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

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 586 514 574
Rank change year-on-year -72 +60 +55
Contract jobs citing CESG Certified Professional 39 15 10
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.081% 0.051% 0.023%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.26% 0.17% 0.078%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 13 6
10th Percentile £514 £520 £340
25th Percentile £523 £550 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £618 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year +2.92% -4.00% -
75th Percentile £838 £688 £638
90th Percentile £945 £738 £656
UK excluding London median daily rate £605 £725 £625
% change year-on-year -16.55% +16.00% +5.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 2
10th Percentile £35.18 - -
25th Percentile £51.25 £68.26 -
Median hourly rate £85.40 £73.31 £83.41
Median % change year-on-year +16.49% -12.11% +10.84%
75th Percentile - £78.36 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £85.40 £73.31 £83.41
% change year-on-year +16.49% -12.11% +10.48%

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 15,227 9,041 12,797
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 31.63% 31.00% 30.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,134 5,692 7,977
10th Percentile £350 £281 £306
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £532
Median % change year-on-year - -1.32% -3.27%
75th Percentile £623 £619 £646
90th Percentile £725 £700 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £530
% change year-on-year - -5.66% +0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,070 515 1,058
10th Percentile £16.35 £18.07 £13.69
25th Percentile £21.33 £21.57 £17.73
Median hourly rate £47.80 £37.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +27.45% -6.25% -27.25%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £85.03 £80.00 £76.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £36.65 £40.30
% change year-on-year +29.62% -9.07% -19.40%

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 May 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 May 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for CESG Certified Professional in the UK

CESG Certified Professional
Top 11 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 May 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 -90 37 £610 -0.41% 2
UK excluding London -65 30 £605 -16.55% 2
South East -49 17 £610 +1.67% 2
Work from Home -31 13 £545 -9.17% 1
South West -35 7 £545 -24.83%
London -60 4 £875 +59.09%
Midlands - 3 £475 -
North West - 3 £900 -
North of England - 3 £900 -
East Midlands - 2 £475 -
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:

Cloud Services
1 9 (23.08%) Azure
1 9 (23.08%) Microsoft 365
2 7 (17.95%) Entra ID
3 5 (12.82%) IaaS
3 5 (12.82%) PaaS
4 1 (2.56%) OCI
4 1 (2.56%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.13%) BGP
1 2 (5.13%) BIG-IP
1 2 (5.13%) Ethernet VPN
1 2 (5.13%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
1 2 (5.13%) Firewall
1 2 (5.13%) IPsec
1 2 (5.13%) LAN
1 2 (5.13%) MPLS
1 2 (5.13%) Network Security
1 2 (5.13%) OSPF
1 2 (5.13%) Reverse Proxy
1 2 (5.13%) SD-WAN
1 2 (5.13%) VXLAN
1 2 (5.13%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.56%) Oracle Database
General
1 12 (30.77%) Documentation Skills
1 12 (30.77%) Presentation Skills
2 11 (28.21%) Social Skills
3 5 (12.82%) Public Sector
4 3 (7.69%) Finance
5 2 (5.13%) Electronics
5 2 (5.13%) Manufacturing
5 2 (5.13%) Marketing
5 2 (5.13%) Telecoms
6 1 (2.56%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.56%) Banking
6 1 (2.56%) Legal
6 1 (2.56%) Military
6 1 (2.56%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (28.21%) Coordinator
1 11 (28.21%) Security Assurance Coordinator
2 7 (17.95%) Security Specialist
3 6 (15.38%) Cybersecurity Specialist
3 6 (15.38%) Security Engineer
4 4 (10.26%) Senior
5 3 (7.69%) Head of Cybersecurity
5 3 (7.69%) Head of Security
5 3 (7.69%) Principal Engineer
5 3 (7.69%) Principal Security Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) Chief Information Security Officer
6 2 (5.13%) Citrix Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) Citrix Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) Consultant
6 2 (5.13%) Cybersecurity Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) Security Consultant
6 2 (5.13%) Senior Citrix Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) Senior Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (30.77%) ModSecurity
2 1 (2.56%) OpenMP
2 1 (2.56%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 8 (20.51%) Operational Technology
2 6 (15.38%) SCADA
3 5 (12.82%) Cyber Defence
3 5 (12.82%) Management Information System
4 4 (10.26%) CESG
5 3 (7.69%) Onboarding
6 2 (5.13%) Algorithms
6 2 (5.13%) PKI
7 1 (2.56%) CUDA
7 1 (2.56%) Driving Licence
7 1 (2.56%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 8 (20.51%) Linux
2 7 (17.95%) Windows
3 6 (15.38%) Unix
4 2 (5.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (2.56%) Rocky
5 1 (2.56%) Ubuntu
5 1 (2.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (43.59%) Cybersecurity
2 15 (38.46%) Risk Management
3 11 (28.21%) Security Architecture
4 10 (25.64%) Vulnerability Management
5 8 (20.51%) Risk Assessment
5 8 (20.51%) SABSA
5 8 (20.51%) SIEM
6 7 (17.95%) RBAC
6 7 (17.95%) Risk Register
6 7 (17.95%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 6 (15.38%) Change Control
7 6 (15.38%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
7 6 (15.38%) Incident Management
7 6 (15.38%) ITSM
7 6 (15.38%) Remediation Plan
7 6 (15.38%) Threat Intelligence
7 6 (15.38%) Zero Trust
8 5 (12.82%) Information Security
8 5 (12.82%) OWASP
8 5 (12.82%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 1 (2.56%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 29 (74.36%) CISSP
2 26 (66.67%) Security Cleared
3 18 (46.15%) DV Cleared
4 14 (35.90%) SC Cleared
5 11 (28.21%) CISM
5 11 (28.21%) Degree
6 10 (25.64%) Cisco Certification
7 8 (20.51%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 6 (15.38%) CRISC
8 6 (15.38%) GIAC
9 5 (12.82%) SANS
10 4 (10.26%) GSEC
10 4 (10.26%) SSCP
11 3 (7.69%) CCA
11 3 (7.69%) Citrix Certification
12 2 (5.13%) CCDP
12 2 (5.13%) CCIE
12 2 (5.13%) CEH
12 2 (5.13%) CHECK Team Leader
12 2 (5.13%) CSSLP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 11 (28.21%) NIST
3 9 (23.08%) NCSC
4 7 (17.95%) Cyber Essentials
5 5 (12.82%) ISO 31000
6 4 (10.26%) JSP 440
6 4 (10.26%) RMADS
7 1 (2.56%) NIST 800
System Software
1 9 (23.08%) Active Directory
2 3 (7.69%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (2.56%) GPFS
3 1 (2.56%) Lustre
3 1 (2.56%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 1 (2.56%) SELinux
Vendors
1 6 (15.38%) Microsoft
2 3 (7.69%) Citrix
3 2 (5.13%) Cisco
3 2 (5.13%) F5
3 2 (5.13%) Fortinet
3 2 (5.13%) Juniper
3 2 (5.13%) Netskope
3 2 (5.13%) Palo Alto
3 2 (5.13%) SAP
3 2 (5.13%) Zscaler
4 1 (2.56%) CyberArk
4 1 (2.56%) NVIDIA
4 1 (2.56%) Oracle