13.95
25th Percentile £17.87 £18.51 £17.71
Median hourly rate £22.50 £24.18 £24.33
Median % change year-on-year -6.95% -0.60% +29.73%
75th Percentile £25.15 £33.75 £39.92
90th Percentile £30.23 £38.67 £58.75
England median hourly rate £29.61 £50.00 £38.75
% change year-on-year -40.78% +29.03% -22.50%

CESG Certified Professional
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

CESG Certified Professional job vacancy trend in the Midlands

CESG Certified Professional
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing CESG Certified Professional.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing CESG Certified Professional

CESG Certified Professional
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 22 March 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
East Midlands - 2 £475 -
CESG Certified Professional
England

CESG Certified Professional
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Security Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Senior
1 2 (100.00%) Senior Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Operational Technology
2 1 (50.00%) CESG
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Validation
2 1 (50.00%) Risk Assessment
2 1 (50.00%) Security Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Security Management
2 1 (50.00%) Security Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (50.00%) Threat Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Verification and Validation
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) CISSP
1 2 (100.00%) CSSLP
2 1 (50.00%) Degree