CESG Certified Professional Contract Job Trends

CESG Certified Professional (CCP)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 20 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 635 529 546
Rank change year-on-year -106 +17 +43
Contract jobs citing CESG Certified Professional 32 23 19
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.060% 0.070% 0.049%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.19% 0.22% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 21 18
10th Percentile £513 £550 £450
25th Percentile £600 £550 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £688 £625 £625
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -
75th Percentile £888 £688 £675
90th Percentile £950 £738 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £675 £675 £650
% change year-on-year - +3.85% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £61.50 - -
25th Percentile £76.86 - -
Median hourly rate £85.40 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £85.40 - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

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.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 16,752 10,297 11,620
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 31.31% 31.36% 29.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,227 6,345 7,361
10th Percentile £350 £288 £313
25th Percentile £433 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £523 £528
Median % change year-on-year +0.48% -1.04% -4.00%
75th Percentile £625 £619 £638
90th Percentile £716 £700 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £515 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +3.00% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,249 827 815
10th Percentile £17.70 £17.97 £14.65
25th Percentile £25.77 £19.38 £21.25
Median hourly rate £50.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +98.81% -41.51% -21.82%
75th Percentile £72.54 £53.81 £65.50
90th Percentile £87.32 £73.75 £76.69
UK excluding London median hourly rate £48.77 £25.15 £47.50
% change year-on-year +93.90% -47.05% -6.40%

CESG Certified Professional
Job Vacancy Trend

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

CESG Certified Professional job vacancy trend in the UK

CESG Certified Professional
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

CESG Certified Professional
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CESG Certified Professional over the 6 months to 20 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for CESG Certified Professional in the UK

CESG Certified Professional
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing CESG Certified Professional.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing CESG Certified Professional

CESG Certified Professional
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing CESG Certified Professional over the 6 months to 20 August 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for CESG Certified Professional in the UK

CESG Certified Professional
Top 9 Contract Job Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 20 August 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
England -119 30 £681 +6.86% 13
UK excluding London -107 22 £675 - 12
South East - 18 £610 - 5
Work from Home -61 9 £568 -15.93% 6
London -73 8 £781 +42.05% 4
North West -34 3 £900 -
North of England -54 3 £900 -
Midlands - 1 - -
West Midlands - 1 - -

CESG Certified Professional
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 2 (6.25%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 10 (31.25%) Azure
2 9 (28.13%) Entra ID
2 9 (28.13%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (15.63%) IaaS
3 5 (15.63%) PaaS
4 4 (12.50%) SaaS
5 2 (6.25%) OCI
6 1 (3.13%) AWS
6 1 (3.13%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.25%) Firewall
1 2 (6.25%) Network Security
2 1 (3.13%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.13%) Metadata
1 1 (3.13%) Oracle Reports
General
1 8 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
1 8 (25.00%) Presentation Skills
1 8 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (15.63%) Public Sector
3 3 (9.38%) Finance
4 1 (3.13%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.13%) Banking
4 1 (3.13%) Investment Banking
4 1 (3.13%) Military
4 1 (3.13%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (21.88%) Security Specialist
2 6 (18.75%) Cybersecurity Specialist
2 6 (18.75%) Lead
3 5 (15.63%) Coordinator
3 5 (15.63%) Security Assurance Coordinator
4 3 (9.38%) Head of Cybersecurity
4 3 (9.38%) Head of Security
4 3 (9.38%) Principal Engineer
4 3 (9.38%) Principal Security Engineer
4 3 (9.38%) Security Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Architect
5 2 (6.25%) Chief Information Security Officer
5 2 (6.25%) Security Architect
6 1 (3.13%) Citrix Engineer
6 1 (3.13%) Information Security Specialist
6 1 (3.13%) Information Specialist
6 1 (3.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (3.13%) Infrastructure Specialist
6 1 (3.13%) Senior Citrix Engineer
6 1 (3.13%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (31.25%) ModSecurity
2 2 (6.25%) REST
3 1 (3.13%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 6 (18.75%) Operational Technology
1 6 (18.75%) SCADA
2 5 (15.63%) Management Information System
3 4 (12.50%) Cyber Defence
3 4 (12.50%) Security Posture
4 3 (9.38%) Onboarding
5 2 (6.25%) CESG
5 2 (6.25%) PKI
5 2 (6.25%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 8 (25.00%) Linux
1 8 (25.00%) Windows
2 6 (18.75%) Unix
3 1 (3.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (3.13%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (53.13%) Risk Management
2 16 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
3 11 (34.38%) Security Architecture
3 11 (34.38%) Vulnerability Management
4 10 (31.25%) SIEM
5 9 (28.13%) RBAC
5 9 (28.13%) Risk Assessment
6 8 (25.00%) Risk Register
6 8 (25.00%) SABSA
7 7 (21.88%) Information Security
8 6 (18.75%) Change Control
8 6 (18.75%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
8 6 (18.75%) Incident Management
8 6 (18.75%) Internal Audit
8 6 (18.75%) ITSM
8 6 (18.75%) Remediation Plan
8 6 (18.75%) Threat Intelligence
9 5 (15.63%) CI/CD
9 5 (15.63%) Privileged Access Management
9 5 (15.63%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 1 (3.13%) Bash
1 1 (3.13%) PowerShell
1 1 (3.13%) Python
Qualifications
1 25 (78.13%) CISSP
2 19 (59.38%) Security Cleared
3 13 (40.63%) CISM
4 10 (31.25%) Degree
4 10 (31.25%) DV Cleared
4 10 (31.25%) SC Cleared
5 8 (25.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 8 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
6 6 (18.75%) CRISC
6 6 (18.75%) GIAC
7 5 (15.63%) SANS
8 4 (12.50%) GSEC
8 4 (12.50%) SSCP
9 2 (6.25%) CCA
9 2 (6.25%) CEH
9 2 (6.25%) Citrix Certification
10 1 (3.13%) AWS Certification
10 1 (3.13%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (3.13%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
10 1 (3.13%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (40.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 11 (34.38%) NCSC
3 10 (31.25%) Cyber Essentials
4 9 (28.13%) NIST
5 5 (15.63%) ISO 31000
6 2 (6.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (6.25%) GDPR
6 2 (6.25%) JSP 440
6 2 (6.25%) PCI DSS
7 1 (3.13%) GRC
System Software
1 10 (31.25%) Active Directory
2 2 (6.25%) Virtual Desktop
Vendors
1 7 (21.88%) Microsoft
2 2 (6.25%) Citrix
2 2 (6.25%) CyberArk
2 2 (6.25%) Oracle
3 1 (3.13%) ServiceNow