CESG Contracts in the South West

Communications-Electronics Security Group (CESG)
England > South West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term CESG in contract job vacancies in the South West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited CESG over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 109 149 159
Rank change year-on-year +40 +10 +13
Contract jobs citing CESG 2 8 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.12% 0.25% 0.22%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.41% 0.76% 0.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £679
25th Percentile £463 - £686
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - £709
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.52%
75th Percentile £488 - £723
90th Percentile - - £724
England median daily rate £575 - £575
% change year-on-year - - -0.86%
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
England median hourly rate - - £75.75

All Generic Skills
South West

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 the South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 489 1,056 1,016
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 29.14% 33.01% 28.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 321 647 702
10th Percentile £263 £300 £263
25th Percentile £400 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.83% -0.91% +10.11%
75th Percentile £613 £600 £656
90th Percentile £676 £694 £725
England median daily rate £548 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -0.36% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 166 138
10th Percentile £18.51 £13.69 -
25th Percentile £18.87 £15.65 -
Median hourly rate £50.00 £45.00 £9.80
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +359.18% -80.30%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £83.34
England median hourly rate £33.00 £30.16 £22.50
% change year-on-year +9.42% +34.04% -16.67%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing CESG as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for CESG in the South West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing CESG in the South West.

Daily rate trend for CESG in the South West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing CESG in the South West.

Hourly rate trend for CESG in the South West

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Contract Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CESG within the South West region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Bristol +12 1 - - 4
Dorset - 1 £475 -
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 1 (50.00%) Firewall
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Manufacturing
2 1 (50.00%) Military
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Lead Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Server Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) PKI
1 1 (50.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) VMS
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows 10
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2012
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (50.00%) Information Assurance
1 1 (50.00%) Information Security
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Scrum
1 1 (50.00%) Security Architecture
1 1 (50.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (50.00%) Server Building
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) CEH
2 1 (50.00%) CISA
2 1 (50.00%) CISM
2 1 (50.00%) CISMP
2 1 (50.00%) CISSP
2 1 (50.00%) CompTIA Security+
2 1 (50.00%) DV Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) ISACA
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (50.00%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) GDPR
1 1 (50.00%) Government Security Classifications
1 1 (50.00%) HIPAA
1 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (50.00%) JSP 440
1 1 (50.00%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) PowerCLI
1 1 (50.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) VMware