CESG Contracts in the UK excluding London

Communications-Electronics Security Group (CESG)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term CESG in contract job vacancies in the UK excluding London. 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 331 391 441
Rank change year-on-year +60 +50 +48
Contract jobs citing CESG 5 8 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.039% 0.039% 0.087%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.12% 0.13% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 13
10th Percentile £483 - -
25th Percentile £513 - £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -18.52%
75th Percentile £615 - £650
90th Percentile £632 - £709
UK median daily rate £575 - £550
% change year-on-year - - -1.79%
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
UK median hourly rate - - £75.75

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 4,241 6,126 7,826
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 33.22% 29.49% 32.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,608 3,665 5,276
10th Percentile £210 £210 £213
25th Percentile £363 £378 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £496 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.80% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £598 £618
90th Percentile £665 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 301 723 439
10th Percentile £16.67 £12.15 £9.80
25th Percentile £20.00 £14.06 £10.63
Median hourly rate £31.08 £28.25 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.02% +28.41% +9.64%
75th Percentile £64.52 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £83.20 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £32.05 £30.00 £22.49
% change year-on-year +6.83% +33.42% -18.24%

CESG
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing CESG as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for CESG in the UK excluding London

CESG
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing CESG in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for CESG in the UK excluding London

CESG
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CESG in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CESG in the UK excluding London

CESG
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing CESG in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for CESG in the UK excluding London

CESG
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CESG within the UK excluding London 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
South West +40 2 £475 - 4
South East - 2 £643 - 5
North West - 1 £575 -
North of England - 1 £575 - 1
CESG
UK

CESG
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 2 (40.00%) Firewall
2 1 (20.00%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle Reports
General
1 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Manufacturing
2 1 (20.00%) Military
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Architect
1 2 (40.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Lead
2 1 (20.00%) Lead Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Security Advisor
2 1 (20.00%) Security Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Security Officer
2 1 (20.00%) Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (20.00%) JBoss Seam
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (20.00%) PKI
1 1 (20.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) VMS
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
1 1 (20.00%) Windows 10
1 1 (20.00%) Windows Server
1 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2012
1 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Information Security
2 3 (60.00%) Security Architecture
3 2 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (20.00%) Agile
4 1 (20.00%) Decision-Making
4 1 (20.00%) Deployment Automation
4 1 (20.00%) DevOps
4 1 (20.00%) Information Assurance
4 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Automation
4 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (20.00%) Risk Analysis
4 1 (20.00%) Risk Assessment
4 1 (20.00%) Risk Management
4 1 (20.00%) SABSA
4 1 (20.00%) Scrum
4 1 (20.00%) Security Operations
4 1 (20.00%) Server Building
4 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering
4 1 (20.00%) TOGAF
4 1 (20.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (20.00%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (60.00%) DV Cleared
2 3 (60.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (40.00%) CISSP
4 1 (20.00%) CEH
4 1 (20.00%) CISA
4 1 (20.00%) CISM
4 1 (20.00%) CISMP
4 1 (20.00%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (20.00%) ISACA
4 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (20.00%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (40.00%) JSP 440
2 2 (40.00%) NIST
3 1 (20.00%) COBIT
3 1 (20.00%) GDPR
3 1 (20.00%) Government Security Classifications
3 1 (20.00%) HIPAA
3 1 (20.00%) HMG Security Policy Framework
3 1 (20.00%) NIST 800
3 1 (20.00%) PCI DSS
3 1 (20.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) PowerCLI
1 1 (20.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Darktrace
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle
1 1 (20.00%) VMware